Chapter 133: Advancement to a Higher Level! Mechanical Transformation
Wizard's Tower.
Xiao En sat upright in front of the desk, his invisible hands controlling three magic pens at the same time, one of which was used to record experimental data, and the other two were used for composition design. In front of him was a scroll spread out and suspended twenty centimeters above the table. There was a dragon pattern engraved on the surface, which was the cloud pattern of the Eastern Spirit Dragon. The scroll recorded the skills of the Zhendan people's strange machine masters.
This career advancement path is a bit like being a puppeteer.
How to say orientalized constructs? The wooden ox and flowing horse in the Three Kingdoms and the mechanical man of the Mohist school in the pre-Qin era are probably based on this design concept. The highest alchemical constructs of the Zhendan Empire are the "Zhendan Twelve Golden Men". They are world wonder-level constructs with the combat power to crush ancient evil creatures head-on.
However, all the twelve golden men of Zhendan were destroyed in the war of gods in the wild sky. Now this branch of the inheritance of the weird country can only build construct puppets at the level of "garrison golden men". The combat power of the garrison golden men is probably similar to that of the high elves' adamantine golems and mithril golems.
"Gather all the soldiers in the world, gather them in Xianyang, melt them down, and cast them into twelve golden men."
Xiao En looked at the dragon-patterned scroll in front of him. It was engraved with an extremely unique Zhendan language, which was completely different from the common language. It was also very different from the Chinese characters on Earth in his previous life. Because it was a more ancient pictographic script, it recorded the alchemical construction knowledge of the Zhendan civilization, including puppets, mechanical men, terracotta warriors, golden men, and so on.
"Is the Zhendan Empire really not the inheritance of Chinese civilization?"
Xiao En's expression was somewhat incredulous, and he murmured, "The people of Zhendan worship their ancestors and offer sacrifices to heaven and earth. The spirit dragon is very similar to the Eastern dragon, and the first emperor of the empire is called the [Ancestor Dragon]."
"There are also the Twelve Golden Men of Zhendan, Changyuan (the Great Wall), the White Jade Capital in the Sky, and many other world wonders."
"Isn't this the civilization of the Qin Dynasty?"
Xiao En gently raised a finger, and the words on the dragon-patterned scroll changed. This scroll was like a small USB flash drive. After being activated by magic power, the words could be changed and the mysterious knowledge engraved inside could be flipped through.
The structural models of the terracotta warriors appeared on the surface of the scroll, and their appearance looked almost exactly the same as the Terracotta Warriors!
“This is definitely the Terracotta Warriors!”
Xiao En's eyes were very certain. He was from China on Earth, so it was impossible for him to make a mistake in identifying the Terracotta Warriors.
The alchemical knowledge recorded on the scroll was extremely detailed. Amon had managed to find it, even using the power of the Seven Evil Guards.
"We used an improved clay golem manufacturing process."
“But the cost is lower.”
“The Terracotta Warriors are also made of fired clay.”
Xiao En began to analyze the alchemical knowledge in front of him. The more he read, the more shocked he became. He muttered, "If designed this way, the cost of the terracotta warriors would be only one-tenth of that of the clay golems, and ten terracotta warriors could form a battle formation, automatically adding the combat specialty of 'defending and attacking'."
"The Zhendan people actually upgraded the constructed golem into a battle formation model."
"Ten-man formation?"
"A hundred-man formation?"
"Does the Hundred Man Battle Formation require a higher-level golden man construct?"
Even if the Zhendan Empire is not a descendant of the Chinese civilization on Earth in the previous life, it is very likely to be the isotope of Chinese civilization in this multiverse, because a little bit of similarity is normal, but so many similarities are definitely closely related to Chinese civilization.
"The Spirit Dragon suddenly descended upon the Crystal Wall System of the Savage Sky Realm. At the end of the ancient times, the Spirit Dragon entered the Savage Kingdom together with the Eastern ancestors."
The times are too long ago.
Xiao En had no way of verifying whether the first Eastern ancestors were time travelers from ancient China, but everything he saw before him undoubtedly made him feel more favorable toward the Zhendan people. Because to some extent, their civilization was very close to the pre-Qin Empire of high magic civilization.
If it weren't for the war of gods, based on the alchemical skills that Xiao En had seen so far, the Zhendan Empire would have a high chance of being promoted to an interstellar civilization.
"I must go to the Heavenly White Jade Palace once!"
Xiao En slowly put away the dragon-patterned scroll in his hand. The alchemical skills of the Zhendan civilization are equivalent to the Chinese skills in the high magic plane, and the Zhendan people also sheltered a part of the spirits. Unlike the fairies in other places, the spirit creatures in the Zhendan area are of two types: monsters and spirits.
Spirits are similar to the mountain spirits and wild monsters in the traditional Eastern Chinese culture, while fairies are an orientalized type of fairies whose strength and status are equivalent to lake fairies, water spirits, tree spirits, etc.
It’s just that all Eastern spirits have a little bit of dragon spirit bloodline, and their representative race is the Jiangling people. They are spirit creatures nurtured by the spirituality of mountains and rivers.
"Like tree spirits and water spirits, they are all natural spirits born and raised by nature."
The most obvious characteristic of the life of spirits is that they have no parents and are conceived by natural spirituality.
"Owner."
At this moment, there was a soft sound of footsteps outside the laboratory, followed by a faint sweet fragrance. The body fragrance of succubus is easy to identify because it has a certain aphrodisiac effect. They can control their own hormone secretion. The flesh and blood genes of Tanari demons are all upgraded.
Veronica walked to the desk with a cup of green tea, put it down carefully and said, "Yvon Tanner has been developing believers very smoothly recently. He has recruited several mid-to-high-level extraordinary people."
Xiao En put away the dragon-patterned scroll in his hand and calmed his inner turmoil. He would know what the heritage of the Zhendan people was after taking a look.
In the Crystal Wall system of the Kingdom Sky, in a place called Faerun, there are gods from Earth, Tyr of the Norse pantheon, who is also one of the three gods of justice.
His representative artifact is——【Pale Justice】.
There is another artifact called [Holy Avenger], which is also a powerful weapon widely circulated in the multiverse.
I just don’t know if the Earth in Tyr is the Earth in Sean’s previous life. After all, his previous life was a world without any supernatural power. It might be a high-magic Earth in a parallel universe, a world where Norse gods really exist.
The Spirit Dragon might be an Eastern dragon that traveled to this multiverse crystal wall system.
The only recordable battle record of the Eastern ancestors was that in ancient times they wiped out many evil creatures active in the wild sky, and with the help of the spirit dragon they defeated the deep sea empire established by the monsters.
"It's about the time when the God of Justice Tyr entered the Kingdom of Faerun. The difference between before and after will not be more than a thousand years."
Xiao En picked up the green tea and took a sip. Veronica was better at making tea than him, but she liked green tea better.
He reached out his hand and tapped lightly on the table, then stroked the long red hair of the succubus beside him. The annoying little goblin immediately understood what Sean meant. She bent her knees slightly, revealing her graceful figure, tied her soft long hair behind her, and carefully crawled under the desk.
"Is Yvonne Tanner still preaching near the Blood Feast?" Sean's expression was calm as he continued his research records.
Under the desk, Veronica's somewhat slurred voice sounded: "Um... yes... Master... Gurgle..."
She panted coquettishly and said in a hurried tone, "The extraordinary people who go there are all trying to vent the dark desires that are pent up in their hearts. Some are on the verge of madness."
“He has now developed two other priests.”
Is it so efficient?
Xiao En's expression was a little surprised. He took a breath, frowned, and concentrated his mind to resist the suction of the succubus. He said lightly: "Very...very good!..."
Normally, it is not easy for extraordinary people to come into contact with the consciousness of Holy Terra.
Such a high conversion rate of priests is either due to the secret efforts of Holy Terra, or the out-of-control people are more likely to feel crazy pain. It can't be that it is because they have just finished whoring and are in sage time, so they are more likely to feel the will of the world.
Speaking of Sage Time, after being contaminated by the sludge of hatred, Sean had to use Sage Time to balance the somewhat chaotic hormone secretions in his body.
He is currently trying his best to transform the dark reproductive desires that come from the fallen Mother Goddess into the pursuit of physical pleasure in human consciousness.
We can't create hybrid sub-dragon species by mixing with any creature like the giant dragon did.
"The pollution of the fallen mother goddess is indeed extraordinary. The deformation of the flesh and blood is difficult to reverse. Once a high degree of deformation occurs, the only way to treat it is to remove the limbs."
Sean can treat mental pollution through psychic surgery, but there is currently no effective way to treat flesh and blood deformation.
I don’t know how long it took.
He suddenly frowned, then gently stroked the succubus's long hair. Soon, Veronica, with a faint blush on her face, stood up from under the desk. She licked the corner of her mouth and said in a gentle and pleasant voice as sweet as honey: "Master, then I won't disturb you from working."
It's time for her to go to work.
Xiao En's promotion is imminent, and he must maintain the sage state for a long time.
Before he removed the pollution of the Fallen Mother Goddess, Xiao En's hormone secretion was somewhat abnormal, similar to the physiological "sex addiction" disease. This kind of flesh and blood pollution, the most common is "mania", many extraordinary people on the verge of losing control have an insatiable bloodthirsty desire, and can only relieve it through killing.
"It's a bit like the orcs who drank the blood of the devil and turned into bloodthirsty beasts."
Xiao En thought of a game in his previous life, in which a person with out-of-control violent desires had this symptom.
After Veronica's enchanting figure left, Sean slowly stood up. He raised his hand and snapped his fingers. Soon, a strange construct on the alchemy table not far away emitted a faint light, and then floated to a height of half a meter above the ground.
It was a mechanical arm of relatively primitive design, with a circular structure in the center, engraved with the rune of "anti-gravity", four mechanical arms on both sides, and the core drive was the soul crystal.
"In my past life, I had the idea of using the human brain as a biological computer to control the operation of mechanical bodies."
"And this world obviously uses human soul memory as the driving computing power."
The basic logical thinking ability of all constructs comes from the underlying thinking memory contained in the soul crystal, which is equivalent to an artificial intelligent AI.
This means that the Alchemist's demand for souls is extremely huge!
Xiao En stood up and stretched out his arms. The mechanical arm suspended in the air automatically flew behind him. After the gears were slightly connected, the four mechanical arms were automatically equipped on his body. The artificial intelligence with soul memory as the core can execute most simple commands, just like a clay golem with ordinary intelligence.
"The mechanical design of the construct must be further upgraded."
Xiao En manipulated the mechanical arm behind him to move a bit and quickly recorded: "Human arms are not that useful unless they are modified to the body."
“Maybe consider designing octopus-like tentacles.”
"I remember that among the constructs of the Abnormal Empire, there was a giant octopus-shaped construct."
Sean is very lacking in knowledge now.
The design of the mechanical arms on Yvonne Tanner's body was not perfect. The flesh and blood of this out-of-control person was highly distorted, so Sean could only cut off his right arm and replace it with a simple alchemical mechanical arm.
“Modern Bionics.”
"If I want to completely cure Yvonne Tanner's deformed flesh and blood, I must reshape his spine. Only by replacing his deformed spine with a bionic spine can I completely restore him to normal."
After her flesh and blood completely lost control, the bones and organs in Yvonne Tanner's body became deformed.
Xiao En's idea is to replace some of his alchemical construct limbs. Except for the brain, basically all organs can be replaced. He is a transcendent of the wizard path, and in the future he can consider completely transforming into a construct, or even elementalizing his body.
Time passes silently.
After completing the research work at hand, Xiao En finally began to prepare for the fourth stage promotion ceremony. He had been preparing for this for nearly half a year, and it could basically be said that it was a sure thing.
——Magic Network Promotion Ceremony.
The target that Xiao En finally chose was still the enormous original magic power. The other extraordinary relics were far less powerful than the extraordinary nature of the original magic power.
Under the force field shield of the wizard tower, Sean began to arrange the final step of his promotion.
hum!
That disgusting and slippery smell reappeared, but this time it seemed to have completely entered the real world. When Sean set up the ritual to cut the huge extraordinary essence of the original magic power, a little bit of lavender sticky liquid emerged in the central area of the magic net altar.
That is the blood of raw magic.
These lavender liquids are pure magic polymers, the source of magic, and have extremely powerful mana recovery effects.
At this moment, the original magic felt the pain.
Unlike the last promotion ceremony, Xiao En just secretly sucked a mouthful of blood and ran away, but this time he bit off a piece of meat from the body of the original magic.
So the wrath of the raw magic soon came.
——Chaos Magic Elements【Legend】【Elemental Body】【Wild Magic】【Magic Immunity】!
The enormous original magic power could not enter the real world, so the magic elements in its body began to gather and appeared in front of Xiao En through the altar of the promotion ceremony.
"alarm!"
"Detected the [Crazy Magic] area!" Knowledge screamed.
All magic is suppressed by the law.
Then, all the magical energy began to run wild. The moment the magic element entered the real world, the spellcasting abilities of all creatures within a radius of several hundred meters in diameter began to run wild. Even the magic pool in Sean's body began to fluctuate.
This elemental life formed by pure magic entered the real world.
——"Madness Magic [Field]: In the field of Madness Magic, all spells may fail to cast, the power of the spells you cast will fluctuate greatly, and other unpredictable spells may be cast randomly. Relying on the chaos spell can temporarily whisper the power of Madness Magic."
There is no need to think about the chaos spell, as it is the unique ability of the Mad Mage. Sean is an advanced Arcanist and cannot master the Chaos Spell at all.
But in the realm of crazy magic, he is now equivalent to a crazy wizard. He doesn't even know what effect the spells he casts will have. He might even maliciously transform himself into a frog.
——"Magic Immunity [Extraordinary Characteristics]: Magical elements are immune to all spells of levels 1-8, immune to instant death effects, and immune to hypnosis, shock, mind control, and other effects."
This is the most fucked up part about promotion in the Weird Kingdom.
The target of your promotion is on the same path as you, has similar abilities, and is of a higher status than you. For a normal spellcaster, facing a legendary enemy that is immune to magic, it is basically a bit hopeless.
The combination of these two abilities blocks most wizards' way to advance by stealing raw magic power.
They can only seek the transcendent essence of advancement from other spellcasting monsters.
"Activate the construct!"
Sean gave the order expressionlessly and completely gave up his arcane spellcasting ability. In the chaotic magic area, his spells were extremely uncontrollable, like a powder keg that could explode at any time.
Now he can only rely on psychic power and constructs to fight. As long as he kills the magic element in front of him, his promotion at this stage will be secure.
"Awaken the Clay Golem!"
"Awaken the Iron Golem!"
"Astral construct enters combat mode!"
A glowing crystal cluster floated behind Sean, and the spiritual crystal servant took over the command and began to control the other constructed golems.
This is all money!
Xiao En wanted to defeat the legendary magic element head-on and get the extraordinary relic for the next step of promotion, so he could only use money to kill the monster in front of him. The magic element, bred by the blood of primitive magic, was immune to most spell damage, but could be physically transcended. However, the promotion ceremony could not rely on the power of others, because it would leave flaws on the road to destiny. And sometimes it would cause the ceremony to go out of control, and if you were unlucky, the elemental elder or elemental lord would appear.
"Link the mind network!"
"Start the battle plan!"
A number of constructed mechanical arms appeared behind Sean, because in the field of chaotic magic, his invisible hands were a little unstable, and he had to use constructed artifacts to strengthen his own strength.
The entire battle lasted about ten minutes.
Xiao En solved the problem of the legendary magic element in front of him at the cost of scrapping an iron golem, destroying three clay golems and an astral construct.
These tragic casualties made his already poor family even worse off.
"It finally worked."
Xiao En leaned over and began to collect extraordinary relics, which were the blood of magic, the source of magic in the world.
"The next promotion will be the Destiny Legend."
"If I still want to steal the supernatural essence from the original magic, I must face the [Dead Magic] area."
Simply put, this is the law of crushing authority dogs.
The original magic will use the laws to deprive an area of its magical energy, making all spells ineffective and unable to be cast. Mages are forced to become warriors to face the elemental monsters in the real world that are the flesh and blood of the original magic.
So far, not many people in the world have succeeded.
As a transcendent who was promoted through dual channels, Xiao En still had a slight chance, but he had to solve the problem of the dead magic area first.
"What's the difference between this and challenging an old day?"
"The Old Ones are suppressed by the laws, and are immune to damage from the same source. The same is true for Primal Magic, which can also suppress your spellcasting ability."
"I can't just find a nuclear bomb to kill it."
When Xiao En thought of this, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he murmured, "I can't make a nuclear bomb, but what about a bomb that is extremely powerful and doesn't rely on magic?"
"or?"
"Why don't I just study the meteorite technique? Make a delayed meteorite fall? But in this case, how can I escape from the range of the meteorite falling?"
Since being contaminated by the sludge of hatred, Sean has had more and more crazy ideas, which he wrote down as a reference for the future.
A wizard doesn't have to use magic to fight, he can also use knowledge.
After doing all this, Xiao En began to prepare to digest the extraordinary essence and at the same time arrange the next journey plan. His destiny requires him to travel the entire planet and even explore other planes.
But before that, according to the agreement between him and Eamon, he had to help Eamon get the last portkey.
"It's time to prepare to study 'Genesis'."
Advancing to a higher level is the minimum threshold for opening up a demiplane. Xiao En needs to learn to create a small world for himself, only then can he truly complete the promotion.
This created demiplane will exist attached to the planet Terra.
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(End of this chapter)