Chapter 551: Chapter 15 Transformation Surgery
Returning to the library, this ti Richard stayed for three months.
Three months of relentless, sleepless effort allowed Richard to review the entirety of the library’s content. Most of the outdated and useless information was deliberately forgotten by him, but the parts he found useful were all morized.
Simply finishing the reading was just the beginning; Richard imdiately embarked on the process of assimilation and absorption.
Of course, during this process, Richard was not oblivious to the outside world. Ulysses regularly compiled the Church’s developnts into docunts for him.
After discovering that two companions had gone missing, the Protector Knights squad imdiately began searching the East District. The Miracle Sect naturally ca under their scrutiny, and Richard’s solution was to kill them all and then disguise the act as being perpetrated by soone from the Royal Court Faction.
In front of Ulysses, the World Master, these Protector Knights, who were at most Third Level, had no capability to resist.
The scene of the battle was left to Ulysses’s manipulation.
Under Tai’er’s technical guidance, the scene of the Protector Knights’ deaths was cleverly disguised as the work of a Red Cardinal’s trusted aide. Consequently, the head of the Protective Knights gravitated from leaning toward the Royal Court Faction to remaining neutral.
After resolving the issue with the Protector Knights squad, the internal conflicts within the Master of All Machines Church intensified once more. However, without the head of the Knights favoring any side, the power of the Royal Court Faction remained suppressed by the Church Faction, which ant that the regional lord in Bruno City continued to be a man of the Church Faction, more precisely, one of Tai’er’s people.
This naturally facilitated the rapid expansion of the Miracle Sect.
Accelerated intentionally by Ulysses, the Miracle Sect spread among the junior workforce like a plague. Within just half a year, all workers in Bruno City had beco followers of the Miracle Sect.
During this process, Ulysses selected many goblins for promotion to Priests and taught them so basic Divine Arts, such as the Water Purification Technique and the Plague Exorcism Skill. Ben, who had initially spread the faith, was promoted to Pope and began studying the doctrines and practicing Martial Arts.
A religion inevitably cos with its doctrines, the ideology it propagates. As Pope, Ben had to be knowledgeable and adhere to the thoughts of the Miracle Sect.
The doctrine of the Miracle Sect can be sumd up in two sentences: Believe that a miracle will eventually happen and, in the anti, persevere relentlessly. They believe that on the day the world ends, the Divine will save their souls.
This doctrine differs from the one Richard knew in the Wizard World, tailored specifically for the goblins. Its main purpose was to coincide with the transformation surgeries that Richard planned to carry out next.
The bloodline of the Wild Beastn could allow the transford goblins to communicate with the Power of Mystery and to manipulate reality to a certain extent. This ant that if these goblins devoutly adhered to the doctrine, their strength would inevitably be augnted.
For the Miracle Sect, this was unquestionably a very beneficial developnt.
It took Richard about half a year to summarize and digest the knowledge, during which ti he was able to forget most of the less useful information, thus simplifying the design of the surgeries.
At the end of the day, retrieving information also took ti.
After assimilating the knowledge accumulated over the years by the Master of All Machines Church, Richard had a clear idea for the transformation surgeries.
The integration of the Wild Beastn’s bloodline was essential, as the goblin’s race was sowhat frail. Although Richard greatly detested deterministic views based on innate talents, it was undeniable that different races’ bloodlines indeed have varying proficiencies in combat.
Giant Dragons are naturally stronger in combat than goblins.
Building on bloodline transformation, Richard planned to supplent with limb prosthetics, thus enhancing combat capabilities while reducing the costs of the surgeries.
Ben was the only one, and likely would remain the only one.
Richard did not have enough ti to cultivate assistive organs for every goblin or to custom-design a heart for them.
For prosthetics, Richard required them to be multifunctional, aning they retained the attributes of an arm but also had additional slots for upgrades.
Besides that, Richard also designed a set of Alchemy Power Armor. This armor contained only a small amount of Wizard Technology internally; most of its parts could be produced by the goblins themselves.
The impact of this Power Armor served two purposes: it enhanced the strength and agility of the goblins allowing them to wield heavier weapons and it increased their defense to ensure that their frail bodies weren’t injured by ordinary goblin weapons like steam-powered nail guns.
Additionally, this layer of Power Armor would have a certain level of psychological suggestion.
Although the steel defenses were weak, wearing it could inspire confidence. Since they could harness the Power of Mystery and manipulate reality to so extent, the actual defensive capability of this Power Armor would far exceed its physical properties.
Moreover, the transplantation of auxiliary organs was indispensable. Increased strength, accelerated reactions, enhanced bones… Once the entire transformation surgery was finalized, Richard began to standardize the procedure.
He could not possibly perform the transformation surgery on all goblins by himself, so training a group of technicians proficient in transformation surgery was essential.
All this preparation took another two months for Richard.
However, it was relatively quick. Transforming bodies was a ticulous task, and without Tai’er’s data, it would have taken him at least ten years to research this surgery, and even then, it might not have reached its current level of readiness.
With the procedure in hand, Richard returned to the Secret Realm.
Inside the Secret Realm, the Fire Lizard Craftsn had already completed the machines for making Alchemy Power Armor parts while he was standardizing the surgical procedure.
“Master, the machines have been manufactured,” Calion respectfully said.
Richard nodded slightly, “Good, prepare for production.”
Calion paused, then added, “Master, we are running low on materials.”
“Materials not enough?” Richard was startled, “How could there not be enough materials? Have all the materials I moved from Wuxiang Valley been used up? That shouldn’t be.”
Calion smiled awkwardly and explained, “My lord, the materials you brought back definitely haven’t been used up. Even if we were wasteful, we couldn’t possibly have used up so much material.
But just because they haven’t been used up doesn’t an they can be used for production. The alloy required by this machine, those materials you brought don’t include it.”
“Hmm?” Richard beca even more puzzled, “Didn’t I specify Third-Level Alloy in the materials? You can buy a kilogram of it with just one Magic Stone, how could it be missing?”
Calion explained, “It’s precisely because it’s too common that we’ve run out of it. My lord, none of the materials you brought back are of low quality, so how could there be such inferior materials among them?”
Only then did Richard realize that he now had an abundance of advanced materials, but lacked the lower-grade ones.
But thinking about it, it made sense. When he stockpiled materials, he always thought of acquiring the good ones. After all, he had the Wizard World as his support back then. He could buy loads of cost-effective materials with just so Demon Crystals, so naturally, low-grade materials never caught his eye.
Now, without the support of the Wizard World, detached from the Wizard Civilization system, so things that used to be common suddenly revealed their frighteningly hidden potential.
Many things weren’t inherently cheap, but because he was a wizard, they were cheap.
“This is indeed a problem,” Richard said sowhat vexedly, “Let’s manually produce a few prototypes for now. We can substitute with higher-grade materials.”
“Yes, my lord.”
Using divine connections, Richard summoned Ulysses back to the Secret Realm.
“Ga, have your items been sorted out?” Ulysses asked as soon as he saw Richard.
Richard nodded slightly, “It’s done. Gather those people I ntioned; I want to pick a few to make prototypes. Also, arrange for the Church to see if we can recruit a few factory owners or the like among the Goblins. We’re not short on advanced materials now; we lack the lower grade ones.”
“Recruiting factory owners?” Ulysses paused, “There might be so problems with that. Our main parishioners are lower-class workers and most chanics, recruiting these factory owners might create divisions.
Moreover, these factory owners themselves are difficult to convert into believers.”
“Then replace a few of the factory owners,” Richard said nonchalantly, “Find a few reliable church followers to undergo a makeover, then have them replace those factory owners.”
Ulysses’s eyes brightened, “Ga, that’s a good idea. The rich of this world don’t have divine protection; just replace them directly. I’ll arrange it right away.”
…
Under Ulysses’s summoning, six exceptionally sturdy Goblins were soon selected to be the first batch of transford Goblins.
All of these Goblins were workers who had undergone several physical examinations in the past but were ignored by the Master of All Machines Church as unfit.
Looking at the six sturdy Goblins, robust as Dwarfs, Richard nodded slightly.
“You are very impressive, it’s hard to imagine that the Master of All Machines Church overlooked you; they’re truly blind.”
The Goblins stood stiffly, although Richard’s praise delighted them, the tension of eting the Prophet kept them rigid.
This was the Prophet, the embodint of God walking on earth.
“Don’t be so nervous,” Richard said with a smile, “You’re going to take a nap, and when you wake up, the divine transformation will be complete.”
With that, Richard snapped his fingers. Spores of the World Mushroom erged from the ground, injecting anesthetic into the six Goblins’ bodies. In no more than a breath’s ti, all six Goblins had fallen into a deep sleep.
Richard waved Ansen over.
“Watch closely, learn well, and teach it to the technical priests below you afterward.”
“Yes, Master Sage.”
The transformation surgery lasted a month, with the cultivation of auxiliary organs consuming most of the ti. The manufacture of prosthetic limbs, seemingly the most complex to bystanders, was actually the easiest step in the transformation.
The expert craftsmanship of the Fire Lizard Craftsn was sufficient to handcraft the most intricate chanical limbs within the transford Goblins.
After the transformation was complete, Richard woke up the Goblins. The Goblins moved their unfamiliar bodies and looked at each other in confusion.
The transformation had removed their left arms, replacing them with chanical limbs. They were taller than before, with one even reaching one ter seventy, a giant among Goblins.
Power surged through their bodies, leaving no doubt they could punch through a steel plate.
“This is Divine Grace?”
The bodies of the excited Goblins trembled, their hearts filled with imnse honor. Now, even if they were to face a steam cannon’s barrage, they would charge forward undaunted.
“My lord, how should the Church address these people?” Osiris, standing beside Richard, looked at the transford Goblins loudly praising the Divine and suddenly asked.
The address…” Richard thought for a mont, then replied, “Call them Cultivators. Since all the priests will be transford, just directly call them Cultivators.”
Ansen nodded and noted down the na Miracle Monks in the Holy Word Record.
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