CHAPTER 484: CHAPTER 455: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT UNFOLDS

Creating Steam Knight Armor is naturally a familiar task for Perfikot.

Even though a new, more powerful armor needs to be designed, the underlying logic remains unchanged.

Therefore, with the assistance of Weir and the Witch Workshop, the production work quickly unfolded in an orderly manner.

To make the Steam Knight Armor, the first problem to solve is naturally the materials problem.

Originally, the special steel Perfikot used on the Steam Knight Armor was modeled after high-performance materials from her original world.

The performance of this material is already very impressive for this world, and the manufactured Steam Knight Armor also performs excellently, fully meeting Perfikot’s initial design intent.

However, if this material is to be used to forge the Godslaying Armor, it still falls short, at least not qualified enough to be used as the main material.

This could have been a problem affecting research and development progress, but Perfikot had previously obtained the method of creating primordial material from the Jade Record, so she directly chose to use primordial material as the main material for the Godslaying Armor.

Besides using the special attributes of primordial material to meet the material requirements for creating Godslaying Armor, Perfikot also intends to satisfy the conditions of the Jade Record by making the Godslaying Armor with primordial material, thus unlocking new pages.

And this is also the confidence behind Perfikot’s promise to lift Weir’s curse and restore her legendary power.

Of course, what Perfikot wants is not just Weir’s legendary status; she wants a method that can help Extraordinary individuals at nobility rank to break through to legendary.

With this method, she can have her loyal old steward break through to legendary, and also elevate the power level of the Steam Knights under her command.

For Perfikot, who is proficient in transmutation of human bodies, elevating a Grand Knight’s strength to nobility is not difficult. She hasn’t done so only because she hasn’t had such a need, and the Knight Association banned knights from accepting body transmutation.

But now, facing the gods hidden behind disasters, Perfikot cannot afford to consider so much.

If the Ancient Gods do indeed return, then she may indeed need to hasten the emergence of a few legends to serve as pilots for the Godslaying Armor.

As for the knights at the Empire’s nobility rank and organizations like the Knight Association and Alchemist Association, Perfikot doesn’t mind helping them break through to legendary, provided they work for her.

Perfikot never considered herself a benevolent person; if these ranks want to gain the opportunity to break through to legendary from her, working for her is their only choice.

She would not freely give away the technology or opportunity to become legendary without sufficient exchange of interests, even if she urgently needed combat power, she would not make a losing trade.

Moreover, for Perfikot, since she can create Godslaying Armor, she can naturally create Godslaying Puppets as well. You wonder if using Godslaying Puppets to control Godslaying Armor could unleash equivalent power?

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"Countess, the frame of the Godslaying Armor really can’t be reduced further. According to your design, to install the new energy core and other components, it needs to maintain such a large size." A member of the Witch Workshop reported her work progress to Perfikot.

Participating in the development of Godslaying Armor is indeed an exciting opportunity for her, but the difficulty of the work has indeed surpassed her imagination.

So much so that this witch, who usually interacts a lot with forging and doesn’t really care about her appearance, seemed unusually disheveled and dirty-faced at the moment.

"I understand, thank you for your hard work, Shumita. You can go rest for a while, I’ll have more work for you later." Perfikot lifted her head from the piles of blueprints, nodded to the red-haired witch in front of her, signaled that she could temporarily rest, and then again immersed herself in the blueprints before her.

Shumita didn’t dare say much, turned around planning to wash her face and take a break.

Developing Godslaying Armor is a major project, even for Perfikot, an alchemist capable of independently designing Steam Knight Armor, with Weir’s assistance, she still needed members of the Witch Workshop to lend her a hand.

After all, the members of the Witch Workshop are all Weir’s pupils, and their level of knowledge and power is very strong, qualified to participate in the production of Godslaying Armor.

For example, Shumita was responsible for all related metal material production and processing, thoroughly exercising her ability as a forging witch.

Meanwhile, another witch nicknamed "Jewelry Witch", Andelle, needed to assist her teacher in processing various gems embedded within the Godslaying Armor.

This part is where Perfikot is not as competent as Weir; although she far exceeds Weir in her knowledge related to alchemy due to the Jade Record and her identity as a Transmigrator, she is indeed not very knowledgeable about magic and magical power-related alchemy.

Weir, after all, was active over a hundred years ago, a time when the decline of magic power was not as severe as it is now, and she had interactions with individuals like the president of the Magic Association, allowing her access to some knowledge related to magic that might now be lost or seem meaningless.

This knowledge may not generally be very useful, but for alchemists of Weir’s level, even though magic power has now declined significantly, if she wishes, she can still bring some of it to play.

Indeed, the fundamental reason Weir applies these techniques to the Godslaying Armor lies in Perfikot’s claim that the Ancient Gods are the masterminds behind this disaster.

The Godslaying Armor is meant to counter divine forces, and relying solely on physical output to confront divinity might not be enough, Weir did this to increase the odds of the Godslaying Armor in combating divine forces.

As for how to wield these technologies effectively and powerfully in a magic-thin environment, that’s what Weir has been researching during this period.

However, this doesn’t really count as a challenging project for her, even though it does consume a lot of effort, overall it still poses no significant challenge, merely requires substantial effort.

Meanwhile, Perfikot is tirelessly increasing the Steam Armor’s power, so it could contend with a god.

Yet presently, one issue persistently troubles Perfikot, that she has never seen a real deity nor does she know what kind of power a deity possesses.

Fortunately, Weir could provide some insights into this, since back in her day she attempted to reach higher levels of realm, dabbling in divine power.