"Wait!" It was too late to think about it too much, and when he saw Ulysses enter his father's workplace, the sword of mercury immediately followed. The black and white skirt dances, giving this place that has been kept as it has been for I don't know how many years has added a touch of girlish vitality.

Not only this one place, but the entire city, the countless buildings that have been inexorably abandoned in the long river of time, seem to have changed slightly when Ulysses walked here.

At the bottom of the fountain, which had long since dried up, a small bud crept out of the garden, and the stars in the sky, representing the other sleeping Rose Maidens, began to shine a little brighter than before.

The whole land, the whole world, seems to be slowly waking up, and after a dark winter for too long, this fantasy land floating in the dimensional void is gradually regaining its original function.

However, due to the fact that such changes were so subtle, neither Ulysses nor the Mercury Sword were found.

Walking through the slightly worn wooden staircase, Ulysses finally arrived at his destination, where the legendary unknown puppeteer once worked.

There are no extra walls, and the entire second floor is a room, a workshop for making dolls. Attached to the wall, there are many old books, all of which are in ancient scripts unknown to Ulysses, judging by the markings on the spine.

In the center of the room was a long table with many strange tools. Scissors with threads, knives split into three prongs, and combs made of bones are all special tools that laymen don't know how to use when they hold in their hands.

However, Ulysses, who is also interested in becoming a puppeteer at this moment, is naturally an exception, he knows the use of every tool here, and has specially customized several of them to the Chamber of Commerce in the City of Radiance.

However, compared to the tools that could almost be considered antiques here, the ones he had ordered at a great cost were rubbish.

"This is ......" Ulysses picked up one of the scissors, and as soon as he got his hands on it, he found that the weight of the scissors was unusual, probably more than ten times that of steel.

And, just holding the scissors in the palm of his hand, a cold feeling swept through Ulysses's palm, and he easily connected to his magic power.

Ulysses swiped the scissors lightly, and a white dotted line immediately appeared in the air. Even though there was nothing there, Ulysses was sure that even a set of hard steel plate armor would be cut off by the white dotted wire.

Although it is not as good as the "dead line" he holds to divide everything, it is estimated that there are very few materials in this world that this scissors continue to cut.

"Cutting and Separation Series......" Ulysses recognized not just this pair of scissors, but a series of tools that were randomly placed here like ordinary tools.

This is the legend that circulated among alchemists, the name of a set of noble Phantasms. As far as Noble Phantasms are concerned, most of them are individual individuals, but there are also a very small number of series of equipment, and the legendary "Cutting and Separation Series" for alchemists is a masterpiece among non-combat Noble Phantasm.

This is a set of non-attribute superb treasures, each with incredible special abilities. However, no one knows who made the series, and there is no record of what material the set was made of.

However, Ulysses now knows who used the Noble Phantasm. Because they were lying quietly in front of him now, waiting for his commissioning.

A total of thirteen Noble Phantasms, each with its own special ability, the combination of the thirteen pieces is the "Cutting and Separation Series" that all alchemists dream of, but have long since disappeared into history.

As far as tool-based non-combat artifacts are concerned, the series has become an old legend that can no longer be replicated.

This is an extremely special treasure that is not even in the Babylonian treasury held by the Heroic King Yuke, and it is not something that money can buy. Ulysses never thought that he would have the opportunity to use a tool of this level.

After holding the entire "Cut and Separation Series" in his hands and trying them out, Ulysses was sure that he could use them. Although he had no previous experience in using non-attribute treasures, these treasures that were born specifically for work obviously did not exclude his manipulation.

Even when using them, Ulysses could feel a very comfortable feeling, as if even his fingers were much more flexible.

As a result, the sudden creation ** swept through Ulysses's body, and the urge to create something was suddenly so strong that it was irrepressible, just like when he got the knowledge to make dolls.

After a quick glance around the studio, Ulysses found some leftover materials in the corner.

Naturally, these materials were completely ineligible to make "Alice", but now the impulse that was surging in Ulysses's heart could not be suppressed, so he put them on the table anyway.

After 10 cuts, the otherwise fragmented materials are cut into parts for their own purposes.

"You ......" Mercury Sword looked at Ulysses at work with a strange look, and at this moment Ulysses's back subtly overlapped with the figure she remembered in the past.

"First of all, the body. Ulysses had completely forgotten that there were people watching, and he concentrated on cutting the largest part of the material. He didn't need to use his hands to hold it, and the cutter used to shape the form in the "Cutting and Separation Series" came into his hand, cutting the half-human-tall material into shape with the movement of his fingers.

"Hands and feet. "This is the part that Ulysses has done the most in recent times.

After skillfully processing the prototype, he took out the prepared gem liquid from the dark dimensional space and sprinkled it evenly on the carved hands and feet, because he did not pursue the highest degree of fusion, this time there was no explosion.

"Joints for connection. "Put a few parts of rough spherical material into a round ball, and with a few delicate flicks of your fingers, the smooth joint ball is formed.

The exercise during this time was not meaningless, and although it was impossible to connect a hand to perfection, Ulysses had mastered most of the basic techniques of making dolls.

The rest has gone beyond the level of pure manual skills, and what is needed is a breakthrough in the level of alchemy. After all, Ulysses wanted to create more than just an ornamental doll, but an "Alice" that surpassed the Rose Maiden series.

By the time Ulysses stopped, on the table in front of him, a figure with beautiful black hair, slender hands and feet, and even the smallest part of the chest had been carved to life.

The fly in the ointment is that despite the perfect carving of the body parts, Ulysses did not create a face for the doll.

"Is that all?" the Mercury Sword didn't think it was a big deal, even though the skill Ulysses had shown just now was not bad.

However, that is only the level that ordinary humans can reach after training, and using the "Cutting and Separation Series" used by my father to make a doll of this level is simply insulting this set of treasures.

"Well, that's already possible. Ulysses wiped the sweat from his forehead, and it took more energy to make the doll than he had imagined.

Especially the final "connection" part, which requires him to concentrate all his energy, and without the help of the "Cutting and Separation Series", I am afraid he would have failed.

"You don't even have eyes, are you really serious about it?" Mercury Sword looked at the puppet with a blank face.

For dolls, the eyes are the most important part of the body, and the eyes are the windows to the human mind, and this law also applies to dolls. It can even be said that the charm of the eyes accounts for half of the total charm of the puppet.

A doll without a face is only a half-finished product no matter how you look at it.

"You don't need eyes, because it's not an ornamental doll, it's a ......" Ulysses hesitated slightly, not knowing how to explain it in detail.

At his current level, this is the highest level doll he can make at the moment, and although there is a gap of 108,000 miles from the Rose Maiden, this is indeed his finished product.

It doesn't have a soul, and it doesn't have the ability to act on its own, but this kind of puppet is what it is, and it doesn't need anything other than a determined gender.

It's imperfect, it's flawed, but that's what it's all about.

"In the name of Astaroth...... dark runes drifted around Ulysses, a glimmer of gold flashing in his eyes.

Slicing his finger with a knife, Ulysses popped out a drop of his own blood. The golden blood smoothly merged into the rune array made of gem liquid on the blank puppet's body.

Feeling the breath of the blood of Astaroth, these runes representing the secret of darkness rushed towards the blank face doll made lying on the table like bees smelling the fragrance of flowers.

"My family, give you a reward!" Ulysses summoned the black Book of the Demon King and opened one of the pages.

"Go ahead, Shahime. ”

An illusory shadow flew out of the Book of Demon Kings and obediently flew into the body of the blank doll according to Ulysses' orders.

Then, the doll's blank face slowly begins to deform, and finally turns into a cute and curious girl face.

"Ahhhh

"It seems that it should be considered a success. Ulysses closed the Book of the Demon King, looked at the second experimental doll he had made, and held out his hand to her.

(To be continued)