"A method for making puppet soldiers?"
Vill-V looked at Lynelle, who had suddenly come to find her, her face practically a canvas of confusion.
"You... what do you need that for? If it's combat power you're after, with your Herrscher of Corruption authority, whipping up a bunch of clones should be easy, right?"
"Not easy." Lynelle shook her head. "Clones and such, sure, I can do that. But maybe I just don't have any talent for it. Even if I make data clones, I can only focus on controlling one side at a time..."
This wasn't Lynelle making excuses; she really did fall short in this area.
Back during the Xianzhou main mission, managing that dual-line operation had already pushed the girl to her limit.
For comparison, Corruption-chan was naturally gifted in this regard.
Every time she used Abundance's blessing to 'birth' a swarm of True Stings, she could precisely and individually control every single one.
After all, calling it 'birthing' them, the essence of True Sting Propagation was really just replication.
So those little bugs could almost be seen as Corruption-chan's clones. Even issuing micro-commands like 'such-and-such True Sting moves forward one meter' during a fight was second nature.
"If you really want multi-line control, honestly, using my tech to help you generate a new personality would be the most convenient..." Vill-V spread her hands.
"But, looks like you're not too keen on that."
"Th-That's really not necessary..." Lynelle quickly wiped away a cold sweat.
Please, another me or something, I've had enough of that. And besides, usually these sub-personalities are different from the main one. If it was different from me...
Wouldn't that be a completely dominant-type Lynelle? Gah, the thought of being pinned down and cuddled in the system space too? No way!
"Actually, the reason I came to you, Sister Vill-V, is probably for this plan..."
With that, Lynelle described her idea to Vill-V.
Of course, she didn't go into detail about Herta's network technology, just briefly mentioned she could use her Herrscher of Corruption authority to form a network.
"Oh, I see... Mm, using this method to master the Herrscher of Dominance's core definitely has some feasibility."
Vill-V nodded, then turned and walked back towards her Spiral Workshop.
"But you might have to wait a bit longer... To meet your requirements, the few blueprints I have in my collection right now definitely won't cut it."
"Huh? Are there different types of puppet soldiers?" Lynelle asked curiously.
"Of course. The reason those ones won't work is because they're too strong. For example, the 'B3-MU-0' puppet soldier modeled after Kevin."
"That kind of puppet certainly has outstanding strength, but it's hard to meet your mass-production needs with it."
"Forget a thousand, even using up the over four hundred Herrscher of Dominance cores you have now would probably take ten years."
"So..." Vill-V pulled out a huge pile of materials. "I need to find those first few versions of puppet soldiers."
"The initial plans leaned more towards mass production, and their size was more like the 'loli' type you mentioned. I'll tweak them a bit for you, and they'll be ready."
"Yay! Thank you, Sister Vill-V!"
"No need to thank me..." Vill-V's hand paused for a moment, then she smiled and ruffled Lynelle's hair.
"For other visitors, the Flame-Chasers helping out is purely voluntary... but you're different."
"Even someone like Kevin or Aponia, as long as you don't make overly difficult requests, no one would ever refuse you."
"Saying this might be a bit embarrassing, but... we all owed a similarly cute and radiant pink-haired girl back then. We naturally won't make the same mistake twice."
"Anyway, I still need a bit of time here... Oh, and if my guess is right, you want ELF Elysia to be the core of this network, right?"
"Right, right." Lynelle nodded. "As everyone knows, for something like the Misaka Network, the core should also be an adorable little kid!"
"What kind of weird anime influence is this now..." Vill-V shook her head helplessly, then pulled out a gem-shaped accessory.
"You can go ahead and attach this to ELF Elysia's staff later."
"I don't usually leave backdoors in things I give to Elysia, so if you want to boost ELF Elysia's computing power now, you'll have to add some peripherals... The design of this should fit the bill."
"The key point is actually the design?"
"Of course! Everything I, a genius, keep stored in the Spiral Workshop, even the defective products Pardofelis might have casually stolen, all have their own unique merits." Vill-V waved her hand.
"Alright, this blueprint should be about right... Let me make a few quick modifications."
"Once I'm done revising, you can take this and go find ELF Elysia."
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Meanwhile, at the resting place of the Elysian Realm typewriter.
"Oh, so that's how it is!"
The tiny puppet soldier, completely buried under the paper spewing from the typewriter, let out a cheerful voice.
"I never thought so many interesting things would happen while I was asleep... I really want to meet this Lynelle soon!"
"Then you might have to wait a while. Lynelle just messaged me saying Vill-V's research is almost done, so she was going to make a puppet soldier sample for her while she was at it... She probably won't be here for a bit?"
Elysia sat to the side, propping her chin on one hand, smiling as she watched ELF Elysia flit about through the pages.
"Eh... that's a real shame..." ELF Elysia's voice paused.
"Oh well, then I'll just have to look at the past recorded in the typewriter for now. Typewriter, please output Lynelle's records from yesterday!"
[BEEP — Outputting... Having just experienced a fountain on a scale far exceeding any before, Lynelle's body had completely gone limp. Meanwhile, Elysia, who was gloating on the sidelines, discovered that Mobius's tentacles had already coiled around her own... BANG—]
"Huh? Adult me..." Watching Elysia, who had inexplicably rushed over and shut off the typewriter, ELF Elysia tilted her head in confusion.
"Why did you suddenly turn off the typewriter?"
If she didn't turn it off, this thing would turn into a smut novel generator! And if she remembered correctly, right after that part about Lynelle's fountain, wasn't she next in line!
The corner of Elysia's mouth twitched slightly.
She was just about to think of some excuse for ELF Elysia when, at that moment, the sound of footsteps caught the attention of both Elysia sisters.
"Elysia, I'm back!"
A pink-haired girl poked her head through the doorway. "But... what are you two doing? The atmosphere feels a bit weird?"
"N-Nothing..."
Elysia was just glad she'd turned it off in time.
If Lynelle had seen her and ELF Elysia critically reading about Lynelle's exciting experiences from yesterday, Lynelle would definitely have the typewriter generate the next embarrassing part featuring Elysia, too.
"Hmm..." Lynelle tilted her head cutely. Then, from outside the door, she dragged in a large puppet soldier about ten centimeters shorter than herself.
"Oh well, how about we take a look at this instead?"
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