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

Chapter 188. Pets and Swords, Underwater Tracks

The so-called "living weapon" is actually a golem made by grinding gem raspberry fruit into powder and mixing it into magic alloy.

Although the fruit of the gem raspberry looks like a "fruit", it is more like a peculiar substance that retains its activity even after being ground into dust.

In this respect, it is very similar to the firefly, both of which can still possess their own spirituality and consciousness after changing their form.

After Kroya inadvertently realized this, he immediately felt that his action of using the entire fruit as the core was a bit foolish.

The best way to use this thing is to grind it into dust and use the dust as a magical material to draw and arrange magical patterns inside the golem.

In this way, the entire golem will be filled with the spirituality of the raspberry, and it's possible that not only the core, but the golem itself will possess intelligence.

He felt that this should be the true application of this gem raspberry, after all, it is a magical plant from Ark Garden, it can't be that it only has such a small effect, right?

However, after trying, Kroa discovered that if he wanted to use gem raspberry fruit as the material to draw all the magic patterns inside the entire golem, the amount of gems consumed would be astronomical.

It is estimated that several tons of gems are needed to create the runes on a single golem, and this number can double depending on the golem's complexity.

This doesn't even take into account the success rate of production; if we factor in losses...

When Shark Tower Spirit presented that number to Kroa, he promptly abandoned the project of creating the large golem.

After a brief consideration, he gave up and chose another method—a small golem.

Since I can't do the large-scale ones, I can't just do the small ones, and he's made some progress in that area anyway—

Clockwork Golem.

The watch golem given to us by the Holy Spring Merchant Guild is almost as intelligent as a human, and its internal structure and construction are incredibly complex.

His research on the Clockwork Golem was ongoing, and the Holy Spring Merchant Guild actually had very strict confidentiality measures in place regarding its own golems.

If you try to dismantle the Clockwork Golem, then what awaits Kroa is probably the golem exploding.

The unstable magical energy inside this thing is far more terrifying than any nuclear bomb or atomic bomb.

However, all these defensive measures are useless against Kroa, who can directly see the celestial spirits.

If he can thoroughly understand this, his path in golem creation will be much smoother.

After all, you can't deny that the products from the Holy Spring Chamber of Commerce are truly excellent.

After obtaining the golem blueprints, which also belonged to the Holy Spring Merchant Guild, he compared the two.

After spending some time, I finally figured out a few things, the most basic and crucial ones... intelligent magic pattern array and deformation array.

It can give golems a certain degree of intelligence and allow them to change their form into different shapes.

The former is also the fundamental reason why the Astral Imprint Technique identifies it as a "monster".

However, despite Kroa's research and attempts to draw these runes, the results were somewhat unsatisfactory—the runes were extremely complex, making them quite difficult even to apply to small golems.

Fortunately, he had gemstone raspberries as materials and the magic patterns inside the clockwork golem that he had secretly learned. After a period of research, he finally made some progress.

In other words, it looks like a weapon, but its core is actually a special creation of a golem.

They can even transform—

"Crunch, crunch!"

Amidst an extremely unpleasant sound, a bow was unfurled, its body reorganized and deformed, eventually transforming into a gigantic white tiger as tall as a person.

It has no fur, only a hard, cold gleam, and its tail flicks gently.

The white tiger's pale white eyes were fixed on Samir, who met his gaze without fear.

A moment later, the white tiger gently flicked the gem raspberry tree with its tail, and a gem immediately fell from the tree.

This gemstone is translucent with striped patterns on its surface, like a pearl, and has a flowing, misty golden luster inside, giving it a warm and delicate appearance.

"Ah? Isn't this the gem that Lord Kroya has nurtured?"

Samir exclaimed in shock, "Really, really, you can give it to me?"

He was a little at a loss for what to do.

"Meow!"

The white tiger let out a cat-like meow, then pushed the gem toward Samir with its paw.

Then it transformed back into its original white longbow form and ran off to the side with the other swords, axes, and halberds to continue playing and frolicking.

Only then did Samir carefully pick up the gem, feeling its warmth, and hold it tightly in his hand.

He turned to the nearby King Mokuyo and said, "Please, Lord Mokuyo!"

The Woody Curved Vine came to life, its tendrils like incredibly flexible tentacles, one hand holding steel as it spread out, the other holding gems as it painted on them.

"Watch closely, all of you!" Samir said to the people next to him, while he himself focused intently on the movements of the Woody Vine King.

It was like an extremely sophisticated machine, quickly expanding what was originally a small piece of steel into a skeleton-like structure.

It looks like a wolf skeleton.

The dust from the friction of the golden gemstones landed on the wolf's skeleton, leaving only a few barely visible marks.

After repeated depictions, with the wolf's skull as the center, intricate magical patterns slowly took shape, eventually covering the entire skeleton.

During this time, Samir also helped out, but his strength was not enough to complete such a living weapon on his own. He could only leave his own magical imprint at key locations.

In other words, he was resurrected from Kroya's Rock Note; otherwise, it would have been almost impossible for him to succeed.

Arthur and the others were also recording each magic rune with extreme tension and care—they all seemed to have good drawing skills, and they managed to draw the basic structure of the magic runes on their notebooks.

This method only lets them know about the magic runes, not their meaning, but that's enough.

Kroya only intended to give it a try; he didn't put in much effort himself and left it to Samir, who was interested in this area.

If there's a result, that would be great; if there isn't... well, that's fine too.

Time passed slowly.

About half an hour later, an exquisite golden wolf statue, about half a meter tall, was completed under the carving of the Woody Wisteria King.

Its eyes were made from the last of the gold opals, shining like two small suns in their metal sockets.

There seemed to be some emotional sparks and fluctuations within it.

"Alright, now it's your turn to activate its core." The Woody Vine King slowly retreated. "After activation, take these people and leave this place!"

After it finished explaining, it disappeared into the shadows and continued to pretend to be an ornament.

After bowing to King Muyao, Samir excitedly placed his palm on the top of the golden wolf's head and infused his magic into the golden wolf's body.

The golden opal on the wolf's head immediately emitted a bright light, transmitting magic power along the surrounding magic patterns to every part of the wolf's body.

Then... it blinked and started moving, going from clumsy to skilled in just a few seconds.

It gently circled Samir once, nuzzled the latter with its head, and its aura shifted slightly, eventually transforming into a golden, extremely elegant longsword.

The hilt is shaped like the sun, and the gem on the wolf's head is now embedded in it.

The blade emerging from the gemstone had no physical form, but rather a blazing golden light that was almost as solid as a physical object. Tassels hung from the hilt, like the gently swaying tail of a wolf.

A lightsaber! This is a lightsaber formed entirely of magical light!

"It worked?!"

Samir could hardly believe that he had actually succeeded on his first try.

He had thought it would take a lot of hard work to succeed, but he didn't expect to succeed in just five days.

He gripped the golden longsword and tried to swing it.

"bite--"

The blade sliced ​​through the air, producing a sound remarkably clear and melodious, almost like music.

"This is……"

Samir tried out a sword technique with his longsword, and the sound the blade made was indeed crisp, like the sound of a musical instrument.

Furthermore, the music changes with the intensity of his movements, some notes are crisp, some are deep, and some are like rousing drumbeats, like a downpour.

Upon hearing these sounds, he and the others around him felt their emotions change, seemingly shifting with the rhythm contained within those sounds.

All of this was observed by Kroya, who was watching from the sidelines.

The mage gave a strange look: "Is this because there are my Rock Notes inside his body? How did it get forged and imbued with mental magic?"

He didn't quite understand, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

If it were just a single piece, that would be possible, since that golden opal was transformed by his magic.

He wasn't that concerned with individual, unique creations, because he had seen far too many miracles.

What he cares about is whether it can be replicated and whether more of these living weapons can be created.

So he said directly to Samir, "You should study this carefully. If you can mass-produce it, I will reward you."

The Woody Teng King immediately conveyed his will.

Samir and the others immediately knelt down to pay their respects—Arthur and his companions were even more thrilled, realizing that the mage had been watching them all along!

They decided they must work hard to produce it and absolutely could not let the Master down.

……

After reviewing the situation on Samir's side, Kroya turned his attention back to a small model in front of him.

"Just one final test left..."

He muttered something to himself.

The model looks like a section of a train engine and carriages, made entirely of No. 2 alloy, with magic flowing inside, pulsating like blood vessels.

However, the whole thing looks a little like a pea pod—the individual carriages inside are like peas.

He placed the locomotive and carriages on the prepared tracks and then infused them with magic.

The locomotive immediately sped off, pulling the carriages at an extremely high speed, and in an instant, it leaped off the tracks—the surveillance footage showed that it circled the castle in just five minutes before returning.

That's very fast.

When it returned, Kroya examined its magic runes; the flow of magic remained unchanged, steady and smooth.

He nodded in satisfaction: "That counts as a success."

This is a train he made using the magical runes from peas that convert magic into kinetic energy, and he plans to lay it on the surrounding seabed.

While spatial arrays are good, they require special spatial magic stones, and the Woody Vine King's spatial transmission array is not suitable for human teleportation.

Moreover, he also needs to consider other areas; he can't use spatial arrays for everything, can he? That's absolutely unrealistic in the early stages.

So he could only think of ways to make other means of transportation.

He considered cars, bicycles, electric cars... he thought of them all, but the ground in this world was just too exaggerated.

So after much thought, he came up with the idea of ​​a train—as long as he laid the tracks and arranged for the monsters to maintain them, it would definitely be a useful transportation line.

Once he made the decision, he immediately began production.

After a brief period of trial and error, he successfully combined the magic runes of the impact peas with the intelligent array of the golems to create this self-moving pea train.

"I hope they can do it well... Let's try building a section of track about ten kilometers long first, and if that works, we can continue."

He pondered for a moment, then picked up a pen and paper and sketched out the structure of the magic runes. He then instructed King Muyao to pass it on to the golem factory, saying:

"Let them build it according to this plan, and the excavation of the undersea tunnel will continue."

……

Kroa's order was immediately relayed to the Golem Factory.

The apprentices are now skilled at copying the magic runes drawn by Kroya. Although this one is a bit large, they still quickly completed the materials needed for a train.

Inside the workshop, after three days of hard work, the apprentices painstakingly assembled a brand-new, blue train by hand.

It is about 22 meters long, each carriage is 5 meters long, there are 4 carriages in total, and the height is 3 meters.

The inside is completely empty; there are no seats or anything like that installed yet. Apart from the intricate patterns inside the front of the car, it's basically just a large model.

The apprentices circled the completed train, turning left and right.

They had never seen anything like this before, and as they gradually assembled it according to the blueprints, their astonishment grew.

What is the purpose of this large golem?

Just as they were wondering, Jamie stepped out of the teleportation array and his eyes lit up when he saw the train.

But before he could go up and see, he was surrounded by the apprentices, who asked him one by one:

"Brother Jamie, what exactly is this for?"

"Is this a golem?"

"Is the Master going to fight somewhere?"

With their limited knowledge, they would have thought this thing was some kind of large war golem, like a catapult or something.

Jamie's head was throbbing from the noise, so he quickly waved his hand and said, "Quiet!"

People fell silent immediately, but their eyes were fixed on Jamie with wide, questioning eyes.

"Since you're curious, come with me to install it."

He has been busy digging tunnels and laying tracks on the seabed, and the track laying is giving him a splitting headache.

It seemed simple enough, but once Kroya actually gave the instructions and he had to install it according to Kroya's orders, troubles came one after another.

Fortunately, Kroya provided him with a lot of support, allowing him to mobilize magical beasts, magical plants, knights, and mages at will. It was through this frantic effort that he finally managed to complete the journey with the train.

"OK!"

"Let's go now!"

The apprentices immediately cheered and summoned the Power Golem, which carried the train directly into the teleportation array.

This large magic circle, with a radius of thirty meters, was installed by Kroya before the Holy Spring Merchant Guild's strike, so that it could be used to transport large equipment in the future.

Amidst the shimmering light of the magic circle, they arrived at the station located below the Air Coral Base, which Kroya had named the Starting Station.

They then carefully installed the train.

After the installation was completed, everyone involved in the train's construction boarded the train and excitedly stood in front of the glass windows, looking at the scenery outside.

Jamie went to the cockpit himself and poured all the magic he had prepared into it.

"Please, get moving!"

He gently patted the train's core hub, the location of the magic runes, the heart of everything, and the source of the train's intelligence.

A red light flickered at the core.

Then... the car started moving.

It sped along the track at an extremely high speed, reaching three thousand meters per minute, with no change in the scenery outside the window and no feeling of bumps.

But just three minutes later, the car stopped automatically.

"Have we arrived yet?"

"So fast?"

The apprentices were surprised and immediately left the carriage and came outside. What they saw was the sign for Station No. 2, which was ten kilometers away from Station No. 1.

"Well enough."

Jamie appeared outside at some point, his expression indifferent—he was deliberately mimicking Kroya's expression.

But there was a clear joy in his eyes.

"It's a success!"

Before he could even offer a pretentious evaluation, he was lifted up by the apprentices, who were no more than twenty years old, and they cheered and vented their frustrations.

"Very good!"

"This is our successful assembly!"

"Lord Kroya only provided a blueprint!"

Poor Jamie was tossed around like a ball, but his face was full of smiles.

Kroya, who was far away in the castle laboratory, noticed all of this and a slight smile appeared on his face.

"Give each of them three days off, and also a Magic Package."

After giving this instruction, he turned his gaze to another construction site, one located deep within the island.

Countless magical runes were flashing, forming one magical power reactor after another.

They represent... the power that can move the island.

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(End of this chapter)