What's wrong with me, a mage, loving to farm?

Chapter 185. The Gem Rose, the Golem Factory

"..."

Could this be some kind of legendary prophetic spell? You're just restoring their physical bodies and you're using a prophetic spell?

He glanced at the angel who had already hidden himself, conveying the meaning with his eyes.

The latter, as always, acted like a statue, and when faced with questions that He didn't want to answer, this guy really knew how to play dumb.

Kroya didn't pay much attention to it.

He glanced down at the musical notes in his hand and incorporated them into the symphony.

Then wait for the victims to calm down.

These people didn't cry for long. After all, they had been through a lot, and they quickly calmed down after the brief moment of joy.

After they stopped crying, they looked at Chloe as if she were a god.

They didn't speak, but instead knelt down on one knee in unison before Kroya, placing their hands on their chests.

Everyone's gaze was intense, filled with an almost fanatical loyalty.

Under such intense gazes, Kroya's expression remained unchanged as she spoke, "Although I have healed your wounds, your magic power is no longer inexhaustible."

"Focus on restoring and adapting to your current strength. I'm waiting for you guys to help me handle things."

After saying that, he got up and left.

It wasn't that he didn't want to say anything more, but that gaze was just too intense, even he couldn't bear it—he even vaguely smelled the scent of faith.

We can't afford to mess with you. You should all calm down. How can a mage have faith?

……

He returned to his laboratory.

I glanced at the bottle containing the Void Moon Divine Tree, and some of the branches inside lit up again.

But this time it seemed like nothing was given; the sea just grew brighter and brighter, and the moon's hazy, dreamlike quality was long gone.

When it's truly lit up, this place will probably be called the Sea of ​​Light.

The magic power inside the Orpheus Swan Flute Tree is at least three times greater than before, not only replenishing what Kroya had consumed with the Emerald Bone Tree recently, but also significantly increasing its reserves.

"I wonder if the Ether Wolves can keep spewing magic like this. If they can... then what would I need magic veins for?"

He sat down casually, picked up his cup, and took a sip of the milk tea inside.

For some reason, he's become a bit obsessed with this sweet taste lately. Could it be that eating sugar really does have such a noticeable emotional effect?

But before they had even taken a few sips, good news began to arrive one after another—

"Sea iron ore has been discovered at the air coral ranch!"

"A fire demon vein has been discovered in the island's fire demon fields!"

"A magic crystal mine has been discovered over the volcanic area, containing Ether Magic Moss and Level 2 magic crystals."

Kroya listened to the news with a very calm expression, instructing the Taling Shark to record it on the map beside him.

The Tower Spirit Shark has been imprinted with various spells by him and is now gradually maturing. Various facilities and arrays in the laboratory are being activated for it.

It is estimated that in the near future, the King of Woody Teng will retire to a less demanding role.

One by one, points representing the areas where minerals were located lit up on the map. In the end, more than twenty new mineral deposits were discovered in the area where Hanjiao Island and the air coral base were located.

As for the other things like gem corals, suddenly erupting minerals, and surging demon fish... Kroya no longer cared, and simply had the shark tower spirit record them.

As the number of light spots continued to increase, he felt no joy; instead, his unease deepened, and his brow remained furrowed.

He looked at the map, his eyes reflecting the shimmering lights, and finally sighed deeply.

"Do you think these minerals came from somewhere legitimately? Could these divinely bestowed things have any effect on me?"

Perhaps happiness came too suddenly and too much, and Chloe felt a little uneasy, needing an angel to give her a definite answer.

The angel shook his head helplessly.

"Lucky friend, this sea area is incredibly vast, and the closer you get to the Void God, the more resources you will find."

"The merfolk won't care about these resources, and besides, have you forgotten that you can refine the Essence of Water?"

"Without your refined essence of the water element, they wouldn't have had the opportunity to summon the blessings of the moon and sea gods. You've already made a wish to the gods, so they certainly won't make things difficult for you."

He didn't think there was anything wrong with Chloe's caution.

It's always better to be cautious than to be greedy. Many people are tempted because of this kind of greed.

"That's true, the ocean is so vast, and I'm only a tiny little thing... What do you think this sea will eventually become?"

"I don't know, but my friend, you're probably going to be very busy."

"Huh? Why?"

"The merfolk certainly wouldn't only want that little bit of Water Essence."

"Too."

With the angel's reply, Kroya felt a little relieved. The other party probably still needed his help, so what did some mineral deposits matter?

He immediately began to think about how to use these mineral deposits.

The vast majority of what has been discovered so far are various magic crystals and metal ores, which he intends to use to make golems.

The most needed materials for making golems are various metals and gems—the former is the golem's body, and the latter can be used to draw the magic core and magic runes.

Golems and puppets are among the most powerful assistants of mages. It is said that some autonomous golems can still exist after thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

With puppets, a lot of human resources can be saved, whether it's farming or expansion, since there are some places that ordinary people really can't go to.

Most importantly, golems and dolls seem to be classified as magical beasts by the Astral Imprinting technique, meaning they can be imprinted with magic.

"Some commonly used golems..."

He placed the golem crafting blueprints he had bought in front of him, namely: power type, attack type, defense type, and utility type.

These are all the most basic types of golems.

The strength type is characterized by immense strength, primarily using basic materials like magic iron, combined with fixed power runes.

They are generally used as laborers in the mage tower to carry heavy objects.

Both the offensive and defensive types are humanoid, resembling the armor often displayed in noble homes, with tall, cold bodies wielding swords and shields.

Although these golems can only perform simple slashing and hacking movements, their bodies are made of a hard substance called magic steel, giving them a suppressive advantage against ordinary people and low-level warriors and knights.

As for the functional type, the book "Basic Golem Studies - How Novice Alchemists Create Golems (1)" sold to Kroya by the Holy Spring Merchant Guild only contains one type...

This is a farm golem that possesses basic intelligence and will water and fertilize the farmland on time.

Kroa decided to start building them one by one, beginning with the simplest power golem.

Of course, if he's going to build one or two, he can't just build them one or two at a time. He's aiming for a golem factory that can mass-produce golems.

This is a bit difficult; he needs to figure out a complete production line, from material processing to the assembly and shipping of the golem parts.

He had no prior experience with this kind of thing, so he had to start from scratch, one thing at a time. As the saying goes, the beginning is always the hardest.

So he began to review the diagrams and doodled as he went, intending to come up with a set of rules.

Just as he was reviewing the diagrams again, the angel was already drawing circles on the ground with his finger.

A platinum halo shimmered within the circle.

A very peculiar small tree, about half a person's height, appeared inside. Its leaves were bright and shiny, like gemstones of various colors.

It shines brightly under the laboratory lights.

"Um?"

Kroya was immediately drawn to it and asked curiously, "Gem Rose... what is this?"

He habitually used the Astral Spirit Imprint Technique to examine it, and found that the tree contained extremely complex magical runes. Although it looked like a tree, it was actually similar to the Void Moon Divine Tree, both being sophisticated magical artifacts.

"It was also made by the Titans."

"Try placing the gem at its base."

The angel didn't explicitly state its purpose, so Kroya picked up a few gems from the side and placed them at the base of the gem rose.

The moment those aquamarine stones came into contact with the roots of the gem rose, they immediately lost their luster and turned into grayish-white dust.

In contrast, the gem rose has a raspberry-like gem growing on its stem at a visible speed. It is no more than the size of a thumb and its color is exactly the same as aquamarine.

Logically, this should have been a process of refining gemstones, but after the gemstone raspberry grew, Kroya's eyes widened in surprise.

Because... there was actually some consciousness emanating from that gem raspberry, although it was very faint, it still showed that it had life and spirit.

Kroya immediately picked up a few more sparkling Best Diamonds and placed them at the base of the tree, staring at them intently.

Just like before, the diamonds were absorbed by the roots of the gem rose and gradually turned into dust.

Its power traveled upwards along the magical patterns within the tree, finally stopping on a branch where a diamond raspberry slowly grew.

During this process, Kroya discovered that the consciousness and spirituality within the tree were flowing towards the Diamond Raspberry, essentially using her own spirituality as nourishment to create the Diamond Raspberry's spirituality.

This is truly something I've never seen before.

As far as he knew, it was extremely difficult for a magical plant to develop a high level of spirituality similar to that of a human.

Even the elves, who are most skilled at cultivating magical plants, dare not say that they can cultivate magical plants with spirituality with 100% success rate.

So this thing can actually pass on its spirituality to its offspring? Won't it become stupid itself? What kind of power does it use to accomplish this?

"It is a magical plant created by the Titans and the Goddess of Life together, capable of transferring its spirituality to the fruit it produces."

"My friend, these fruits can serve as the core for installing and creating golems. They are spiritual cores that will create very magical golems."

After explaining Kroa's doubts, He flew straight to the side, saying, "I need to go and rest. Please be careful."

As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared into the doorway.

Kroa glanced in the direction He had left, then looked away and began to study the peculiar gem rose.

……

After a brief study, he figured out how to use it. The only thing he was puzzled about was how its endless spiritual energy came about.

This is something he doesn't understand yet. It might be related to the complex magical runes within its body, but he doesn't know exactly what kind of magical runes or what combination of runes could produce it...

It's understandable that Titan couldn't come up with a solution, given that it was made by Titan.

He had to temporarily abandon his research and planned to inscribe magic into the growing gem raspberries.

This thing possesses the most basic and somewhat immature spirituality, like a pure blank sheet of paper; with a little communication, you can make it obey.

It doesn't even require the assistance of mental magic.

The first thing he imprinted was the core rune of the Power Golem, which is the same as the central chip of a robot.

However, in such a magical world, there are no problems with materials science, not to mention that the raspberries that grow from the gem rose are a natural carrier.

After he inscribed the knowledge of canning and the core magic runes representing the chip, a prompt appeared—

[Engraving complete, Diamond Raspberry (Canned Knowledge - Holy Spring Type Mass Production Power Golem Fool-C)]

This magical plant fruit can serve as the core magical rune for a power golem.

This demonic plant fruit possesses basic spirituality and will have a certain impact on the golem.

"Success! Muyao, give these blueprints to the apprentices and have them build it on the seabed."

After handing a blueprint to King Muyao, Kroya got up and went to the bottom of the lake, where he found the Kaba Beasts, whose clan was growing stronger.

After a period of breeding and multiplication, with plenty of food every day and no natural enemies threatening them, the Kabamon have long since bred a bunch of baby Kabamon.

The lake bottom is already barely able to hold these two hundred-plus Kaba Beasts.

These Kaba Beasts were the second creatures he imprinted after obtaining the cheat code, and Kroya actually had a lot of affection for them.

The magic imprinted on them are: Magic Forging, Magic Bag, and Elemental Steel Fang.

Previously, Kroya didn't have much need for purified ores; at most, they would make some armor and weapons. But now, they need to make golems, which requires a huge amount of purified magic materials.

So this is when the Kabamon come in handy.

In the creation of the golem, in addition to imprinting magic patterns on the various parts, the most important thing is the fusion of magic power.

Because what Kroa intended to do was not to teach each apprentice to create a complete golem, but to teach them a single rune in an assembly line manner.

If they have a desire and interest in continuing to study golems, then teach them more; if not, then serve as free labor.

This raises a very serious problem: their magical properties can vary subtly for various reasons. Combining them could disrupt the flow of magical energy in the golem.

After all, this is different from those handmade parts; it involves magic.

In this situation, a powerful source of magic is needed to absorb and assimilate these different magical energies, and the best source is the material of the golem itself.

Extending this further, it relates to the magic of refining materials.

"You must absorb these powers, store them in your stomachs, and then learn this knowledge..."

He presented some liquefied ethereal magic to the Kabamon, then selected fifty of them and imprinted them with canned knowledge.

This time, the knowledge in the can is about refining Sea Demon Iron. Sea Demon Iron is the most common type of magic iron produced at the bottom of the sea, and it naturally contains some water-attribute magic power.

Therefore, when refining, you need to be careful to avoid these water-attribute magics, which requires some skill.

It wasn't that he didn't want to imprint more precious refining techniques on the Kaba Beasts, but... these guys were just too Zen-like.

Even this imprint was something they could barely learn; anything more complex would probably be beyond the comprehension of the Kabamon's intelligence.

Fortunately, the engraving was successfully completed. He then fed the fifty Kaba beasts a sufficient amount of etheric magic before leading them to the seabed.

……

When he arrived at the seabed, the apprentices were already busy working according to the blueprints he had just given them—this seabed was originally the factory area prepared by Kroya, and the materials had naturally been prepared in advance.

Otherwise, if we suddenly can't contact the Shengquan Chamber of Commerce, it might really be a bit of a problem.

He watched as his apprentices worked together, using white clay to build the factory, and made a mental estimate.

Using mages and knights as laborers, it should only take three or four hours to complete the construction.

It's quite fast.

He thought for a moment and then let the Kabamon go play by themselves.

Since it would take some time to complete anyway, he planned to see what news the Pit Lord and the Gray Sand Lord had sent.

After taking out the Holy Spring Crystal Card, he answered the call, and a voice came through—it was the voice of the Gray Sand Lord.

The other person didn't seem too nervous or rushed; their voice remained calm, even carrying a hint of a smile, as if chatting with an old friend.

The Lord of the Grey Sands told Kroa that he was working to transform the Grey Desert into an oasis with a stable water supply, which might attract the attention of the Church and the Mage Guild.

Kroya found this rather strange.

Although I had some exchanges with the Gray Sand Lord, and he was even recommended by him and the Flame Mountain Lord to join the alliance, it seems that we haven't had any deeper exchanges since.

Logically speaking, the Lord of Gray Sand shouldn't be using such a familiar tone as if speaking to an old friend.

"That's strange..."

He muttered to himself that he would choose to continue listening.

The more he listened, the stranger and more confused he became.

This Gray Sand Lord... he asked Kroya to buy a large quantity of grain.

The quantity must be sufficient to supply the daily needs of his more than 100,000 subjects in his territory before his plan is completed.

As for the price of the transaction, it is ownership of a portion of the transformed Grey Desert.

In this message, he declared his intention to break away from the Mage Guild and the Kingdom of Norland, and to make the Gray Desert independent. He sincerely invited Kroya to join him.

Kroya's expression grew increasingly strange. By the time she finished listening to the message, her brows were completely furrowed, and she was utterly at a loss for words.

What level mage are you? Do you really dare to do something like this?

The prerequisite for establishing a neutral state is to have the support of an absolutely powerful force; otherwise, why would you maintain neutrality?

"This is insane." He shook his head and chose to open the Pit Lord's message.

The Pit Lord's message was even more significant—

"I helped the Sands steal the magic of Leviathan. The magic authority of Leviathan contains death, which is enough to unleash the power of Cerberus within the Sands."

"He will become a level ten chosen one of the gods."

"But you must be careful, and never agree to any of his requests. He might not be the same Ash Sand he used to be!"

After hearing the message from the Pit Lord, Kroya was at a loss for words.

Is it possible that the time flow on your own Hanjiao Island is incorrect, and hundreds of years have actually passed outside? Otherwise, how could you possibly pull off such a massive operation?

Kroya felt fortunate to be trapped here; otherwise, getting involved in this kind of thing would have been quite troublesome.

He put away the Holy Spring Crystal Card, pretending not to have heard, and decided to deal with his own affairs first.

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