arcane emperor

As a super-large magical creation, the cost of building a floating city is beyond imagination.

This thing is not just a gold-eating beast, it eats everything.

Dozens or hundreds of kilograms of thorium, ready to use.

Thousands of kilograms of refined gold, and I don’t know where they went.

The amount of super magic materials measured in tons is simply heartbreaking.

Not to mention the various manpower costs, the investment in a large number of new technologies, and the construction of various magic arrays and facilities.

For a mage lord at the duke level, the cost of building a floating city could drain the resources of the entire territory.

Even for an ordinary kingdom, this would definitely cause them great damage.

But for the Gulf Territory, this is not something unacceptable.

Despite the huge investment and consumption, the Gulf Territory's current ability to earn resources only accounts for 1/3 of the total.

Even if the entire process of continuous investment and construction lasts for 6 to 9 months, the Gulf Territory will not be under too much pressure.

Compared to the Karl family, sucking blood from the entire Karl Plain took hundreds or thousands of years of accumulation for the family, and it took five or six years to barely build a framework for the floating city.

There are still many things inside that need to be filled and improved.

The most important thing is that as the leader, the Archmage Karsus must also be involved at all times.

Compared to Matthew's comfort and ease, it is completely incomparable.

What’s more important is that the Gulf region has invested so much resources and money.

In return, it has resulted in the improvement of development technology, the expansion of hundreds of production lines, the strengthening of thousands of production processes, and even technical progress and high bonuses for hundreds of thousands of workers.

This implicit improvement and enhancement is obviously more important than the discussion on the purpose of the first floating city.

After discussing with everyone, we finally chose a result that did not surprise Matthew - weapons of war!
For now, there is still considerable room for development in all aspects of the Gulf Territory.

Especially the increasing number of territories, the large number of professionals, and the increasingly amazing students.

No matter which aspect the floating city takes, there will be improvements, but it will not bring about fundamental changes.

Whether on the ground, underground, or even in the sea, the Gulf Territory's production factories, research institutes, and living areas are being rapidly developed and expanded.

If we want to protect the Gulf Territory and continue to develop rapidly, we must have more powerful military force to guarantee everything.

All the commanders and managers of the Gulf Territory understood that the Gulf Territory, which had caused so many troubles, already had many enemies.

The Kingdom of the Cole Elf was dragged down by the Gulf Lord's "civil strife plan" and "diverting trouble to others".

Many religious sects are rapidly regaining their strength and trying to compete for influence and more believers.

The Naga Empire has occupied a considerable area of ​​sea and is in the process of rebuilding its civilization system and manufacturing and learning various production tools.

There are huge numbers of Japanese pirates who are impossible to kill or destroy.

Although they are willing to cooperate with the Gulf Territory now, the major territories and kingdoms in the northern continent may turn against them at any time.

Even in the demiplane occupied by the Gulf Territory, there are still many hostile forces.

These guys are now harboring evil intentions towards the prosperity and various technologies of the Gulf Territory. The reason they have not openly declared war is not because the Gulf Territory’s army is capable of fighting, right?
In this situation, strengthening military force is always the first choice!

Matthew affirmed their sobriety, nodded with a smile, and continued:

"Since we have chosen to build a war fortress, let's build the strongest war fortress!"

"The territory needs a strong fortress that can operate stably and function under any circumstances."

Any case!

Must run stably!

And it will definitely work!

The big guy who accepted the task was immediately excited.

They re-arranged the basic structure of the floating city, completely redivided the area settings, and prepared to arrange more weapons for the floating city fortress.

The key problems they have to overcome are to design large-scale war fortresses, taking into account the defense settings and attack preparations for various situations and different opponents.

Their discussion was not aimless.

But it depends on the various enemies and possible situations.

Conduct precise and detailed discussions to ensure appropriate emergency preparedness.

For example, encountering a real dragon or flying unit that is almost as powerful as Yaya, with a huge size, super high defense, extremely fast speed, and extraordinary attack power.

How should the protection of a war fortress be arranged?

What kind of defensive weapons and counterattack methods should be prepared?

For example, we encountered a large number of deformed flying dragons.

They are numerous, have excellent defense-breaking capabilities, and can attack from all directions, from above, below, left, and right.

What kind of countermeasures can be prepared?
What kind of cleanup and killing weapons are prepared?
In addition to combat issues, security tasks and work are also very important.

They have to take all kinds of situations into consideration.

Lost motivation!
How to handle emergencies when the floating city is rapidly falling?
When in a demiplane or area where elemental energy is scarce, how can we ensure the continued operation and combat effectiveness of the fortress?

When encountering an enemy against whom conventional weapons are of no use, what countermeasures are there?
If the battle lasts too long, the floating city's supply reserves will be exhausted.

What are the ways to recover quickly or prevent such situations from happening?

The various problems and difficulties that needed to be solved gave them new thoughts.

They did not think that the various issues and situations discussed by the lord and others were making things difficult for them.

The commanders of the Gulf who are familiar with history, have read a lot of materials, have been involved in many wars, and have commanded many operations all know this.

These situations will definitely occur.

As long as time is long enough, even the most unlikely event will definitely happen.

The crux of the matter is.

After these situations occur, are there any corresponding defensive measures?

Or whether these defensive measures can take effect as soon as possible.

Small problems turn into bad situations, bad situations turn into major disasters, and problems become bigger and more serious as they are delayed.

This situation happens all the time!

Their discussion is to solve this problem.

It is better to be prepared than to be unprepared.

It’s better to have a plan than to have no idea what to do.

Their discussion lasted for several days.

One problem after another was solved with the help of the various technologies, machinery, tools, and professional capabilities reserved by the Gulf Territory.

What they need to do next is to manually "create" various situations and further verify the various methods they have discussed.

What needs to be improved should be improved.

Strengthen what needs to be strengthened.

If a problem cannot be solved temporarily, just raise it.

Let other more professional people study and solve the problem.

That's how fast the Gulf Leader solves problems.

The reason for this effect is the improvement and constraints of various systems, the convenience brought by the accurate implementation of rules and laws, and the zero tolerance for corruption and selfishness.

The Gulf may never be able to eradicate this kind of situation.

However, the bay leader always finds the bedbugs in time and kills them as quickly as possible.

The location of the Gulf Territory's experimental process is specially placed in the Catachan demiplane, which is dangerous and requires a floating city to carry out.

Since the first pioneering war, the territory controlled by the Gulf Territory in the Catachan demiplane has never been effectively expanded.

Not only because all kinds of deformed monsters began to appear on a large scale, but also because the twisted jungle of the Catachan demiplane was becoming increasingly powerful.

Taller trees!

A bigger scale!

Stronger recovery ability!
More energy storage!
This gave rise to more legendary distorted monsters!

The birth of various new weapons in the Gulf Territory is inseparable from the high-intensity combat environment of the Catachan demiplane.

Fortunately, although the Bay Territory cannot go out anytime and anywhere, the Twisted Jungle is indeed not accessible.

Not only because of the research and improvement of various weapons and equipment in the Gulf Territory, but also because the Gulf Territory has absorbed more and more Catachan warriors and personnel.

Especially those adventurers who dared to fight here for a long time, both their strength and wealth have achieved a qualitative leap.

Correspondingly, the number and strength of various distorted monsters are constantly changing and improving.

Especially with the coming of the elemental tides.

Various large distorted creatures are increasing in number, and even giant distorted creatures have appeared.

Although the giant distorted creature did not have the chance to show its power, it was destroyed by the attack of the Dragon Fang missile.

But what is certain is that the number of giant distorted creatures will increase next time.

The huge defensive pressure and finding corresponding solutions have become a difficult problem for the commanders of the Gulf Lords in the Catachan demiplane.

How to solve these problems?
They considered using various fighters, even the mechanical dragon bomber.

However, if we rely solely on bombing attacks, after destroying the first batch of giant deformed creatures discovered.

The Twisted Jungle produces its giant deformed creatures in underground caves.

Although the Gulf Territory has developed some new missiles that can penetrate the ground and kill.

However, competing with the Twisted Jungle for resources in this way is undoubtedly very unprofitable.

However, if ground troops are dispatched and force projection is to be carried out quickly over a distance of hundreds of kilometers, there will be great uncertainty and danger.

Now, they finally have a solution!
It can stay in the air for a long time, carry a large number of combat units, conduct long-term long-distance fixed-point delivery, and store a large amount of resources. It can fight to support the war and is not afraid of consumption combat. It is a floating fortress.

With the war fortress, the Gulf Territory will be able to conduct long-distance and large-scale battles and strikes.

The twisted jungle can indeed be cultivated and expanded underground, but in that case, the efficiency will be reduced by dozens of times, and the Gulf Territory would like them to do so.

12 month 15 day.

The demiplane of Catachan.

Volcano Fortress.

Hundreds of heavy excavation equipment are working at the same time, continuously piling up soil and rocks and sending them into a giant mechanical device as big as a crater.

This giant mechanical device, named "Moutie's Mouth", has a huge diameter of 500 meters and can handle hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of soil and rocks every day.

It has powerful automated and integrated capabilities such as manufacturing high-strength magic cement, extracting, mining and preliminary processing of minerals, and designing and manufacturing large-scale military fortresses.

It is precisely because of its existence that the Bay Territory would blatantly build a volcanic fortress in the crater, just to declare to the twisted jungle:
"I am causing trouble, and it will definitely pose a huge threat to you."

"If you disagree, you'd better stand up now and either take action or protest."

"Protesting will not have any effect. We have been waiting for a long time to take action."

Moreover, as more and more parts of the floating city are built, its size is becoming larger and larger.

In order to capture such a large fortress.

Will the Twisted Jungle produce and develop even more terrifying giant distorted monsters?

In order to better launch an attack from the ground?
Once the other party makes arrangements in this regard and changes are made in resource investment.

Then the Bay Area will make a lot of money!

The floating fortress can fly!

12 month 17 day.

Densely packed distorted monsters approached the volcanic fortress.

Even though they were 30 kilometers away, they had already been spotted by the Gulf Leader.

In order to prevent deformed monsters and twisted jungles, various unpredictable mutations and evolutions must be completed.

The Gulf Territory simply updated the strength and performance of various weapons, further improving their efficiency, without causing much change in the way of combat.

No rockets or missiles other than light and heavy artillery were used.

It is more about training combat soldiers' coordination, actual combat capabilities, and completing the perfection and improvement of existing weapons and equipment.

At the same time, this is also a testing ground for the computing center to participate in combat.

The current combat methods of the Gulf Territory are undergoing diversified and three-dimensional transformation.

With the help of the computing center, a large number of computing tasks can get answers quickly, and great improvements can be made in modularization and systematization.

Of course, the soldiers of the Gulf Territory did not give up training on fighting away from the computing center during their normal training.

Even during actual combat, they would often take the initiative to complete this test under the guidance of the commander.

The hummingbird drone quickly sent back the information.

Various detailed information such as the number, type, strength, speed, etc. of the enemy will be quickly transmitted back to the command center.

The command center responded immediately and issued various orders at the same time.

"Enemy spotted, level one alert!"

"Attention all combat units, hundreds of thousands of enemies are approaching."

"The enemy is expected to arrive at the battlefield in 2 hours, 43 minutes and 52 seconds. Artillery units begin to assemble."

"Combat material production factory started!"

"The command authority of the wartime computing center is established."

"..."

The guards, who had been prepared, quickly rushed to their battle posts.

The somewhat dormant volcanic fortress has become lively again

The dark muzzles of the guns were slowly raised.

Some of the shells were placed at the rear to avoid temporary inability to provide shells and firepower due to artillery accidents.

The shooting coordinates sent from the computing center were clearly displayed on the side of the muzzle control display.

The gunners carefully checked the accuracy of the shooting coordinates and quickly compared them one by one.

Other combatants are also doing their jobs.

The most excited ones are the adventurers who have gathered here in the past few days.

They reluctantly left the construction site and quickly rushed to the familiar combat area, patiently saying to the other new companions:

"The Catachan demiplane is different from other places. The dangers here are much greater."

"Poisonous insects, poisonous gas, poisonous blood and other various dangers can kill you at any time."

"With high risk comes high reward. Be obedient, adapt slowly, and fight two battles with the territory, and you will basically be on the fast track of development."

"The various cultivation-aiding potions in the Catachan demiplane are very famous..."

In addition to the adventurers, captured warriors from the Kor elves also joined the battle sequence.

Led by the psychic ranger Tyrael and the legendary ranger Iris, they were very focused on preparing for the next battle in the Gulf Territory.

Most of them had undergone Dragon Warrior surgery and were very stable in their emotions and had relatively peaceful personalities. They did not look like the “unlucky guys” captured by the Gulf Lord at all.

This group of Kor elves took the initiative to apply to join the combat sequence.

They highly approve of the system of the Gulf Territory and believe that other Kor elves need to change their mindsets and receive re-education.

In their view, the current Elf Kingdom of Kor has become a plaything of the Elf Gods.

Unable to continue expanding and developing, it is confined to a vicious circle with a limit on its strength.

Just like the ban order issued by the elven gods to the Elf Kingdom of Kor before they fell asleep.

Tyrael, the team leader, expressed helplessness about these Kor elves, who went from one extreme to another.

Iris, who was following beside him, seemed much calmer and was just quickly adjusting her combat armor.

He turned his head to look at the Cole elves who were preparing for battle, then stared at the endless twisted jungle in the distance. He was silent for a long time and said:

"See? Can we survive in a world like this? And last that long?"

After hearing this, Tyrael shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and said after a long pause:
"This is what the Gulf Leader said. Being able to think independently is the most difficult thing..."

Before they could discuss it clearly, the artillery formations in the distance began to roar one after another.

The continuous flames illuminated the somewhat gloomy sky, penetrated into the clouds and set the entire sky on fire.

Watching them disappear into the distance, a faint golden light flashed in Iris's eyes. He raised the flamethrower in his hand and said without hesitation:
"Get ready to fight. Look at the Bay Territory fighting here. It will definitely give you many surprises!"

boom! boom! boom!
The violent explosion immediately set off a violent fire.

The terrifying shock wave was mixed with deadly shrapnel.

Neither the huge twisted plants nor the dangerous deformed creatures could withstand such horrific impact force, and huge gaps were torn in the covering bombing.

The rolling smoke and dust gradually dissipated, revealing a large pit and many scarred and deformed monsters.

However, there were so many of them that the area covered by the flames was only a tiny fraction of the size of these deformed monsters.

Moreover, they have a strong recovery ability, and even wounds that are strong enough to tear their bodies apart will heal in a very short time.

They endured the continuous artillery bombardment and rushed towards the volcanic fortress standing in the distance.

Tyrael was a little surprised when he saw this scene through the magic video screen. He looked at the artillery that was still firing, and doubts emerged in his mind. He asked the senior next to him directly:

"Why waste shells when it obviously has no effect?"

Iris, who had been in the Catachan demiplane for quite some time, pointed at the large monsters that were scattered and dodging in the picture, and said with lingering fear:

"Believe it or not, if there were no artillery to deter us, the monsters running towards us would be these huge monsters that are invulnerable to swords and are indestructible."

As soon as the words came out, the two of them saw in the video a huge mad bull having its head smashed off by a shell falling from the sky.

Its huge body fell to the ground with a clang. Its limbs were still twitching as it struggled, despite its strong vitality.

The scene was quite appropriate, and Tyrael was quite emotional. He began to look forward to what tactics and arrangements the Gulf Lord would make next.

However, he could no longer see normal images.

When a huge army of distorted monsters rushed in with the assistance of the twisted jungle.

The Gulf Lords only resisted for about two hours as usual before issuing an order for full defense.

Faced with the volcanic fortress firing at full force, the smaller deformed creatures were completely unable to stop it.

The defense gap represented by body size can only be broken through with a certain probability unless one can overcome the shackles of the super class.

However, the small deformed monster does not deserve such an opportunity.

They are just cannon fodder that come one after another, giving the larger and heavier deformed monster army in the distance time to travel.

"We have discovered millions of large distorted monsters. We have discovered 14 legendary enemy monsters so far..."

"The enemy has gathered all the legendary and large-scale deformed creatures within a 500-kilometer radius. It seems that they are preparing to investigate the floating fortress."

"Highest alert activated. Request support and cooperate with friendly forces in combat."

"Floating fortress, ready to start!"

As the order was given, the floating fortress on top of the crater, even though it still looked tattered, had already begun to gather a considerable amount of energy reaction.

The extremely astonishing energy reaction immediately caused turbulence in the surrounding elements and was soon noticed by the Twisted Jungle.

The twisted jungle, ready to investigate, continued to dispatch a large-scale distorted army to advance rapidly in this direction.

At this moment, gun muzzles appeared one after another on the walls surrounding the floating fortress, emitting deadly balls of fire from them.

Dense and swarming destructive shells instantly turned all areas within 3 to 5 kilometers outside the city wall into a sea of ​​fire.

The horrifying shock and the flames rising into the sky fully demonstrated to the Twisted Jungle what a weapon of destruction is!
In the floating fortress that has completed a main gun salvo, mechanical arms of all sizes are rapidly loading and accumulating firing data.

Even if it is located on the ground, the floating fortress's terrifying destructive power can still destroy most enemies.

As for the large army of deformed monsters rushing towards us, we should be lucky enough to see its other form - floating combat form! (End of this chapter)