According to Edward's drilling, if you want to make a magic statue, there are roughly three steps: molding the form, injecting a living soul, and infusing magic power.
Shaping the form may not seem difficult, but it is mentioned in "Puppet Manipulation, Puppetry, and Magic Statues" that magic statues over a certain height will need to have bones of fine gold or even mountain bronze added to them, or else the statue will crumble away as it walks.
Actually, according to Edward's understanding, it had little to do with the height, the key was the weight of the magic statue.
When a human being walks, the two legs are alternately load-bearing, and in humans this weight is fine, the bones and muscles of the legs are perfectly capable of carrying the weight of the whole body.
However, by the time it reaches that weight class of a magical statue, if the material of the leg is not strong enough, it will be crushed by its own weight.
It's one of the reasons the Bluestars don't bother building the legendary giant robots.
And by adding a metal skeleton to the inside of the statue, it was the equivalent of turning the statue's legs into steel-reinforced concrete with a higher load-bearing capacity.
Speaking of which, the laws of physics in this world are quite similar to Bluestar.
The shaping type step of making a magical statue is basically addressing the physical law piece.
But it's only necessary to do it in such a way that the statue can stand still, there's no need to think about joints or muscles or anything like that.
There is magic in this world, after all.
And the second step of injecting a living soul nearly dissuaded Edward.
Good lord, you had to kill a man and sacrifice his living soul in order to make a magic statue, and you had to learn forbidden spirit-binding magic?
This is too evil.
However, after Edward's careful study, he realized that the step of "injecting a living soul" might be just a figment of the imagination of the author of "Puppetry, Puppetry and Statues" or a deliberate tampering.
The author deliberately mentions that the technique for making magic statues was developed from the [manipulation of corpses] magic of necromancy in order to set the mood, and that a living soul must be injected in order to make the statues move.
This is mostly to set up the later plot where the protagonist injects the soul of the dead heroine into the puppet doll and then does that with it.
In fact, it is written in that book Necromancy that manipulating corpses doesn't have to be infused with raw souls, but can also be infused with pseudo-souls.
And this book is the proper textbook, it's just a pity that what is taught is only the principles of Necromancy and the defense breaking methods of the relevant spells, without any specific instructions on how to inject a pseudo-soul.
But as a smart Blue Star man, Edward could probably guess what kind of a workaround a pseudo-soul was.
If injecting a living soul is to insert an unlucky driver into the "robot" of the statue, injecting a pseudo-soul is to insert an AI system.
Of course, this AI system has to be reliable enough not to fall off the chain and brake like the AI of some high-tech companies.
Imagine playing happily with the devil statue, the devil statue suddenly can not control to pounce on the street, dozens of tons of behemoths smashed on the body, that can be more tragic than crashing into a tree spontaneous combustion.
When a magical statue has a sturdy body and a pseudo-soul that can drive the body dependably, the last step is to infuse it with magic.
This step was actually the simplest, just look at the shape of the magic statue, it was to embed a piece of energy storage magic stone into the magic statue, and then infuse it with magic power that could make the magic statue move.
Or, to use the robot analogy, it's just putting the battery in and charging it.
For Edward, the only bottleneck now is the second step, how to inject the pseudo-soul here.
For this reason, he even made another trip to "Ancient Literature", and quietly asked the store manager if there were any forbidden books for learning necromancy.
Unfortunately, for one thing, the store manager couldn't let this great young man fall by indulging in forbidden arts, and for another, the store really didn't have any such books, so that route didn't work out.
Edward could only hope that there would be something about it in another spellbook.
So during that time, he spent every day in the "Ancient Literature" flipping through books, and as long as it looked like there might be a reference to the injection of pseudo-souls, he would take a look or two.
But after a few days of no luck, he was undeterred and had to expand his range.
He would read any book that looked like it would contain soul magic.
But the effort was not enough, and one day he casually picked up a copy of Twin Spirits and flipped through a few pages, when he came across a tiny line of notes that read, "This spell also creates false souls, which are used by necromancers to manipulate corpses."
Edward immediately bought the book and then took it home to study it carefully.
The jutsu recorded in the book was [Twin Spirit Jutsu], a jutsu to create a pseudo-soul by copying someone's soul using runes such as [Soul] [Imitation] [Split].
A pseudo-soul created in this way has no memories or emotions of the original owner, but is able to mimic the original owner in a number of actions, including fighting and laboring.
In addition, the pseudo-soul is loyal to the caster and obeys all orders.
The book also states that this spell does not cause any damage to the original owner, so the necromancer can copy his twin spirits and infuse them into the corpse to make his own doppelganger.
So Edward can boldly experiment on himself.
That night, he managed to replicate his pseudo-soul figurine.
This pseudo-spirit figurine is like a Sister, with only a pale blue shadow, and Edward can command him to perform simple actions at will.
Because of the mutual sensing of the twin spirits, he didn't need to speak to command, as long as the idea of what he wanted the villain to do arose in his mind, the command would be transmitted.
Even the "military boxing", "the eighth set of radio gymnastics", "dancing a fierce version of the new treasure island", such as the blue star only know how to move, the villain can be completed.
This suggests that the villain, who just glows without orders, is indeed a replica of Edward's soul.
The day after learning the [Dual Life Spirit Technique] was the day Evely tried out her guns.
Having played with his own little diversion all night, Edward stayed in the guild instead of going snogging with the huntress.
He's going to try to make his own magical statue - a test-do type primer.
After preparing small pieces of energy storage magic stones and other materials, he began to craft.
First, a small clay doll was made out of clay to serve as the form of the magic statue.
Then copy your own soul to create a pseudo-soul.
After practicing all night, he had already done it with familiarity, and after condensing the runes, a small person would emerge.
However, the False Soul that appeared this time was a bit different from the one from last night.
The pseudo-souls that were made before were pale blue in color.
The one produced this time, on the other hand, was indeed red and black, and a dark red glow was emanating outward from around the vapors.
This made Edward feel a little bad, and he immediately dispelled the strange pseudo-soul.
By using the [Dual Spirit Technique] again, a light blue pseudo-soul was copied.
What the hell just happened to that pseudo-soul?
He was a little guilty, so he dispelled this normal pseudo-soul and duplicated it again.
This time, a dark red pseudo-soul appeared again.