Chapter 60: Crafting a Psionic Golem

Han Xing noticed a corner within the deep pit where some patterns seemed to be covered by the ruins.

"Huh? There's more?"

He quickly jumped down and tried to clear away the rubble to see what these patterns were.

Equipped with the Barbarian Gauntlets, Han Xing's strength had already reached 45 points. Combined with the 30% boost from the Potions of the Savage Bear, his strength was now close to 60 points!

His current strength attribute was more than enough to move these heavy boulders.

Boulders were removed one by one. After gritting his teeth and pushing aside a stone pillar, an even larger puppet pattern appeared beneath Han Xing's feet.

A system prompt appeared.

[You have discovered the manufacturing blueprint for Kelong: Enhanced Psionic Puppet (Elite Grade). The manufacturing blueprint has been recorded.]

"Holy shit!!!"

A shout that echoed throughout the entire palace rang out.

At that very moment, the time limit for the secret realm expired.

Han Xing suddenly felt his body turn illusory, and the next moment, he was teleported back to his own territory.

...

Above his head, the azure sky reappeared.

Even so, it took a long time for Han Xing to recover from his shock.

This trip to the secret realm had completely exceeded his expectations.

Not only had he harvested the manufacturing method for psionic puppets, but at the very end, he had actually discovered the manufacturing method for elite-grade psionic puppets!

It was simply a tremendous surprise!

Suppressing his excited emotions, Han Xing began to examine the elite-grade psionic puppet manufacturing blueprint.

[Enhanced Psionic Puppet Blueprint]: Allows the creation of enhanced psionic puppets of different levels based on this blueprint. The level of the psionic puppet is determined by the number of psionic cores added during manufacturing. The number of psionic cores required to make a Level 1 psionic puppet is 5,000; Level 2 requires 10,000, and so on. (Please note: The level of the created enhanced psionic puppet cannot exceed the Survivor's level.)

[Materials Required for Manufacturing]: Enhanced Psionic Core x1, Special Clay x20,000 (can be replaced with refined iron), Mithril x5,000, Rare Earth x50,000, Aether x40,000.

[Manufacturing Success Rate: 5% (Enhanced by the God-tier Craftsman talent, success rate has reached 100%).]

The materials required for an elite-grade psionic puppet increased exponentially, but compared to its powerful attributes, it was all worth it.

He only had one enhanced psionic core on hand, which meant he could only craft a single elite-grade puppet.

After using some materials to repair the damaged psionic core, Han Xing impatiently clicked to start manufacturing.

[Do you wish to manufacture Enhanced Psionic Puppet (Elite Grade) x1? Time required for manufacturing: 4 hours.]

"Yes."

[Manufacturing Enhanced Psionic Puppet. Remaining time: 3 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds...]

Han Xing glanced at the construction time for his primary lord's castle. There were less than 9 hours left until it would be completely finished.

At this point, more than half of the castle had been constructed. The lower two floors were already taking shape, leaving only the final central tower incomplete.

"Very good. By the time I craft a few puppets, the castle should be just about finished. By then, my territory will be considered to have initial defensive capabilities."

Han Xing eagerly imagined what the finished castle would look like.

At that moment, Han Xing received a message in the discussion group sent by Cheng Jianyong. He tapped it to check.

As soon as he entered the discussion group, he heard Cheng Jianyong say with suppressed anger, "Damn it, what rotten luck!"

Han Xing and Shen Yun both sensed that his tone was wrong and quickly asked, "What happened?"

Cheng Jianyong said indignantly, "Just now on the road, I ran into two little bastards who approached me on their own initiative, saying their territory had been invaded by monsters and they had suffered severe injuries, hoping I could save them."

"I figured since we're all from Blue Star, we're at least of the same kind, so I felt a bit of compassion. But I didn't expect that after these two little bastards ran to my territory to treat their injuries, they actually set their eyes on the equipment I was wearing!"

"These two guys suddenly attacked me. I almost got killed by them!"

Han Xing sensed the severity of the situation and quickly asked, "How are you now? Do you want us to come over?"

Shen Yun also hurriedly said, "Quickly send the coordinates. I'm going over right now to waste those two little bastards!"

Cheng Jianyong said in a somewhat heavy tone within the discussion group, "No need to come over, I've already taken care of it."

Hearing this, the two of them felt a jolt in their hearts. They knew what Cheng Jianyong meant by "taking care of it."

At a juncture like that, once both sides started fighting, it definitely wouldn't be easy to hold back.

In other words, these two ill-intentioned guys had likely been directly eliminated by Cheng Jianyong.

Unlike previous battles against those monsters, this time Cheng Jianyong had genuinely killed people.

However, neither of them said anything. After all, in a world like this without legal constraints, one had to do everything possible to protect themselves.

Besides, when someone was trying to kill you, what else were you waiting for if not to take them down?

At this moment, the atmosphere in the discussion group was somewhat heavy.

Then, Cheng Jianyong sighed again, "This time, fortunately, I had your help, and you gave me so many blue-tier equipment and skills, which allowed me to counter-kill those two little bastards. Otherwise..."

He said earnestly, "Brother Xing, Brother Yun, I've realized that in this world, we must protect ourselves well!"

"If they are unfamiliar people, we must absolutely not let them land in our territory!"

The two of them knew that Cheng Jianyong's warning made a lot of sense.

After confirming that Cheng Jianyong was alright, Han Xing closed the discussion group.

A moment later, he muttered thoughtfully, "Sure enough, just as I thought, although human survivors currently all share common survival difficulties, there are definitely still a small fraction of ill-intentioned individuals among them."

"I must improve my strength as quickly as possible, and at least set up the defensive fortifications of the territory first. That way, even if I encounter some guys who want to make a move on me, they'll have to weigh whether they have the capability!"

Thinking of this, Han Xing took Coal Ball and continued to push for higher levels.

With his current strength, coordinated with the metamorphosed Coal Ball, ordinary floating island monsters posed virtually no threat to him.

As long as he didn't court death by approaching those monster floating islands a thousand square meters in size, he basically wouldn't encounter enemies stronger than himself.

By the afternoon at sunset,

Han Xing had just wiped out a group of Goblins, and his level had risen to 80% of Level 7.

Through a day of exploration, his territory area had expanded directly from over 1,200 square meters to over 2,000 square meters, nearly doubling in size.

However, Han Xing did not continue to expand the usable area of his territory.

Instead, he folded over a thousand blocks of territory and placed them underneath the floating island, putting them into a stacked state.

His floating island territory area shrank back down to one thousand square meters. If he acquired other building blueprints later, he could still switch them back to a single-tier state at any time.

Right now, however, he had no buildings that needed construction, and spreading the territory area too large was not necessarily a good thing.

At the same time, a system prompt appeared.

[Manufacturing of Enhanced Psionic Puppet (Elite Grade) is complete.]

The system prompt ended.

Han Xing saw that in the center of the territory, a steel giant standing a full five meters tall had suddenly appeared.

This was the elite-grade psionic puppet that had just been crafted.

It seemed that because the main material, 'Special Magic Clay,' had been replaced with refined iron, the appearance of this psionic puppet had turned into that of a steel giant.

Before his eyes, the puppet's attributes also appeared.

[Enhanced Psionic Puppet (One-Star Elite Grade)]

[Level: Lv7]

[Strength: 68, Agility: 37, Spirit: 49, Constitution: 71]

[Remaining Psionic Value: 0]

[Psionic Core Remaining Defense Value: 300]

[Skills: Charged Barrage, Steel Body (Passive skill, reduces physical attack damage by 40%), Seismic Impact (The psionic puppet leaps high and slams heavily into the ground, triggering a massive ground impact and dealing heavy damage to enemies within range).]

Compared to the elite-grade puppet he had challenged in the secret realm, this puppet's agility attribute was a notch lower, but its other attributes had seen slight increases.

Han Xing estimated that this was also caused by changing the main material for crafting the psionic puppet to refined iron.

However, its second skill, Rock Body, had changed into Steel Body, and the damage reduction effect had also been somewhat enhanced.

Just for defense, this psionic puppet's attributes were qualified.

At this moment, the psionic puppet remained motionless, just as if it had crashed.

Han Xing knew the reason: the psionic core had no energy.

So he walked to the side of the psionic puppet and began to replenish its energy. A system prompt appeared.

[Do you wish to invest psionic cores into the Enhanced Psionic Puppet to replenish its psionic value?]

[Note: 100 psionic cores can replenish 1 point of psionic value. Every 1 point of psionic value allows the Enhanced Psionic Puppet to enter combat status for 1 hour.]

"Oh? In other words, 10,000 psionic cores can only allow this psionic puppet to fight for 100 hours?"

"This consumption is a bit large..."

Han Xing finally realized that the psionic puppet truly lived up to its name; it required psionic cores for everything.

He had been thinking about creating a puppet legion in the future, but if the consumption was always like this, a single battle would require him to consume tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of psionic cores.

Even with his reserves, he would find it somewhat unaffordable.

For now, though, he could still bear the consumption of just a few puppets.

With a wave of his hand, Han Xing directly invested 5,000 psionic cores, replenishing its psionic value to 50 points.

The next moment, the energy core on the psionic puppet's chest emitted a brilliant green light, and it regained its mobility.

On a whim, Han Xing suddenly wanted to test the degree to which this psionic puppet received his commands, so he said, "Advance."

The psionic puppet moved its heavy steps and began to march forward in strides.

Thud! Thud!

The territory shook continuously, and the furniture and sofa were jolted a few centimeters off.

"Stop!"

The psionic puppet's movements instantly halted.

"Attack stance."

As soon as the words fell, a terrifying cluster of energy condensed in the psionic puppet's hand.

One second, two seconds.

The cluster of energy in the psionic puppet's hand fluctuated more and more intensely.

And Han Xing also saw that its psionic value dropped by one point in just a few short seconds.

Han Xing hurriedly had the psionic puppet stop charging energy.

The next moment, a green energy cluster radiating a powerful destructive aura roared into the sky.

Boom!

A muffled explosion sounded.