This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 551 Upgrading and Manufacturing

"Of course, the most crucial thing is that the two divine craftsmen's deification of Azure Dragon obviously caused dissatisfaction among the Imperial Federation, and they released more information."

Anatoly couldn't help but sigh, "I am a little suspicious now. Maybe Qinglong is really the backup consciousness of the Hammer Forger."

"Mechanical Holy Spirit, this should be the second time I've seen it. The first time I saw it, it was just an insignificant little figure."

"That's all." Gutierrez said dissatisfiedly, "It seems like a lot, but we have already guessed a lot of information."

"Haven't you seen the problem of Qinglong's strength?"

"No, no..." Anatoly shook his head, "It's different."

"We have indeed seen it, but that is only one of Qinglong's methods. We don't know where his limit is."

"Although he is indeed very strong, at least I know his upper limit, so I am not so worried."

"Upper limit? Tell me about it?" Gutierrez did not comment.

"It's very simple. Just treat him as a hammersmith." Anatoly said bluntly: "The incident at Red River Star Stream was life-threatening. He must have played all his cards."

"The strength of the Mechanical Holy Spirit lies in the number and strength of the mechanical bodies. This has been verified on the Hammer Forger."

Anatoly said casually, "You can just use the plan you prepared to deal with the Hammer Forger on him. The effect will be the same. You can then grab the vice-chairman seat."

"Snatched?" Gutierrez's face was cold. "We are not going to attack Qinglong for the time being and give up the third seat."

"Give up?" Anatoly couldn't help but frown. "That's a vice-chairman seat. It's okay to give it a try."

Gutierrez stared at him coldly. "Why don't we look at the other deputy director seat? It should be much easier than dealing with the forging hammer."

Anatoly restrained his expression, paused, and then said with a smile: "Your Excellency can try."

"Dealing with Qinglong is not the goal. The goal is to find out what happened in the Red River Star Stream." Gustav, who had been silent, finally spoke.

Gutierrez snorted coldly: "Yes, this is also the reason why we support the expansion of higher life forms."

"The three great masters are under pressure from the Empire and the Federation. It is impossible for them to tell us. Their whereabouts are elusive and difficult to find. It is best to deal with one of the Empire and the Federation first."

Although the matter concerning the vice-chairman's seat was beyond our expectations, continuing to deal with Qinglong was not in line with our plan.

"Now that the higher life forms have taken shape, we can move on to the next step."

Hearing him say this, Anatoly's expression became more solemn. Gustav even said, "The Federation has been peaceful in recent years. There have been no major disturbances within the Federation, and the situation outside the Federation is also stable."

"If you want to cause trouble, you can only start with the Empire."

"That's right." Gutierrez agreed. "Adam is ambitious and intends to regroup, which has led to the empire's internal and external troubles in recent years."

"In other words, the establishment of the United Organization of Higher Life Forms has somewhat curbed the external disturbances, but the internal disturbances have never stopped."

"Where is the alchemist baron?" Anatoly asked suddenly.

Gutierrez frowned and said calmly: "We haven't found any clues yet. We can't keep chasing one line."

"Where are you going to start?" asked Gustave.

Gutierrez did not answer immediately. Instead, he glanced at the projections of the two people and said slowly, "Can I trust you?"

"We have always been your staunch allies," Anatoly said immediately.

Gutierrez did not comment, and said slowly: "We must stop whatever they want to do."

"The Star of Eternal Silence, and the Holy Castle."

Suddenly, Anatoly paused, looking at him with great enthusiasm.

Even Gustav's eyes were shining brightly.

"The relics of Terrax..." he said in a deep voice.

There is no need to say much about the Star of Eternal Silence. He is even more familiar with the Holy Castle, which can even be said to be one of the cornerstones of the rule of the three major civilizations.

"Yes." Gutierrez nodded. "Due to Adam's stupidity, the Star of Eternal Silence was lost, but they found clues again not long ago."

"As for the Saint Castle, it is another line that is in the charge of Prince Heckler. It seems to have recovered."

"The Holy Castle has revived again?" Anatoly was surprised, and then he thought, "As expected of the Empire, we didn't even receive any news."

Gutierrez ignored him and continued, "Finding the Holy Castle is too difficult. We are still investigating. We will not consider this matter in the short term. The Star of Eternal Silence is much simpler."

"In the deep dimensional world."

"The deep dimensional world." Greed surged uncontrollably in Gustav's heart, but he quickly suppressed it.

Anatoly was much more direct. "When do we start?"

Gutierrez shook his head. "We don't want to go to war with the Empire head-on, so we can only let the Higher Life Forms United Organization go."

"Using us as cannon fodder?" Anatoly frowned.

“What else?” Gutierrez shook his head and said faintly, “The Empire is now searching in full swing in the deep dimensional world. If we are a little slower, we might miss it.”

Anatoly stared at Gutierrez and cursed inwardly.

This bastard is really cunning. If he knew the news before the expansion, he would not dare to act rashly.

But now after the expansion, the number of members exceeds seventy, all of whom are X-level life forms. What a huge force this is.

So, as long as Gutierrez puts something in front of them, greed will drive them to go forward.

After all, that is the Star of Eternal Silence.

“Once we find it…” Gutierrez gave a stiff smile, “We will be on par with the three great civilizations, right before our eyes.”

After the words fell, even though the two knew that this was Gutierrez's rhetoric, their hearts skipped a beat.

.........

Mechanical Royal Court.

In the forging laboratory, Li Ming was in a good mood, humming a little tune with his arms raised.

A large lump of metal material in front of him was melted into liquid by the power of the [mechanical hand], and then quickly solidified into tiny parts and fell onto the metal conveyor belt.

At the end of the conveyor belt, there is a busy robotic arm that accurately picks up a small gear, gently places it in the predetermined position, and then quickly turns the screw.

At the same time, another robotic arm has handed over a slender metal shaft, which carefully passes through the layers of parts, fitting perfectly without any deviation.

Parts of various shapes and sizes are combined together in an orderly manner under the operation of the robotic arm.

The complex energy circuits are laid out as carefully as blood vessels, and each weld is completed in an instant.

In just two or three hours, a mechanical heart was gradually assembled, and the metallic luster sparkled under the light.

Get it, upgrade it, it's silky and smooth, and then he goes back to rubbing the parts by hand.

It took him twenty to thirty hours to complete the manufacturing and upgrading of the remaining eleven life power cores.

Looking at the mechanical heart icons arranged in sequence in the control bar, a sense of security arises spontaneously.

"It finally worked... As long as the metal has enough energy, I can keep hammering it down."

After admiring it for a while, Li Ming turned his attention to his main battle system. At present, there are still 3 billion metal energies and 6 portions of world blood left, which can upgrade at least three S-level control objects.

The first are naturally the two new control objects added to the system.

As metallic energy poured in, the world's blood mixed with it, and the whole thing transformed into a more dazzling silver-gold color, giving it new activity and abilities.

[Shadow Sky Combat Armor--Level X: A defensive combat armor that the master craftsman Li Ming customized for himself.

……

Control effect: Defense is increased by fifty times

Control Ability - Heavy Armor: Gain a hundred times the defense and gain the ability of "Instinct Virtualization". 】

[Instinct Void: When attacked, if the host does not react, it will consume 10% of its physical strength and passively enter the quantum virtual state, allowing attacks to pass through without causing damage.]

Can it be passively triggered? Li Ming was surprised. It didn't seem very good, but after thinking about it carefully, he was quite satisfied.

His original form was only an S-class life form. Even after going through the trials to become a king, his basic qualities far exceeded those of life forms at the same level, but there was still some gap.

At least, there is no need to worry about being ambushed, as the body has one less weakness.

Although the passive trigger consumes 10% of your physical strength, it is still worth it when you weigh the pros and cons.

Following closely is the [Nightmare Wreath], which mainly protects the spiritual body.

After the upgrade, the interlaced garland looks more delicate --
[Nightmare Wreath--X Level: A spiritual defense weapon customized for Li Ming, the master craftsman.

……

Control effect: Perception is enhanced one hundred times.

Control ability - Nightmare's Fury: Once the spirit body enters a state of loss of control, it will suffer 15% damage to its integrity and will be forcibly awakened. In the next second, it will be immune to and rebound against all mental attacks. 】

Hmm? Li Ming's eyes lit up slightly. He was upgraded to level X. Although he lost 5% of his integrity, his ability was greatly improved.

It adds an additional one-second immunity after awakening, and also gains the ability to passively counterattack.

He had always wanted to come up with a method of mental attack to kill people without them being seen. The thought of it was quite exciting.

However, after careful consideration, he gave up this plan.

He is not good at this, and he certainly cannot kill others with the same level of mental attack.

We can't just create a set of controls specifically for the spiritual system, as that would be a bit of a sacrifice of purpose for profit and would make us lose interest.

Now that he has made up for this problem, he is quite fond of this ability of "hitting me is equivalent to hitting himself".

It's just this perception blessing that's not very useful.

Li Ming thought that in fact, this [Nightmare Wreath] could be replaced after he possessed the tank guard, mainly as a mental defense when he was in the form of someone else.

"We can add some other things, or put the Earthshaker back."

Li Ming thought briefly, but he did not use the last billion metal energies to upgrade the [Earth-Shaking Fist].

Instead, he took out the [Magnetic Crystal Heavy Domain], a special control object to assist him in developing gene seeds, which was actually used very frequently.

There are two functions. The first is gravity coverage, which passively stimulates cell activity.

The other is the built-in development force field, which is enough to improve his development efficiency by 10%.

This materialized development force field can still be used. Although it cannot be superimposed, it is one of the few additional means to increase development efficiency.

Currently, ten thousand times the gravity can no longer oppress him, and the upgrade is just around the corner, with billions of metal energies flowing like water.

[Magnetic Crystal Heavy Domain--X Level: Specially designed gravity field blockade training equipment.

Control effect: Super magnetic crystal

Control ability - Gravity field adjustment: lock the target, increase the normal gravity by up to 100,000 times, and be affected by the "development stance". 】

[Super Energy Magnetic Crystal: Any action cost of locking the target increases by 40%]

[Development stance: Within the gravity coverage area, development efficiency increases by 30%, and materialization can also play a role, which cannot be superimposed. ]

Development efficiency has increased from 10% to 30%?
Li Ming was quite satisfied and thought it was just doubled.

The overall capabilities have undergone a transformation. It is no longer a regional coverage, but a direct lock on the target, which is much more convenient.

Not only can it assist in development, it can also be considered an excellent suppressive control object.

A 40% activity loss is already terrible.

In just a few moments, the metal energy in his body was completely consumed.

I still have three portions of World Blood left. I will accumulate some metal energy and then see what to upgrade.

In other words, if you want to store it, at least 800 million metal energies will be needed to support one round of repair of the [Life Power Core].

Li Ming couldn't help but sigh in his heart. There is never too much metal energy and it has always been in short supply.

However, after glancing at the filled control column, with more X-level controls than could be read in a single page, I still felt a sense of accomplishment.

He wondered, "I just don't know what materials are needed to upgrade to the ultimate control object."

The controlled objects cannot be upwardly compatible. If he becomes the ultimate life form and the level of the controlled objects has not caught up, then he will be in trouble.

As he thought about it, he suddenly shook his head again, "...Ha, you're not even an X-level life form yet, take your time."

Coming out of the forging laboratory, Li Ming opened the smart terminal and checked Wang Ting's specific situation. "A while ago, a new batch of contracts were signed. Wang Ting had to invest a lot in advance. The metal energy provided will be difficult to increase in a short period of time."

Today, the tentacles of the Mechanical King's Court have extended to more than a hundred star clusters and are in the early stages of investment.

To form a positive cycle, even with the help of multiple parties, it will probably take about half a year.

"You can't eat hot tofu if you are impatient." Li Ming was very patient about this, and glanced at Sheffield who had sent him another progress report.

Originally, the report was made once a month, but since the last expansion meeting, the reporting time has been shortened to half a month.

Sheffield sent him several pictures and text charts, which seemed to be to facilitate his understanding, and he also thoughtfully provided data progress.

"…The required limb remains have been extracted to about 35%…"

"Three months, 35%, not bad." Li Ming took a quick look.

"… We have tried various materials such as alien extract and Bodor solution. We have determined that the superstring stripping agent can barely achieve the effect of gene extraction. We have contacted the manufacturer "Victoria Company" to find a way to increase the concentration…"

Seeing this, he couldn't help but frown and contacted an external company...

He looked carefully and saw that what Sheffield was talking about was a gene-dissolving material.

Tygos' body is too hard and unresponsive to many substances.
The superstring stripping agent has been tested and has the best effect.

However, Yeyue Biological Company is not good at producing this kind of medicine and can only purchase it on a customized basis from other companies.

He shook his head helplessly. It was just a matter of purchasing medicine, so there shouldn't be any problem. Interstellar had never had experience in formulating gene seeds of this strength, so they could only experiment step by step.

After reading Sheffield's report, he checked Blackbeard's report again. After reading only a few lines, he paused. His expression changed and his brows furrowed: "...Time and space riot..."

(End of this chapter)