After fooling the military police and the church's arbitrators, Connor, who was well aware of the bloodshed outside, naturally didn't want to lie in a puddle of muddy water. He planned to lie low for a while.
It had been some time since he discovered the Magic Stone mine in Tunguska, but due to various matters, he hadn't been able to mine the Magic Stone mine. Now, he could use this opportunity to invest his time and energy into the work of refining alchemy puppets!
Refining alchemy puppets was a relatively advanced technique in alchemy. It required an alchemist to have a certain level of alchemy skills to dabble in it. This was also why Marguerite was surprised when she heard Connor say that he wanted to use alchemy puppets to mine the Magic Stone mine. Because even the difficulty of refining the simplest alchemy puppet was no less than refining a level-2 magic item!
Before deciding to use alchemy puppets to mine the Magic Stone mine, Connor had also carefully studied the contents of alchemy puppets in 'Reyes's Alchemy' that he had studied. After careful study, he discovered that if he wanted to refine alchemy puppets, he had to overcome three major obstacles!
The first obstacle was that alchemy puppets were different from the steam engines in the Loen factory. They needed a certain level of intelligence because Magic Stones were an energy source and not very stable. If one treated them crudely, not only would it affect the quality of the Magic Stones mined, but it might even cause the Magic Stone mine to explode. And to safely mine the Magic Stones from the Magic Stone mine, a relatively complicated process was required to succeed. But the current level of machinery in this world was far from meeting the standards for safe mining of Magic Stones. This was also the reason why Connor didn't intend to use the steam engine to mine the Magic Stone mine from the beginning.
In order to make alchemy puppets possess a certain level of intelligence, alchemists generally had two methods. The first was to harvest the souls of living people and then use some secret method to let these souls reside in the puppets. In short, this was giving people a set of metal bodies. This method seemed simple and crude, but it was also very cruel. First of all, harvesting a living person's soul didn't necessarily mean that one could use a secret method to let their soul reside in a puppet. According to the records in 'Reyes's Alchemy', the ratio of human souls to alchemy puppets was about 1: 50. This meant that if Connor wanted to use this method to refine ten alchemy puppets, he would have to kill five hundred people and then extract their souls.
Not only that, but even if Connor really used this method to kill five hundred people and successfully refine ten alchemy puppets, it didn't mean that he could use these ten alchemy puppets to mine magic stones forever! Not to mention whether Connor would be skinned alive by the Church of the Storm after killing five hundred people. Even if Connor really used this method to successfully refine ten alchemy puppets, it didn't mean that he could use these ten alchemy puppets to mine magic stones forever!
The souls of living people weren't like Magi who had awakened their spirit power and greatly strengthened their souls. Their souls were very fragile. Even if they were successfully stored in the alchemy puppets using some secret method, their souls would gradually dissipate over time until they completely disappeared. This was something that couldn't be stopped by any method. The consequences of this weren't just their souls dispersing and never being able to reincarnate. According to Connor's calculations, counting from the day the souls of living people were stored in the alchemy puppets, he would be thanking the gods if he could use these alchemy puppets for three months!
Due to the above reasons, Connor didn't even consider such a simple and crude method!
The second method to give the alchemy puppets simple intelligence was the Mana Rune. Although they were both called Mana Runes, the Mana Runes used to refine magic artifacts and alchemy puppets were two completely different things. The latter was obviously more profound than the former. After all, magic artifacts were just objects for Magi to use. They didn't need to have intelligence!
In fact, rather than calling the key to giving the alchemy puppets intelligence a Mana Rune, Connor personally felt that it wasn't too much to call it a chip after some careful research. The Mana Runes of alchemy puppets were the same as the smart chips of smartphones on Earth. And the first problem in front of Connor was how to create this "chip"!
The second problem was the problem of the energy used to power the alchemy puppets. Just like how cars on Earth needed to be refueled, if you wanted to power the alchemy puppets, you naturally had to add energy to them. And Connor had already thought about the source of the energy used to power the alchemy puppets. He would use the magic stones mined by the alchemy puppets to power them. This was the second problem that troubled Connor in refining the alchemy puppets.
From this point of view, using magic stones to power the alchemy puppets wasn't a technical problem. The crux of the problem was the consumption of magic stones to power the alchemy puppets. According to Connor's calculations, for every hundred magic stones mined by the alchemy puppets, thirty processed magic stones would be consumed. And when Connor processed the magic stones into usable magic stones, the consumption rate would be about 10%. This meant that for every hundred magic stones mined by the alchemy puppets, there would only be sixty processed magic stones in Connor's hands. Then, according to the agreement, half of the processed magic stones would be given to Marguerite. In other words, for every hundred magic stones mined by the alchemy puppets, there would only be sixty processed magic stones in Connor's hands. Then, according to the agreement, half of the processed magic stones would be given to Connor. In other words, for every hundred magic stones mined by the alchemy puppets, there would only be thirty processed magic stones in Connor's hands!
Thus, Connor had to solve the problem of magic stone consumption to power the alchemy puppets. He wanted the alchemy puppets to consume as little as possible and work as much as possible!
Apart from the problem of the alchemy puppets' intelligence, Connor's third problem in refining the alchemy puppets was the problem of their durability. The alchemy puppets were used to mine magic stones. Magic stones were composed of raw magic stones, and the unprocessed raw magic stones were used as energy bodies. They innately carried radiation, and this radiation wouldn't have much of an effect if they were exposed to it for a short period of time.
But if they were exposed to it for a long period of time, both the human body and the alchemy puppet would be greatly affected. According to Connor's calculations, if the alchemy puppets mined magic stones twenty-four hours a day, their core components would have to be replaced every two to three months. If they didn't replace their core components and continued mining, the risk of the entire alchemy puppet becoming scrap was over 70%!
Although the core components of the alchemy puppets weren't expensive, having to replace the core components of ten alchemy puppets every two to three months would not only delay the mining of magic stones, but it would also attract the attention of others and cause unnecessary trouble!
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