In a dim alley, Jiang Mian opened the package she had just received.
It had been cheap, sure, but...
"Only half?"
She fished out a... half a skin.
It was the real deal, no doubt, but it was only the upper half, from the chest to the waist. The lower half looked as if someone had sliced it clean off with a sharp blade.
"Whatever. As long as it works."
Jiang Mian didn't mind. It had cost just a tenth of the original price—what more could she ask for?
If it had only been the lower half, that would have been truly useless.
Her standards weren't high. She just needed a face.
As for the other things in the package... they were nothing but junk the seller couldn't get rid of, tossed in as a bonus.
When did buying something on a whim ever get you a treasure, like in the novels?
With a thought, Jiang Mian began drawing Water Element together.
A mere dozen seconds later, it had condensed into a black humanoid figure.
She couldn't use the same body size as before. It needed to be convenient for dealing with people, while still retaining enough fighting power...
She'd make it a more normal size.
She condensed it a little more.
Before, she might have considered the amount of elemental energy she had and tried to make it as big as possible. Now... all it needed was enough room to fit the cores.
Jiang Mian lowered her head and looked at the clone, which was a head shorter than her. With practiced ease, she fitted it with three refined Second-tier cores and the newly purchased monitor.
This time she didn't need to stand on tiptoe. She could just put it on directly.
Soon, a petite figure with an ordinary,