The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

The border of the province of Munster, Longya Pass.

Two people were seen running fast, and behind them, dozens of staggering humanoid monsters were chasing them.

If you look closely, you can see that the bodies of the dozens of humanoid monsters are all covered with colorful mushrooms, and at the same time, a yellow-green rancid gas is diffused around.

The two people running in front are the two survivors of the "Black Sword" team who did not enter the mine to explore, the third-level wizard apprentice Mederos and the sword and shield knight Luka.

"Mederos, these ghosts are getting more and more."

"Yesterday, we successfully killed more than a dozen, but I didn't expect these monsters to become more and more difficult now!"

"Why haven't you said that the support from the branch has come yet?" The sword and shield knight Luka, who was running fast, said with a tired face.

The two of them have released both blood falcons.

Even if the first one may have an accident, it is impossible for both to have an accident. The message must have been conveyed.

"Not so fast! In the Munster branch, the captain's strength is already top-notch. Do you think it will be useful even if the other diamond-star teams are sent here?"

Medros said with a solemn face while running away quickly with the help of Swift Wind.

"This" Hearing his companion's words, Luka's face darkened. Although he didn't want to admit it, what Medros said made sense.

"It is likely that the branch should be waiting for support from the imperial capital."

"But I believe it should be soon, at least, the vanguard should be soon!" Medros didn't know whether he was talking to Luka or to himself, he just heard him murmur in a low voice.

Since the day before yesterday, humanoid monsters covered with fungi have appeared from time to time in the mine. When they found human villages, they immediately launched attacks.

This also allowed the two to see the whole process of villagers being transformed into humanoid monsters.

The third-level wizard apprentice Medros named these infected people as Xun people, which means spore people or mushroom people.

After these ordinary villagers were infected, they went in and out of the mine several times, and the number of mushroom people decreased. However, the strength of the mushroom people who came out again would gradually increase.

But the most troublesome thing is its high infectiousness.

If you fight in close combat, you will soon be infected by the yellow-green mist emitted by the opponent.

Fortunately, if you stay far enough away, you can still barely resist it with the physique of the great knight.

Otherwise, Luka would have died in the previous small-scale battles.

This also made Medeiros and Luka believe that there should be some source of infection in the mine, considering that there was a forbidden door inside.

Therefore, they can almost be sure that there is a 90% chance that there is a problem with the forbidden door in the mine.

This also explains why the captain of their team, ‘Black Sword’ Guerrero, whose strength has reached the quasi-legendary level, did not come out alive.

“Fuck! There is also one in front.” Luka’s sharp eyes immediately reminded.

“Turn left!” Medeiros shouted.

"Oh no, there are also on the left, they have surrounded us!" Luka said with a pale face.

Just as the two of them were panicking and wondering whether to fight, suddenly, these humanoid monsters stopped and quickly returned to the original path.

This made Medeiros and Luka a little confused. They looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.

"Boom!"

The two suddenly felt a vibration under their feet, and then, a sound like a landslide came from the direction of the Adachi Mine.

Even though the two were already several kilometers away from the mine, at this moment, they could clearly see that a large amount of smoke and dust suddenly erupted from the ground, and then, a huge dragon rushed out from the ground.

"Ang!!!"

The dragon roared loudly, and a thick yellow-green gas lingered around its body.

And from the broken hole in the ground, a large number of mushroom people poured out, some of which were as big as ogres.

"This must be the source!!" Medeiros looked at this scene and said in a daze.

"I understand! Those mushroom people come in and out to infect humans just to provide energy for this dragon."

"Medros, look at the direction the other party is flying." After hearing what Medros said, Luka suddenly thought of something and looked very ugly.

"Not good! It's heading towards the direction of Bretsin County City!"

"I know, it's going to continue to recover."

The two people's expressions suddenly changed!

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Munster.

On the way back to the mansion from the church, Ryan didn't chat too much with the beautiful woman, but his face was always solemn.

Because Bishop Xien and Brandoer both have the same point of view, that is, even if His Majesty the Emperor can recover, the situation will not be much better than it is now.

According to the internal statement of the Goddess Church, 'The catastrophe has come, and only the most devout believers can get the blessing of the goddess.'

Originally, Ryan felt that after he had changed his job to 'King of Thousand Blades', it should be no big problem to deal with some risks in the short term.

But now it seems that the future situation may be more difficult than he imagined.

"If you don't think about the future, you will have immediate worries."

"Don't be lazy about improving your strength."

After returning to the mansion, Ryan took out the third and last thing given by Master Mogaro - the parchment scroll of the iron combat puppet - from the drawer.

"It is almost impossible for a Dragon Vein Wizard to meet the conditions for job transfer in a short time. However, it is a battle puppet. I don't know if it is as I thought. Maybe I can find another way."

Ren's eyes flickered.

The effect of the morning activation technique left a deep impression on him.

The object he activated in the morning was just a piece of metal that could be deformed at will. According to the level, it was just a dummy. But this time it was different, it was a precision-made puppet.

Renn is still looking forward to the battle puppets made and assembled from metal.

At the same time, he also wanted to verify several ideas in his mind.

Ren unfolded the parchment, and a complex and precise drawing of the components of the iron battle puppet appeared in front of him.

The drawings mainly include the specifications, dimensions, materials, etc. of the feet, legs, and torso. It seems that due to the combat puppet, there are no palms.

Extending from the right forearm is a bladed axe, which has both the stabbing ability of a sword and the chopping ability of an axe. The original palm position of the left hand is replaced by a thick tower shield.

Normally, the production of this iron puppet, if carried out by a master blacksmith, would take about three months, and problems may occur during assembly, such as because the accuracy is not up to standard, etc.

Even for a rare metal wizard, it would probably take at least three or four days to complete one.

However, for Ren, a 'freak' wizard whose talent is metal transformation, the difficulty of making it is not much more difficult than making a complete set of knight's plate armor.

Renn took a look at it and started making it.

Since it was the first one, Renn casually used the two iron shields hanging on the wall in the study room as raw materials and quickly transformed them into pieces.

About half an hour later, all the parts of an iron battle puppet were completed.

After spending some time assembling it, Renn looked at the battle puppet that had taken on a human form and smiled.

"Animation!"

As Ren recited a spell and pointed a finger, the iron battle puppet quickly got up from the ground. It seemed that because it had movable joints, it was much more flexible and faster in movement.

This made Ren couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and nodded with satisfaction.

If the activation spell performed on the metal dummy before consumed one unit of mental power, then this time, when the activation spell was performed on the iron battle puppet, the mental power consumed reached three units.

"This activation technique is rather strange."

"It's completely different from ordinary witchcraft that consumes basically a fixed amount of mental energy."

This makes Renn's remarks about the activation spell - 'This witchcraft is a guided witchcraft, and the casting time and mental energy consumption depend on the complexity and size of the target. ’ The understanding is deeper.

"In addition, judging from the speed, we know that the Iron Skin Combat Puppet is quite strong."

"According to the principles of puppetry, after the activation spell is cast on the iron battle puppet, it will be considered successful."

At this time, the system prompt suddenly sounded:

[You have learned about Iron Skin Combat Puppet, and your related understanding has been improved! 】

[You have learned a new skill—Iron Combat Puppet]

[Your skill Iron Skin Combat Puppet has been improved, experience value +1]

At the same time, there is a new icon at the bottom of the Warhammer Wizard (Legendary) panel, next to the witchcraft 'Activation'.

The pattern on the icon is almost a picture of an iron battle puppet.

Renn focused his attention on a line of small words below the new icon:

[Iron Combat Puppet lv1]

Iron Skin Combat Puppet lv1 Effect: A small combat puppet endowed with primary intelligence and mobility by activation.

(Note: The comprehensive combat power of the iron puppet is related to its material.)

(Note: The level of the iron skin combat puppet is synchronized with the level of the activation spell, and cannot be directly improved by adding points.)

"Huh? That's interesting. Is the Iron Skin Combat Puppet a separate skill?" Renn was slightly stunned when he saw this system prompt, but he soon laughed.

"There is no experience bar."

Renn noticed this immediately. After level 1, there is no bracket content, that is, there is no experience bar.

"This is a good thing, because in this case, I only need to improve the witchcraft of activation. This saves a lot of skill points in disguise."

After completing one piece, Renn continued to make it according to his long-awaited idea.

Only this time, he changed the material.

This time he made it out of hardened adamantine.

Thanks to his previous experience, his production experience was faster this time.

Twenty minutes later, Renn completed a battle puppet with a shell made of hardened adamantine.

Thirty-five minutes later, another battle puppet made of demonized Thorium was created.

After the three battle puppets of different materials were made, Ren thought for a moment and took the iron battle puppet to the training room on the first floor.

He wanted to test three combat puppets made of different materials to confirm his suspicions.

When Renn walked into the training room, he did not expect that there were already three people inside. It was Angus, Neolo and Vieri from the team.

When they saw Ren coming in with three things that were obviously puppets, several people were stunned.

Renn smiled. It seemed that he didn't have to test it himself.

"Just in time, you are all here, try the effect of my battle puppet."

"Captain, is this a battle puppet? It's rare." Neolo was amazed after looking around the iron battle puppet.

Because most wizards specialize in elemental magic, such as fire and water, and the rare ones are earth and ice.

In other words, the pursuit of powerful lethality is the goal of most wizards.

Only a few will spend time researching potions, cultivating pets or making puppets.

"Captain, could it be that you made these three puppets yourself? I didn't even see the nameplate on them." Neoro asked suspiciously.

Although he knew that his captain was a metal wizard, he felt that his captain would not spend time and effort to make such a puppet. He hadn't seen them practicing extraordinary combat skills every day before.

"Well, it was indeed made by me."

"Well?" The three of them looked at Ryan in surprise, revealing an incomprehensible look in their eyes, as if saying, 'Why, Captain, are you interested in making puppets again? '

"Who will come first?" Ryan was looked at strangely by the three people, and immediately stopped entangled in this question and asked immediately.

"Let me try first!" Vieri looked at the three puppets and was also quite curious, and immediately rushed to say.

Ryan nodded, and immediately brought the original version of the iron battle puppet forward and stood in the center of the venue.

"Swoosh!"

The iron battle puppet stepped heavily and rushed towards Vieri quickly.

"Dang!"

Facing the iron battle puppet's right hand chop, Vieri first carefully waved his sword with both hands to parry, but the next second, his face relaxed and quickly counterattacked.

"Dangdang! Chi!"

After two consecutive attacks were blocked, Vieri went around the side of the iron battle puppet and chopped it, immediately splitting the waist of the iron battle puppet.

However, even though it was damaged, the iron battle puppet was still fearless and attacked Vieri.

"Oh! No, captain, I chopped it." Vieri stepped back two steps and shouted.

"It's okay, just a test." Ryan waved his hand and said.

He didn't mind the damage. His focus was on the performance of the iron battle puppet just now.

"It's about the combat power of a formal knight, with no obvious weaknesses, fearless and brave, equivalent to the combat power of a senior knight. Sure enough, at the level of a formal wizard, this kind of iron battle puppet is basically useless."

Ryan thought, at the same time, he walked forward and put his right hand on the damaged part, and the next second, the iron skin was restored to its original state.

"Captain, the puppet's combat is not very good. This kind, I can beat ten by myself."

"Oh? Then try this one again."

Ryan smiled and waved his hand, and saw the dark silver battle puppet walked onto the field.

"Huh? Different color? Different material?" Neoro narrowed his eyes and quickly found the difference.

"Ding Ding Ding!"

The battle in the center of the field had already started.

In less than half a minute, Vieri chopped several times in a row, all of which hit the surface of the hardened adamantium combat puppet, but after the sparks flew, only a shallow mark was left.

"Break the limit! Whirlwind slash!"

A few minutes later, Vieri, who was a little embarrassed, opened up bursts one after another, and after using his secret skills, he barely cut off one arm of the hardened adamantium combat puppet.

"Hu~Hu~"

"Captain, why is this puppet so hard?" Vieri took a breath and asked in surprise.

"Is it hardened adamantium?" Angus on the side stepped forward and touched it, and said in amazement.

"Hmm!"

"No wonder! My goodness, captain, you used so much hardened adamantium to make a combat puppet, it's too extravagant!" Vieri's eyes widened.

You know, many great knights don't have a set of knight suits made entirely of hardened adamantium, but their captain has already started using it to make puppets.

"Captain, this one... is it demonized thorium?" Neoro, the son of the Marquis, looked at the familiar metal color and couldn't help asking.

"Yes." Ryan smiled and nodded.

"Hiss~" The three of them took a breath of cold air, with an expression of disbelief on their faces.

"You train first, I'll think about it for a while."

Ryan walked aside and thought about the combat power of the hardened adamantium battle puppet.

"Super strong defense plus fearlessness is equivalent to the combat power of a peak knight. Facing an opponent who can't use witchcraft, it is comparable to the level of a beginner knight."

"Sure enough, the combat power varies greatly depending on the material."

"In addition, ordinary iron combat puppets are not useless. If there is a powerful bomb, once combined, it will be a killer weapon-self-destructing combat puppet."

"One is not enough? Then ten, or even more."

"By the way, the notes of the combat puppet say that it is synchronized with the level of the activation technique, so what will the effect of the activation technique after lv2?"

Because the activation technique is special after all, it is a rare guided witchcraft.

Ryan recalled the guided witchcraft he had mastered. The only one before was ‘Scorching Touch’.

Out of curiosity, he decided to add a little to see the effect.

With the addition of points, the activation technique instantly upgraded to level 2, and a memory of the training of the activation technique flooded into Ryan’s mind.

After Ryan came to his senses a little, he immediately checked the description changes of the activation technique level 2:

The effect of the activation technique level 2: consume a certain amount of mental power, induce the mysterious side energy particles, and give a certain humanoid or animal-like dead object activity, so that it has primary wisdom and certain action ability, which lasts for one hour.

"Hey, the duration has been increased from half an hour to one hour?" Renn's eyes lit up.

"Other wording has also changed. A certain amount of action seems to be stronger than simple action."

"Interesting." Ren nodded.

Immediately, Renn cast an activation spell on the hardened adamantine combat puppet, and then issued some simple instructions.

He found that the mental power consumption of activation level 2 had increased, and the agility of the hardened adamantine combat puppet had also been greatly improved.

At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the training room.

"Dong dong dong!"

"Please come in."

The person who came in was Olena, the deputy secretary of the mission hall.

After she smiled and nodded at Neolo and others, she stepped forward to Ren's side and said:

"Your Excellency Renn, the federal mission will be arriving soon. The Executive Office has informed you that you can leave."

"So soon? Okay, Sir Olena, let's go there now."

On the carriage.

"By the way, Your Excellency Renn, there is one more thing. The Duke of Munster proposed to Admiral Edward that he wants to hire you as the general security adviser of Munster." Olena

"Admiral Edward means to let you make your own decision in this matter."

General Security Advisor?

Ren nodded, looking thoughtful.

He had served as a security consultant in the trade zone before, so he naturally knew that consultants were basically a sinecure.

The main responsibility is to deal with special events or emergencies that occur in the city after receiving relevant requests from the Administration Department.

But in fact, Renne's own family lives in Münster, and he was almost immediately involved in the previous attacks.

In other words, for Renn, there is not much difference whether it is concurrent or not.

In addition, as a thank you to the Duke of Munster for gifting the mansion before, Renn thought about it, nodded, and said:

"In that case, I agree."

Since Rennes' new mansion is located in the aristocratic district, it only took ten minutes for the carriage to arrive at the airship parking platform.

At this time, the square on the airship platform was already crowded with people. A red carpet was laid out on the ground, and an honor guard and a military band were arranged on both sides of the crowd.

The Duke of Munster and Admiral Edward stood at the front of the welcoming crowd, surrounded by another old man in rich clothes.

"This is Duke Victor from the Imperial Capital, and he is also the person in charge of the delegation sent by the Imperial Capital to welcome the Eagle Federation." Olena on the side explained to Renne in a low voice.

Ren nodded.

He did not push his way to the front, but stood at the back of the crowd.

Renn didn't like this kind of welcome and send-off very much, but he was looking forward to seeing how the people in the Federation would be different from those in the Empire.

"Look, is it that one?"

A middle-aged nobleman pointed to somewhere in the sky and said in astonishment.

This made several nobles near him frown slightly. After all, this kind of yelling was really rude among the nobles.

However, when everyone looked up, they couldn't help but look shocked.

Renn couldn't help but follow everyone's gaze, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

I saw an extremely huge airship flying towards this side from the distant sky. In contrast, the escorting team of gryphon knights was as big as flies flying around a cake.

Renn had never seen such a large airship. In comparison, it was about ten times the size of the imperial military airship he had been on before.

As the airship gradually got closer, a buzzing vibration came from far to near.

"What is this sound? It seems to be coming from the airship." A noble asked in confusion.

"I don't know. I have never heard this kind of noise. It seems to be very regular." Another noble shook his head and said.

Renn raised his eyebrows.

He was very familiar with this kind of vibrating sound. In the busy streets of his previous life, the cars passing by like the wind and the low hum of their engines sounded much better than this.

Obviously, the one on the airship should be some kind of more primitive power device.

"Could it be a steam engine?"

Ren's heart trembled and he couldn't help but guess.

When the airship was about to arrive in Münster, the mountain-like sense of oppression caused the expressions of many waiting nobles to change.

"The Eagle Federation split from our empire hundreds of years ago. Has it developed to this extent now?" A nobleman exclaimed.

"This airship is so huge, it is more than three times larger than the largest cargo airship I have ever seen in the empire." Another nobleman was also shocked by the hugeness of the federal airship.

What Ren can understand is even more.

The huge air bag is like a full ellipsoidal cloud, with a gray-white surface. It should be made of some kind of special fabric that is extremely tough and strong.

The huge ship-shaped cabin hanging below has a brass-colored metal texture.

With Ren's excellent eyesight, he could clearly see the dense rivets on it, covering the surface of the cabin with large brass plates.

Just in terms of the solidity and craftsmanship of the cabin surface, it has already surpassed the Empire by a level.

Moreover, at the rear of the cabin, there are two huge bronze exhaust pipes, which are spraying large amounts of white steam.

At the same time, there is a huge propeller at the tail, which is different from the one used on ships. This one is much larger.

The buzzing sound that just came was the sound from the power device that turned it.

"It is indeed a steam power device!" Ren thought to himself.

At this time, the old man in gorgeous clothes next to the Duke of Munster snorted and said:

"The Federation is a group of arrogant people who want to defeat dragons and gods by studying the technology of the ancient goblin empire."

"If the imperial dragon knights were not busy, how could they show off like this?"

Ryan glanced at the old man and thought that the imperial dragon knights were very strong, but most people were afraid that they didn't know the significance of steam power.

And he naturally knew that steam power was called the symbol of the "first industrial revolution" in the previous life.

As the giant airship slowly moored, the band began to play.

Just as the welcome ceremony was about to begin, suddenly, Colonel Stanley, with a solemn face, walked in quickly, came to Admiral Edward's ear, and whispered a few words.

And the Duke of Munster's personal guards also came to report quickly!

Immediately, the faces of the two changed!