These Familiars Are Strange

As soon as I gave that nod to the Echo Bat, it opened its mouth.

Once the Echo Bat opened its mouth like this, the light seemed to dim from the eyes of the gnome.

It was as if it was being put into a trance with the way that its eyes seemed to go blank.

Once it was in this state, the undead that had been holding the gnome suddenly let go of it and it fell forward.

Iris and Wang Rong looked like they were on guard against it, but there was no need for them to act this way.

After the gnome fell forward, it suddenly looked up at me before falling to its knees in front of me. As it kneeled there in front of me, it suddenly bowed its head down to show submission towards me.

I gave a simple nod before saying, "Rise."

The gnome stood up once again and just stood there in front of me as if it was waiting for an order.

During this time, I took a good look at the gnome to see just what kind of appearance it had.

It was the perfect representation of an old man with the appearance that it had, it was just that he was much shorter than any human. This gnome was only around three feet tall, so he was barely able to reach my waist.

But I could feel the mana fluctuations that were coming from the gnome.

Even if it was a small package, it was anything but weak with how much mana it possessed to let out these mana fluctuations. At the same time, it should have been the one that was in control of all those sets of living armour from before.

After hypnotizing the gnome like this, the first thing that I asked was, "Can you make more of these?"

As I said that, I pointed at the sets of living armour that were just standing there on the side.

The gnome looked over to see this and then turned back to nod in response.

After a moment of hesitation, to which I gave a nod in response, the gnome once again turned around and headed to the room that it had stayed in before this. It seemed like he wanted us to follow him to show us what he had been working on in that room. Enjoy new stories from My Virtual Library Empire

When we came in, we were surprised by the scale of the room.

It was much bigger than we thought that it was from the outside.

This room was also filled with many different things that we just couldn't see through. Based on the appearance of these things, they seemed to be some kind of machinery, but there were also traces of mana that came from them.

The best way to describe them would be magical machinery.

Inside one of the large glass vats of one of the magic machines seemed to be some kind of embryo. It seemed to be growing into a set of armour and it seemed to be growing around one of the cores that was used to control them.

To the side was also a pile of cores.

It seemed that if the gnome wanted, it wouldn't be hard for it to mass produce these living armour. But the fact that there weren't that many of them there to protect the gnome was enough to show that there was some kind of limitation to this.

"How long does it take you to produce one set of armour?" I asked the gnome without even looking at him. My eyes were just on the large glass vat that was in front of me.

The gnome didn't answer with words, though it wouldn't have mattered if it did answer with words since I wouldn't be able to understand it. Instead, the gnome answered with actions by moving over to one of the magic machines on the side.

He tapped a few things on what seemed to be a panel before it suddenly lit up.

Once it lit up, there was this light that was injected into the large glass vat.

After this light was injected into this large glass vat, it seemed that there was something that was providing this large glass vat with what seemed to be some kind of supplement.

As the light filled the large glass vat, there was a reaction that came from the embryo of the set of armour that was inside of the large glass vat. It was slowly growing in size as more and more armour was being formed.

It took around five minutes, but there was a full set of armour that was formed in the end.

Once the full set of armour was formed, the gnome tapped a few more buttons on the tablet and the large glass vat opened up to release the set of living armour.

The gnome took out something that was similar to the core that was used to create these sets of living armour. However, one could also see by looking closely that this thing wasn't like the core as well.

There seemed to be some large differences between this thing and the cores used for the living armour.

There were mana fluctuations that came from the orb that the gnome was holding and then the set of living armour stood up. It raised one of its hands and saluted the gnome before bowing to me.@@novelbin@@

Seeing this, I gave a satisfied nod.

In total, it only took five minutes to form that set of living armour.

Though I knew that it would take longer since the one that we formed was already formed to a certain extent before completing it. But it wouldn't take that much longer to form it.

"Can you see what the sets of living armour do?"

The gnome nodded before shaking its head as well.

Based on that, it seemed that this gnome was able to share some senses with the sets of living armour, but not completely.

Still that was enough for us since it certainly knew more about this dungeon than we did.

"I want you to make as many of these sets of living armour as possible." I said without hesitation.

There was an awkward look that appeared on the gnome's face when he heard this.