Apocalypse Gachapon

Formation?

Ye Zhongming had never heard of such a thing. He knew of formation scrolls but they were for evolved to use. This formation board was for those puppets.

Strictly speaking, it was a mark-type equipment.

There were many formations: “Charging Attack Formation,” “Marquis Defense Formation,” “Flying Rotation Formation,” and “Swallow Chaos Formation.”

Each formation had its own needs, such as the a number of puppets, level, etc. If you satisfied those conditions, you could allow the puppets to have the abilities of a formation.

You selected the formation first and placed in the amount of statues. After injecting energy, they would learn the formation and battle the enemy.

You need to inject mental energy to use the formation. He didn’t know how much to inject, but it wouldn’t be little.

So that was the case.

Ye Zhongming placed the board now and knew that this was a good item. It could raise the puppets' combat strength.

But after Ye Zhongming owned the Proof of the Puppet, he took a rough look. With this formation, he had the full set for the puppets. Ye Zhongming took out all of them to have a close look.

The Proof of the Puppet and the formation board weren’t special; he mainly looked at those statues.

Those things were similar to the puppets he faced in the ruins, but their colors differed. Most were grey; some were yellow, representing their levels and strength. They weren’t too high. To experts, even if they formed formations, they wouldn’t be a good match.

When he returned, Ye Zhongming had to test them out on different levels of evolution to determine their exact strength.

But what he was curious about was how they worked. He thought about it and used the Marquis Formation. This was also the formation that required the lowest level of puppets. The grey puppets were enough.

The activated formation rattled, and the board became larger and thinner. The diagrams changed, and specks of light lit up and were connected by lines.

Those light spots protruded to form finger-sized light pillars that gave a gentle glow.

Ye Zhongming picked up a grey statue and saw an opening at the bottom of the statue, which matched the pillars.

He slowly stuck the puppet to it, and it wrapped itself in light. Ye Zhongming felt energy sucked from his hands and then flowing into the statue.

Based on the number of pillars, Ye Zhongming placed over 30 statues on it. The board also sucked his mental energy 30 times. The energy wasn’t much to him but it would be quite a lot for ordinary evolved.

The board flashed again. The light around each puppet disappeared. Ye Zhongming waved, and the soldiers landed on the ground and grew larger into meter-tall soldiers. The positions they occupied correlated with the ones on the board.

With a thought, the puppets started to move and their formations started to change.

He observed it for a while and he noticed that the puppets were weak. But when they combined, the strength increase was around… Four times.

Of course, this was just his estimate and he wasn’t sure it was accurate. As the puppets’ level increased, maybe the strength increase would also increase.

After knowing all that, all that was left was how to upgrade the puppets.

The Proof of the Puppet didn’t say how to upgrade. Ye Zhongming thought about it and felt like he needed a Smith to upgrade.

He took a material and tried to merge them with the puppet.

There was no reaction.

Was he wrong? He placed a grey puppet down and picked up a copper puppet but there was still no reaction.

The material’s level wasn’t enough. He switched a higher level material.

Actually the materials in his space were all very high level and were all above level five. The rest were in Cloud Peak’s warehouse. He used a higher level… Level seven beast fang.

But it failed again and the puppets didn’t react.

Smith couldn’t work? How then to upgrade?

He instinctively tried to merge two puppets. A light shone and it worked!

This… His eyes opened wide and knew that he found the answer. He looked at the copper puppet. Apart from the level increase, there wasn’t any other changes.

Strengthen worked so that it mean that other Smith skills could be used? Then why didn’t Enchant work?

Ye Zhongming glanced at the board and then at the puppets and had sme understanding. He realized that he had missed a problem.

The puppets that he experimented on were all used on the Marquis Formation. The materials he used would enchant attack stats.

That didn’t fit the stats of these puppets!

With such a guess, he started to test. He found a level five shell to enchant and the light told him that he was correct!

The grey puppet turned copper in color.

Ye Zhongming smiled. He had understood their stats.

If he wanted to strengthen them, then using Strengthen was the best way. But although it looked like he had many statues, but they were one-time-use. Ye Zhongming wanted something long-term so Enchant was more suitable.

Although he didn’t know if there would be a bottleneck, but that would be a problem for the future.

He grasped the secret and got to work. He Enchanted the puppets and raised them all to copper grade.

Through this process, he found that puppets without stats from the formation could only be strengthened and not enchanted.

But once the puppet’s stats were changed by the formation, there wouldn’t be any changes if they were strengthened. But those that you enchanted would revert back to normal and their levels would lower.

Seemed like everything had restrictions.

He didn’t have any area that needed materials so he enchanted these puppets and then upgraded them to black.

The remainingn ones were left in their original states. As the formations had different requirements, he strengthened some puppets. Some needed to be strengthened three times which caused his number of puppets to drop. He was left with 600 of them. 100 of which were reserve.

After doing all that, Ye Zhongming rested for a while before heading out. He wanted to find the person who traded the puzzle piece with him. He wanted to do something else.