Pillar of Yita

Among the modular flexible constructs, the most representative is the Annihilator Qv700, in which the construct’s main body splits into five parts - the trunk and four shield fairies. Fang Hong once used the design concept of the shield fairies from the Annihilator Qv700 to design a special ’Shield Clockwork Fairy’ for Luo Yu.

Although now this thing seems more like a toy, after all, the heat dissipation efficiency of the Clockwork Fairy and the main crystal’s capacity limit determine that the shield can only withstand a certain extent of attack. In fact, the shield fairies of Qv700 have the same problem.

This is also the common problem of small modular constructs, but Qv700 decides the design concept of modular constructs that endure till today, which is multiple resonance crystals under one center. Currently, the large and small modular constructs are certainly not limited to just Qv700, but the core concept has hardly changed.

Fang Hong’s Orphen Twin Stars, although a variant of the Fearless One, actually inherits this concept. Its designer didn’t innovate too much in the modular philosophy. Fang Hong actually noticed that the designer of Orphen Twin Stars was quite mediocre; this variant seems more like a product of coincidence under various systems’ accumulation, hence all the issues mentioned earlier.

But even so, as long as it meets the right person, a flawed construct can still play a huge role. Such precedents abound, not to mention, the Orphen Twin Stars are still a variant construct.

The modular design of Orphen Twin Stars is divided into a Shieldbearer knight construct and a sword-wielding agility construct - the former is actually a variant Shield Guard with the appearance of heavy full-body armor, where the only armament is a giant shield.

The knight construct stands about two and a half meters tall, while the sword-wielding agility construct is slightly shorter, roughly as tall as Fang Hong - its appearance is a lightweight female figure, and its construct category should be a type of variant Sword Bearer, similar to the Energy Angel, but positioned differently from the Energy Angel.

The great sword in the agility construct’s hand is almost as tall as itself, which is actually part of the original giant knight construct’s spear. When it combines with the Shieldbearer knight, it reforms into a giant knight-shaped construct.

That is a Variant Fearless One.

So while the designer of the Twin Stars was mediocre, the intricate assembly still has its effects. Besides, the system being overly cumbersome results in required calculations soaring, and its reliability is also worrisome, yet the Orphen Twin Stars are quite powerful.

Equally using one Variant Fearless One realizes the triple functions of a Variant Sword Bearer (assault direction), a Variant Shield Guard, and a Variant Fearless One.

Just that the modular main crystal resides in the Shield Guard, causing the Sword Bearer to be slightly weaker in manipulability. However, in actual combat, Fang Hong has another variant Sword Bearer, doesn’t he - the Energy Angel, an agility-directed variant Sword Bearer.

In this trial, the performance of the Twin Stars was notable, and it can be said that more than half the credit goes to this modular variant construct’s performance.

In actual combat, even when combat forces are equal, two against one can sometimes hold a huge advantage. And this is not simply two against one; the Shield Guard and Sword Bearer can form a complementary relationship, and if this cooperation cannot secure the advantage frontally, they can re-combine into a Fearless One with stronger frontal assault capabilities.

After all, frontal breakthrough is inherently the main duty of a Fearless One.

Not to mention during the Immortal Knight trial, though the Immortal Knight itself is strong, its operator, the Combat Artisan, is quite weak - and unlike the Supreme One, who possesses strong personal strength, Construct Lord protected by numerous constructs.

The operator of the Immortal Knight, if careless, will become the weak spot of its construct, especially when in lower levels, the strength of the flexible construct hasn’t yet reached its later robustness, making it difficult to achieve attack-defense integration.

In other words, in fights at Fang Hong’s level, using the Shield Guard to pin down the Immortal Knight in front, while sending the Sword Bearer to seek the opponent’s operator, such a tactic leaves little room for counteraction. Though generally, the Immortal Knight’s operator would act in concert with teammates at lower levels.

But this is, after all, a trial, and tacitly, the world beyond the Door assumes participants use a construct for this battle, and so, Fang Hong won’t directly face a team.

Therefore, with Fang Hong’s combat method, this stage can be said to have progressed smoothly, even making him feel a slight guilt of cheating. Fortunately, no one came to stop him; and cheating or not, Fang Hong gained a deep understanding of the core characteristics of the Immortal Knight profession along the way.

After all, sometimes, only through practical operation can you deepen your understanding of a domain you’re unfamiliar with, and Fang Hong’s situation right now is roughly this.

In his journey through the fourth stage, he only encountered two troubles: once was the fifth blue Door, the world beyond arranging a Supreme One as an opponent for him.

This time, Fang Hong himself also experienced the impotency of the Immortal Knight at low levels, with the opponent’s tactic also directly targeting his main body - even when he had two constructs participating in the fight, if he had only one, the situation would have been much worse.