If it were a game, the only way to improve skill proficiency would be to use it constantly, in addition to skill points.
Since his arrival, Lin Xiao has never stopped working, constantly digging soil and knocking stones. The skills he acquired from the Tower of Truth have become more and more proficient. Now he can skillfully knock out square stones with clear edges from the entire underground stone layer.
At the beginning, the stones were still very rough, with uneven edges as if they were chiseled off casually, and the overall shape was not square. Now the
edges of the stones are initially smooth. Although there are still small bumps when you touch them, at least they are not prickly, and there are no sharp edges. Even the shapes are cubes with clear edges and corners. The angle error of 90 degrees is not much, and the pieces are stacked on the edge of the dug hole steadily without falling over.
When a person concentrates on doing something, time flies quickly and the efficiency is also super high.
By the time he dug deeper along the unknown thick rock layer, probably more than a hundred meters, it was already the second month. He sensed a slightly stronger plane will scanning over than last month.
Fortunately, this place was too far from the ground, and the earth would still block it a little. It was already very weak when it reached him. Only
then did Lin Xiao stop and start digging horizontally. It took him more than ten days to dig out a larger underground base than before.
This time was different from the last time. There were no living facilities. Instead, there was a huge workshop.
"The world is so dangerous, I have to get some self-defense stuff."
Standing in front of the central workbench of the huge workshop, Lin Xiao put his hands on his hips and recalled all kinds of knowledge related to the mage system in the Tower of Truth. With the situation he was facing now, the most suitable and easiest way to increase his strength was to create a constructed puppet.
That is, a golem. A puppet is a kind of golem. In some places, a puppet is also called a golem. There is not much difference, just a different name.
Based on the materials he had, he could only choose three kinds of golems: wood golem, clay golem and rock golem.
Unfortunately, he dug so deep and dug hundreds of meters into the rock layer, but he didn't find any mineral veins. He was speechless.
Although he could transform other substances into the substances he needed through the spell of material transformation, this spell could only transform a small amount of key substances with his current ability, such as magic materials such as mithril and mercury required to set up the core array of the golem. Although the consumption of materials such as steel was lower than that of mithril, the demand was too high. He simply couldn't use this method to transform them on a large scale. He did
it right away. The first thing he tried was a wooden golem, which had the lowest requirements and the cheapest materials.
He first went to the ground to collect a batch of wood and brought it back to the base. He randomly picked a log with a diameter of about 1.5 meters and a length of about 10 meters and moved it to the workbench.
He stretched out his hand and pressed it on the log to feel around, then bent his fingers and gently knocked on a certain section.
"Dong dong dong"
only six times, and the solid wood as thick as a large round table was knocked open by him. The crack was flat and smooth, and it felt like it was cut by a knife at first glance.
"Okay!"
Although it's still a long way from perfection, it's amazing that it can be knocked open by hand.
Then, according to the expected size of the wooden golem, knock down a section and adjust its appearance.
The size doesn't need to be changed. The diameter is 1.5 meters and the height is 2 meters. The surface needs to be smooth to facilitate drawing the magic circle later. The place where the limbs are placed needs to be repaired so that the limbs and the body will not affect each other when they rotate after splicing.
Then, split another section of wood, cut out two thick woods with a diameter of 30 centimeters and a length of 1.5 meters, and use the shaping spell to transform them into the shape of legs.
The remaining two thick woods are also transformed by the shaping spell, but unlike the legs, the two pieces of wood used as hands are not shaped like hands, but the place where the palm is originally is directly shaped into an interface, a big axe, and a thick wooden shield stuck at the interface.
The flexibility of the wooden golem is pitifully low. It is a bit difficult to expect them to fight with various weapons. It is better to directly transform the hands into weapons.
In his imagination, this thing is a disposable consumable.
Lin Xiao didn't think about how long he would use it. He just used it to practice and made a few as cannon fodder. When he became proficient, he would start making more powerful stone golems.
Yes, he was not interested in making clay golems. The combat power of this thing was not much different from that of wooden golems. The only advantage was that it was easier to shape and more flexible than wooden golems. After all, hands and feet could be made directly with clay.
After all the basic limbs such as hands and feet were made, Lin Xiao enchanted the golems separately, only adding solidity +1, and the wooden axe was enchanted with sharpness +1.
He wanted to enchant more, but unfortunately the wood material was here, so it could only be enchanted at level one.
Then it was time to draw a magic circle for the golem, which required a small amount of mithril, a certain amount of magic mercury and a small amount of gems.
He lacked all of these, so he could only use material transformation to do it slowly.
Fortunately, he had the idea of making a golem a long time ago and had prepared early. A month ago, he would use the remaining mental power and mana to transform these materials before going to bed every day. Now he has accumulated some.
Thanks to his good grasp of the creation law, he has a great advantage in this regard. Not only does the conversion consume less mental power and mana, but the conversion efficiency is also higher.
In fact, Lin Xiao would like to try to use the magic cube of fortune to convert directly. At most, he can easily convert a lot of them by consuming some fortune power.
But he didn't dare to, and he didn't know if he would be discovered if he suddenly converted a lot of rare resources with the magic cube of fortune.
The magic cube of fortune will definitely not be discovered. Even the powerful true gods can't find it. How can the plane will of a small plane find it? The main thing is that a large number of rare resources suddenly appeared in this world, and I don't know if it will be noticed.
I dare not do things that are uncertain now. I can only wait until the first stage is over or it is discovered in advance before trying.
Anyway, the demand is not high now, and what I converted myself is enough.
First, the mercury is converted into magic mercury through a special method, and then the gems are crushed into powder, the mithril is melted, and the three are mixed into a special magic ink, and then the
golem-specific magic array is engraved on the wooden golem. This is not difficult. Not to mention that he has tried it before in his own divine domain, many wise goblins in the divine domain have already begun to try to make golems, especially Alement, who has even made heavy-duty golems. These experiences are fed back to the Tower of Truth. As the owner of the Tower of Truth, Lin Xiao can naturally obtain these experiences and skills. It
took him two full hours to draw a complex golem magic array stroke by stroke, and a complex pattern was drawn on the simple wooden golem with black and blue magic ink.
This thing is super complicated and super mentally exhausting, but it is also the most important. The time spent on drawing this magic array alone is longer than all the previous preparations.
Finally, he flipped his right hand, and a tiny light appeared in his palm. This was the beast spirit he had collected when he killed the beast two months ago, and it was just right to be used as the core of the golem.
First, erase the spirit's will, and then cast the golem enlightenment spell.
This golem enlightenment spell has different levels and types, corresponding to different golems. For example, a heavy golem like a wooden golem uses the simplest warrior golem enlightenment spell. After enlightenment, this spirit core will come with a set of standard wooden golem behaviors and combat systems.
Once enlightened, it is fixed. If a diamond golem uses a wooden golem core, then after success, the diamond golem's combat style and code of conduct will be that of a lowest-level wooden golem. The
next and last step is to send this spirit core into the wooden golem. As he stretched out his hand and pressed it on the top of the golem's head, invisible ripples flew out of his palm and quickly spread all over the body. The magic circle painted with black and blue magic ink lit up with a faint magic glow and slowly merged into the golem.
As a strange feeling emerged, a sense of existence spread from the wooden golem, and Lin Xiao knew that the wooden golem had taken shape.
"Yes!"
He breathed a sigh of relief.
One formation means a good start.
Next, he tried to control and command the wooden golem to perform various actions according to the golem operation manual, including patrolling and fighting.
The wooden golem he made was about three and a half meters tall, with a two-meter tall body and a diameter of one and a half meters. It held a thick wooden shield in one hand and a large axe in the other. It was quite large and intimidating. After all, its actual combat power
was made of wood. Its temporary combat power was okay, but it was not durable enough, so it could only make do with it for now.
After casually ordering it to guard the cave entrance, Lin Xiao took a short break and started making the second wooden golem.
Then he spent a whole week, more than eighteen hours a day in the workshop, making one golem in an average of three hours. Excluding accidental damage, and the speed increased after he became proficient, he made a total of forty-one wooden golems in a week.
Most of them were cannon fodder, but he slightly modified ten of them and replaced their weapons with hammers and shovels.
With cannon fodder in hand, he finally felt a little relieved. With these, if he encountered a powerful monster again, even if he couldn't defeat it, it would buy him time to escape.
That day, he sat in front of the workbench to rest and think about the next plan.
There were enough cannon fodder, and the next step was to make a stronger stone golem. This was more difficult than the wooden golem and required more resources.
However, there was not enough space in the underground base at this time. Although the ten wooden golems that replaced their weapons with hammers and shovels were digging and expanding the base on the other side of the base, efficiency was not a
big deal.
Anyway, there was no rush.
Time passed as he thought and tried, hammering and hitting every day.
At first, the wooden golems were smashing and shoveling stones every day, but they got used to it after a while.
That day, he was standing in front of a three-meter-high giant stone with a human shape, carving, and suddenly heard a shrill and strange scream. He raised his head suddenly with a look of surprise. His first reaction was that he was robbed. He
immediately realized that this was an underground base, and the exits were sealed and he couldn't be robbed.
I quickly stood up and rushed out of the workshop, and saw ten wooden golems gathered at the door of the warehouse, resisting a group of cavemen rushing out of the warehouse.
(End of this chapter)