Lord Of Puppets

<<The deal with the Gorijy empire was underway.>>

<<With the Warmur kingdom somewhat dealt with and kept busy with the revolution going on there, both me and the empire started our preparations for the trade.>>

<<But obviously beforehand we need to remake our trade route in order to keep it secured, meaning that we cannot do trade right now.>>

<<In the neighboring territory to me located in the east, they started construction of the base that will be used as the trade base for the empire, while I in turn started construction of the new outpost base myself in the east.>>

<<During that time, the empire will also dispatch some of their forces on the construction site on my end in order to possible help out in any ’annoying’ situation... Which they could be referring to several.>>

<<But still, I’ve allowed it... And pretty much time would go by as construction of the both bases continued.>>

<<While that was happening, Porai left few days later in order to return to her workshop and go back to work on the upgrades for the empire.>>

<<As for me? Well, obviously I was still working.>>

<<For the past 3 months I was able to do stuff on my own, so I think I can manage on my own.>>

<<Still... The thing that I desperately need to research are these two things.>>

<<First is metal magic.>>

<<And the second space magic.>>

<<Golems can posses a strong durability and what not, but there is a massive problem.>>

<<The lack of recovery type abilities.>>

<<Meaning, that if a golem were to fight for example a human, both sides take damage, but then human runs away and uses something like healing magic or potions to recover, he would then return back and fight the golem once again, who could not recover their bodies at all.>>

<<Healing magic and potions do not work for golems.>>

<<So, I needed to make a work around.>>

<<I’ve found few ways to do it.>>

<<Alchemy can be used to reconstruct the bodies... But without special tools, the magic alchemy which I can use on the spot will end up using extremely large amount of mana.>>

<<However, I’ve found out there was alternative way to do healing effect for my golems.>>

<<Forged Skills.>>

<<A type of skills which I’ve created and never before had existed in this world.>>

<<These skills are somewhat similar to the item skills, which are contained inside of items.>>

<<However, forged skills affect the being itself.>>

<<I could give myself brand new skill as well as to my golems, which affected their being.>>

<<And I’ve made a single golem whose specializes in using these skills.>>

<<The Champion Earth Golem.>>

<<This golem was made out of earth. Dirt, rocks and what not.>>

<<Obviously, it may sound that the golem was weak... However, it had two forged skills.>>

<<[Body Earth Power: Weak – Level 1] and [Absorption Restoration: Earth – Level 1].>>

<<These skills had each of their own effect.>>

<<The first skill is about strengthening the body, specifically the earthly parts of the body, which the golem entire body was made out of.>>

<<And the second skill is the most important.>>

<<Simple put, when golem have parts of it body destroyed, it will absorb the earthly material around it like dirt and what not, which it then uses to repair its body all on its own, without me

<<It works.>>

<<And with that knowledge, with the experiment I’ve had conducted, I will use it to apply to my other golems.>>

<<But obviously there is a massive problem.>>

<<To use that recovery, the golem have to either absorb back their destroyed remains in order to get "materials".>>

<<Or they need to absorb some other materials, which their body is made out of.>>

<<However, carrying something like backpack filled with iron bars and what not would just slow down the golem, or even worse, it would make extremely obvious weakness that the enemy can just targe, resulting in the golem losing its ability to recover.>>

<<So, I thought of a way to deal with it.>>

<<Item skill called [Space Bag].>>

<<That item skill works the same way my [Pocket Space], which allows me to create a special space which only I have access to.>>

<<A backpack that is not only secured, but I also don’t have to wear and have its weight bother me.>>

<<Still, there is problem.>>

<<Space magic and metal magic.>>

<<These two elemental attributes ain’t easy to master.>>

<<Especially the space magic.>>

<<It took me long time before I could finally use that magic.>>

<<But it is still extremely mysterious to me.>>

<<As for the metal magic? Well, I only started learning it recently.>>

<<Porai who specializes in the metal magic herself helped me out in learning it... But still, it was nowhere easy.>>

<<I can somewhat use it... But there is obviously 2 problems.>>

<<I need to learn how to make item skill that revolves around using space magic, turning it into the item skill.>>

<<And I also need to learn how to make metallic version of forged skill [Absorption Restoration: Earth].>>

<<Things won’t be easy... But I desperately need that combination.>>

<<I was making some progress... But I’ve been doing this project for some time already, I started it when Porai was still around.>>

<<...Yeb. I need to focus on developing the space magic and metal magic even more.>>

<<It is not like I’m not improving, but... Statistically speaking, but if I reach specific point with those two attributes, the research and experiments should go way faster.>>

<<Not only that, I will definitely need both of these attributes in case I end up in combat.>>

<<But... Well, I can’t still them use them in combat.>>

<<I’ve learned water magic, only the extremely basic version of it since I wanted to use it for experiments.>>

<<Moving metal around feels like I’m both the water magic while at the same time using earth magic.>>

<<No matter which form the metal takes, be it solid or liquid like... It feels... Weird.>>

<<Like I’m casting both of these elements at once or sometimes I feel like I’m not using either.>>

<<And with the space magic? Oh boy.>>

<<It is hard like hell.>>

<<The only thing I can really do is open up the pocket space that I can use to store stuff, while also distorting the space a little bit... But the distortion really doesn’t do anything, like an attack or anything like that.>>

<<...Still, when I’ve asked Ariava about it, who had mastered the space magic, she shown me several different ways how the space magic can be used.>>

<<For example, she could unleashed a slash like attack with space magic, which bended and ripped apart anything that came in contact with, an extremely devasting attack that ended up instantly destroying one of my full metal golems right on the spot.>>

<<She also shown an ability to teleport with the space magic, instantly getting from spot A to spot B.>>

<<...>>

<<I’ve asked Ariava about something once in private.>>

<<About possibility of making something like a tool that could allow to travel between two points without the mage’s assistance.>>

<<And she told me that something like that existed.>>

<<The teleportation gate.>>

<<It comes in different form and sizes, but pretty much serves a same purpose.>>

<<It is a long range teleportation device that allows single person or maybe even large group of people to instantly teleport great distances.>>

<<...I want it.>>

<<If I could place a series of these teleportation gates across Mevon territory which I own, I could possible have ability to deploy my forces anywhere I want.>>

<<...But then again, this isn’t good idea.>>

<<I mean the teleportation gate.>>

<<Mevon territory is that has size between medium and small.>>

<<It doesn’t really take extremely long to beat the distance of this territory.>>

<<But, the teleportation gate idea does sounds nice and everything.>>

<<So what is the problem?>>

<<The cost.>>

<<Maintaining that kind of gate will be not easy.>>

<<Not only that, but I can image that just using that gate once would end up resulting in the high energy cost.>>

<<...But I need something that can quickly traverse my territory.>>

<<I saw it during the last attack when these so called Brutes attacked me.>>

<<They used the fact that my golems couldn’t quickly traverse the territory for their own advantage.>>

<<I have fast moving golems like the hound model and cavalry model.>>

<<But what about the rest of the golems?>>

<<Will they just be left behind, forcing the fast moving golems to fight alone?>>

<<The cavalry and hound models have their own weakness too, which is important to consider.>>

<<When the enemy attacked me back then, I couldn’t use all of my golems against the enemy instantly, since they were split up... But what if I could end up in a situation where I have to move my army as fast as possible?>>

<<I thought maybe developing a golem that would work like a horse... But that idea sucks.>>

<<Why? Because I have a lot of different golems.>>

<<Some smaller, some bigger, some light, some heavy.>>

<<One type of fast-moving golem for each golem model won’t do....>>

<<...>>

<<!>>

<<Wait, I can do this!>>

<<Yes! A single golem model!>>

<<It will carry a single.... No wait, I can maybe make it better.>>

<<It could end up making is large... But if I do this that way, I could....>>

<<...No.>>

<<It will work.>>

<<I can create that golem that will allow my armies to quickly traverse the large distance in short span of time!>>