Looking at the Defensive Puppet Design in his hand, Shi Feng carefully examined it once more and took a deep breath.
Defensive puppets could be said to be exclusive products of major superpowers and a very small number of large guilds. Every single one was treasured like a prized possession, a symbol of a guild's foundation. They were never sold lightly, and whenever one was put up for sale, countless forces would scramble for it.
This was because they were a lost ancient technology—items that simply could not be made without a design. Defensive puppets involved far too many fields, requiring professions such as Alchemy, Forging, Engineering, and more. Furthermore, the minimum threshold for every profession was Master rank. Only by gathering Masters from all these lifestyle professions was there any possibility of producing one.
The material cost alone, from what he had heard, exceeded 2,000 Gold—more expensive than some Epic Equipment with poorer attributes, let alone the value after it was made.
The reason they were so expensive was because defensive puppets possessed terrifying combat power. Even an ordinary Level 0 player could become a monster-like existence with one. They were war weapons that no Epic item or fragment of a Legendary item could compare to—true guild treasures.
The reason first-rate guilds in his previous life had dared to challenge superpowers and still survived was precisely because they possessed defensive puppets.
Ordinary defensive puppets generally possessed Tier 3 combat power, while the Defensive Puppet Design in his hand could produce Bronze-ranked defensive puppets. Once made, they would possess peak Tier 3 combat power. Any player could control such power, and unlike summoned creatures, they would not disappear after a period of time. A completed defensive puppet would remain forever unless it was destroyed like any other war weapon.
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