Miss Witch, please don't leave your fragrance everywhere

Coppelia sat on the chair, put away the gift box of spoils, and crossed her legs in a victorious posture.

Angelica's heart suddenly started beating fast and her eyes became unfocused.

"No, no..."

"Really? Then I won't agree if Anjie comes to see me next time."

"Eh? Don't... I'll just tell you."

This was the only thing Angelica couldn't continue to be stubborn about.

In fact, Angelica could see that Coppelia should have known that Anna had a flaw. Coppelia was better than her in terms of dolls. It was impossible to see it at a glance, but Coppelia had been frank with Anna when she and Anna were working together to treat Angelica. There was no reason for her not to know that Anna had a fatal flaw under her perfect appearance.

Angelica's plan was to seek help from the magical secret society Golden Dawn. If she couldn't find the solution or the Golden Dawn refused to cooperate, Angelica would go to Coppelia. If Coppelia refused, Angelica would lose her last guarantee.

"As expected, there is a flaw... The puppet's magic core operates similarly to a human heart, and its frequency is equivalent to the heartbeat. I felt from the beginning that its frequency was too fast, and it basically reached an overload frequency."

"So I want to try to correct Anna's magic core."

"Corrected? In my opinion, this is just a more serious design flaw."

"These are serious design flaws. Can we still describe them as nothing..."

"Of course it's perfect for Anjie. The magic power provided by Anjie makes up for the defects in Anna's magic core. It can be said that for Anjie, the serious defects in Anna's design are equivalent to non-existence."

If she must say something, Anna subjectively cannot forgive herself for adding burden to her master, but in Coppelia's view, puppets are like programs, as long as they can move, as long as the program can run, the bug is not a bug.

"I want to know how Anjie wants to fix Anna. Replace the normal components of Anna's magic core. Not to mention that it is technically impossible to do so, if Anjie wants to extend Anna's life by fixing the magic core, I have to break Anjie's wrong perception."

When it comes to the question about the dolls, Coppelia becomes serious for once.

Although Angelica's knowledge of puppets was not as good as Coppelia's, she was not completely ignorant either, so Coppelia didn't need to spend too much time laying the groundwork.

"The lifespan of a puppet is limited after all. Even if we can find a suitable magic core for Anna, it will be impossible for her to continue functioning forever."

"Well……"

"I used to belong to the magical secret society Golden Dawn. The leader at that time was the founder, the magician Woodman. His philosophy for creating the Golden Dawn was to pursue perfect life, even if it was artificial life. Under this philosophy, many magicians who were good at puppetry joined the Golden Dawn. Together we pursued the creation of perfect life, but we soon discovered a problem. There is no such thing as natural immortality in the world."

Angelica's immortality was also acquired later. The only beings in the world who are eternal and immortal from birth are probably gods.

"So we changed our strategy and created a magic furnace core that would never die. We also gave it a fantastic name - the Permanent Mechanism."

"Perpetual Machine... Are you trying to create a perpetual motion machine?"

Perpetual motion machine is a concept that was proposed in the world before Angelica traveled through time, but was repeatedly rejected. As the name suggests, a perpetual motion machine is a machine that can keep running without any external interference after the initial energy is output from the outside world. People believe that a machine that keeps running will definitely come in handy.

However, as all the sages who studied perpetual motion machines came back empty-handed, the wise sages gradually discovered that perpetual motion machines violated the law of conservation of energy, that is, energy cannot be created out of thin air.

"Perpetual motion machine? We prefer to call it a permanent mechanism, although they both mean the same thing."

“Is there any meaning behind this?”

"Because it's cooler! When we were in the Golden Dawn, we even thought about calling each other code names. Now that I think about it, it was a very vibrant time."

By the way, the code names in Golden Dawn were indeed popular for a while, but were later forced to be abolished because everyone seemed to be becoming more and more immature.

"In our conception, we aspire to create a magic furnace core that will keep running forever once the initial magic power is injected. The puppets we call permanent mechanisms will no longer rely on contracts, but on the magic power provided by the contractors to operate. In this way, we will create true artificial humans."

192 Dolls have limits

Anna is indeed a perfect maid, but she is still a puppet that needs magic power to function. If it was not Angelica who rescued Anna, Anna's fate might be that she could not be activated under the seal of the coffin.

The Golden Dawn longs to create a true magic furnace core that does not require a contract and can operate on its own after being injected with magic power. In that case, the puppets will no longer rely on humans, and they will become artificial people who can survive independently.

"But you failed, didn't you?"

Angelica said with a wry smile that Woodman was the founder of the magical secret society Golden Dawn. If the Golden Dawn completed the permanent mechanism, puppet technology would undoubtedly usher in a major breakthrough.

"That's right. We had different opinions on the technical difficulties. Everyone tried different ways and ended up with setbacks, including me. But thanks to my growth in the Golden Dawn, I was able to get in touch with eternity. I don't know if the Golden Dawn is still pursuing the dream of a permanent mechanism, but I can be sure that when I left the Golden Dawn, no one had completed the permanent mechanism."

"So what you mean is that... there is no way to prolong Anna's life even if the defect in Anna's magic core is corrected?"

"Unless they have really completed the permanent mechanism."

Angelica thought that was impossible. The idea of ​​the Golden Dawn was to create an endless source of magic power, but Angelica's knowledge told her that this was impossible to achieve. If it was for Anna, Angelica hoped that those magicians she had never met had really reached the realm of permanent mechanisms.

“Then, conventional methods won’t work either.”

What really made Angelica anxious was Coppelia's subsequent words.

The conventional method is for Angelica and Coppelia to reach the fifth sequence one and enter the realm of eternity, but Coppelia said that there is no way to do it.

"Why, why?"

"This involves the operating procedures of puppets, Anjie. Puppets can be classified as familiars, but puppets are artificially created after all. The steps for puppets to use magic are significantly different from those of natural creatures. Puppets have an upper limit on magic storage, while natural creatures lack time and talent. This is the biggest difference between puppets."

The so-called natural creatures are races such as humans, elves, and orcs. They rely on their talents to learn magic, and there is a natural barrier that is difficult to cross, which is lifespan. Puppets can be given powerful learning abilities through superb skills, but they are ultimately precision-made machines.

In simple and clear terms, Puppet has memory limitations.

Just like a computer is divided into several disks, magic data is specially divided into specific disks. The higher the sequence of magic, the more memory it occupies.

Anna also follows this principle.

Feeling Angelica's gaze, Anna wanted to give her master a surprise, but all Anna could do was to confess her limits.

"Master, Miss Coppelia is right. Anna also has a magic storage limit."

"How much magic can Sequence One store?"

"Answer master, the number is: zero."

"..."

"Angie, you asked a layman's question that would make the puppet master roll his eyes. It would take several months of work to store the storage limit of Sequence 3 magic, not to mention five Sequence 1 magic."

"I'm not a professional puppeteer."

"Hey~ Didn't Anjie always call herself a genius?"

Coppelia naturally would not miss the opportunity to tease Angelica, but this time Angelica rarely did not pester her.

"Okay, okay, you are the real genius. Genius beautiful puppeteer Coppelia-sama, is there any way to extend Anna's operating time?"

Angelica was even somewhat thankful that she had met Coppelia so early on, so that things would not get to the point where they could not be reversed. Otherwise, only seventy-nine years would have passed in a flash, and now it was still possible to save Anna.

"No."

"Don't be ridiculous, Coppelia. Didn't you achieve immortality with the body of a puppet?"

"My situation is no longer considered ordinary puppet making. It cannot be applied to Anna."

It’s not that Coppelia is unwilling to help. Just as Angelica’s offspring will not inherit immortality, Coppelia’s puppet technology and consciousness transfer have reached the level of extraordinary people, but they cannot work on others.

"If Anjie really wants to find the correct answer... I suggest you look for the Golden Dawn. As it happens, Fairy Island is where we came to when we did the experiment. We should be able to find their traces."

Coppelia said as she picked up the test tube and shook the liquid inside.

"The environment of the Korkiger colony is actually the aftermath of the Golden Dawn's experiments."

"Huh? Wait... this color... is Hashish in it?"

Angelica identified the herb from which the liquid in the test tube came.

Hashish is an alchemical drug with strong hallucinogenic toxicity. It is a herbal medicine that can only be used in the presence of a herbalist or alchemist. Hashish is often used in the Assassin organization. The Assassin leader will give the members of the organization the drug they brewed to ensure the loyalty of the members of the organization, and make the members fearless through the hallucinogenic effect.

"That's right. Hashish is also the alchemical material used by puppet technology to fabricate puppet consciousness. When we created the perpetual motion machine, some people were also committed to studying how to improve puppet manufacturing technology. They tried to further improve puppet manufacturing by modifying alchemical materials. The modification of Hashish is also part of the plan. Their plan is to improve the accuracy of puppet consciousness by improving Hashish."

"You don't think Anna might have used this technique..."

"It's better to say that Anna wouldn't be so smart if she didn't use it. Research is always accompanied by failure. The Korkige colony is the result of failure."

"Aren't you going to clean up the mess you made?"

Angelica was speechless. The Golden Dawn was even more irresponsible than her.

"It's not my fault... I remember them saying that the failed research on Hashish attracted a lot of fairies. The fairies liked the aroma of the failed Hashish very much, and even thought that such a fragrant Hashish was a gift from us to them."

Coppelia spread out her palms innocently, as if to claim that these were all done by her colleagues and had nothing to do with her.

The final result was that the failed mutant Hashish had a hallucinogenic magic that changed cognition. The fairies mistook it for a gift and took it as a gift from their human friends. It was cultivated near the Korkige settlement, and over time, a unique environment for the Korkige settlement was formed.

The environment of the Korkiger colony that Angelica was interested in turned out to be a series of consequences caused by the failure of the Golden Dawn's research.

"I still remember some of the places we visited when we visited Fairy Island. How about letting Anjie come with me?"

193 [Witch and Mirror City]

The fairy island of Tirnano has never lacked strange cities, including Angelica's new destination after the reorganization.

"In front of us is a place called Kilmallock where we stopped in the past. It also has another name called Mirror City."

It changed from a two-person group to a three-person group, and now the guide has become Coppelia, but Angelica's mood is not much better. Ever since Coppelia joined, Angelica has been restless every night.

Considering that the search for the whereabouts of the Golden Dawn must rely on Coppelia... and the fact that there is currently a lack of clues about the "Blade" Hero, Angelica had no choice but to follow Coppelia's guidance.

"Mirror City... I seem to have some impression of it. Is it the city famous for making glasses?"

Glasses were definitely not a common item in this era. Without the radiation from electronic products, there was basically no problem of vision loss among different races. The exceptions were magical damage and excessive use of the eyes at night, and the vision loss in Mirror City belonged to the latter.

There are many races among fairies, divided into different groups like the differences between humans. Although most fairies have wings and fly in the sky, there are also fairies that like to live underground.

Gnomes are a typical representative of them. Humans have a more common name for Gnomes: goblins.

Goblins have no wings, prefer to live underground, and their pupils are naturally adapted to darkness.

Coppelia tells the history of Kilmallock, the City of Mirrors.

Goblins and goblins look quite different, but they actually all belong to the goblin tribe. There is no reproductive isolation, and there are also goblins and goblins who love each other freely.

Kilmallock was originally the most famous city where goblins lived. Influenced by the unrestrained love, many goblins who fell in love with goblins moved into Kilmallock, but problems followed: goblins could adapt to the darkness, but their lovers and offspring might not be able to do so.

The offspring of a goblin and a fairy are either goblins or flying fairies. The latter do not inherit the goblin's ability to see in the dark. Even though they have the magic of Nighthawk Song that allows them to see objects at night, the magic can only last for a period of time and cannot support long-term life.

Staying in the dark for a long time has affected the eyesight of the goblins' families. Although the goblins have improved Kilmalek and added firelight to the originally dim Kilmalek, they still cannot prevent the loss of eyesight.

"We came on the scene at that time and solved Kilmalek's dilemma like heroes!"

"I can guess..."

Angelica held her forehead silently. Coppelia's style was completely different from hers. Whenever she arrived at a place, Coppelia would not mind making some permanent changes. But that did not mean that Coppelia was a kind witch. Most of the changes she made were casual and based on her preferences, and she would definitely not provide good after-sales service.

"We provided Kilmalek with the technology to make glasses, and also gave them the method to enchant the glasses. Really, in Anjie's eyes, am I not capable of doing good things?"

"You'll find out when you get to Kilmallock. I always feel it's not that simple."

Angelica didn't distrust Coppelia. In fact, the reason why Kilmalek was called the Mirror City was because their technology in making glasses was world-famous. However, glasses were rare items and ordinary people didn't really need them. Otherwise, Kilmalek would definitely have flourished with this technology.

Mirror City Kilmallock is an underground city on Fairy Island. There are several entrances to Kilmallock from the ground. Angelica and the others entered from the tunnel marked with the southern entrance. Before they arrived at Kilmallock, they ran into a fairy.

Fairies are a race with wings. She wears a pair of exquisitely crafted glasses, which adds a touch of literary and artistic flavor to the playful nature of the fairy.

"Ah, we have guests, hello. Ahead is the beautiful mirror city of Kilmallock. If you want to find the glasses you like, you have definitely come to the right place."

The fairy lady with glasses also maintains the custom of hospitality, but the beautiful girl with glasses is not in Angelica's strike zone, of course the literary girl is another matter.

"Let me tell you a secret. In Kilmallock, glasses have magical powers. For example... I know that the heights of several people wearing glasses are 166, 164, and 166.1 respectively."

Angelica was slightly surprised that the bespectacled fairy lady could accurately tell the height of her, Anna, and Coppelia. Especially Coppelia, who was making these boring adjustments to the body she made.

After the fairy lady left, Angelica put her hands on her hips and glared at Coppelia.

"You did this, didn't you? Did your enchantment add some strange properties to Kilmalek's glasses?"

“It’s not a strange attribute.”

Coppelia defended herself in a high-sounding manner. Enchanting usually refers to attaching magic to external objects to achieve the effect of releasing magic through external objects. The method of incorporating magic formulas into scrolls is enchanting.

At the same time, there are also some enchantments that will give items special effects, usually applied to weapons or armor.

"It's boring to just give the goblins with impaired vision a pair of glasses! If you want to do it, you should be bolder and give glasses to all the goblins who can see well in the dark! The enchantment ritual for Kilmalek's glasses was originally intended to maintain the Nighthawk Song magic for a long time, but I thought it was too boring, so I simply added some spice to the magic ritual."

Coppelia is also a talented magician. She quietly changed the magic ritual. The enchantment ritual originally left to Kilmalek by the Golden Dawn would add long-term Aquila Sequence Nine: Song of the Nighthawk and Orion Sequence Nine: Hunter's Sight to the glasses. The former solves the vision problem in the dungeon, and the latter ensures the clarity of the glasses lenses.

The glasses of this era were not very sophisticated, but with the addition of the Hunter's Vision magic, they could ensure clarity and could even be adjusted adaptively.

However, Coppelia thought it was too boring, so she modified the magic formula to make the enchanted glasses produce additional effects.

Specifically, a number will appear above each person's head, and this number can display personal information. The glasses that the fairy lady got just now are the ones that automatically display everyone's net height. From her perspective, the number 166 has been floating above Angelica's head, so she always knows Angelica's net height.