After enjoying a lovely breakfast with the girls, Rhode returned to the goblin workshop to continue building the Magic Mech's outer structure.
The workshop had a very high ceiling, and large machines like excavators were often repaired or serviced there.
Naturally, the girls had no desire to visit a filthy place full of machinery and metal, so Rhode came alone again.
Comparatively speaking, making a construct's skeleton was much simpler than preparing magic materials.
First came the hardened metals needed for the armor plates, skeletal components, joints, and other parts to be assembled. No particularly precise control was required; they only had to get the proportions of the various metals right and put them in. A single smelting session would do the job. It simply required a larger quantity of metal.
Rhode could therefore let the goblin artisans handle it, saving himself a great deal of effort.
Turning the materials into mech components was not a complicated process either.
They poured the molten metal straight into molds made with shaping magic. Once it cooled, a skeletal component was finished.
They started with the main supporting skeleton, then moved on to the joints and smaller components, before assembling everything on the construct's framework.
Rhode's blueprints were clearly labeled, and the experienced goblins worked quite efficiently as they followed the steps.
Before long, the Magic Mech's skeletal frame was complete.
Next came the all-important magical connections.
This meant drawing the magic materials into threads and embedding them in the mech's skeleton, allowing energy to flow through every component.
Rhode had to handle this step himself.
It was another process that required an input of mana, so the goblins could not do it.
Rhode summoned numerous Mage Hands and carefully embedded the magic materials, already cut into threads, one strand at a time