Hall sensed that the target to be infected was nearby, and in order to reduce unnecessary pain, he actually began to bite.
Unfortunately, his first few bites landed on the modified parts of Ed's clone, leaving only scratches on the brass and steel surface.
After several attempts, Hall finally succeeded in infecting Ed's clone.
As he watched the Blood Poison of a grand duke Spread rapidly beneath the skin of this body, Balund instinctively went on high alert, and Psionic Energy began to swirl around him.
"Don't worry."
Ed offered the old man a word of comfort, then began to carefully control the body that had lost its reason.
The body, whose consciousness had been drained by Ed, began to mutate rapidly, and its human characteristics were disappearing at a visible speed.
The sophisticated mechanical prosthetics installed on this body are being disassembled into individual parts by the flowing plant tissue, and are being rapidly assembled under the manipulation of countless tiny roots and vines.
At the same time, the Blood Poison implanted by the Hall began to spread rapidly along with the mutation of the clone, like a drop of black ink falling into a white paint bucket, being diluted while leaving a very obvious mark.
In just a few breaths, the body that could still be called "human" was completely Alienation, becoming neither machine nor human, neither Blood Corpse Blood Corpse nor tree.
As the creature grew larger and larger, Ed suddenly said to Balund:
"Open that thing."
Its name is ' Mind Coffin '.
The gray-robed elder agreed, then went to the mechanical Aiboke without hesitation and quickly entered a series of commands.
Ed saw all of this and knew that the machine could understand human speech, so Balund's instructions must be some kind of safety measure that required secondary authentication.
As a strip of paper was ejected from Aiboke's side, eight mechanical arms extended from beneath the flipped ground, using special screwdrivers at their ends to slowly open the brand-new metal coffin.
The final resting place of the next Grand Foundry Master has a very distinct Great Labyrinth City design:
The overall design is simple and the lines are rustic. The colors used are either brass or classic metallic silver-gray. Apart from the Psionic Energy Circuit, there are no useless carvings or engravings on the surface, which gives it a grand and majestic feel.
Eight robotic arms began to open the pure metal coffin layer by layer, lifting the disassembled covers to the top one by one.
With each layer opened, the outermost metal plates of the coffin would extend and unfold outwards along predetermined tracks, revealing its complex and precise mechanical structure and the innermost layer of the coffin. It was as if this thing truly was a coffin, and that only by stacking layers upon layers could the greatness of the Grand Foundry Master be demonstrated.
When the eight-layered metal coffin was fully opened, the eight outer panels had transformed into a magnificent golden lotus flower in the underground space.
Even Ed was somewhat dazzled by the extremely complex and ingenious mechanical mechanism, not to mention that the Soul Returner had all unknowingly dislocated their jaws.
Even the two Short-Eared Elf now wore expressions of solemn respect, clearly astonished by the research findings of Balund and Aiboke.
As the lid of the final layer opened, a space approximately one meter by one meter by one meter was revealed to everyone.
This is the innermost layer of the metal coffin. Its seemingly smooth walls are covered with tiny mechanisms that seem capable of dismantling anything that enters it.
Countless overlapping Psionic Energy Circuit have created an area large enough to seal the Grand Duke.
Nora looked at the cramped space, then at Gray beside her, finding it hard to believe that her lover had almost spent the rest of his life in that narrow, confined space.
Fortunately, the Son of God helped them. Although they didn't know what the price would be, the two had already decided that they would do everything in their power to repay him.
How do you use this?
Ed looked at the enormous, magnificent metal lotus and asked Balund, who was waiting quietly.
"Once the candidates for the Grand Foundry Master enter that space, specially prepared secret medicines will flow into it and fill it."
You mean a sleeping potion, right?
"It really is a secret medicine."
Balund corrected,
"The secret medicine has many functions; besides keeping one clear-headed and rational, and shielding one from most pain, it also..."
"Anti-corrosion?"
Ed guessed.
Balund paused for a moment, then nodded:
"That is indeed one of its functions..."
"In short, once immersed in this secret medicine, the surrounding machinery will begin to operate according to the logic I mentioned before. From then on, this metal coffin will never be opened, and a new Grand Foundry Master will be born."
Ed looked at the narrow, cramped space, then at his clone, which had grown to be almost as tall as a half-tree person, and said to Balund:
"That's fine then, leave the rest to me."
Balund looked at Ed and said:
"Closing the Psionic Energy coffin requires both my and Aiboke's verification."
"No need to close it."
Ed waved his hand:
"It's nice to be like a lotus flower."
As he spoke, he manipulated his highly Alienation clone to leap up and jump straight to the center of the metal coffin, landing precisely in the small box like a lump of mud.
In a daze, Balund seemed to see that the mass contained not only branches and roots, but also flesh and machines, and even a faint glimmer of Psionic Energy.
The next moment, before the robotic arms could even move, the highly mutated body had already begun its first round of integration.
This massive mass, whose origin is now completely unrecognizable, has just fused with the Blood Poison and mechanical components from the Hall.
At this moment, the assimilated mechanical parts began to gradually integrate and connect with the machinery on the four walls of the coffin, and the Psionic Energy Circuit also began to Spread and inscribe themselves.
After a series of high-speed rotations, the two eventually reached a common speed, and the space of about one cubic meter was completely filled with countless mechanical parts of all sizes, and it had already begun to operate.
A new rhythm of rotation is Spread infinitely outward along the mechanical structure, like the first beating of a young heart, or the first meaningless thought of a newborn brain.
Meanwhile, the plant tissues carrying the Blood Poison began another form of expansion.
Like the Venom symbiote in the movie, the dark green to black fluid, seemingly possessing its own life, began to flow outwards along the intricate mechanical structure, with the Mind Coffin at its core.
Every direction—up, down, left, and right—was being invaded and assimilated at an extremely rapid pace. Plants replaced the original metal parts, and the Psionic Energy Circuit were stained with a deep red Shadow of Blood Poison...
Even if Aiboke and Balund wanted to stop it, it was too late. The main urban area of Great Labyrinth City, covering nearly a thousand square kilometers, was facing an unprecedented impact.
Is this a good thing?
Or is it a bad thing?
In short, an unprecedented Machine Spirit is about to awaken here.