Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 876

Studying how to summon gods was a completely new subject for Perfectot, which forced her to temporarily put aside the familiar fields and turn to a subject that was not completely opposite but was also unrelated.

This is somewhat challenging for her.

After all, before this, all her research on gods was full of blood - there was one and only one purpose, which was how to kill a god, or kill more gods.

Her laboratory displays a large number of remains of gods, all of which were hunted along the way.

The notebooks contained designs for various deadly weapons, many of which even Perfecto himself had no intention of putting into practice.

For Perfecto, killing a god is simple. All he has to do is pile up damage.

This simple, crude, yet extremely effective philosophy allowed her to go on the road of killing gods very smoothly.

After successfully building the first God-killing Armor, and using it as a basis to obtain the corpse of a god, Perfecto's research entered the fast lane.

Those precious experimental materials allowed her to have a deeper understanding of the nature of the gods, followed by the rapid iteration of the god-killing armor.

Today, Perfect can proudly say that her God-killing Armor is no less powerful than a lesser god in a one-on-one fight, so it is no problem for her to kill anyone.

This confidence is not groundless, but is based on countless actual combat tests.

After all, even for a lesser god, it is unlikely that he would have a set of divine weapons. Usually, it is already amazing to have one or two decent artifacts.

Perfect wasn't sure whether they were over-confident in their own strength, or whether there were too few craftsmen among the gods who could forge divine weapons, resulting in a low penetration rate of divine weapons as important weapons and equipment.

But Perfect is different. As the most powerful alchemist in the world and a powerful alchemist holding the Philosopher's Stone, she would be embarrassed to greet people if her God-killing armor didn't have artifact-level components and equipment.

The reason why it couldn’t be made before was because they didn’t know the method, but after obtaining a large number of divine samples and analyzing the manufacturing principles of divine artifacts, Perfectoct can even wholesale divine artifacts.

Taking Befa as an example, Perfecto analyzed the steam armor that was blessed by the God of War in Langton, and then created a new set of armor of the same level for this loyal assistant, which was a complete set of artifacts.

This set of equipment made Befa's combat power soar, transforming her from an ordinary alchemical puppet maid into one who could confront the lesser god head-on.

Not only that, Perfecto also created a set of artifact weapons including a full set of equipment including gunlances, chainswords, two-handed swords, shields, longbows, disposable arrows, etc.

The terrifying thing about these equipment is that they are not artifacts only when they are put together, but each piece is an artifact when taken out individually.

Even those disposable arrows that seemed to be consumables, each one contained enough power to kill a god, and was incredibly powerful.

It is also because of this that Perfecto is able to always maintain the upper hand in the battle with the gods.

Although Perfecto often felt that those gods were simply sending them away - after all, they kept coming to trouble her, just like they were lining up to die.

But Perfect knew very well that even if the other party offered it to him, he would have to be strong enough to "accept" this "gift".

Otherwise, this would not be a gift but a genuine and deadly attack.

And so far, there has not been any "gift" from the gods that she cannot digest.

Her laboratory is filled with the remains of a large number of gods' corpses, each of which represents a glorious battle record worthy of being recorded in history.

Although most of these trophies are lesser gods or servants of gods, the divinity flowing in them is genuine.

Their corpses are divine bodies containing enormous energy. Even just a drop of divine blood is priceless. If released to the outside world, it would be enough to trigger a bloody battle.

Perfect has always adhered to the principle of "making the best use of everything". The corpses of these gods were carefully decomposed and refined by her, and eventually became precious raw materials for manufacturing new types of god-killing armor.

However, it is worth mentioning that not all God-killing armors require top-level materials such as God Corpses. Perfect will flexibly adjust the equipment configuration according to the strength of the enemy.

Just like the two God-killing armors used in the battle against Sekhmet this time, they are new mass-produced models made of ordinary materials.

After all, the number of god corpses is limited, and there are too many places that the empire needs to defend. If it cannot be mass-produced and the cost cannot be reduced, the god-killing armor will not be able to protect humans.

Especially since Perfect didn't know why the gods' attack was only targeted at her, it was impossible for her to rely on luck and think that the gods would just follow her all the time.

That's why she uses ordinary materials to make mass-produced god-killing armors. She doesn't ask them to be very strong, but at least they can fight against lesser gods or gods' servants.

That is why they were damaged in the battle with the gods.

If the god-killing armor was made with the corpse of a god as the raw material, Sekhmet, who did not even have a real body but was only an incarnation summoned by the core of divinity, would have been killed as soon as they met.

But this has no reference value, after all, Perfecto has too many special god-killing armors that can kill gods.

Whether it is the new god-killing armor forged with pure divinity, or the Befa that has been improved and strengthened by her many times, they have long possessed the power to easily kill lesser gods.

This level of battle was just a routine for Perfecto, so much so that she was too lazy to record even the most basic combat data - after all, in her eyes, these lesser gods were nothing more than moving experimental materials.

As for the mechanism of summoning the gods through the divine core, Perfectcot is more inclined to regard it as a special spell phenomenon.

After analyzing the data, Perfectoct believes that the summoning process can be broken down into three clear stages of energy transformation.

The first is the activation stage, which stimulates the divine core through a specific energy frequency, causing the original divine energy sealed inside to change from an inert state to an active state.

This process can usually be achieved through the believers' continuous worship, and of course sacrifice is a more effective way.

The second is the transformation stage. These activated divine energies will spontaneously attract and assimilate the free power of faith in the surrounding environment. This also requires a large number of believers to worship continuously and provide a large amount of power of faith.

The last stage is the materialization stage. Under the constraints of a specific spell framework, these mixed energies will condense into a physical incarnation of the deity according to the characteristics of the divinity in the core.

This theory perfectly explains the composition principle of the Sekhmet statue - the huge statue is not the real body of the god, but a sophisticated energy structure.

Its huge body is supported and constrained by the power of faith, and its interior is driven by the divine core. This explains why Sekhmet is condensed from yellow sand and scattered into dust after being killed.

In order to verify this bold hypothesis, Perfect is methodically advancing multi-line parallel research plans.

On the experimental table in the Perfect Laboratory, three divine cores emitting different energy fluctuations were carefully placed in special restraint devices.

One of the ancient stone cores came from the remains of Sekhmet and still looked like a statue of the god.

The glowing core in the middle was the trophy of a lesser god killed in the old capital of France last time.

The most exquisite core on the far right is the most special - it is a test product made by Perfect himself, and its divinity comes from the spirits of ancestors worshipped by the indigenous people of the North for generations.

Through these three sets of controlled experiments, Perfecto attempted to answer a key question: Is there a way to activate divinity that does not rely on worship or bloody sacrifices?

Although in theory the simplest solution would be to have a living god cooperate with the experiment - after all, gods can fully control their own divinity - the reality is that Perfectcot's trophy storage room is filled with various god corpses, but there is not even a living sample.

"How ironic," Perfecto said to himself as he adjusted the monitoring equipment, "killing too many of them has become a hindrance to research."

In desperation, she could only rely on various testing schemes she invented to collect data. From energy resonance to rune stimulation, every possible method was systematically tried by her.

On the other side of the laboratory, the precious artifacts brought back from the distant desert tribes - ancient sacrificial bronze mirrors, prayer stone slabs engraved with mysterious symbols, and various peculiarly shaped ritual instruments - are carefully displayed on special display stands.

Perfecto deliberately separated these artifacts from other research materials and set aside a quiet study area.

She had already assembled a group of scholars who were proficient in ancient cuneiform and desert mysticism to form a special research team.

These scholars were placed in the documentation room next to the laboratory, where they worked day and night to conduct detailed analysis and interpretation of clay tablets and stone tablets rescued from temple ruins and desert tribes.

Under the dim light, their bloodshot eyes stared at the faded hieroglyphs. The rustling sound of writing and occasional arguments continued until late at night.

Through day-to-day control experiments and repeated verifications, the research team has accumulated a large amount of data.

The experimental record book is densely packed with professional data such as energy fluctuation frequency, divine activity curve, etc., and the walls are covered with drawings marked with various hypotheses.

As experimental data continued to accumulate, a bold and meticulous concept gradually emerged in Perfecto's keen mind. A summoning plan that combined modern alchemy and ancient rituals was gradually taking shape in the depths of her consciousness.

When it comes to the depth of research on divinity, Perfecto deserves it.

From her initial contact with the totem poles and ancestral spirits of the indigenous peoples of the North, she began to systematically study this special form of energy called divinity.

Those ancient runes carved on birch bark and those sacrificial songs sung around the campfire became the first key to her understanding the essence of divinity.

She had personally dissected three lesser gods, and her knowledge of divine organization far exceeded that of any contemporary scholar.

Based on these accumulations, she envisioned how to activate the divine core in the first step, and after a series of experiments that were either rigorous or imaginative, she has made a breakthrough.

From traditional ritual dance to modern electromagnetic stimulation, every method she tried was recorded in detail in her experimental log.

Eventually, she found a stable activation method that combined sound wave resonance with energy fields of a specific frequency.

However, the next challenge is much more difficult.

Perfect stared at the divine core suspended in the energy field with a frown on his face.

The biggest challenge in this step is: how to allow the divinity in the core to control its power autonomously and accurately harness the power of faith contained therein?
This is like teaching a baby to use complex alchemical instruments. You can imagine how difficult it is.

She tried dozens of ways to channel the power, but the divine power either ran wild or fell completely silent.

The most crucial step - how to let the divine core restrain the power of faith and shape an incarnation that can be used for combat like blowing a glass vessel - put Perfectot in a dilemma.

She looked at the seventh protective shield in the laboratory that was shattered by the out-of-control divine power and sighed rarely.

She had to admit that in this area, she needed to wait for scholars who were buried in ancient books to provide more clues.

Those scholars did not disappoint Perfecto.

After weeks of hard work, they finally restored an ancient ritual from the clay tablets, stone carvings and various ritual instruments they brought back.

This ritual can activate the divinity and give it a certain degree of autonomy, thereby controlling the power of faith and shaping a complete body based on the characteristics of the divinity.

When the scholars reported this discovery to Perfect, she showed a rare look of satisfaction.

However, although this ritual solved the core problem that Perfecto had to face, there was still an unsolvable obstacle - after the divinity was activated, it only had an instinctive reaction and was not controllable.

Simply put, the divine incarnation summoned in this way is nothing more than a runaway puppet, not a controllable weapon of war.

If the incarnation of divinity is just used as a disposable bomb, it might not be so bad.

But if we expect them to exert their due combat power, or use them as a weapon of war, they are not as good as the already established system of God-killing Armor, no matter in terms of killing efficiency, controllability or cost-effectiveness.

One assistant even bluntly pointed out that this was like using a dragon to plow the land - powerful but completely impractical.

But Perfect wasn't surprised or discouraged.

She calmly combined this ancient ritual with her own research findings and wrote down the new research direction in her experimental log.

After all, she possesses the magical artifact, the Emerald Jade Record. When she really can't find a solution, she can use the ultimate ability of "omniscience".

(End of this chapter)