Date: Unspecified Time: Unspecified Location: Myriad Realms, Lil. Red Storm, Seed World, Trophy Section, Duel Realm, Crafting Sector, Venue: Chaos Dwarven Forge.
Wyatt looked at the three Frosling corpse puppets kneeling before him and nodded in satisfaction. He was pleased with his creations, even though he had deliberately held back to conceal his secrets.
In this crafting, Wyatt had refrained from using his Breath of Erosion to refine the soul pathways of the ingredients. He had also chosen not to use his Calamity Daughter Gem as the core of the corpse puppets, nor did he dare incorporate his knowledge of crafting a Viltronian core to grant them invincible bodies for their realm. Additionally, he avoided giving them mental-type physiques or traits and other advanced abilities and skills.
Wyatt had held back significantly this time due to the audience observing the duel. However, he fully showcased his soul crafting expertise by incorporating a dangerous ingredient like the Glacier Plague into the crafting process. He also displayed creativity by leveraging the Froslings' natural immunity to the Glacier Plague to grant them the unique Glacier Silk skill—a powerful ability whose full potential could only be revealed in the upcoming combat matchs.
Ultimately, Wyatt managed to demonstrate his exceptional crafting skills without exposing any of his deeper secrets. Yet, as always, there were skeptics among the audience—haters who doubted or dismissed his work. Despite this, Wyatt was confident that when the time came to pit his Frosling corpse puppets against Bigold's, their performance would silence many of his detractors.
With his crafting complete well ahead of schedule, Wyatt chose not to rest. Instead, he decided to use the remaining two and a half days to help his corpse puppets familiarize themselves with their primary skill, Glacier Silk, in addition to their racial and undead abilities.
Bigold and many in the audience weren't wrong to observe that Wyatt hadn't given his corpse puppets an extensive range of functions and skills. However, they were mistaken about his reasons. Wyatt hadn't limited their abilities to reduce crafting time; instead, he believed the Glacier Silk skill alone was more than enough to ensure his corpse puppets could triumph over any Card Emperor realm corpse puppets.
Moreover, Wyatt was aware that being too flashy in this duel—by adding numerous rare and unique skills to his corpse puppets—could attract the wrong kind of attention. He needed to leave a lasting impression on the audience while maintaining a level of moderation that wouldn't make him a target.
'Hive Spirit, help them get familiar with using their skill Glacier Silk to perform 3D printing, and show them how to utilize the 3D weapon and armor designs they inherited during their animation in combat,' Wyatt ordered the Hive Spirit eyeing the shimmering blue armor covering the three female forsling corpse puppets.
Wyatt had not added armor to the Frosling corpse puppets during their crafting. Yet, when they were animated, they appeared clad in high-quality armor. This was thanks to the Glacier Silk skill and the 3D printing software and designs he had programmed into their artificial wills. Without any explicit instructions, the corpse puppets covered their naked bodies in Glacier Armor, 3D-printed using Glacier Silk. This action not showed they maintained their dignity but also indicated that their spirits were already beginning to develop.
Even more impressive was the nature of the Glacier Armor itself. It functioned as a mechanical exoskeleton, transforming the Frosling corpse puppets into walking and fighting glaciers. This was precisely why Wyatt hadn't focused on strengthening the physical bodies of the Frosling corpses. The Froslings, being naturally unsuited for close combat, excelled instead in ranged combat due to their affinity with the ice element.
Strengthening the physique of a Frosling corpse for crafting a corpse puppet would have been akin to increasing the strength stats of a mage-type character in a game. What use is physical strength to a mage whose abilities are primarily elemental spells? Recognizing this, Wyatt instead gifted the corpse puppets with the Glacier Silk skill and programmed them with 3D printing capabilities.
To understand how the Frosling corpse puppets were able to 3D-print mechanical Glacier Armor using Glacier Silk, it is essential to understand its foundation: the Snow Silk skill and the working principles of the Glacier Plague.
The Winterweaver, a half-humanoid, half-spider demonic beast, secretes bodily fluids that transform moisture and snow from the surrounding atmosphere into a type of icy silk called Snow Silk.
The Glacier Plague, on the other hand, infects its target by causing thin layers of snowflakes to form on their skin using their body heat. Over time, these layers build up, gradually increasing until the target can no longer generate body heat and is ultimately transformed into an ice statue. The layered snowflakes mimic the formation of glaciers, hence the name Glacier Plague.
Thanks to Wyatt's ingenuity, the Frosling corpse puppets could now produce bodily fluids capable of creating Snow Silk imbued with the Glacier Plague. When used together, these two components formed Glacier Silk—a superior material created by combining fine moisture, snow, and heat from the environment. This silk was significantly more durable, as its threads were composed of compactly layered snowflakes, strengthened and tempered by the immense pressure of their combined weight, much like the formation of a glacier.
Wyatt applied the concept of additive manufacturing—a process from his past life that creates three-dimensional objects from a digital design—to enable his corpse puppets to use Glacier Silk for 3D-printing Glacier Armor and weapons.
With Wyatt's order Hive Spirit helped his corpse puppet to get used to using glacier skill to create 3D print of various armor and weapons to use in combat while he planned to monitor the puppets with his Soul Pupils as they practiced to determine further ways to improve them during the remaining time.
Meanwhile, the entire audience and the judges were taken aback by Wyatt's actions. The judges, in particular, felt they could learn a thing or two from Wyatt about how to command attention and become the center of everyone's focus, effortlessly overshadowing one's competitors.