After concocting the appropriate "clay," one only needed to use the shaping spell to mold the clay into the desired shape of the golem.
Next, through a magic ritual, the soul of the earth element would be reshaped, some of its own memories would be washed away, and new memories would be injected.
After dealing with the soul of the earth element, the soul crystal that imprisoned the soul of the earth element could be embedded into the golem's body.
Next, another magic ritual was needed to activate the soul of the earth element and let this special soul merge with the body of the clay golem. Finally, the clay golem would be activated.
After activation, the clay golem's form of existence was exactly the same as the earth element, but because of the special nature of clay, it had magic immunity, automatic recovery, immunity, and other characteristics that the earth element did not have.
Because of the special nature of "clay," the clay golem was not afraid of injury. As long as the injured part was not cut off and taken away, it could quickly recover. Even if it was beaten into a pile of mud, it could quickly recover. The clay golem had no vital points and was difficult to kill.
After the transformation, the soul of the earth element would firmly remember its master and be obedient to its master, instead of being rebellious like a real elemental creature.
The biggest shortcoming of the clay golem was that it could not directly absorb power from the elemental plane like an elemental creature. It had to devour earth elemental gems or charge it with the earth element pool in the mage tower to maintain its own activities.
In a narrow room, the clay golem was a good guard. It could use its own characteristics to entangle enemies stronger than it. In a mage tower with an earth element pool, the clay golem was also a good labor force.
However, for a magic laboratory without an elemental pool, the clay golem that needed to rely on eating magic gems to maintain its power was not cost-effective.
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Just as Feng Chou was engrossed in making runes and golems, an investigation team composed of Drow and the vampires arrived at a remote castle in the eastern part of Casablanca through a portal.
This majestic castle on a dangerous hillside belonged to an ancient viscount family named Clarence.
No one knew that this family was actually a vampire family.
After a short rest in the castle, the investigation team went to a small town in the western part of the Clarence territory. From there, they took a boat down the river and eventually arrived at a small town by the Orvendell River. From there, they could transfer to a passenger ship and go to Casablanca.
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After experimenting with the Magical Wood Construct and the Clay Golem, Feng Chou also had a deeper understanding of these two magical creations.
As a mage who owned a portable alchemy factory like Qiankun Pagoda, Feng Chou naturally did not view himself as a lone wolf who fought alone.
Making full use of Qiankun Pagoda's advantages and producing a large number of golems and constructs was the correct strategy.
After two trials, Feng Chou had basically confirmed his future main troop type.
The choice of construct was relatively simple. Above the magic wood construct, there were arcane copper construct and black steel construct.
Among these three types of constructs, the Magic Wood Construct could not exert the powerful magic energy provided by Spell Permanence because of its weak material. It could only use most of its magic energy to strengthen its magic ability. However, the core of this construct was only an intermediate soul. It could only withstand intermediate spells, and it was difficult for it to fully exert the magic energy provided by Spell Permanence.
Therefore, the challenge level of this construct was only 10.
The arcane copper construct solved the shortcomings of the Magic Wood construct very well.
The main body of this construct was made of an alloy with arcane copper as the main component. Its strength was far greater than that of Magic Wood. The strong material allowed this construct to withstand a stronger output of magic energy and produce more power.
The arcane copper construct had the strength of a Level-16 Warrior, but because of its weight, the speed of this construct was only at the level of a Level-13 Warrior. Its spellcasting ability was comparable to that of the Magic Wood construct. Overall, it had a challenge level of 13.
Unfortunately, this construct was too expensive. The price of arcane copper was about the same as the price of gold of the same weight. A medium-sized arcane copper golem weighed a ton. The cost of the basic materials alone was millions of kronor.
The black steel construct was a cheaper version of the arcane copper construct.
The price of black steel was only one-twentieth of arcane copper, but the magic conductivity of black steel was too poor. There was no alchemist who could complete the complicated and huge magic circuit of the construct under the interference of black steel's strong mental strength.
Therefore, the true black steel construct did not exist. The black steel construct that people often talked about was actually a construct with an arcane copper core and a black steel shell.
A runemaster would first create a thin arcane copper construct, then install a layer of black steel on the outside to strengthen and support it.
Finally, alchemy would be used to combine the two layers of metal into one, forming a sturdy and durable black steel construct.
Of these three constructs, Feng Chou would not choose the Magic Wood construct. It was too weak.
He also would not choose the arcane copper construct. It was too expensive.
However, he would not choose the one with a copper core or an iron shell either. It would not bring out his advantage.
What was Feng Chou's advantage?
Of course, it was Qiankun Pagoda.
If there was anyone in this world who could complete the complex magic circuit of a construct under the intense interference of black steel, then that person would be Feng Chou, who had Qiankun Pagoda's help!
That's right, Feng Chou wanted to choose the true black steel construct that was cheap and good in quality!
Moreover, Feng Chou did not intend to follow the traditional method to create the black steel construct.
He planned to weaken the magical abilities of the traditional construct, leaving only the two defensive spells of 'energy damage resistance' and 'energy damage protection'. These two spells would only lock onto acid and fire energy.
The mana saved by weakening the magical abilities would be fully channeled into the strength and agility of the construct.
According to Qiankun Pagoda's calculations, the strength of the black steel construct would exceed that of a level-18 warrior!
Its agility would be close to that of a level-15 warrior.
However, without the supplement of other abilities, the challenge level of the black steel construct that lacked magical abilities would not only not increase, but also decrease by quite a bit.
Feng Chou's supplement for the black steel construct was to equip it with a heavy rifle!
Qiankun Pagoda had specially designed a heavy rifle that weighed hundreds of kilograms and had the power of a level-6 cannon. If it was calculated in terms of the power of spells, its power would be equivalent to a level-5 spell. With the enchantment of the gun barrel, the power of the heavy rifle would eventually reach the level of a level-7 single-target spell.
With the heavy enchanted rifle, the challenge level of the true black steel construct would reach level-14, and the production cost would only be half of that of the copper core construct.
With Qiankun Pagoda's help, the first black steel construct was quickly completed.
After the upgrade, Qiankun Pagoda could complete the engraving and activation of most of the circuits on the construct. Only a small part of the design of high-level spells required Feng Chou's help to activate it with Qiankun Pagoda's help.