[Elemental Furnace]!

Port Nyanzaru, Laboratory.

"Did it work?"

Goria slowly raised her head. A wondrous ball of light hovered over her palm, countless mysterious lines tracing across it to form a unique energy core.

This was the core structure of a tower spirit—the part that made it an intelligent life-form.

In some areas, the alchemical expertise of the Arcane Empire far surpassed even that of the interstellar era, such as its research into artificial intelligence. Golems were, at most, combat mechs, but tower spirits and advanced alchemical life-forms were truly living, thinking, intelligent beings. They had their own thoughts and codes of conduct. Higher-ranking tower spirits could even advance into special classes. They were artificially created life, and a considerable proportion of advanced alchemical life-forms possessed souls of their own.

Goria was conducting some highly complex research.

She wore a loose robe and a pair of delicate gold-rimmed glasses. Were it not for her somewhat incongruous clothing, her solemn expression and earnest manner would have made her indistinguishable from the beautiful female scientists of the interstellar era.

Intellectual and beautiful.

The entire experiment was extremely complicated, impossible to explain in just a few words.

Put simply, Goria was extracting samples from the High Magical Energy Armor whose power supply Soren had cut off in the Alchemy Laboratory. By analyzing its energy core, she hoped to decipher an important alchemical technique from the Arcane Empire.

How to grant golems feats!

Yes.

The golems of the Arcane Empire were more powerful than those of the present day. It was like the difference between level 1 and level 5 artificial intelligence.

The golems made today were all ordinary, standard models.

The golems produced during the Arcane Empire, however, could master simple combat feats by having additional data fed into their cores.

For example—Expertise!

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