Chapter 1245 - Exploring and Dismantling (1/2)
Gandaph led Lin Yun out of this dozen-kilometer-wide wreck. On the edge, they saw a dozen puppets around level 10 fighting. They were clearly fighting over territories.
Those puppets were completely different from human-made puppets. Their bodies were covered in welding marks and the parts didn’t fit with one another. The weapons and shields they wielded were made of relatively large parts and looked very crude.
The battle ended quickly and the victorious puppet didn’t even care about its own injuries as it rapidly tore open its opponents bodies and dismantled their parts to upgrade its own parts.
Lin Yun and Gandaph turned invisible and walked through these ruins only to see an endless black earth spreading in front of them. Large chunks of steel could be seen exposed on the ground. In many locations, the purity of the ore had already reached a very high degree and the ground over a few kilometers already looked like pure black steel.
They kept walking over the black earth and would see mountains of parts every few kilometers. There was even a mountain range spreading over several dozen kilometers.
Gandaph was right, this was indeed the safest entry point. They flew at a low altitude for a few dozen kilometers and could only see a pure forest of steel. The strongest puppet they saw was only at level 33.
They saw a steel tower over a kilometer in height after flying over seventy kilometers. Terrifying energy flickered at the peak of the steel tower and lightning condensed into a several-dozen-meter-big sphere of lightning which then shot into the sky.
“This kind of scene is hard to come by.” Gandaph sighed.
He stood where he was and looked towards the depths of the sky.
Three seconds later, Lin Yun saw a meteorite falling down from the sky with a terrifying speed, it was at least seven kilometers in width. At that time, the several-dozen-meter-big sphere of lightning came in contact with that meteorite.
The lightning bolts were like countless sharp blades flashing and instantly wrapping around the meteorite before cutting it into countless pieces.
Those countless fragments scattered and fell over a few dozen kilometers. Over that range, and with the size of the fragments, the damage to the earth would be almost negligible.
Gandaph glanced at the fragments and said with a regretful tone, “Did you see that meteorite’s color? It seemed to have been carrying some rare metal, this should be Eternal Dark Gold. Unfortunately, the sky of the Puppet Plane has no anti-meteorite defense. It could be said that the Puppet Plane’s anti-air defenses are very weak, and thus, meteorites are frequently falling down.
“Those lightning towers are built by Heaven Puppets as anti-meteorite defenses. This should be the territory of a Heaven Puppet. Seeing a lightning tower means that we aren’t far from a city of steel. Let’s wait, since there is a kilometer-tall lightning tower, that means that the steel city shouldn’t be small. It might have many Heaven Puppets.”
Lin Yun didn’t say anything and observed the lightning tower instead. Just now, the power of that several-dozen-meter-big lightning sphere was comparable to a Heaven Rank powerhouse’s all-out spell. But that lightning tower only took a second to condense that lightning sphere and it perfectly deduced the meteorite’s trajectory.
Seeing Lin Yun’s appearances, Gandaph didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
“Sir Mafa, I urge you not to attack the lightning tower. If you do so, we might end up attracting a puppet army and a terrifying puppet might appear.
“Alright, here it is!”
As soon as Gandaph’s words echoed, Lin Yun looked into the distance and saw a seven-meter-big puppet flying in the air and rapidly catching those falling fragments of meteorite. Every piece was flickering with metallic luster, clearly containing highly pure metal.
Gandaph scattered his invisibility and calmly floated in the air. At that moment, that seven-meter-tall four-arm puppet turned towards them, its blue crystal eyes flickering with light as it immediately discarded the ores in its hands. Four 5-meter-long greatswords slashed towards Gandaph.
Gandaph calmly hovered, looking at that level 43 puppet. An impressive blue law rune suddenly shot out of his fingertips, turning into a light blue radiance flashing towards the puppet and trapping the puppet in a dozen-meter-big sphere of water. No matter how much the puppet struggled, it was no different from an insect that stepped in glue.
Gandaph floated over, put his palm onto the surface of the water sphere and the rays of light flickering within the puppet’s eyes instantly dissipated.
Lin Yun wasn’t too surprised by the fact that Gandaph easily took care of that puppet, with Gandaph’s strength, getting rid of a level 43 puppet shouldn’t be too difficult, even if it had an ability rune. But Lin Yun didn’t even see how Gandaph got rid of that Heaven Puppet…
As he descended, Gandaph casually threw a few law runes to cover over a hundred meters, sealing everything.
At the same time, several dozen small streams of water formed within the sphere of water before transforming into knives or tools. Using the streams’ continuous power, that Heaven Puppet was slowly dissected.
But every water knife was vibrating at an inconceivable frequency, shortening the meticulous work to a few seconds. And using that method to dismantle the puppet didn’t cause any harm to the components. Instead, it cleaned the rust of some components, making the parts stronger.
The puppet’s four limbs were disassembled into parts, each of which was undamaged. These parts floated within the water sphere, very close to their original emplacement, making it look as if the puppet hadn’t been dismantled.
Gandaph was very fast and the puppet’s movement parts were dismantled one by one. But seeing the circumstances within the puppet’s body, Lin Yun could no longer remain unperturbed, he was surprised.
Gandaph’s dismantling skill didn’t look like much, but as a Peak Artisan, Lin Yun could see the technique contained within, Gandaph wasn’t relying on strength…
This kind of dismantling could also be done by Lin Yun, dismantling inside a sphere of water could undoubtedly bring many benefits and wouldn’t damage the components, it would even polish old parts.
But Lin Yun couldn’t do what Gandaph was doing, transforming several dozen water streams into tools every second. Moreover, these tools were continuously changing, they were formed from streams. This tested alchemy proficiency and knowledge of puppets.
What tool needed to be used where, this kind of basic knowledge had become the most difficult part here. The way Lin Yun dismantled puppets in mere moments was actually a kind of violent dismantling. In order to get all of the parts, that kind of dismantling wouldn’t be chosen, it would only be used in battle.
Because forcibly dismantling a puppet in a moment would damage some weaker components. But what really shocked Lin Yun wasn’t the dismantling technique Gandaph was displaying, but the fact that this puppet was in perfect condition.
All the parts of the puppets, all the systems were in perfect condition. In other words, this puppet was still alive, this was the true dismantling technique able to keep all the parts in perfect condition.
Gandaph dismantled the torso of the puppet little by little and every part remained in perfect condition. The control system, mechanical system, wisdom system, weapon system,… Everything was in perfect condition. Even after the puppet’s head was dismantled, Lin Yun didn’t discover any damaged part.