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Salin was overjoyed when he saw the thin needle in the puppet's hand. The manufacturing method of this puppet was completely different from that of a construct puppet. Its combat skills weren't very good, but this thing didn't consume magic cores. It would use its strongest attack every time, making it a very good soldier and guard.
Salin didn't know if he would obtain the inheritance of an astrologer, but the needle in the puppet's hand was too special. Salin couldn't understand the laws contained in it. What he saw was a thin needle with countless star maps refined.
This needle's level was much higher than the puppet's, so it didn't belong to this puppet. If he obtained it, Salin could try to learn it. If he could obtain the inheritance of an astrologer, the possibility of creating his own combat puppet would be very high.
"Catch it!" Salin shouted in the house.
"Master isn't here yet. You have to wait patiently …" the puppet continued, without any feeling of a life-and-death battle. However, the attacks under its feet were exceptionally ferocious. Two cotton legs folded from the front and kicked at the approaching Nelis. Not to mention humans, even most magical beasts couldn't do such a thing.
Nelis wanted to store it in the 12 Movements of Purgatory, but the difference in level between her and the puppet made her equipment unable to unleash its power. The Purgatory's opening repeatedly opened, but she couldn't store the puppet.
The puppet's two legs were the sharpest weapons. Its legs had no joints and could kick out from any angle. Nelis and the Winged Skeleton could only retreat again and use long-range attacks to continue pestering it.
The puppet's speed was extremely fast as it constantly approached Nelis and the Winged Skeleton in the courtyard. Nelis could only take out her bone shield. The Winged Skeleton also changed its battle axe and took out its meteor hammer, using its weapon to block the puppet's attacks.
The puppet was also brainless. The needle in its hand was a terrifying weapon, but it only knew how to use it to mend its wounds. It used its two legs to force Nelis and the Winged Skeleton to run around the courtyard, but it didn't use the needle to attack.
When the puppet was done sewing its head, it put away the thin needle and attacked with its fists and legs. Although this puppet wasn't a combat weapon, its combat skills far surpassed Nelis and the Winged Skeleton. In the end, Nelis couldn't use her spear anymore, so she could only take out her Rule Sword. As long as her shield couldn't block the attack and revealed a gap, Nelis would slash out with her sword.
Sure enough, the puppets didn't dare to resist the Sword of Laws, so Nelis used this method to survive. In any case, the strength of this puppet would only get weaker and weaker. She wouldn't collapse even if she fought for a few days and nights, so she just had to endure it.
However, Salin did not want to wait. He simply summoned six blue Icemies and placed them in the yard to help Nelis fight the Winged Skeleton. The Elemental Sword in the blue Icemie's hand had a freezing effect. Only then did the doll slow down.
Without the Starlight Slash, when the puppet's punches and kicks hit the blue Icefile, the blue Icefile did not immediately collapse. Instead, huge cracks appeared. Due to the lack of power, the puppet's equipment, which was two levels higher, could not instantly kill the Rank 9 blue Icefile.
Salin did not dare to summon Gloria. If the leader of the elemental creatures was seriously injured, it would be troublesome for the elemental creatures under its command to recover. If it wasn't for his heartache for the Rank 10 elemental creature leader, Salin would have taken down this puppet long ago.
Salin finally knew the power of an Astrologer. A non-combat puppet had defeated more than a hundred of his elemental creatures. If it was a combat puppet, who knew how powerful it would be. The Starlight Slash skill could completely reduce the strength, but its lethality could still kill elemental creatures.
If that was the case, even if he used all six of his Elemental Badges, he still wouldn't be able to win. Unless he used his Family Badge, but once the Family Badge was used, no creature below Rank 12 would be left alive.
Whatever a Mage was researching, they would at least need materials to analyze. Therefore, Salin wanted to capture this puppet. He had a feeling that even in the Astrology Tower, there wouldn't be such a strange equipment.
One by one, the blue Icemies were defeated by the puppet. This time, the puppet's attack speed was getting slower and slower. In the end, Nelis and the Winged Skeleton regained their attack ability and no longer dodged.
Especially Nelis, who had continuously slashed many wounds on the puppet's body. The puppet took out needles and sewed up the wounds. Nelis shared Salin's perception and saw the mysterious power that was escaping from the wounds. She knew that her Rule Sword could injure this puppet.
The strength in the puppet's body was draining faster and faster, and the Winged Skeleton's Meteor Hammer finally hit the puppet's chest. Before the explosive force could affect the puppet, it had already flown out. This was actively dissipating the attack force. Nelis had gradually developed a tacit understanding with the Winged Skeleton. She happened to come from behind and chopped off the puppet's head with her sword.
This time, Nelis directly stored the puppet's body in the 12 Movements of Purgatory, and the Winged Skeleton also plunged in. The puppet's body entered the Ice Purgatory. After entering the Ice Purgatory, the puppet took out the fine needle that had refined countless star maps and grabbed wildly with one hand, trying to grab its head.
Seeing that the puppet's body was gone, Salin walked into the courtyard with relief. He smiled and looked at the puppet's head that had fallen to the ground. He asked, "Where's your master?"
"Customer, please be patient. My master will be here very soon."
"Nonsense!" Nelis held the Rule Sword in her hand and was about to slash down. She saw the star maps in the puppet's eyes spinning intensely and was afraid that this thing would hurt Salin.
"Nelis, don't be afraid. This isn't a combat weapon. There's no way it can hurt me now."
"Master, take a look at this." As Salin spoke, the Winged Skeleton had already come out of the Ice Purgatory. There was a crystal clear needle and a jade button in its hand.
"Give me the Star Condensing Needle. That's the customer's, that's the customer's …" The puppet's head repeated mechanically, but it could not continue. It had also obtained this needle by chance. Its master had asked it to steal it, but before it could hand it over to its master, its master was already gone.
"It's mine now." Salin smiled and put away the Star Condensing Needle. He summoned six Elemental Stone Soldiers and said, "Smash it until it breaks." Salin pointed at the puppet's head on the ground.
The six Elemental Stone Soldiers swung their sledgehammers and smashed them on the puppet's head. On the puppet's head, two star maps were spinning intensely where its eyes were. Every time the magic warhammer struck, its head would automatically repair itself. Nelis saw this and slashed down again with the Rule Sword.
Now, Nelis could not activate the power of the Rule Sword. Otherwise, she could completely kill this puppet with one strike. It was precisely because she could not mobilize the power of the 24 rules that Nelis could use this dagger as a sharp ordinary weapon.
The Rule Sword slashed on the puppet's head, and a thin and long crack appeared on the top of the head. Without the help of the Star Condensing Needle, this crack could not be repaired at all. The power of the Rule Sword itself was also very strong. Even if Nelis could not use the rules, the power derived from the 24 rules was not something that could be automatically repaired by a puppet that had used up all its star power.
"Nelis!" Salin stopped Nelis. This was because the wound really could not repair itself when the Rule Sword slashed down. If Nelis caused too much damage, this puppet would lose its research value.
If he could keep the puppet intact, even if he could not learn astrology, he would be able to learn it by analogy, which would be of great help to his magic. The profession of astrologer disappeared very late. When Rex was still alive, the last astrologer on the continent was not yet dead. Mages were not completely unfamiliar with astrologers. They still admired the various miracles that astrologers left behind.
There were even many powerful mages who comprehended their own unique magic from astrology and became famous powerhouses in the continent.
Nelis stopped venting her anger and let the six level-nine elemental stone soldiers hit her again and again. This blunt weapon was fatal to heavily armored soldiers, but it was of little use against this puppet.
The magic attack on the elemental stone soldier's warhammer was getting weaker and weaker. This was not the environment at the edge of the Abyss King City. In the position of the astrologer, the six elements were balanced. Salin put away these six elemental stone soldiers and replaced them with six more.
After torturing the human head for about seven to eight hours, the Elemental Stone Soldier's magic war hammer finally defeated the power of the stars in the human head. The star atlas in the human head's eyes stopped spinning, and Salin stored it in a dimensional stone.
After putting away the puppet's head, Nelis released the puppet's body from the Ice Purgatory. This puppet had lost an arm, but it was still waving its fists and legs, trying to attack.
Another six elemental stone soldiers rushed up and smashed the headless puppet to the ground. After another five hours of beating, the star power in the puppet's body was completely exhausted.
Salin's desire for level-11 equipment was even stronger now. A level-nine creature spared no effort to attack a broken puppet, and even spent half a day.
After putting away the puppet's body, Salin did not study it immediately. Instead, he took Nelis and the Winged Skeleton around the house.
The house was not small. Salin walked all the way to the garden before he found the warehouse he was looking for.
The warehouse disappointed Salin. It was not what he had imagined. Other than the three broken puppets, there was only a pile of boxes in the warehouse. Salin opened the boxes and found that they were full of paper. There were also beautiful star maps drawn on these papers.
Salin did not distinguish good from bad, and put these precious papers into the Demon God Ring. These pieces of paper were more effective than magic scrolls for signing contracts.
On the Myers Continent, star pattern paper was a very precious magic material. There was almost no possibility of failure when it was used to make magic scrolls. These star pattern papers were best used by Salin to practice magic. For magic that he was not familiar with, he could also use them to make magic scrolls. This was because star pattern paper had no possibility of failure. It was equivalent to a successful magic experiment.
Other than the star pattern paper, the remaining three puppets were broken, and their levels were obviously very low.
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