The Artifact Forger from the Beginning of Collapse

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“However, it is not difficult to achieve what the Great Black Tower can achieve while in puppet form,” Chen Li said.

"Great! Understand the Great Black Tower, surpass the Great Black Tower! Become the Super Black Tower! Steal Ruan Mei!" Little Black Tower shouted, raising his arms.

"???" by Chen Li & Screw Gumu.

"Don't look at me like that, this has nothing to do with me, I have no idea why she would say that." Seeing that both Screw Gum and Chen Li were giving him strange looks, the Great Black Tower quickly explained.

"Don't explain. I've already recorded it." Chen Li suddenly took out a voice recorder.

"When did you take out the voice recorder?" Big Black Tower was taken aback.

“That’s none of your business. Ahem, if you don’t want Ruan Mei to know what’s happening here, Great Black Tower…” Chen Li said in a stiff, monotone voice.

"Speak, what do you want?" Black Tower asked impatiently.

"Little Black Tower only has one set of clothes, don't you think that's a bit insufficient?"

"I'll prepare enough clothes for the Black Tower. Come to the Black Tower space station to get them yourself. Also, call Sirin over. I'll test the attributes of her Herrscher of the Void powers. I'm logging off to prepare now." The Black Tower stared at Chen Li and the Black Tower doll for a while, rolled its eyes at them, and then said quite readily.

"Little Black Tower, has Big Black Tower gone offline?" Chen Li suddenly asked.

"I think I should log off," Little Black Tower said after thinking for a moment.

"Plan works!" Chen Li raised his hand and high-fived the little black tower who had raised his arm.

"Let's make this clear first, I'll only allow you to designate one outfit for me each day."

"no problem."

“You two…” Screw Gum, who had been watching the whole thing from the side, was stunned.

"Little Black Tower is in charge of shouting slogans, and I'm in charge of recording. Is that hard to understand? There's something called private messaging in this world. And I think Big Black Tower must have noticed something too, which is why he prepared the clothes so readily. What's this called? This is called a little love affair between oneself and oneself." Chen Li snapped his fingers, and a light blue virtual screen appeared in front of Little Black Tower, which was the WeChat Moments terminal.

"..."

Screw Gum thought that only organic life had no limits, but he didn't expect that inorganic life had no limits either.

It's clear that the freedom attribute carried by the Machine Soul can indeed make inorganic life forms unruly.

But you didn't say it would be that free, did you?

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Chapter 166 Black Tower: Men will only slow down my sword-drawing speed, but Chen Li won't!

"Ah, it's so hot! Chen Li, what did you add to the cup?" Little Black Tower cupped her face, her originally indifferent, inorganic face instantly turning crimson.

"Hot water," Chen Li said expressionlessly.

"Oh……"

"Judgment: Is this the Machine Soul? I remember that Black Tower didn't add a feeding module to its puppets. And normally, Black Tower puppets don't blush." ​​Looking at this scene, Screw Gum fell into deep thought.

It can easily do things that were originally impossible; that's the essence of machine spirit.

The above is the answer given by Chen Li.

For example, firing 35 bullets from a 25-round magazine is a piece of cake.

“As you just saw, because the Machine Soul Virus is an ‘outsider’ to the Black Tower, and the Black Tower itself, as a puppet, can smoothly accommodate this outsider, a very special situation has been created. I can extract the term ‘Machine Soul’ by burning it with Miracle Fire, increase the brightness of the term with Miracle Fire, and then put it back into the Black Tower’s body. This can be considered another kind of forging of a marvelous object, which will make the upper limit of the Little Black Tower even higher,” Chen Li said from the side.

This was an experiment by Chen Li, because according to the little elf, how could a wondrous object be so inconvenient?

Besides, who says that a strange object must be a physical object?

Chen Li once used a crystal to store an attribute, and by holding the crystal in his hand, he could easily use the attribute's abilities.

However, instead of saving the entry after increasing its brightness, returning it to the entry owner is another approach.

Although this approach is a bit unorthodox, just like unofficial histories aren't necessarily entirely unbelievable... For example, Chen Li once heard that Ham was the child of Aha and Archivli before Aha became a god. Later, Archivli became the God of Pioneers and abandoned his partner. Aha was so enraged that he killed Archivli with a single blow.

Then he looked at Pam hiding in the corner and said, "Why are you so serious?" and ascended to become the Star God of Joy.

As for Pam... he remained on the train that held his parents' memories, constantly sweeping Akivili's ashes.

Theoretically speaking, this unofficial history is not very reliable, but what if it is true?

Now, Chen Li has proven that his experimental approach has been successful.

However, this also has drawbacks and limitations.

First, this entry should ideally be an "outsider" to the entry owner, because if the entry involves the entry owner's own origins, arbitrarily increasing the entry's visibility may lead to a series of chemical reactions.

For example, even though both are carbon, the differences between coal and diamonds are naturally vast. Increasing the proportion of a certain element in a particular organism can lead to very specific, fundamental changes.

However, it is precisely because of the above limitations that another drawback and limitation has emerged.

That is, the enhanced entries should ideally be neutral entries, and not positive or negative entries such as good or evil, otherwise it may cause the entry owner's personality to change drastically.

The Little Black Tower perfectly satisfies the above two conditions because the term "machine soul" is both an outsider and a neutral term.

Even so, Chen Li only spent three crystals to enhance the Machine Soul's attributes.

It was partly because of reluctance, and partly because of fear.

The reluctance is easy to understand, but the hesitation stems from Chen Li's worry that the Little Black Tower might reach its limit and explode. Furthermore, Chen Li doesn't know if the crystal's ability to increase the capacity of attribute entries can be applied to living beings…

The strength of a term that a strange creature can bear cannot exceed the term's capacity, and the same applies to living creatures.

But Chen Li also discovered the benefits of the term "machine soul" because of this.

After being enhanced with crystals, the Soul's idealistic attribute was greatly strengthened, which produced a strange phenomenon.

The Machine Soul was strengthened, taking up more of the Black Tower's maximum slot capacity. However, the Machine Soul also has a subjective attribute. When the Black Tower didn't feel that it had reached its limit, the Machine Soul started to exert its power, making it a fact that the Black Tower hadn't reached its limit.

The stronger the machine spirit, the stronger the Black Tower; the stronger the Black Tower, the higher the strength of the machine spirits it can contain; the higher the strength of the machine spirits, the stronger the Black Tower becomes...

It's incredibly sinister!

It's even more sinister than stagnant water!

Of course, there are limits to this.

However, as the embodiment of the power of miracles, a creature can undergo a dramatic change in its life simply by gaining the enhancement of one more crystal.

"Little Black Tower, you've been enhanced," Chen Li said, patting Little Black Tower's head.

"Yes, I've been strengthened. I can feel the power surging out!" Black Tower said, looking at his small fist, which hadn't changed at all.

The next moment, a hazy purple aura began to emerge from Black Tower's body, making Black Tower look incredibly cool.

"..." Chen Li hadn't expected that the phrase "the power is surging up" could be so vividly embodied.

Is this what a machine spirit is? It's amazing.

This isn't a machine spirit at all, okay?

“Black Tower, you must remember…” Chen Li spoke up at the right moment.

"Remember what?"

"The height of a fountain will never exceed its source. The power of a machine spirit will never exceed the belief in its heart. In other words, as long as your belief is strong enough, you can do anything."

"I understand!" Little Black Tower began to show high spirits.

"I will surpass the Great Black Tower! I will create the destiny of the Black Tower!"

"It's not necessary to set such a high goal..." Chen Li smiled and patted the little black tower dog's head.

"Don't interfere with my ambitions. Humph, men really only slow down my sword-drawing speed." Little Black Tower irritably shook off Chen Li's hand that was on his head.

"Cough cough." Chen Li tossed the crystal in his hand.

"But the artifact blacksmith won't do that. The artifact blacksmith will only help me buy a better knife!" Upon seeing the crystal, a bright smile instantly appeared on Little Black Tower's face.

"That's more like it." Chen Li nodded in satisfaction.

Because of the passive attribute that makes the Oddity Forger almost immune to the negative effects of anyone using Oddity on Chen Li, and because Chen Li used Miracle Fire to enhance the Black Tower's Machine Soul attribute, Chen Li now has absolute dominance over the Black Tower.

It's like a child who's already saving the world in another world, but when they get home they accidentally knock over all the bowls in the cupboard, and they still get scolded.

"But then again... increasing a creature's strength by taking risks to enhance its brightness is no different from crafting a rare item. Moreover, increasing a creature's brightness requires caution due to a lack of experience, for fear of making a mistake... It feels less appealing than crafting a rare item." The more Chen Li thought about it, the more something seemed off.

Ignite the flame of miracles, increase the brightness of the entry...

Isn't this the same process as creating a marvel?

Furthermore, directly increasing the brightness of a creature's attribute is not cost-effective at all, since the crystals cost are the same.

"Logic: Some people are born with a distrust of external forces, believing that great power belongs to them only when it is possessed and truly in their hands, and that any external thing is subject to loss." Screw Gumu offered his own thoughts on Chen Li's statement.

"Conclusion: Your experiment was not a waste of effort. Some people may indeed prefer this way of gaining power, but whether to continue this experiment needs to be verified to see if strengthening other people's original attributes will yield the same amount of crystal rewards as forging artifacts for others."

"Indeed. Little Black Tower, it's up to you now. If you really create a destiny called Black Tower in the future, remember to VIP me for 50 Miracle Crystals."

"Don't worry. I guarantee you'll become a Star God! Just wait and you'll be remembered in history alongside the Great Black Tower, just like Zandal." The Little Black Tower patted his chest and assured him.

"Then I'll wait. By the way, are you going to the Black Tower Space Station together later?"

"Of course! I will conquer a vast territory for you!"

"...Speaking of which, Haruhi Suzumiya will also be at the Black Tower Space Station today."

Chen Li looked at the little black tower and thought of Haruhi Suzumiya again.

Haruhi Suzumiya possesses the ability to grant wishes, while the Black Tower, due to the enhancement of its Machine Soul attribute, also possesses strong idealistic abilities. In a sense, the Black Tower can be considered a weakened version of Haruhi Suzumiya.