[It's the fourth update. Tomorrow is the end of the month. Old D, try to make two more updates.]
The Iron Duke's colorful dragon refused to enter the cave, so the Iron Duke could only wait outside.
The twelve Predators under Inpos' control followed him into the warehouse. Salin looked around. Seeing that nobody was around, he summoned a Star Puppet and had it follow him. Then, he jumped into the cave.
The warehouse on the first floor was full of spatial boxes, but unlike the other warehouses, everything was not on the surface. Seeing that Salin had followed him, Inpos said, "Half each."
"Okay, half each." With that, Salin summoned hundreds of Thunder Puppets.
Inpos was still envious when he saw the Thunder Puppets. The Predators jumped down from the cave one after another. They helped Inpos move the spatial boxes from afar, and Inpos collected them with his spatial equipment. The benefits of a Space Box were huge. Most importantly, a Space Box without any compressed space could be stored in a Space Equipment.
This involved the law of space. Even the Mages at this stage didn't know why.
The spatial boxes in the huge warehouse were all piled up together. The Predators and the Thunder Puppets didn't interfere with each other. They collected the boxes for Salin and Inpos with a line in the middle.
Inpos, on the other hand, opened a third Dissolution scroll and melted half of the ground. Then, he poured in a bottle of metal poison. Seeing that, Salin remembered this method.
Of course, the poison couldn't be poured down. Inpos had to control it to corrode the magic array on the interlayer.
No matter how tough the magic array was, it was just an inanimate object. The metal poison didn't have any energy waves, and it could easily pass through the energy layer that protected the magic array. The magic array below was made of solid materials, but it couldn't withstand the poison that Inpos refined.
The metal poison was used to etch magic arrays. Mages had to be careful when they used it. If they lost control, the precious materials would be corroded too much and the entire magic array would be damaged.
Inpos hadn't thought of that in advance. It was a temporary method. That was what Salin admired. When facing such magic arrays, if a direct attack didn't work, he would use a stronger method. Inpos, on the other hand, took a roundabout approach to solve the problem from the root.
Most of the Magic Arrays in the mezzanine were created by the corrosion of Metal Poisons. When encountering Metal Poisons of even higher purity, the Magic Arrays would only last for a very short time before they were destroyed.
These magic arrays also had the ability to repair themselves, but because Bosse took advantage of the moment when the magic arrays were corroded, he used Dissolution again and completely destroyed the magic arrays. Such a method was very delicate, and not every mage could think of it on the spot.
Bose thought that Salin was testing him, and even more so that Salin was unwilling to part with the refined metal poison, so he only gave him the Dissolution Scroll. He didn't know that Salin had destroyed the magic array purely by force.
Imbos didn't think that Salin's lightning ball could penetrate the magic formation and cause damage. Ball lightning seemed to have nothing to do with lightning at all. It was more like a high-energy magic ball.
Imbos let the two Predators go down first before he entered the warehouse on the lower floor through the cave.
As soon as he entered the warehouse, a puppet charged at him. This puppet had six legs and three arms. It waved three four-edged iron whips, trying to whip Imbos into pieces.
The two Predators that Imbos had sent down first had already fallen to the ground, but Imbos didn't panic. He nimbly dodged to the side. He also had six legs and a long metal tail.
Compared to the puppet, he was more like a monster.
At this time, Salin also followed. The puppet didn't recognize enemies, and would attack as long as it was a moving target. Imbos hid to the side and instantly entered a motionless state, so Salin became the target.
The three iron whips formed a triangle and lashed at Salin. This time, Salin was the first to come down, but his falling speed suddenly increased, and he easily avoided the attack of the three iron whips. The Star Doll behind him also jumped down. In its hand was a weapon that Salin had specially forged — a magic heavy sword.
The sword was two and a half meters long and weighed 360 kilograms. It was covered with magic patterns. On one side of the sword was a serrated blade, and on the other side was a slightly curved blade.
The magic matrix of the heavy sword was inlaid with a level-nine magic core, which could unleash level-nine magic power.
However, Salin had only added level-nine sharpness to this heavy sword, and no elemental magic. The Star Doll didn't need elemental magic, and could also release long-range attacks.
"Imbos!" Salin saw that his Star Doll had forced the puppet away with a sword, and Imbos still hadn't acted. He was a little annoyed. At this time, it was more important to seize the time to divide the spoils.
Imbos pointed with his finger, and Salin used his Elemental Eyes to look around. In the pitch-black warehouse, there were more than a thousand puppets. These puppets all had the same four eyes on their heads, and the magic matrix between the eyes was rotating gently, releasing wave after wave of energy.
"Damn, it's a puppet army!" Salin couldn't help but curse.
Ancient humans had once created a puppet army. There was a kind of puppet army that didn't need human command. It was extremely destructive, and it had almost no requirements for the environment. However, the problem with this kind of puppet army was that it would often go out of control. Generally speaking, humans would use this kind of puppet army to clear enemies in enclosed areas.
More than a thousand puppets were like one, and it would require actual level-nine magic to destroy them.
What Salin was annoyed about was that he saw the magic matrix in the middle of the puppet's four eyes. That was the legendary symbol.
Mages all believed in the conservation of energy. Even if there was a magic matrix for energy balance, it would only consume energy slowly, and it had the ability to automatically replenish energy. This ability would slowly disappear with the passage of time and the aging of the materials. Even if you used Divine Sparks as materials, Divine Sparks would be damaged one day.
However, ancient humans had once created a kind of magic matrix that allowed energy to circulate back and forth. It relied on absorbing the elemental energy in the space to maintain the magic matrix's operation as much as possible, and it could bear a huge consumption. ,
This was the famous perpetual motion machine in the magic paradox.
Of course, perpetual motion machines didn't exist, but this was a kind of magic matrix that absorbed energy indefinitely. The magic cores or crystals that filled the magic matrix essentially existed to maintain this absorption property.
This secret had taken hundreds of years to be discovered in ancient times. However, because this magic matrix wasn't an active control method, the puppets created really couldn't distinguish between friend and foe.
Later on, humans researched the simplest control method, and made a magic switch to cut off the puppets' perception. The puppet's four eyes operated independently, and were the puppet's only perceptual component.
"Half each!" Seeing that Bosis wasn't moving, Salin took out a large net and trapped a puppet, then sealed it with a scroll.
Bosis saw that Salin wasn't afraid of these puppets, and knew that he couldn't see through them, so he could only use his methods and start his battle.
Salin's battle method was very simple. He summoned the two elemental creatures, the Elemental Stone Soldiers and the Blue Icemile, to protect himself, and then used the large net to capture them one by one.
These puppet armies had perpetual motion machines, which were rarely preserved because the materials were hard to find. The core of the perpetual motion machine was refined from the body of a special kind of god, which also came from the Metal Plane.
Bosis' method of capturing the puppets was more violent. He took out a huge metal gear, stood on it, and the metal gear spun and crashed into the puppet army, causing a group of puppets to be thrown off their feet.
The puppet army wasn't what Bosis wanted, but he also hoped that there would be a perpetual motion machine in these puppets. After the first batch of perpetual motion machines, the effects of the imitations were much worse. The Metal God Kingdom had been completely destroyed, and there were no more similar gods for humans to capture.
For a perpetual motion machine, it was worth wasting some time.
Salin's eyes were sharp. He saw that among the puppet army, there were a hundred external armors that were slightly different. This difference could only be distinguished by his Elemental Eyes. It was the difference in materials. The materials used for all the magic patterns were not the slightest bit similar.
He immediately summoned all the elemental creatures to block the one hundred puppets, and then used the large net to capture them to his heart's content. Puppets didn't have souls, so it was easier to seal them. After being trapped by the large net, Salin used a Freeze spell to instantly immobilize the puppets, and then he could easily seal them.
Although Bosis was an Alchemy Master, in such an intense battle and in such an environment, he still couldn't tell the difference between the puppet army. After Salin secretly captured a hundred powerful puppets, he didn't pay much attention.
There were enough elemental creatures, and the puppet army was too small. Salin always had the absolute advantage. These puppet armies probably had their outermost parts removed, or else they wouldn't be so weak. Alchemy City kept the puppet cores for future research.
The external armor and weapons were the puppets' fatal weapons. If it were Salin, he would also separate the puppets' external armor and core. These puppets were difficult to control by ancient humans, so of course it was better to get the puppets' weapons first.
They wasted almost an hour down there, and most of the time was spent sealing the puppets. There was no direct battle between the puppets and the Sorcerers. When Bosis' metal gear danced, the puppets couldn't get close at all.
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