F-class thief? Sorry, I can steal anything.

Chapter 33 Repairing the Goblin Golem

"Seventy-three percent of the structure is damaged..."

Chen Yifan paced back and forth around the lifeless steel giant.

The fingertips scraped against the cold metal, producing a tooth-grinding scraping sound.

"This is fucking 'severe damage'!"

He muttered to himself.

"It's clearly already been sent to the junkyard, and it's just missing the final remelting process."

The left leg was severed cleanly at the knee, the cut as smooth as a mirror, as if it had been instantly vaporized by some kind of high-energy weapon.

The armor on his chest was forcibly torn open, revealing a tangled mess of blackened energy circuits inside.

The menacing cutting blade on his right arm had also chipped open in several places, with blackened bloodstains congealed on its surface.

tragic.

This masterpiece of goblin civilization's warfare clearly suffered an extremely brutal siege in the final battle.

Anyone who saw this pile of scrap metal would probably curse and turn away.

repair?

Do not make jokes.

Without a high-level [Mechanic], it would take ten days to half a month to get this thing back up.

But Chen Yifan is not a normal person.

He stared at the pile of scrap metal, a near-mad, fiery flame igniting deep within his eyes.

That look in his eyes was like that of a top chef who hadn't eaten for three days, seeing a legendary dragon.

Although the dragon died, most of its scales were also lost.

But the dragon tendons, dragon bones, dragon heart... they're all still there!

"Damn it, let's do it!"

Chen Yifan slapped his thigh, his eyes resolute.

Fortune favors the bold!

This war golem was the biggest opportunity he had in this dungeon!

As long as it can be made to move.

Let alone a level 20 Goblin Foreman.

It's another Lv.20 [Rampaging Crypt Lord].

He even dared to drive that thing up there and stomp on the other person's head like a walnut!

Just do it.

With a thought, Chen Yifan dumped all the "trash" he had scavenged from his backpack onto the ground.

Damaged goblin armor, rusted scimitars, tendons of elite monsters, scales of two-headed earth dragons...

The clattering and clanging created a messy little mountain on the ground.

To others, these are pieces of junk that even recycling stations wouldn't bother to collect.

But in Chen Yifan's eyes, these were clearly a bunch of shiny "parts" waiting to be assembled!

"The energy circuit is completely burned out, that's the most troublesome part."

Chen Yifan picked up the puppet's design blueprint, squatted down, and stared intently at the ground.

In his previous life, he was at least a top student who went to work in a factory right after graduation.

Soldering circuit boards all night is a common occurrence.

Although the energy circulation in this world is very different from that in science, the underlying principles remain the same.

"Energy conduction requires highly conductive materials... The purity of goblin scrap metal is too low, it won't work."

His eyes swept quickly across the "pile of parts".

Soon, several spider legs, shimmering with eerie blue electricity, detached from the Cave Six-Legged Spider, caught his eye.

[Highly Conductive Arthropods (Green Material): The legs of the Cave Six-Legged Spider contain a weak element of lightning, making them an excellent conductor for crafting basic magic scrolls.]

"You're the one!"

Chen Yifan's eyes flashed with a sharp light as he picked up a spider leg and gripped the novice dagger in his other hand.

F-rank talent: [Hand Speed ​​Boost]!

hum!

Chen Yifan's hands instantly transformed into two elusive, blurry shadows.

"Shuashuashua——"

All that remained in the air was the sharp whistling of blades cutting through the air, with sparks flying everywhere!

Those spider legs, as hard as steel, were as soft as tofu under his psychic-powered dagger.

Peeling, cutting, carving, grinding... all done in one go!

In just over ten seconds, the afterimage disappeared.

One complete spider leg has disappeared, replaced by dozens of energy wires of uniform thickness and length, resembling works of art.

"Done."

A confident smile curved Chen Yifan's lips.

This F-level hand speed talent is simply a divine skill for doing such delicate work.

Next, we need to replace the burned-out energy circuit.

This is the real test.

Chen Yifan climbed onto the puppet's massive chest, held his breath, and a faint psychic light shone from his fingertips, like the most delicate scalpel, as he dismantled the charred and broken wires one by one.

He then used the "new wires" made from spider legs to reconnect them one by one, following the structure in the blueprints.

In this world, "welding" requires no tools.

It all depends on the professional's control over their own psychic abilities.

Transform psionic energy into the purest "solder" to perfectly fuse the two interfaces.

Sweat trickled down his forehead and dripped onto the cold metal plate.

His intense concentration made him feel a dull ache in his brain.

Time passed by, second by second.

Inside the secret room, only Chen Yifan's focused breathing and the faint "hissing" sound of colliding spiritual energy could be heard.

I don't know how much time passed.

When Chen Yifan perfectly connected the last wire, he was covered in sweat, and his mental strength and spiritual energy were nearly 70% depleted.

He jumped off the puppet, looked at the revitalized energy channels that resembled the meridians of the human body, and let out a long sigh of relief.

The hardest step has been completed.

Next, the broken leg will be repaired.

This is much more straightforward and simple.

Chen Yifan dragged over the rare-grade [Rusty Mace] that he had seized from the [Goblin Elite Captain].

He swung his pickaxe and smashed the mace in half with tremendous force, taking off the thickest and sturdiest section.

Then, he took the toughest tendon from the Two-Headed Earth Dragon to use as the connecting "ligament".

They forcefully fixed this "new leg bone" to the puppet's broken knee.

Although the art style is somewhat incongruous, like a Frankenstein's monster covered in patches.

But at least, he can stand up now.

The final step is to install the core.

Chen Yifan solemnly took out the complex, heart-like "control core" from his backpack.

He climbed up the back of the puppet's neck and found a hidden cover covered in dust.

Lifting the cover reveals a recessed groove that fits perfectly with the control core.

With a slight movement of his fingertips, the core was embedded perfectly.

"Click."

A crisp click of a mechanism closing.

The core has been restored to its proper place.

Inside the puppet, a faint sound of electricity surging could be heard, and a flash of dark blue light streaked across the newly replaced energy circuit in its chest.

Become!

Chen Yifan's heart was pounding wildly.

Only one last step remains.

energy!

He glanced at the empty energy chamber in the puppet's chest, then looked at the [Molten Hearts] outside the passage, which were radiating terrifying heat.

It's time to dig one up and bring it back.

But just as he turned around, his movement stopped.

A thought, without warning, surfaced from the depths of my mind.

The goblin diary says that the goblin king detonated the mine to protect the "core secret" of the mineral vein.

This is the last refuge.

So... is there a possibility...?

When the goblins fled into this place in panic, they took with them a piece of... a spare energy source?

Once the thought took hold, it could no longer be suppressed.

Chen Yifan turned around abruptly, his gaze sharp as lightning, locking onto the pot-bellied "Goblin King" statue in the corner!

He walked quickly to the stone statue, his gaze sweeping over every inch of it.

Soon, he discovered a barely perceptible crack in the stone statue's raised hands, which were holding the stone book.

That seemingly one-piece stone book appears to be... movable!

Chen Yifan reached out and tentatively pushed.

"Rumble..."

A dull creak echoed through the sealed room.

The stone book in the hands of the local spirit king slowly split open and slid to both sides.

A square groove appears inside the stone book.

In the very center of the groove lay a flawless crimson crystal, no bigger than the palm of your hand, yet radiating intense light and heat!

That energy fluctuation was magnificent, pure, and vast!

It's a hundred times more terrifying than all the ore in the entire mine tunnel combined!

Molten Core (Essence)

[Quality: Legendary (Orange)]

[Type: Energy/Materials]

[Description: The sole core born from a single [Heart of Molten Core] ore vein, nurtured by millennia of subterranean fire. It contains terrifying energy powerful enough to power a floating city.]

Legendary!

Chen Yifan's Adam's apple bobbed uncontrollably.

Dry mouth.

This is the real treasure!

With this thing, why would he need to mine?