Spending my retirement in a game

chapter 64

Now it was time to fully construct the Automaton. The first thing he would need to do was to prepare the Golem Core. Sure, it was technically ready to be used at this point, but Eisen wanted to take it a step further. He planned this from the moment that Morrom told him that Golem cores don't need to be spherical, but can function just as well in any shape, and may actually get better in more complicated shapes.

So, Eisen created the Crafting space for alchemy and then pushed out his mana to recreate the Wolf's heart that he copied before, placing it over the Golem Core. Eisen activated his transmutation and carefully re-shaped the golem core, making sure not to obstruct or change the runes that he placed into it with the beast crystal.

Hoping that this would further increase the overall strength of the golem automaton, Eisen finally started to continue assembling it. He laid the brass skeleton onto the ground with its underside upward, and placed the container that he designated to hold the Golem-Core-Heart into the center of the chest with the core inside of it, and began to place the first few gears and tubes around it.

The gears would simply be to control the overall movement of the Automaton, and Eisen already had another plan for how he would properly strengthen it and its movement later. The tubes on the other hand were supposed to be used to supply the Automaton's joints with enough lubrication to properly move around. The tubes would later be connected to a tank where the lubricants would be stored, with another tube connected to the mouth so that it can simply be 'swallowed' by the Wolf Automaton, although Eisen would also need to make sure that it could be opened or closed easily, so that really only the lubricans could enter the tank and not any unwanted substance that could clog the system.

Either way, it took Eisen a few hours to connect all the tubes and gears to each other an properly implement the tank in a way that it wouldn't mess up the automaton's balance no matter if it was filled to the brim or nearly empty.

At last, the base was done. Now Eisen only needed to finish the Automaton up. He was already incredibly excited and wanted to see if everything was really working properly by pouring mana into the Golem Core and letting it connect to its body, but he wanted to make sure it properly connected to its whole body, and since it wasn't done yet, he would need to be patient.

The next thing that Eisen decided to do was to create an information storage system for the automaton. Usually, it seemed like Golems only stored information about current commands and their own body's abilities and limitations. But Eisen wanted his Automaton to actually be able to obtain information and store them to use at a later time without having to give it commands all the time. After all, it should act like a proper beast, and not just a statue in the form of a beast that can move around a little bit when told to.

So, Eisen used Mana Copy to form a mana version of the Wolf's brain that he copied before, and searched through his items to look for a mana crystal that came as close to possible to that size. When he finally found one, Eisen transmuted it so that it would be in the exact shape of the wolf's brain before changing his crafting space to the enchanting one.

Eisen grabbed his mythril needle and began to work on the relatively simple enchantment to turn this mana-crystal brain into an actual information storage device. The alchemical symbol that he used was that of 'wisdom', which could also mean something like knowledge or similar. And the image that Eisen imagined while carving the center was that of an enormous library filled with thousands and thousands of books.

Sure, there are a lot of things filled with far more knowledge than you might find in the library. You could probably store every single book in existence on your computer's hard-drive if you wanted to, but it simply didn't give Eisen the feeling that there was just so much knowledge there. After all, what would give you a stronger feeling? Simply looking at the small icon on your computer that stands for your hard-drive, or standing in the middle of a giant library with books over books surrounding you?