Hyper-Dimensional Player-Chapter 406 - 33: Dark Machine Spirit! Demon Forging!

Chapter 406: Chapter 33: Dark Machine Spirit! Demon Forging!

It’s impossible for him to normally advance within the Mechanical Divine Sect.

Duncan could still muddle through in the early days, but in the future, as his strength grows, sooner or later he will have to go to the Holy Temple of the Mechanical Divine Sect for further training. By then, even if he’s under the eyes of the Guardian Angels, he might be detected by the Insight Angels on some day.

His current plan is to first secretly strengthen his own ranks, find a way to infiltrate the Mechanical Divine Sect, and steal the technological knowledge of this era as a form of resource reserve.

This way, even if his Number 3 Human Form is lost some day, he won’t be at a loss.

The technological knowledge Duncan can steal at the current stage is limited, barely enough for the First Industrial Revolution. As for the subsequent technological iterations and cross-era technological reserves, he will have to find ways from the technical cultivators of the Mechanical Divine Sect.

The biggest problem Duncan has is only one: he is an existence akin to an Outer Heaven Demon, even a slight exposure of anomalies will bring the insane suppression from the Mechanical Divine Sect.

In the eyes of the Mechanical Divine Sect, Duncan is the Void Demon descending upon reality.

At this moment, the Witch Demon Konggs pondered: "Your Majesty."

"We can indeed give it a try."

"However, the things from the Mechanical Divine Sect are engraved with Mechanical Prayer, afraid they might resist the Power of the Soul."

You have to try to know the result.

By now, Duncan had already approached the corpse of the deceased Mechanical Court of Judgment steward, he drew his weapon and wielded it, sending flesh flying and sparks bursting. He directly chopped off the right arm of this Judgment Court steward. The opponent’s body had been highly mechanically modified, with bones mostly replaced with titanium alloy-like metal structures except for the skull.

If the earthquake hadn’t collapsed and trapped him, Duncan would have found it very difficult to kill such an enemy.

He casually pulled out the enemy’s spine too; the Judgment Court steward had implanted a refined gold bionic spine, which had Mechanical Prayer engraved on its surface, with five different Mechanical Nerve Bundle interfaces controlling various modified constructs within the body.

"Can I have the Mechanical Nerve Bundle and the external skeleton?"

At this moment, Tassia suddenly spoke up, her eyes bright as she looked at the refined gold spine Duncan had excavated, saying, "Many of the parts on him, I can remove and use as external constructs."

She could be considered half a mechanical cultivator of the Insight Sect.

If it weren’t for the reluctance to give up the human flesh, Tassia would have already completed her advancement.

Duncan directly tossed the refined gold bionic spine in his hand to her, cutting through the bionic nerve structure from the cervical spine to the shoulder with a dagger, and said slowly: "Do you know how to install the Mechanical Nerve Bundle?"

Tassia nodded reluctantly and said: "I can try simple implantation."

Not long after.

The Judgment Court steward in front of them was dismembered into eight pieces, all fleshly biomass discarded, with only the modified parts left.

Corpse Demon Bert stood silent aside.

He seemed to gradually come to terms, turning his head to look at his fractured skeletal right arm, even though Duncan had tried to piece it back together, the structure of human bone had already been shattered, the strength was simply not suitable. The bones frame of the Undying Undead was slightly useful in the Middle Ages, but entering the latter part of the Mysterious Era, even pirates used cannons to blast apart the skeletal armies of the undead.

Enchantment Enhancement also has limits.

Enhancing a bone and enhancing a piece of steel are fundamentally different in terms of hardness, not to mention that Undead Wizards don’t often engage in strengthening their summons.

At this time, Corpse Demon Bert grabbed an axe from the ground and directly chopped down his own right arm.

He didn’t have any sense of pain.

However, next, when affixing the bionic mechanical arm to his body, Corpse Demon Bert let out a shrill cry of agony, his expression twisted in pain: "No!..."

"It’s burning me!"

With God’s perspective, Duncan observed and immediately noticed that the Mechanical Prayer engraved inside the mechanical arm was faintly emitting Spiritual Light.

Does this thing also have the function of purifying the undead?

It seems things are not as simple as Duncan imagined. The items from the Mechanical Divine Sect are processed through multiple procedures. Conventional industrial machinery doesn’t have anything special, but the supernatural mechanical Curiosities are first engraved with prayers by Mechanical Priests, then blessed and activated, coated with Holy Oil, and repeatedly chanted Sacred Words before completion.

"Your Majesty."

"Everything from the Mechanical Divine Sect is engraved with Sacred Words inside."

The Witch Demon Konggs also showed some disappointment, and said slowly: "It will harm the Undead Creatures, even if forcibly installed, he will be burned to death."

Duncan was also engulfed in thought at this moment.

He picked up the bionic mechanical arm before him, summoned the power within him to perceive the Machine Spirit inside, and found that it indeed existed. The more complex the mechanical construct, the stronger the Machine Spirit born inside. So sometimes people can’t use the items from the Mechanical Divine Sect, because the Machine Spirit would repel others, so they can’t activate them.

Suppress!

Duncan tried to summon his power to suppress the Mechanical Soul inside. It wasn’t strong, easily subdued by Duncan, even as he willed it, the mechanical arm in front of him unexpectedly activated, a few mechanical fingers wriggled.

He can use it.

But Corpse Demon Bert couldn’t operate it.

The Witch Demon Konggs seemed to have discovered something, his voice excited: "Your Majesty!"

"Continue suppressing the Mechanical Soul."

"I will try using a Desecration Ceremony to remodel it."

Foul undead energy spread, the Witch Demon’s skull on Duncan’s shoulder exhaled a black smoke, as some special necromancy ritual proceeded, the surroundings filled with a dark Wind of Magic.

—Detected Desecration Ceremony!

—Polluting the Mechanical Soul!

Under Duncan’s astonished gaze, the Witch Demon Konggs’s Magic Power seeped bit by bit into the bionic mechanical arm, the Mechanical Prayer engraved inside as if rusted, quickly showing signs of corrosion. The Spiritual Light of the steel-cast engravings failed completely, and finally, the Mechanical Soul inside underwent a spiritual transformation.

Did it succeed?

The voice of Lich Konggs rang out: "Your Majesty."

"Such complex mechanical curiosities, I’m afraid I cannot desecrate and transform them."

"The Soul Forging Sacred Words are a kind of Mechanical Truth."

"If you really intend to transform undead creatures into machines, I’m afraid we will have to forge these mechanical curiosities ourselves in the future."

These materials all belong to the Mechanical Divine Sect.

From the moment they were processed, they underwent a series of procedures, with the Engraving of the Steel Cast Prayer being the most critical step.

This makes it difficult for anyone aside from the cultivators of the Mechanical Divine Sect, whether esoteric practitioners or cultists, to use mechanical curiosities.

——Dark Mechanical Soul (Demon Forging Machine Spirit) (Demon Tomb Branch)!

On the projection page of the Dimension Space, the label of the mechanical prosthetic arm has changed, its internal Mechanical Soul has transformed, still possessing a certain spirituality, but completely different from the Engraving of the Steel Cast Prayer by the Mechanical Divine Sect.

Moreover, the power it draws is no longer faith, but is sourced from magic power.

"Your Majesty!"

"We’ve succeeded!"

Lich Konggs seemed very excited, murmuring: "I understand now!... "

"The Mechanical Divine Sect actually stole the powers of many wizard factions! ...The so-called Mechanical Soul! ...is actually another kind of Power of the Soul! ..."

At this point, it seemed to perceive a strand of Duncan’s doubt.

So the lich explained: "Your Majesty."

"Before the Mysterious Era, spellcasters often created various golem constructs."

"We used Soul Stones to activate them."

"A golem construct could move, complete commands, and even have thoughts, because we injected the souls of humanoid creatures, and these souls retained parts of their consciousness from their past lives, thereby giving the golem a certain amount of intelligence."

Lich Konggs paused for a moment, then continued: "And the Machine Spirit of the Mechanical Divine Sect, in fact, also originates from the use of soul power."

"It’s just that they modified it by some means."

"When the God of Machinery was born, he endowed all mechanical constructs in the world with a touch of spirituality, which is the soul of mechanics, and was eventually altered by the faith of the Mechanical Divine Sect."

"They use this method to control mechanical bodies that could potentially develop self-awareness."

Before the Mysterious Era.

If a wizard-created golem awakened self-awareness and had soul thoughts, although it was an astonishing event and would trigger the wizard’s research, it would most likely still be used as an assistant or servant.

However, if something within the Mechanical Divine Sect gave birth to a mechanical construct with soul thoughts, it might prompt a major purge.

Within the Mechanical Divine Sect, only church cultivators are allowed to become conscious mechanical bodies.

Duncan seemed to understand something at this moment, and he now had a very strong feeling that someone in this world might have created a very powerful AI, and this AI might even be the God of Machinery.

Because a vital part of the myth of the Mechanical Divine Descent is ’the great God of Ten Thousand Machines had a human incarnation’!

Under what circumstances would a human incarnation be necessary?

Also, the seven Guardian Angels betrayed the God of Machinery, and the remnant of the God of Ten Thousand Machines was sealed within numerous black towers.

Many clues point to one question.

What kind of being is the God of Ten Thousand Machines?

It is evidently completely different from traditional esoteric divine spirits, and its birth immediately attracted the joint assault of many traditional divine spirits.

This thing called AI.

In Duncan’s understanding, it exists within networks, closer to a data stream, without a physical form, can exist in one data storage but also in another.

To truly manifest in reality, it must first have a body, such as by creating a robot to embed itself into, and it also needs considerable computing power.

The legendary Mechanical Divine Descent has a significant problem!

Because that was the first time the God of Ten Thousand Machines appeared in the real world, becoming an object of worship for countless mechanical cultists as a human incarnation.

This time the modification went smoothly.

After Duncan suppressed the Mechanical Soul, Lich Konggs used the Desecration Ceremony to transform and pollute it, and the mechanical arm dismantled from the Judgement Court’s deacon was easily installed onto Corpse Demon Bert, although it lacked dexterity in operation.

To fully control it, an auxiliary implant needs to be placed in the brain; the simpler the mechanical arm, the easier it is to control.

Duncan fell into deep thought.

Suddenly, he stared at the lich skull on his shoulder and slowly said: "The Mechanical Divine Sect holds the secret of consciousness uploading."

"How do you liches upload your souls into your phylacteries?"

Hearing Duncan’s words, Lich Konggs’s expression gradually froze.

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