Chapter 1219

Using his last materials, Lin Cheng crafted a back-mounted connector device, carefully installed two magnetic balls forged from seventh-tier magic crystals onto it, and tested each mechanical arm one by one.

Placing a blue steel ring on his head, Lin Cheng attached one mechanical arm to the magnetic ball on his back, controlling it through his thoughts.

The mechanical arm, which had been nothing but a lifeless object, suddenly began to move.

"Wake up, the testing is starting."

Inside the room, the elders aside from Elder Zhai and the Huoerde Society's president were barely interested, but the forgers outside the door nudged their dozing companions awake—this evaluation, which had lasted nearly six hours, was finally nearing its end.

The awakened crowd saw Lin Cheng controlling the mechanical arm through various everyday swinging motions, thoroughly enjoying himself.

Suddenly, an even more intricate mechanical arm extended out from beneath the main body, revealing a silver metal limb resembling a human arm, with an even more precise five-fingered hand at its tip.

Under Lin Cheng's thought-control, the five-fingered hand performed the grasping motions of a human hand; finding nothing amiss, he then tested each finger individually, raising them one by one toward himself.

The hand, composed entirely of precision mechanical parts, was capable of far more—any single finger could rotate independently, and even the entire palm could rotate.

With a few minor modifications, the mechanical arm, originally meant to carry various tools, could be loaded with all manner of weapons for combat.

This sight astonished Elder Zhai and the Huoerde Society's president even more; although they had known beforehand that Lin Cheng's mechanical arm might be very intricate, they hadn't expected it to be this intricate—not only had he perfectly replicated a human five-fingered hand and palm, but it could grasp tools normally just like a human hand, and was even more flexible than a human hand.

This was a complete advancement in humanity's use of limbs!

Of course, Lin Cheng hadn't thought that much—he was simply testing the mechanical arm as thoroughly as possible, afraid it might show unexpected errors; fortunately, there were no accidents.

After that came the testing of the other five mechanical arms—installing and testing them one by one. Once they all passed, Lin Cheng began the final loading: connecting them to the back device, then putting on the metal chestplate himself, carefully linking the chestplate to the back device. Once everything was connected, Lin Cheng removed the blue steel ring from his forehead.

That steel ring had originally been a backup for thought-control; now that the device was fully connected, it was naturally no longer needed.

He closed his eyes, sat cross-legged on the ground, with six mechanical arms behind him each stirring restlessly.

All of them slowly stirred under Lin Cheng's thought-control, until he felt he had grown sufficiently familiar with them.

He suddenly opened his eyes; before his body even moved, two mechanical arms behind him shot out, bracing against the ground and propping his entire body up. The force was so great that it sent Lin Cheng leaping into the air, and the mechanical arms retracted.

At the same time, thought-control activated the thrusters at the ends of all six mechanical arms, blasting out large amounts of blue flame. The power provided by these flames directly sent Lin Cheng flying, and he slowly flew left and right within the evaluation room. He had originally wanted to test rapid-flight mode as well, but the room simply wasn't large enough.

"This— this!"

Elder Zhai was already too shocked to speak, simply pointing at Lin Cheng with a trembling arm.