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'The puppet, the construct, is made of powerful witchcraft, and the elemental automatic device is also. Take a special mysterious substance and temper the demon-hating steel of the main material world. Its biggest characteristic is that it is resistant to elements. '
— Lilo Eyre
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Constructs, mostly animated and unnatural objects created by wizards. The puppet creature is one of the most powerful works. The biggest characteristic of puppet creatures is that they are resistant to elements. In other words, only those with elemental damage reduction can be called puppet creatures. It is precisely because of the power of the wizard that the characteristic of elemental damage reduction is so powerful.
However, elemental damage reduction does not mean that golem creatures can become mage killers. Elemental damage reduction is only immune to witchcraft against the golem itself, such as hitting the ceiling with a flaming fireball or sinking the golem into an acid swamp with acid swamp. , you can target them well. What's more, the puppet creatures have low mental power and can only obey simple orders, which is the weakness against intelligent life.
Another point, in fact, puppet creatures are not completely immune to elements. Specific elemental witchcraft will have specific effects on specific puppet creatures. By making good use of their weaknesses, it is easier to fight against puppet creatures.
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A golem is a magically created mechanically animated creature of great strength. They differ greatly from other constructs in that they have animate powers—golem creatures draw magical life from an elemental soul, usually an earth elemental. The process of creating a puppet creature binds that soul to an artificial body, where it fuses with this specially prepared vessel and obeys the will of its creator.
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Golem creatures are mindless, and do nothing else unless ordered to do so by their creator. They follow simple, clear instructions and are incapable of complex strategies or tactics. The creator of a golem can issue commands to the golem if it is within 60 feet of the golem and the golem can see and hear it. If not commanded, golem creatures usually carry out the last command to the best of their ability, and will fight back if attacked.
While the creator is away, he can give the golem a simple command to govern its behavior, or he can make the golem obey another person's orders, but the creator of the golem can always order the golem to obey only him yourself, to take back control.
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For some reason, as soon as Greem got this book, it seemed like he was suddenly addicted to it, and he couldn't put it down and read it in one breath.
Puppet creatures are a good thing!
Not to mention those high-level steel puppets, even the lowest-level clay puppets are at the high-level apprentice level. In other words, with a reasonable mix of professions, only a team composed of high-level fighters can defeat the clay golem.
As the wizard's personal guards, puppets and constructs are far more reliable and loyal than paid guards. But correspondingly, it is the staggering price of puppets and structures.
Take the lowest-level clay puppet as an example. A clay puppet without any witchcraft equipment will weigh 600 pounds (about 600 catties), stand up to 8 feet (about 2.4 meters), and the whole body is carved from soft clay. become. This kind of clay golem is not afraid of sharp damage, only certain heavy weapons can give it enough physical damage.
And the basic price of such a clay puppet is 21,000 gold coins. As for stone puppets that are slightly higher than clay puppets, the base price is 55,000 gold coins. Even higher iron golems have a base price of 80,000 gold coins.
This is still a cost price that does not take into account market supply and demand factors. Once there is a time of war, the price of these puppet creatures that are extremely suitable for killing battlefields will double and there will be no shortage of buyers. As long as a small lord can buy 3-5 clay puppets and let them join his army, he can have a great advantage in fighting other nearby lords.
Therefore, if he can successfully become a puppet maker, then money will no longer be a factor that bothers Greem!
It's a pity that making puppets not only requires a lot of special materials, but also requires extremely superb skills in making strange objects, as well as the ability to make Horcruxes. If Greem's talent elemental affinity is the dark element system, perhaps by extracting the souls of some humanoid creatures, he can easily create Horcruxes that can give puppets primary intelligence. But he happened to be compatible with the fire element, so he eliminated the possibility of taking this shortcut.
Greem can only let the chip temporarily record all the contents of this "Puppet Creature Production Manual", and save it for later study. But he himself began to study the new functions of the chip.
As the slow and magical syllables sounded, Greem's outstretched right hand ignited a flaming magic flame, enveloping his palm and part of his wrist.
Seeing the flame burning peacefully in his hand, the mechanical sound of the chip also rang out in his mind simultaneously.
"Zi... A complete mental power model has been detected, please confirm whether to solidify it? Note that this curing will consume 2 points of mental power and 50 points of professional experience!"
The same prompt appeared once when inspecting the outside of the tower last time. However, Greem was in a dangerous place at that time, and Greem didn't dare to experiment randomly, so he chose to ignore it. But today, he wanted to try what this so-called solidification was all about!
"Sure!" Greem said.
"Drip, the curing task is starting now... Estimated completion time: 12 hours, 27 minutes, 13 seconds..."
Following the beep of the chip, Greem's heart trembled, and he obviously felt that part of his mental power had disappeared for no reason. After self-inspection again, I also found that the professional experience column on the personal data report has dropped from 614/1000 to 564/1000.
Uh... These 614 points of professional experience are all that Greem has gained in the past 6 years, including year after year of hard meditation, countless failures in spellcasting practice, countless times in the dim candlelight to distinguish and copy the obscure and difficult to understand. books of witchcraft, and the dangerous and necessary horrific experiments in witchcraft...
I have to say that Greem in the past was indeed a bit useless. It has been 6 years since he became a wizard apprentice, and he has only accumulated more than half of the professional experience necessary to become an intermediate apprentice, and the life-saving witchcraft has only mastered a burning hand. As for the second witchcraft "flame arrow" that is being studied, it has just collected its pre-knowledge, and there is still a long way to go before successfully casting it.
From the analysis of these data, the innate attributes of my body are also inferior among the high tower apprentices. No wonder it has been six years and I have not become an intermediate apprentice.
But this is Greem from the past!
Now with the assistance of the chip, it is equivalent to rejuvenating himself, and all the difficulties in front of him can be solved and overcome.
A task of solidifying the mental power model of the Burning Hand almost occupied most of Greem's mind, which made him seem a little mentally troubled. Under such circumstances, it is undoubtedly not suitable for any witchcraft practice and reading related to depleting the spirit, so Greem simply lay down on the bed and began deep meditation.
As the meditation progressed, Greem gradually calmed down, his breathing gradually became gentle and long, and his entire spiritual consciousness was completely immersed in a strange and strange world.
The room that was originally silent became more and more empty and silent, and everything around me seemed to suddenly quiet down. The physical sensation became more and more blurred, he seemed to be trapped in a huge cotton candy, and everything the body could perceive was getting farther and farther away from him.
Finally, the spiritual consciousness that is not bound by the body suddenly breaks into a strange and alternative world.
This is a world of light.
All kinds of colorful and strange light spots are flying all over the sky, filling every inch of space he can perceive.
Perhaps it was the intrusion of his spiritual consciousness that disturbed these irregular and unconscious floating spots of light, and the whole strange world suddenly became a little different from before.
The soul body carrying Greem's spiritual consciousness also began to wander aimlessly in this world composed of light spots. Wherever he went, the different light spots seemed to have independent consciousness, showing completely different behaviors.
Some reddish spots of light obviously welcomed Greem's arrival, and all the red spots close to his spiritual consciousness poured into his soul like a bird returning to its nest, bringing him a little bit of warmth. And some light spots with cool colors, such as blue, gray, black, white... are clearly moving away from him.
As for some neutral purple, green, earthy yellow and other light spots, they are neither repulsive nor enthusiastic. Only when Greem's spiritual consciousness touches them, they slowly blend into it. The whole process seemed calm and peaceful, and there was nothing unnatural about it.
Greem's light cluster incarnated by spiritual consciousness slowly wandered in the endless sea of light, passively accepting the integration of light spots. Out of curiosity, Greem couldn't help directing the light group closer to some white light spots. His arrival undoubtedly triggered a riot of white light spots, and the white light spots that were just leisurely and meaninglessly drifted away from this area.
Greem finally couldn't bear it anymore. Under the guidance of his strong consciousness, the colorless and transparent soul light group suddenly stretched out an octopus-like mental power tentacles, stabbing into a slightly larger white light spot.
The white spot of light exploded suddenly, and immediately turned into a torrent of spirit and poured into Greem's soul. Different from the warmth when the red light spot blended in, this slightly pale light spot gave Greem the greatest feeling of coldness and death.
That feeling was like suddenly drinking a glass of cold water in a dream late at night, and the whole body shivered uncontrollably. In addition to the cold feeling, Greem's spiritual body also felt the pain caused by slight numbness and corrosion. It seemed that the integration of that white spot of light, in addition to bringing him some spiritual benefits, also brought some harm.