Ferdinand, Wizard's Tower.

Inside Grim's residence, a large puppet hall has been specially carved out.

At this moment, the hall looked a little messy.

The corners of the hall were littered with large and small wooden boxes, and the outer ones had been opened, revealing the neatly stacked metal ingots inside. The ingots were cast into rectangular shapes, shimmering with a cold glow in the bright soft light of the hall.

These are all demonic iron alloys, each of which is mixed with a certain amount of special ore, so it has a strange effect that ordinary metals do not have.

In the corner of the hall, a simple version of the magic furnace was standing, and the feet of the three thick stone pillars were each in three different mysterious witch circles. The violent and ferocious elemental torrents of the Wizard Tower's energy were pouring into the furnace through them, turning into scorching elemental flames raging in the hearth.

Two dwarven blacksmiths, covered in muscles and shiny skin soaked in sweat, stood on a wooden bench by the furnace, wielding a hammer the size of a human head, hammering a piece of demonic iron alloy that had been burned red and almost white.

The huge metal roar is deafening!

The three wizard apprentices gathered around the magic furnace, constantly adjusting the witch circle under the foot of the furnace to control the temperature of the elemental flame in the furnace to always be constant at 5380 degrees. This temperature is enough to melt the magic iron ingot.

In addition to the three apprentices who controlled the magic furnace, there were more than a dozen apprentices who were also busy separately.

Some apprentices are commanding three strong giants with a height of 3 meters, and they are constantly sending magic iron metal ingots into the furnace. Whenever the wall on one side of the magic furnace is opened, a terrifying stream of high-temperature flames gushes out under intense pressure.

Several wizard apprentices were okay, and they were all covered with a brilliant red light film, which could effectively block the burns of the high-temperature flames. But the giants did not have this ability, so they could only endure the strange sound of their flesh being burned, and struggled to stuff the magic iron ingots into the furnace.

When the magic iron ingots are softened by the elemental flames, they need to take them out and give them to the two dwarven forgers, who then struggle to hammer the iron ingots into the desired shape.

At the other end of the hall, Grim was lying on a sturdy stone platform, meticulously and carefully drawing the engineering design of the puppet structure. In the corner of the stone platform, countless engineering drawings or rolls or stalls are stacked there, each of which is painted with strange puppet beasts of different shapes and functions.

On Grim's side, a humanoid puppet with a silver-white body and a height of only 1.8 meters was silently doing some auxiliary work.

"Magic Pen...... Triangle ...... Help me find an exploded view of the Spider Golemmon's head...... Well, well done...... Go, give me that sample of the No. 7 magic ferroalloy...... Put it there first, and bring the basic data of the Sword Spider Golem......"

As Grim gave orders one by one, the engineering assistant puppet with a humanoid appearance and an entire body made of Burmese soft alloy was able to complete the task accurately and quickly every time. With its assistance, Grim was able to concentrate on his design work without distractions.

Although in his mind, the chip database contained hundreds or thousands of puppet construction basic data and engineering manufacturing diagrams. But rummaging through these puppet structures, Grim had a hard time finding one that was completely satisfactory to him.

Grim, who has memories of his past life, knows very well that the Robocops that once appeared on Earth are fundamentally different from the metal puppets in this life. The mechanical structures on Earth tend to be refined and dexterous, with powerful artificial intelligence and powerful long-range firepower to delineate their combat strength.

But the metal puppets in this life did not deliberately imitate their human form due to their extraordinary powers. After all, the puppet in human form has too many fatal flaws to be suitable as a puppet construction of the main battle type.

Like the metal puppet that was defeated by the Flame Tyrant in Sky City, it was a humanoid puppet. As soon as the legs are visibly damaged, its ability to move plummets, turning it into a metal target that enemies can knead at will.

Therefore, in order to avoid such an embarrassing situation, Grim, with the assistance of chips, screened many puppet creatures, and finally selected a more mature spider form.

Although the analysis and comparison and data processing capabilities of the chip are powerful, in the face of the witchcraft puppet beast that has never been experienced, it still needs a process of remodeling and re-planning the complete system.

Therefore, Grim opened this puppet hall in his residence, just to accumulate puppet beast building experience little by little, and to prepare for the later stage.

The spider golem that Grimm had envisioned was a terrifying behemoth with a disc-shaped metal body and four pairs of high-strength metal arthropods protruding from its perimeter. There is no need for a humanoid body, nor for an eye-catching target like a skull.

In order to better protect Alice, it is best to leave an entrance and exit for Alice in the spider golem.

And the main attack method of the spider golem is currently tentatively the magic energy cannon brought by the goblin Kirby. However, after the optimization and adjustment of the chip, the attack energy of the magic cannon is more concentrated, so that it can better break through the enemy's protective shield.

As for its own protection, on the one hand, it relies on the solidity of various magical iron alloys and special metals, and on the other hand, Grim plans to install stress-type energy shields on all parts of the spider puppet beast. In this way, with both physical and witchcraft protection, Alice's safety is even more guaranteed!

After all, according to the offensive and defensive system created by Grim for Alice, the spider golem is mainly used for defense, and the real attacker should be the Flame Tyrant.

In the past, Alice's spiritual power was not up to standard, and it was impossible to drive a demon puppet of the level of the Flame Tyrant. But now, with her promotion to the rank of witch, as long as she can increase her mental power to 3 points before the 'Conflict of Fate' begins, she will also have the possibility of summoning the Flame Tyrant.

That way, when she encounters an enemy, she can simply hide in the Spider Golem and summon the Flame Tyrant. Even if Grim encounters such an enemy, I'm afraid he will have to take a detour!

As for Alice's bizarre spatial ability that still retains after fusing the Void Stone, as her personal killer feature, it was not taken into account by Grim.

With Grim's current knowledge reserves, he does not have the ability to parse the detailed data of each part of the puppet beast based on the data analysis of the chip alone. So what he is now building are some miniaturized spider puppet beasts, using them to test some of the assumptions and conjectures in his mind.

The Spider Golem's disc-shaped body needs to be redesigned, and a new type of magic iron alloy needs to be found...... Once the four pairs of arthropods of the spider golem are damaged, how should the balance be adjusted to ensure that it does not lose too much speed...... How should the Spider Golem's energy center be set up to maximize the energy output......

Every task requires a lot of computation on the chip to get the best data, and the accuracy of the best data needs to be physically verified to be assured.

So for a while, Grim has been soaking in this puppet hall almost every day, working day and night to create a spider puppet beast for Alice.

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In another dwelling adjacent to Grim's residence.

In an equally large hall of arcane magic, Alice was sitting cross-legged with a small hammer forged of white gold, striking the tortoiseshell in front of her for a while.

The hall of the Secret Spell was empty, with almost no furniture, items, or decorations other than Alice and two large baskets.

With a hammer down, the palm-sized turquoise tortoise shell immediately shattered into four or five pieces of uneven size.

And every time at this time, Alice would lie down in front of the broken tortoise shell excitedly, while carefully discerning the degree of tortoise shell breakage, while muttering some strange syllables that were difficult for outsiders to understand.

Of course, most of the time, she found nothing, even the most basic good luck and evil were difficult to obtain.

Sometimes, however, as some mysterious patterns on the tortoiseshell fragments emerge, some fragmented scenes pop up in Alice's mind.

Unfortunately, these images are either turbulent and blurry, or headless and brainless, and many times, even Alice can't figure out what the laws of fate are trying to tell her through these things.

Without exception, all of Alice's attempts to peek at the Nina Witch for divination ended in failure, as if there was a powerful force field around the Nina Witch that was impenetrable through divination, and there was no information at all that could be fed back.

With the strength of a first-order witch to peek at a second-order witch, I have to say that Alice is really a small ghost and surprisingly bold.

With her mental strength, she can only complete 5 divination spells at most every day. Once the quota is exhausted, if you want to divinate again, what will be consumed is no longer mental power and physical strength, but will be changed to vitality.

Today has failed 4 times in one go, and this successive failures have upset Alice even more.

One by one, the tortoise shell fragments were thrown into the scrap basket on the left, and Alice pulled out a palm-sized turquoise tortoiseshell from the basket on the right.

This is a piece of the dragon tortoise's carapace.

Since the dragon turtle also has dragon blood, it is also considered a type of wurm creature. Therefore, its tortoiseshell scales are the most suitable material for divination.

It seemed that it was a pipe dream to peek at a high-level wizard with her own strength, and when Alice was sad and didn't know how to use this last divination, she suddenly remembered something and couldn't help but get excited again.

It's not easy to peek at a high-level wizard, but it should be a lot easier to peek at an opponent with similar strength to yourself, right?

Alice's eyes lit up, and she chanted softly as the platinum hammer in her hand slammed into the tortoiseshell.

"Force of Fate, please show me the most powerful enemy in the 'Conflict of Fate'!"

Hammer down.

Fluorescent burst!