Chapter 40: Cursed Corpse!
'Buzz——'
After more than ten minutes, a faint light slowly appeared on the "Magic Gem".
Ethan also let out a sigh of relief, then wiped the sweat from his forehead.
He succeeded. If he had failed, he would have lost a lot.
However, Ethan was still a little proud of himself for successfully imprinting a Cursed Technique on his first try.
He placed the "Magic Gem" that served as the core into the Cursed Corpse, and with that, all the preparations were complete.
The next step was to inject cursed energy and activate the Cursed Corpse.
This was the most important step, because activating a Cursed Corpse was not that simple.
If a Cursed Corpse was a program, and the Cursed Technique was the framework for building the program, then the activation process was the code to run the program.
The complexity of this process was self-evident.
This was especially true for some special Cursed Corpses that had some special settings.
For example, when Itadori Yuji was training his emotional control, that boxing bear would attack if he didn't continuously inject cursed energy, and would sleep peacefully if he did.
The control of this kind of Cursed Corpse was already set in the rules of its action.
"Wait a minute, since cursed energy has fused with my magic, and the black mud is a manifestation of my magic. What would happen if I used the black mud to fill the Cursed Corpse?"
As soon as Ethan thought of this, he decided to act.
The black mud that seemed to be "filth" flowed out of his hand.
Then, under Ethan's control, it slowly merged into the Cursed Corpse and fused with the core Magic Gem.
Ethan could feel that his control over the core had been further enhanced.
Previously, he relied on the Cursed Technique to control it, but now, with the addition of the black mud, it was much easier to control.
Not only that, but after filling it with black mud, some of the flaws due to Ethan's inexperience were also smoothed out, and the entire Cursed Corpse was directly fused into a whole body.
"Cursed Technique: Puppet Manipulation—"
Ethan activated his Cursed Technique, which was called "Puppet Manipulation".
The originally lifeless Cursed Corpse was enveloped by a surge of magic power, and its stiff body began to have some subtle changes.
Then, a pair of eyes that were originally decorated with crystals also appeared with pupils.
'Bang—'
This Cursed Corpse moved, and Ethan immediately smiled. His Cursed Technique had succeeded.
"Cursed Corpse: Charmander!"
In front of Ethan was a familiar small orange dinosaur with a round head and sharp claws.
The flames burning on its long tail especially proved its identity.
"Charmander, use Flamethrower!"
In order to restore the original Charmander, Ethan had designed it with the ability to breathe fire.
After connecting it to its magic core, it could breathe fire simply by consuming magic energy.
'Roar—'
'Boom—'
Along with a roar, the flames suddenly exploded.
The smile on Ethan's face, which had been full of smiles just now, instantly froze.
The fire did come out, but it didn't come out of its mouth.
Instead, it exploded directly in its mouth, and half of the head of the Cursed Corpse: Charmander was blown to pieces.
"It seems that the Fire Magic Gem is still not good enough. I have to use something else to replace it."
Looking at the tragic scene in front of him, Ethan sighed.
Although he was disappointed, it was supposed to be an experiment after all. Even though it failed in the end.
Although the Cursed Corpse exploded, it didn't hurt the core. It only exploded the head area which was a minor problem overall.
Ethan could easily repair it with other materials. After all, he didn't lack such stuff now. There were plenty of them in his "Imaginary Space". This was all his harvest today after all.
After spending some time, the repair was completed.
The Cursed Corpse: Charmander was reactivated by Ethan.
This time, Ethan removed its ability to breathe fire, leaving only claws and bites as attack methods.
After all, he had assembled its claws and teeth with materials dropped by dungeon monsters.
The fangs of the Hellhound and the nails of the Lizardman were very sharp drop items in the upper floors.
"Charmander, use Scratch!"
'Bang—'
This time, Charmander perfectly executed Ethan's command, and a chair was directly smashed into pieces by it.
"Charmander, use Bite!"
'Crack—'
With another bite, a corner of the table was bitten off.
Ethan, who was full of excitement, forgot one thing.
This was a room on the top floor of the Tower of Babel.
Even a table and a chair here were worth a lot of money.
With these two blows, he destroyed a chair and made a corner of a table missing.
If someone else saw this, they would definitely curse him for his stupidity.
Such expensive items were destroyed just like that. It was really too much.
Then, Ethan tested other aspects of Charmander, and the results were not bad.
However, there were still many aspects to improve.
Since this was the first time Ethan had created and manipulated a Cursed Corpse, there were many things he didn't understand.
This experiment also exposed many problems.
One of them was the stiffness of the Cursed Corpse. It didn't seem like a problem now, but it would be a big problem in battle.
After all, it was just a puppet. Even if it was controlled by Ethan, it was not as agile as a normal person.
The main thing was that in the dungeon, I'm afraid those monsters would have demolished his Cursed Corpses as soon as they appeared.
His Cursed Corpse might not even be able to launch an attack and hit the opponent with such obvious flaws.
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On the other side, in Orario, on the other side, Hephaestus Familia's base.
After testing her new weapon, Tsubaki also returned to her residence, and told her goddess, the Divine Smith, Hephaestus, what happened today.
"What did you say? You saved someone from Freya Familia today?"
"Well, it looks like he's a newcomer, probably just a lv1~"
"A newcomer from Freya Familia actually entered the dungeon alone?"
As a partner/ally of Freya Familia, Hephaestus naturally knew the cruel internal competition in Freya Familia.
She didn't approve of that kind of radical growth method.
In her opinion, such training and competition was unreasonable, but it was after all other Familia's business, and she couldn't interfere.
Now, a newcomer who didn't need to join the "competition" had appeared in Orario.
It was strange, just like the child who was kidnapped by Freya on the street before.
However, thinking of this, Hephaestus's whole body trembled. She realized something she ignored.
"What's the name of the person you saved today?"
"Eh, I think it's Ethan Starfall. He's a strange guy."
"Ethan Starfall? It's really him!?"
Now, Hephaestus was shocked. This name was familiar to most of the gods in Orario.
The little guy who was snatched and kept by Freya on the street, many gods said that they were really envious of him.
After all, this was the goddess of beauty, Freya, we're talking about.
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