I, Stone Golem, only want to forge.

Chapter 99 Faith and the Professional System

Although he wanted to teach, Hai Gang really didn't know what to teach.

He had seen Murphy carve those runes before, so he didn't think Murphy's skills were worse than his own.

Moreover, it's definitely better for a stone man to teach another stone man than for a human to teach another stone man.

Why insist on teaching this stone man yourself?

"You asked me to teach it carving, but what exactly do you mean by teaching it?" Hai Gang hesitated for a long time before finally asking.

"You carve this in front of it, you carve one, it carves one, and you'll learn it by doing."

Murphy patted the wooden figure beside him and gave Haig a word of advice.

Hai Gang breathed a sigh of relief, thankful he had asked one more question.

Otherwise, he might really have to start teaching from scratch.

"Are you sculpting by borrowing power? If the object you're sculpting doesn't exist, can you even borrow it?"

Murphy suddenly asked.

Hai Gang shook his head uncertainly.

"It probably won't work. Only the beings I've personally witnessed will be effective if I carve them. There are also some special gods that, if there are any records of them, will also be effective if I carve them."

In fact, he himself wasn't very clear about what his profession actually was.

He only remembered that when he gained this ability, he was holding the newly carved dragon and excitedly going to pick up his son.

But then he heard the news that his son had been kidnapped by human traffickers.

Perhaps due to the exhaustion from carving dragons day and night, coupled with overwhelming grief, he fainted on the spot.

When he got up, he saw that the dragon he had carved seemed to have come to life, standing by the window, looking up at Hai Gang.

After Hai Gang awoke, the dragon let out a low growl, and its wooden wings miraculously gained resilience, flapping a few times before flying away.

Because of this, Hai Gang has never been clear about the nature of his abilities.

Because in his later carvings, he could only draw strength from carving things he had seen before.

However, he had never actually seen a dragon.

Murphy didn't say much, nodded, and went to the warehouse inside the cabin.

The principles behind the profession of "sea-grilling" should have a similar connection to so-called faith.

Murphy didn't really understand the essence of faith back then.

But now it possesses spiritual insight and understands what the so-called personality and divinity are.

Then it developed its own views on the nature of faith.

Now that Murphy knows that the so-called "grid" is a blueprint for some "skills".

Spirit is the foundation upon which most mages cast spells.

The essence of the professional system is to automate the entire spellcasting process through means and methods that Murphy is currently unaware of.

Combining the above three points, Murphy had a rather interesting guess in mind.

The so-called divinity and belief system are just an automated machine.

Through faith in God, one dedicates one's spiritual energy to the divine.

Then the deity automatically selects the corresponding blueprint and automatically helps a person complete the spell.

This is why Murphy said that professional systems and belief systems are essentially similar.

The belief system is actually easier to understand than the professional system.

The former only needs to understand why they believe, how they can remotely provide spiritual power, and how the divine nature automates the casting of spells.

Murphy could only suspect that the latter was related to the eyeballs in the sky.

Like the contract Murphy and Haggle signed, these eyeballs seem to have some special abilities, capable of manipulating some first-level rules.

So, is it possible that the essence of a professional's ability to use their skills also relies on these eyes?

Or perhaps we shouldn't use the word "dependence," but rather "symbiosis"—?

However, these are just Murphy's guesses; the specifics still need to be tested step by step.

However, it's worth mentioning that, in a way, the emergence of high leverage actually helped Murphy solve some of the problems he needed to overcome.

Regarding the dam and shipbuilding issues that Murphy has been considering.

As for why I say this, we have to go back to the water core.

After a second review, Murphy finally got a pretty good grasp of it.

This thing has two layers.

The outer layer is just a life support device; its design is not complicated. It simply converts food into life force.

However, Murphy carefully examined the thing's lifespan and felt it was at least several hundred years old.

Judging from the age of this device, the fundamental structure of this water core was not built by people of this era.

However, the floor and the magic circle beneath it are quite new for its age; they must have been installed by the so-called shipyard workers.

Or rather, this thing was created by Lynn, the village chief.

The innermost layer should contain something resembling a heart; it had asked the giant beast about it, and it seemed to be its own.

According to the behemoth itself, when it was half-dead, someone removed several of its internal organs and kept them outside.

After it died, they reconnected its heart.

Murphy's initial research into the water core revealed that his initial assumptions about it were not wrong.

You could say that this heart is the flesh and blood version of the water core model it created.

Each time it contracts, it receives information from external water elements.

Then, this information is automatically translated into corresponding bodily adjustment signals.

And during the next expansion, it is transmitted to the brain via blood vessels and nerves.

As for why the results weren't as good as Murphy had imagined...

The problem lies with the chassis below.

The base of this structure, which serves as the foundation for blood vessels and nerves, is so poorly made that it is completely unable to receive the information transmitted from the heart.

Therefore, when the wind and waves are high, the heart sends too many adjustment signals, and the chassis cannot handle them.

This ultimately led to the need for the crew to make automatic adjustments.

In other words, the original function of the water core has been forcibly blocked by this inferior, superfluous chassis.

If Murphy wants to restore the water core, which is made up of a heart, to its original state.

Optimizing this chassis became the most important thing.

But the chassis is essentially the nerve and blood vessel structure of the original body of the behemoth.

Murphy had not dissected the beast's body, and based solely on his experience and conjecture, he could not guarantee the effectiveness of his work.

Therefore, it came up with a more feasible solution.

Didn't the behemoth want a small body so it could escape from this ship?

Murphy just needs to design the water core the same way he did before.

After recording the distribution of all the skeletons that make up the ship's base.

First, find some other bones and use runes to transform them into something similar in nature to the original bones of this giant beast.

Then let the behemoth move in and let it experience whether there are any problems with Murphy's design.

If so, then improve it little by little.

Then, the problem arose!

After Murphy explained the situation to the behemoth, it only asked one question: "How do I get in?"

Yes, it was only thinking about Murphy making it a body, but it never even considered how it would get inside.

Murphy had always thought that the giant beast could leave its body on its own, but simply had nowhere to go.

Who knew this person couldn't live without it at all!

This is why Murphy said that the emergence of Haigla solved its immediate problem.

Because perhaps the principle of borrowing power through this sculpture could be used to allow the giant beast to possess the body of the model sculpted by Murphy.