After delivering the Ring of Shining Stars, Lin Xun received the highest level of courtesy from the Direct Vision School.

Upon hearing that he wished to visit Master Johnny, the Chairman of the Direct Vision School not only personally led him to the Doll Factory within the school, but also patted his chest and guaranteed that if he wanted to build a doll, the Direct Vision School could fully cover the material costs.

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[The Chairman of the Direct Vision School leads you through one processing workshop after another, arriving at the deepest part of the Doll Factory.]

[Master Johnny is a short old man with a robust build. He grips a refined copper pipe in his mouth and stands in the elevated central control room, looking down through the glass windows at the processing conditions in each workshop.]

[The special eyes transplanted onto his face, together with the assistance of a multi-eye visor, are enough to let him clearly see every corner and every detail of the factory.]

[If he notices any improper operation or processing mistake, his furious shouts and curses are transmitted through the refined copper pipe communication device into the designated workshop…]

[Workshop Three! Yes, what are you staring at? I mean you, you idiot Mengsk!]

[The rotational speed of the cutting blade is too slow. Set it to fifty-two thousand revolutions, and deepen the cutting depth by another 0.02!]

[Workshop Sixteen, Lawrence! Throw out that son-of-a-bitch grinding wheel of yours and replace it with a new one!]

[It is already worn down to this extent. Can it still reach standard precision? Use that pig brain of yours and think properly!]

[Workshop Thirty-Two…]

[For a time, Master Johnny’s furious cursing echoes throughout every processing workshop.]

[Under his command and dispatch, the entire Doll Factory is like a refined copper clock both precise and rigorous, accurately reporting the time without stopping for even a moment.]

[Seeing the Chairman arrive, he tosses the supervision work in his hands to a student at the side, takes a savage drag from his pipe, and says somewhat impatiently, Chairman, stop urging him. The new batch of prosthetics was just finished and already sent to the Prophet Tower.]

[That batch of new prosthetics can hold on for at least another month. The next batch of top grade materials has not yet been delivered, so even if he wanted to start early, he would have no way.]

[The Chairman of the Direct Vision School explains to you in a slightly embarrassed whisper that since the Prophets’ prosthetic limbs and bodies need to be frequently replaced, and those prosthetics all have to be manufactured and processed using the highest grade refined copper materials, merely collecting and smelting the materials already consumes enormous manpower, material resources, and a great amount of time.]

[By the time the materials are delivered to the Doll Factory, the time left for Master Johnny to manufacture them is not much. If they do not urge him to hurry, then over at the Prophet Tower…]

[So Master Johnny’s bad temper is understandable.]

[As he says this, the Chairman explains your purpose to Master Johnny…]

[Johnny glances sideways at you and says that for the Chairman’s sake, helping you build a doll is not a problem.]

[However, the materials and components currently remaining in the factory are of somewhat inferior quality, so they cannot make a very powerful doll…]

[Johnny waves his hand and summons a student, who hands you a current list of dolls that can be manufactured and processed.]

[You do not take the list. Instead, you take out the Refined Copper Sand Maraca and summon Battle Angel – Valkyrie, saying that you do not need a new doll, you only need him to reinforce this one.]

[Mm… using the best craftsmanship, and the best materials!]

[The moment Battle Angel – Valkyrie appears, Master Johnny’s eyes lock onto Valkyrie. He circles around her several times, sizing her up from top to bottom, staring until Valkyrie feels uncomfortable all over, before clicking his tongue and saying…]

[Elite refined copper materials, refined copper essence…]

[Hmph, who did you find to make this doll? The craftsmanship is so lousy…]

[If the same materials were handed to his worst student, that student could still raise this doll’s quality by a large margin.]

[Hearing this, Valkyrie cannot help glaring at Johnny. Master Johnny freezes for a moment, then says in surprise, Hm? There is actually a refined copper heart inside this doll’s body?]

[He apologizes and withdraws what he just said. Although the craftsman who made the doll was not highly skilled, that person truly exhausted all of their strength.]

[Seeing that Master Johnny very rarely restrained his fiery temper and even apologized sincerely, the Chairman asks in puzzlement…]

[Master Johnny, is refined copper heart some kind of high-level material? How has he never heard of it? Can this kind of material improve the Prophets’ prosthetic bodies and limbs?]

[Johnny explains seriously that, strictly speaking, refined copper heart cannot be considered a manufacturing material.]

[He, Johnny, has a refined copper heart inside his own body, and among his several dozen prized students, only two have refined copper hearts.]

[The birth of a refined copper heart has nothing to do with whether one’s craftsmanship is high or low. Only a craftsman who is most devout, most loyal to doll-making skill, and who has even dedicated all the energy of their life and all of their convictions to this craft can give birth to a refined copper heart within their body.]

[The refined copper heart replaces the craftsman’s original heart. For this doll to possess a refined copper heart means that the craftsman who created it had already given everything, and had even offered up their own life.]

[Although that craftsman’s skill was limited, this doll must certainly be the work they were most proud of and considered most excellent in their entire life.]

Johnny’s words made Lin Xun fall silent.

The one who made Valkyrie was the Doll Artisan from the old Chapter Four, who specialized in making maid-type dolls, but the one who offered up the refined copper heart to complete the final step of reinforcement was that man who sacrificed himself, the Doll Mechanist.

Thinking back to that iron-blooded tough man, Lin Xun still felt regret and indebtedness even now.

[Johnny continues, to what extent do you want to reinforce this doll?]

[If you only need it strengthened to Legendary quality, then there is no need to add any additional materials, and he would not even need to personally take action. One of his students could complete it.]

[If you need it strengthened to mythic quality, then although additional materials are required, the factory has the needed materials right now. He would only need to personally intervene a little.]

[As for wanting to strengthen it to a higher level…]

[Hearing this, you immediately ask, since Master Johnny is an immortal artisan who has already surpassed legendary, could he help strengthen this doll to immortal grade?]

[The moment these words are spoken, not only does Master Johnny laugh, but even the Chairman of the Direct Vision School beside him laughs as well.]

[The Chairman of the Direct Vision School takes the initiative to explain to you that immortality is called immortality because both soul and body must reach the edge of the boundary between human and god. Only by both soul and body advancing and breaking through together can true immortality be created.]

[Although refined copper dolls are extremely miraculous products with high intelligence, in essence they are still man-made refined copper mechanisms without souls of their own.]

[Master Johnny truly can use the highest grade materials to create doll bodies with immortal-level strength. The refined copper bodies currently possessed by the Prophets in the Prophet Tower are immortal, and that is why their tolerance toward Disorder is stronger than that of children’s bodies.]

[After obtaining refined copper bodies, the Prophets can still unleash true immortal battle power while conscious, but the prerequisite is that their souls must also reach immortality.]

[Even if an ordinary doll has its body reinforced to immortal-level strength, it is still far from comparable to a true immortal, because it lacks the most critical thing, the soul.]

Lin Xun deeply empathized with this.

Because the Executor in his Shell Slots already possessed an immortal level. It was precisely because his control over authority was relatively low, causing his soul to be far from immortal, that the Executor’s Shell quality had dropped to mythic+ grade.

“In other words, even if Valkyrie is reinforced to immortal grade, in panel attributes she will still fall to mythic+ grade.”