In a fantasy world, alchemists were the equivalent of mad scientists in science fiction: brains, brawn, modifications, and manufacturing, all rolled into one. Thinking about it, if a mad scientist in a sci-fi world could build an entire robot army to conquer the world, there was nothing strange about an alchemist in a fantasy world creating an entire army of dolls.
Looking at the fragment in his hand, Li Wei suddenly understood. Visiting another parallel world had thrown off his thinking, making him approach everything from a biotech perspective. Things like clones took ages to grow and consumed vast amounts of resources. They were nowhere near as convenient as dolls. With enough materials, you could make as many as you wanted, in whatever form you wanted.
If this woman also had some sort of doll assembly line, her soldiers might even have been mass-produced.
That made the undying army easy to understand. Whether robots or dolls, they neither feared death nor truly died. If they broke, you hauled them back for repairs, or simply melted them down and rebuilt them.
At that thought, Li Wei looked at Jeanne and raised the armor.
"Do you remember this?"
"Yes."
This time, Jeanne nodded with certainty.
"Sometimes I dream about commanding an army, and this is exactly what it's like. I stand somewhere high up, with these soldiers below me. Under my command, they never hesitate, never waver... They're like a powerful army that can hardly be defeated. I don't think even Cront's army could match them."
That was true. However formidable chimeras were, they were still living creatures. These things were completely inanimate, the sort you could lose by the thousands without a pang of regret.
No wonder the Biography of Emperor Arthur said the Holy Maiden had served as the emperor's