Death... and me
chapter-2560

Rean worked the bones out of the blacksmiths and formations masters in the Blacksmith Workshop. Now that they were cultivators, the people from Earth don't need to sleep anymore. Naturally, the same was the case for those from Sunkan. Thanks to that, the work on the new alloy to serve as the core of the Puppet continued nonstop.

Lostrai couldn't help but feel impressed by the Circuitry Formation Runes Rean's group was employing. He could tell that the ones he knew and the ones from Rean had their similarities. Yet, there was a lot he simply had never seen before. Above all, the several types of alloy that were delivered for him to test every single day were up to several tens.

Lostrai didn't take long to find a combination of metals that his Artifact Spirit Soul finally accepted. However, it wasn't perfect, and he could feel some limitations on his control of energy inside. Nonetheless, one couldn't imagine just how happy he was. "Great! This is enough for me! I can just get used to the drawbacks latter."

*Bang!*

Rean's Soul Gem Hammer, the very first item Rean won when he bought the Workshop Level One, struck that alloy without mercy.

"Ahhhhhh!" Lostrai looked at that and screamed. "What did you do that?! I finaly, finally found a core that could allow me to leave this place! Why did you destroy it?!"

"Hmph!" Rean snorted, sweeping away all the debris of the alloy. "You said it yourself. It had its drawbacks, which obviously weren't very compatible with your Artifact Spirit Soul. My pride as a Blacksmith definitely won't accept such a poor job."

Rean then turned to everyone. "Now we more or less have an idea of what we are trying to achieve. Let's revise the process of this alloy and come up with better variations."

"Yes!" Everyone accepted, excited. They were peerless geniuses from Earth and Sunkan. How could they accept a subpar product? The moment Rean smashed that alloy, they all nodded in satisfaction. They wouldn't tolerate that either.

If Lostrai had tears, he would be weeping already. Seeing his hopes turning into powder like that was a true injury to his heart. "You better make sure you saved the process of how to make this thing. Otherwise, I won't forgive you!"

"No, no, no! That's the Kilit Lime from the Guvasc Continent! It does have a good energy conversion property, but it won't work for the Artifact Spirit Soul!"

"What about using the Pristine Ionized Water from the Wufertes Continent for the tempering? Sure it would help, right?"

"Hum... considering the metals and other materials we used in that last alloy, it might indeed give a satisfactory result..."

Too bad, though. Neither Rean nor any of the Blacksmiths and Formations Masters heard a single word from Lostrai. The Artifact Spirit, one with a strength equivalent to a Divinity Realm Expert, felt like he was as air; no one cared if he was there or not. "These fuckers!"

Yet, Lostrai just went back to his corner and waited for the next alloys. He didn't try to catch their attention... as much as he wanted to. After all, they at least seemed to want to make an even better core for him.

Around three hours later, the next alloy came out. Then another one appeared four hours later, followed by one more type two and a half hours after that. This kind of process continued during the next few days.

Lostrai's frustration slowly turned into excitement once again. Some of the alloys turned out worse than the first Rean destroyed, but there were a few that indeed responded better to his inputs. The last one, especially, Lostrai felt almost no impairment when he channeled his soul inside. If he didn't control himself, he would have thrown himself inside that alloy straight away.

Rean heard his report and nodded, satisfied. "Then we will use this one."

A blacksmith couldn't help but complain. "But he said it was almost as good as his vessel. It wasn't the same. Are we really going forward with this one?"

Rean then explained. "This is as far as we can get. Perhaps it is possible to do a slightly better job, but we will never be able to make something that has the same compatibility as the Universe Foundation Fragment he is occupying. To do such a thing, we would need another Fragment, which we obviously don't have." Well, they do have, but Rean would never use their Fragment since he wants to take Lostrai's Fragment instead.

Lostrai quickly agreed with Rean, afraid they would destroy that amazing alloy. "Yes, yes! That's enough, absolutely enough! The small differences I sense in this alloy I can overcome with experience in the future. DO NOT destroy it."

The Blacksmiths and Formations Masters didn't seem very happy but accepted Rean's decision in the end. Besides... they felt Lostrai would probably kill someone if they destroyed that alloy as well. "Well, then let's start building a core."

"Start building? Isn't this the core?" Lostrai couldn't help but ask.

"Of course not!" Rean immediately shook his head. "It can only hold your soul and allow you good control. Don't forget, we are making a puppet for you. Naturally, we have to shape it in a way that will allow you to control your humanoid Puppet perfectly. This is my very first Puppet, so I also want it to be as amazing as possible."

Without waiting for Lostrai's response, everyone returned to the drawing table and began to discuss. The materials, the building process, the core, the connection, etc. In the end, it was as Rean mentioned, it took around three months for Lostrai Puppet to finally be built from scratch.

"Give it a try," Rean asked.

Lostrai felt his soul stir. Yet, he had his doubts. He saw the entire process, but what if they hid some mechanism that would deal with him?

Seeing Lostrai's hesitation, Rean pulled his Soul Gem Hammer and walked in the direction of the Puppet. "I see. This is not good enough, right? Don't worry; we will build something even better. Let me get rid of this thing."

"NOOOOO!" Lostrai almost lost his mind as his Artifact Spirit Soul jumped from the Universe Foundation Fragment and entered the Puppet's core. Like hell he would allow them to destroy his beloved Puppet! His heart couldn't take it anymore... not that he had a heart, though.