As Li Chen and Mei Xuan talked, down on the land below, the regular Icosahedron they had dropped was unfolding in a patch of woodland in a valley that Li Chen regarded as his testing ground.
It swiftly transformed in its predetermined manner, exposing its tightly protected core: an alloy Rune-Formation Tower with an octahedral structure.
The tower stood roughly ten feet tall. Floating gold and refined gold had been mixed into it, giving it the ability to hover in midair.
It seemed to contain a complete magic array. A ball of light about a foot across hovered inside, its rays faintly shining through like a powerful light behind thin paper.
Dropped alongside it were many strange objects about the size of ordinary people, yet somewhat resembling insect pupae, each lustrous and translucent, as though carved from jade.
They were curled into balls like fleshy pupae, enclosed in enormous swollen sacs resembling fetal membranes. As the regular Icosahedron unfolded, they scattered across the ground.
The true water spirit liquid protecting them also spilled everywhere, like a gush of amniotic fluid.
"What are those? A new type of living weapon?"
As the view on the screen shifted, Mei Xuan noticed what was happening there and could not help asking.
She had not paid much attention to Li Chen's activities lately and had no idea he had tinkered together something like this.
"These are flesh puppets I developed using the methods Master Artisan Yuan gave me and my own inspiration—the Alien Insects!"
"They have an artificial intelligence base centered on a Photon Core as their mother body, with flesh and blood serving as their terminal vessels."
Li Chen offered a brief explanation.
"What we're using now is a level-zero base with its own evolution templates. I compressed a complete set of development