Chapter 39: The Puppet Girl

"Who are you?"

Looking at the robot girl in front of him, Duanmu Huai was also stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, while the machine girl waved her hand.

"Ah, please don't be nervous, although I look like a puppet, I'm actually a human whose soul has been sealed here by some evil wizard! Can you please help me find my original body together? ”

“…………………”

What is this inexplicable unfolding?

Faced with the request of the machine girl in front of him, Duanmu Huai felt a little inexplicable, but he also nodded.

"No problem."

Anyway, at least I can finally meet someone to communicate with here, just listen to what she has to say.

In this way, a strange robot girl joins the team of Duanmu Huai and Ogis.

She introduced herself as Mia, who was originally a human, but was cast by an evil wizard who sealed her soul in a doll. And this Sky City is the castle of that evil wizard. He put himself and others here as a display. In fact, the other dolls on the table were also victims of the wizard, but their souls had fallen into a deep sleep and could not be awakened.........

"Thank you really, really thank you, gentleman, and miss."

Following behind the two, Mia looked grateful.

"This body is stiff and really inaccessible, and the most disturbing thing is that the clothes have lovely lace edges......... If it weren't for the doll's body now, I would have cried a long time ago. Now, with the two of you, I feel like I'll be able to get my body back! ”

"Uh........."

Hearing Mia's words, Duanmu Huai looked confused, to be honest, he always felt that this was going to be weird, Sky City? Evil wizards? Dolls? Magic? No......... This young lady, you have nothing to do with magic here, okay, since you came to Sky City to now, what you have seen is basically a technological creation.

Including Mia's body, too, although her appearance is similar to that of Ogis, Duanmu Huai can be sure that as long as Mia is smashed, then there must be all kinds of dense steel structures and cables inside——— which is completely different from a puppet like Ogis.

If you want to say that your consciousness is transmitted to the robot's body by some kind of device, it makes even more sense!

Or maybe Miss Mia's consciousness comes from some native? If that's the case, it's not surprising that she would have such thoughts, after all, technological means such as consciousness transmission are indeed similar to magic in the eyes of these low-level natives.

Forget it, you'll know when you go.

Although there were doubts about Mia's words, at least under her guidance, the two of them had a next goal. So Duanmu Huai and Ogis also followed Mia's guidance and continued to move towards the "Evil Wizard's Residence".

Naturally, they encountered more enemies.

"Roaring —————!!!"

Duanmu Huai held a war hammer and rushed forward, colliding with a burly machine guard, its appearance was similar to the previous [Demon Steel Lion], only this time the robot's head was not a lion, but a tiger.

【Fullmetal Tiger】

【LV30】

Compared to the [Demon Steel Lion], the level of [Steel Tiger] is higher, but its attack power is not as strong as that of [Demon Steel Lion], but its defense is very outstanding. Duanmu Huai wanted to destroy an enemy of this level alone, but fortunately, relying on the summoned puppet, coupled with the Ao Ji Si who swept the formation next to him, Duanmu Huai still killed the [Steel Tiger] in front of him, taking advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's claw swing in the air, Duanmu Huai roared angrily, and the war hammer in his hand smashed directly on the core behind the [Steel Tiger], knocking it to the ground, and then swinging it out again, directly smashing it into rags.

"Hoo ..............."

It wasn't until the last tiger robot fell to the ground that Duanmu Huai took a breath, and then summoned the [Repair Waiting Skull] to start repairing the power armor. With just a few [Steel Tigers], the durability of his power armor has directly dropped to less than 20%, and if he comes again, I am afraid that the power armor will be broken directly.

And what makes Duanmu Huai even more depressed is that there is no experience point for killing monsters in soul fragments. Like the two soul fragments he had experienced before, this was the case with Ogis' doll house and the scholar's haunted mansion. There is no experience point for killing monsters in it, and there is no experience point for completing tasks, and you will only get soul cards.

This is set up in the game to prevent players from leveling up, after all, just like the previous Haunted House, as long as the player does not complete the task, he can start over again and again. Therefore, it is also possible that some players deliberately take advantage of this characteristic to brush soul fragments as dungeons over and over again, and deliberately do not complete the task to farm monsters and upgrades. Therefore, the game sets that players have no way to gain experience by killing monsters in soul fragments, and there is no experience in completing tasks——— only soul cards will be given.

But......... The boss level in this place should not exceed level 40.

Looking at the wreckage of the [Steel Tiger] in front of him, Duanmu Huai frowned. From the [Demon Steel Lion] just now, to the [Mechanical Soldier], and then to the [Steel Tiger]. Most of the monsters in this soul fragment map are between level 20 and level 30, and if these robots are made by the "wizard" that Mia said, then his level is likely to be around level 40.

Of course, this is not certain, just like the scholar in the Haunted Mansion, his own level is not even level 10, and in the general world of science and technology, the level of individual strength is actually not high. At least for now, the monsters that Duanmu Huai encountered in Sky City are basically scientific and technological creations. In this case, there is also a possibility that the individual "wizard" is not of high rank.

Of course, in this setting, the other party will create a powerful robot, but if its own strength is low, Duanmu Huai can use a puppet to assassinate it and bypass the boss battle to win.

In short, I hope it's not too dangerous.

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai glanced at Okis beside him, although Okis could fight against enemies around level 70, he didn't want Okis to take risks. There are no cards in the current Duanmu Huai hand that can fish for the tomb, the puppet can multiply infinitely, and the ghost can be transformed through the puppet, which is good to say, and it is not distressing to destroy it.

But if Ogis goes into the cemetery, it will be difficult to get her out.

According to the design of the soul card, after the servant enters the graveyard, he can only be awakened again through the card with [Call of the Dead]. Magic cards and spell cards need to be used again if they want to use them again after they have been used and enter the graveyard, and they need to consume their cards to consume X1000 XP to reset back into their hands.

At present, Duanmu Huai does not have a [Call of the Dead] card in his hand, so he must be careful.

Duanmu Huai has already made up his mind, if the final boss here is really too difficult at the moment, then he will temporarily give up the strategy, go to other places to improve his strength first, and then come back to get it done.

You can't let Ogis die here.

After defeating the attack of the Machine Legion again, the group finally came to the palace of Sky City, and at this moment, Mia suddenly raised her hand and pointed forward.

"Ah, there it is! That evil wizard!! ”

Hearing Mia's words, Duanmu Huai and Ogis both raised their heads and looked in the direction of Mia's finger, only to see that on the balcony on the second floor of the palace, a figure in a robe was standing there, staring at them coldly.

"I didn't expect you to find a helper, Mia."

"Evil wizard, give me my body back!!"

"Hehe, stupid fool, your body has long been my collection, and I was merciful enough to let you live as a puppet, but now it looks ............ Looks like I'm going to have to teach you a lesson............! ”

“…………………???”

Listening to the conversation between the wizard and Mia, Duanmu Huai frowned slightly, he always felt that something was not quite right. It stands to reason that the situation in this soul fragment is well understood by now, a wizard ......... Whoever he was, he took the soul of a young girl named Mia out of his body and injected it into the robot's body, and Mia then asked for help, hoping that someone could defeat the wizard and get his body back.

It seems like that's true for the whole thing, but... Duanmu Huai always felt a little unreasonable.

Compared to the remorse of the previous puppeteers and the ambivalence of the scholars, Mia's feelings don't seem to be intense enough to fix a Sky City here as a soul fragment.

In particular, the level of the monsters in this Sky City is not low, and the strength is also very strong......... Is this a fragmented world that a soul like Mia that is sealed in the robot's body can create?

Is there something hidden in it?

Just as Duanmu Huai was thinking, he saw that the man in the cloak also raised his hands.

"Wake up, my guards, and destroy these stupid invaders!"

"Knock......... Boom......... Boom............!!! ”

With the man's call, I saw the gate of the palace in front of me slowly open, and then, a team after team of large robots almost as large as Duanmu Huai walked out of it, not only that, but above their heads, there were also some strange mechanical creations that did not look like humans at all——— they had prismatic or circular cores, surrounded by iron rings, like wonderful works of art suspended in the air.

【Large Robot】【Ancient Creation】【Analytic Creation】【Mysterious Creation】

"It's coming!!"

Looking at the steel corps in front of him, Duanmu Huai was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly gathered his thoughts, and then he hurriedly activated the soul card again. Soon, an army of puppets appeared in front of Duanmu Huai, corresponding to the steel corps on the opposite side.

"Offensive !!"

With the cloaked man's roar, the next moment, the battle between the steel and the puppet began.