Bakaluo's energy reserves were absolutely crazy 10,000%.
Something wasn't adding up. He started talking telepathically after eating so many races. Leaving only the human race.
[System Notification: Puppeteer Class Level 1]
[Bakaluo huge energy reserves detected. Analysis:]
[Results: It's all thanks to this cosmology. Puppets draw energy and power from the master's cultivation base. The Primordial Furnace creates a closed energy loop. Killed enemies are refined to fuel or energy.]
[All this is possible thanks to the mutations of this Type 1 Civilization. Higher type civilizations can't replicate this.]
"So I'm basically a cheat code?"
[Lol. Funny host. You're not cheating. I make you the best, but you go through life and death near death to become the strongest.]
Instantly, Bakaluo spoke to me again.
"What the fuck?..."
"Calm down, Master. You're overreacting. I guess eating and absorbing unlocked some new abilities. I can talk to only you telepathically."
"I should calm down? Say something so I'm sure."
"You are cute and handsome."
"Okay, shut up."
"Yes, sire. As you command."
Makena gave me the mom look, asking who I was talking to.
"Bakaluo. He can talk to me telepathically now."
"Wow. That isn't super weird and creepy at all."
"You are one lucky man. She's fierce, cute, and loyal. I'd make my move if I wasn't a puppet."
"Hey. Watch your mouth. Or I'll tear you into pieces and rearrange you upside down.
You know she'd find a way to kill you if she could hear your lustful thoughts."
Makena saw the laughter, the anger, the change in expression whenever anyone said anything crazy.
"Is he saying anything stupid so I can slice and dice him up?"
"No. He isn't. He's being a good doggie."
Bakaluo started jumping, acting like a cute doggie.
Makena threw a sword at him that nearly hit him.
The system was up again.
[Puppet Class Level 1 Limit]
[Maximum Puppets: 100]
[Current Puppets: 1/100]
[Each puppet requires:]
· 1 Chakra Bloom Heart for creation
· Daily Maintenance: 100 Spirit Stones or 1 Primordial Crystal
[Without maintenance, puppet enters sleep mode after 3 days. After 7 days, degrades. Returns to corpse after 30 days.]
[Solution: Find or create a puppet manual. Higher grade materials reduce maintenance cost. Legendary manuals delete them completely. But you have to face other puppeteer masters.]
"As a mortal not yet a cultivator I can have 100 puppets."
Makena was thinking of turning the women.
Who worked for the Ping family the ones who likely helped Zhao Kun poison her when he kissed her.
There were lady overseers. If I turned them, I'd use them worse than slaves and have them die so everyone else could live.
I'd overload them, and when they decomposed, they'd have served their purpose.
[Be it male or female, there is no performance difference. They are tools. I don't see them as male or female.]
"That's not helpful."
[Lol. Funny. I'm only looking out for my interest. I ain't your friend, bitch. I found a worthy candidate and put you through hell just so you could become stronger. I ain't your caring mommy, okay.]
"What are you gonna do about the spy?"
"If I could kill him, I could refine him into my puppet.
He'd be weaker than Bakaluo, but still useful as Chakra Bloom.
I have to find the puppet manual first. Legendary ones would be better to remove the limits completely.
Without it, I need 10,000 Spirit Stones to maintain 100 puppets. Or 100 Primordial Crystals."
"Okay, we have 50,000 Primordial Crystals."
"We have lots of responsibilities only Primordial Crystals can handle."
[System Update: Puppet Space in Pocket Dimension]
[Current Capacity: 10,000,000 cubic meters]
[Puppets can be stored there forever.]
[They can't exit or enter without your permission.]
"Good. I won't have this lunatic running around without me."
"Damn, bro. I'm a good boy. Why would you say that?"
"You ate Titan brains."
[Primordial Crystals = Better Puppet Fuel]
[1 Primordial Crystal provides 30 days of operations.]
[Primordial Crystals are native to your cosmology. Resonate with the furnace and are 100 times more energy-effective and better.]
I pulled out a Primordial Crystal and ordered Bakaluo to eat it.
A mouth materialized on him. He ate it.
[Bakaluo Energy: 30 days]
[Maintenance for 30 days: 1 Primordial Crystal]
[Current Primordial Crystals: 49,999]
[Bakaluo can operate for 4,109 years with fuel.]
[But 5.7 years of intense energy-draining battle against 1 tier higher.]
[I have good news and bad news.]
[The good news: There's a legendary puppet manual in the Blood Quarters the one on the map you got earlier.]
[Manual Effects:]
· Maintenance cost cut by 90%
· Puppet limit increases to 500 for Pulse Awakening, 1,000 for Meridian (increases by 500 or 1,000 due to user cultivation level)
· Puppets can sense emotions and even what they see. Or do puppet exchange.
· Diameter increases to 500,000 km. Communication can still happen smoothly.
[The bad news: The Blood Quarters are guarded by 5 Dantian Level 5 entities. Only try at Invincible Meridian or Invincible Chakra Bloom.]
The spy was still watching and recording reporting to both sides.
I saw him disappear, but Bakaluo asked if he should kill him.
I told him to play the man, not the odds.
He reports to two enemies, gets killed in the war.
Becomes a puppet and even brings the Xuan family to work beside me.
It's a win win for me.
And a lose lose for him. But he doesn't know it yet.
"Wow. You are a sneaky little bastard, Master."