Chapter 399: First Puppet
Sam pushed a button on the machine and the small rectangular plate besides the glass screen opened.
It also revealed a crystalline glass screen but this is Green in color.
He placed his hands on it and willed his spiritual consciousness to travel into the machine. Sam could feel him leaving his body and entering the machine.
His senses changed and he felt like whole different entity. His body just stood there motionless.
His spiritual conscious went into the Puppet core which is inside the Machine. He could feel all the parts of the machine and also the raw materials, energy cells, tools and fuel tanks which are not inherent part of the machine.
The best part is Sam could see the design he placed on the glass screen. He can see every detail in a close manner.
The energy from the energy cells is being drawn and the arms started moving, Sam picked up material from the pit. Then he placed it inside the opened fire pit and closed it. He started the methane gas and the fire was raging inside the pit.
The metal soon entered red hot condition. Sam didn't let the metal melt directly, if he wants to make a molten metal casting, he has to make some changes to the machine. They are minute though, but important.
The arm moved and removed the metal from the pit. It is now a lump of the bright red metal. The arm picked the lump and placed it inside one of the grooves of the pillar.
Of the two pillars near the fire pit, this is the main purpose, one side has grooves and the other side has some suspended beam.
The next second, a circular metallic cylinder which is extremely solid came out of the beam and hammered the metal into the groove.
This is not actually an efficient method, the groove box which is technically called the swage block will make the metal take the required shape, but it was mostly done on the floor to avoid instability. Of course, Sam was able to do it because of the stability of the machine and some extra inscriptions which prevent the metal from falling down.
After hammering into the groove, another arm moved and pushed the metal out, the metal didn't stick inside.
Now, Sam has a small metallic cylinder in his 'hands'. The workpiece changed arms and came to the second portion of the machine, within the compartment, there is a small empty compartment, and Sam placed the hot metallic piece inside. With some wind and water inscriptions combined, the metal was cooled.
He then brought back the solid metal and placed it inside one of the pillars, the place where the workpiece was held has a circular device with four jaws, between which the workpiece was held. This holding device was called the chuck.
After that there is a small sound coming from underneath the bed and the chuck started rotating. Another metallic arm picked up a took from the compartment, and then placed it on the workpiece which is rotating at an incredible speed.
The tool removed the metal off of the workpiece in the form of small metallic chips and a smooth surface appeared.
This operation is called turning. After normal turning, Sam started to turn the object in various lengths and various diameters.
Now, the cylinder has many grooves on it. After that, another arm appeared and this time it held a drill bit. The drill bit is not rotating, rather it is stationary and it was held along the rotating workpiece and a hole was made along the length of the cylinder.
After that, Sam performed many other operations, like Knurling, threading, and such before cutting the workpiece off of the holder, only this portion of the workpiece is useful.
After that, he placed the scraps and the chips of the metal in the raw material compartment.
The first component of the machine was ready and this happened in a few moments, with this machine not only was he able to do the whole process faster than normal, he did it with more efficiency. It is more efficient and accurate compared to him being normally trying to create them on machines.
He doesn't have to move the object from machine to machine and he doesn't have any errors, Sam felt ecstatic at the success of the production unit.
But then, a thought came to his mind. What should he name it?
Sam is extremely bad at naming but he always liked to name his products which had extremely bad effects.
Every time, he named a product there will be one thought in his mind. 'This time, I am going to think long and hard before deciding.' And almost every time, he screws up.
This time is also the same, he decided to think long and hard and all we have to do is wait for him to screw up.
Sam went on making one component after another, the arms of the machine moved as if they are his own hands, after one day of continuous manufacturing, Sam finally finished all his components and now there is another thing to be done to the components before he finished his assembly.
A metallic arm's end was removed by the other metallic arm and another tool was attached in that place.
It is a tool that looked like a pen.
The arm started moving as the remaining arms held each component in place. Then it started the inscriptions.
After all the necessary inscriptions are complete, the assembly started.
There is an intricate mechanism in one of the arms and it is the core component of the puppet. The puppet core which Sam created and the Space jade contains the energy cells that act as the power source.
Then came the outer shell of the puppet and now the extra arms are all assembled and the welds are made where necessary. After that, Sam took out two crystal-like objects and placed them in the place of eyes and the final assembly are the thing wings.
They are made of Sam's new alloy. He created the alloy after various experiments. The wings are translucent and thin. But they are extremely sharp. They might look easy to break, but that would be quite a feat to achieve.
All the metals Sam used are of Grade-7 metals which are capable of forging a high- level weapon that could injure a Pre-transcendent easily.
Even the Transcendent stage cultivators will not be able to do so.
After the assembly is complete. Sam finally has only one step before his puppet is ready and that is Spiritual Enchantment.
He has to enchant a spirit. The puppet is of such a type and has abilities that would be better displayed if a spirit is enchanted and not puppeteering.
Two metallic arms that have pens at their ends started drawing a runic circle on the square platform while the puppet is suspended in the air with the rest of the arms.
After the runic circle is complete, he placed the puppet on the Platform and activate the circle. A dark void seemed to have opened within the center of the circle, but the puppet was still there without falling down into the void.
Within the void, many stray souls seemed to have been roaming while making gory sounds.
As the runic circle glowed, one of the souls near them was caught by it and was forcefully dragged into this world. The spirit which is now looking like a ball of light was forcefully dragged towards the puppet and entered it.
Within the puppet on the puppet core, an imprint was left indicating the spiritual enchantment successful.
Sam's consciousness came back to his body and he opened his eyes. He looked at the puppet, whose crystal has a faint glow at this moment.
The wings flapped as it flew up and started floating in the air.
With just a thought, the puppet flew towards Sam and floated in front of him.
The puppet he made is not a large one, it is actually quite small. It is as big as a toddler. And it is not humanoid as well.
It is actually a puppet that looked more like a bee.
There are six limbs that are attached to the metallic thorax, but in actual fact, they are connected to the internal core mechanism.
The tips of the limbs are sharp and there is a metallic tip at the tail end of the bee, which seemed to be acting as a stinger. Due to the finer craftsmanship, no one can observe this easily, but they could see that the tip of the tail end of the stinger is not welded to the rest of the body if they see it closely.
Apart from the main mechanism, there are several other objects inside the shell that are of secondary purpose.
After checking the puppet and made sure it is working. Sam went back to the machine and started making something else and this time it is a small screen. This is the same screen that is used for the surveillance of the city.
After making the screen which is the size of an I Pad, he took out a small energy cell in his hands and placed it in a slot at the rear of the screen.
He went back to the puppet and made took out a small metallic object from the neck of the bee. He placed that object in the rear of the screen beside the energy cell and the screen started showing an image.
It is live surveillance. The screen is showing whatever the eyes of the bee are watching.
And this is only one of the functions.
His first puppet design is successful all he has to do is mount it with the necessary accessories required for its attacking moves and everything would be as good as done.
But this is not the time for it to enter the market. The only reason made this faster because he needs a lot of time to focus on other things later. As for selling and business, it could wait for a while.