"Titan, tell me what seals he placed on you. What did he do to you?"
"Hercules" was the name of this 7th generation melee magic armor. Directly asking the magic armor what sort of seal was placed on one's body was no different from asking a statue for directions … But in this world, was it really impossible to get any response from a statue on the side of the road when asking for directions?
Rorschach narrowed his eyes as he sat on the magic armor. He seemed to be deep in thought, but he seemed to be muttering something to himself.
When he opened his eyes again, everything before him was no longer a secret.
He casually opened up the control panel and entered a series of garbled passwords. A hidden panel was opened, and he once again obtained the highest level of authority.
"Ha, the old era's encryption system. Simple."
There was no need to mention it again. Mages used mana to create spell models, and then used the spell models to control the power of the elements, creating the effects of magic.
Controlling the elements was the most basic ability of all mages. Although Rorschach's Iron Sand Printing was a magical simulation of 3D printing, it was only a copy of the real world.
The second basic ability of all mages was naturally the ability to communicate with the elements.
Mentally connecting with the elements, understanding and controlling their characteristics, and increasing their affinity and control with the elements was a path that every mage had to take.
However, it was quite obvious that Rorschach, a plastic steel mage, was communicating with a rather special target.
"Hercules, activate that."
Rorschach closed his eyes as mana seeped into the magic armor. His nervous system strangely started automatically connecting with the magic armor, and the magic armor began to move on its own.
Since the magic armor was an artificially created object, would it be able to communicate with the elements by itself?
The answer was naturally no.
In the vast majority of cases, the magic armor was only a combination of steel and other materials. The so-called "on-board AI/support tower spirit" was only a brain and nervous system installed on the magic armor. The magic armor didn't actually have its own consciousness.
However, elemental shamans were capable of communicating with rivers and the earth. They were capable of awakening self-aware earth and water elemental creatures. Arcanists were even capable of artificially creating elemental servants. Connecting one's own mental power with the elements, awakening their own consciousness, and communicating with them was already the most basic ability of all mages.
In this regard, there was another example that could not be ignored — necromancers.
What they had awakened were skeletons and corpses that had no consciousness. After using their magic power, they had awakened the endless Scourge Army.
Communicating with the elements was the basic ability of a spellcaster. However, the difficulty of communication was different. Necromancers would obtain near-permanent undead creatures, while Shamans would be exhausted just from communicating with the spirits of the earth.
Some experts conducted academic research, and the result was that it was related to the characteristics of the elements themselves. Some elements were very easy to control, while some elements were arrogant and unyielding. Even just touching them could corrode the mind of the user.
The Steel Element of Steel Creation was a special element that did not exist in Aishi. Naturally, there was no information to discuss.
Rorschach had to explore and understand every step by himself.
And now, Rorschach had successfully communicated with the Steel creation, the magical armor, and naturally understood some of the attributes of the element.
"Link ready, 3, 2, 1. Start."
Rorschach activated the neural link mode of the auxiliary AI, and completely merged with the magical armor in spirit.
Some memories and fragmented images were silently transmitted from the other end of the link.
"The Steel Elemental is too special. Before it was molded into an independent entity, it could not even develop consciousness. Even if it briefly awakened consciousness with my ability, it would have to abide by the laws of physics and reason, and that consciousness itself would appear too dull and sluggish, just like a newborn baby. To be precise, what I'm communicating with isn't something that doesn't exist like the Steel Element, but an independent entity like the Steel Creation. Even if it's awakened, I can't make it act out of the ordinary. "
In the conversation with Lori, Rorschach had fully explained his understanding of the Steel Element. In a sense, it made people feel helpless, but it was also natural.
If he could casually turn his creation into a Steel Warrior, Rorschach would have become the Emperor of the universe who mass-produced transformers instead of a novice explorer.
He could forcefully modify Steel Creations, which was equivalent to announcing the death of the Steel Creation, and completely reducing it to a pile of mindless steel.
In Rorschach's understanding, its extraordinary independence was the most obvious characteristic of an artificial element. Unlike other elements that could be awakened by being twisted into a cluster, the Steel Element that Rorschach awakened and communicated with could only exist as a complete Steel Creation, such as an assault ship, a magical armor, or a fighter.
"No, no. Fighters and assault ships can't do it now. I just think that it's possible. Now, the biggest creation that I can interact with and awaken is probably the magical armor."
As if awakening an armor's past memories, it awakened after Rorschach poured enough mana into it, and transmitted the memories and history that Rorschach was looking forward to.
Rorschach had thought that such an ability was useless. He thought that the steel longsword, cannons, and the like he had communicated with were just memories that were meaningless.
Yes, it was the memories of the Steel Creations, not the memories of the user.
Before awakening such an ability, Rorschach thought that he had found his golden finger, and that he could easily obtain a huge amount of experience points from weapons and finally reach the peak of his life. Later on, he realized that this golden finger had probably forgotten about it.
"Even if I know how long and how wide the longsword is, how many people it has killed, where is the sharpest point? What's the point?!"
Rorschach was a user of Steel Creations. Only the experience of the user (swordsman, pilot) was meaningful to him. Knowing how many cracks there were on a weapon and how many people it had killed was simply the stupidest ability.
However, there was one Steel Creations that was special.
"So, I can forcefully break through in this kind of terrain … Oh, there's such a thing. As expected of the trump card of the Radiance Scroll."
[Nerve Connection] allowed the Steel Creations and the Steel Creations to become one, allowing the Steel Creations to control the Steel Creations as if it was their own body.
A newbie like Salia couldn't differentiate between her own body and the Steel Creations. That was why she unconsciously caused all kinds of damage. However, an experienced player could easily differentiate between the two.
Naturally, the Steel Creations would record the memories and combat style of the previous user. As the next user, Rorschach, who had fused with the Steel Creations, would naturally obtain the perfect first-person perspective combat memory of the previous user.
This was the biggest reward that Rorschach had gained from entering the No Man's Land. It was also the reason why Rorschach had spent so much effort to slack off after stealing the technology.
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