Please be my partner.

In less than an hour, a shocking momentum suddenly erupted in Stormwind City, followed by the second and third. At the same time, a huge figure streaked across the sky like a meteor and flew towards the abandoned village.

The huge figure crashed through the air, causing a huge sonic boom and plowing a clear mark on the ground along the way.

The moment he saw the huge figure appear, Melen knew that he no longer needed to wait, so he dispersed the dream power left in the abandoned village and left quietly.

Mellen looked at Stormwind City, where the aura was connected as one, like an iron barrel, and shook his head slightly. He was not ready to return to the Brotherhood of Craftsmen.

With such a big incident, I'm afraid the entire Brotherhood of Craftsmen will enter a long-term state of martial law. Newcomers like Mellen, who have only been here for two months, will be the focus of scrutiny.

Mellen's actions in the Brotherhood of Craftsmen over the past two months cannot withstand much scrutiny. Even if he can get away with it, he will probably be under surveillance and investigation for a long time.

Instead of doing this, it’s better to just leave.

Melen randomly picked a direction and ran for hundreds of miles in one breath. When the sky gradually brightened, he had arrived at a flat hillside.

Looking at the beautiful sight of the rising sun in the distance, Melen nodded with satisfaction, set up the fairy tale cottage on the spot, and prepared to stay here for a while.

After condensing the reading device, Melen placed the two data modules in his hand into it one by one for interpretation.

After reading through the information, Melen showed a look of regret. One of the documents contained one-third magic runes, while the other document recorded technologies such as gravity rings, magnetic field restraints, and autonomous defense artillery.

Although I failed to obtain complete information on magic runes, what I have now is already a pleasant surprise.

I believe that with this information, Garuru will not need Melen to worry about it for a long time in the future.

When the information was handed over to Garuru, the latter had just completed the [Mechanical Armament·Spike Version Type I]. Seeing the mechanical dog's eager expression, Melen naturally nodded in agreement.

Spike, on the other hand, looked at Garuru with some suspicion, always feeling that this little thing was not very reliable, but since the boy had already nodded, he had no choice but to cooperate.

Garuru charged headfirst into Spike, its mechanical body deforming with a series of "crackling" sounds in mid-air. The moment it came into contact with Spike, it covered him layer by layer, sleekly forming a fully covered mecha that completely enveloped Spike.

After Spike merged into Mechanical Spike, he moved his body slightly. Although he felt something was wrong, it didn't seem as bad as he had imagined.

Mellen looked at the mechanical Spike in its combined form. Not to mention how much its strength had improved, its cool appearance alone was enough to prove that Garuru had a good aesthetic sense.

After a moment of testing, Spike showed helplessness. Garuru's mecha transformation was not without improvement for him, but the improvement was not that big. Moreover, because of the mecha's wrapping, its flexibility was reduced to a certain extent.

more importantly……

"Woof!~"

Spike roared towards the sky, and his body began to grow rapidly, but when his size expanded to about six meters, he stopped. You know, with his current mastery of the "Giant", he can expand his size to more than ten meters at most.

The reason why it stopped at six meters is mainly because Garuru can no longer expand.

Garuru itself has the ability to mechanically transform, and can naturally adjust its own structural size according to Spike's body size, but this adjustment is also limited and needs to be subject to the total metal mass it can control.

This total metal mass is limited by Garuru's own strength level. Even though the mechanical dog has upgraded its race level to level two during this period, the total amount of metal it can currently control is not enough to support Spike's complete mecha structure.

After the fusion state was released, Spike was speechless. Not only did his strength not increase after the fusion, but it actually decreased. What's the point?

Garuru hung his head, looking listless and devastated.

Melen smiled and touched Garuru, saying, "It's the first time, so there will be all kinds of problems. This is normal. Don't be discouraged. We will slowly improve in the future."

After being comforted by Mellen, Garuru instantly regained his spirit and immediately devoted himself to a new round of research.

Looking at the little mechanical thing that was full of fighting spirit, Spike had already sensed that he would inevitably be tormented in the future.

In short, this [Mechanical Armament·Spike Version Type I] was declared a failure.

Seeing that there was nothing for Spike to do, he greeted Mellen and went to exercise on his own. He was originally the most hardworking of all the dogs. Since the golden retriever joined, the two curly dogs often competed with each other, and the dog became even more hardworking.

Mellen also went to check on the other two dogs.

As expected, Golden Retriever is training his own bloodline power, hoping to perfectly control the Dark Prison Dragon Dog form as soon as possible.

Although Melen predicted that Golden Retriever only needed to complete one evolution to solve all problems, the evolution of Golden Retriever was still a long way off, and uncontrolled forces might also become an obstacle in future evolution.

Therefore, the current exercise of Golden Retrievers can be regarded as laying the foundation for future evolution, and it is not a useless effort.

Little Liuli's behavior was beyond Melen's expectations. It was actually reading a book?

Of course, the book I was reading was a fairy tale enlightenment book with pictures. It probably told the story of a princess who was captured and locked up by a villain, and a righteous knight who went through many dangers to rescue her.

When Mellen saw this story, strange thoughts flashed through his mind...

"If this were a fairy tale for adults, by the time the knight found the princess, her child would probably be crawling all over the floor."

"Then the name of the fairy tale could be changed to something like 'Princess No Misery' or 'Dark Dungeon No Misery'."

With a dry cough, he wiped the inappropriate images from his mind and came to Xiao Liuli. The latter immediately threw herself on him happily, making "嘤嘤嘤" sounds, looking extremely happy.

At this time, little Liuli has grown to nearly 40 centimeters, growing much faster than a normal red-eared fox. His whole body is fluffy, especially his fluffy and soft tail, which seems to have a hint of strange color when it shakes, making him quite cute.

After playing with the cute little fairy for a while, Melen opened its attribute panel...

【Name】：Glass

[Race]: Red-eared Fox (Dark Green Elite)

[Racial Level]: Zero

[Racial Skills]: Charm, Enchantment, Stun

【Evolution direction】：→???

【Status】: Unknown origin digesting

There is no change in strength, and the racial level is still level zero, but there are significant changes in racial skills.

The general effects of the original [Charm] remain unchanged. It is still a natural all-round friendly aura and reduces the enemy's mental resistance. Now there is an additional active activation ability, which can greatly improve the effect in a short period of time.

[Charm]: Casts mental charm on the target. Depending on the target's mental resistance, the caster can gain varying amounts of favor in a short period of time. At most, the caster can break the target's own sanity limit and make the target obedient.

In addition, after the charm is successfully cast, a hidden charm mark will be imprinted in the target's mind. Even if the charm effect ends, the target will continue to have more favorable impressions of the caster over time, and eventually reach the upper limit of the charm effect.

The success rate of charm depends on the mental strength of both parties and the mental resistance of the target. If it fails, the caster will suffer mental backlash.

[Shock]: Launches a wide-area mental shock, and can also deliver a higher-intensity mental shock to a single target. The shocked target will undergo a mandatory mental check. Those who fail the check will become comatose, dizzy, or dazed.

Judging from the racial skills that Xiao Liuli has awakened so far, it is simply a perfect auxiliary. The three mental skills [Charm], [Charm], and [Shock] complement each other and can bring Xiao Liuli's spiritual advantages to the extreme.

And this may also become Xiao Liuli's future development direction.

The only thing that made Melen a little uncertain was the origin that was still being digested in Xiao Liuli's body. He didn't know what kind of changes this origin would bring to the latter.

But judging from what happened to Xiao Liuli's mother, the little fox, this origin should also be spiritual.

Thinking of this, Melen already had a general direction in mind for Xiao Liuli's future growth.

In the following time, Mellen began a busy life of going out early and returning late.

During the day, you can ride a dragon to the sea to hunt and gain spiritual energy. At night, you can find an island with nice scenery to spend the night and experience survival on a deserted island.

At the same time, he also issued two orders to the two forces under his command... the Fairy Tale Alliance formed by Florence and the King's Right Wing Adventure Group formed by Carl.

The first is to collect as many rare metal minerals as possible, all of which are prepared for Garuru.

Whether it is as food for Garuru, or to lay the foundation for creating more powerful mechanical creations in the future, or even the Titan Colossus and the Colossus Fortress, these are all essential accumulations.

The second is to collect information about the 'Swallowing Swamp'.

Thanks to this chance encounter with [Shepherd] Pat, Mellen looked through his "little notebook" again and found that among all the enemies he could mention, the only one left was the "Devouring Swamp".

The 'Swallowing Swamp' is a powerful forbidden object, and some strong people have used its power to form the Devouring Council, a powerful force spanning multiple human kingdoms. It can be said that even if a single human kingdom wants to deal with it, it is not an easy task.

This is also the fundamental reason why the 'Swallowing Swamp' can unscrupulously mark and plunder people with potential in various human kingdoms, but the official crackdown is never strong enough.

However, Melen is very confident in his current strength and feels that he can have a little confrontation with this giant force.

During this period, Carl's King's Right Wing Adventure Group developed in full swing. With the addition of the navy, the scattered pirate forces that were conquered could easily form stronger combat effectiveness after a certain amount of military training.

This also caused Carl's power to expand rapidly like a snowball.

Especially in recent times, the indigenous tribes of Golden Island seemed to have reached a certain understanding with Carl, and a small number of indigenous strongmen began to join his team and serve him, which greatly increased the war potential of the King's Right Wing Adventure Group.

Compared with Carl's side, the Fairy Tale Alliance of Florence is not much inferior.

The Fairy Tale Alliance was originally formed by a few old foxes who had extensive connections and experience. They easily completed the construction of the alliance's basic framework and then expanded rapidly.

Coupled with the success of the fairy tale promotion plan, many fairy tale characters have been strengthened to varying degrees, which has further stimulated the extension of the Fairy Tale Alliance's minions.

Melen has currently transformed the third batch of fairy tale lives, and this is still the result of strict screening by the Fairy Tale Alliance itself.

Only a small number of them belong to the Kingdom of Kro, and most of them come from other human kingdoms in the surrounding area.

With the self-growth of these two forces, Mellen has unknowingly become a veritable giant.

Chapter 189: Golden War Dog, Immortal Fighting Will, Age of Gods

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, there were only a few days left before the appointment with Professor Moss.

Mellen had a great time hunting in the sea during this period. The resources in the sea were much richer than those on land. With the golden retriever as a means of transportation, they moved extremely quickly. In one month, they gained nearly 3000+ spiritual energy.

However, because he frequently appeared on the sea and was seen by many people, a legend of "the man who controls a giant dragon" gradually spread on the sea.

In addition to Mellen's gains, the dogs also gained something.

Little Red Lotus had the least improvement. It had already reached the current world limit. And because it was a member of the Blood Demon, a race that was not welcomed by the world, it could only hide in Melen's body by incarnating its blood to avoid the world's attention. Therefore, it had basically stopped exercising on its own and could only rely on the spiritual energy fed back by the [Wolf Tamer] contract to improve slowly.

As he approaches the limit of the third level, Spike's strength improvement rate becomes slower and slower. Of course, this slowness is only compared with his previous progress speed. Compared with other third-level strongmen, the dog's current progress speed is still terrifying, which is enough to scare a lot of people.

Golden Retriever has made remarkable progress. After all, the Dark Prison Dragon Dog is its own power. As long as it continues to familiarize itself with it and master it, its strength will increase rapidly. Moreover, taking Mellen to run around on the sea every day is itself a training process.

Xiao Liuli is still growing. Compared with the little Honglian at the beginning, Xiao Liuli's growth rate now is at the normal level of extraordinary life.

After all, Xiao Honglian was a blood demon before, a weapon specially transformed by the Endless Sea of Blood to conquer many worlds. No one would think of letting it develop for three to five years before taking effect when creating a cannon fodder weapon. Similar to when Mellen was being hunted, Xiao Honglian relied on swallowing a large amount of blood to reach the third-level limit in a short period of time. This is the correct way to open the blood demon.

Although Garuru's own strength has not improved much during this period, his attainments in mechanics have made great strides. Coupled with the various rare resources collected by Carl's King's Right Wing Adventure Group and Florence's Fairy Tale Alliance, he is even more powerful.

After mastering the mechanical knowledge that Mellen had "obtained" from the Brotherhood of Craftsmen, Garuru completed a new round of transformation of his opponent's energy machinery.

Not only have the mechanical puppet wolves been upgraded to the second-level limit, but they have also been equipped with two weapons: elemental cannons and psychic rays. These mechanical dog minions no longer have to use their claws monotonously when fighting.

In addition, the upgrading of weapons has brought more tactics to the mechanical puppet wolves, including close combat, long-range sniping, artillery bombardment, and varied tactics that can adapt to more complex combat environments.

More importantly, the design of the [Mechanical Armament Spike Version Type II] was successful. Type II compensated for and improved upon the various shortcomings of Type I, the most important of which were the limited flexibility and the inability to increase Spike's size to its maximum. These two issues were solved well.

That is, it has changed from the original fully covered mecha form to the current semi-covered mecha form.

In fact, this is a very good idea. The full-coverage mecha actually follows the design concept of human mecha. That is because the human body is relatively fragile and naturally needs the comprehensive protection of mecha.

But for Spike, its body strength is no less than that of gold and iron, so an extra layer of metal protection is not necessary. On the contrary, the semi-covered type can bring out more advantages.

When Garuru and Spike merged, Spike's head, left shoulder, and claws were covered with metal mecha.

While providing an extra layer of protection, the head also benefits from Garuru's combat assistance, helping Spike collect more data in complex battles.

There are two combat weapons on the left shoulder: the elemental cannon and the psychic ray, which to some extent make up for Spike's weakness of lacking long-range attack means.

Of course, generally speaking, Spike only has one choice, and that is the psychic ray. After all, the elemental cannon currently only has a single-element attack mode, and Garuru has not yet mastered the technology of multi-element fusion, so its power is limited.

The claws are made of metals that Garuru has fused through his innate ability, which have properties such as sharpness and strength. They can also be stretched to a certain extent, making them quite suitable weapons.

In addition, Garuru added magical rune technology to the Type II. Although Garuru only developed the basics of these technologies during this period, they are still useful.

Garuru has added a series of wind runes, allowing Spike to passively gain an additional 10% agility when in fusion.

This improvement in itself is good, but more importantly, it’s just the beginning.

In the future, as Garuru further studies and analyzes magical rune technology, the effect of this improvement will gradually increase. This is a path with considerable potential.

The success of [Mechanical Armament Spike Version II] gave Garuru more confidence, but it also exposed its biggest shortcoming, which was its strength.

The mechanical dog's own strength is still too weak after all. If it can reach the third-level limit, then the efficiency of collecting battlefield information, the strength of weapon configuration, and the number of magic runes it carries will be greatly improved.

By then, the combined power of Mechanical Spike might be able to fight against the legendary strongman.

The legendary strongman mentioned here is not the defective product that was born in the magic cave, but a true legend who has completed the promotion properly and mastered a trace of the power of rules.

After combing the dogs, Mellen started to get down to business.

The so-called serious business was naturally the purpose of his going out early and coming back late to fight in the wild during this period...to explore the bloodline for Spike.

At this time, Mellen was on a deserted island, so he was not worried about being disturbed.

Mellen let the other dogs go play and left Spike alone.

Spike had a premonition of what would happen today, and he squatted beside the boy with a solemn expression.

Mellen smiled and said, "Relax, Spike, this isn't the first time we've done this. We should have experience by now."

Spike nodded slightly, but his expression showed no sign of relaxing.

Mellen stopped trying to persuade him. He took out a beach chair and sat down behind him. Then he stroked Spike's head and said softly, "Let's get started."