Chapter 78: Golem Creation

  "Ding, gratutions, you’ve learned a 1st-circle spell: Create Minolem."

  "With this, all the skills have been learned..."

  Matthew set aside the spell scroll Adam Smith had brought and rubbed his temples, his gaze filled with thought:

  "In the inal memories, the previous ination had almost learned all 0th and 1st-circle spells avaible."

  "And he had traihe most practical ones up to level 3 and even level 4..."

  "Could it be something missing due to death? Or is there something else?"

  Matthew's p only sted a moment before he redirected his attention to the most important task at hand.

  Creating a golem!

  The spell scrolls Adam Smith brought were crucial to this task.

  The process of creating a golem wasn’t simple; in fact, it was quite plex.

  But in order to relieve himself from the burdeask of brewing ever-increasing amounts of blood-replenishing potions, Mattheilling to spend the necessary money.

  Moreover, the ability to create golems was also a vital part of his future pns.

  For an are mage, golems of all kinds served not only as assistants in life and experiments but also as warriors in battle and guardians of the home.

  Any capable are mage wouldn’t hesitate to create some golems to aid them, and even those without the talent or ination for it didn’t mind purchasing a few.

  For Matthew, this was another potential source of ihough its bes would be slow to materialize.

  His first goal was to create the simplest type: a .

  The first step reparing 500 pounds of impurity-free cy.

  Matthew used a fme thrower to thhly dry the cy.

  Then he crushed it into fine powder.

  During this process, Matthew sprinkled in two shards of magical white crystal.

  Uhe light, the pale yellow dust sparkled with glimmers of light.

  Mixing the crystal shards and dust pletely, Matthew prepared a batch of purified water and slowly poured it in.

  Using a rge gss rod trolled by Mage Hand, he stirred the mixture evenly.

  He tinued until all the dirt had bee a thick slurry.

  Matthew then added some mithril powder—an expeal that could sell fold per gram.

  The market rarely sold it.

  Adam Smith had obtained 50 grams through alternative els at siderable cost.

  The rge gss rod kept stirring, while a fme below began to dry the slurry gradually.

  Before it fully hardened, Matthew pced the mixture into a wooden mold.

  At the ter of the mold was a 20-gold worth earth elemental crystal.

  This would serve as the golem’s energy core.

  This method was simpler than traditional golem crafting and could save a lot of effort in shaping the body.

  However, it also created a bigger problem: the creator's mana ption and skill trol requirements were much higher.

  So, when Matthew cast the spell to create the minolem, tendrils of mana slowly seeped into the hardening golem puppet.

  A faint “pop” sound came from the wooden mold.

  It sighat materials worth over 50 gold s had just been ruined.

  Matthew wasn’t surprised by the failure; he had only beeing to see how far he could get with the knowledge and experience from his memories.

  Refleg on the failure, Matthew pondered over the critical issues in creation.

  "The body of a is like a mae."

  "The energy core acts as both the power sourd engine, mana nodes are like the wiring and trol circuits, and the spell matrix funs as the core processor..."

  Uanding the golem’s ws allowed Matthew to grasp the steps needed moving forward.

  This was only part of his learning.

  "Ding, creation failed. Gained information, magic item creation experience +1, currently at 56!"

  Normally, crafting golems took a tremendous amount of time and effort. Learning and practig the process was long and expensive!

  It was akin to building costly robots—if you failed, you lost everything.

  No wonder his previous self hadn’t raised this ability to a higher level...

  "Ding, spent 2 skill points to raise Create Minolem to level 2!"

  With 7 skill points remaining, Matthew eyed the 40 grams of mithril he had left.

  "Ding, spent 3 skill points to raise Create Minolem to level 3!"

  Four skill points remained!

  "Ding... Create Minolem raised to level 4!"

  Create Minolem Level 4: 40% increased success rate for minolem creation, 20% improved golem attributes, 5% ce to produce a mutated golem.

  After the level-up, the enhanced spell effects satisfied Matthew. He carefully reviewed the new knowledge in his mind before diving bato the crafting process.

  The sed creation began!

  The material preparation didn’t see much operational improvement, but Matthew had a clearer idea of how to allocate the materials.

  Then came the stages of mana infusion, spell matrix stru, and spell casting.

  One by ohe mana nodes formed under Matthew's precise mental trol.

  And once again, the attempt failed…

  Watg the dust scatter from the explosion, Matthew decided to let the kobolds have these scraps as ara snack.

  Refleg on the failure, he mentally reviewed the critical moments when the spell matrix colpsed and simuted the entire process.

  Rolling up his sleeves, he resumed!

  The third attempt began!

  This time, the process flowed more smoothly.

  The spell matrix stru, under Matthew’s precise trol, was pleted successfully.

  At this stage, the creation was 70% plete.

  But then, the slightly glowing core suddenly burst, scattering the dry all dires.

  The flying ks of dirt rippled through the air before crumbling into powder on the floor.

  Another failure!

  A fully clear mana duit matrix appeared in Matthew’s mind, and he quickly pinpoihe cause.

  A misalig in the mana node caused instability in the mana flow, and without an excess buffer, the nodes exploded.

  Identifying the problem, Matthew begaally rehearsing the attempt.

  He soon started his fourth attempt.

  Faint mana glows filled the boratory once more.

  Time passed, minute by minute.

  As his staff pulled away from the , ripples of mana energy emanated from the golem’s form.

  The shape slowly began to ge as though some internal program was automatically adjusting its structure.

  Matthew suddenly realized that the spell matrix for Create Minolem likely had built-in procedural codes, hidden deep within the spell.

  "Ding, successfully created , magic item creation experience +5, currently at 61."

  g his fist, Matthew excitedly watched the stand up:

  “Success!”

  FAL