"Activate mental boost..."
Immediately Blake gave the confirmation, he felt electric charges were being sent to his brain from all corners of his body.
Not only did he feel refreshed and hyperactive, but he felt like everything was now in slow motion.
"Is this how getting high feels?"
"Or how flash feels when talking to people?"
[When mental boost is active, your brain goes into a supercharged state meaning everything including the speed of your thoughts would be more than doubled.
So you have to always focus on the work at hand once in this state.] The system warned him.
Thoughts of all manners kept on popping up in his mind, causing him to almost lose control of the already constructed mana needles, but thanks to the system's words Blake quickly regained focus.
"Let's do this." In order to test the capabilities of mental boost, Blake tried conjuring 30 nodes at once, but to his utmost surprised it worked!
"Sick!"
"Cool!"
"That's fire!"
Blake was excited by what he had just done, causing him to lose concentration for some seconds before regaining concentration.
He tried constructing 30 more, but this time the mental burden was quite much, causing him to slow down quite a bit.
Mental boost made it possible for Blake to shorten the time for mental activities by more than half the required time, and also made him partially numb to the mental pain in order to improve productivity.
But he couldn't remain in this state for more than 3 hours without incurring a severe backlash or even becoming brain dead depending on how heavy the task was.
After close to an hour and a half, Blake had successfully cracked the array and had disconnected from mana vision, but the moment he deactivated mental boost he felt like a bullet train had rammed into his head.
THUD!
Blake dropped to the floor unconscious, causing Brian and Castiel to stop cultivating.
[Don't worry about him, he's just out cold no complications.] The system said to them when they tried to approach him.
[Also if you guys are feeling guilty that he is doing a lot and you guys aren't, don't because with every array he cracks the stronger he gets. So, I advise you guys to step up in your cultivation.]
The system was right about them feeling guilty and useless, but once they heard that it was also a form of training for him they were more determined to lessen the gap between them and Blake.
"Ah, my head!!" After 12 hours Blake finally regained consciousness and when he opened his eyes he felt like his head had been skewered and grilled over a volcano.
"Fuck me! Why didn't I wake up when the pain is gone?" Blake cursed his bad luck as he held his head in pain.
After what seemed to be like forever, the pain had subsided, causing Blake to return to the journal, but this time he was studying the mechanical golems with both Castiel and Brian.
"What!"
"Damn!"
[Interesting…]
As the trio and system were studying the blueprint of the mechanical golems, they couldn't help but exclaim and drop comments as surprising info continually popped up.
They first studied the outer layer for weakness and found out that the golden brown metal that comprised the outer layer of the golems was an alloy of adamant (second strongest metal) and gold.
Meaning they would have to put a lot of effort to be able to put a dent in the metal. The discovery made their situation look more hopeless, but the current question on their minds was
"How much did it cost the unknown owner to forgemaster all the golems protecting the facility?"
Not only was adamant costly but it was also rare, meaning anyone in possession of them wouldn't want to sell, but according to the journal there were more than 100 mechanical golems stills waiting to be deployed.
Having no hopes of damaging them, they crossed their fingers as they studied its internal structure.
At the chest region was an orange power core that supplied energy to every part of the golem's body through the hundreds of lines of arrays inlaid on the inner parts of the metals.
The energy core gave them the ability to fire and shape powerful lasers that could tear through the steel like hide of a Rugor like a hot knife through butter.
They possessed tractor beams that complimented the lack of hands and a medium-size dimensional pocket, which enabled them to retrieve items they were tasked to retrieve.
The absence of legs gave them an advantage in every terrain and if need be they could accelerate twice times as fast as Blake using lightning reinforcement, meaning there was no running from them.
"What the f*ck?! You have to tell me there is a way to beat these things" The more he read about the mechanical golems, the more he lost hope.
[I can't say for sure, but let's hope we find something at the core.] The system said as they zoomed in at the core.
At this point, the trio couldn't understand anything about the image of the core right in front of them, so they patiently waited for the system to do its thing.
[I think I just found a way.] The system announced.
"Finally!" After waiting for more than an hour in silence, the system finally said something.
[Just like the arrays stopping you from directly taking over the golems, their core has 5204 nodes protecting it, but there's good news.]
[After studying each and every node, I had discovered and taken note of certain nodes that would cause an immediate disruption, hence causing the entire array to collapse.] The system said.
"I thought that if an array isn't properly shut down, it would cause an explosion that will kill me?" Blake asked with a raised brow.
[Normal arrays will blow you to bits, but this one is special.] The system said.
[The forgemaster behind this masterpiece gave the core a self-repair function that would use part of its stored energy to automatically repair any damage that managed to reach its core, thereby taking the difficulty in beating them to another level.]
[But this came with a flaw…]