Published: February 11, 2025
Formation disk?
Ye Zhongming had never heard of such a thing. However, he was familiar with formation scrolls. The scrolls were for evolvers, but this formation disk was intended for puppets.
Strictly speaking, this was a type of marking equipment.
The formation disk contained several formations such as 'charging formation for main attack', 'hao formation for main defense', 'flying formation for maneuvering', and 'swallow formation for chaos battle'...
Each formation had specific requirements, such as the number of puppets, their levels, and so on. Once these conditions were met, the puppet combination could gain the ability of a battle formation.
The usage method involved first selecting a formation from the disk and then placing the corresponding puppet statues on it. After a period of energy infusion, these puppets would learn the corresponding formation and engage in combat with enemies.
Using the formation disk required mental power, though the exact amount was unclear for now; it was presumed it wouldn't be small.
So that's how it is.
Ye Zhongming put the formation disk down, knowing it was a good item that could directly enhance the combat effectiveness of puppet warriors.
Moreover, after obtaining the Puppet's Token, he had only taken a cursory glance at it. Now, with the formation disk, he had a complete set of equipment for puppet soldiers. Ye Zhongming took out this entire set and examined it carefully.
There wasn't much to see with the Puppet's Token and formation disk; he mainly focused on the puppet statues.
These little things looked basically the same as those Ye Zhongming had encountered in the puppet ruins, only with slight color variations. Most of the statues were grayish-white, while a few were bronze-colored, likely indicating their levels and strengths. Currently, they weren't very high, and for powerful foes, even if they formed a battle formation, they would be no match.
To understand their specific power, Ye Zhongming planned to have different levels of evolvers test them after returning.
However, what Ye Zhongming was curious about was how these puppets 'worked'. He thought for a moment and first adjusted the disk to the 'hao' formation, which required the lowest puppet level according to the disk's formations. Now these grayish-white puppets could meet the requirements.
The activated formation disk emitted a series of cracking sounds; the metal disk expanded slightly and became thinner. The patterns on the disk began to change, glowing points of light appeared, and they were connected by fine lines.
Then, those glowing points slowly rose, forming small light columns about the size of a finger joint, emitting a gentle glow.
Ye Zhongming picked up one of the grayish-white puppet statues and noticed that the bottom had a groove that perfectly matched the size of these light columns.
He slowly inserted the puppet soldier onto it, and the soldier was immediately surrounded by light. Ye Zhongming could distinctly feel an energy being drawn from his hand, flowing into the puppet soldier after circling around the formation disk.
Based on the number of light columns, Ye Zhongming placed over thirty puppet soldiers on the disk, and he felt his mental power drained over thirty times. For him, this wasn't a big deal, but for an ordinary non-mental power evolver, it would likely be quite burdensome.
The formation disk flickered again, and the light surrounding each puppet soldier disappeared. Ye Zhongming waved his hand, and these soldiers immediately fell to the ground, rapidly enlarging into puppet soldiers about one meter tall, aligned in the same direction as they had been on the formation disk.
With a thought from Ye Zhongming, these puppets began to move and changed their formation.
After observing for a while, Ye Zhongming found that these puppets were indeed somewhat weak, but when gathered together, their strength increased... roughly by four times.
Of course, this was just Ye Zhongming's estimation and couldn't be guaranteed to be entirely accurate. With the increase in puppet levels, it was uncertain whether this amplification would become even greater.