Punch needles, needle extractors, and the next one is...... Screwdriver. Fang Ou fumbled through the pile of parts on the wooden table, finding what he wanted, and in his left glove lay a half-made clockwork elf, the copper shell had not yet closed, and the gears and escapement inside were exposed to the air.

If you look closely, you will see that this clockwork fairy is much more complicated than the average elf, and where the usual 'teleportation' (II) clockwork goblin is installed with a communication crystal, there is a complex mechanical structure - a set of bore devices, which can hold seven millimeters of lead bullets in diameter, a total of six rounds, and a rifled iron pipe about two inches long to which it is attached.

This is Fang Yuan's own clockwork fairy made according to Arquette's drawings, of course, it is directly improved on the type II clockwork fairy, and some details have not been polished, which looks very rough. One of the main problems with this clockwork fairy is that it is overweight, and the combined weight of the chamber structure and bullets is more than 220 grams, which is nearly 130% of the weight that a normal type II clockwork fairy can carry.

Although, as a rule, there is a margin of power in the flexible build, so the battle elf can still fly, but its mobility, speed, and maneuverability are greatly reduced.

He is using a screwdriver to carefully unscrew the screws on the left and right sides, and put them in a small box on the side.

Fang Yu used the needle extractor to remove one of the ear pins, let out a long breath, and pinned the needle to the thick collar of his alchemist's robe—under the shining golden doji—and looked upward, a group of magnifying glasses composed of multiple lenses obscured the somewhat delicate half of the young man's face.

He flicked a magnifying glass to prevent it from obscuring the system interface.

He looked up and glanced at the properties on the interface again.

The basic attributes are not much different from ordinary clockwork fairies, but the total weight is close to one tower (taria) pounds and five hundred and fifty grams, which is not light in this level of dexterous construction.

At the beginning of the design, after reading Arquette's blueprints, he understood that the primary problem of fighting elves was weight loss; But this six-shaft runner structure has almost reached the extreme under his current level of craftsmanship, and if he wants to further reduce weight, unless he compromises on power, he needs to make further progress in materials and processes.

But the attack power is only 23-31, which is mainly the lethality of bullets, and like all firearms, it has 50% armor-piercing properties in the effective range. However, the effective range of this improvised firing device was in fact very close, less than twenty feet.

When Fang Yu used it himself, he basically shot at close range.

This power is already very small, no matter how small it is, it is a toy, and it has lost its meaning as a weapon. Materials are related to cost, craftsmanship is related to level and skill, and these are not things that can be improved in a short period of time.

What's more, even if you lose weight further, 220 grams is already very light, and there is not much room for further decline.

To put it simply, the Battle Elf, a Type-II clockwork elf, had no potential to go further, and he realized that it was time for him to design a dedicated platform specifically for the Battle Elves.

The situation in the South, Miss Scarpet's warnings, and the words the archmage had left before he left had vaguely realized something had happened to him these days.

And with the loss of clues in Her Royal Highness the Princess's mission once again, the floating ship is also being built in an orderly manner, and the matter of the gray crystal has also been done by someone - these days, everyone is rarely idle.

But everyone was not idle.

Everyone was busy transforming the cognitive experience they had gained into knowledge and skills, as well as real combat effectiveness.

Fang Plover is no exception.

With the Construct Siren, he can now spawn a large number of cheap clockwork elf substitutes like 'Gray White' in battle, which means that the original Clockwork Elf's coolie responsibilities have been shifted, and its manufacturing costs can be less sensitive than before.

The 'Gray and White' construct can be seen as a simple clockwork elf, but it does not have the ability to visually link and install the Exploding Crystal, which is due to the fact that the Blade is not yet able to realize the complex elemental structure of the Exploding Crystal, and there are a number of problems to be solved with the Detonation Device, Stabilization Device, and Closed-Loop Device - nor the ability to communicate.

Therefore, after the upgrade, the clockwork fairy still needs to continue to have these three types of abilities.

Scouts, liaisons, attackers, and suicide attacks if necessary.

He thought about it for a moment and decided to divide the clockwork elves into three categories.

The first type is gray, which replaces the original clockwork goblin 'shame' work.

The second group is the fire djinn, whose main job is to carry out suicide attacks, and he has only one requirement for this type of clockwork elf - that is, it is cheap enough - for which he removes all unnecessary parts, even the heat dissipation components, and does not need visual and sound transmission, and even the balance system can be compromised.

It actually only has four necessary parts, the Core Crystal, the Power, the Closed-Loop Device, and the Explosion Crystal.

Not only is the price one-third of the original one, but the maneuverability, speed, and maneuverability have been further improved due to the weight reduction. Now Fang Yu can call it a suicide machine.

The third category is the battle elves.

Not only will it have to take on the original Clockwork Elf Scouting and Communication, but it may also have to be further strengthened to meet the challenges it may face next, and at the same time enhance its 'combat' capabilities.

This puts forward quite high requirements for process design, and Fang Yuan's original ability to embarrass people naturally can't do it - but with the previous classification of the foreshadowing, now he has at least one advantage, that is, to a certain extent, regardless of the cost.

In this way, there is another village.

He continued to look down.

The evasion value is 1500, and the evasion value of this level of flight structure is not low, but the word (-50) is marked with eye-catching red letters at the back; It means that due to being overweight, the evasion value has been subject to half of the penalty value.

Similarly, there are mobility (-25), dexterity rating (-30), and all agility-related attributes are impaired, except for the flight build, which has no balance attribute.

The Type II Clockwork Fairy Universal Kingfisher II Main Core Crystal has the typical characteristics of the Kingfisher Workshop designed core crystals - large mana capacity, low mana output, long overload time, and low overload amplification. The mana capacity of 200M can be said to be the best among crystals of this magnitude, but the output (bandwidth) per tariake is only one-twentieth of the bandwidth, which is only half of the usual one-tenth.

It can't be compared with the 'lion' crystal that Rotao is proud of-

Overload 3 and a half percent, refers to the overload of the core output increased by 35 percent, the temperature control of the Kingfisher crystal is extremely good, and it is also a major feature of this series of crystals - in the overload state, it takes up to nearly a minute to reach the critical temperature.

One minute overload can also be a characteristic of the kingfisher system, although many people jokingly call the overload of 35% increase tepid, which is not overload at all. But that doesn't change the fact that there are still a lot of people who favor this, so they choose this series of crystals.

Fang Plover is a loyal believer in the Kingfisher Workshop, after getting used to the feeling of overloading for a long time, who will go back to the state of calculating the overload time?

The main core crystal is the top priority of a flexible configuration, whether it is power, visual crystal, sound transmission crystal, or shaft and firing structure, all need magic output, excellent main core crystal, determines the endurance, explosiveness and maneuverability of a flexible configuration.

Fang Yu looked at this battle goblin, and roughly went through his needs for this new 'platform' in his heart-

The new 'platform' is pre-designed at the approximate level of his next-generation magic furnace, the Ed Gamma Ae type.

The magic furnace named Ed βae has a mana capacity of 2400M, and the mana output can reach up to one-third, while the performance parameters of the upgraded version of the γ are at least three times this level.

In other words, even if the decimal part is omitted, the Edγae Magic Furnace should be able to reach a capacity of 7200M and more than 2000M mana output.

Therefore, the performance level of the main core crystal of the new 'platform' can also be increased by three times, especially considering that he has divided the clockwork goblins into three categories in the future, and the performance level of the main 'battle goblins' should be further improved.

The new 'platform' should require at least 50 percent stronger reconnaissance ability than the current one to cope with the battlefield environment above level 20, and it is best to have some special abilities to make up for the lack of alchemists' own reconnaissance skills.

In this way, the original ordinary vision crystal will be eliminated.

He had two options - one was the Night Vision Crystal, an Orsonic invention - which enhanced his vision in dark conditions, and had a bonus equivalent to the level of a ten-level Scouting skill in terms of detail resolution.

Basically, when looking for a target to hide under cover, it can behave like a nightingale at level seven or so.

Compared with professional scouts, this improvement is naturally not enough, but with the strong battlefield patrol ability of craftsmen, it is also enough.

This is actually the visual crystal used by the Type IV clockwork fairy 'Night Stalk'.

Another option is to capture crystals.

This crystal is mainly aimed at dynamic targets, providing the perception ability equivalent to a fifteenth-level scout in tracking dynamic targets - of course, such a powerful ability is naturally compensated for by paying the price in other aspects.

One is that the field of view of the captor is very narrow, only half that of a normal clockwork elf—from about 180 degrees to about 90 degrees. Of course, the narrow field of view can be compensated for by multiple clockwork elves, which is not a big problem for Fang Yuan.

But another problem is that capturing crystals is very demanding on mana output, just a visual crystal requires 25M of mana output engraved in each tower, and if other systems are included, mana output must be at least 50M to be enough.

This is far more than three times the original 10M mana output per tower.

Even though he had already set a certain margin, he didn't use it that way.

So Fang Yu thought about it again and again, and finally chose the Night Stalker Crystal.

Then there is the attack system.

It's simple, increase the damage of your firearm - it's nothing more than improving bullets, enchantments, or replacing more powerful Shot Crystals.

Fang Yu chose the simplest and rude method, and directly replaced the firing crystal of the Type 7 Lion Handcuff for the firing device, and the powerful firing crystal is equivalent to adding more 'propellant' to the bullet, and then gradually increasing the speed of the bullet and the kinetic energy killing.

After replacing the crystal, it is necessary to increase the weight of the bullet, and replace the original low-power lead bullet with a standard bullet of the seven-type lion handcuff.

The attack power instantly jumped from the original 22-31 to 47-63, more than doubling.

It can be said that it has increased from a level that can only kill unarmored and unprotected targets to a level that can penetrate several millimeters of steel plates within its effective range (60 feet).

Of course, Aitalia is not Earth.

On Earth, most people are unarmoured, but in Aitalia, the level of protection of a Fourteenth-level or so Heavy Knight (the average level of a regular guard) is roughly close to the level of a first-class bulletproof insert on Earth compared to firearms.

This level of piercing damage is of little use against such targets, and can only be won by numbers.

But of course, the upgraded combat system is still much better than the original 'small water gun'. Not to mention, protection methods such as magic shields generally have no damage reduction, and their attack power is higher, and when attacking targets such as spellcasters, it will be faster to penetrate magic shields.

After the clockwork elf's 'cannon' was enlarged, Fang Ou also abandoned the bulky but simple rotating structure in favor of a more complex magazine feeding structure. To balance this, he designed the magazine as a ring with a built-in spring that circled the filler – and could also be stuffed with an air-cooled heat sink in the middle.

This system is much more complex than the original structure, but it is lighter, and the weight is still one-third lighter than the rotor structure in the first plan, and in the end, the weight of the entire 'cannon' is less than three tower pounds, close to 1.5 kilograms.

Moreover, the ammunition capacity has also reached 14 rounds, which has more than doubled, and the only drawback is that the ammunition feeder occasionally jams.

However, the enlarged 'cannon' itself still weighs several times that of the original system.

This means that the load-bearing capacity of the platform itself also needs to be optimized.

The easiest way to do this is to upgrade the powertrain.

So using the design idea of more water and noodles, and more water on the surface, Fang Yu simply and rudely upgraded the original two pairs of fluttering wings of the clockwork fairy to four pairs, and the main core crystal was also upgraded from the original kingfisher two types to the (gray) kingfisher αAE type.

This crystal wasn't originally intended for flexible builds of the Clockwork Elf's magnitude, but was used in larger builds, such as the Annihilator's flying build. Because of this, in order to accommodate this main core crystal, the crystal chamber has also been expanded by one.

Correspondingly, there is a larger heat dissipation system and a more complex gyroscopic balance system.

All in all, the new 'platform' looked a whole size bigger than the previous one - the clockwork goblin that used to be the size of a palm was now unsteady in one hand. However, the design of the craftsman is by no means as simple as enlargement in equal proportions, taking into account the factors of wind resistance and structural strength, Fang Yu finally redesigned the shape of this 'platform' again.

The finished battle elf was actually somewhat similar to the 'Pitch Black Star' he had seen in the Hall of a Thousand Gates, but he had further elongated the elf's shell to make it look more like a silver-white shuttle when viewed from the side.

Its silvery luster is the result of the fact that Fang Plover has plated a layer of mythril on its surface in order to further increase the affinity of the clockwork fairy to the wind element and the magic of the ether.

When it flies, it sticks out three pairs of thin wing-like wings, making it look like a silver elf.

Far from being slower than the original Clockwork Elf, it's a third faster, but the mobility drops by one notch: from perfect to excellent.

For ordinary craftsmen, the operating feel may have a cliff-like drop, but for Fang Yuan, this is not a trouble at all - he can also control more complex things, nothing more than to provide more computing power.

He doesn't lack either—

Fang Yu actually had this idea for a long time.

After the Battle of the Hall of a Thousand Gates, he realized that the spherical shape of the Clockwork Elf was not actually the best aerodynamic structure in flight - in fact, it was quite mediocre and inefficient except for its maneuverability in confined spaces.

Because of the relationship between the visual crystal in front of it, in fact, the clockwork fairy does not fly freely up and down, left and right when flying, but always faces forward in one direction, so this 'sphere shape' actually does not play the role that people imagine.

The dark stars in the Hall of a Thousand Gates made him realize this.

After the enlargement of the clockwork fairy, all parameters are expected by Fang Yu - its power is just enough to carry its own weight, and it will no longer drag down maneuverability, speed and maneuverability.

Even after the weight gain and the power system is enhanced, the shooting in the flight state is more stable, and the phenomenon of sideways shaking from side to side will no longer occur as before, and the accuracy at a certain distance is finally not compensated for by queuing up to shoot.

It can be said to be perfect.

He locked himself in his studio for a full week, and it wasn't until the morning of the eighth day that the new generation of 'platform' was officially completed.

When the first rays of morning light rose from the horizon, and the light fell on his desk through the blinds of the studio on Mr. Graystone's back, Fang Yu was cautiously placing the first test piece on the desk, rubbing his sour eyes, and carefully examining it for a moment.

The clockwork fairy had an elegant shape, with a streamlined line of silver white, extending from the tip to its spear-like tail, slightly narrowing in the center, like a bee's waist, and silver feathered wings protruding from that position.

It reflects the morning light and radiates a light like stars.

Fang Yu watched this scene quietly and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

He pushed up the magnifying lens he was wearing on his right eye and took a closer look at the attributes of the newly-born little one:

Clockwork Elf [Unnamed, Flap Wing Structure] (C+ Grade)

Basic attributes:

Armor: 12

Durability: 60

Shield Value: 0

Evasion Rating: 700

Block Value: 0

Attack: (Shot, Piercing Damage)

Attack: 47-63 (-15 for Hit, due to low weight)

Balance:-

Overload Bonus: 30%

Overload: +6 core temperature/s

Core Crystal Mana: 650M

Mana Output: 32M

Operating temperature: less than 120

Heat dissipation system: -10 core temperature/s

Strength Rating: F--

Agile rating: B+

Protection Evaluation: E-

Ancillary Evaluation: D

Night Vision: Switch the ability of the visual crystal, increase the mana output occupation by 5M, +5 core temperature/s

Stabilized Form: Activate the Stabilization Device to increase the hit level when shooting by one level. Mana output usage increased by 15M, +15 Core Temp/S

Computing power occupies 42

The sunlight passing through the shutters, as the angle of incidence changed, was slowly climbing upward—one of them was like a thin page of light, and it fell on Fang Yuan's eyes impartially, making him squint his eyes slightly before he came back to his senses.

While this wasn't the first flexible build he'd created, he had made a build like the Sword Plover with a certain design of his own not long after he got the system.

But after all, it was just a rough transformation forced by the situation at the time, and it was not a 'work' in the true sense of the word.

Of course, he later designed Nini's claw, but it was only a half-finished product, and it wasn't finished yet.

And to say that in the true sense, a new type of structure designed according to their own needs, this should be the first time.

The new battle elf, in almost every sense of the word, perfectly meets his requirements. Of course, with the addition of many advanced components, the computing power usage has also been increased to 42, but this is acceptable.

After the clockwork goblin classification, this kind of battle goblin, which is the main force, no longer needs to win by quantity like consumables as in the past.

Even after the price has been streamlined repeatedly, it still makes Fang Yu a little dizzy, and there are tens of thousands of miles of type II clockwork goblins on the market, and even if they make it themselves, the cost will account for at least sixty percent or more.

And the production cost of this new type of battle fairy is more than double the market price of the original Type II clockwork fairy.

He expected to make twelve of these battle goblins first, and after that, the basic savings would go straight to the bankruptcy stage.

Fang Yu couldn't help but rub his forehead, feeling in his heart that he should still think of something light, such as what kind of name he planned to give this little thing at this time. He knows that craftsmen are traditional.

His first homemade conquest, a walker-like construct, was named the Sword Plover.

In the future, he plans to name all his ground structures after birds.

The non-attribute magic furnace is named after his own ID, Ed βae type, Ed gamma ae type.

A temporary construct generated by ancient alchemy, which he named Gray and White, shows that in the future, this series is basically based on various color systems.

As for his first flight configuration, Fang Yuan thought about it for a while and decided to use it as an insect. Because it looks like a silvery wasp, it is conceivable that it should also look like a large colony when it attacks.

So Fang Yu thought about it for a while and decided to name it:

"Wasp."

"I'll call you a Wasp."

He thought it was a good name.

……