Start a Core Pod

  Chapter 40 Doll girl

"Who are you?"

  Looking at the machine girl in front of him, Duanmu Huai was also taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly asked, while the machine girl waved her hand.

   "Ah, please don't be nervous. Although I look like a puppet, I am actually a human whose soul has been sealed here by an evil wizard! Can you help me find my original body together?"

  “………”

   What kind of inexplicable expansion is this?

   Facing the request of the robot girl in front of him, Duanmuhuai felt a little puzzled, but he also nodded.

"no problem."

  Anyway, at least I can finally meet someone here to communicate with, just listen to what she wants to say.

   Just like that, a strange robot girl joined the team of Duanmuhuai and Augis.

  She introduced herself as Mia. She was originally a human being, but was cast by an evil wizard and sealed her soul in the doll. And this sky city is the castle of that evil wizard. He put himself and others here as exhibits. In fact, the other puppets on the table are also the victims of that wizard, but their souls have fallen into a deep sleep and cannot be awakened...

   "Really, really thank you, sir, and miss."

  Following behind the two, Mia expressed gratitude.

"This body is very stiff, it is really inconvenient to move, and the most disturbing thing is that the clothes have cute lace trim... If it is not the body of a doll, I must have cried a long time ago. Now it's all right, If I am with the two of you, I feel that I will be able to regain my original body!"

"Well……"

  Hearing Miya's words, Duanmuhuai was stunned. To be honest, he always felt that this direction was weird. Sky City? Evil wizard? puppet? magic? No... This lady, you have nothing to do with magic here, okay, since I came to Sky City until now, what I have seen are basically technological creations.

Including Mia's body, although her appearance is similar to Aojisi, but Duanmuhuai can be sure that as long as Mia is smashed, there must be all kinds of dense steel structures and cables inside—this is the same as Aojisi. Dolls like Jiss are completely different.

  If you want to say that your consciousness is transmitted into the body of a robot by some kind of equipment, it makes more sense!

  Or maybe this Miss Mia's consciousness comes from some indigenous people? If this is the case, it is not surprising that she would have such thoughts. After all, technological means such as consciousness transmission are indeed similar to magic in the eyes of these low-civilized natives.

   Forget it, you will know when you go.

  Although they have doubts about Mia's words, at least under her guidance, the two have their next goal. So Duanmuhuai and Augis followed Mia's guidance and continued to move towards the "evil wizard's residence".

  Of course, they encountered more enemies.

"Roar---!!"

Holding a hammer in hand, Duanmuhuai rushed forward, and collided heavily with a burly robot guard. Its appearance was similar to the previous [Magic Steel Lion], but this time the robot's head was not a lion, but a The appearance of a tiger.

  【Steel Tiger】

  【LV30】

   Compared with [Magic Steel Lion], [Steel Tiger] has a higher level, but its attack power is not as strong as [Magic Steel Lion], but its defense is very outstanding. Duanmuhuai's ability to destroy enemies of this level alone is still low, but fortunately, relying on the summoned puppet and cooperating with Aojisi who is next to him, Duanmuhuai still killed the [Steel Sword] Tiger], taking advantage of the opportunity of the other party's claw slap in the air, Duanmuhuai roared, and the hammer in his hand directly hit the core on the back of [Steel Tiger], knocking it to the ground, and then swung the hammer again, directly smashed it to pieces.

   "Hoo......"

  It wasn't until the last tiger robot fell to the ground that Duanmuhuai took a breath, and then summoned [Repair the Opportunity Skull] to start repairing the power armor. With just a few [Steel Tigers], the durability of his power armor has directly dropped to below 20%. If he does it again, the power armor will be broken directly.

   What made Duanmuhuai even more depressed was that there was no experience value for killing monsters in soul fragments. Like the two soul fragments he had experienced before, it was the same for Augis' doll house and the scholar's haunted mansion. There is no experience value for killing monsters in it, and there is no experience value for completing tasks. You will only get soul cards.

  This setting in the game is to prevent players from leveling up. After all, just like the haunted mansion before, players can start over again and again as long as the mission is not completed. Therefore, it is also possible that some players deliberately take advantage of this feature to repeatedly use soul fragments as dungeons, and deliberately do not complete the task to spawn monsters and upgrade. Therefore, it is set in the game that players cannot gain experience by killing monsters in soul fragments, and there is no experience for completing tasks-only soul cards will be given.

  But... the boss level in this place will not exceed level 40.

  Looking at the wreckage of [Steel Tiger] in front of him, Duanmuhuai frowned. From the [Magic Steel Lion] to [Mechanical Soldier], and then to [Steel Tiger]. Most of the monsters in this soul fragment map are between level 20 and level 30. If these robots are made by the "wizard" that Mia mentioned, then his level is likely to be around level 40.

  Of course, this is not certain, just like the scholar in the haunted mansion, his own level is not even level 10, and in the general technological world, the level of individual strength is actually not high. At least for now, the monsters that Duanmuhuai encountered in the Castle of the Sky are basically technological creations. In this case, there is also the possibility that the individual level of the "wizard" is not high.

  Of course, in this kind of setting, the opponent will create a powerful robot, but if his own strength is low, Duanmuhuai can use the doll to assassinate him, bypassing the boss battle and winning.

  In short, I hope it is not too dangerous.

  Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai glanced at Aojis beside him. Although Aojis can fight enemies around level 70, he doesn't want Aojis to take risks. There is no card in Duanmu Huai's hand that can be used to retrieve graves. Dolls can proliferate indefinitely, and ghosts can be transformed through dolls.

   But if Augis goes into the cemetery, it will be difficult to fish her out.

  According to the design of the soul card, after the follower enters the graveyard, he can only be awakened again through the card with [Dead Call] to play. After using the magic card and spell card and entering the graveyard, if you want to use it again, you need to consume the experience value of the card consumption X1000 to reset it to the hand card.

  Currently, Duanmu Huai doesn't have the [Dead Call] card in his hand, so he has to be careful.

  Duanmu Huai has made up his mind. If the final boss here is really too difficult, then he will give up the strategy temporarily, go to other places to improve his strength, and then come back to finish it.

   You can't let Augis die here.

   After defeating the attack of the machine army again, the group finally came to the palace in Sky City, and at this moment, Mia suddenly raised her hand and pointed forward.

   "Ah, there it is! That evil wizard!"

Hearing Mia's words, Duanmuhuai and Augis both raised their heads and looked in the direction of Mia's finger. On the balcony on the second floor of the palace, there was a figure in a long robe standing there, looking coldly. stared at them.

   "I didn't expect you to find a helper, Mia."

   "Evil wizard, give me back my body!"

"Hehe, stupid idiot, your body has long been my collection, and I wanted to let you live in the form of a puppet out of mercy, but now it seems...it seems that I have to teach you a little lesson It's...!"

   “………???”

  Listening to the conversation between the wizard and Mia, Duanmuhuai frowned slightly, he always felt that something was not quite right. Logically speaking, the situation in this soul fragment is now very clear. A wizard... no matter who he is, in short, he extracted the soul of a girl named Mia from the body and injected it into the body of the robot. Then Mia asked for help, hoping that someone could defeat the wizard and get her body back.

   It seems that the whole content is correct, but... Duanmuhuai always feels that it doesn't make sense.

  Compared to the remorse of the previous puppeteer and the ambivalence of the scholar, Mia's feelings don't seem to be strong enough to fix a sky city here and become a soul fragment.

  Especially, the level of monsters in this sky city is not low, and their strength is also very strong... Is this a fragmented world that a soul sealed in a robot like Miya can create?

   Is there any hidden secret in it?

   Just as Duanmuhuai was thinking, the man in the cloak also raised his hands.

   "Wake up, my guard, and destroy these stupid invaders!"

   "Boom...boom...boom...!!"

Accompanied by the man's call, the gate of the palace in front of him slowly opened, and then, a group of large robots that were almost as large as Duanmu Huai walked out of it. Not only that, but above their heads, there were also floating Some weird mechanical creations that don't look like humans at all-they have a prismatic or circular core, surrounded by a circle of iron rings, like wonderful works of art suspended in the air.

  【Large Mechanical Soldier】【Ancient Creation】【Analyzed Creation】【Mysterious Creation】

"coming!"

  Looking at the steel corps in front of him, Duanmuhuai was startled, and hurriedly restrained his thoughts, and then he also hurriedly activated the soul card again. Soon, an army of puppets appeared in front of Duanmuhuai, corresponding to the steel corps on the opposite side.

   "Attack!!"

  As the man in the cloak roared, the next moment, the battle between the steel and the puppet began.

  (end of this chapter)