Chapter 95: Making an Iron Golem
As a war beast, the rank of this war lizard is level six, but this level six is not the same as the extraordinary level six.
Because this monitor lizard is a giant beast.
What is a behemoth?
He has a size, strength, and vitality far beyond his peers, but his methods are limited and he has no extraordinary abilities.
In other words, the extraordinary abilities of the war beast are its large size and strong vitality.
It is worth mentioning that the dragon is also a kind of giant beast species, a superior giant beast species, and its strength far exceeds that of the war giant lizard.
This thing can't beat a normal extraordinary warrior in a one-on-one fight, such as the snake-man swordsman that Li Qing met before. His agile body can easily kill the giant lizard, but at most its skin and flesh are too thick to be killed.
Even without Chaofan's help, Li Qing's subordinates Long Shou and Long Fa have the ability to kill it.
After all, giant lizards can't fly, but the two of them can fly in the air and breathe fire, or use magic.
Therefore, Li Qing prepared to strengthen it.
After all, there is only one spot for a war lizard, and this thing is not easy to deal with. It is difficult to exert its strength without strengthening it.
But before that, he had to earn some dragon blood.
He now has 12 standard dragon bloodlines on hand, but he feels it is not enough.
The behemoth species is different from other species. With such a large size, its requirement for dragon blood is much higher than that of humans, otherwise it will be difficult to completely transform.
There is no need to rush. Anyway, he can obtain 500,000 ogre corpses at a time and make a net profit of 200 dragon bloodlines each time, which is enough.
First release the giant lizard from the stone prison, and temporarily keep it on the second floor of the Divine Domain Ranch, where it will live together with the dragon vein snake people living here. With him under control, and with a stone wall that will be built in the middle of the ranch later, nothing will happen.
As for the 100-meter-long and 100-meter-wide stone prison that had previously imprisoned the giant lizard, he did not completely demolish it. He only removed three stone slabs, leaving a 30-meter-wide gate. This place was used as its nest.
If nothing unexpected happens, this place will always be regarded as the nest of the monitor lizard.
After that, three cows, six pigs and six sheep would be thrown into the water as food for the monitor lizards every day. Occasionally, other things would be thrown in to improve the diet. In the future, if any ferocious wild beasts were captured, the trophies no longer needed to be decomposed and could be directly thrown into the water as food for the monitor lizards.
It has a huge appetite. Fortunately, there is only one. If there were more, I probably wouldn’t be able to feed them.
After dealing with the giant lizard, Li Qing returned to the Divine Realm Tower to continue his previous research.
It is not possible to transform the giant lizards now. Although the 500,000 dog-headed man corpses in the last round have been decomposed and used, the time is too short and it is not convenient to apply for the next round of dog-headed man corpses.
It just so happens that he is currently doing something that he is very interested in, which is making iron golems.
He was much more interested in this than in making the rock golem. He had been very interested in it since he got started a few days ago.
The main reason is that this thing is too strong and has strong plasticity.
Its basic combat power is equivalent to that of the sixth level. The Iron Body is immune to almost all spell effects. It may be unable to do anything to nimble opponents due to its bulkiness, and it cannot even hit ordinary soldiers.
But once the number of these things increases, they can become a powerful weapon on the battlefield.
A bunch of solid steel golems over five meters tall form a line and push forward. How can you stop them?
It can be said that there is no golem, war beast, or mage group of the same type. The legion of iron golems is invincible.
The only problem that prevents this thing from being produced on a large scale is that it is too expensive and too difficult to make.
The cost of the largest amount of steel material is not high. Iron ore is available in every plane. It is just a matter of how much reserves there are. As long as the plane is occupied, the first step is exhaustive mining. Therefore, the price of steel has not been very high within human civilization.
The crude iron is only 5,000 cubic meters.
Fine iron is only 12,000 per cubic meter, which can be said to be really cheap.
The biggest material cost of an iron golem is fine gold and mithril, if nothing else is added.
If you want to further modify it and add other abilities to the Iron Golem, the cost will go up dramatically.
Let’s talk about the most basic expenses for now. Building an iron golem requires at least 10 kilograms of refined gold. This strongest magical material is used to reinforce the frame of the iron golem.
After all, although the Iron Golem is made entirely of steel and is very strong in itself, steel is nothing to some extraordinary beings. It must be reinforced with refined gold to withstand the power of extraordinary strongmen or behemoths.
Based on the calculation that refined gold costs 1.2 million per kilogram , that would be 12 million.
In addition, at least three kilograms of mithril are required.
This precious magic material has a very strong magic conductivity function. When combined with steel, it can make some of the corrupted steel structures of the Iron Golem possess magic conductivity, making it easier to draw magic circles and runes inside.
After all, such a big and heavy thing is powered by magic, and the demand for mithril is very high.
Based on the calculation that Mithril costs 3.5 million per kilogram, that would be 10.5 million.
And this is just the minimum standard.
If you want to make the golem stronger and more powerful, you have to increase the content of refined gold.
At least you need to get a super strong adamantium weapon.
If you want to add more magic circles and combat systems, you have to add more mithril, and there is basically no upper limit.
All in all, excluding the labor cost and the mage technology cost of an iron golem, the material cost alone is about 23 million.
If you want to increase the amount, fifty million or even hundreds of millions will not be enough.
"Damn it!"
Li Qing had previously purchased materials worth 80 million at one time, thinking it was a lot, but in the end, it turned out that it was only enough to make three or four iron golems.
However, although this thing is expensive and troublesome to build, it can be quite profitable if you have the ability to manufacture it on a large scale.
There aren't many people who can create an iron golem. They must be at least a sixth-level wizard or above, which directly screens out a large part.
On this basis, one also needs to have talent in magic runes and magic circles, which also screens out a part of the people.
After all, most mages are good at studying spell combat, but not very good at magic circles that are too complicated, time-consuming and labor-intensive. Not all mages like to do this.
Therefore, finished steel golems have always been in short supply in the market and are expensive. A standard finished product costs more than 80 million.
23 million is just the basic material cost. Ordinary mages also need apprentices to help with the appearance and do non-technical work, which requires labor costs.
As well as the cost of the Grand Master, the cost of some failed accessories and so on, a machine priced at 80 million is not expensive.
Eighty million in exchange for a thick-skinned and hard-to-break extraordinary-class combat force, I believe any normal war lord would be willing to do so, but it is difficult to do most of the time.
Similarly, Iron Golems are also the main source of extraordinary combat power for many ordinary war lords.
After all, the military system caps out at level five, and level six is mostly filled with various warlock promotion cards. These things are difficult to upgrade and are prone to dying in battle in the middle of the process. How can they be as durable as the Iron Golem?
It is said that the golem is passed down for three generations, and the golem remains even after the man dies.
So without saying anything else, we need to first bring out a group of steel golems and form a golem team with the rock golems to guard the home.
The first step in building an iron golem is to build the body, which requires preparing enough high-carbon refined steel. This is the best non-supernatural steel, and the better ones are various magic steels.
There are no other alloys. There is no such thing as various alloys in this new era. The rules do not allow it. The best and only possible alloy is high-carbon refined steel.
It is possible to use magic steel to make an iron golem , but the cost is too high. Moreover, if it is successfully made, it will not be an iron golem, but a higher-end golem.
A normal wizard who wants to build an iron golem needs an apprentice or a blacksmith to make the golem body one by one first.
Next, the archmage embedded threads and drew runes and magic circles on these steel bodies.
It is worth mentioning that this buried wire refers to the frame made of refined gold and the magic array wiring lines made of mithril.
The refined gold frame is like burying steel bars in a building and then pouring concrete. The refined gold frame is buried inside to support the whole.
The wiring lines of the magic circle made of mithril are more complicated, because it is necessary to draw the structure of the magic circle within the mithril structure, and then when all the mithril structures within the structure are pieced together, the magic circle inside can also be pieced together as a whole.
This is not something that an ordinary wizard can do. Even a wizard who specializes in this area has to scrap every piece he makes many times before he can complete it.
This is the main reason why the production of Iron Golem is so difficult to increase, and also the main reason why it is sold at such a high price.
After Li Qing had fully understood the materials of the entire set of Iron Golem, he began to try it out.
First, use steel to make a standard golem frame. There is no new idea, just a standard five-meter height.
Then, according to the size and structure of the golem, a frame net was made with ten kilograms of fine iron and gold strips, and then integrated into the steel golem.
Yes, it’s about integration.
In the space in his palm, the hard steel was no different from mud and sand to him. He could do whatever he wanted, directly embedding the refined gold frame into the decomposed steel, and then synthesizing them.
After the golem's appearance was made, the next step was to use mithril to make a control system.
First, three kilograms of mithril were pulled into tiny threads, about the thickness of a hair, and then woven into an extremely complex magic net.
This is more complicated than drawing with a pen, but the precision required is not as high as that of a magic circle. As long as the rune lines do not overlap, it will be fine.
After all, this thing is buried inside the golem, and the golem needs to withstand attacks. Sometimes it will be hit by huge force, which will cause its body to squeeze the array and deform. If the requirements are too strict, it will easily fail.
It's not only out of service, it's also difficult to repair.
We can't completely dismantle the golem for inspection every time. It would be better to make a new one instead.
After doing all this, the next step is to mix the magic ink and draw one or more magic circles on this tiny mithril net.
At least one control system. If the level is high enough, you can add several sets of magic arrays to increase the control methods to make the golem more flexible.
Three kilograms of mithril can only support a few magic arrays. If you want to increase the power, it is very simple. Just add more mithril and make the mithril magic array thicker. This way you can add more magic arrays.
It would be awesome if some wealthy tycoon added a few hundred kilograms of mithril into it and made each line as thick as steel bars.
To be honest, only a rune master can draw a complex magic circle on the three-dimensional mithril net. It is not something that ordinary people can do.
After all, in this era there are no precision machines to manufacture such things, everything is handmade.
If it weren't for the cheating of the palm space, Li Qing would never have been able to create any golem before the sixth level.
He still has some idea of his own talent.
But there is no if in the world, what exists is what exists.
I don’t know how much material was wasted in the constant attempts to connect, constant failures, and constant restarts.
There was no way. This mithril net was stained with the magic ink made from the blood of high-level magical beasts and mixed into one. It was difficult to separate it even with the space in the palm of your hand.
Although the decomposition of the space in the palm is at the molecular level, this thing is not just ink, it also contains special magic factors.
Once it is contaminated and mixed, even if you use the space in your palm to cheat, you can only separate and discard the layer of magic ink on the surface of the mithril net, and then you have to add mithril and draw it again, which is very troublesome.
Each time you fail, a small amount of material is wasted.
The first attempts were basically failures, and the materials were constantly wasted.
Fortunately, I can use cheats, so the loss is not much each time. If it were other great wizards, the loss would be millions each time, and the cost would be huge.
Of course, it is impossible for others to directly use the Mithril Net at the beginning. They all use wire mesh and low-quality magic ink to practice, and only dare to try the real thing after they have practiced enough.
After going back and forth like this and trying countless times, Li Qing finally completed his first smooth drawing in the space in his palm.
I can only say that being able to cheat is really cool.
With the first success, the subsequent success rate rose sharply.
As I became more proficient, I basically returned to my old ways - success every time.
Then, bury the successful Mithril Net into the Golem components, and then piece the components together one by one.
Then, take out a pure soul essence and make it into the core spirit of consciousness and put it into the central control system of the iron golem, and then use the golem activation technique to bring the core back to life.
Then use the Iron Golem Experience Infusion technique to inject a series of standard knowledge into the golem.
Only at this time will the golem autonomously activate all the magic arrays in its body, communicate with other bodies through the central core, and activate all the magic arrays.
A normal Iron Golem is divided into six parts: head, torso, arms and legs. When the control array is activated, the joints of these parts will produce super strong magnetic attraction. In this way, there is a transparent magic energy flow connecting the joints between the limbs of the assembled Iron Golem, which can connect the body as one and maximize the flexibility of the golem.
This connection system will not be affected by most spells, and a knife can be used to cut through the energy flow between the joints without severing the connection between the bodies.
When everything was done, Li Qing successfully built his first iron golem, which took a total of twelve days.
The total cost was about 40 million, and too much mithril was wasted.
However, once you have a beginning, the rest will be easy. Even if you are still not very confident, at least you have experience. The success rate will decrease gradually.
Then, it’s time to make weapons.
