Chapter 9: The Puppet Doll
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The successful abduction of Lancelot made Huey feel good.
After the Black Samurai went, he no longer had a reliable and useful powerful thug by his side. Accustomed to using black warriors, he really can't look down on ordinary earth warriors and the like. In contrast, Lancelot may not be as absolutely loyal as the Black Knight, and his power carries out his orders, but Lancelot also has his own advantages - he can once again learn many of the samurai's cultivation from Lancelot.
"In that case, I'm going to inform the people of the Southern Family here. Lancelot got up and left.
Huey thought for a moment, put his finger in his mouth, and let out a long whistle.
A moment later, a loud blazing bird chirped in the air.
With this scream, a huge body fell from the sky with a strange scream.
Xiu Yi casually unleashed a wind spirit spell, lightening the weight of the fallen body.
Bang.
Lasseter still fell like a stone, and fell to the point of Venus in his eyes.
"Hey, Lasseter, how does it feel to be a trapeze?" asked Huey with a smile.
Lasseter shook his drowsy head, then spat out with a whoosh.
After a while, he replied with great sadness: "It's worse than the feeling after the madness." ”
"Trust me, you'll love it when you get used to it. Huey smiled.
Lancelot soon returned, followed by a middle-aged man named Dandy Strick, who was the head of the Southern family's caravan this time.
Dandy naturally knows very well who Hue Gler is. It can be said that without him, Lancelot might still be working as a Warcraft hunter on the island now.
The Southern family and the royal family have always had a dislike for the imperial royal family, and have always believed that they have stolen the royal status of the Stricker family. In line with the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, the Southern family has always admired Xiu Yi, who is against the royal family.
Of course, this kind of appreciation can only be kept in the heart, and will not be taken to the surface of the blatant existence.
Now that Xiu Yi is no longer a wanted criminal in the empire, the southern family is very willing to cooperate with Xiu Yi and make a fortune together. And Xiuyi's plan to use the teleportation array to sell materials back and forth really seriously stimulated Dandy's nerves.
After only a brief meeting, the two sides officially finalized this big deal, which may cost hundreds of millions of gold vetts every year, and at the same time, Lancelot will also officially accept the call of Xiuyi on behalf of the southern family.
In this way, Huey already has two subordinates here - Lasseter made it clear that he would follow Huey, and he was alone anyway, and he couldn't support himself anywhere. Compared to the price offered by Abduction Lancelot, the price of Lasseter is much lower, as long as you have enough to eat. In terms of value for money, Lasseter is more cost-effective than Lancelot.
With all that done, Huey has one more thing to do.
"We're going to rent a public lab right now, I'm going to make some alchemy props, and when that's done, I'm going to Anakh. ”
"Alchemy props?" Lancelot didn't understand what else Xiu needed to do. To be honest, although alchemy is easy to use, in terms of the nature of power, it is impossible to be more powerful than a star warrior, but it consumes a lot of resources.
Xiu Yi said with certainty, "Yes, I am going to research a new kind of puppet to use against the Sanctuary. ”
This sentence startled the two people.
What kind of puppet can deal with the Sanctuary?
Xiu Yi only smiled mysteriously: "You don't necessarily have to be a powerful puppet to deal with the Holy Domain, you will soon know." ”
Raven City, as a material distribution center in the Baoqin Plain, certainly could not have been without public laboratories. The buyer of the material is always the alchemist, and as long as the alchemist is inseparable, he cannot do without the laboratory. Some of the larger public laboratories are quite expensive, with rentals costing as much as ten Kingwit per day.
Huey rented it for ten days.
For ten days, he locked himself in his laboratory almost without leaving his home, working the new puppet he had imagined.
Lancelot and Lasseter were in charge of guarding him and not letting anyone in to disturb him.
Occasionally, they would hear the rumbling explosion in the lab, and then Xiu would come out covered in dust and smoke, and the snow-white alchemist's robes would be burned all over the pits.
At that point, even Lasseter knew that the experiment had failed again.
After ten days, Hui extended the lease for another ten days, and then another ten days.
The days of alchemy are sometimes so fast, in the blink of an eye, a month flies by. Lasseter had never seen anyone who could have worked sixteen or seventeen hours a day in a laboratory like this, nor had he ever seen what kind of experiment could have been subjected to such crazy failures.
Sometimes Huey's lab would be blasted several times a day, and the sound was terrifying.
In contrast, Lancelot is much more accustomed to it. Alchemy is all about accumulating experience through countless failures and pursuing the path to success. At the beginning on Purgatory Island, Hines failed even in years for spatial teleportation and troll gods, and in comparison, Xiuyi's progress can only be described as a genius.
Because a month later, Huey's lab finally didn't have that terrible explosion again.
A tired smile appeared as he walked out of the lab exhausted. "It worked," he said. ”
Success, behind the simple three words contains a huge effort.
When Lancelot and Lasseter looked at the puppet in Huey's hand, which was only ten centimeters long, it looked like a small clay figure, and they were all stunned.
This is clearly a puppet doll sold on the street.
Lasseter pointed to the puppet doll and asked, "This is what you've been working on for a month?"
"To be exact, I added all my understanding of alchemy, as well as the wisdom of my ancestors, and some enlightenment here. Huey replied with a serious attitude.
"So...... What does this little thing do? Defeat the Sanctuary? I don't think it can even beat me. I can squash it with just one foot. Lasseter laughed.
Xiu Yi laughed, "Really, why not try it?"
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In a clearing on the outskirts of Raven City, the tall Lasseter stood at one end, and at the other end was the small puppet doll.
Such a small puppet was previously only found among the wooden puppets of the Dalimore family. It's just that the puppet enlarges its body when fighting, but this one obviously doesn't have this effect.
In fact, the puppet doll was holding only a small blade in its hand, and it seemed that it could not even stab a person to death except for shaving a beard - the blade was too short.
"Well, if I smash this little thing of yours into a mess, don't blame me. Lasseter smiled and spun his fist.
"Of course. Xiui smiled and said, "So, let's start now." ”
Lasseter roared and walked towards the puppet doll, and he raised his big foot to step on the puppet doll. This thing is so small that it is far less convenient to smash it with your fist than to trample it to death.
The puppet doll squeaked into the ground and disappeared without a trace.
Lasseter was looking around, and the puppet doll had come out of the ground and landed at his feet, and the small blade in his hand had cut a blood mark on Lasseter's thick bear leg with a slight slash.
Lasseter screamed and stepped on it again, but the puppet doll had already sunk into the ground again.
Like a mouse teasing an elephant, Lasseter roared again and again, and for a moment there was nothing she could do with this nimble little thing.
"Xiuy, is this the weapon you said can defeat the Sanctuary?" Lancelot looked at it for a moment and asked, "I don't see any power in it other than being more flexible. It has almost no attack power. ”
Despite the golem doll's agility, Lancelot could tell at a glance that the puppet doll had little attack power. The current Lasseter did not use the Dou Qi to protect his body, and the little thing was just a mark on his rough skin, if Lasseter used the Dou Qi, the puppet doll would probably be bounced away before it could get close to Lasseter.
Xiu Yi smiled and said, "Do you really think that I spent so much money just to be a waste?"
Lancelot snapped, and Huey pulled out a small orb of elements from the ring.
"The biggest difference between this puppet of mine and other puppets is that it only attacks once. ”
After saying this, he didn't see what Xiu Yi did, but he saw a sudden flash of light on the elemental ball.
The puppet doll, which had been dodging Lasseter's attack, suddenly stopped moving, and a strong elemental light appeared on its body.
Lasseter flickered slightly, and was about to step down, only to see Huey suddenly make a move, punching Lasseter away, and at the same time retreating himself.
The light on the puppet doll's body shone brighter and brighter, and suddenly exploded on the spot with a bang, and the huge elemental impact force instantly filled a radius of ten meters.
After the smoke had passed, Lasseter and Lancelot looked at the puppet together, only to see that the puppet doll had long since turned into countless fragments scattered on the ground, only the pit on the ground reminded it of its existence.
"This ...... It's ......," Lasseter said, pointing to the debris of the place, looking at Huey.
Xiu Yi said coldly: "You have to be glad, if I hadn't sent you flying just now, you would have been seriously injured even if you weren't killed." This is the self-detonation puppet that I have been researching these days, and the so-called puppet is actually an illusion. What they really do is to get close to the enemy and then blow themselves up. Kill your opponent by creating a powerful explosion. ”
Lancelot sweated profusely: "It's a shame that you can figure it out." But in that case, what is it common to ordinary alchemy items? Don't you have some other alchemy items that can create powerful explosions?"
Xiu Yi immediately shook his head: "Of course it's different. When in battle, a self-detonating golem capable of self-controlling pursuit of enemies is far more useful than sacrificial oil. First they will seek out and touch the enemy on their own, and will not occupy my hands like sacrificial oil. This allows me to concentrate more when fighting. Secondly, anyone can control it through the Elemental Orb, so that even ordinary people can operate it, and things like sacrificial oil cannot be used by ordinary people. The third is that the self-detonation golem can stealthily approach the enemy by stealthily stealing underground, and then suddenly attack when it burrows out of the ground, making it difficult for the enemy to escape, which is something that the sacrificial oil cannot do. The fourth is that it can be used intensively. You can't shoot thousands of sacrificial oils at the same time to bombard the enemy, but as long as you have enough time to prepare......"
Huey's face darkened, "You can craft enough self-detonation golems to be around your chosen enemies and have them attack at the same time." You can imagine what it would be like for hundreds of self-detonation golems to explode together. ”
This passage made Lasseter and Lancelot sweat together.
I didn't expect that just a small change could make an explosive prop so terrifying, this kind of self-detonation puppet, Xiu Yi is not a technical innovation, but for tactical application.
However, Xiu Yi was not satisfied: "If you just want to be a puppet that can blow itself up, it won't take me so long." In fact, what I'm really trying to do is not a self-destructing golem, but a disposable puppet with multiple uses. ”
As he spoke, Xiu Yi casually threw out another puppet doll.
The puppet doll ran forward quickly under Xiuyi's command, and then the elemental ball in Xiuyi's hand flashed, only to see that the puppet doll was also covered with elemental light, and then, a swamp appeared on the ground.
It's the earth-based spell: Swamp Trap.
This is the real intention of Xiuyi, compared to those alchemy props, the magic used by the puppet is more secretive, active and delayed attack, they are more flexible, more active, will pursue the enemy, will dodge the enemy, will choose the right time to attack, in the tactical combination and change is more colorful.
Moreover, due to its small size and small amount of material, this kind of puppet can be manufactured in batches.
But there is also a real, most important role, which is to deal with the Sanctuary.
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Since his fight with Nicholas, Huey's defensiveness of the Sanctuary has reached a perverted level. The static realm left too deep an impression on him, and in front of the power of the realm, no matter how powerful the power is, it is a floating cloud. However, because of this, he was thinking about how to deal with alchemy almost all the time.
In the end, he realized that the role of the realm was actually really for people. Most of the sacred realms in the world should be arranged according to people's weaknesses and their own advantages, and no one will arrange their own realm for alchemy.
This gave Xiu Yi a chance to realize that the best way to deal with the realm was actually nothing else, which was alchemy.
However, there are only two things that can produce a direct attack effect in existing alchemy. One is a puppet, and the other is an alchemy prop. The former is more flexible, but its power is limited, and it has no power to fight back against the Sanctuary. The latter is more powerful, but must be controlled by hand. However, people are subject to various restrictions in the realm, and they cannot use them freely, which limits the power of alchemy props. And people are flexible, and can dodge or resist the attacks of alchemy items.
How can this be solved? Xiu Yi has also pondered over and over again.
At first, he had placed his hopes on the Troll God, the most powerful puppet in the legend. However, the Troll God is actually nothing more than an existence that can rival the Sky Samurai. He hadn't heard of a puppet that could rival the star powerhouse and the seventh-level ** master.
On the contrary, the power of the alchemy props exploded at that moment, and it would inevitably be a threat to the strong, but unfortunately, under the effect of the domain, he didn't want to use these things freely at all. And the other side is not a fool, it is impossible to stand there and let you bomb.
Therefore, Xiu Yi was also very distressed for a while.
However, after coming to Raven City, this place may not have brought him any technical support, but it has already given him infinite creative stimulation, making him suddenly realize that his previous thinking seems to be narrow-minded......
When he saw the flying ants that could carry ten times the weight, he thought that if the flying ants could carry alchemy items to attack, they would be very useful weapons, but unfortunately they did not have the ability of the puppet to identify targets and dodge attacks on their own, so they were not suitable carriers, and when he saw those puppet dolls that could perform their own special movements and dance together to dance beautifully, he thought that it would be great if different puppet dolls could use different magic.
So the next idea became logical - can you use puppets instead of flying ants, and props instead of puppets? You can't throw out a dozen items at once, but you can have hundreds or thousands of puppets attack, and the two are obviously very different.
This puppet doesn't need to be strong, it just needs to be flexible enough, have the ability to protect itself for a short time, be able to accept its own commands, and be able to approach enemies quickly and effectively. Of course, it's best to have a certain amount of confusion and make people underestimate its existence, such as installing a small blade that doesn't seem to be useful......
It was seeing all kinds of new and interesting alchemy in the bazaar that greatly expanded Xiuyi's thinking and enabled him to have this series of ideas.
It was along this line of thought that Xiu Yi explored step by step, and finally decided on a method to combine alchemy props and puppets. These puppets may not be powerful, but their unrestricted domain power means they are destined to become Sanctuary killers.
"You...... Are you sure you can defeat the Sanctuary with just such a small thing?" Lancelot still couldn't believe it.
Xiu Yi shook his head: "Maybe not now, because I have only researched four kinds of puppet dolls, and I don't have enough time after all." But I'll continue to work on new puppet dolls and how they fit together in the coming time. Someday, I'll also be working on a puppet doll that can fly. They will be faster, more dexterous, and have better evasion skills, research golem dolls that can be invisible so that they can be more hidden, research golem dolls that can teleport, and golem dolls that can dive...... By that time, once we have thousands of puppet dolls of all kinds, they will become terrible killers of the peak powerhouse. The most interesting thing is...... Due to their volume, they do not consume much material. So it's going to be cheap to make them!"
Huey smiled and said, "The only thing we need is to push hard." ”
Lancelot gasped.
This little thing has a vicious mind, and he is pure to make alchemy that can kill the strong.
That's right, the Sanctuary is very powerful, but if it is bombarded indiscriminately by hundreds or thousands of self-detonating golems, it will be difficult to avoid dying. If these puppets can burrow into the ground and fly, then there are also those in the sky and the earth who can dive, stealth, and teleport, and they are everywhere in the sky and on the earth, densely packed like locusts flying, then each of them is a terrifying scene of self-detonating bombs......
Lancelot shuddered just to think about it.
Such a scene, let alone a holy domain, even seventeen or eighteen may not be able to withstand it.
Thinking of this, Lancelot couldn't help but shudder.
As if reading his thoughts, Huey smiled, "That's just a beautiful idea, Lord Lancelot, at least for now, it's not quite a reality." ”
Lancelot regained his seriousness.
He said in a very serious tone: "I am now your subordinate, and you should stop calling me Lord." ”
There had never been a moment when Lancelot had been in awe of Huey as he was now.