Witch Special

Although Lin Zhenxi had never contracted an ancient sandworm, she had seen its appearance in books, even detailed anatomy diagrams. The wizard who wrote the research diary captured and dissected an ancient sandworm, meticulously documenting the structure and function of its various parts, and then placed it on the library shelf dedicated to magical beasts.

In the wizarding world, magical creatures aren't a very popular subject, at least compared to compulsory courses like Charms and Potions. Most students take the course primarily for credit, with few seriously studying it, especially those magical creatures not covered in textbooks.

But Lin Zhenxi was obviously an exception. She had just come into contact with magic at that time, but she was actually old enough to graduate from the magic academy, so she could only stay in the magic academy as a scholar.

This is of course an identity cheat that the world will gave her to facilitate her actions, but in fact this is the normal process. After the special envoy arrives in a new alien world, he will generally get help from the world will of the current world. Like the previous world, not only did he not get help, but it turned into a hostile relationship. It is not even a small amount, it is unprecedented.

With the help of a disguised identity, Lin Zhenxi lived directly in the largest magic library in the wizarding world, using memory magic to madly absorb the knowledge recorded in all the magic books he could access.

The body structure of the ancient sandworm was what she learned at that stage.

Now that she knows the principle, and Lin Zhenxi's strength now far exceeds the upper limit of the wizarding world, why doesn't she try to make an "ancient sandworm" herself?

First, the body, a very thick and long tube will do.

Then, there are the mouthparts at the front, which need to have a spiral structure and be covered with sharp teeth that can grind rocks.

The source of power is also very important. Fortunately, the body that Lin Zhenxi prepared for this artificial ancient sandworm is large enough. She prepared a layered spirit gathering array inside it, which directly extracts the earth elements in the surrounding environment to provide magic power for the sandworm.

After using Transfiguration to mold the shape of the sandworm out of clay using local materials, Lin Zhenxi began to carefully carve the details.

First, the outer skin. Sandworms move in a similar way to earthworms, with a ring-shaped body that allows them to move forward by wriggling. Lin Zhenxi built a number of transmission mechanisms beneath the sandworm's skin, using them to achieve the sandworm's forward wriggling function.

Then there's the magic of its outer skin. The most valuable aspect of the ancient sandworm is its magical outer skin, which is not only incredibly tough, but also secretes a magical mucus that can temporarily melt the surrounding soil and quickly resolidify it.

This function makes the ancient sandworms natural tunnel diggers. No matter how soft the soil is, they will form solid underground tunnels where they drill through, which will not collapse easily.

It's a pity that it's too difficult to catch. Otherwise, if you catch one, you won't have to worry about digging work in the future.

The mucus that melts the soil and makes it quickly solidify again is the innate magic of the ancient sandworm and there is no way to copy it, but Lin Zhenxi has the skills of turning stone into mud and mud into stone, and through clever connection, he can achieve a similar effect to the sandworm mucus.

Next up is the sandworm's mouthparts. As a part of the sandworm's body, hardness alone isn't enough. In fact, the ancient sandworm's mouthparts possess a truly terrifying ability: they can permanently crush rocks. Any rock, like a foam board, crumbles before the sandworm's spiraling mouthparts.

This falls into the realm of magic. Isn't it said that the most valuable thing about a sandworm is its skin rather than its mouthparts which should be rarer? Because the operating range of a sandworm's mouthparts is too narrow. Except for miners working underground, no one would use the magic of "rock crushing" frequently.

It's difficult to permanently solidify a spell, but Lin Zhenxi was just temporarily assembling an ancient sandworm puppet, so there was no need for a permanent enchantment. Temporary enchantments, on the other hand, were simple. Lin Zhenxi simply used the enchantment wand to draw on the material and gave it the "rock-crushing" effect.

Next, use the replication spell to divide the prepared material into several copies, then use the magnification spell to enlarge them, and finally install the heads of the puppet sandworms one by one, and a drill-shaped head is completed.

Very good, a drill bit with a spiral structure is indeed quite romantic when you look closely, although many people cannot understand this romance.

With the form complete, the next step was naturally to inject a soul. Lin Zhenxi had no intention of giving this puppet sandworm an independent soul; it was just a tool, no need for unnecessary considerations. So, she simply formed a blank soul and stuffed it into its magic core. It contained only a few simple movement instructions, while Lin Zhenxi would remotely perform the actual operations.

In this way, an excavator that can be operated remotely was assembled.

Lin Zhenxi injected his spiritual power into the puppet sandworm's magic core, controlling the blank soul within it and using it to issue commands to the puppet sandworm. The next moment, the earth-colored, over ten-meter-long worm raised its head, and the spiral mouthparts on its head began to rotate.

Such a large body was indeed difficult to control. Lin Zhenxi discovered that there was a certain delay between the time his commands were issued and the time they were executed. Moreover, the commands had to be continuous. If there was even a slight incoherence, the sandworm's movements would stop and it would enter a state of shutdown.

Judging from the perspective of engineering machinery, the intelligence level of this puppet sandworm was hopelessly low. But Lin Zhenxi didn't expect it to do anything special anyway; it just needed to be able to move and dig holes. At least these two things were sufficient, and that was enough for this month.

Very good, I'll name you Earth Dragon. Now, Earth Dragon, dig a tunnel from underground to the center of the sunflower field, and make sure it's deep enough.

Following Lin Zhenxi's command, the massive magical creation began operating. Its head, previously raised high, plunged into the ground. With a muffled thud, its massive body quickly vanished into the earth, leaving behind only a large, round hole about two meters in diameter.

Lin Zhenxi stood at the edge of the cave and touched the inner wall. He found that while it was still somewhat soft, it was rapidly hardening, so he felt relieved. Apparently, the chain magic of turning stone into mud and then mud into stone had also worked successfully. I am truly a genius!

Lin Zhenxi now felt like controlling this puppet sandworm was like playing with a slightly difficult remote-controlled car; he had to pay attention to both the beginning and the end to make it work properly. Fortunately, Lin Zhenxi now had several souls crammed into one body and was very adept at multi-threaded operations, so operating it didn't encounter any major problems.

Thanks to the combined efforts of Lin Zhenxi and the parallel consciousnesses, this massive magic puppet, so crude that even a single movement required several people to operate, actually managed to move. Not only did it move, but as Lin Zhenxi and the others gained proficiency, the puppet sandworm actually began to become more agile.

The dwarven soldiers' failure last time was not only due to their own weakness, but also because they dug the tunnel too shallowly. If they dug deep, as long as they didn't touch the roots of the sunflowers, it wouldn't matter whether they were aggressive or not.

Of course, Lin Zhenxi was also responsible. After all, the shaft was created by Lin Zhenxi's magic, and the dwarf soldiers basically dug horizontally from the bottom of the shaft, without changing the depth at all. But since the victims were the free dwarf soldiers, who was right and who was wrong became less important.

Anyway, it's impossible to ask Lin Zhenxi to admit such a small mistake. The dwarf in question is already dead. What's the point of pursuing these things? Don't you agree?

Dwarf Soldier Ghost: Ah yes, yes, yes.

The puppet sandworm, which has started to operate normally, is much faster than the dwarf soldiers in digging the soil. With a simple turn of its spiral mouthparts and a bow of its body, it can rush forward a long distance. In the blink of an eye, it has drilled under the sunflower field.

This time, Lin Zhenxi deliberately let it drill very deep, probably so that it would not encounter the roots of sunflowers again.

Sure enough, this time the puppet sandworm encountered no obstacles and safely burrowed beneath the sunflower field. However, due to the lack of a reference point, Lin Zhenxi could only vaguely locate its location through mental perception.

It would certainly be difficult to drill out accurately from the center of the sunflower field, but it shouldn't deviate too much.

So Lin Zhenxi controlled the puppet sandworm to raise its head and began to dig upwards.

And then... the head got stuck.

Lin Zhenxi was dumbfounded. You can only dig downwards and not upwards, right? Who made such a useless digging tool?

It's me, that's okay.

Lin Zhenxi could only let the sandworm reverse and see if there was any other way.

After some attempts, Lin Zhenxi discovered that it seemed that he had missed making an expansion organ when making the sandworm's skin, which resulted in the puppet sandworm being unable to fix itself in the vertical tunnel by inflating its body like the real ancient sandworm.

But it's not a big problem. Lin Zhenxi can use zigzag shapes to dig upward stairs and return to the ground in a roundabout way.

However, this also negated the effectiveness of the surprise attack. Before returning to the surface, the puppet sandworm was first besieged by a large number of sunflower roots. Fortunately, those roots were powerless against the sandworm, which was over two meters in diameter. They rubbed against it like a massage, and the only place they could get a hold of was the rotating mouthparts on the puppet sandworm's head, which happened to be the part where the puppet sandworm had the greatest destructive power.

The work of returning the puppet sandworm to the surface was completed with great difficulty, but the real test had just begun.