207: Chapter 206: Gluttonous Core Plus Meteorite, Fusion Creates a Golden Gundam! Xiao Guang: I want this mecha!

Lin Feng sat cross-legged in the center of the secret room behind the iron door, with all the Materials he had scavenged from the laboratory piled in front of him.

The void meteorite crystal was emitting a dark red mist, several fist-sized void crystals were of extremely high purity, a small bag of dark purple powder was sealed in a micro-sealed canister, and there was also that severed arm blade of an Iron Bone Clan warrior; the runes remaining on the blade surface were exactly the same as the runes on the Iron Bone Clan weapons he had seen at the Yanjiao Arena Tournament.

He arranged these Materials by attribute, and then took out the Taotie Core from his void mithril ring, which he had been saving and hadn't been willing to use until now.

The core was the size of a millstone, black as charcoal, and the vein-like patterns on its surface were still pulsing slightly, with each pulse spreading a faint ripple of dark purple energy outwards.

This core was one of the most valuable spoils he had picked up after killing the Taotie in the Kunlun Ruins Secret Realm; it added five hundred to all attributes, two million each to health points and mana, and also came with the passive skill "Greed" — restoring 10% of the damage dealt as health points and mana after killing an enemy.

He had considered consuming it directly at the time, but resisted, because consuming it directly would be too wasteful; refining it into a Medicinal Pill would have better effects.

Later, after the tower soul's automatic Alchemy function was activated, he still hadn't been willing to use it as an ingredient — the energy composition of the Taotie Core was too special; Fusion and refining could bring out its full potential better than just refining it into a Medicinal Pill alone.

Now that he had the void meteorite crystal, high-purity void crystals, Iron Bone Clan arm blade fragments, and those dark purple powders in his hands — he couldn't even guess what kind of thing these Materials combined together could fuse into.

"Are you planning to fuse all of these together?"

Xiaoguang stood beside him, looking at the pile of Materials on the ground and the still-pulsing Taotie Core, its tone somewhat uncertain.

"The Taotie Core is not a normal Material; the failure rate for fusing this thing is very high."

But after it finished speaking, it immediately looked around, as if it had suddenly remembered something, finding an excuse for itself.

"However, in this Dungeon, if we can have a helper that can both take damage and attack at any time, it is indeed more useful than having an extra weapon. You saw that giant Fusion monster earlier — it was fast and powerful, and it could also use long-range annihilation breath. If we don't have a combatant of the same size to restrain it, it will be even harder to fight if we run into something even more powerful next time."

Lin Feng didn't respond, just nodded and began to work.

He took a deep breath and activated his Talent with both hands directed at the pile of Materials; pale golden light surged from his palms, enveloping the meteorite, void crystals, Iron Bone Clan arm blade, dark purple powder, and the still-pulsing Taotie Core.

All the Materials floated into mid-air and began to rotate. The void meteorite crystal melted into a dark red semi-liquid sphere of light, the void crystals shattered into silver-white fine sandy energy streams, the Iron Bone Clan arm blade fragments decomposed into grey-white metal particles in the golden light, the dark purple powder scattered into extremely fine mist-like particles, and the Taotie Core was wrapped in golden light and constantly compressed, shrinking from the size of a millstone to the size of a basketball, and then to the size of a fist.

All the Materials collided, intertwined, and fused within the golden light, as if someone had poured different colored paints into a high-speed blender. Various energies repelled and attracted each other; the dark red and silver-white were entangled together and then forcibly held by the grey-white metal particles, while the dark purple mist-like particles acted as a catalyst, allowing energies that originally could not be fused to find a way to coexist.

This process took much longer than he had anticipated.

His mana was being continuously consumed, and beads of sweat began to seep from his forehead, but he did not stop.

Xiaoguang stood by the side, hands pinching the backup hand seals for the Formation, ready to step in at any time when his mana was exhausted.

Xiaojin also woke up from its nap, lying on Lin Feng's knees, nervously staring at the increasingly bright energy vortex in mid-air.

Its purple antennae swung rapidly in the air; it could sense that the concentration of that energy vortex was climbing at a geometric rate.

The golden light lasted for a long time before slowly dimming.

A huge black shadow slowly descended from mid-air and landed on the metal test bench in the center of the secret room.

The alloy surface of the test bench was pressed with four deep indentations, emitting a muffled sound of being unable to bear the weight.

It was a mecha.

It was over three meters tall, humanoid, and pitch black, its surface covered with a layer of fine dark golden patterns — those were the energy imprints left after the Fusion of the Taotie Core and the void meteorite crystal.

The armor plate on its chest was exceptionally thick, with a fist-sized dark red energy core embedded in the center, pulsing rhythmically just like the Taotie Core from earlier, only the color had changed from pure black to crimson, and every pulse would spread a faint halo of dark golden light across the surface of the mecha.

The limbs were slender, but the joints were reinforced with several layers of grey-white metal armor — that was the alloy armor layer formed after the melting of the Iron Bone Clan warrior arm blade fragments.

On its back were two folded wings, the surface of the wings covered with a layer of dark purple mist membrane, still flowing slowly.

The head design was very simple, with no mouth, only an extremely thin V-shaped visor, with dark red light faintly flowing inside the visor.

"General Xiahou — Jinkui!"

Xiaoguang's eyes lit up instantly, and it flew in front of the mecha with a swoosh, looking up at the steel giant that was several times taller than it.

The design of this mecha was exactly the same as the rarest limited card in the Three Kingdoms-themed Gundam mobile game it had recently downloaded on its tablet.

It had been saving up Materials for so long, wanting to redeem that card pool, but the limited pool had long since closed, and it had been unhappy about it for several days, even its consumption of potato chips had dropped significantly.

It didn't expect Lin Feng to directly "fuse" this card out using his own method.

Xiaojin also jumped down from his knees and approached the feet of the mecha, touching the alloy armor layer on the mecha's lower leg with its antennae — a flash of dark red light flickered on the surface of the armor layer, making the purple patterns on its antennae shine even brighter.

It recognized this material; it was of the same origin as the Taotie Core, but of higher purity and more stable.

It turned back and squeaked at Lin Feng twice, raising its front legs and shaking them, the meaning probably being "Can this big guy help me move Spirit Stones in the future?"

Lin Feng ignored it and checked the attribute panel first.

After his gaze swept across the screen, his eyebrows raised slightly — it wasn't legendary grade, but of golden quality.

The golden quality Puppet mecha had a combat power approximately between the Peak of the Domain Lord Level and the King Rank, with the specific performance depending on the operator's control precision.

The positioning given on the panel was very clear: high-mobility melee type, equipped with an energy shield and a short-range space jump module, as well as a dark energy cannon that required charging.

After reading it, he turned the attribute panel towards Xiaoguang. Xiaoguang leaned in to read it, its palm-sized golden finger pointing at the line "short-range space jump", reading it back and forth several times, then it turned around and looked up at this three-meter-tall mecha, then looked down at its own palm-sized body, and suddenly fell silent.

It wasn't thinking about how to operate it — it was thinking that from the Taigu Dojo to the Kunlun Ruins to the Void Corridor, it had seen countless Formations and Restrictions, but no one had ever built something specifically for it.

Before, at the supermarket, when Lin Feng bought it rings, a tablet, potato chips, and cola, it felt that was Lin Feng being good to it; now, Lin Feng had fused an entire Taotie Core, a golden quality void meteorite crystal, and so many precious Materials together to create a mecha it liked the most.

This wasn't just being good to it — this was treating it as a partner that could truly fight side-by-side.

"The cockpit is right behind the core in the chest; it uses conscious connection, no manual operation required."

Lin Feng pointed to the thickest armor plate on the mecha's chest.

Xiaoguang took a deep breath, flew in front of the mecha's chest, and stretched out its small hand, pressing it onto a dark golden pattern on the edge of the core.

The pulse frequency of the core in the mecha's chest immediately synchronized with its own spiritual power fluctuations, and the armor plate slid open silently to the sides, revealing a cockpit inside that could only accommodate a palm-sized body.

It crawled inside.

The inside of the cockpit was unexpectedly spacious — not physically spacious, but on a conscious level.

After its Divine Sense connected with the mecha's control System, the entire three-meter-tall steel giant body felt like its second body; it could perceive the subtle state of every joint and energy circuit, from the fingertips to the wings.

This feeling of direct control was far more comfortable than simple Spell-based object manipulation.

It tried moving its right arm, and the mecha's right fist clenched and then relaxed, the reaction being astonishingly sensitive.

Then it manipulated the mecha to take a few steps — first carefully circling half the secret room to avoid the test bench, and then trying a few more complex actions: turning, crouching, jumping.

The dark energy thrusters at the bottom of the mecha's feet ejected a ring of pale blue flames when it jumped, almost hitting the ceiling and creating a crater.

It hurriedly retracted the thrusters and landed, slamming into the metal floor with a dull thud, and the ground within a few meters vibrated slightly.

"It's too sensitive."

Xiaoguang's excited voice came out through the mecha's loudspeaker, completely different from the high-pitched voice it usually used when whispering in Lin Feng's ear — steady, confident, with a hint of awkwardness from just starting out, but more so, eager to try.

It also tried activating the short-range space jump module, and the mecha instantly appeared from one end of the secret room to the other, the landing point precise, emitting only a very slight sound of air currents brushing.

"I want this mecha."

Xiaoguang manipulated the mecha back, looking down at Lin Feng.

The mecha's V-shaped visor shone slightly in the dim light, reflecting Lin Feng's figure as he looked up and examined it.

Lin Feng waved his hand: "No one is fighting you for it. But if you jump a few more times in the secret room, the ceiling will collapse and both of us will be buried."

Xiaoguang chuckled twice, manipulated the mecha to shrink back into the corner, and jumped out of the cockpit, landing on his shoulder, licking its lips with lingering excitement.

"This mecha is more advanced than all the Puppets I have used before. When I was at the Taigu Dojo, I also had a few mechanical Puppets, but they were all operated with spiritual power and rune threads, with huge latency; they simply cannot compare to this. In the future, when fighting, I will drive the mecha to charge first, and you and Lu Xiaojin cover me from the rear!"

Xiaojin heard its name, crawled back from the mecha's feet, scratched at Lin Feng's pant leg with its six legs twice, looked up and blinked its two compound eyes at him, then turned its head to look at the mecha in the corner, and struck a pose it thought was very imposing with its front legs on its waist.

What it wanted to say was — it was the most powerful one.

Lin Feng didn't rush to leave the secret room, but sat down cross-legged first, restoring his mana to full status.

The mana consumed just now by fusing the Taotie Core plus the void meteorite crystal plus so many high-quality Materials far exceeded his estimate; if he hadn't drunk a few bottles of special mana recovery potions earlier, he might not have lasted until the Fusion was complete.

He closed his eyes and circulated the light element for several rounds, feeling the Meridians in his body gradually stabilize under the protection of the star gauze armor, before standing up and patting the dust off his pants.

"Let's go."

He turned and walked towards the door.

Xiaoguang climbed back onto his left shoulder, while the mecha shrunk into a palm-sized capsule shape and was temporarily stored in its Storage Ring.

The internal space of that Storage Ring was large enough; it was more than enough to put in a three-meter-tall mecha.

Xiaojin crawled back to his right shoulder, with a purple Spirit Stone in its mouth again.

They returned along the original path — passing through the corridor, the archives, the central surgical area, climbing back from the shaft to the top platform of the office building, going down the fire stairs to the lobby, and finally walking out of the office building's main entrance.

Outside was still that grey, hazy ruin.

That giant Fusion monster didn't know when it had left the street outside the office building, probably confused by his previous Breath-Hiding Array, and had chased off in another direction.

Lin Feng expanded his perception and swept around — there were no energy reactions from large Void Creatures within a few hundred meters, only the occasional low roar coming from the depths of the ruins in the distance.

The ring-shaped building still stood on the horizon directly in front, the dark purple light at the bottom of that extremely wide and deep ring-shaped crack still pulsing slowly, with no changes from what he had seen earlier from the top of the TV tower.

But he now knew the origin of this city.

What was still hidden in that ring-shaped building — that out-of-control stitched monster named "Eris", that "Tang" who was silently funding these experiments behind the scenes, and his parents who had lost their traces deep in this city.

He unfurled his Wind Wings, adjusted his direction, and flew towards the area on the left side of the ring-shaped building that had not yet been explored.

Xiaoguang sat on his shoulder, stuffing potato chips into its mouth while flipping through the complete file brought out from the laboratory, the crunching sound of chewing potato chips and the rustling sound of flipping pages mixed together.

It was re-examining that complete experimental data, trying to find more clues about "Tang" from it, as well as the possible hiding place of the monster codenamed "Eris".