NPC's Poverty Story

Chapter 237 The Birth of the War Puppet
Soon An Mio found a few players to enter the bird's secret realm to sort out the soul steel in the warehouse, and then asked Erica to find the wreckage of the ark.

An Mio herself took out the blueprint of the war puppet. This thing is very powerful, but also a bit complicated. She separated some simple parts and gave them to the players to do.

The war puppet is a big project, and it would take a lot of time for Mio alone, but now she doesn't have so much time to waste, because her purpose of making the war puppet is to save Ai Lei.

The external parts are handed over to the player, and what An Mio has to do is to use soul steel to make the skeleton, which is one of the core things of the war puppet.

In addition to the source stones that provide energy, the soul steel skeleton needs to support the whole body of the war puppet, so it is the most complicated to make. It needs to carry a lot of magic arrays and spells, which are the key to the war puppet's operations.

Soul steel is a kind of magical material. Although it can be regarded as a kind of metal, it is very resistant to flames. This can be understood by comparing the soul steel pillars on the square in the bird's secret realm. Those things have withstood the chaotic flames. The baptisms have not changed much.

The only thing that can transform the soul steel is pure magic energy, which does not contain any magical energy, so the energy extracted from the source stone can only be used to shape the soul steel. Now she is using what the players found from the chaotic sea Soul steel and source stones are basically in a pure natural state, and it is extremely difficult to process them.

The characteristics of soul steel also means that modern tools have almost no effect on it, which makes Mio very uncomfortable. Fortunately, there are mechanical props for processing soul steel in the legacy of the former civilization, so An Mio had to make a soul steel first. The shaper took a lot of time.

However, with this soul steel shaping instrument, the efficiency of making a skeleton is much higher. It took An Mio a whole day to finally create a humanoid skeleton more than two meters high, but this is only a preliminary model. The array and incantations to release the magic have not been engraved yet.

This incident caused a lot of pressure on those players who accepted Mio's commission, because they found that the things commissioned by Mio could only be done by themselves, and they could not be completed by reading the system.

Of course, apart from a little pressure, players are still excited. They seem to have suddenly found the fun of the game, and making parts by themselves is a very challenging thing.

Now, An Mio started to engrave the magic array map after finishing the skeleton. She is a necromancer, so the engraved magic on the war puppet is naturally necromantic magic. In fact, it is not the first time she has done this kind of engraving of the magic array map. Yes, but last time it was engraved on the magic crystal plate.

Originally, An Mio was planning to engrave magic on the magic storage crystal plate and sell it to players, but after she came out of Usuvral, things developed completely beyond her expectations, and the matter was left alone.

After all, the war puppet is just a mechanical puppet, and the amount of magic it can carry is limited. It can only engrave four spells at most, and considering the energy supply limit of the source stone, these spells cannot consume too much mana.

After some consideration, Mio decided to engrave one low-level magic, two middle-level magic and one high-level magic on the war puppet.

Low-level magic consumes less and can be used as a conventional attack method, while middle-level magic should be the most suitable for war puppets. High-level magic consumes too much to be released easily, but it cannot be used without it, and can be used as the last resort.

In the end, An Mio chose [Shadow] in the low-level magic. This skill has both displacement and concealment, and it consumes less energy. , so the magic does not need to be too aggressive, and the magic effect of the auxiliary direction may be better.

For the mid-level magic, An Miao chose [Necromantic Mist] and [Gloomy Eye]. These two magics are auxiliary skills. An Miao herself almost never uses them because she prefers violent magic.

The effect of [Necro Mist], as the name suggests, is to summon the black mist of the undead within a certain range, and the undead are hidden in the black mist, but the general attack effect is not strong, and the main function is to confuse the enemy.

[Pupil of Glowing Light] is a single-target illusion, which can be activated when the enemy looks at each other, but the effect is not stable. When the effect is significant, it can directly make the enemy fall into an illusion. When the effect is the worst, the enemy will be in a trance for a short time. Uncertain characteristics doomed her to eat dust in An Mio's magic list, but it was a good choice to put it on the war puppet.

An Mio didn't hesitate in the high-level magic, and directly chose [Psychic Storm], a large-scale spiritual attack magic, moderate mana consumption, and both support and output capabilities, one of An Mio's favorite magics.

"Master, I'm afraid the puppets you make in this way will surpass those of your predecessors." Fang Zhou sighed suddenly.

Fang Zhou has been watching from the side when An Mio engraved the magic, and the magic engraved by An Mio made him feel a little emotional.

"The times are different." An Mio was not complacent because of Fang Zhou's words. She knew that she did not have the qualifications, and now she was just standing on the shoulders of giants, and everything she relied on was the legacy of the previous civilization.

But Fang Zhou’s words are correct. An Mio knows that the war puppets he made must be stronger than the previous civilization in terms of magic, because although the magic mechanics of the previous civilization have the word magic in their names, they are still mechanics in essence. , the magic they can use is not advanced, just some of the most basic magic, and there are no various magic schools like now.

Therefore, the magic they engraved on the war puppets is naturally not very advanced. They are all skills like fireball, which is not very powerful in itself, and it is even weaker when released by the puppets.

An Mio feels that the path she is taking now is almost the same as those magic mechanics, the only difference is that her ability in magic is higher than that of magic mechanics.

After engraving the magic on the soul steel skeleton, An Mio began to use spells to seal the engraving on the soul steel. This is a necessary procedure. Naturally, the magic on the war puppet cannot be a one-time product like the magic crystal storage plate. It needs use many times.

This is the role of the sealing spell, which can ensure that those magic arrays will not be consumed all at once.

After completing these tasks, An Mio's war puppet skeleton is considered complete. Next, as long as the origin stone is installed in the energy supply system, even this skeleton can release skills by itself. Of course, it is impossible to do this kind of thing now. Under the circumstances, releasing skills will damage the skeleton.

After the players have completed the parts of the war puppets, they can start assembling them. And now Mio can finally take a rest. It took a day for the skeleton to be initially completed, and now it is late at night after the magic is engraved.

"Erica found the wreckage of many arks in Xiaoniao's warehouse today, and those wreckages came from the depths of the Chaos Sea. What does this mean?" An Mio stood up, stretched herself, and then looked at Ark intelligence in the air.

"This means they failed." Ark replied after a moment of silence: "They had this kind of prediction when they created us, but they didn't want to give up. The Ark project was a gamble from the beginning."

"Did they expect the Ark project to fail?" An Mio was taken aback for a moment, and then he was relieved. Maybe this is the reason why they built so many arks and seeds of civilization!If you have the confidence that you will succeed, why bother.

"Nothing remains the same, but at least I still exist, and their plan is not a complete failure, although we are still living in this sandbox." I see hope in me, the hope of escaping the sandbox."

"You didn't think so at the beginning." An Mio glanced at Fang Zhou, and this guy actually started to flatter him. At the beginning, this guy was not like this. After being taught a lesson, he realized why the flowers are so popular.

"To be honest, I really didn't have much hope for you, master. I shouldered a civilization inheritance on my shoulders, and that was my only mission." Fang Zhou actually admitted it generously this time, and said it very seriously, seriously enough An Mio wanted to teach it a lesson again, but finally endured it.

"I thought you would be interested in the wreckage of the ark!" Mio originally wanted to get some information from the ark.

"I also want to express sympathy for my kind, but unfortunately I don't have such a rich emotional module." Fang Zhou said.

"I'll go and see their progress." An Mio didn't say anything more to Ark. After all, Ark is just a machine, and everything it does is based on the root instructions in its program.

After walking out of the ark, the outside is still brightly lit. The construction of the settlement has begun to take shape, and the built houses have been put into use. The architects have moved in by themselves, with magic lighting and heating, and the food is temporarily provided by Aurora. Provided over there, their life here is also very fulfilling.

But they are ordinary human beings after all, and they have already entered sleep time at night, but there are still players and Shadow Clan working on the plain, and they don’t feel much about the alternation of day and night. There are many more reasons just to avoid the light source.

Now the Shadow Clan who signed a contract with the player doesn't even need a house. They are not too afraid of light now, and when they want to rest, they can hide directly in the player's shadow, which is quite convenient.

An Mio walked past the construction site and walked straight to the factory where the players are now. The factory established here was originally for processing various materials, and it is naturally here where the players make war puppet parts.

The players were a little surprised to see An Mio coming in. An Mio just walked in front of them and glanced at the parts they made casually. There was nothing wrong with it, except that their speed was a bit slow.

At dawn, the players finally finished their work and submitted the parts to Mio.

But just when An Mio was about to go back to assemble the war puppets, someone from the Guang family came to the settlement.

(End of this chapter)