novelraw Chapter 780 - 359: Mechanical Guard
Chapter 780 - 359: Mechanical Guard
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Melos is considered a Wizard from the summoning faction.
He is proficient in studies of monsters and life, necromancy, mechanics, and constructs.
He enjoys creating Magic Guards, Golems, and animated Armor puppets.
Ordinary puppets have no consciousness; they are mere marionettes, while intermediate puppets are driven by magical spirits.
Magical spirits lack intelligent thoughts and rely on specific commands to act.
Just like the guard at Melos’ door.
Advanced puppets naturally have their own consciousness, their souls originate from constantly battling and living with their master, evolving randomly from magical spirits.
Additionally, there are once brave souls, turned into heroic spirits after death, which can become the souls of puppets.
However, both advanced magical spirits and heroic spirits are rare occurrences.
Even the materials needed to control intermediate puppet magical spirits are scarce, making mass production impossible.
Therefore, Melos wanted to find a way to quickly create puppet souls.
Melos proposed a theory based on the characteristics of advanced magical spirits and heroic spirits,
"Low-level souls rely entirely on energy for existence, while advanced souls exist based on consciousness."
"For advanced souls, energy is merely food, not the fundamental of their existence."
Therefore, Melos boldly hypothesized whether it is possible to replace all undead energy with magic energy, without damaging the consciousness of the undead, thus creating magical spirits.
"This is quite similar to my concept."
Luo De couldn’t help but say.
The difference is that Melos has already started experimenting, whereas Luo De is still brainstorming.
At this moment, Luo De was very interested in this experiment and started flipping through the notes while seated.
The first thing Melos considered was Holy Light Power.
But Holy Light is highly damaging to the undead, so Melos only chose a little, acquiring a Crystal Stone containing Holy Light from the Church.
During the creation of the Soul-Binding Treasure Pearl, a small amount of Holy Light Power was injected.
The so-called Soul-Binding Treasure Pearl was precisely the small skull Luo De discovered on the table.
To distinguish it from ordinary Soul-Binding Treasure Pearls, Melos named it the Holy Light Soul-Binding Treasure Pearl.
Then, Melos began the experiment.
To accelerate the experiment, Melos, along with his advanced apprentices, made two Holy Light Soul-Binding Treasure Pearls at once.
Soul-Binding Pearl No. 1 contained twenty percent Holy Light Power, and Soul-Binding Pearl No. 2 contained ten percent Holy Light Power.
Then, Luo De saw the experiment record:
[February 10, First Experiment]
Holy Light Soul-Binding Pearl No. 1, Evil Spirit status is good, undead energy one hundred percent.
Holy Light Soul-Binding Pearl No. 2, Evil Spirit status is good, undead energy one hundred percent.
Evil Spirit No. 3 status is good, undead energy one hundred percent.
[February 11, Second Observation]
Holy Light Soul-Binding Pearl No. 1, Evil Spirit is obviously insane, undead energy remaining at thirty percent.
Holy Light Soul-Binding Pearl No. 2, Evil Spirit vitality reduced, undead energy remaining at fifty percent.
Evil Spirit No. 3 status is good, undead energy one hundred percent.
[February 12, Third Observation]
Holy Light Soul-Binding Pearl No. 1, Evil Spirit has died, undead energy remaining zero percent.
Holy Light Soul-Binding Pearl No. 2, Evil Spirit has died, undead energy remaining five percent.
Evil Spirit No. 3 status is zero, undead energy one hundred percent.
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Clearly, the Holy Light Soul-Binding Treasure Pearl was a failure, as the Evil Spirit had completely died.
Even if the Evil Spirit of No. 2 died more slowly, it still had remaining undead energy.
Evil Spirit No. 3 was a control reference, placed in a regular Soul-Binding Treasure Pearl.
This was just the initial experiment; later Melos modified the plan and made three pairs of Soul-Binding Treasure Pearls.
All were related to Holy Light, and all failed.
Without a doubt, the Holy Light Soul-Binding Treasure Pearl was not a suitable path.
Melos seemed to realize the key issue and immediately began the second experiment with Soul-Binding Treasure Pearls.
This time, Melos named it Life Soul-Binding Treasure Pearl.
As the name implies, it contained Life Energy, using Life Energy to counteract undead energy.
[June 13, Life Soul-Binding Treasure Pearl First Observation]
Evil Spirit No. 1 status is good, undead energy one hundred percent.
Evil Spirit No. 2 status is good, undead energy one hundred percent.
Evil Spirit No. 3 status is good, undead energy one hundred percent.
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[June 19, Life Soul-Binding Treasure Pearl Seventh Observation:]
"Evil Spirit No. 1 is in a low state, undead energy remaining at thirty percent."
"Evil Spirit No. 2 activity decreased, undead energy remaining at fifty percent."
"Evil Spirit No. 3... one hundred percent."
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Life Soul-Binding Treasure Pearl did not cause the Evil Spirit to die, but the undead energy could not be completely eradicated.
Such Evil Spirits would still bear resentment, possessing an instinctive aggression.
The final experiment of the Life Soul-Binding Treasure Pearl showed that at its lowest point, the undead energy only remained at thirty percent.
Melos eventually used Holy Light to purify this remaining thirty percent, but he had to retain a certain amount of undead energy.
Otherwise, the Evil Spirit might completely die.
Melos proposed a hypothesis:
"To completely eliminate the last remnants of undead energy, another type of energy must be provided to the Evil Spirit."
"The consciousness of the Evil Spirit is not strong enough; it will completely die without undead energy."
"The new energy must be able to continuously cycle and nurture, being highly integrated with the Evil Spirit’s consciousness, rather than being temporary independent energy."
The next phase of Melos’ experiment is preparing to design and create such Magic Items.