The puppet that Salin took out was also an experimental product. It was produced in the alchemy factory of the floating city. It was three meters tall and humanoid. However, it had two mechanical arms that could rotate 360 degrees under its ribs. These two arms were inlaid in grooves. They were not usually used, but when necessary, they could be used to control weapons or perform engineering work.
The puppet had metal wings on its back engraved with a wind-type magic array, allowing it to fly quickly for short distances. The puppet was equipped with a series of small weapons, including a mechanical crossbow, a longsword, and a javelin.
This kind of puppet could not be mass-produced. After all, Salin still had Desolate Warriors and Star Puppets. This kind of puppet was designed for construction purposes. It was just to add some battle equipment.
However, the red crystal in the puppet's eyes flickered for a while. Gradually, black mist condensed and turned the red eyes purple. The miniature magic furnace inside the puppet's body emitted a low explosive sound. The explosion was not strong, but the magic furnace was overloading.
Salin still wrapped the puppet with his domain. He discovered that the puppet's core, the hexagonal crystal in the control magic array, was also emitting a slight cracking sound.
Black mist seeped out of the magic furnace and slowly dyed the entire puppet a deep purple. The red material lost its original appearance and showed signs of decay.
Seeing that Salin did not give an order, the puppet suddenly took a step forward and knelt, emitting a crisp metallic sound.
"Master, what do you need me to do?"
Not only was Salin shocked, but the nearby Mages and Warriors also looked at the puppet in surprise. This was a high-level puppet, but it did not have intelligence. If puppets had intelligence, that would have been a matter of ancient times.
Salin looked at the purple puppet and silently examined it with his mental power. Inside the puppet's body, the magic furnace had completely changed shape.
The six entrances were closed, and the bronze surface of the furnace had turned light black. The six closed entrances were like tightly shut eyes. The magic furnace was still providing energy to the puppet, but it was also devouring energy. It devoured all kinds of elemental power wandering in the space, and then absorbed it into its body like a human breathing, seeping into the magic furnace.
Many demonic symbols appeared on the surface of the magic furnace. However, these symbols were purple and twisted, and looked extremely mysterious to Mages.
For some reason, this symbol would provide the puppet with power.
Salin extended his hand and summoned a Star Puppet, then said to the puppet, "Spar with him."
Salin himself didn't realize that the puppet was speaking in the Ancient Myers language.
Upon receiving Salin's order, the puppet leaped up and slashed at the Star Doll with a long sword in its hand. With a flick of his spear, the Star Puppet easily knocked the puppet away. However, the counterattack of the spear did not hit the purple puppet. Instead, it was pushed away by the mechanical arm under the purple puppet's ribs.
The two of them started fighting, and their movements and strength were amazing.
At this moment, Salin was not doing anything else. He was only carefully analyzing how the puppet had become an intelligent being.
Demonification?
Salin knew very little about the Devil's Plane, and there wasn't much mentioned in the Wizard's notes.
Salin instantly calculated many things in his mind. Magic perpetual motion machine, puppet army, demonization. If he could combine these three things and control them, he would have a powerful soldier. Moreover, the main material of these soldiers was metal, and then there was a miniature magic furnace and a demon's Crystal Core.
However, Mages were always cautious about the unknown.
Of course, Salin didn't know that there were a large number of demonified puppets. He didn't know how the magic furnace had become a living thing.
Salin didn't understand the demon's power. If he couldn't control it, then it would be meaningless.
The battle was quick and short. A minute later, the purple puppet was hit by the Star Doll's spear. Its entire body was pierced through, and the spear hit the puppet's control core.
With a click, the puppet stopped working. However, the purple miniature magic furnace was still breathing in the free energy in the air. It didn't stop working because of the destruction of the control core.
At this moment, Salin also discovered that the true control core of this demonified puppet was this miniature mana furnace. In other words, something mysterious happened in the magic furnace. The demon's Crystal Core changed and became an intelligent being.
Or rather, it was a method of resurrection for the demon.
After resurrection, the demon had lost its original consciousness. It naturally treated the puppet controlled by Salin as its own body and Salin as its master.
Salin calmed down slightly. Demons were also bloodthirsty and cruel because they were controlled by a powerful force.
Thinking of this, Salin immediately beat the Drum of Fear again and released all the pests inside to fight for the finger-sized black crystal.
Fifty demons formed a squad, and two hundred squads formed an army. The number of demons surging out already exceeded a hundred thousand. Salin's floating city was also under great pressure. This time, he brought almost all the magic cores in storage. If necessary, he would fight with Faka.
However, there were so many demons, and an army of level-nine demons soon appeared. This surprised Salin. If they were just low-level demons, it wouldn't be a problem for his floating city to fight for a year or two. However, level-nine demons required at least level-nine spells to kill them quickly.
This was tested. The level of a demon represented its magic resistance. Level-Eight spells seemed weak against level-nine demons. They would only die if their vital parts were hit.
However, level-nine demons were already organized like an army. All the demons wore something similar to magic armor. These armors might not be able to defend against level-eight spells, but they had the ability to sense the armor. In other words, when the power of the magic was too great for the armor to bear, the armor would release scale-like structures. These scales would explode and counteract the magic attack. This way, the power of level-eight spells wouldn't be able to completely destroy the armor.
Although there was a difference of one level between level-nine spells and level-eight spells, it already had some abilities that could not be defended against by sensing armor.
Salin retreated once more. He put away the dead purple puppet. In his heart, he had already determined that the strength of this puppet had reached Level-9. It was just that the weapons and equipment on its body were not as good as the Star Puppet's. Moreover, this new life form had not adapted to the puppet's body, so it could not unleash the strength that it should have.
The star puppet was a battle weapon of the astrologer. Its combat power was already close to that of a gold sword saint.
They were both level-nine, but the gold sword saint represented the peak of level-nine.
This time, Salin took out a miniature Mana Furnace. He didn't embed it into the puppet. Instead, he released water flames and added some magic materials to refine this miniature Mana Furnace.
The surface of the miniature Mana Furnace was wrapped in water flames. Countless runes seeped into it, forming a large Fragment of Eternal Control.
The Fragment of Eternal Control was something Salin had researched by imitating the three broken jades. After continuous improvements, he could now control any life form lower than his own. And the three broken jades could ignore one's level.
Now, not only did Salin add his own Fragment of Eternal Control to the Mana Furnace, he also added another Crystal Wall secret method. More square runes were refined on this miniature Mana Furnace. The Mana Furnace gradually shrunk until it was less than a foot tall.
The six openings on the Mana Furnace were still there. Salin threw in six Darkness Crystal Cores and then used his lightning domain to seal the miniature Mana Furnace.
Tiny electric currents shot into the Mana Furnace. The Mana Furnace warped in front of Salin and started to explode. This explosion was dozens of times stronger than the previous one. The six Darkness Crystal Cores were melted into liquid in the Mana Furnace and started to transform it.
But this time, the difficulty of the modification was too high. The black mist seeped out of the Mana Furnace and was compressed by the Lightning Domain. Every second, hundreds of electric currents would enter the Mana Furnace and modify the energy structure inside.
The miniature Mana Furnace wanted to bounce up from the ground, but was suppressed by the lightning domain and could only squirm slowly. Most of the half-metal shell had already decayed, and the metal structure could no longer be seen.
"Master!" A clear voice shouted from within the miniature mana furnace.
Salin was overjoyed. This newly created thing could communicate with him through spiritual power. It wasn't a soul, but a kind of existence similar to a ghost. But this life form was sealed in the Mana Furnace and would never come out. The miniature Mana Furnace had become a prison. Even Salin couldn't open it. Once opened, the resurrected body of the devil would lose its protection. Its weakest part would dissipate, and even if it didn't die, it would lose its intelligence.
Only such a life form could unleash the power of a level-9 devil.
In other words, six level-9 devils had to be killed to create a Mana Furnace with consciousness. With consciousness, the Mana Furnace would have a completely different meaning as a puppet core.
Salin was finally like the ancient humans, able to create puppets with consciousness and powerful battle strength. Moreover, these puppets couldn't betray Salin even if they were resurrected by devils.
But this Mana Furnace was no longer a pure power core, and couldn't be equipped with an ordinary mechanical shell.
"Master, a level-10 devil has appeared!" Zola warned Salin, who was immersed in his experiments.
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