36. Golem Synthesis (2)

— Squelch!

Shin Junseok, gripping a scalpel reinforced with Sharpness magic, sliced the Masked Demon-Beast’s corpse open without hesitation. It had lain dead so long that it neither bled nor so much as twitched.

He scattered blue powder, ground from an F-grade mana stone, into the cut he’d just opened.

Then he carved the circuit into the stiffened muscle and bone.

“Engraving the circuit with Arachne’s thread raises efficiency by 12 percent.”
“At the cost of dropping durability by 37 percent.”
“Then won’t the mana circuit fail to hold up for long?”
“For an ordinary golem,...