"Wow~, Master! What is this?"
When Tina returned to the house where Carl lived, her attention was immediately drawn to a construct parked outside the house.
This construct is obviously transformed from an iron ant, but its size is much larger than that of an ordinary iron ant, and its appearance has a more "insect" feel.
Carl referred to the body design of the warforged and asked Nia to prepare alchemical potions as the "blood" of the Iron Ant Type 2 construct.
On the one hand, this blood can be used as hydraulic oil in the hydraulic power system. On the other hand, it can also assist the Iron Ant Type 2 constructs, allowing them to use the magic power attached to the alchemical potion to activate the effects of the rune cartridges in the body multiple times in a short period of time.
Of course, this operation is limited to 3 times a day.
Watching Tina curiously tapping on the construct, Carl introduced: "This is the Iron Ant Type 2 construct. It can not only help with mining, but also help transport goods. It also has a pretty good attack capability and can help with guarding and patrolling. It's a little gift I left for your hometown."
Carl didn't tell Tina about the air pirates. He just used this excuse to cover it up.
Looking at this handsome steel ant, Tina's eyes turned, and she ran over and said coquettishly: "Master, just one is too few, at least leave it... leave it..."
Just as he was about to help the villagers get a few more machines, at this moment, more Iron Ant 2s came out of the house one after another.
One, two, and finally including this one outside, there are 16 in total.
Seeing that Tina opened her mouth and forgot to close it, Karl laughed and helped lift her chin up.
"Thirteen of these are reserved for your village. The remaining three red ones are for Ada, Aer and Xiaoming."
After experiments, Carl discovered that ferromagnetic iron would have different appearances because different metals and elemental energies were added to it.
The 13 machines that remained on the floating island were mixed with earth elements and iron, making their shells more defensive and their bodies appear to be iron and copper in color.
As for Ada and the others, they were mixed with fire elements and Thrane's specialty fire steel by Carl, which made their bodies have a faster magic conduction speed and turned red.
"Wow~, Master, you are the best!"
Tina ran over excitedly and hugged Karl's arm, her eyes full of admiration.
"You and Lisanna must have a lot in common. Okay, there's nothing for you to do here. Go have fun. By the way, if you run into the village chief, remember to tell him that we're leaving tomorrow."
"OK!"
Nodding her head quickly, Tina said hello to the 13 Iron Ant Type 2 constructs, and then led them to wander around the village.
This action was naturally discovered by the old village chief and others, so they asked about the source of the construct and learned that Carl and others wanted to leave tomorrow.
The adults who kept the secret breathed a sigh of relief, but soon became anxious again because of the existence of the air pirates.
They did not think that the Iron Ant Type 2s left by Carl were very powerful, because Carl neither took the initiative to give them the authority over the constructs nor built instruments that could command these constructs.
This makes many people think that these constructs are just for show and can only help transport goods at best.
Karl didn't explain much about this, because in his opinion, after leaving this time, he might not come here again for the rest of his life.
Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, Carl and the others were ready to go and returned to the spacecraft on the shuttle.
Tina, this heartless girl, was even more anxious than Carl and the others, because she originally went out on adventure just to leave the village and broaden her horizons.
Watching the huge Yuntie spaceship gradually speed up and leave the floating island, the village chief and others finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After arranging these things, the village chief was about to leave with his staff.
But the uncle of the Arcane Knight asked, "What should we do with these constructs left by Mr. Karl? We don't have the authority to let them wander around the streets like this?"
Hearing this, the village chief looked up at the ferocious-looking iron ants, and said helplessly: "Just think of it as a boost for us. There's no harm in it. Maybe it can scare off the air pirates. Alas, how did we attract air pirates? Our remote place..."
Muttering to himself, the old village chief went home to prepare spell materials and magic props.
The sky pirates hiding in the clouds waited patiently for a day, and also sent a scout team to explore the nearby clouds for half a day.
After confirming that Carl had indeed left, the mechanical engineer sky pirate gave the order to attack with a sigh of relief, but also with some reluctance.
He watched the entire acceleration process of the spacecraft on the day it left, and based on his professional knowledge, he came to only one conclusion.
"If the enemy ships come directly at my fleet, I will have no way to avoid death."
So, although he still had some desire for the spaceship hidden deep in his heart, he still faced the reality.
"If I could get the Giant King's treasure, maybe I could build a spaceship of that level!"
Looking at the floating island below with a cruel look, the mechanical master Sky Pirate licked his lips and then ordered: "Attack!"
Following his command, the bows of the airships pressed down and plunged rapidly towards the floating island below.
The villagers, who had already made sufficient preparations, saw the enemy coming and took out their weapons and launched an attack on the airship.
An airship was not prepared for this situation and its mast was hit by a magic cannon, killing one person on the spot.
"How do they know of our existence? Could it be that the old man discovered something when we were hesitating? Damn it! Attack with all your strength!"
Seeing that the enemy was well prepared, the mechanical master Sky Pirate, who originally wanted to catch the enemy off guard, quickly gave the order.
The sky pirates who were driving the construct machines received the order and jumped off the airship screaming.
"Leave the oldest one alive! Kill the rest!"
While giving orders, the mechanical engineer sky pirate jumped off the deck.
Magical power was rapidly condensing in the air around him, and in just a blink of an eye, an iron guard with a more advanced structure and more refined appearance than the surrounding constructs appeared at his feet.
The artificer sky pirate skillfully grabbed the handle on the Iron Guard's back, and then landed on the ground of the floating island with him.
He used his magic tricks to inject the magic power of the magic net into the body of the iron guard. Then he raised an iron staff and swung it forward.
"kill--!"
The sky pirates controlling the constructs rushed forward with great excitement. The villagers were on high alert, firing one or two spells to attack from time to time. Just when the two sides were about to engage in close combat, an Iron Ant Type 2 construct rushed out from nowhere.
The sharp metal claw grabbed the sky pirate's construct, and then with a "click", the sky pirate driving the construct was actually pinched into two pieces by the other metal claw of the Iron Ant Type 2.
The battlefield suddenly fell into silence.
(End of this chapter)
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