The shopkeeper nodded proudly: "Yes, it's a small one-handed." ”

Jiajing clapped his hands, "Okay, the craftsmanship is good." ”

The shopkeeper smiled embarrassedly for a while, then his face was slightly gloomy, and he shook his head, "Alas, in order to concentrate on the study of alchemy and not want others to disturb me, I opened this magic shop in this remote Star Picking City, not so much to make money, but to facilitate my own purchase of alchemy materials for research." ”

The shopkeeper's distress, Jiajing also understands in his heart.

Alchemists are rarer than ordinary magicians, and the Empire attaches great importance to war resources such as alchemists, and they have to be vigorously recruited. While serving the Empire can provide you with an inexhaustible supply of materials, it can be a burden for an alchemist who is truly passionate about research.

Some alchemists who don't have the strength to negotiate with the empire and don't want to be constrained by the empire will live in seclusion and devote themselves to research, and the shopkeeper is that kind of person.

The shopkeeper half-jokingly said, "I hope the viscount can keep this secret, otherwise the old man will have to move again." By the way, Lord Viscount, can you summon your puppet for me to see, old man, I still have some research on puppet alchemy, and maybe I can help you improve the puppet so that you can better control it. ”

The old man had been devoted to alchemy for decades, and all other basic magic had been abandoned, so that his alchemy level was far above the magic level.

Even if he is a great alchemist, I am afraid that he is no better at alchemy than him.

And his main research direction is puppet making, if it weren't for his own magical strength, and without the help of goblins and dwarves who are skilled in mechanical forging, the shopkeeper would have made his own puppets long ago.

Now the only puppet research and manufacturing institute in the empire, more than a dozen alchemy magicians and more than 200 goblins, dwarf craftsmen, and a giant clan who are good at mechanical manufacturing, it takes five or six years of hard work to produce more than 50 puppets, except for the part destroyed on the battlefield, the empire now registers no more than 100 puppets, including some puppets left over from ancient times and other privately manufactured puppets.

The Iron Troll Legion of the Athena Empire, composed of sixty-four puppets as the core, is famous throughout the continent, and when used in key places, it can often turn the tide of the war, play a decisive role, and also make great contributions to the empire, and its prestige is far and wide!

Jiajing nodded, took out the puppet rune without hesitation, and silently recited the spell, only to see the rune golden light flashing, and the red-eyed griffin suddenly appeared on the floor.

When the shopkeeper saw the red-eyed griffin, it was as if he had seen his most beloved treasure, his eyes lit up, and his mouth murmured, "What a perfect puppet, what a perfect puppet, hey—what kind of material is this?"

As the shopkeeper spoke, he couldn't help but reach over and stroke the red-eyed griffin.

The red-eyed griffin's eyes lit up, and with a stretch of its neck, it bit the shopkeeper's arm like lightning!

Jiajing secretly screamed that it was not good, and his mind was in a hurry, so he controlled the red-eyed griffin in time to stop the attack and prevent it from doing something that would endanger the life of the shopkeeper!

The red-eyed griffin was obedient and stopped abruptly.

When Jiajing looked closely, he found that the huge mouth of the red-eyed griffin had already taken the entire palm of the shopkeeper's hand in his mouth, it was as sharp as the fangs and teeth of heavy metal, and the tip had already pierced deeply into the shopkeeper's wrist, and blood beads slowly seeped out of the bitten skin.

If Jiajing had just controlled its mind a little slower, the shopkeeper wouldn't have thought about staying.

The shopkeeper's face was pale, he didn't dare to move, and asked Jiajing with a frightened expression: "Lord Viscount, the old man has no ill will towards you, why did you drive the puppet to attack the old man?"

He also thought that Jiajing wanted to get his storage bracelet, and when he saw that he didn't sell it, he wanted to take it by force.

So even if the visitor was a viscount, he was very angry.

Jiajing hurriedly asked the red-eyed griffin to let go of the shopkeeper's arm and apologized: "The shopkeeper misunderstood, I'm really sorry, I forgot to tell the shopkeeper in advance, this red-eyed griffin doesn't like to be touched by others, if I haven't said hello beforehand, even my lover Yanmei won't dare to touch it." ”

The shopkeeper was breathing a sigh of relief and stroking his wrist, when he heard Jiajing say it, his face changed again, and his whole body trembled even more, looking at Jiajing with a face full of disbelief, his voice turned into a stammer, and his expression became more and more shocked: "What, what......? This red-eyed griffin doesn't like to be touched, isn't it...... It has its own ...... Consciousness ?!!"

Jiajing didn't know why the shopkeeper was so surprised, so he only nodded: "Yes, although this red-eyed griffin doesn't seem to have high intelligence, it is more or less self-aware, and I don't need to brag about this, how could I lie to you!"

The shopkeeper didn't care about his hand that was bitten by the red-eyed griffin, and his hands that endured the severe pain couldn't help but touch the red-eyed griffin, his demeanor became abnormal, and he stammered in his mouth and didn't know what to say, obviously he had been shocked by the puppet Jiajing to the point of incoherence.

Fortunately, the red-eyed griffin has now been informed by Jiajing, and knowing that the shopkeeper has no malicious intentions, he did not attack him again, and let the shopkeeper caress its sturdy body.

The shopkeeper couldn't put down his hands and stroked the red-eyed griffin repeatedly, sometimes putting his face close to its body, as if he wanted to listen to something, he slowly recovered from the excitement, and asked Jiajing to drive the red-eyed griffin to demonstrate, after he repeatedly confirmed that the red-eyed griffin did have self-awareness, he was suddenly so excited that his eyes were teary-eyed, and he couldn't help but say to himself: "Look, creation is not the exclusive power of the gods! We humans can also have self-consciousness with puppets made by ourselves! My theory is correct, it's you...... It's all wrong of yourselves, hahaha, hahaha!"

As the shopkeeper spoke, he looked up and laughed like crazy, but the tears in his eyes still couldn't stop coming out, tears flowed down his face, that look, if it wasn't for Jiajing's knowledge, he would have been scared half to death.

Jiajing didn't understand why the shopkeeper was suddenly so excited, seeing that he was trembling all over, he leaned down, hugged the red-eyed griffin's front paws tightly, kissed and kissed, and his mind was about to fall into confusion, Jiajing hurriedly took back his red-eyed griffin, and then asked with a smile: "Shopkeeper, what's wrong with you?"

It took a few moments for the red-eyed griffin to disappear before the shopkeeper slowly came back to his senses.

He looked at Jiajing with red eyes, his eyes couldn't hide his excitement and reluctance, and finally told Jiajing the ins and outs of why he was so excited and distracted.

These words have been hidden in his heart for many years, and no one has believed them all along, if Jiajing didn't have a red-eyed griffin now, he would definitely not tell Jiajing, a viscount nobleman.