FWF #736 - Chapter 736 Dark Mage
#736 - Chapter 736 Dark Mage
“These things should belong to me!”
That was Wu Wei's first reaction when he saw these magic-powered puppets.
After all, these magic-powered puppets, capable of both physical and magical abilities, were exactly what Wu Wei needed.
Not to mention, the greatest driving force within these magic-powered puppets comes from the pain of souls.
This aspect especially appealed to Wu Wei.
Thus, through Wu Wei's War Vision, the secrets of these so-called magic-powered puppets were quickly revealed to him.
They didn't require much physical material, nor many resource points, and certainly no era-specific buildings to create.
The only trouble was their manufacturing process.
The reason being, Wu Wei discovered that each and every one of these magic-powered puppets required a dark mage to create.
Simply put, this thing was like a large, deadly "figurine".
So, for Wu Wei, the difficulty of creating these things depended solely on how many dark mages he could capture.
And this difficulty was nearly zero for Wu Wei.
The reason was simple: the moment Wu Wei saw these dark mages, he knew that these mages, who had abandoned most ethics and sought only power, were the easiest of all dark races to be assimilated by the Endless Abyss.
Especially in terms of mentality!
Therefore, Wu Wei changed the orders for the demon race on the battlefield.
Having already grasped the overall situation, he forcefully made these demon warriors engage in a war of attrition across the Twilight Continent.
At the same time, he shifted the primary target of these demon warriors from the living dark races to the magic-powered puppets.
As for the dark mages who created and manipulated the magic-powered puppets, Wu Wei's method of dealing with them was even simpler and more brutal.
Any dark mage willing to surrender on the spot, Wu Wei would allow them to enter the Endless Abyss through a temporary abyssal portal.
And those dark mages who were unwilling to surrender would be used as experimental materials by the abyssal mages who had already surrendered.
Oh, by the way.
Believe me, no living being on any continent would want to become a dark mage's material.
Because the biggest difference between dark mages and ordinary mages isn't just the word 'dark'.
Dark mages are called dark mages because, compared to traditional mages, their behavior in many ways has far exceeded the bottom line of mages, and even ordinary living beings!
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Although most mages will occasionally cross the bottom line, after all, when mages are immersed in experiments and tests, they will abandon many things, one of which is the bottom line.
This doesn't seem like a big deal, but the biggest difference between dark mages and ordinary mages is that ordinary mages only cross the bottom line occasionally, and in their hearts, the bottom line still exists.
They will not do things that violate human ethics unless absolutely necessary.
But dark mages are completely different.
These ugly-looking, ugly-hearted, and deformed-souled freaks, from the first time they crossed the bottom line, no longer respected the so-called bottom line!
What living experiments, what soul taboos, to them, are just insignificant stumbling blocks on their path to power and knowledge.
By the way.
Dark mages also exist under Wu Wei.
This existence is the Devourer of Magic, Knowles, who has yet to show Wu Wei all of his attributes!
This evil demon from the Abyss Lord's abyssal plane, who came to Wu Wei's territory, is a terrifying monster who can personally destroy a city and execute all of his kind in the city in cruel ways for his own small experiments.
In addition, the other experiments he has done are even more terrifying.
It is precisely because of the evil nature of his soul that he, as a human, was ultimately favored by the Endless Abyss and became a member of the Endless Abyss!
Therefore, dark mages are not recognized in most abyssal territories.
In addition to the fact that dark mages themselves are like unstable bombs, the panic they bring is also unacceptable to ordinary lords.
However, it would be unfair to dark mages to only talk about their disadvantages without mentioning their benefits.
Because although dark mages are not recognized and are not accepted by lords and commoners, because almost all dark mages are fanatics, many of them are actually at the forefront of some academic technology.
Because of this, in the early stages, especially in the starting stage of mages, the strength of almost all dark mages is generally far higher than that of ordinary mages of the same level.
Any existence, once it can abandon its ethics and empathy, will inevitably become stronger.
The magic-powered puppets created by the Dark Covenant Guild are undoubtedly the highest embodiment of dark magic technology.
The magic-powered puppets created by ordinary mages also have the characteristics of the Dark Covenant Guild's magic-powered puppets, but the combat power they can display is worlds apart.
There are two reasons.
First, dark mages, because they have accumulated a large number of cutting-edge technologies from dark magic in the manufacture of magic-powered puppets, although these cutting-edge technologies do not conform to human ethics, they can ensure that the combat power that these magic-powered puppets can display far exceeds that of magic-powered puppets of the same level.
Second, the driving forces used by these two types of magic-powered puppets are somewhat different.
When ordinary mages create magic-powered puppets, they often use old-fashioned magic-powered batteries and miniature mana pools as power.
Dark mages, on the other hand, use the pain within grieving souls as the power source for magic-powered puppets.
Although Wu Wei's level of education is not high enough to understand how these dark mages open up gaps in the minds of these poor souls, judging from the performance of these magic-powered puppets, their attempts have undoubtedly been very successful.
Because when these grieving souls suffer pain and hardship, a large amount of energy will gush out from the depths of their minds due to intense emotional fluctuations.
The strength of this energy is even enough to drive these magic-powered puppets to continue fighting on the battlefield for hundreds of hours.
Such a long combat time has made this group of magic-powered puppets manufactured by dark mages Wu Wei's favorite even before they were incorporated into Wu Wei's banner.
Therefore, in order to obtain these magic-powered puppets, Wu Wei very rarely chose to make an exception during the extermination operation against the Dark Covenant Guild, exempting this group of dark mages from their inevitable death and giving them an opportunity to serve him.
And those dark mages also returned the favor.
After they sensed the vastness of the Endless Abyss and the depraved technology hidden in the Endless Abyss that far surpassed the current era, these dark mages defected even more fiercely.
Such defection naturally made the lords belonging to the Dark Covenant Guild itch with hatred.
But not all dark mages will directly defect into the Endless Abyss.
After all, some of these guys belonging to different races are truly loyal to the lords they are currently serving.
For example, a demigod-level dark mage transformed from an elf, Clara!