In another world, Lu Mingfei is learning card making.

Lu Mingfei stared intently at the floating screen in front of him.

A prompt appears above, and the cursor hovers over the "Yes" option:

[Change your career path? This choice will cost you 4% of your experience points.]

He took a deep breath, no longer hesitated, and pressed the cursor. In the main path, the "Growth" label quickly faded, replaced by a three-choice option.

Lu Mingfei didn't hesitate on the question of "what to choose," having already made his decision. With a flick of his wrist, the path of "Legion" replaced "Growth" as Lu Mingfei's main focus.

—Ever since his last conversation with Professor Lintel, he'd had an idea: perhaps the [Legion] should be his first choice. Multiple magical spirits that could coexist on a single Legion card would naturally form a spiritual support for a so-called 'landmark'.

Therefore, you should first refine the legion-type magic spirits with various spell power orientations, and then refine the corresponding basic land cards and higher-level land cards.

"Unfortunately, I didn't know about this when I chose my major. The description of the 'Growth' path, which mentioned bonuses to land cards, misled me..." Lu Mingfei pondered for a moment, "But it's not too late now."

"Perfect timing, Dragon Slime has also finished modifying the Dragonblood Jungle card. Let me see what unique features a Legion card will have..."

Lu Mingfei was mentally prepared to face the chaos of the mental projection.

……

The pendant lay to one side, separated from the other broken sword blades, batteries, rudimentary gear mechanisms, and so on. Lu Mingfei tried to remain calm, his mind ablaze with ideas, as the tip of his card-making pen inscribed a transmutation circle on the card's surface—

"Hmm, how is that Om Messiah prayer sung again?" To avoid offending the red-robed acolyte, Lu Mingfei specially transferred her to the library and locked himself in his room to practice cards alone.

"O Om Messiah, save us from the mediocrity of thought..."

As the rhythmic singing played, the alchemy array shone brightly. Lu Mingfei inserted the battery, blade, and mechanism in order, and finally solemnly placed the pendant inside.

Just like when he first started working, Lu Mingfei didn't feel any change when he chose to specialize in a different area. However, when refining cards, especially when the sparks were burning, Lu Mingfei could clearly perceive a subtle difference in the feel of the process.

"It's like... um... stacking building blocks?"

Normal forging is like simply stacking building blocks, while forging a card into a Legion Card is like stacking two blocks on top of one block, or three blocks on top of two blocks. With the same number of blocks, the height is naturally less than a tall stack of blocks, but the latter takes up much more space horizontally than the first.

Furthermore, this method of alchemy has another advantage:

"The magic power I've cultivated isn't quite enough?" Lu Mingfei looked surprised as he felt the 'demand' coming from the card in his hand.

— Stacking blocks will naturally increase the consumption of building blocks at the same height. Often, when building blocks are stacked up until they collapse out of control, some blocks have never actually been used.

However, once a Legion Card is created, this concern disappears. Just like now, Lu Mingfei is putting magic power into it according to his usual experience, but the magic card is even demanding more from him.

"Since you want magic, I'll give you magic!"

With a surge of determination, Lu Mingfei began to push his body to its limits. Magical power flowed from his body like water, and in a daze, he even felt that this process of refinement was similar to the initial summoning of the red-robed acolyte—

Is this their inherent "mechanical" nature? Are they all just magic-hungry, water-absorbing machines?

Fortunately, unlike that previous summoning, Lu Mingfei's life-saving spark wasn't sucked out along with it—in fact, it was almost the same as being sucked out, because Lu Mingfei immediately used the spark to regulate his body and relieve fatigue after the suction stopped, otherwise he was worried that he wouldn't be able to attend class the next day.

By the way, take this time to assess the quality of this new unit:

【Magic Spirit: Ironwing Fire Dragon】

[Type: Cyborg/Humanoid/Religious Legion]

[Quality: Orange Epic]

Overall Rating: LV8

【characteristic:

High-tech Legion: This legion is equipped with explosive weapons, plasma weapons, anti-gravity flight devices, individual soldier teleportation devices, and other equipment. It can select and use the appropriate equipment according to the battlefield situation in order to achieve tactical objectives to the greatest extent.

Intelligent Control Legion: This legion possesses a complete command chain and is unaffected by traits such as [Morale Chaos] and [Enemy Horror].

Surprise Attack: This legion excels at surprise attacks. They are unaffected by ambushes or flanking maneuvers, and every attack is considered an ambush.

[PS: As tools, the Guardians of the Faith naturally benefit from the highest possible original physical attributes, in addition to physical modifications. Therefore, we can design the soldiers' abilities at the genetic level and then produce them using biotechnology. —Ace Bozana, Cardinal Archbishop of the Holy Mechanicus, Walker with God, and wanted criminal of the Druid Society]

"No wonder they're called the Druid Society's wanted criminals. They could have kept this kind of thing to themselves. Why make it public?" Lu Mingfei grumbled, then started admiring the card art.

Unlike the Red-Clad Acolytes, the Ironwing Dragon Legion's physical modifications are almost 'obvious': their feet are cut off and replaced with a pair of eagle-like claws; their forearms are also severed and replaced with metal hands that can hold guns for extended periods without getting burned.

As for their bodies, concealed by the red robes, Lu Mingfei couldn't discern anything. However, judging from the marks left by the enormous anti-gravity backpacks, their bodies must have undergone considerable modifications—otherwise, they would likely have been killed by their own equipment first…

This group of guardians consisted of six people. Although it was called a "legion," it was actually only the size of a small squad. After a moment's thought, Lu Mingfei decided to abandon the fantasy of "creating a thousand-strong legion" that had just surfaced in his mind.

Well, actually, we don't know what this thousand-strong army can do.

You can't exactly send them to work in a screw factory, can you? Although a considerable number of magical elves are currently working in factories...

Lu Mingfei picked up the card and held it in his palm, looking at the description written on the card:

Ironwing Fire Dragon

【✪✪✪[Red✪]】【2500/500/1500】

[Race: Human/Construct] [Attribute: Order] [Ability: Flight]

[Ultimate Moves: Explosive Combustion, Plasma Burning, Teleportation]

【Explosive Burst: Costs [Red ✪], allows one member of the legion to switch to an explosive weapon, dealing massive fire damage to a wide area of ​​enemies】

【Plasma Burn: Costs [Red ✪], allows one member of the Legion to switch to using a plasma weapon, dealing massive fire damage to a single enemy, unaffected by armor】

【Teleport: Cost ✪, teleports one member of your legion to any location on the battlefield】