One month later.
Xia Xi stood in the middle of the workshop, looking at the three puppets before him with a satisfied smile.
[Mechanism Puppet Technique LV.2 (127/1000)]
His talent for the Mechanism Technique really was unparalleled throughout history!
The changes brought by LV.2 were significant.
The most obvious was another increase in speed, along with a higher chance of producing high-quality puppets.
The Mimic Breathing Style inscribed into them had also risen to around LV.3.
And most importantly...
The system had unlocked some minor modification plans.
For example, he could simplify the six arms into two at the cost of a slight reduction in the puppet's overall strength.
Or, at a similar cost to its strength, he could use soft covering materials to make it look and feel more like a real person.
It had also unlocked "storage form."
This allowed the puppet to curl into a ball in a position impossible for a human and fit into a box a little over half a meter tall.
As for the box, he could carry it on his back like a Cloth and take it wherever he went.
Hmm...
How should he put it? They were all "convenience features" that offered little direct help in combat.
As for the combat puppets' faces...
They could still only use Yoriichi Tsugikuni's face. There were no other options.
"Lord Dawn Hashira, this... this really is..."
Tetsujin stood beside Xia Xi, his eyes fixed on the puppet in the middle, his voice trembling.
It was a much more finely crafted puppet than the [Imitation Type] from a few days earlier.
In appearance alone...
It looked even more lifelike than Yoriichi Type Zero.
At least, on the parts exposed outside its robes, there were far fewer obvious gaps and connection marks.
Its build