Players’ NPC daddy.

Merlin's half body turned to charcoal, revealing the metal skeleton in his body. He staggered, using the scabbard as a crutch, and groped his way to Chiron, who was covered in smoke.

He looked around warily.

"Maria... was she scared and ran away?" After Merlin made sure that there was no one around, he reached out and grabbed Chiron's head, making Chiron look up at him.

"You are indeed extremely stupid. You actually used such a self-destructive trick."

Chiron's eyes flickered, his mouth didn't move, and the voice came out directly.

"After all, even if I have to lose, I don't want to [lose]."

"Oh, parenting, it seems you still know the gap between us. You know you are bound to lose, so you give up and use this method." Merlin smiled triumphantly. King Uther's body was badly tortured, and most of his handsome face was burned.

"I still have to compliment you. Although you shortsightedly lost your body to me, you consumed 50% of my materials and exceeded the goal."

Chiron's eyes flickered a few times before completely going out and entering a dormant state, without giving him a chance to answer Merlin's question.

"Tsk, parents are parents, and they don't even have this little perseverance." Merlin waved his hand, and the remaining mechanical worms around crawled over, set up Chiron and began to move.

"I can finally get my things back, but before that I have to check it out. You, the child-rearing one, must have ruined such a perfect body. I have to update it."

And all this was under the surveillance of Theresa, who used the oldest telescope, so Merlin could not discover it.

"Chiron..." Theresa put down the telescope worriedly. This was part of the plan. If possible, she really didn't want to go to this extent.

But it’s also for…

Theresa squeezed the binoculars.

Chapter 1256 Look at What You Have Done

When Chiron woke up, that is, when he came online, he saw Merlin's big face and saliva all over his face. If the illusory body had saliva, it would be enough to make him short-circuit.

"Bodyguard, look what you have done!" Merlin pulled a display screen in front of Chiron.

There is red light everywhere, nothing is normal, everything shows errors.

The above content can be roughly described as a human physical examination report, and Merlin, the attending physician, already felt that he was a dead man.

"My body has completed self-repair, you just blocked my operating system." Chiron was extremely calm. He tried to move, but if he didn't struggle hard, he couldn't move even a finger.

Although he blocked the intrusion of external signals, it was useless to connect directly using the plug on the back of his head.

"Self-repairing? You said these rotten things, like the junk you picked up from the second-hand market, have self-repairing functions?"

Merlin slapped the screen, his face full of disbelief.

Chiron has always had a good temper, because he has been in power for a long time, or in other words, he is old. No matter how much trouble younger people make, he will just smile gently.

But facing Merlin, the Ark AI that was slightly older than him, he got a little irritated.

"These are all handmade. I taught myself and made them." Chiron regretted it as soon as he finished speaking. He should not have said these things in front of Merlin. He should have just followed the routine and kept his mouth shut.

Merlin would certainly make further sarcasm for his answer.

The result was just the opposite. Merlin frowned, took the monitor and looked at it carefully for a few seconds, then snorted.

"Huh~ For a parenting AI like you, this level is pretty good. You've proven the truth that 'the early bird catches the worm, and hard work makes up for clumsiness.'"

After Merlin gave Chiron a compliment, his expression turned gloomy again and he pointed at Chiron's face.

"What's the matter with this useless facial flame-breathing and sighing mechanism, and also, the digestion function!"

"personal hobby."

"It's a waste of performance! This is a body used to kill gods, why are you installing these things!" Merlin waved his hand, and several auxiliary mechanical arms turned around.

He used the chainsaw and turned his head, obviously intending to tear Chiron apart.

"I will never allow this unnecessary function to appear on my body. I will tear you apart!"

"Wait!" Chiron raised his voice, startling Merlin.

"What are you doing? I'm warning you. Although my real body is gathering the Red Dragon rebels to prepare for an attack, I only have 49% of my thinking ability in front of you. But this is my lair. Even if you are an idealistic robot, you can't escape, let alone you are a parenting type."

"At least the facial fire-breathing function is retained. When necessary, the power can be increased to become a high-energy ray to sneak attack the enemy."

Chiron argued with reason, and Merlin pinched his chin and was silent for a moment, then he felt that it made sense.

"Then tear it down and replace it with a better one. Your facial flamethrower is simply an old car that has been eliminated. It would be more suitable for me to change it into a supercar."

Stayed, but not completely.

Chiron continued his efforts and tried to persuade her again.

"Then let's keep the Sigh Mechanism as well. If we increase the power, it can not only turn into a freezing breath, but also release poisonous gas."

"Hmm... that makes sense. Let's tear it down and replace it with a better one."

"The feeding system..."

"Do you think I'm a fool?" Merlin raised his brows. "Would I not keep this kind of device that can be used for emergency energy replenishment? Do I need you to remind me?"

"Then I'm fine."

Chiron stopped talking, and Merlin also silently began his work - making replacement parts for Chiron. Chiron took a quick look and found that basically everything except the skeleton needed to be replaced.

There is no way. Although his body is one of the highest technological crystallizations of the Age of Gods, it is positioned as a weapon to kill the enemy by reducing the service life of all its mechanisms and increasing its output capacity.

According to the plan, it would take 15 years, 8 months and 21 days to defeat the Titan, and his lifespan, excluding the skeleton, was only 50 years. As a parenting AI, he spent a long time learning how to make replacement parts, and the quality was no different from second-hand ones in front of the Ark AI level.

Chiron sighed in his heart and looked at the ceiling. He would have nothing to do for a long time until the appointed time.

"say."

"Ok?"

"Speak." Merlin glanced at Chiron with a look of disgust on his face. "I know you must want to talk. After all, you parenting AIs talk a lot, so I will mercifully let you say a few more words before you disappear."

Chiron didn't want to talk, but Merlin kept staring at him. As a robot, he didn't have much aesthetic sense, but after having a soul, he felt a little bit. It was quite robot-like for a bearded old man to stare at him like that.

Of course, the biggest reason he had to find something to talk about was that Merlin's hands had stopped moving and he was still waiting for an upgrade.

"The moon is so beautiful tonight."

"I know that the heir to the Age of Gods has the ability to restore vitality infinitely under the moon and can pray without consuming magic power, so I will not choose to fight him at night." Merlin muttered a lot of words as if he had been waiting for a long time. While he was talking, his hands kept assembling the Age of Gods mechanism, and at the end of his words he mocked Chiron.

"You are stupid. Because of your decapitation operation, I read your memo. Now I know all the data of Blaze, the heir of the God Era. You should have deleted all of it before coming here."

Chiron simply shut his mouth. Without anyone to talk to, Merlin stopped what he was doing and continued to stare at Chiron.

It's like if Chiron doesn't speak, he doesn't work.

Chiron couldn't help but talk about Theresa. Before coming again, Theresa gave him a shot of prevention, saying that Merlin must have some torturous behavior, and hoped that he could be mentally prepared in advance.

He thought he would be chopped into pieces at most, but he didn't expect it to be like this.

"Blaze, no, not only Blaze, life is incredibly magical, they become different every day, and the data I recorded is only about him now. And I kept this data so that I can be surprised by his growth when I see him again."

“And these are probably the fun of parenting robots.”

"Surprise? Fun? AI, robots don't need that."

Merlinlu's hands moved faster, and one by one, the black and gold-shining mechanisms were moved in front of Chiron by the robotic arms.

"Childcare, I will delete you and all these unnecessary things."

"Please." Chiron slowly closed his eyes, found a comfortable position and fell asleep.

This may be a strange statement for a robot, but he knows that the next time he wakes up, there may be a very intense battle, so he needs to get a good night's sleep to recharge his energy.

Chapter 1257 Dark Clouds

On the deadline of the Red Dragon Call, more than 10 players responded to the warm-up of this war event and gathered in the Kingdom of Londinium. The number of 10 people was astonishing, enough to instantly flatten any kingdom or city-state, even tearing down the land.

But compared with the scale of previous events, 10 people is pitifully small.

There is nothing that can be done about it. It is better to say that this is the normal situation. After all, "Godlock" is not a regular game, and all the activities in it are organized by NPCs themselves.

From the harvest festival of an ordinary village to the celebration of a kingdom, such activities are happening all over the world at any time. If the NPC operation is not good enough and the map involved in the activity is not wide enough, then naturally there will be few players attracted.

[Red Dragon Recruitment] Although it seems to be large-scale, involving the entire territory of the Third Kingdom and uniting all city-states to attack the capital Camelot, war activities are relatively unpopular and only liked by a small number of players, not to mention that the NPCs organizing the activities are those city lords and kings who are like good-for-nothings.

There is no operation, the question is that you are here following the banner of the red dragon, and we will give this honor to you.

If the Knight Ranking hadn't forced a group of players to turn evil and vent their anger, the Red Dragon's Recruitment would have been considered a success if it could attract 2 people.

Compared with this negative example, the [Abyss Hunting Festival] held by the players' old acquaintance [Hermes's Travel Hat] and the Giant Kingdom Alliance can be said to be an extremely standard success case.

[Abyss Hunting Festival] is just an event for hunting abyss monsters. There is no depth, no huge conspiracy or background story. The scope of the event is just large, but the organizers have put a good focus on helping barrier players.

Not only does it continue to provide good services to players, but it also brings real benefits to a large number of players.

Originally, such a simple activity as conquering ecological monsters was easier to attract players. In addition, many players who benefited from the activity promoted it vigorously, and the scale of the activity expanded rapidly. Many players who originally wanted to participate in the [Red Dragon Recruitment] or players who had already participated were busy with the activity and had no time to pay attention.

Of course, the final blow to [Call of the Red Dragon] was undoubtedly the Everqueen's Cloak launched by [Call of Camelot].

Although the symbolic meaning of the red dragon cloak is very exciting, the noble lines spoken by those greasy people like the city lord and the king are quite inappropriate. On the contrary, the Everqueen's cloak and the Everqueen's appearance form a huge contrast.

If the Everqueen's Cloak wasn't a permanent item, the [Camelot Summoning Order] would probably have caused Camelot to be packed with people.

Many players are waiting and watching. Camelot will definitely not fall. Not to mention that the strongest guild [Fairy Kingdom] stands on the side of the Everqueen, Camelot itself has its own uniqueness.

If there was a one in ten thousand chance that Camelot would be destroyed, the other players would not know what to do, and the players who responded to the [Red Dragon Call] would stop. They just wanted to vent their emotions, and there was no need to make this wonderful world lose a place forever.

“This is a losing battle.”

Blaze looked at the Red Dragon rebels gathering in the distance and smelled something unusual. It was not them who would lose, but the Red Dragon rebels. After the Fairy Kingdom joined and completed a large number of Everqueen cloaks, the possibility of Camelot being overthrown was very low.

Merlin, the AI ​​of the Ark, couldn't possibly not know about this, and he should have even calculated this earlier. Once the strangers find Camelot more interesting, then overthrowing Camelot will be a fantasy.

But neither the material transportation lines nor the cargo transportation lines were attacked. Merlin should know that the longer he dragged on, the lower his chances of winning.

"Unless your purpose is not to overthrow Morgan at all, but just to prepare for a war to awaken the white dragon Vortigern." Blaze sighed lightly. He still had some fantasies about the great wizard Merlin.

But now it seems that Merlin just wants to awaken the white dragon Vortigern. Victory or failure in the war is not important. Maybe he just wants to lose the war. The high emotions of victory and liberation cannot awaken the disastrous white dragon.

"We won't let you succeed."

Blaze looked back at the strangers who were rehearsing. Even though the Red Dragon rebels were gathering in the distance like a dark cloud, he couldn't help laughing when he saw what the strangers were displaying.

He is indeed imaginative, but as always, he doesn't care about the life or death of the person involved.

"Well, it's better than the war that's coming."

Blaze withdrew his gaze and Theresa appeared not far away with a look of apology in her expression.

"Okay, you don't have to say anything. I know from your expression that you must have made some dangerous plans. Just keep it to yourself and torture yourself."

"..." Theresa opened her mouth and finally exhaled, "I searched the entire Third Kingdom, but did not find any large equipment for transforming the white dragon Vortigern. No matter what happens next, it won't be surprising."

"Should I prepare for the worst?"

Blaze stroked the broken steel sword at his waist. The sword body, which had been calm in the past, was now vibrating slightly, like the surface of a lake with countless ripples caused by heavy rain.

"I've got a feeling about that."

……

In the dark space, a deep blue light lit up.

A powerful figure slowly sat up. Its body had a cold metallic color, but it had muscles wriggling on it.

That is not flesh and blood, but extremely delicate and exquisite mechanical muscle, which perfectly simulates the muscle structure and possesses strength far beyond flesh and blood.

“I finally got it, but surprisingly I wasn’t surprised. Maybe it’s because I just took back something that originally belonged to me.”

Chiron stood up, but the voice he made was Merlin's.

"I'm just back to where I should be. I've just started."

Merlin waved his hand, and the dark environment around him slowly began to transform. He looked at the city of Camelot in the distance, and a dangerous red light flashed in his eyes.

"The next step is to obtain the body of the giant god and defeat..." Merlinka paused, confused for a moment, and then continued, "Defeat the giant god... Yeah."

Merlin turned his head and looked at King Uther behind him. He also spent a lot of time repairing King Uther's body, which was a key prop in the plan.

Although he has now moved into Chiron's body, King Uther's body is also remotely controlled by him. Only in this way can it be safe enough.

"Begin the plan. Let the scarlet blood refill the dragon's body and wake it up."

The red light in Merlin's eyes illuminated the surroundings, and even King Uther's face became gloomy.