After the stone statue collapsed, a mechanical construct emerged from the ground. It was an armored automaton wielding a long spear, standing four or five meters tall—more than double the height of an ordinary human. Its sudden appearance left the combatants stunned.
The automaton twisted its rigid neck, its mechanical eyes rotating before they suddenly seemed to come alive, brimming with intelligence.
Li Dai was shocked. To engineer a construct to this degree of sophistication required immense skill. It was beyond her wildest imagination. Ordinary grandmaster crafters could not achieve such life-like qualities in their puppets. Although this was Li Dai’s first time seeing such a construct, she was not entirely ignorant; she had read in the sect’s library pavilion that true top-tier master craftsmen could create puppet-humans indistinguishable from real people, to the point where, without a keen eye, one could not tell them apart.
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