Chapter 306 Core Guardian (1/2)

First things first, Eisen began to place the different parts together in the right way so that he properly knew which ones belonged to which part of the Core Guardian's Body, and then slowly and carefully began to construct the body. Overall, it seemed to be created in a way that the inside was mostly made up of crystal and glass structures, as well as incredibly functional areas, and the outside was made up of different types of metal as a casing, the inside of those different metal plates were all covered in different types of enchantments.

And technically, Eisen wasn't just done with everything yet, as he still needed to create the potion that would act as something like 'Blood' to the Core Guardian, which was a weird amalgamation of seemingly random herbs, roots, or flowers, whose effects not only seemed to be counterproductive, but sometimes even quite contradictory to each other. But Eisen was sure there was some sort of logic behind all of this, and as such chose to just follow the instructions and see what happened then.

After all, if you've never tried a recipe, how could you know how to improve on it? With such a mindset, Eisen continued working on putting the different parts together, starting with the crystal structures on the inside that were surrounding the metal skeleton. The old man first worked on each of the limbs first, as it seemed to be relatively easy to attach them to the torso if he did so first.

When the glass parts were all properly attached to each other, Eisen then added the metal casings and then placed the different parts together, although he made sure to leave a little space in the center so that he could place the special type of Golem Core into the center last.

After a while, Eisen soon had the metallic, robotic body in the shape of a Halti, a gnome-like creature from the Underdark. And then, he only needed to place the core into the center of the body and then add the 'Blood' to everything. There even seemed to be a quite special 'Startup' procedure, so Eisen had to be careful not to mess anything up for that while filling the body up with the potion.

Either way, in order to create the Golem Core, Eisen had to basically mix the materials meant for a regular Golem Core into the materials to make glass, add a little bit of a soul-stone crystal to that, and then needed to create a small hollow glass sphere.

Inside of that sphere, while Eisen was actually still blowing the glass, he had to quite literally 'Blow' the soul into that glass sphere, and then after that fume the inside of the sphere through one of the two holes inside of the sphere, which would then later be connected to the glass tubings.

And for the most part, that was it. As the Golem Core had an actual soul inside of it, it didn't need the two special enchantments to be placed onto it, which might have also been part of the reason why he couldn't start the Core Guardian up in a way that he normally would start up a Golem.

Either way, when Eisen put everything together and added the last metal plate to the chest, the old man swiftly stood up and made sure that nothing was laying on the floor directly surrounding the Core Guardian, and then created an enchantment directly underneath the Core Guardian. The layout for the enchantment as well as a detailed description of the image one was supposed to have was actually included inside of the blueprints as well, so Eisen finished the job quite quickly as he just needed to 'do it', and not figure out 'how to do it'.

After a few moments, the enchantment circle was finished, and all that now needed to be done was to make the potion and pour it into the Core Guardian's mouth, and then infuse a large amount of mana into the Glass-Golem Core.

The Potion was relatively straightforward to make as well, although it did require a few techniques that created a large amount of waste, like manually pulling the actual potion out of the large mixture of things, which created a weird gray sludge that you really didn't want to accidentally touch.

And after the large amount of the potion was finished, Eisen swiftly poured all of it into the Core Guardian's mouth at a steady rate, even relatively weirdly 'massaging' the neck directly underneath the jaw's joints, making the artificial muscles that the old man had to add here and there react and then help carry the potion into the actually important parts of the Core Guardian's body.

Once Eisen was done with that, all that was left to do was to pour the mana into the Core Guardian's Golem Core. When the old man started doing so, though, a notification appeared in frotn of him.

[Startup Procedure of a Core Guardian Initiated. 1000 MP Left]

”That much..?” Eisen muttered with a wry smile and then looked at his status, noticing that this was roughly two thirds of the mana that Eisen currently had left after all the work that went into the creation of the body, and then sighed deeply.

”Guess I'll have to go grab some potions after this.” The old man said with a smirk and continued to pour the mana into the core at the fastest rate that he could steadily manage, while the number on the notification kept dwindling more and more, before it finally reached zero.

[Core Guardian Startup Procedure activated]

[Basic Knowledge will be given to the Core Guardian. Specific Knowledge will be learned when it connects with its Core]

Slowly, the Core Guardian's body began to move, and Eisen at first thought that he would hear a lot of horrid sounds from inside of it due to the initial adjustment at the very least damaging some of the glass parts inside of the Guardian's body. But surprisingly, none of that happened! All that Eisen could hear when he tried listening closely was the potion that he prepared slowly starting to flow around, before the Core Guardian's face also started reacting.

Its metallic eyelids slowly moved and revealed the two crystal eyes that were prepared beforehand, and then the corners of its mouth began twitching just so slightly, before the Core Guardian slowly sat upright, looking around rather confused.

And that in itself was something that then in turn confused Eisen. This creation of his was moving as if it was alive, blinked when it looked around, and even seemed to be somewhat scared, as it didn't seem to know anything just yet.