He Meant to Trade Medicine for Combat, but Was Turned into Battlefield Resurrection Armor Instead

The modification officially began.

Pale blue halos of magic wrapped around Ratchet's body in layers. Rimuru floated in midair, gently waving his small hands as he carefully avoided Ratchet's most crucial drivetrain structures.

The weaknesses revealed by the scan were now plain to see. Ratchet's old upper-body rotation mechanism was the core architecture his body had relied on for decades, connected to the Transformation Cog, lines, and linked joints throughout his body.

There was simply no way to dismantle and rebuild such a deeply rooted mechanical layout on a large scale.

Forcibly altering the rotation mechanism could cause the transformation to jam and the structures to fall out of alignment at best. At worst, it would ruin the entire transformation system, making the effort a complete loss.

Rimuru understood this perfectly well, so he abandoned the idea of extensively modifying Ratchet's frame. Instead, he focused on refining and reinforcing its internal foundation, working deftly and carefully.

Countless tiny streams of magical light slipped into the gaps in Ratchet's mechanical body. Bit by bit, they reinforced aging drive bearings, increased the load capacity of his rotating joints, and repaired loose connecting lines, pushing the stability of the old structure to its limit.

Once the internal foundation had been reinforced, the most crucial step officially began: replacing his outer skin.

Sizzle~

A faint sound of flowing metal arose as Ratchet's once hard, heavy outer shell of Cybertronian alloy began to dissolve, soften, and flow at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The hard metal armor lost its cold, rigid texture, turning into a warm, flowing layer of silvery-gray liquid metal. Like water, it completely enveloped Ratchet's body, fitting perfectly over every contour and into every gap around his joints.

The once sharply angular medical mech now had a subtly flowing, matte