97 Conducting Experiments Is Very Fun (1/2)
Although the Spell Puppet was slow, didn't deal much damage, and seemed to be easily smashed into pieces, Roland didn't mind.
Since entering the game, he had created many derivative spells, thus accumulating plenty of insights on spell variations. Speed, damage, and even physical resistance could all be optimized based on the combination of nodes in the spell model. However, there were limits to these optimizations, and after a certain point, it was very difficult to optimize, and it required a lot of effort or resources.
His bold idea was… to give Spell Puppets equipment.
Not equipment in the physical sense, but rather magic equipment.
Since the spell puppet would inherit some of the summoner's basic instincts and cognition, then the spell puppet would understand some of his basic instincts and knowledge.
But this was just conjecture, the exact details would have to be tested to find out for sure.
Roland took a couple of steps back, looked at the barely human-shaped magical element, and gave his first command.
”Do a round of the seventh set of broadcast gymnastics.”
The blue magic puppet stood in place, and the magic source at its head shimmered with light red. This was the Spell Puppet's reaction to being unable to recognize the intent of the command.
Hm… I can't seem to remember how to do the seventh set of broadcast gymnastics, does this have something to do with it?
”Boxing routine.”
The blue light on the magic puppet's head flared briefly, then it immediately began to throw punches on the spot.
Roland observed for a while and found that although the magic puppet executed the boxing routine correctly, it followed a prescribed pattern to the letter, appearing somewhat inflexible.
”Breakdance!”
The magic puppet didn't respond.
”Make the gesture of eating with chopsticks.”
”High jump.”
”Make a swimming posture.”
Roland dispelled the magic puppet in front of him and summoned a new one.
Then, he issued out commands one by one again.
…
About three hours later, Roland came to a simple conclusion.
Although the magic puppet inherited some of the caster's basic cognition and knowledge, It was generally random. It was difficult to guarantee what skills the newly summoned magic puppet would have, but the deeper the impression of the caster's knowledge or skill, the more likely it would be inherited.
Such a magic puppet's awareness was too poor, and the inheritance of knowledge and skills were too random to meet Roland's requirements because using tools was something that required sufficient basic cognition.
Therefore, it was necessary to transform the magic puppet to improve its cognitive ability and to enhance the breadth and depth of the knowledge it inherited from the summoner.
Although limited by the shallow structure of the spell model, he still quickly created a highly cognitive model of the magic puppet.
Then, Roland performed a summoning experiment, in which a ridiculous amount of magic power was drawn out compared to before, and a magic puppet appeared in front of Roland.
This puppet was bluish-white, and inside its round head was an elemental core that seemed to pose as one of its eyes. It looked a little like a miniature titan.
”Boxing routine.”
”Triple jump.”
”Spin in circles!”
One by one, the white magic puppet executed each command perfectly.
At this moment, Vivian came in. She looked at the magic puppet as it swayed in front of her eyes and did strange movements. A confused expression showed on her smooth face as she turned and asked, ”Deputy Chairman, this is a Spell Puppet, right? Why isn't it blue and acting so strangely, like a lunatic?”