Chapter 316
Chapter 316 Alice’s Choice
Alice trembled as she extended her hand towards her stomach.
It was almost as if there was a strange light source within it. Odd silver energy continuously flowed out from that part of her body. The silvery power seeped into her skin, flesh, bones, and tendons, dyeing every part of her body a silver-white.
Alice could see through her semi-translucent stomach. Her intestines and stomach were exposed to the naked eye. There was also the liver, the gallbladder, and several other organs she couldn’t name. These internal organs also started to turn transparent under the effect of this mysterious energy. Even her blood vessels and the blood surrounding her body parts had begun to become translucent.
Alice’s hand landed on her stomach. She trembled in shock.
Her hand went right into her stomach as if there was nothing there to stop it. She didn’t feel anything.
Her skin, her stomach, her flesh; everything was visible to her eyes, but she couldn’t touch them. It was like those parts of her body were in a different dimension from the rest of her body.
“I…what’s happening to me?” Alice’s face was flushed white. She turned and stammered a question at Greem.
He might have won that fight and turned Sak into ground meat paste and grey ashes, but the extraction of the petrification energy had caused him a lot of trouble as well. The energies had even mixed with the abyssal aura at one point and created a massive mess for him to clean up.
Greem had put a lot of thought into how to use this pair of eyes as well!
He once again covered the container with the black cloth, and the slight feeling of numbness faded away as well. He didn’t look down on this black cloth because of how inconspicuous it seemed. It was also a magic-enhanced item that obscured all traces of magic covered by the fabric.
Greem walked to the second platform. The variety of metallic parts and mechanical constructs were strewn across this one. However, most of them were only semi-finished products. Even if someone were to put them all together, it was just enough to create the metallic arm of an animated statue.
These pieces were Greem’s handiwork and his preparation for the magic-powered war golem he was attempting to make.
After this period of research and discovery, Greem had finally been able to gain a thorough understanding of the knowledge he had brought back from the Silver Union. He had also discovered some oddities because of this.
Ancient adepts had defined the magic golems as metallic golems that could aid the adepts in combat when they first brought these entities into existence. The initial motivation for creating them had been for battle!
This line of thought had caused all sorts of elegant and precise designs to become unsuitable for a golem. This reason was why magic golems were rarely ever outfitted with precise and delicate components similar to that of a human’s body. The adepts had made the magic golems to be as practical and straightforward as possible so that they could be qualified meat shields and vanguards.
Ordinary metallic golems often only had two clumsy and dense metal pillars as legs. They had none of the complicated parts of a human body, such as a divide between the thigh, leg, feet, and the toes. The more precise and the more delicate the design of the metal golem, the weaker its resistance to blows. It was far more practical just to forge a lump of metal using a magical alloy with the highest toughness.
This simplicity was why most of the metallic golems that Greem had seen were incapable of complex battle techniques. They could only roll over and crush enemies with their impenetrable bodies and terrifying weight.
The adepts weren’t necessarily wrong in their thought process!
After all, they only trusted their own powers. Creating golems was just to provide themselves with a way to be covered while they cast their spells. Most adepts built their golems per their needs, and never honestly treated the golems as an aid nor dedicated their efforts to research and refine their potential.
Greem took a wooden box from a corner of the stone platform. He opened the box and revealed five crude wooden golems placed within.
He took one of them out and assessed it.
The wooden golem had with the rough anatomy of a head, a torso, and four limbs. All of this was carved out of hemlock timber. The different parts of the body had been fixed together with iron nails. Coiled wire composed the more delicate components such as the hands and feet.
Greem even created a pair of wings out of wood flakes and snowrabbit fur on the back of the golem. He had merely pinned the fur to the back side.
Frankly speaking, Greem’s woodwork skills were non-existent.
According to the golem creation manuals, a proper wooden golem had to be carefully carved by a professional workman, using specialized timber, to be considered a qualified and accepted product. The wooden golem in front of Greem had clearly not undergone any method of polishing either. The surface of the wood was rough, and a crack had appeared on the right leg. Anyone would be able to tell that this was a defective product.
The creator of this golem had used too much strength when pinning the wire feet into its legs.
Greem could only shake his head in disappointment at his craftsmanship.
Well. It was meant for practice anyway. It was okay, even if it was a little shoddy!