After a period of trial and error, Grimm had vaguely discovered a few ways to use the Magic Puppet.
The Magic Crocodile Hunter was a high-grade Magic Puppet. Every time it was used, it would take up 2 points of spiritual force. This would last as long as the Magic Puppet was active. On the other hand, a quasi-Magus-ranked Magic Puppet like the Rock Python would take up 3 points of spiritual force. This meant that if Grimm fought with all his might, he could only maintain 1 Magic Crocodile Hunter and 2 Rock Pythons at the same time with his 11 points of spiritual force (Noble Headband + 1).
After all, he still needed to conserve some spiritual force for casting spells.
This was after the A.I. Chip's precise calculations and special spell formations had greatly reduced the amount of spiritual force a magic puppet required from the main body to achieve the optimal configuration. If it was a regular magic puppet, Grimm's spiritual force would only be able to maintain 1 Rock Python at most.
One of the main reasons for this was due to the Demon Puppets' characteristics.
Magic Puppets were different from ordinary golems.
Golems were humanoid puppets that had been created using large amounts of precious resources. Due to their huge bodies, there was enough space to carve all sorts of runes and special spell formations on the surface of the golem. Puppets created in this way would naturally have the least amount of spiritual force required to control them.
Most of the time, the controller would only need to give the simplest command to the golem, and they would not have to worry about it at all.
However, Magic Puppets were different. Magic Puppets did not have a fixed body before they were summoned. Their appearance was similar to a magic summon, but the target of the summon was not a random creature from another world, but a fixed Magic Puppet. This was also the main reason why Magic Puppets needed to consume Grimm's spiritual force.
Furthermore, magic puppets didn't have the enormous bodies of golems that the creators could use as they pleased. Therefore, to carve sufficient control spell formations and energy systems in the narrow space of an elemental crystal core that was as small as an egg or a pigeon's egg, it was simply an extremely harsh torture for the creator's puppet-making ability.
Truth be told, it was already an astonishing achievement for Grimm to be able to create such a powerful Rock Python Puppet with the help of the A.I. Chip.
Combining their battle prowess, a golem with a special body was undoubtedly much stronger than a temporarily summoned Magic Puppet. However, from the beginning to the end, Grim had only created magic puppets and never used the golems. The main reason was that … the golems were too big and took up too much space, so they were not easy to carry around.
Take the lowest grade Clay Golem as an example. A Clay Golem without any magic equipment would weigh 600 pounds (600 kilograms), and it would stand 8 feet tall. Such a huge Clay Golem was powerful, but how could Grimm bring it into the battlefield?
One had to know that such a big guy was difficult to fold and carry even when not in combat. Moreover, their enormous weight consumed a great deal of magic energy. Thus, it was impossible for them to rely solely on absorbing the drifting magical elements in space to supply their needs in battle.
Therefore, golems with fixed bodies could only exist as guardians of wizard towers or magic facilities. They usually stayed motionless in secret spaces to minimize their own magic consumption. When they were needed to fight, the pre-set warning mechanism would activate them and release them to repel or annihilate the invaders.
All of this required the support of the huge energy reserves within the Magus Tower.
Therefore, these characteristics determined that Grim could only rely on his Magic Puppets to fight. After all, carrying an egg-sized crystal core was much more convenient and hidden than carrying an earth-shaking alchemy puppet everywhere he went.
Therefore, in order to maximize the support of his Magic Puppets, Grim continued to explore the potential of the Magic Puppets in battle. At the same time, he worked hard to improve his spiritual force. After all, his spiritual force was related to the number of Magic Puppets he could use in future battles.
Therefore, on the fourth day after safely returning to the wizard tower, Grim worked hard to increase his vitality to 3.82, and once again took a Spirit Concentration Potion. This time, Grimm's spiritual force increased by 0.70 points, which was a lot less than the 0.75 points he got last time.
Continuous use of the same type of magic potion would cause the effect to become weaker and weaker until it was completely ineffective on the target. This was a phenomenon that Wizards had long studied, but they could not do anything about it.
The main reason for all this was the existence of resistance. When the same type of magic potion was used continuously, it would accumulate in the body, which was difficult to get rid of, and reduce the effect of the same type of magic potion. Although this process was gradual, it was real.
Therefore, after taking the Spirit Concentration Potion, Grimm's basic stats were as follows:
Strength 4.12, Agility 4.35, Vitality 3.17, Spiritual force. Compared to the last time, Grimm's spiritual force had increased by 1.07 points. 0.70 points came from the Spirit Concentration Potion, while the other 0.37 points came from the continuous mana meal and daily meditation. Based on preliminary calculations, this increase of 1.07 points was worth around 350 to 400 magic crystals.
This made Grim completely believe that a successful wizard apprentice was indeed built by piles of magic crystals.
… …
It was noon. After a hard morning of selling goods, the most successful goblin merchant in the wizard tower, Kabi, walked briskly back to his residence.
Ever since he made his first bucket of gold from Grim, Kabi rented a room next to his master's residence as his nest. Every day, he only needed to report to his master about the results of the day, and then he could live a carefree life.
He could sleep until he woke up naturally, and count money until his hands cramped.
To be honest, this kind of comfortable life was the perfect life it had always dreamed of. However, this dream did not come true when he was with the Grade 2 Wizard, nor when he roamed the underground. However, due to a strange combination of factors, he realized it after following a wizard apprentice.
These days, he was simply crazy, and he was busy all day.
During the day, he would spend his time in the apprentice market, using his eloquence and talent to earn a steady stream of magic crystals. After stuffing himself with delicious food that night, he nestled in his simple and crude nest and counted the magical crystals he earned during the day over and over again. It could be said that every night, he would hug a pile of magic crystals and sleep sweetly.
However, the intelligent Kabi also understood that the one who gave him all this was the mysterious master behind him. Without the mysterious master's financial support and full authority, a green-skinned goblin like Kabi who was looked down upon by the other wizard apprentices would not have the right to order around.
Don't be fooled by the fact that the apprentices surrounded him every day, whispering sweet nothings, but deep in their eyes, Kabi could still see the unconcealable contempt and disdain. They didn't respect him, but the mysterious master behind him.
A clever gnome, no matter how talented he was, if he didn't have a strong master to back him up, the only ending for him was to be trampled on the ground, branded as a slave on his face, and thrown into a dark and damp dungeon. He would have to eat human food scraps all day long while doing hard and tiring work.
The reason why Kabi knew all this was because before he was chosen as an experiment subject by the Wizard, he lived such a life!
Comparing the two, although his current master was not as powerful as the previous one, ever since he fell into such a lifestyle, he never had the thought of escaping. There were even many times when he kept fantasizing about how great it would be if he could maintain such a lifestyle forever!
With endless daydreams, Kabi used the rune token and the secret spell runes on his waist to open the door to his room. However, as soon as he stepped into the room, he was hit by a thick stench of blood and staggered.
In just one morning, its residence had turned into a bloody and terrifying slaughterhouse. His beloved mysterious master was standing in front of a bloody dissection table, examining a strange body that had been completely dissected with a serious expression.
Just by looking at the dissection knife in his hand, the deerskin gloves stained with blood, and the white robe that was splattered with blood, one could tell that he was busy with an autopsy.
It seemed that his master was also a novice in the field of biological anatomy.
Although he had never dissected a creature himself, after staying in a rank 2 wizard's laboratory for a long time, Kabi had been imperceptibly influenced by what he saw and heard. His knowledge of biological structure and anatomy was far greater than Grim's. If it had been a skilled necromancy apprentice, he would not have turned a dissection exercise into such a bloody mess.
What parts to cut and how to avoid the creature's blood vessels were the basics of a necromancy apprentice. It was impossible for him to make such a mess. That was why Kabi was certain that this was his master's first time dissecting a living creature.
As his master's loyal servant, how could he ignore his master's awkwardness?
Kabi moved a small wooden stool over and climbed onto it to help his master. He even moved the lizardman's body with his own hands to make it easier for his master's scalpel to cut it.
Unknowingly, Kabi had turned into an instructor with good knowledge of witchcraft and began to guide Grim in his first dissection exercise. Of course, the instructor was patient and the scholar was serious, so neither of them realized that there was anything wrong with this.
Thus, with Kabi's' help ', Grim successfully completed his first dissection exercise.
Grimm took off his deerskin gloves in satisfaction and threw them into the dustbin beside the operating table along with his white robe. Only then did Green-skinned Goblin Kabi realize that he had 'overstepped his bounds'. He hurriedly jumped off the wooden stool and squatted by the side, waiting for his master's punishment.
"You've done well today. Looks like you've learned quite a bit from that rank 2 wizard. I'll be relying on you to help me with my anatomy and structure exercises from now on. "Grim smiled warmly," Get up! Do you think that I will punish you for a little vanity when you have done nothing wrong? Alright, tidy up this place, it's time for lunch! "
Grim casually threw away the miscellaneous items in his hands and returned to his residence, leaving behind a dumbfounded Kabi.
Looking at the bloody 'slaughterhouse' behind him and inhaling the pungent smell of blood, Kabi finally understood why his master did not place the dissection table in his room.
He was afraid that it would affect his appetite!
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