Final Lord

Chapter 336 Ugliness 01
"5500 gold coins, 20 crystals, 12 mercury..."

Wang Bufu threw the prepared resources one by one into the top of the fortress. The fortress began to shake rapidly.

Ten minutes later, the cloaca at the bottom of the fortress suddenly opened, and accompanied by a viscous lubricant, a shell-shaped machine with a pearly luster slid to the ground. It resembled the kite shield of an ancient knight, its surface covered with natural coral-like patterns, but its edges were as sharp as blades.

"Buzz——"

With high-frequency vibration, a pale blue ion stream suddenly shot out from the bottom of the machine, and the entire device hovered steadily at Wang Bufu's chest height. The coral patterns now glowed with a ghostly blue light, flickering like breathing.

"Machine Tool - Ugly, No. 01." The synthesized voice carried the ethereal quality unique to the deep sea, yet also contained a sharp edge of electronic sound. "Highest-level biometrics detected... Synchronizing data with the fortress... Synchronization complete."

Commander, Ugly 01 is reporting to you.

[Name: Machine Casing Tools - Ugly 01]
Occupation: Machine tool casing - Ugly

Rank: Extraordinary Tier 1, Level 1 (Extraordinary Species)
Racial Trait: Shelled Creature: Possesses some characteristics of mechanical creatures, including the ability to levitate and dive. When its health reaches zero, it does not die instantly but enters a damaged state. It will only truly die if it is attacked again while damaged and its health exceeds its maximum.

When injured or damaged, it can slowly repair itself naturally in the sea.

Attributes:
Life: 110/110
Attack: 22
Defense: 30
Speed: 12
Special skills: levitation, diving.

Ugly Shield: Gain 5 extra defense for every 10 points of health lost. This effect stacks infinitely during combat and only fades quickly after leaving combat.

Empowered Shell: When receiving magic damage, there is a 30% chance to become immune to damage and instead absorb the damage to restore the user's health.

Basic tool: Can sacrifice itself to repair other damaged hull units, restoring them to health equal to its remaining health.

Shell Call: Requires 100 health points to activate. Summons one shell unit (excluding "Shell Tool - Ugly") from a 1km radius behind you.

When Wang Bufu saw the attributes and special skills of the Machine Shell Tool - Ugly, only two words filled his mind - Supermodel.

A Tier 1 Extraordinary unit with the ability to stack defense infinitely, as well as an enchanted shell that counters magic, 22 attack, 30 defense, 110 health, and 12 speed!

It is amphibious, and also has the ability to repair and teleport teammates!

It's absolutely amazing!
“Interesting.” Wang Bufu’s fingertips lightly touched the ugly mechanical surface, immediately feeling a pulsating vibration emanating from beneath the shell. “Is there no upper limit to the defensive stacking of the Shield of Ugliness?”

“That’s how it is in theory, Commander.” 01’s voice suddenly became lively. “According to historical data, there have been Vicious units that have stacked up to 2786 defense points, which is enough to completely withstand the physical attacks of legendary units, and that still hasn’t reached the limit.”

However, the effect of the Shield of Ugliness requires activation or being attacked every five seconds to maintain; otherwise, it will rapidly diminish at a rate of half per second.

"Historical data!" Wang Bufu's eyes lit up: "Do you still have the data from the past? Including the data from the battles with the Sea God Kingdom?"

"Reporting to the commander, we have only retained a small portion of the core combat data," Ugly said. "Most of our data was stored in the City of Shells and has been lost."

"That's good too." Wang Bufu nodded in satisfaction.

"It's hard to imagine that the Ugly is actually the lowest-level unit of the Shell Empire, a cheap and mass-produced unit."

For human soldiers to reach the first level of the Extraordinary rank, it usually takes 5 years if they rely solely on training without fighting monsters.

Even so, most human Tier 1 superhuman units might not be able to defeat the Ugly.

"No wonder the Shell Empire can rival the Sea Kingdom," Wang Bufu thought to himself. "Ugly 01!" Wang Bufu said to his first shell unit.

"I am here! Commander, please give your orders." The ugly creature responded, its body glowing.

Wang Bufu said, "I order you to take charge of the production of your people. You may use the resources in the New Gru territory's resource warehouse at will."

Three hundred machine tool casings must be produced within two weeks. (Ugly.)

"Command received. Execute immediately?"

"Execute immediately!" Wang Bufu gave the order, and Ugly 01's body emitted a stream of light, quickly flying towards New Gru territory.

General Ed walked casually to Wang Bufu's side and said with admiration, "A mass-produced Tier 1 extraordinary unit can stack up to nearly three thousand points of defense. What a powerful mechanical unit. The Machine Shell Civilization is amazing."

Compared to them, my ice barrier army is hardly worth mentioning.

“Yes,” Wang Bufu sighed in agreement. “Beyond the tools, there are the unstable second-tier machine shell assemblers, the lustful third-tier machine shell archives, and the emotionless fourth-tier machine shell disks. Each one is more powerful than the last.”

However, it requires water to unlock.

General Ed seemed to have thought of something and asked, "Can hull units advance by gaining experience points in combat?"

“No,” Wang Bufu said. “Not only can they not advance, but they also cannot level up. They are very special. All experience points gained by the shell units in battle will be fed back to the shell fortress.”

Apart from the Ugly Shell Tool, all other shell units require experience points to manufacture.

I have no idea how those alchemists managed to create such an amazing mechanism; it's truly remarkable.

"Oh! So that's how it is!" General Ed suddenly realized: "I've always wondered why, since the Shell Empire can directly manufacture legendary units, they don't just manufacture a hundred or two hundred legendary units and wipe out the Sea God Kingdom. It turns out there's this kind of limitation."

General Ed thought for a moment and immediately gave his conclusion:

"Even so, this is a more advanced method of advancement than ours."

We flesh and blood units all have a death limit; if we die on the path to legend, all our previous efforts will be in vain.

However, hull units do not have this restriction. The death of lower-level units does not affect experience accumulation, making it much easier for hull units to produce legendary characters than for us.

Wang gave General Ed an admiring look.

As expected of a general, he saw the key point at a glance.

"General, I'll leave the hull fortress in your care for the time being. I have other matters to attend to."

“No problem.” General Ed agreed first, then looked at Wang Bufu with suspicion: “Young man, you have ice barrier groups, minotaurs, undead, and shell units all at once.”

I've always wanted to ask, what are you trying to do by releasing so many Legions?
Don't tell me it's to help me get revenge. If your army were fully formed, it could wipe out the Eagle Kingdom a hundred or eighty times over.

"Why do we need so many sledgehammers to kill a chicken?"

(End of this chapter)