Low Level Puppets fought over this kind of territory. The bigger the territory, the more Rust Eaters there were, the more high level components they could find, and the faster they could advance.
Gandaph led Lin Yun out of this dozen-kilometer-wide ruin and saw a dozen level 10 puppets fighting on the edge. They were clearly fighting over territory.
Those puppets were completely different from human-made puppets. Their bodies were covered in patches, and in many places, their components were somewhat uncoordinated. The weapons and shields in their hands were also made of relatively large components and looked very simple and crude.
The battle quickly ended, and the victorious puppet didn't care about its own injuries as it rapidly dismantled its defeated opponent. It then dismantled the components on its opponent's body and replaced everything that was usable and better than its own.
Lin Yun and Gandaph stealthily passed through these ruins and immediately saw a boundless black earth. They could see a large amount of exposed steel ore, and in many places, the ore's purity was already very high. A few kilometers of the ground looked like a piece of pure black steel.
They followed this black earth and every dozen kilometers, they could see a large pile of debris forming a mountain range. There was even a mountain range of components that stretched for several dozen kilometers.
Gandaph was right, this was indeed the safest route to enter. They flew at a low altitude for a few dozen kilometers, but they could only see a pure steel jungle. The strongest puppet they saw was only level 33.
After flying over seventy kilometers, they saw a several-kilometer-tall steel tower. Terrifying energy flickered at the top of the steel tower as lightning condensed into a several-dozen-meter-big ball of lightning that shot towards the sky.
"This kind of scene is very rare."
Gandaph sighed. He stood there and looked at the deep sky.
After three seconds, Lin Yun saw an eight-kilometer-big meteor falling towards the ground at a terrifying speed, and that several-dozen-meter-big ball of lightning hit that meteor.
The lightning bolts were like countless flashing blades that instantly wrapped around the entire meteorite and cut it into countless fragments in the blink of an eye.
Those countless fragments exploded and scattered over several dozen kilometers. With the size of those fragments, the damage they caused to the ground was almost negligible.
Gandalf looked at the broken pieces with a hint of regret in his tone.
"Looking at the color of that meteor, it seems to be carrying some rare metal. It should be Eternal Dark Gold. Unfortunately, the Puppet Plane's sky doesn't have any defenses to stop meteors, or it could be said that the Puppet Plane's defenses against the sky are very weak. Thus, meteors often fall.
"Those lightning towers were built by Heaven Puppets to defend against meteors. This should be the territory of a Heaven Puppet. We can see the lightning towers, so we shouldn't be far from Steel City. We should wait in the vicinity. Since there is a thousand-meter-tall lightning tower here, of course, Steel City isn't small. There might be many Heaven Puppets here."
Lin Yun didn't say anything and only looked at that lightning tower. That several-dozen-meter-big ball of lightning was comparable to a Heaven Rank powerhouse's all-out spell, but that lightning tower condensed in a second and perfectly predicted the meteor's trajectory.
Gandaph didn't know whether to laugh or cry as he looked at Lin Yun.
"Sir Mafa, I advise you not to have any ideas about the lightning tower. If you touch the lightning tower, we might be greeted by a puppet army. Very terrifying puppets might appear.
"Alright, it's coming!"
Just as Gandaph's words fell, Lin Yun noticed a seven-meter-tall puppet flying in the distance. It started catching those falling meteors in the air. Each one was flickering with a metallic luster, clearly containing high purity metal.
Gandaph scattered his invisibility and calmly floated in the air. In an instant, that seven-meter-tall puppet with four arms immediately turned to look at him, its blue crystal eyes flickering with light. It immediately threw away the metal ore in its hands and four five-meter-long greatswords appeared in its hands as it charged towards Gandaph.
Gandaph calmly floated in the air, looking at that level 43 puppet. A blue law rune floated on his fingertip and softly flickered. In an instant, a blue light flashed and the puppet was wrapped in a ten-meter-big blue sphere of water. No matter how much the puppet struggled, it was like a bug in glue, unable to resist.
Gandaph floated over and put his palm on the surface of the sphere of water. In an instant, the flickering light in the puppet's crystal eyes thoroughly dissipated.
Lin Yun wasn't too surprised that Gandaph easily dealt with that puppet. With Gandaph's strength, getting rid of a level 43 puppet, even if it was a Heaven Puppet with an ability rune, wouldn't be too difficult. But even so, Lin Yun didn't understand how Gandaph got rid of that Heaven Puppet. This was a bit difficult.
After landing on the ground, Gandaph casually flicked a few law runes and thoroughly enveloped everything within a hundred meters. Everything here was thoroughly sealed and no one could discover them.
Gandaph put his hand on the surface of the sphere of water and slowly landed on the ground. Then, several dozen streams of water started appearing within the sphere of water. Those streams of water kept transforming into water blades and all kinds of tools. They used the continuous impact of the water to dissect that Heaven Puppet bit by bit.
But the frequency of each small water blade's vibrations reached an unfathomable level, reducing the grinding process to a few seconds. Moreover, this method of dissecting the puppet made it so that the puppet's components wouldn't suffer any damage. Instead, it would grind away the rust on some components and make them even stronger.
The puppet's four limbs were the first to be disassembled into a pile of components. Every single component was intact and floated within the sphere of water, separated by a very short distance. It looked as if the puppet's limbs hadn't been disassembled at all.
Gandaph was very fast. The components of the puppet were disassembled one by one, but Lin Yun could no longer remain calm when he saw the situation within the puppet's body. Amazement could be seen on his face.
Gandaph's method of dissecting the puppet didn't look like anything special, but as a Peak Artisan, Lin Yun could see the technical content within. This wasn't based on Gandaph's strength.
Lin Yun could also disassemble the puppet in a sphere of water. There would undoubtedly be a lot of benefits. He wouldn't damage the components and would even polish the old components. That was enough.
But Lin Yun couldn't do what Gandaph did. The water within the sphere of water would turn into several dozen tools every second, sometimes even over a hundred. Moreover, these tools were continuously changing and were completely formed from water. This was a test of one's understanding of puppets and alchemy attainments.
Knowing where to use what tools, this kind of basic thing became the most difficult thing here. Lin Yun's previous method of dismantling the puppet was actually a kind of violent dismantling. If it was for the sake of obtaining the puppet's components, that kind of dismantling method wouldn't be advisable. Only in battle could that kind of violent dismantling be used.
Because disassembling in an instant would inevitably destroy some fragile components. What truly surprised Lin Yun wasn't Gandaph's skill, but rather that the puppet was actually intact!
All of the puppet's components, all of its systems, were in good condition. In other words, this puppet was still alive. This was the true way to preserve the perfection of all the components!
Gandaph disassembled the puppet's torso bit by bit. Every component was intact, the control system, the energy system, the intelligence system, the weapon system, everything was intact. Even after the puppet's head was disassembled, Lin Yun didn't discover any damage.
This was the most frightening part. Without damaging any of the puppet's components, a living Heaven Rank Puppet was dismantled into components.
Lin Yun was a bit stunned. With his current strength, even if he disassembled a Level 30 puppet, he wouldn't be able to disassemble it without damaging any of its components or systems. Disassembling a puppet into components while it was still alive …
Seeing Gandaph's proficiency, it was clear that this was a new and mature technique in the Starry Sky College.
After Gandaph thoroughly disassembled every component of the puppet, the puppet floated in the water sphere and only looked a bit fatter. If one looked carefully, they would see that every component was still in its original position, but there was a thin gap between each component.
If Gandaph wanted to, he could instantly reassemble this puppet and revive this level 43 puppet. Moreover, because all the components had been reprocessed, some of the old components had been washed away and became smooth. The puppet might be even stronger than before.
After Gandalf finished dismantling it, he shook his head and loosened his hand that was attached to the water ball. The water ball collapsed and the parts fell together with it.
"It's not that, let's go …"
He didn't even look at the components on the ground and turned to leave. Lin Yun opened his mouth and glanced at the components on the ground before casually putting them away.
Gandaph didn't care about the components of this puppet, but Lin Yun did. He had gotten rid of quite a few Heaven Puppets before, but most of the components were unusable after that kind of battle. They could only be used as raw materials, especially some relatively fragile key components. He hadn't been able to collect them after such a long time.
The idea of upgrading the patched puppet couldn't be carried out for such a long time. Now that he had such a complete Heaven Puppet's components, many of them could be exchanged for the patched puppet and it would definitely allow the patched puppet to regain its Heaven Rank power.
Thus, Lin Yun put away all the components without batting an eyelid and kept following Gandaph. As for what Gandaph wanted to do, it wasn't too important. He just needed to follow. If he could find a few complete Heaven Puppet components, he could immediately start remodeling the patched puppet.
They kept following Gandaph, and after flying for over thirty kilometers, they encountered an army of puppets. Among them, there were 3,425 to 39 puppets, led by a level 42 puppet. These puppets had all kinds of strange appearances.
The humanoid puppets were actually the fewest in number. Most of them were beast-shaped, and there were even many spiders, ants, and other insect-shaped puppets. The leading Heaven Puppet looked like a beetle magnified countless times. Its body was over ten meters long, and it was close to two meters tall while lying on the ground. There was a huge rune the size of an adult's head on its thick carapace.
That was a rare ability rune for Heaven Puppets, and it seemed to be a relatively rare defensive rune. Lin Yun didn't know what its specific effects were. Even if a puppet's ability rune was exactly the same, it would have different effects on different puppets.
Floating in the air, Gandaph personally released a shielding barrier to protect them.
"There are no other Heaven Puppets within thirty kilometers, let's go with them."
Gandaph casually said, as if this puppet army that could sweep through some of the mid-sized forces of Andalusia could be casually erased.
While floating in the air, Gandaph looked at the sky and flicked a blue rune. The rune turned into a blue ray of light and flew into the sky. In an instant, the thin atmosphere of the Puppet Plane began to move and a black cloud that was over a dozen kilometers in size began to condense in the sky.
A few seconds later, drops of black rain fell from the sky. When the rain fell on the ground, the exposed black ground began to emit white smoke, as if the rain was a strong acid.
This was also one of the characteristics of the Puppet Plane. The atmosphere here was very thin. Even during the day, if one looked up, they would still see a scorching sun hanging in the deep void. The rain here was also acid rain, but the amount was very small.
When the acid rain fell, the ores on the black soil would slowly melt. When the rain evaporated, the remaining ores would accumulate over time to form a large piece of flat land made of steel.
As for acid rain, it was the thing that puppets hated the most, especially Low Level Puppets. Many of their components could be corroded by acid rain. After being drenched in the rain, the wear and tear on the components would increase, and the damage would also accelerate. To some Low Level Puppets, acid rain was fatal.
This puppet army suddenly encountered the acid rain and was like a group of instinctive insects encountering a crisis. They instantly fell into chaos.
At this time, Gandaph once again extended his finger and flicked a blue law rune. In an instant, the moisture gathered on the ground rapidly condensed, and in less than three seconds, several thousand blue spheres of water appeared on the ground, each of them wrapped around a puppet.
From the Heaven Puppet to the lowest Level 25 puppet, they were all wrapped in water spheres. In an instant, Lin Yun saw that apart from the Heaven Puppet, all the water spheres were surging with berserk power, and the water within the water spheres was frantically revolving.
Whether it was level 25 or level 39, it made no difference. In less than a second, several thousand puppets were violently dismantled into a pile of components, and most of the components were twisted to the point where they could no longer be used.
Seeing Gandaph and Lin Yun floating down, that beetle-like Heaven Puppet's crystal eyes frantically flickered and a hissing sound burst out of its mouth. The sound waves kept attacking the water spheres and even bounced back to the beetle.
The ability rune on the back of the beetle suddenly shone and a layer of black and silver light enveloped the beetle's body, thoroughly protecting it. It looked like the beetle's color had turned black and silver, and its defensive abilities had increased by a level.
Lin Yun calmly looked at that beetle. He didn't think that this pitiful beetle puppet could resist Gandaph's dismantling.
Sure enough, Gandaph extended his hand and placed it on the surface of that twenty-meter-big water sphere. Just like before, the light in the beetle's eyes dissipated, the mana fluctuations dissipated, and the ability rune on its back also dimmed.
Lin Yun frowned as he looked at Gandaph's actions. He looked at it twice in a row, but he still couldn't determine how Gandaph did it. He didn't feel any Extraordinary Power fluctuations, nor did he feel any special mana fluctuations. It clearly wasn't the result of Gandaph's power, but rather a combination of power and formidable alchemy skills. This was the core of the puppet's perfect dismantling.
But it was clear that Gandaph didn't plan on giving this core technique to Lin Yun for free. It didn't matter if Lin Yun saw the dismantling steps. After all, as long as one had enough alchemy skills, it could be done.
Gandaph once again performed the process of perfectly dismantling a Heaven Rank Puppet, and it was just like a perfect performance.
But this time, Gandaph's expression slightly changed when he reached the end of the dismantling. That huge blue water sphere suddenly changed shape and the components outside of the core were wrapped in the water sphere and thrown to the side as if they were trash. Gandaph didn't even glance at the carapace with the ability rune.
Ultimately, he thoroughly scattered the water sphere, leaving behind a one-meter-big area in the puppet's body. After putting that area on the ground, Gandaph took out a pair of mana isolating gloves as well as a dozen tools and cautiously used his hands to dismantle that last part.
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