Mechanical Alchemist Chapter 31: Mechanical Puppet Master


 “This is the conversion ceremony...”

Su Lun seriously experienced this process that brought him extraordinary strength. The feeling of continuous infusion of surging power into his body made him feel comfortable in all his pores.

 The entire conversion ceremony lasted for about a quarter of an hour, and then the light of the six-pointed star alchemy array gradually dissipated. All the materials seemed to have been burned, turning into a group of soulless ashes.

 “Successful!”

Su Lun was delighted.

 Because he could see his own faceplate, he could clearly see the changes in his body after his successful "inauguration".

 All attributes of the body have been improved. Strength, perception, physical fitness... have all been increased by roughly 3-5 points.

 But it is three of them that have experienced the most exaggerated increases.

 "Agility" changed from 6 to 24!

 “Skills” changed from 8 to 35!

 "Spiritual Strength" also changed from 19 to 31!

 Directly doubled growth.

 And on the skill panel, there is also a [multi-tasking] passive skill.

 Just like peeling off the fragments of his soul, and fusing the puppet, Su Lun had some new abilities in his mind, but they seemed to be integrated into his bones.

 The most intuitive change brought about by the data improvement is that Su Lun feels that his body is stronger.

 Especially those three data that were greatly improved, he clearly felt the "extraordinary feeling".

 The change of agility made him suddenly as light as a swallow, and he could jump several meters high with a single leap;

 With the improvement of his skills, he obviously felt that his body was more flexible. The ability of nerves to recruit muscles has become extremely strong, allowing him to control almost every skeletal muscle in the body with precision;

 Although the improvement in mental power has no specific manifestation, Su Lun always feels that his whole senses have become much clearer.

 At this moment, Su Lun felt like a "Superman".

 He felt that he could fight ten of his former self in hand-to-hand combat!

  .....

 Furthermore, the most intuitive response to data improvement is the skills on the panel.

 Su Lun’s two skills, [Elementary Firearms Mastery] and [Advanced Combat Mastery], turned directly into [Intermediate Firearms Mastery 334/800] and [Elementary Combat Mastery 99/300]!

 “Can the improvement of skills be directly increased to the mastered skills?”

Su Lun felt a little surprised.

 He was eager to experience the sensory difference brought about by the increase in skill level, so he pulled out the musket from his waist and immediately felt the difference.

 At this moment, the gun seems to be no longer a tool, but an extension of his own arm. It made him feel that if he fired a gun, he could easily hit the target with just a casual glance.

 It is the ultimate smooth feeling of "nothing else but familiarity".

 "Is this intermediate level of firearms proficiency? It has been upgraded to a level, and it is so powerful..."

 Su Lun’s eyes were filled with sparkle.

 Until you reach that height, you will never understand what the scenery is like.

 What was incomprehensible before is now suddenly clear.

 He even felt that with more practice, he could barely perform the [Secret Art of Spear Fighting] which required extremely high skills.

 But if you think about it for a moment, you will understand.

 His skills have been greatly improved, and his control over various large and small muscle groups in his body has reached a very fine level. Muscle control ability becomes stronger, whether it is fighting skills or firearms skills, as long as it is a skill that uses muscles, the proficiency will definitely be greatly improved.

 “唰~”

  The musket pulled out a flower in Su Lun's hand and put it into the holster accurately.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of something, and with both hands, he pulled out two muskets at the same time like lightning, pointing at the door and window sill of the house respectively.

 Just at the moment of trying, a new passive skill was automatically unlocked on the panel.

Su Lun looked at the changes on the panel and sighed in his heart: "Multi-tasking... Wow, I actually unlocked [Two-Handed Weapon Mastery]!"

 This is a new and wonderful experience.

  He could clearly feel the feeling of the left and right brains controlling the left and right hands respectively, aiming at two targets. The two thoughts in his mind have a clear division of labor, and they can independently issue instructions to find the target, aim, and pull the trigger.

Although it is a two-gun salvo, it is essentially completely different.

 One is "good at using" both hands, and the other is "proficient"!

 The increase in combat effectiveness is not just a matter of one star or a little bit.

  .....

 The hotel is not a shooting range and there are no conditions for actual shooting.

 Sulun put away his musket.

 The [Multi-tasking] skill is also very strong for a popular profession, but in reality, it is the directional ability awakening of the "Puppet Master" profession.

Su Lun returned his gaze to the wooden box that contained the puppet. On it was an "Introduction to Making Puppet Makers".

 Super high mental power growth and the passive ability of [multi-tasking] are obviously skills exclusive to the Puppet Master.

 “There is still a long way to go...”

Suellen was thoughtful.

 If you want to become a qualified "puppet master", you have to learn a lot of things, such as...puppet making and maintenance.

 The process of making a trick puppet is very complicated.

 This involves carvings, enchantments, runes... Each process requires a lot of time to study.

 For example, the most basic rune drawing.

 Don’t think it’s just drawing some twisty special symbols on the puppet, but it actually goes a long way. It's like giving you a sketch. If you don't have any basic knowledge, you can draw it right away? A slight mistake will cause the Rune Puppet's combat power to be greatly reduced.

 "It seems like I have to go to the black market again sometime, buy some spirit wood, and try to make my own rune puppet..."

 Su Lun is not afraid of difficulties and actually enjoys the process of learning new knowledge.

 At this time, a novel idea suddenly came to his mind after traveling through time: "Hey...it seems that the material of the puppet does not necessarily have to be spiritual wood!"

 He thought of the previous scene in the dilapidated manor underground, when Pestoya controlled a group of puppets to attack Bald Ivan.

 At that time, Ivan, who had awakened [Steeled Skeleton] and had [Diamond Scale Armor], killed seven in and seven out of the puppet group. Ordinary puppets using cold weapons cannot hurt him at all.

 A large part of the combat effectiveness of the "Puppet Master" profession is on the puppets.

 The attack power of the puppet itself is also the most important factor in determining the outcome of the battle.

 Puppets are easy to break, so... what if they are replaced by mechanical puppets that use thermal weapons?

Su Lun’s expression suddenly brightened when he thought of this.

 The reason for using puppets is for ease of control. After all, the lighter the puppet, the greater the room for control. Low-level puppet masters simply cannot control puppets that are too bulky...

 But this is not a thousand years ago!

 Oldlington was in the age of black technology with steam machinery.

  Micro steam boilers can provide enough power for bulky robotic arms and exoskeletons, so why can’t they provide power for mechanical puppets?

 Thinking of this, Su Lun's thoughts suddenly spread.

As a time traveler, he doesn’t have any old-fashioned concepts. Whether it’s technology or extraordinary strength, isn’t it all about becoming stronger?

 Having been accustomed to seeing various high-tech products in his previous life, he now has a lot of "design inspiration" in his mind. Since there is no electronic control system in this world, would it be okay to have a "Puppet Gundam" or a "Puppet Transformers"?

 Su Lun felt as if he had opened the door to a new world, and he could already imagine in his mind that he was not controlling a group of puppets, but a group of combat mechas...

 However, it is difficult to turn the ideas in your head into reality.

 It's like turning the technology of making fireworks into a rocket. It looks similar in form, but in fact the technical content is very different...

 First of all, the machinery is not flexible enough. Even if there is a power device, the steel material is much heavier than the puppet;

 Secondly, to create a mechanical puppet, he needs to be proficient in very profound mechanical knowledge and puppetry knowledge.

Of course, there is alchemy as the basis of all things.

 For a time traveler like Su Lun, there are too many things to learn, and everything has to be started from scratch.

 The amount of knowledge required takes about hundreds of years to learn.

 But...he has [Death Reaper]!

Su Lun feels that in the future, he will probably follow a new line that is completely different from the old school, and that is - the "Mechanical Puppet Master"!


Leave a Reply