Purpose

After successfully escaping pursuit, the Player team returned and handed over the Magic Construct, completing the mission and receiving a hefty reward.

The unusual Construct was then sent by the forces investigating behind the scenes to a workshop, where specialists were assigned to study its functions.

Similar scenes were also playing out among many different factions across the Federation.

This was because the secret Assembly Line factories producing those strange Constructs had not appeared solely within the Lolan Kingdom. They were spread throughout every major and mid-sized city in the Federation, and even in the outskirts of some smaller cities.

This expansion had already reached a scale no faction could afford to ignore.

As the instigator behind it all, the Speaker knew perfectly well that his actions could not be concealed from the outside world. Thus, he had not put much effort into hiding those Construct Assembly Lines.

After all, on the surface, the merchant associations purchasing Construct materials were directly affiliated with the Federation Parliament and the Lolan Royal Family. The warehouse factories housing those secret Construct Assembly Lines therefore possessed a semi-official status as well.

The Assembly Lines were set beneath the warehouses not so much to hide them, but to attract as little attention as possible, delay the time before major factions noticed them, and prevent insignificant pests below the Fourth Rank from stumbling upon them by accident.

To the Speaker, if the truly powerful factions noticed this place, it did not matter if they secretly took away a few Construct humanoids as samples.

With Gray Mist concealing their fates, even if the existence of those dolls was exposed, the outside world would be unable to notice anything amiss in the short term.

That was why an elite Player squad with an average level of around forty