If this were a game, the only way to increase the proficiency of a skill was to use it continuously.
Ever since he descended, Lin Xiao hadn't stopped working. He kept digging and knocking on rocks, and the technique he'd learned from the Tower of Truth was becoming more and more proficient. He was now able to knock out square rocks from the entire underground rock layer.
At first, the rocks were still very rough, as if they'd been casually chiseled. The edges were uneven, and the whole thing wasn't square.
Now, the edges of the rocks were smooth, and although there were still some bumps to the touch, at least they weren't prickly or sharp. Even the shape of the rocks was square, and the error of a ninety-degree angle was only a few degrees. They were stacked firmly on the edge of the hole, and wouldn't fall over.
When a person was focused on something, time flew by quickly, and the efficiency was also very high.
By the time he'd dug more than a hundred meters into the rock layer in one breath, it was already the second month. He sensed a slightly stronger Planar Will than the previous month.
Fortunately, this place was too far from the surface, and the earth would still block it a little. When it reached him, it was already very faint.
At this time, Lin Xiao stopped and began to dig horizontally. It took him another ten days to dig out a new underground base that was even larger than before.
This time, it was different from the last time. There were no living facilities, and instead, there was a huge workshop.
"The world is so dangerous, I have to make something to defend myself."
Standing in front of the workbench in the middle of the huge workshop, Lin Xiao put his hands on his hips and recalled the various knowledge related to the mage system in the Tower of Truth. With the situation he was facing now, the most suitable and easiest way to increase his strength was to create fully constructed puppets.
Puppets were a type of golem, and in some places, they were also called golems. There wasn't much difference, just the name.
Combining the materials he had, he could only choose three types of golems: wood golems, clay golems, and stone golems.
Unfortunately, he had dug so deep into the rock layer for over a hundred meters, but he still hadn't found any mineral veins. He was speechless.
Although he could convert other substances into the substances he needed through Substance Conversion, with his current ability, he could only convert a small number of key substances at most. For example, magic materials such as mithril and mercury that were necessary to arrange the core array of the golem. Although the consumption of steel and the like was lower than mithril, the demand was too high. It was impossible for him to use this method to convert them on a large scale.
The first thing he tried was the wooden golem, which had the lowest requirements and the cheapest materials.
First, he went to the surface to pick up a new batch of wood and piled it up in the base. Then, he randomly picked a round piece of wood that was about 1.5 meters in diameter and 10 meters in length and placed it on the workbench.
He reached out and placed his hand on the log, feeling it back and forth. Then, he bent his fingers and gently tapped on a certain section.
"Dong, dong, dong …"
With just six sounds, the solid wood that was as thick as a large round table was knocked open by him. The crack was smooth and smooth, as if it had been cut by a knife.
"Sure!"
Although it was still far from perfect, it was already amazing that he could open it with his bare hands.
Then, according to the expected size of the wooden golem, he knocked off a section to adjust the shape.
There was no need to change the size. 1.5 meters in diameter and 2 meters in height were just right. It was just that the surface was smooth enough to facilitate the drawing of the array later. The place where the limbs were placed needed to be trimmed so that the limbs and the body would not interfere with each other when they rotated.
Then, he split another section of wood and cut out two thick pieces of wood that were 30 centimeters in diameter and 1.5 meters in length. Then, he used the Shaping Spell to transform them into the shape of legs.
Then, he used the Shaping Spell to transform the remaining two thick pieces of wood, but unlike the legs, these two pieces of wood that were used as hands were not molded into the shape of hands. Instead, the place where the palms should have been was directly molded into an interface. A large axe was formed, and then a thick wooden shield was placed at the interface.
Wooden golems were pitifully inflexible. It was a bit of a stretch to expect them to fight with various weapons, so it was better to directly transform their hands into weapons.
In his imagination, this thing was a one-time consumable.
Lin Xiao didn't even think about using it for a long time. He was just using it for practice now and getting a few as cannon fodder. When he was proficient, he would then start to make more powerful stone golems.
Yes, he wasn't even interested in making clay golems. This thing's combat power was not much different from that of wooden golems. The only advantage was that it was easier to shape and more flexible than wooden golems. After all, the hands and feet could be directly molded with mud.
When all the basic limbs were made, Lin Xiao separately enchanted the golems with only + 1 Sturdiness and + 1 Sharpness for the wooden axes.
He wanted to enchant more, but unfortunately, the wood material here could only be enchanted with level one.
Then there was the drawing of the array for the golems, which required a small amount of mithril, a certain amount of magic mercury, and a small number of gems.
He lacked all of these, so he could only use material transformation slowly.
Fortunately, he had the idea of making golems long ago and had made preparations early on. A month ago, before going to bed every day, he would use the remaining mental power and magic power to transform these materials, and now he had accumulated some.
Thanks to his good mastery of the Law of Creation, he had a great advantage in this regard. Not only did the transformation consume less mental power and magic power, but the transformation efficiency was also higher.
In fact, Lin Xiao wanted to try to use the Tesseract of Creation to transform directly. At most, it would consume some power of creation and he could easily transform a lot.
But he didn't dare to, and he didn't know if using the Tesseract of Creation to suddenly transform a lot of rare resources would be discovered.
The Tesseract of Creation would definitely not be discovered. Even the powerful True Gods couldn't discover it, so how could the will of a small plane discover it? The main thing was that a lot of rare resources suddenly appeared in this world, and he didn't know if it would be discovered.
He didn't dare to do anything uncertain now. He could only try it when the first stage was over or if he was discovered in advance.
Anyway, the demand wasn't high now, and he had enough to transform.
First, the mercury was transformed into magic mercury through a special method, then the gemstones were crushed into powder, and the mithril was melted. The three were mixed into a special magic ink, and he began to engrave special magic circles on the wooden golems.
This was not difficult. Not to mention that he had tried it before in his own divine realm, many intelligent goblins in the divine realm had already tried to make golems. In particular, Alemon had even made a heavy golem. These experiences were fed back into the Tower of Truth. As the owner of the Tower of Truth, Lin Xiao could naturally obtain these experiences and skills.
It took him a whole two hours to draw a complicated magic circle stroke by stroke. A complicated pattern was drawn on the simple wooden golem with black and blue magic ink.
This thing was super complicated and very energy-consuming, but it was also the most important thing. Just drawing this magic circle took more time than all the previous preparations.
Finally, he turned his right hand, and a small ball of light appeared in his palm. This was the beast's soul essence that he had collected when he killed the beast two months ago. It was just right to use it as the core of the golem.
First, he erased the will of the soul essence, then cast the Golem Enchantment spell.
This Golem Enchantment spell was divided into different levels and types, corresponding to different golems. For example, a cumbersome golem like the wooden golem would use the simplest Warrior Golem Enchantment spell. After enchantment, this soul essence core would be attached with a standard set of wooden golem behavior and combat systems.
Once enchanted, it would be fixed. If a Diamond Golem used a wooden golem as its core, then after success, the Diamond Golem's combat style and code of conduct would be the lowest level of wooden golem.
The next and last step was to send this soul essence core into the wooden golem. As he reached out and pressed on the top of the golem's head, invisible ripples flew out from his palm and quickly spread throughout the body. The magic circle drawn in black and blue magic ink lit up with a faint magical glow and slowly merged into the golem.
With a strange feeling, a sense of existence spread from the wooden golem. Lin Xiao knew that this wooden golem had taken shape.
“yes！”
He breathed a sigh of relief.
Taking shape once meant a good start.
Next, he tried to control and order the wooden golem to perform various actions, including patrol and combat, according to the instructions in the golem operation manual.
The wooden golem he created was about three and a half meters tall. Its main body was two meters tall and one and a half meters in diameter. It held a thick wooden shield in one hand and a large axe in the other. Its size was quite large and intimidating, but its actual combat power …
After all, it was made of wood. Its temporary combat power was okay, but it couldn't last long. It could only make do for now.
Casually ordering it to guard the cave entrance, Lin Xiao took a short rest and began to create the second wooden golem.
Next, he spent an entire week, spending more than eighteen hours a day in the workshop. According to an average of three hours per golem, after deducting accidental damage and increasing the speed after practice, he created a total of forty-one wooden golems in a week.
Most of them were cannon fodder, but he modified ten of them slightly, replacing their weapons with hammers and shovels.
With cannon fodder in hand, he finally felt more at ease. With these, if he encountered a powerful giant beast again, even if he couldn't defeat it, they could buy him time to escape.
On this day, he sat in front of the workbench and rested while thinking about his next plan.
Now that he had enough cannon fodder, the next step was to create stronger stone golems. This was more difficult than wooden golems, and required more resources.
But at this time, there were so many big guys in the underground base that space was running out. Although the ten wooden golems that had replaced their weapons with hammers and shovels were digging and expanding the base on the other side of the base, as for efficiency …
Let's take it slow!
There was no rush anyway.
Time passed by as he thought, tried, and hammered every day.
At first, the wooden golems made a lot of noise by smashing rocks and shovels every day, but as time passed, he got used to it.
On this day, he was standing in front of a three-meter-tall stone that was somewhat humanoid, sculpting when he suddenly heard a strange ear-piercing scream. He looked up abruptly, his face full of surprise. His first reaction was that a thief had broken in.
But then he immediately realized that this was an underground base, and the exits were all sealed to prevent thieves from breaking in.
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