‘The puppet, the construct, is created by powerful witchcraft, and is also an elemental automatic device. It takes a special mysterious substance and tempers the demon-hating steel of the main material world. Its greatest characteristic is that it is resistant to elements.’
——Lilo Ai
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Constructs are mostly activated objects and unnatural objects created by wizards. Puppet creatures are one of the most powerful creations. The biggest characteristic of puppet creatures is that they are resistant to elements. In other words, they are susceptible to elemental damage.
This ability can be called a puppet creature. It is precisely because of the power of the wizard that the elemental damage reduction feature is so powerful.
However, elemental damage reduction does not mean that the puppet creature can become a mage killer. Elemental damage reduction only immunizes the puppet creature from the witchcraft itself, such as smashing the ceiling with a flaming fireball or using the acid bog spell to trap the puppet creature in an acid swamp.
, you can target them very well. What's more, the puppet creatures have low mental power and can only obey simple orders, which is a weakness against intelligent life.
Another point is that in fact, puppet creatures are not completely immune to elements. Specific elemental witchcraft will have specific effects on specific puppet creatures. If you make good use of the weaknesses, you can fight against the puppet creatures more easily.
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Golems are powerful, mechanically animated creatures created by magic. What makes them very different from other constructs is that they have animating powers - golems gain magical life from the elemental soul.
Usually that will be an earth elemental. The process of creating the golem binds the soul to an artificial body, where it merges with the specially prepared vessel and becomes subject to the will of its creator.
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Golems have no mind and will do nothing unless commanded by their creator. They will obey simple and clear instructions and are incapable of complex strategies or tactics. The creator of the golem can be within 60 feet of the golem and create the golem.
Orders are given to the creature while it can see and hear it. If not ordered, the puppet creature will usually carry out the last command to the best of their ability, and will fight back if attacked.
While the creator is gone, he can give the puppet a simple command to govern its behavior, or he can make the puppet obey the commands of another person, but the creator of the puppet can always command the puppet to obey only him.
yourself to take back control.
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Somehow, as soon as he got this book, Greem seemed to be 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, the basic challenge level of the lowest-level clay puppets is also the high-level apprentice level. In other words, only a team with a reasonable professional mix and composed purely of high-level warriors can defeat
Clay puppet.
As the wizard's close bodyguards, puppets and constructs are far more reliable and loyal than paid guards. However, in contrast, the price of puppets and constructs is staggering.
Taking the lowest-level clay puppet as an example, a clay puppet without any witchcraft equipment will weigh 600 pounds (approximately 600 kilograms), stand up to 8 feet (approximately 2.4 meters) tall, and its entire body is carved from soft clay.
This kind of clay puppet is not afraid of sharp damage. Only certain heavy weapons can give it enough physical damage.
The basic price of such a clay puppet is 21,000 gold coins. As for the stone puppet, which is slightly higher than the clay puppet, the basic price is 55,000 gold coins. The basic price of a higher-level iron puppet has reached 80,000 gold coins.
This is a cost price that does not take into account market supply and demand factors. Once in the war era, if the price of these puppet creatures that are extremely suitable for killing battlefields doubles, there will be no shortage of buyers. As long as a small lord can purchase 3-5 clay puppets,
And letting them join your own army will give you a great advantage in fighting other surrounding lords.
Therefore, if you can successfully become a puppet maker, then money will no longer be a factor that troubles Grim!
Unfortunately, making puppets not only requires a large amount of special materials, but also requires extremely high craftsmanship in making strange objects, as well as the ability to make Horcruxes. If Greem's talent element affinity is the dark element system, he may extract the souls of some humanoid creatures,
It is easy to make a Horcrux that can give the puppet primary intelligence. But he is affinity to the fire element, so this eliminates the possibility of taking this shortcut.
Greem could only let the chip temporarily record all the contents of the "Puppet Creation Production Manual" for later study. But he himself began to study the new functions of the chip.
As the slow and magical syllables of the spell sounded, Grim's outstretched right hand ignited with a ball of bright magical flames, wrapping his palm and part of his wrist in it.
Watching the flame burning calmly in my hand, the mechanical sound of the chip also sounded simultaneously in my mind.
"Zi... has detected a complete mental power model. 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 he inspected outside the tower last time. But at that time, Greem was in a dangerous situation and did not dare to experiment randomly, so he chose to ignore it. But today, he wanted to try this so-called solidification.
thing!
"OK!" Greem said.
"Hey, the solidification task starts now... Estimated completion time: 12 hours, 27 minutes and 13 seconds..."
As the chip beeped, Greem's heart trembled, and he clearly felt that part of his mental power had disappeared for no reason. After another self-examination, he also found that the professional experience column on the personal data report had dropped from 614/1000 to 564.
/1000.
Uh...these 614 points of professional experience are all Greem has gained in the past six years, including years of hard meditation, countless failed spell-casting exercises, countless analysis and copying of obscure and difficult spells under dim candlelight.
Unexplained witchcraft books, as well as the dangerous and necessary terrible witchcraft experiments...
It has to be said that Greem was indeed a bit useless in the past. He has been a wizard apprentice for 6 years. He has only accumulated more than half of the professional experience required to become an intermediate apprentice, and he has only mastered one life-saving witchcraft.
Burning Hand. As for the second witchcraft that is being learned, "Flame Arrow", I have just collected the prerequisite knowledge for it, and there is still a long way to go before it can be successfully cast.
Analyzing from these data, my body's talent attributes are considered inferior among tower apprentices. No wonder I haven't become an intermediate apprentice even after 6 years.
But this is the Grimm of the past!
Now with the help of the chip, I have been reborn, and all the difficulties in front of me can be solved and overcome.
The task of solidifying the Burning Hand's mental power model almost occupied most of Greem's mind, which made him seem a little mentally distressed. Under such circumstances, it is undoubtedly not suitable for any witchcraft exercises and readings related to mental depletion.
, so Greem simply lay on the bed and started deep meditation.
As the meditation progressed, Greem slowly calmed down, his breathing gradually became slower and longer, and his entire spiritual consciousness was completely immersed in a strange and strange world.
The originally silent room became more and more empty and quiet, and everything around him seemed to suddenly become quiet. His physical sensations became increasingly blurry, as if he was trapped in a huge marshmallow, and everything his body could sense was also far away.
He is getting further and further away.
Finally, the spiritual consciousness that is not bound by the physical body suddenly breaks into a strange alternative world.
This is a world of light.
Various colorful and strange light spots were flying all over the sky, filling every inch of space he could perceive.
Perhaps the intrusion of his spiritual consciousness disturbed these irregular and unconscious light spots, and the entire strange world suddenly became somewhat different from before.
The soul body carrying Greem's spiritual consciousness also began to wander aimlessly in this world composed of light points. And wherever he went, different light points seemed to have independent consciousness, showing completely different characteristics.
behavioral actions.
Some reddish light spots obviously welcomed Greem's arrival, and all the red light spots close to his spiritual consciousness poured into his soul like breastflies returning to their nests, bringing him every trace of warmth.
But some cool-toned light spots, such as blue, gray, black, white... were obviously 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 appears calm and peaceful.
, there is nothing unnatural about it.
The light group incarnated by Greem's spiritual consciousness slowly wandered in the endless sea of light, passively accepting the integration of light spots. Out of curiosity, Greem couldn't help but command the light group to get closer to some white
Light spots. His arrival undoubtedly triggered a riot of white light spots. The white light spots that were drifting leisurely and meaninglessly just now actually rushed to escape from the area.
Greem finally couldn't bear it any longer. Under the guidance of his strong consciousness, the colorless and transparent soul light group suddenly stretched out an octopus-like spiritual tentacle and pierced into a slightly larger white light spot.
The white light spot suddenly exploded, and immediately turned into a spiritual torrent that poured into Greem's soul. Different from the warmth when the red light spot merged, this slightly pale light spot brought Greem the greatest impact.
The feeling is cold and dead.
It felt like someone suddenly drinking a glass of cold water after a late-night dream, and his whole body could not help but shiver. In addition to the cold feeling, Greem's mental consciousness also felt the pain caused by slight paralysis and corrosion.
.It seems that the integration of the white light spot, in addition to bringing him some spiritual benefits, also brought some harm.