Chapter 27: Divine Puppet
January 7, 2016
Author: Floating Tower
This girl definitely possesses some high-tech from the Arcane Empire!
Soren had never seen such a golem puppet in his adventurous career. Golems, which often require intricate and complex rune magic circles to engrave, tend to be easier to make the larger they are. Even a regular clay golem weighs over 1,000 pounds and stands more than two meters tall, resembling a small giant. Other golem puppets are certainly larger. To shrink a golem down to the size of a palm would require astonishing alchemical craftsmanship!
At the very least, the engraving of the runes would have to reach a terrifying level of micro-carving.
The proportion of the runes inside the golem is equally reduced, and this hundreds of times reduction further adds impressive requirements to the materials and craftsmanship of golem puppets.
Soren’s eyes lit up for a moment.
As the core area of the fall of the Arcane Empire, the Eastern Kingdom has not abandoned its exploration of underground relics for thousands of years. The destruction of the Arcane Empire could not have left behind nothing; there are bound to be some discoveries. The girl in front of him certainly holds the secret of golem-making from the Arcane Empire, and this knowledge has incredible value for Soren!
“Customer?…”
Seeing that Soren did not reply immediately, the girl frowned. Her patience did not seem very good, perhaps because Soren’s arrival had interrupted her reading. Gradually, her demeanor turned somewhat cold: “If you don’t need anything, you can leave now.”
A difficult girl to deal with.
Soren quickly concluded this. He glanced at the puppet maid girl beside her, made of strange silvery-white metal, somewhat reminiscent of the construct girl he encountered with the Demon Avatar in the Bottomless Abyss, at least in terms of materials. The more he thought about it, the more certain he became, and he slowly asked, “How much?”
The girl looked at Soren and said淡淡道, “Twelve thousand Gind.”
What!?
This time even Soren was shocked. He exclaimed, “So expensive? It’s just a map!”
Twelve thousand Gind.
This price is enough to buy a couple of warships, and with it, one could purchase a large number of extraordinary equipment.
“A regular map costs only 10 Gind.”
The girl seemed unfazed, curling her lips: “But the map you want is an advanced map marked with all underground relics. We have paid a great price to discover and explore these relics.”
“This price is not high!”
Soren fell into thought and then slowly said, “Deal.”
“Can I trade with gems?”
The price is indeed somewhat exorbitant. However, there are not many factions in the Eastern Kingdom that can provide such maps. Although this is just a small town, it is the first stop on the Eastern trade route, and also the city closest to the d*ath Desert. Generally, the core members under the Eastern Empress are stationed in places like this; if it weren’t for local characteristics, a Legendary Puppeteer wouldn’t be staying here.
“Yes.”
The girl casually picked up a thick book and said淡淡道, “Show me the gems, and I’ll appraise them for you.”
Soren certainly wouldn’t be carrying so much gold with him.
He took out a handful of gems, half of which were diamonds, and placed them directly on the table.
“Mm.”
“The price was just twelve thousand Gind.”
The girl’s gaze briefly lit up as she scanned the small pile of gems, and then she calmly said, “Claris! Go get the map from the third shelf in the back.”
The value of the gems far exceeds twelve thousand.
By Soren’s own estimate, it was around fifteen thousand Gind.
This was just a small test; Soren hoped to use this method to gauge the character of the girl in front of him. She was certainly not a member of the Good Faction. Anyone capable of such things could only belong to the Neutral Faction.
She could be negotiated with!
As the girl waved her hand, the gems vanished. Then Soren saw the puppet maid Lily nudge one of the golem girls sleeping on the books.
“Claris!”
“Stop sleeping in! Hurry up and get the stuff!”
The maid’s expression seemed a bit angry as she addressed the golem girl sprawled on the books, saying, “You’ve been sleeping for a whole day.”
Incredible!
If they weren’t given a special setting during their creation, they truly seem to understand and think like sentient beings.
To turn alchemical life into such a state can only be achieved by Legendary-level active construct life spells.
“Uh!…”
The puppet girl, who had been sleeping on the spellbook, finally opened her eyes. With a groggy expression, she rubbed her eyes with her delicate arms, revealing a very human-like expression of fatigue, and murmured, “Why do I have to go get it again…”
“I’m so tired!…”
“Why can’t I sleep a little longer!…”
A glimmer of spell light appeared.
The doll girl named Claris floated up, cocking her head to glance at Soren, and then her eyes brightened: “You smell really good!”
“I like you!…”
Hearing the doll girl’s words, Alice, who had been indifferent, suddenly looked up, surprised, and glanced at Soren.
She knew very well how special her doll puppet was; she rarely paid attention to outsiders, and now suddenly declaring her fondness for Soren had a significant meaning.
Soren’s expression was also one of shock!
Because he discovered a glimmer of divine brilliance in the small doll girl!
How is that possible?
Soren had not felt a trace of divine power from her owner, Alice, but in the girl puppet she created, he sensed a hint of weak divinity value.
The divine power was not much.
Converting to specific value, it was probably around 2-3 points, but even this small amount of divinity was enough to completely change the puppet girl in front of him, making her entirely different from other puppet girls.
“How is that possible?!”
“How could an alchemical construct life have divine power?”
Soren was also very astonished, countless thoughts flashing through his mind, thinking to himself: “It couldn’t have been bestowed by someone! Nor could it have been absorbed from enemies!…”
“Could it be!?”
“Did the puppeteer use materials containing divinity when creating this doll girl?…”
This is highly likely.
While there are not many objects containing divinity in the Material Plane, there are indeed a few, such as parts of artifacts, special ritual tools from temples, and special metals infused with divinity, etc.
If such items were infused during the creation of the doll girl, then it is indeed possible that she possesses divinity!
………………(To be continued ~^~)
