Just became an evil god and was summoned by the saint.

Chapter 5 The Puppet
"Besides being a prospective saintess of the Holy Court, I am also a first-year student at the Holy Magic Academy."

Celia didn't stay long in the Holy Court. After enjoying a free dinner there, she returned to her residence—the Holy Magic Academy dormitory, a single room—led by Elena.

"Because I am a candidate for sainthood, I have a single dormitory room and live alone."

After explaining to Ross in her mind, Celia sat down at her desk and picked up a mage's manual to read.

She was looking very intently, so Ross didn't disturb her and continued to observe the dormitory environment.

This room is about 20 square meters, with a kitchen, a bathroom, and a balcony. However, the kitchen is not filled with vegetables and knives, but with all sorts of ingredients.

Memories of these materials were recalled, and he immediately remembered that they were basic magical materials for making basic magic puppets.

"Fortunately, although time has been jumped to a thousand years in the future, none of these things have changed."

The easiest things to remember about a game are its early and late-game items. Early-game items are easy to remember because players will play through the game again or use alternate accounts, and they are also memorable when they first start playing. In the late game, players frequently interact with those items. On the contrary, items from the mid-game transition phase are hard to remember, which is why Ross still remembers quite a lot of things.

It's also possible that after time travel, the game's encyclopedia was directly crammed into his brain, which is why he could recognize what it was at a glance.

"Why are you so focused on the puppet?" Ross asked, somewhat puzzled.

Even if puppets can greatly enhance combat power in the early stages, it's not like you should fill the room with puppet-making materials instead of improving other aspects of your strength, right?

Ross refocused his attention on Celia and suddenly noticed that the book, titled "The Sorcerer's Handbook," wasn't for learning magic; rather, it seemed like... a history book?

It talks about the origin, inheritance, and principles of magic and sorcerers.

"Are you perhaps hoping to find some clue about me in this book?"

Ross interrupted Celia's reading.

Celia looked up, and Ross in her mind seemed to be projected into the air in front of her. "I... I was just looking around."

"Stop looking. I have nothing to do with the birth of magic. One thing is true about the history of the Holy Court: I was only active a little over a thousand years ago. Before that, I did not exist."

“Oh…” Celia obediently put away the Sorcerer’s Handbook, replaced it with the Holy Word, and picked up the pen beside her.

"I'm asking you, why do you take making magic puppets so seriously?"

Celia paused, a look of confusion on her face. "For a sorcerer, a puppet is a very important combat partner and tool, Mr. Ross... doesn't the master know that?"

"Is it important?" Ross thought for a moment. Perhaps things were different a thousand years ago than now. "At least in my time, it wasn't important. It wasn't as important as a magical pet."

“Fellowship?” Celia tapped her delicate chin with the tip of her pen. “I rarely hear this term. I only heard it in my ‘New History of Sorcerers’ class. The teacher said that fellowships have been replaced by magic puppets.”

"What? Magical puppets have replaced magical pets?"

Ross was somewhat surprised.

This is similar to Doraemon eliminating biological cats.

Theoretically, it's possible, but to what extent would Doraemon need to be developed?
Celia seemed to have finally discovered something Ross didn't understand, and a smile involuntarily crept onto her lips. "Yes, anything a magical pet can do, a magical puppet can do too. And anything a magical pet can't do, a magical puppet can do as well!"

She moved the white bracelet on her wrist, and a magical screen appeared in front of her, displaying rows of text that showed the cause and effect of the magical puppet eliminating the magical pet.

"The reasons for my elimination are all here. I wonder if Mr. Ross can see the information about my Spell Ring... The Spell Ring is short for the Spell Ring of Resonance. It's the bracelet I'm wearing on my wrist that can connect to the Protoss Network and display information from it."

"I can see it, and I know it's the Ring of Resonance... because I named it that."

"Huh? You named this too?" Celia exclaimed in shock. "Yes, even the bracelet as a communication tool was defined by me."

This game offers a high degree of freedom; you can customize everything you want.

Ross didn't have the time or inclination to define everything; he only defined things he found interesting. For example, communication tools, which were usually shaped like crystal balls or cell phones, were customized into the shape of a bracelet and named the Ring of Magic, or simply the Ring or Bracelet.

Fortunately, although we were making jokes, we tried to stay true to the context and didn't call it a donut or any other strange name.

"Is this also a power from outside the world?" Celia touched her bracelet.

"No, that's the power within the world."

While answering Celia's question, Ross was also looking at the content on the magic screen.

The statement above indicates that magical puppets have replaced magical pets as the mage's partner because magical puppets have completely replaced various functions of magical pets, whether it's being cute or fighting.

Five hundred years ago, during the Age of Calamity, knowledge about magical pets was unfortunately lost. In addition, magical puppets rose to prominence, making them cheaper than magical pets today. They gradually replaced magical pets, and the original magical pets became ordinary pets like cats and dogs, or... luxury items, no longer suitable for combat.

"I see. It seems that the development of magic puppet technology is quite good now, and it can even replace magic pets."

Finally, we see an improvement in technology. If we don't see any more, Ross will suspect that after the gods sealed him away, they reverted the entire world to the era before the players arrived.

"Therefore, I must create my own magical puppet!"

"Making a magic puppet is easy, isn't it? If you encounter any problems, just ask me."

“It’s just a basic magic puppet… it’s not difficult to make, the difficult part is…” A blush rose on the girl’s pretty cheeks, “I don’t have money to buy materials.”

Ross: "..."

So it turns out they were short of money.

Ross was shocked: "You're a saint, and the school didn't sponsor you?"

"Yes, the school also provides some basic materials, but these materials can only be used to make basic puppet designs. Without the puppet heart to drive them, they can only perform some simple movements and cannot be used for combat."

"The Heart of the Puppet?" Ross heard this term for the first time. "Arcane Forge?"

“It’s not an arcane furnace, it’s a golem core.” Celia immediately had her bracelet provide information about the golem core.

Ross took a closer look and realized that the Heart of the Puppet was like a CPU, the core of the entire puppet, while the Arcane Furnace was the power source.

While searching through materials about puppets in my mind, I didn't find anything about a puppet heart. In the past, the CPU of a puppet was either controlled by a sorcerer multitasking, or a creature's soul was stuffed into it. The more perverse ones would extract a person's soul and stuff it into the puppet.

The Puppet Heart is a very special material. When placed on a puppet, it can directly endow the puppet with AI-like intelligence, enabling it to quickly respond to the master's commands, fight flexibly, and no longer need to multitask or plant a strange soul to create the hidden danger of betrayal.

Rose has become quite curious about this.

In his previous life, when he transmigrated, civilian robots were developing rapidly and could even do backflips. But in this world, their development seems to be even more rapid, directly becoming the core means of combat for sorcerers.

However, considering that after being sealed away for a thousand years, the world has only just developed intelligent robots, it seems... unusually slow.

The gods are truly wicked!

(End of this chapter)