Lord Of Puppets

Chapter 271: Chapter 271 – Two researchers.

"I mean it. What exactly do you want?" – asked Porai.

"I saw your crossbows back then, and they were fucking deadly."

"You also made your golems learn how to gather and replenish their bolts if they were ever run out of them."

"You use everything you have until it can’t be used any longer."

"You are not wasteful."

"Guns are deadly."

"And they have their uses."

"I’m just curios."

{"Well, it is honestly for 2 reasons."}

{"Variation. And situation."}

{"As you said my crossbows are deadly."}

"True. I saw those bombs of yours in action."

"They maybe single use, but the fact remains that they are indeed deadly."

"So, what I’m trying to get here at, you want to have better understanding on the range type weapons, especially guns, since you could use it to make some sort powerful weapon with limited uses?"

{"Correct."}

{"I want some of my stronger golems, a ones that I would keep in special reserve, to be deadly in special way."}

{"I also want some weapon for myself if worse were to come to worse."}

"Welp, you make extremely valid and calculated point."

"Heck. I just shown you that I carry two guns, with one being straight able to annihilate anybody who got hit with this crap, so I guess you have even more reason to want to have your own special gun in case of trouble."

"Anyway, with the guns I can help you out with."

"When I come back with my stuff, I will also bring some guns and some books with me, which could help out as well."

"But today, let’s be it be bit peaceful since this is just a ’greeting’." – said Porai as she moved some stuff from the table before then sitting on it.

"Anyway, do you have any more questions?"

{"Actually, I do."}

{"The metal magic."}

{"Can you teach me?"}

"?"

"Metal magic?" – asked curios Powin.

"You want to teach you how to use metal magic?"

"That is.... An interesting.... Question?"

"Huh...."

"But why metal magic?"

"Do you even bigger arsenal?"

{"Yes."}

{"The way you had shown me the metal magic.... It made me very interested in it as both a weapon and armor."}

{"But that wasn’t all."}

{"Healing."}

{"The reason why I want to use metal magic is to somehow repair my body in the middle of the battle in case it gets too damaged."}

{"I once barely survived the assault by the C rank adventures, all because I managed to use alchemy to repair my body."}

{"However, I barely repaired myself back then and the only reason why I survived was because I’ve had gotten lucky."}

{"But next time I won’t get that lucky."}

"..."

"Hm...."

"Your request does make sense."

"The problem with your body is that it is nonliving."

"Potions and healing skills won’t work on you, since you are object."

"But with metal..."

"..."

"Wait."

"Stop for moment."

"Those earth golems of yours."

"They possess special self-healing Forged Skill that you had created, which allows them to absorb earth and heal up."

"..."

"You bastard."

"You are trying to give your other golems regenerative ability?"

{"That was one of the things I’ve had in mind."}

{"However, I’m still experimenting with Forget Skills, maybe I will be able to create much better version of it."}

"..."

"True.... But still."

"The ability to straight up reconstruct itself, even a complicated build golem.... Yes.... This DOES sounds nice."

"But then again, there is obvious problem."

"I mean, how would the golems get new metal?"

"Not only that, it would probably need to be a specific kind of metal that makes up their body."

"Obviously, you can maybe make it the way that they would just grab their broken off arm, hold it against the broken part and have it automatically recover."

"But what if the entire arm got destroyed or sent flying way too far? Won’t that self-healing ability then be useless?"

{"That ring of yours."}

{"It uses space magic, a item skill that has same effect as [Pocket Space], right?"}

"!?"

"You son of a bitch!" – said extremely excited Porai as she snapped her fingers.

"You know how to use space magic, so you could maybe create an item with [Space Bag] item skill."

"They wouldn’t have any big problem with carrying their spare materials in order to heal up."

"HAHAHAHA!"

"I like you! I mean it!"

{"The idea is good, from what I understand."}

{"However, I will probably only use it on my strongest golems and myself."}

"!"

"Oh right.... Yeah... The cost would be tremendous if you did it for every single one."

"But still, the fact alone that you could overcome your main problem regaining healing... This is truly interesting."

"..."

"Still, can you even use metal magic? That is a question."

"I’ve explained to you before, but metal magic is extremely hard to learn magic."

"It is related to the earth magic, which is your main specialty... And you have somewhat understanding when it comes to alchemy.... Hm..."

"..."

"Okay. Fuck it."

"Let’s try it."

"I don’t know how long will it take, but let’s try!"

(I’m starting to like this bastard more and more!) – thought Porai.

<<For the rest of the day, we just talked about various things.>>

<<We didn’t really did any solid work that day.... But it felt.... Nice... Just talking like that.>>

<<I think.... I think I can call Porai "Friend".>>

<<I knew Porai.... Well, not very long, like not even half of year.... Around just a single month.>>

<<At first, Porai was only here because she was terrified of Ariava... But after time, she opened up and.... Well? She was somewhat similar to me.>>

<<I think it is called "hit off well"? I think that was it.>>

<<Me and Porai.... Well, we just fitted each other well?>>

<<Honestly, both sides had interesting stuff that interested one another.>>

<<Not only that, but even the random theories talk that we did, even when they kind of made no sense were.... Stupid? Yet... Interesting?>>

<<Honestly speaking, I like Porai.>>

<<She is the second person like this in my life, to cause me to get so curios about them.>>

<<...>>

<<Yeb.>>

<<I don’t think I will be bored for sometime now.>>

<<Anyway, work.>>

<<After finishing her "first" visit, Porai quickly returned back home, before then coming back after finishing up her preparations.>>

<<Porai is helping me in two different things.>>

<<Researching guns.>>

<<And trying to teach me how to use metal magic.>>

<<I don’t know if it will be possible for me to learn the metal magic.... But considering the massive amount of benefits I could get, just from using basic metal magic. I don’t really need to be master in metal magic; I just need to "feel" it and understand it.>>

<<Beside the guns and metal magic, we also researched golems.>>

<<Better and stronger golems, the higher power of the dungeon will be.>>

<<Porai shown me some of her own golem design, including the empire special war golem.>>

<<It looked... Weird.>>

<<It was like a barrel with four legs and two arms.>>

<<However, when Porai told me more about it, while also I was inspecting the blueprint.... It became apparent, that this golem is extremely powerful and dangerous.>>

<<I’ve asked about why it looked like a barrel though? Some sort "appearance" value?>>

<<Well, no. Apparently, it was made this way because it was the best design for it.>>

<<Barrel like design was the most efficient build by the looks of things.>>

<<Apparently there were also some people complaining about the "barrel" design, but Porai always told them that the effectiveness was above the appearance.>>

<<And I can agree on that with her.>>

<<...>>

<<...Still... I got to say.>>

<<Porai knowledge regaling the golemancy was.... Astonishing.>>

<<She knew many answers to the problem I was dealing with, and the problems I wasn’t even aware of.>>

<<I guess her countless years as->>

"I’m not that old, mate."- said Porai as the duo were conducting their experiments on the humanoid golem.

{"?"}

{"But aren’t you vampire?"}

"Because I’m a vampire, a pure blooded one at that, it doesn’t automatically means I’m extremely old."

"Vampires once they reach specific age, they end up aging much slower compare to the other species."

"A man that looks like he in his 15 is in reality already over 100 years old."

"Or I even heard about vampires that looks like freaking children, but are old like freaking hell itself."

"I look young and I have somewhat lustful body."

"Some people would say that I’m already some sort vampire over 150 or maybe even 300, but no."

"I’m just 35 years old."

"I’m not some sort of ancient vampire."

"No."

"Heck, I was originally a low ranking noble vampire."

"Honestly speaking, I wasn’t expecting to grow so much when doing my research, to the point I became higher ranking vampire noble than my family."

{"Ariava did said that you are somewhat known in the vampire community."}

"Well... Yeah.... It is bit annoying through."

"I did somewhat quickly risen through my rank by evolving myself while being somewhat still less than 50 years old, and not only that, I’ve piled up some achievements with research... And there is also the fact that I can create golems that can serve as somebody’s army.... So yeah.... I’m popular... But in extremely annoying way."

<<Huh.... So.... Huh.... Okay. This gotten more interesting.>>

<<According to Porai, she would spend separated amount of years during her lifetime, researching different kind of stuff, before she even started researching golems and other creative monsters.>>

<<According to her, she somewhat got interested in them around 9 to 8 years ago.>>

<<And about 5 years after her research has started, her golems were already getting a lot of attention.>>

<<Not only her golems, but Porai also knew how to handle elemental creatures as well as several other creatures that can be made by hand.>>

<<Ariava said to me once in private, that Porai could probably even become a duke rank vampire in the future, with her overwhelming talent.>>

<<When it comes to vampire ranks, the nobility ranks, it is more like a description of their power.>>

<<An evolution and person power.>>

<<The higher it is, the higher your rank is.>>

<<The higher your rank is, the more important figure you are in the vampire community.>>

<<Meaning that this "noble" ranking it is both a noble ranking, while at the same time not.>>

<<...Anyway.>>

<<Porai is very interested in researching golems with me and we are both getting a lot of this.>>

<<Researching stuff with somebody, especially with somebody who posses a talent that can understand mine as well.... It is.... Truly "nice".>>

<<Some of the changes that we had made to the prototype golems we had been experimenting on, were more than satisfying... If anything, these researches just gave us new possibilities that got us both extremely interested.>>

<<However, even that wasn’t the either either.>>

<<Guns, metal magic and golems.>>

<<There were also two things above these two that were taking place right.>>

<<The research of the Forged Skills.>>

<<And the conquest of the Mevon territory.>>