A Bone Demon Statue needed hundreds of thousands of bones, tens of thousands of muscle fibers, and thousands of nerves. A mage had to process, refine, and nurture them one by one. It was really too troublesome.
Therefore, even though the cost of a Bone Demon Statue was not much different from a Flesh Demon Statue, its price was several times higher.
However, this was not a problem for Feng Chou. Feng Chou only needed to process a few of the bones, muscles, and nerves to collect data, and the rest could be left to Qiankun Pagoda. After all, Qiankun Pagoda was now equivalent to a level-10 mage with unlimited spell slots, and could create thousands of clones. It was more than enough for him to process the parts of a Bone Demon Statue.
Even the final surgery of the Bone Demon Statue could be left to Qiankun Pagoda to complete.
There was only one thing that Feng Chou could not do without, and that was to perform a magical ritual to fuse the Bone Demon Statue that had been stitched together into a stable whole.
As this was a high-level magical ritual, Qiankun Pagoda was still unable to perform it.
The tedious process of creating a Bone Demon Statue was all about the body. Once the body was completed, the injection of souls and the activation of the Bone Demon Statue was no different from that of a Flesh Demon Statue.
Therefore, to Feng Chou, creating a complicated Bone Demon Statue was actually no different from creating the simplest Flesh Demon Statue.
No matter how he looked at it, creating a Bone Demon Statue was Feng Chou's best choice.
In fact, when Feng Chou had made the deal with the Devil Viscount Morpheus, he had already thought that he would only be able to choose the Bone Demon Statue in the end. However, unless it was absolutely necessary, Feng Chou really did not want to become a freak who relied on corpses.
When he had made the deal with Morpheus, Feng Chou had purchased the corpses of many intermediate and high-level demons. These things were very abundant in the Blood Battlefield, and were not worth much at all. Morpheus had given them to Feng Chou as a gift.
Demon corpses could also be used to make Bone Demon Statues, but the processing method was somewhat different.
After completing the production of the first Skeletal Golem, Feng Chou teleported to a few cities in Alvendell. Using the method of selling a few special alchemy materials in a low-key manner, he purchased enough materials and returned to his laboratory. He immediately began mass production of Skeletal Golems and Black Steel Golems.
Most of the trivial work could be handed over to Qiankun Pagoda for mass production. Feng Chou only needed to be responsible for a few parts that involved high-level spells, namely Magic Permanence and a few magic rituals.
While making the two runes, Feng Chou also took the time to make some large engineering constructs and sell them in exchange for funds.
When Feng Chou was developing New Amborite, the large mechanical constructs used by the company he hired were the large mechanical constructs.
Compared to combat mechanical constructs, engineering constructs could be simplified in many ways. For example, the outer shell of engineering constructs could be made of lower strength stainless steel, and there was no need for enchantments to increase defence.
Because engineering constructs did not require powerful reaction and explosive power, their internal magic circuits were also much simpler than combat mechanical constructs, and their arcane copper cores could be made thinner. At the same time, because of the lower requirements for reaction and explosive power, the requirements for soul control in engineering constructs were also much lower. A grade-5 soul was enough for the job. The lower requirements for souls naturally led to lower requirements for soul rituals. The volume of soul crystals required and the circuits related to soul control were much smaller.
With these reductions, the cost of engineering constructs was less than 30% of combat mechanical constructs. A Black Steel combat mechanical construct cost about 600,000 crowns, while an engineering construct cost less than 200,000 crowns.
However, due to market reasons, engineering constructs were far less profitable than combat mechanical constructs.
A Black Steel combat mechanical construct could be sold for a high price of two million crowns, more than three times the profit. On the other hand, an engineering construct could only be sold for 400,000 crowns.
This was because the sale and purchase of combat mechanical constructs were restricted by the government, churches, and mage organisations. Only nobles with territories could buy combat mechanical constructs of the corresponding grade. For example, a Baron like Feng Chou could only buy the lowest grade of magical wood constructs, and there was also a limit to how many he could buy.
In terms of sales, only registered runemasters within the Magic Union were qualified to sell battle constructs. This led to the trading of battle constructs being similar to the arms trade on Earth. Although it was lucrative, it wasn't something that just anyone could play with.
Engineering constructs, on the other hand, did not have so many restrictions, and could be bought and sold freely in the alchemy market.
Although the profits of engineering constructs were low, Feng Chou could reduce part of the cost with Qiankun Pagoda's help, keeping the cost of engineering constructs below 150,000 crowns. Secondly, with Qiankun Pagoda's help, he could produce engineering constructs much faster than ordinary alchemy factories, so the profits were relatively considerable.
Ordinary alchemy factories, even with many mages working together, would take half a month to produce an engineering construct. Qiankun Pagoda, on the other hand, could shorten this process to a day!
Feng Chou was producing Black Steel mechanical constructs and skeletal golems, while also producing copper-core Black Steel mechanical constructs to sell for money.
This way, as Feng Chou's production of Qiankun Pagoda increased, not only did his money bag not decrease, but it actually increased by quite a bit.
With Qiankun Pagoda helping him with the most tedious tasks, Feng Chou's speed in producing runes and golems was astonishing. He didn't even need a day to produce a golem or construct.
In just over two months, Feng Chou had accumulated twenty mechanical constructs and golems in his hands.
The funds in his hands had also increased to tens of millions of crowns through the normal sales of engineering constructs, as well as the secret sales of Black Steel mechanical constructs to the black market.
However, Feng Chou had taken the initiative to end this virtuous cycle.
There were many reasons why it had ended. On one hand, the frequent high-ranked magic rituals had left Feng Chou very tired.
On the other hand, he had been frequently visiting the black market and selling combat mechanical constructs, which seemed to have attracted the attention of certain organisations.
Of course, more importantly, Feng Chou had received some bad news.
Some time ago, apart from researching mechanical constructs, Feng Chou had used the new abilities of Qiankun Pagoda after its upgrade to design and produce a few simulated birds with magical abilities.
Apart from being able to send and receive electronic signals, these simulated birds could also cast short message spells.
Feng Chou intended to use these simulated birds as a transit station for the scouting birds. When the scouting birds approached to investigate, these simulated birds would receive them in the air, and the scouting birds would transmit the information they obtained back to the transit birds in the air. The specialized birds would then use short message spells to transmit the received information back to the Qiankun Pagoda from a distant place.
This way, he could send the scouting birds thousands of miles away to investigate and monitor, avoiding the communication range of the scouting birds that were greatly limited by the lack of communication satellites.
Of course, this method also had a lot of limitations. Firstly, short message spells could only transmit words, and not images or video signals. Secondly, it required the specialized birds to have higher intelligence to analyze and summarize the situation investigated by the scouting birds.
It was precisely because of these two limitations that Feng Chou couldn't create such a specialized station even if he had thought of it before.
This was because before Qiankun Pagoda's upgrade, it was simply impossible to create a smart chip with such high intelligence.