John was astonished about what happened to Erika but it made his life easier if she was recognized as a general by his army.
Now that everything important was finished it was time to punish these players for insulting his friends once and for all!
John wanted to go but was stopped by Scythe:
"Massterrr pleasse let usss firssst conquer some villaggesss, you don't have a worthy mount yet to inssstilll fear into heartsss of the people in the ccity!"
John really wanted to go but scythe countered every of his remarks so John gave up and went to the forge.
John was standing in the forge thinking what a good mount would be, he didn't want a dragon as he wasn't sure if he could create one.
He thought about a turtle, an ape, a lizard ...
but nothing seemed to fit.
He looked out of the window on the plains when he saw a housecat that was strolling to some herbs that looked like wild catnip, but something was odd.
Then he recognized that one herb was special it had a red orange luster and small sharp pointy leafes.
John recognized it as Fire grass and was sure after the cat started nibbling on the herbs and went up in flame when it nibbled the fire grass.
Now John had an idea he started working on a frame while sending some Automatons to fetch some fire grass.
First he took a heat resistance potion and splashed his hands with it then he started melting some mythril and dipped his hands into to liquid metal. After that he dipped his now metal hand into some of his special formula to soften the mythril. Now John had some water and acid resistant gloves.
He also made the frame out of mythril and added adamantite plated gears to it.
Then he started forging two adamantite sabertooths and some adamantite claws he added them to the skull and paws respectivly while plating the legs with blackened armor plates made out of adamatite plated mythril but John also installed a little bit of silver tubing that was annealed with heat resistance potion.
John then made two silver stomach bags which he put inside of the frame while connecting tubing from the feet and two from the mouth to it.
John then took it a step further and installed a tine monorail system which reached the whole body and set a tiny smithing bot onto it to repair any damage that occurs.
Next he took the fire grass his Bots collected with his gloves and mortared it into a liquid which he added to the secon stomach.
Now he just added the final armor plates and finished his mount.
Pyro-Panther
Rank special
Race Artificial Beast
rideable
A big sabertoothed mechanical panther which turns eaten biomass to flames which he emits through his feet and can spew it onto enemys
An auto repair system was added which does battle repairs with the eaten metal pieces of his unlucky victims.
The strong armor and the self repairs make it nearly indestructable.
John was satisfied with his mount so he left the forge with it only to realise that several hours went by.
As soon as he left the forge scythe came to him and said:
"Veryy goood massssterrr indeed a worthy mountt forr a sssuprreme being like you. I came to rrreporrrt that 27 villagess have been occupied and only the big ccity nearby remainsss in thiss area."