Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 464 The Experiment of a Second-Ring Alchemist!
Ten Void Warships descended upon the town at the forefront of Kalimra and circled toward the town's airship docking point. These ten Void Warships, specially made by Yunze Cup, were shaped like a metal crescent moon and flew in the sky like a semi-circular wheel crescent.

But then a massive Gundam suddenly descended from the sky, gliding across the surface of the void warship where Locke was located using two rows of densely packed pulleys on its feet. Wielding a fully automatic machine gun adapted to its hundred-meter-tall size, it rapidly began to attack the void warship where Locke was located.

However, when these bullets landed on the void warship's surface kinetic energy nullification shield, they were completely rendered ineffective, as if punches were hitting cotton. Upon contact with the kinetic energy nullification shield, the kinetic weapons immediately experienced immense energy loss, thus halting their inertia and falling helplessly to the ground.

Nevertheless, the giants still landed on the surface of the void warship, gliding and dodging the energy magic of the Emanation School that the golems were firing at them.

Locke saw a Gundam being hit by a golem's light magic. The Gundam, which should have had half of its body destroyed by the first-circle magic [Light Energy Shock], was completely unharmed. The electronic lens on its head kept flashing, releasing the cold malice unique to the machine.

Inside the void warship, the other breeders hadn't noticed anything yet, but Locke was taken aback. "Hmm? A permanent defensive force field?"

Montgomery looked at Locke curiously and asked, "Boss, what's this permanent defensive force field?"

Locke pointed to the outside of the Void Battleship, where Gundams were using the surface of the Void Battleship as an ice rink, gliding rapidly and firing their machine guns as they went.

"Those Mekani are the most standard basic Mekani, and they are holding alchemists-upgraded [Metal Vibration Energy Harvesting and Launching Devices]. These devices can absorb the vibrational kinetic energy of each shot and use this energy to accelerate the next shot. Therefore, this weapon becomes more powerful and faster as the firing time increases."

"After ten minutes of continuous firing, a terrifying, interwoven network of firepower will be formed, capable of tearing apart even the defensive magic cast by a first-class wizard apprentice."

"It is also called the S3 machine gun by the wizards of Yunze Wetland. It adopts the weapon naming method commonly used by the mechanical civilization that was the predecessor of the Mekanis."

"But there's a problem. These basic Mekanis shouldn't be completely unharmed after being hit by the first-circle spell [Light Energy Shock], unless they possess a permanent defensive force field."

Barbara exclaimed in surprise. "A permanent defensive field? Only wizards can possess a permanent defensive field. Even the highest-level golems cannot have a permanent defensive field without a wizard pilot. This is a conclusion reached by those alchemists after countless verifications."

Locke's eyes flickered. "That's right, alchemists have indeed come to this conclusion: in golem science, golems cannot possess a permanent defensive field on their own; this is an ironclad rule."

"But don't forget, this ironclad rule is also something countless alchemists have tried to break."

The expressions of everyone inside the pressurization chamber changed drastically.

Montgomery gazed at the battle outside the window and muttered to himself, "So, those mad alchemists simply used these Mecanians as experiments to help them break through the current limitations of golemology."

"In order to make use of waste, we breeders are also invited to participate in the competition to improve the breeding level of Yunze Wetland. In addition, the competition will be commercialized, and we can even make money from it."

Montgomery said somewhat speechlessly, "How come this person behind the scenes gets all the benefits?"

"But to do all this, the person behind it must be a wizard with an extremely high level of magic."

Locke carefully observed the basic Mekani people and said, "These Mekani people do not have a permanent defensive force field, or even a magical pressure. To have a permanent defensive force field, one must first have a magical pressure structure, that is, become a life form at the level of a first-class wizard apprentice, and there is also a prerequisite, that is, to have a soul."

"This is indeed a research direction with high complexity and interdisciplinary nature. No wonder it has been able to hold alchemists back for so many years."

“Those Mekani aren’t using a permanent defensive force field, but rather a kind of quasi-permanent defensive force field.” Locke took out relevant information about the Cloud Ze Cup from his Astral Ring. “Look, that Mekani has many small robots on him, these small mechanical sub-units are all over his body.” “And they are in a state of movable parts, forming different components as the Mekani wants to move, want to attack, or perform different actions.”

"When it wants to jump, the sub-component robots on its surface will move rapidly along a track on its body surface and run to its legs to form an electromagnetic rocket thruster commonly used in technological civilizations. When it wants to attack, the sub-component robots on its surface will move rapidly and assemble weapons such as S3 machine guns on its arms."

"When magic hits its body, it can withstand the attack by sacrificing the layer of its sub-component robots on the surface of its body, thus losing a portion of its sub-component robots."

Those present, following Locke's words, carefully observed the Mekanis outside.

Many wizards don't even have the ability to understand it.

Montgomery was the first to react. "So that's how they simulate a permanent defensive field. The alchemist group behind the Mecanians must also believe that completely imitating a wizard's permanent defensive field is impossible and a waste of time."

"Therefore, they use these sub-component robots to simulate a permanent defensive force field. Essentially, this idea is to sacrifice a part of the body in exchange for the safety of the whole body."

Montgomery pondered, "I'm afraid a Mecanian is itself composed of countless standard sub-components of small robots."

Montgomery thought for a moment. “Wait a minute… Our human body is also made up of countless cells. Those Mecanians must have been created by alchemists by imitating the structure of the human body. Those sub-component robots are like enlarged versions of human cells.”

Locke nodded. "Exactly."

The wizards aboard the void warship were all astonished by the work and ideas of the alchemists behind the Mekanians.

The other party is seriously trying to construct a real racial life through golem studies.

The other party was also seriously considering how to simulate the permanent defensive force field unique to a first-ring wizard using golem techniques.

According to the information, all of this was accomplished by the second-circle alchemist, the wizard Raymond Griffin.

Locke once saw two second-ring wizards in the southeastern corner of the region unleashing tremendous magic in the sky. Their magical pressure reminded all the first-ring wizards of their vulnerability as infants.

At that time, what I witnessed was the immense power of the second-ring wizards using great magic.

But now, what I am witnessing is the wisdom of a second-ring wizard.

Creating races of creatures that closely resemble natural life, simulating the permanent defensive force field of a first-ring wizard—each of these research projects represents a high-quality research topic that is impossible to find in the Southeast Corner Region and the Six Towers Land, and is something that only second-ring wizards dare to consider.

Locke's longing for second-circle wizards grew even stronger.

Locke said, "In the last Yunze Cup, there was no similar structure. It should be that the Mekanis were also evolving automatically in the Yunze Cup. The entire Yunze Cup is very likely an experimental site for that second-ring alchemist, and those Mekanis are still evolving."

(End of this chapter)