Su Lun had tried before, and even with the ability to multitask, his success rate in completely drawing fourth-order spiritual rune carvings would not exceed 20%.
This was already the normal success rate for those regular rune masters.
Of course, if he were willing to spend several months carefully carving, the success rate would be much higher.
But now he did not have that ti.
His distorted spiritual power might explode at any ti, turning him into a complete madman.
The mask needed to be made as soon as possible.
Su Lun could only try to use the eight-ard spider spear to simultaneously carve the runes he needed in a short ti.
He had prepared himself ntally for multiple failures, but this mont turned out to be unexpectedly smooth.
....
The essence of "multitasking" was still Su Lun alone, controlling various tools for carving. But no matter what, it was still distracting; it was impossible to focus all his attention on one point.
However, now, after advancing to the third tier, Su Lun had mastered a new ability—multimind multitasking.
He had noticed during battle that this ability allowed him to control puppets very smoothly.
But it was also expected.
This was the most important reason he chose this line of advancent.
It was an ability with a very high compatibility with Puppet Masters.
Su Lun had thought it only amplified his combat abilities, but now, he was experiencing other benefits it brought!
Each spider spear’s control over the carving knife had reached an extrely intricate delicacy; the eight spider spears, plus his hands, were like ten Su Luns focusing intently on carving, making every line precise and smooth.
The advanced engraving techniques that Su Lun had previously found difficult to control were now effortlessly executed.
It was as if his brain had suddenly mastered those not-so-familiar techniques.
Having realized this, and guessing sothing, Su Lun was delighted, "Does ’multimind multitasking’ utilize the super high developnt of the brain domain?"
He had seen introductions about such extraordinary abilities before; the ordinary "multimind multitasking" ability just plainly increased the "number" of thoughts that could be utilized.
But not like now, where it directly improved comprehension and learning abilities, enhancing the "quality."
Su Lun knew his condition differed from what the books described.
The only explanation was that he had now reached a super high brain domain developnt of 16%!
To put it in perspective, Su Lun’s previous brain developnt was like an AE86 equipped with a racing engine. Although it was sowhat faster, the car could not fully utilize the engine’s effectiveness. But now, the multitasking ability was like swapping a broken car’s four wheels for racing tires, upgrading the brakes, suspension, and dashboard as well. Its effectiveness was instantly realized!
The final effect was not additive or doubled, but it increased exponentially.
This advancent indeed brought him a huge surprise.
Even as thoughts whirled in Su Lun’s mind, it did not affect his rune carving at all.
Even because he had understood this, he had fewer reservations; the spider spears carved even faster.
The "sizzle, sizzle" sound of tal being finely cut drew near his ears as large portions of rune grooves were engraved on the tal mask. After embedding rune crystals, applying rune paint, throwing it into the alchemy array for annealing, and coating...
In less than half an hour, a fourth-tier alchemy product appeared before his eyes.
Upon inspection, it even reached the "rough silver-grade" quality.
.....
"Is it done?"
Looking at the finished product in his hands, Su Lun also found it hard to believe.
He tried it on his face; a cool sensation instantly surged to his forehead. In that mont, those restless spiritual powers, as if appeased, also got absorbed into the mask.
"It really worked..."
The effect was better than expected. Su Lun then dared to believe that he had actually crafted a fourth-tier alchemy equipnt in such a short ti.
"This advancent really has brought unexpected joy."
Su Lun’s eyes sparkled.
But he felt sothing was missing in the silver-white runic tal mask, so he took it off again.
He thought of sothing, adjusted the colored enchantnt paint, painted a white base on the mask, added diamond-shaped black eyeshadow, comical tadpole red eyebrows... and that crimson, split-open smile!
This was a "clown mask."
As if feeling a slight resonance with the mask, a deranged smirk inadvertently flitted across Su Lun’s eyes, "This is more like it..."
Wearing the mask, his gaze beca clear again.
He felt that, with this mask, he could probably last a very long ti.
But he still needed to find a way to completely solve the problem.
To solve the problem, he first had to get back the communication ring from the Mirror Organization.
Thinking of this, Su Lun muttered to himself, "The leader of the ’Red Shark Pirate Gang,’ Boen, is an old fourth-tier professional. Getting sothing back from that guy doesn’t seem so easy..."
....
The fourth rank is a watershed for professionals, and this level belongs to high-ranking professionals in the ground world.
To advance to the fourth rank, one must comprehend the elent barrier, which ans that defense power will greatly increase; techniques below the third rank would find it hard to be lethal. Moreover, the body’s tolerance to implanted alchemy enhancents will surge, usually indicating possession of a powerful alchemy implant.
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Su Lun carefully pondered the information he had just harvested. Boen Fritz, with a bounty of 72 million rixos and known as "Poison Frog," had strong offensive and defensive asures and several trump cards, which made him quite problematic.
Moreover, Su Lun had just annihilated his pirate crew; negotiations were likely dood to fail.
In the end, it would all co down to fists.
He had just advanced to the third rank, and while he was sowhat confident in his defenses, his offensive capabilities were sowhat lacking. Whether it was puppetry or spells, many techniques had not yet caught up.
Thinking about it, the only sure ans to kill that man were the Black Sickle and... a chanical warrior?
....
"Huh..."
Suddenly, Su Lun thought of sothing. Pinching his sorcerer’s seals, his storage space manifested, and a high battle cha heavily landed on the deck.
This was naturally the [Colonel-Class Ship-Cutter IX ch].
Looking at this tightly integrated heavy-armored cha, Su Lun’s gaze sharpened, his eyes revealing deep thought.
He had already thoroughly studied the overall structure of the cha; with the information from a stripped soul, he also had so ideas about disassembly.
But at this mont, as he looked at this battle suit again, he felt completely different.
Like facing a challenging problem, he suddenly had a "solution approach."
Su Lun slowly closed his eyes. In his mind, it was as if each part of the battle suit in front of him automatically started to break down, with chanical sounds of "click," "click" echoing beside him.
Then "boom," "boom," "boom"...
Ti and again, the suit self-destructed due to an incorrect disassembly thod.
Reassemble...
Disassemble...
Explode...
Reassemble again...
At this mont, Su Lun’s thoughts raced at high speed.
If one approach didn’t work, he would switch to another.
This miraculous scene played out in Su Lun’s mind.
He knew this unprecedented ntal capability was also a new ability brought on by his advancent to the third rank.
A flurry of complex thoughts flashed by.
After countless attempts,
finally,
Su Lun found a feasible possibility.
He suddenly opened his eyes, realizing, "Right, I must remove three parts of the armor simultaneously to avoid triggering the self-destruction chanism!"
Su Lun suddenly understood.
The disassembly thod of this ch was sowhat like the "Kongming lock" from his previous life; finding specific components or forcefully disassembling multiple components simultaneously required skill and finesse.
Having deduced the correct way to disassemble the ch, Su Lun imdiately set to work.
His spider spear controlled the two armored shoulder pads of the ch; then, he forcefully twisted a small component on the chanical spine. Suddenly, he heard the sound of a tallic chanism with a "click."
Joy appeared on Su Lun’s face.
Not triggering self-destruction ant he had succeeded!
He actually managed to easily remove the shoulder armor, revealing various precise chanical parts inside.
Once the first component was disassembled, the rest beca much easier.
The corpse had already decayed and was directly thrown into the sea.
Before long, thousands of small and large components were disassembled.
They were suspended in the air by silk threads, completely exposed to Su Lun’s eyes.
"The chanical armor technology of the Maphar Empire is truly exceptional…"
Su Lun squinted at the components before him, sizing up a peerless beauty without a single modest garnt, all its secrets laid bare before him.
It was his first ti seeing such intricate chanical armor; every crucial component bore a model identifier.
[MF11 Individual Steam Boiler], [Hager II Type Explosion-Proof Air Hamr], [Magic Energy High-Frequency Oscillator], [Beo S-11 Energy Core], [T-Alloy Power Shaft], [Dragon Hunter V Mini Missile Launcher]...
These were all top-tier military technologies that, aside from the Maphar military, were unseen anywhere else.
Each component captivated Su Lun’s gaze.
They were the core technologies of the Maphar Empire.
True priceless treasures.
After looking for a while, he averted his gaze.
Without a blueprint, it was nearly impossible to manufacture such a sophisticated and complex chanical battle armor.
Even Su Lun did not foolishly believe he could replicate this battle armor in a short amount of ti.
These technologies would require a great deal of his ti to decode in the future.
The current priority was to transform the battle armor into combat capability.
His mind worked furiously, and he tried again, quickly deducing how to use those chanical devices.
He manipulated with threads, ignited the power boiler, and the machine started moving.
Su Lun was delighted, "Perfectly intact..."
....
The reason Su Lun was fixated on chanical puppets was not only that he was a transmigrator who had witnessed the power of machinery.
Another reason was that chanical puppets could compensate for many shortcomings of traditional puppets.
For example, strength, defense, kinetic energy...
Assu if Su Lun had a puppet swinging a blade with a force of 100, then after the steam boiler was charged, it could reach 10,000.
The two were not on the sa level at all.
To achieve a force of 10,000 with a traditional puppet, the requirents for runes and materials would be very high, and the cost would be countless tis that of the steam machinery.
This was a qualitative gap!
Moreover, this also involved a subsequent developnt path.
A brand new advancent path for a "chanical Puppet Master"!
The reason Su Lun planned to integrate "Spiritual Tentacles" into his third-tier armor was precisely because of the controllability of chanical puppets!
The Mafa officer’s battle armor before him was controlled by a person.
But if Su Lun inserted a corpse, he could achieve the sa effect.
Because this cha operated on a purely physical system, he now needed countless threads to control the chanical puppet.
It was arduous and complicated, and even with multitasking, he could not control many puppets at once.
The entire process would be: Su Lun’s brain sends signals →body exerts force →threads convey force →control the corpse’s limbs →control the chanical switches.
While "Spiritual Tentacles" only needed one thread to control the corpse by transmitting neurological signals, completing complex control commands.
The process would be simplified to: Su Lun’s brain →control machinery.
This would massively increase the control efficiency and the number of controllable units.
...
No!
Once the technology matured, it might not even require a complete corpse!
If there were "Super chanical Warriors" with such nerve-chanical technology, just installing a nervous system could control these chanical battle armors!
Su Lun thought of sothing, and his thoughts beca more active.
He had so knowledge of nerve chanics in his mind, but it was incomplete.
Even!
Not limited to humans, but anything with a nervous system.
Such as the "chanical Spider" that can control eight arms;
The "chanical Millipede" that can control thousands of legs;
Or chanical dragons, chanical octopuses, chanical reptiles, chanical jellyfish, chanical dogs...
Any biological entity with a nervous system theoretically could be an option for the chanical puppet’s nervous system.
They could et various functional demands, working in coordination during combat.
If such a chanical puppet army were created, it would definitely be an invincible force.
This was the path of the chanical Puppet Master that Su Lun envisioned for his future in this magical world after understanding it.
Moreover, he was well aware that there was an endless potential in chanical technology.
Although the current chanical technology was far behind the top tier of Alchemy, in the future, it might not be impossible to develop battle armors of higher order, or even divine-level chanical forces!
....
"Since Duke Raphael has mastered the nerve-chanical technology, could it be that he has already created such a chanical monster army?"
With countless thoughts in his mind, Su Lun suddenly had this idea.
He thought of the super dreadnought previously.
Since Raphael could secretly develop such a warship, other black technologies might also be possible.
Su Lun was not worried at all; he was even sowhat looking forward to Duke Raphael having such capabilities.
A grand lord like him, who could mobilize enormous societal resources, was truly the driving force behind the developnt of social sciences.
Su Lun’s research capabilities might not be said to be very strong, but… his harvesting ability was still quite formidable.
If there really was advanced technology, it might have saved him a lot of ti for his "plans."
However, plans are just plans, and right now, Su Lun had many problems to solve.
First and foremost, was to make sure he didn’t die.
Su Lun now possessed an exaggerated learning ability, which allowed him to control the cha skillfully after only a short attempt.
The cha, grasping the high-frequency vibrating Ship-Cutter, swung it fiercely.
Under absolute power, any "elental barriers" were like paper.
Besides, the Ship-Cutter had high-frequency vibration black technology.
If it could cut through steel ships, couldn’t it cut through people?
"What a pity, these specially made micro missiles, alchemy bullets and the like are consumables, used up in an instant. If only he could get his hands on so high-precision chanical forging equipnt and instrunts, then he could manufacture so substitutes of the sa caliber..."
Su Lun looked towards the horizon’s coastline, with no intention of staying at sea a mont longer.
He maneuvered the sail and began heading towards that port.
.....
"Blizzard City" was initially a gathering point for adventurers from the Emperor Luying empire on the Far North Ice Field.
As more people ca and went, it gradually developed into a colossal city.
It’s covered with ice and snow all year round, with harsh climate conditions, and few ordinary residents. Those who co and go are adventurers, rchants, fugitives, exiles, pirates, and bounty hunters.
It is a city where adventurers converge, and although the town lord was granted the title of "Governor" by the Emperor Luying empire, it was actually not under the jurisdiction of the empire’s laws and was a neutral territory.
It is also one of the few cities that pirates don’t plunder.
Pirates need supplies, smugglers need channels, and the trade in human ransom requires interdiaries...
This unregulated city was the perfect choice.
Thus, the city was a mix of dragons and snakes.
Approaching evening, the harbor of Blizzard City.
The workers at the dock spotted a sea ship rushing towards the harbor. It was moving fast, showing no signs of lowering its sails for a dock.
Everyone started exclaiming.
"Hey, look, there’s a pirate ship docking!"
"Don’t they know the rules? Coming to Blizzard City, don’t they know you can’t show the pirate flag?"
"Heh, probably so newbie group just set sail dreaming about becoming the Pirate King every day."
"That flag looks familiar... damn, isn’t that the ’Red Shark Pirates’ ship?"
"..."
The sea ship barged into the harbor, damaging several ships before it ca to a stop.
This commotion caught everyone’s attention.
The harbor master stord over, intending to scold these pirates who had broken the dock’s rules.
But upon closer inspection, they shockingly discovered that there was no one on the ship?
So bold workers jumped aboard, entering the cabin to investigate.
In no ti, they ran out frightened, rolling and crawling.
"Ah... so... so many dead bodies! The cabin is full of dead bodies!"
"My God, the Red Shark crew has been wiped out! Soone killed them all!"
"It’s terrifying, none of the bodies are intact..."
"..."
People then realized the reason why the ship hadn’t slowed down was that there was simply no one on it.
To be precise, there was not a single living person!
But then, how did a ship that required a dozen people to operate manage to sail to the port?
Could it be haunted?
There were plenty of stories of ghost ships at sea, and many people thought of various mysterious events.
A creepy atmosphere spread across the dock, and the news quickly spread into the city.
But no one noticed that, as the ship entered the harbor, a person wearing a clown mask, taking advantage of the chaos, had already teleported to a corner of the dock.
Su Lun was in no rush to go into the city to find soone; instead, he patiently waited on the dock.
He was certain that Boen, the leader of the Red Shark crew, would co to investigate after hearing the news.
Sure enough.
It wasn’t long before he saw a burly man with a grizzled beard leading a few people to the dock.
Having previously extracted information about the pirates, Su Lun imdiately recognized those few, disguised as rchants. Seeing the main characters, a murderous, chilling smile spilled from his eyes hidden beneath the clown mask...
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