Chapter 179 Dead Soul

During the manufacture of the scarecrow's body, many construction techniques including woodworking, cutting, sewing, and sculpture are required. Joan is not surprised by this.

However, Master Rawls still has to teach the knowledge of "mechanical principles" and "human anatomy" in class, which is a bit baffling.

After a whole morning class, Joan looked back and realized that these seemingly unrelated knowledge about scarecrows were actually very important.

If you don’t understand mechanics and anatomy, the scarecrow’s body structure is unreasonable, and after activation, it will be “disabled” and can’t even walk steadily. How can it guard the farmland?

At 12:00 noon, the four masters and apprentices had a simple lunch in the school cafeteria and returned to the laboratory to continue their classes.

In the afternoon class, Rawls continued to explain the body structure of the "scarecrow", and then the three students made the scarecrow by themselves according to what he said today.

This practice took a full four hours. From one to five in the afternoon, Joan, Thomas, and Edward struggled with the pile of lumber, canvas, and straw on the console.

During this period, Master Rawls walked back and forth in the room, observing the work progress of the three students, dutifully instructing them to correct mistakes and make up for omissions.

After the four hours of manual practice, Joan, Thomas and Edward basically completed their respective works.

Master Rawls checked the reviews one by one, and gave the scarecrow made by Joan the highest evaluation.

No matter from the point of view of structure or shape, the scarecrow made by Joan is obviously better than the works of Thomas and Edward.

This is mainly due to the fact that he learned how to make bows and arrows from his grandfather during his life in the country, and later learned the skill of forging iron from Flint Anvil. Coupled with the pressure of life, he often had to make simple daily necessities by himself. He tried to repair the damaged houses, doors and windows by himself, and naturally developed his excellent hands-on ability over time.

Thomas and Edward, the two urban young masters who had to be served by servants in everything, lacked training in this area, and the scarecrows they made were naturally much worse than Joan's works.

Edward was very dissatisfied with his work, especially after comparing it with Joan's work, he was so angry that he wanted to burn his deformed scarecrow.

Thomas smiled and persuaded him to calm down, and said that compared with the scarecrow he made, Edward's one was not bad.

Thomas's construction skills are indeed the worst among the three, and the scarecrow he made is so ugly that he doubts his life.

Thomas himself quite liked this debut work, calling it "my straw princess", specially painted it with red cheeks and lips with a paintbrush, and hugged its face that was made into a "parallelogram" for some reason I kissed twice.

Seeing this guy playing tricks, Edward didn't want to sulk anymore, and Master Rawls half-jokingly praised Thomas for his good mentality.

"Your scarecrow is ugly, but it's also an advantage. It's very effective in scaring birds, beasts and thieves."

"That's right, the scarecrow was originally used to frighten birds, beasts and thieves, not for a beauty pageant, why is it so beautiful!"

"Hey! You brat, you really know how to climb up the pole, how thick-skinned you are!"

Master Rawls gave Thomas an angry look, and turned back to the blackboard.

"Today's construction practice is here first. According to the standards of beginners, your performance is not bad, especially Joan's work, which has almost reached the standard I require, and we will continue to work hard in the future!"

The instructor praised him in the first class. Joan was deeply encouraged and decided to take the remaining materials back to the dormitory after class and use his spare time to make a better scarecrow.

"There is still about an hour before the end of get out of class. Let me briefly talk about the other two major elements of the construct. The first is the second element-soul!"

Master Rawls picked up the chalk and drew a circle on the blackboard, just to circle the head of the scarecrow structure diagram.

"The biggest difference between 'activated scarecrow' and ordinary scarecrow is that it is infused with soul, although its body is made of inanimate objects such as wood, straw and cloth, not as perfect and precise as our human flesh and blood body , Sensitive, but as long as this seemingly humble body is infused with the soul, it will no longer be a cold and stiff object, but a dynamic 'constructed creature'."

Humans and other animals are born with souls, but man-made structures like "scarecrows" are not innate creatures with spirits, and the creators must try to inject souls into them.

According to the tradition of Constructology, mages usually use immortal elemental spirits as the souls of constructs.

There are very few elemental creatures in the main material world. In order to obtain elemental spirits, it is necessary to use "Oath from Otherworld" spells. This type of spell can forcibly summon an elemental creature from another world to the caster, and imprison it in the body of the construct.

However, even the lowest-level "Secondary Alien Binding" is a spell as high as level 4, not to mention that Joan and the others are still unable to cast it, let alone using this high-level spell to make "activated scarecrow", the cost will It will become very expensive, and compared with similar products on the market, it will not be competitive.

Master Rawls's creative invention lies in abandoning the traditional elemental spirits and using the more common animal spirits as the spirit of the "activated scarecrow".

Of course, the smarter the animal, the higher the quality of its spirit, and the activated scarecrow is smarter, more obedient, and has more room for evolution.

The most common animals in human society are all kinds of domestic animals, and the most intelligent among all domestic animals is pigs.

Unfortunately, Master Rawls' experiments showed that pig souls are not suitable for making constructs.

Because the pig's intelligence is mainly reflected in eating, drinking and being lazy, how can the farmer accept a scarecrow with a lazy and slippery character like a pig?

Compared with pigs, cows, horses and dogs are less clever, but more diligent and gentle.

Experimental data shows that among all common livestock spirits, the most suitable for making scarecrows is the shepherd dog.

Master Rawls has cooperated with all the major ranches in the city. Whenever there are old, sick or injured sheepdogs dying, he will collect the souls of the sheepdogs that have just died, so that these loyal hounds can survive after death. Continue to fulfill the mission of protecting the owner's property.

Using the souls of domestic animals to create "activated scarecrows" is easy to say, but there is a huge obstacle in the actual operation.

"Teacher, how to collect and preserve animal souls for a long time, and how to seal the souls in the body of the construct?" Edward raised his hand to ask.

In fact, Joan and Thomas also have the same question at this moment, and they look forward to the answer from Mentor Rawls.