Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint

Celia did not speak.

Ross, however, thought to herself, "There are traces of corruption on this puppet of hers, and they're well hidden."

Doris continued, "What I said before still holds true. Someone like you, a prospective saint from a remote church, has no chance of becoming a saint. You might as well give up voluntarily..."

“Miss Doris, are you afraid I’ll defeat you and become the saintess?” Celia interrupted her. “Instead of worrying about me, you should worry about whether your puppet has been corrupted.”

The girl, Doris, chuckled and said, "Don't worry, I've already purified the puppet, so it won't be contaminated. As for you, I don't think you need to waste your time. If you want the best puppet, you can contact me anytime."

Celia tilted her head and stared at her.

The girl pouted and walked away, muttering to herself as she went, "Since I can't compete with others anyway, I might as well agree to my family's sponsorship. It's not like I can't become an archbishop."

She was clearly saying it on purpose for Celia to hear, and Celia heard every single word.

Celia didn't say anything, but puffed out her cheeks, lost in thought.

Seeing this, Ross raised an eyebrow.

I thought this girl really didn't have any needs.

If we have it, things will be much easier.

Chapter 5 The Puppet

"Besides being a prospective saintess of the Holy Court, I am also a first-year student at the Holy Magic Academy."

Celia didn't stay long in the Holy Court. After enjoying a free dinner there, she returned to her residence—the Holy Magic Academy dormitory, a single room—led by Elena.

"Because I am a candidate for sainthood, I have a single dormitory room and live alone."

After explaining to Ross in her mind, Celia sat down at her desk and picked up a mage's manual to read.

She was looking very intently, so Ross didn't disturb her and continued to observe the dormitory environment.

This room is about 20 square meters, with a kitchen, a bathroom, and a balcony. However, the kitchen is not filled with vegetables and knives, but with all sorts of ingredients.

Memories of these materials were recalled, and he immediately remembered that they were basic magical materials for making basic magic puppets.

"Fortunately, although time has been jumped to a thousand years in the future, none of these things have changed."

The easiest things to remember about a game are its early and late-game items. Early-game items are easy to remember because players will play through the game again or use alternate accounts, and they are also memorable when they first start playing. In the late game, players frequently interact with those items. On the contrary, items from the mid-game transition phase are hard to remember, which is why Ross still remembers quite a lot of things.

It's also possible that after time travel, the game's encyclopedia was directly crammed into his brain, which is why he could recognize what it was at a glance.

"Why are you so focused on the puppet?" Ross asked, somewhat puzzled.

Even if puppets can greatly enhance combat power in the early stages, it's not like you should fill the room with puppet-making materials instead of improving other aspects of your strength, right?

Ross refocused his attention on Celia and suddenly noticed that the book, titled "The Sorcerer's Handbook," wasn't for learning magic; rather, it seemed like... a history book?

It talks about the origin, inheritance, and principles of magic and sorcerers.

"Are you perhaps hoping to find some clue about me in this book?"

Ross interrupted Celia's reading.

Celia looked up, and Ross in her mind seemed to be projected into the air in front of her. "I... I was just looking around."

"Stop looking. I have nothing to do with the birth of magic. One thing is true about the history of the Holy Court: I was only active a little over a thousand years ago. Before that, I did not exist."

“Oh…” Celia obediently put away the Sorcerer’s Handbook, replaced it with the Holy Word, and picked up the pen beside her.

"I'm asking you, why do you take making magic puppets so seriously?"

Celia paused, a look of confusion on her face. "For a sorcerer, a puppet is a very important combat partner and tool, Mr. Ross... doesn't the master know that?"

"Is it important?" Ross thought for a moment. Perhaps things were different a thousand years ago than now. "At least in my time, it wasn't important. It wasn't as important as a magical pet."

“Fellowship?” Celia tapped her delicate chin with the tip of her pen. “I rarely hear this term. I only heard it in my ‘New History of Sorcerers’ class. The teacher said that fellowships have been replaced by magic puppets.”

"What? Magical puppets have replaced magical pets?"

Ross was somewhat surprised.

This is similar to Doraemon eliminating biological cats.

Theoretically, it's possible, but to what extent would Doraemon need to be developed?

Celia seemed to have finally discovered something Ross didn't understand, and a smile involuntarily crept onto her lips. "Yes, anything a magical pet can do, a magical puppet can do too. And anything a magical pet can't do, a magical puppet can do as well!"

She moved the white bracelet on her wrist, and a magical screen appeared in front of her, displaying rows of text that showed the cause and effect of the magical puppet eliminating the magical pet.

"The reasons for my elimination are all here. I wonder if Mr. Ross can see the information about my Spell Ring... The Spell Ring is short for the Spell Ring of Resonance. It's the bracelet I'm wearing on my wrist that can connect to the Protoss Network and display information from it."

"I can see it, and I know it's the Ring of Resonance... because I named it that."

"Huh? You named this too?" Celia exclaimed in shock.

"Yes, I also defined the wristband as a communication tool."

This game offers a high degree of freedom; you can customize everything you want.

Ross didn't have the time or inclination to define everything; he only defined things he found interesting. For example, communication tools, which were usually shaped like crystal balls or cell phones, were customized into the shape of a bracelet and named the Ring of Magic, or simply the Ring or Bracelet.

Fortunately, although we were making jokes, we tried to stay true to the context and didn't call it a donut or any other strange name.

"Is this also a power from outside the world?" Celia touched her bracelet.

"No, that's the power within the world."

While answering Celia's question, Ross was also looking at the content on the magic screen.

The statement above indicates that magical puppets have replaced magical pets as the mage's partner because magical puppets have completely replaced various functions of magical pets, whether it's being cute or fighting.

Five hundred years ago, during the Age of Calamity, knowledge about magical pets was unfortunately lost. In addition, magical puppets rose to prominence, making them cheaper than magical pets today. They gradually replaced magical pets, and the original magical pets became ordinary pets like cats and dogs, or... luxury items, no longer suitable for combat.

"I see. It seems that the development of magic puppet technology is quite good now, and it can even replace magic pets."

Finally, we see an improvement in technology. If we don't see any more, Ross will suspect that after the gods sealed him away, they reverted the entire world to the era before the players arrived.

"Therefore, I must create my own magical puppet!"

"Making a magic puppet is easy, isn't it? If you encounter any problems, just ask me."

“It’s just a basic magic puppet… it’s not difficult to make, the difficult part is…” A blush rose on the girl’s pretty cheeks, “I don’t have money to buy materials.”

Ross: "..."

So it turns out they were short of money.

Ross was shocked: "You're a saint, and the school didn't sponsor you?"

"Yes, the school also provides some basic materials, but these materials can only be used to make basic puppet designs. Without the puppet heart to drive them, they can only perform some simple movements and cannot be used for combat."

"The Heart of the Puppet?" Ross heard this term for the first time. "Arcane Forge?"

“It’s not an arcane furnace, it’s a golem core.” Celia immediately had her bracelet provide information about the golem core.

Ross took a closer look and realized that the Heart of the Puppet was like a CPU, the core of the entire puppet, while the Arcane Furnace was the power source.

While searching through materials about puppets in my mind, I didn't find anything about a puppet heart. In the past, the CPU of a puppet was either controlled by a sorcerer multitasking, or a creature's soul was stuffed into it. The more perverse ones would extract a person's soul and stuff it into the puppet.

The Puppet Heart is a very special material. When placed on a puppet, it can directly endow the puppet with AI-like intelligence, enabling it to quickly respond to the master's commands, fight flexibly, and no longer need to multitask or plant a strange soul to create the hidden danger of betrayal.

Rose has become quite curious about this.

In his previous life, when he transmigrated, civilian robots were developing rapidly and could even do backflips. But in this world, their development seems to be even more rapid, directly becoming the core means of combat for sorcerers.

However, considering that after being sealed away for a thousand years, the world has only just developed intelligent robots, it seems... unusually slow.

The gods are truly wicked!

Chapter 6 The Saintess Wants to Take a Bath

“I took a look, and the craftsmanship of the puppet is almost the same as it was a thousand years ago. The standards are similar, except that the manual operating parts have been replaced with puppet hearts. The materials you have in your kitchen are enough to make a basic combat puppet. How about you try to make one first?”

Ross used his mental powers to examine the pile of puppet materials in the kitchen.

Those are materials that the school can provide for free. They are all ordinary goods with extremely poor compatibility with magic and elements. They can only fight by relying on the strength of the materials themselves and are almost impossible to use magic, but they are good for practice.

The new generation of technology has introduced things that Ross doesn't know about, so he has to make an effort to prove himself, lest this girl look down on him.

I am an invincible evil god. If I can't even teach this little girl, and she has to teach me, then I might as well kill myself.

"Want me to teach you how to make magic puppets?" Celia's eyes lit up. She immediately closed "The Holy Word," jumped up from her chair, and ran to the kitchen, or rather, the workshop.

Although Ross didn't know about the Puppet Heart, he knew everything else about it, which was enough to greatly benefit Celia.

“The complexity of a golem is related to its grade. Aside from the lack of a golem heart, you have all the pre-made parts for a first-tier golem. Hmm… try making the golem’s body parts first, starting with the arcane furnace that provides the energy. Let’s see how far you can go.”

The materials here in Celia are all basic materials. Most of the materials have already been engraved with magical patterns, with only gaps left in key places, which are like circuit boards with a lot of circuits and reserved interfaces.

Celia picked up the arcane furnace parts and began to assemble them, whispering, "I don't know the reaction knowledge inside the arcane furnace yet, so I can't make it by hand. I can only buy it from outside. This is the most basic arcane furnace I bought, which only supports the input of magic power from basic magic crystals."

"enough."

Celia clearly studied these things regularly. She assembled the arcane furnace quickly, and then she began assembling the limbs. At this point, her speed slowed down considerably.

"When assembling the limbs, you need to consider the focus. If you want the puppet to emphasize speed, add glowstone dust to the blood to inscribe magical patterns. If you want to emphasize defense, add graystone dust..."

"This pattern could be simplified; it shouldn't be drawn like this, it should be like this..."

"Take note, you also need to reserve the control patterns for the Puppet Heart, so you can put them on directly when you get the Puppet Heart later."

"You picked up the wrong one. That's an arm part. Are you trying to take off by attaching it to your leg?"

"..."

Ross began to instruct Celia in the creation of the puppet. This knowledge, along with his mastery of his own power, had become instinctive, as if he had been given an omniscient and omnipotent cheat code.

Seeing that Celia's hands were not very steady, Ross said, "You can practice drawing the magic runes on paper first to avoid wasting materials. If you feel that your hands are not steady enough, you can hand your body over to me, and I will help you draw the missing magic runes."

These words seemed to have triggered something, causing Celia's hand to tremble, her quill pen to tip to the side, and the magic runes she had drawn halfway through were ruined on the spot, with black smoke billowing from the entire board.

"Ah...it's ruined."

"You can practice on paper with a regular pen first, and then draw with a quill pen."

"Oh." Celia switched to a regular pen, picked up a piece of paper, and slowly began to draw according to the patterns Ross had given her.

She had a good talent; she only needed to draw a few times before her hands became steady, and then she could draw on the materials.

Watching her draw magical patterns and assemble the puppet parts, gradually giving the puppet a human form, Ross felt that the summoning contract would be completed soon.

"Now the only problem is the Puppet Heart. I wonder how expensive this so-called Puppet Heart is."

Time passed quietly, and only after Celia attached her head to the torso did she wipe the fine sweat from her forehead and look at Ross expectantly: "Did I...did I do it?"

"Whether it succeeds or not, we still need to place an arcane furnace and a magic crystal on it, and use your magic to run around the puppet and engrave your unique mark before we know."

"I...can I continue tomorrow?" Celia asked cautiously. "I'm a little tired, I'd like to take a nap first, and we can continue tomorrow, okay?"

During the guidance process, Ross transformed into a strict mentor, making her so terrified that she dared not speak loudly.

"Sure, why not?" Ross sensed Celia's mental and physical exhaustion and suddenly remembered something. "What time is it now?"

It's already late at night.

"Oh, I almost forgot, you need to sleep. Go to sleep."

Celia didn't move; instead, a blush slowly rose on her cheeks.

Hmm? You're blushing?

Could it be...

"Do you like sleeping naked?!"

“Absolutely not!” Celia blurted out, then slowly lowered her head like a wronged kitten: “Um, I’d like to take a shower, Mr. Ross, could you… excuse me for a moment?”

Only now did Celia realize the seriousness of the problem.

Ross was always in her mind. It was fine most of the time, even when she slept... she could wear clothes to sleep, but when she took a shower... wouldn't she be completely exposed?!

What should I do? I can't not take a shower, my body feels sticky.

I should have known better than to try to finish it all in one night.

They were still eager to get rid of him...

The young girl is unaware of the saying that it's easy to invite a god but difficult to send him away.

Upon hearing Celia's words, Ross finally understood the reason for her embarrassment.