This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 432: Tank Upgrade for Half a Year
"Why is there such a big commotion?"

In the room, Li Ming looked at the virtual screen. The announcement of the ten-name list brought the matter to another climax.

These names may not appear in the news for many years, and even ordinary life forms in many civilizations may not know in their lifetime that life forms can evolve to this level.

Panic is spreading, and the confrontation between the Empire and other civilizations seems to be continuing, with no agreement yet.

"The Lord of the Black Hole Palace..." Li Ming was also looking through the list, secretly shocked: "There are so many strong people."

Before the announcement, he didn't know who the other members were. Except for Anduin, he had never met any of the others.

"That is to say, in the eyes of the Empire, Anduin is the one with the strongest overall strength in the Chaos Star Gap." He pondered, not knowing what the criterion was.

The impact of the announcement of the ten-person list is still continuing, and these "strongest ones" will naturally be scrutinized and questioned from all sides.

Soon after, more information came out, and it was revealed that a group of people had actually received invitations but had declined as they did not want to be involved in such a turmoil.

.........

In the chaotic star gap, on a certain planet.

boom!
The boiling breath on Barbaro's body suddenly burst out like surging volcanic magma. The hot energy spread instantly, tearing through the atmosphere at an alarming speed. The hot energy flow shuttled through it like lightning, leaving behind a series of dazzling trails of light.

The ground shook violently and cracked into pieces.

“Blue Dragon…” Barbaro stared at the specially made virtual screen in front of him. Cracks appeared on the screen, reflecting his hideous expression. “Anduin is among them, but I am not worthy?”

.........

Ten days after the announcement of the ten-name list, all kinds of news were flying around, causing turmoil among higher life forms, and many human life forms were critical of these ten "strongest" people.

At the same time, the Interstellar Alliance urgently convened a civilization conference, and three days later, it finally announced the initial resolution.

[We are now soliciting opinions from the interstellar community on the management scope and details of the Higher Life Forms United Organization in order to better maintain interstellar integrity. 】

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the matter of the joint organization of higher life forms had been put on hold. It had not been cancelled, but it had not been announced either.

As for how long the conquest will take, no one knows.

Li Ming also received a notice from the staff of the Interstellar Alliance that the first regular meeting would be temporarily postponed and the specific time would be notified later.

"It seems that even if we want to throw the Mechanics Association out, it's not that easy." Li Ming pondered, guessing that these civilizations should still be in the game of chess.

Some civilizations may have big appetites, and the Empire is also weighing the pros and cons. The withdrawal has not yet been completely completed and will take a lot of time. These are all problems.

It is still unknown when the results will come out, but news deliberately exaggerating the horror of higher life forms has gradually disappeared.

At the same time, the Mechanical King's Court also connected to various channels of the Mechanics Association, with green lights all the way. A large number of orders floated to the Mechanical King's Court like snowflakes, and there were also short-term interest-free loans.

And under Ulrich's control, it began to expand and grow stronger.

In this way, more than half a year passed by slowly.

The Mechanical Royal Court, in a room that has been expanded again, is filled with all kinds of instruments. A large amount of development medicines are stored in the refrigerated storage cabin in the corner. The display screen on the cabin shows information such as temperature and storage status to ensure the safe storage of the medicines.

Energy fluctuations like light mist surged on the surface of Li Ming's body, black energy particles entered and exited between his mouth and nose, and he was surrounded by virtual screens that constantly refreshed various news.

"Huh..." Li Ming took a long breath and looked at the real-time display of the development progress next to him - 4%...

This number made him sigh, but at least he had adapted to it for a while.

"I can probably feel what Robin feels now. This kind of boredom is really not something that ordinary people can endure. I can do two things at the same time," Li Ming muttered in his heart, and then sighed: "X-level life forms are not easy to deal with."

Improving the development speed is not difficult. Just use x-level gene source to improve the quality of the development source.

However, any X-level life form is a regional giant and should not be underestimated, and the relationships between them are even more complicated.

Without some connections, it is basically impossible to become an X-level life form. He is not even able to crush the X-level life forms that have been famous for many years, not to mention those who have already embarked on the ultimate path.

The newly born X-level life forms almost only exist in the three major civilizations, and no wild X-level life forms have been born for a long time.

It is extremely difficult to obtain genetic source material, and in his current development sequence, there is still an A-level development source material, which is a new control column unlocked, and he has not yet found a suitable S-level source material for upgrading.

"Owner."

Suzaku's voice suddenly sounded, and the little red bird landed on his shoulder, saying in a light voice: "Master, the latest batch of 'Pulse Titanium' has arrived."

"Oh." Li Ming's heart was slightly shaken, and he couldn't help rubbing his hands. A bit of anticipation rose in his heart, and he immediately got up and went to the warehouse.

The corridors of the base have also expanded several times. There are not many people here, and those coming and going are mainly mechanical bodies.

He walked all the way to the warehouse in the core base, which was a special warehouse belonging to him, where metal materials purchased regularly were stored.

After verification and opening, the silver-gray metal alloy was neatly arranged and filled the walls.

Pulse titanium, this alloy is hard and light, and its unique lattice network structure gives it excellent compression and tensile properties. It comes from a materials company under the creator master.

After giving him a 40% discount, it was almost the factory price, only 600 million star coins per ton, and there were 40 tons here.

The warehouse door closed, and Li Ming gradually absorbed the metal energy inside. It took him more than half a day to absorb it all.

"Three hundred and twenty million metal energies..." Li Ming nodded involuntarily. It was about the same as he expected. He exhaled, "It's time to upgrade the tank guard."

In the control system, his metal energy has reached 1.2 billion.

This was his accumulation over the past six months. The expansion of the Mechanical Royal Court was still in a period of rapid growth. A considerable portion of the profits had been invested in the expansion. Mechanical bodies were also manufactured regularly, and a lot of accounts receivable had been repaid.

He also needs to buy the development potions he needs, which means he has to spend a lot of money, but he can still squeeze out nearly 100 billion star coins without affecting his own operations, which is already very good.

He had been waiting for the upgrade of the Tank Guard for a long time, and now he had accumulated enough metal energy. He did not hesitate any longer and took out the Tank Guard immediately, consuming one World Blood and one billion metal energies.

Tanwei suddenly underwent a drastic change. The blood-colored energy engulfed it like a tide and spread wildly on various mechanical structures like a blood-colored spider web. Strange textures and patterns appeared on the hard metal surface, as if it was wriggling with life.

The connections between the parts become tighter, as if integrated into one, and the overall structure becomes stronger and more complex, sturdy and gorgeous.

The change in appearance is somewhat different from the previous one that was enlightened by [Super Divine Energy]. It is becoming more luxurious and has some blood-colored patterns.

[Tank Guard--X level: cutting-edge combat mecha, focusing on defense.

Trait - Stoneskin: Gain 40% damage reduction.

Features - Thorns: Any form of attack will rebound 40% to the sender.

Characteristics - Inert force field: All offensive energies within a range of 40 meters will be attenuated by 10%] Li Ming raised his eyebrows. Both characteristics were strengthened, with each increasing by %.

He has experienced the new ability before, and it is quite good, suppressing the enemy's strength in disguise.

The upgrade of the tank guard has a considerable increase in its power.

Without considering the characteristics, its own strength is basically enough to defend against attacks of about 100X energy level. With the characteristics added, it is estimated that the overall performance can be doubled.

Therefore, the power he could unleash was even greater. After carefully admiring the formation, Li Ming reluctantly put away the tank guard.

When the warehouse door opened, Ulrich was already waiting outside.

Seeing him, Li Ming suddenly realized, "I almost forgot, another month has passed."

"Yes." Ulrich nodded slightly, "The mechanical bodies have been stored in the warehouse."

"Then let's go." Li Ming nodded and walked straight ahead. Ulrich lagged behind half a step and whispered:
"Your Excellency, the Royal Court has been established for three years. This year, the number of our external employees has increased significantly. For long-term development, I plan to organize an annual celebration to enhance cohesion. I wonder if you can attend?"

Li Ming was slightly stunned. "The Mechanical Royal Court has been established for three years?"

"Yeah." Ulrich nodded.

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Li Ming paused, a little sighing, "Time flies so fast, count me in as one."

"Then they should be very happy." Ulrich smiled.

"As long as the salary is paid, they will be happy whether I attend or not." Li Ming joked.

Buzz--
The gate of the base opened, and above the sky, a huge energy shield was operating at all times.

Compared to half a year ago, the scale of the Royal Court has expanded again. There are no assembly line factories on the native planet anymore. There are basically only core laboratories and various warehouses.

Even greening has been restored, and with the help of various atmospheric environment regulators, the entire planet is green. Many external employees have even brought their families over.

This is an encouraging policy of the royal court, to cover the cost of living for the family, and also to avoid spies from external forces.

The assembly line factory has expanded into outer space. Looking around, one can clearly see the huge metal fortresses. The entire aging star is wrapped in energy metal plates, squeezing out the remaining energy.

Li Ming raised his foot slightly, and energy ripples appeared around him. With a loud bang, a violent storm arose, breaking the sound barrier and leaving behind a white air wave.

Ulrich followed closely behind. The warehouse was quite far away from the core base, but Li Ming could arrive there quickly at his current speed.

The square metal warehouse is extremely large and can be clearly seen even from space. It is made of high-strength alloy.

Mechanical patrols were constantly moving back and forth all around. Entering through the gate, densely packed mechanical bodies were lined up in front of us.

The royal court can now produce 200,000 D-class mechanical bodies and 10,000 C-class mechanical bodies every month.

Li Ming always has an extraordinary expectation for enlightening a mechanical body.

"I hope there will be more advanced mechanical bodies that mutate this time..." Li Ming stretched out his hand, blew into his mouth, and then stretched out his arm. Golden arcs suddenly burst out and spread to the entire machine array like a storm.

White arcs and blue arcs kept exploding, and the mechanical bodies within them evolved and reorganized.

Suddenly, a purple arc of electricity burst out, and Li Ming breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, my face is not so black this time."

The probability of a C-class mechanical body mutating into an A-class mechanical body is one in ten thousand. Logically speaking, there should be one in ten thousand.

But he didn't have a guaranteed mechanism, and there was really a situation where there were 10,000 C-class mechanical bodies, but not a single A-class mechanical body mutated.

Boom! Crack!

Suddenly, another purple arc appeared. Li Ming's eyes lit up. "My luck is so good this time. There are actually two of them?"

The mutation ended quickly. Li Ming made a rough count and found that a total of two A-level mechanical bodies and forty-four B-level mechanical bodies were mutated this time.

This ratio is generally considered to be good.

Currently, the entire Mechanical Royal Court has six A-class mechanical bodies, more than three hundred B-class mechanical bodies, fifty-four thousand C-class mechanical bodies, and more than three million D-class mechanical bodies.

There are more than 10,000 warships of various types, which is more than five or six times the size of half a year ago. The armed forces alone are comparable to that of an advanced civilization.

Now it has even begun to undertake some small-scale war jobs.

However, compared with those two master craftsmen, I'm probably just a fraction of theirs.

“I don’t know how powerful these machines can be when combined together.” Li Ming estimated. With the [Holy Spirit Core] in his hand, he had been thinking about it all the time.

However, because he has too few mechanical bodies under his command, even if they merge together, they may not be as powerful as he is.

It would be better to upgrade two mechanical guards with the 2 billion metal energies. He would not consider taking control in the short term.

After leaving these mechanical bodies to Ulrich, he left. More than half a year had passed, and the turmoil caused by the United Organization of Higher Life Forms had basically subsided.

It is still in a suspended state and has not been fully implemented.

On the one hand, it is because the Empire is deliberately delaying time to deal with the aftermath of Ryan. Until now, the garrison in the Starry Sea has not been completely withdrawn, and only about 10% remains.

During this period, Li Ming had exchanged information with Abel many times, and learned that the internal confrontation in the empire was quite fierce. Those garrisons that were withdrawn were basically all dispersed. Now the House of Lords was like being cut by a blunt knife, and its voice was not as strong as before.

"I guess it should land soon."

On the way, Li Ming was thinking that Mikhail had contacted him many times to discuss countermeasures.

The butcher knife is about to fall on the Machinists Association, he sighed secretly, and went back to work on the development progress.

Three days later, it will be the annual celebration of the Mechanical Royal Court. The Royal Court will be decorated with lights and colors, and will adopt the celebration style of Blue Star.

No one knows where Qinglong came from, we only know that Li Ming came from this civilization and naturally chose a similar celebration style.

The starports and fortresses in space all look festive, and the basic operations are basically handled by mechanical bodies, so it does not have any impact.

The hall of a base on the main star of Wangting was filled with tables and chairs, and filled with various life forms. It was noisy, yet lively.

The robots responsible for service shuttled back and forth, placing all kinds of food on the table and listening to various requests.

The Mechanical Royal Court is different from most of the forces in the Chaos Star Gap. This kind of scene usually only appears in the Order Civilization.

But the royal court basically only recruits business talents with management skills, and does not have any aggressive and fierce life forms. In addition, with Ulrich's management strategy, they get along quite well with each other.

(End of this chapter)