Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 307 Freebies, Performance, Delayed Retirement

Their consciousness returned, and they stepped through the golden portal back into New York.

However, Luca was still thinking about his last conversation with the Ancient One.

'That old guy truly lives up to his reputation as a seasoned deadbeat; he's really taken getting something for nothing to the extreme!'

The reason for this sentiment is Luca's final question.

Where will the troops come from?

According to the Ancient One, the Hextech Dimension is still in its infancy and does not yet have its own native creatures.

However, the dimensional battlefield does not necessarily require native creatures to participate in the battle, and the lack of exclusive 'Hextech lifeforms' is not entirely a bad thing for Luca.

The existence of the 'Dimensional Battlefield' is precisely to promote the fusion of two different dimensions.

Therefore, when beings from both dimensions die on the battlefield, they immediately decompose and become nutrients.

The same principle applies to energy dissipation. Even inanimate matter itself, while not instantly disappearing, will decay rapidly under the influence of the opposing energies on the battlefield, eventually transforming into energy and gradually merging into the dimensional battlefield.

This is why the fighting style of these dimensional demons' minions often appears somewhat primitive and crude.

Existence time is only one aspect; more importantly, a life form that uses its own physical body and energy will be instantly digested if it dies on the dimensional battlefield, and the user can at least recover half of the energy.

Bringing complex material weapons to the battlefield could easily result in a small-scale failure, causing the weapons to fall directly into enemy hands and allowing the enemy to snowball their advantage even faster.

However, if it is something external that does not belong to these two dimensions, then it is a different story.

The dimensional battlefield itself naturally welcomes all comers.

When foreign matter dissipates in the dimensional battlefield, it can actually be digested, and it simultaneously strengthens the two dimensions in which the battlefield itself exists.

However, digesting this power that does not belong to oneself takes time, and the digestion speed varies between different substances.

The fastest digestible energy is naturally the unclaimed energy that dissipates on the battlefield.

The rate at which this energy is consumed is roughly equivalent to the energy itself in both dimensions.

Lasers, magic, and souls mostly belong to this level.

However, matter with physical form is different from energy.

The physical bodies of dead organisms need to undergo decomposition and slowly integrate into the earth. Harder materials such as metal and stone can often withstand the test of time for decades or even centuries before being devoured in dimensional battlefields.

Perfectly! Luca's forte is manufacturing weapons of war.

Moreover, the materials consumed in manufacturing these weapons of war can be mined entirely from Earth.

At that time, this battlefield where battles rage between the Hell dimension and the Hell dimension may very well become...

After the demon in your house dies, it turns into energy, which we split in half between our two dimensions.

After my robots were destroyed, the dimensional battlefield was temporarily unable to process them. Once I bring them back, repair and recharge them, I can send them back to the battlefield to fight again.

'Yes, if it's Yuri Technology, they can do the same thing not only with mechanical creations, but also with cyborgs.'

Luca even considered using mind technology to control some hellish demons on the battlefield and then dumping them into the 'troop recycling center' to convert them into 'funds'.

'Then, when the troops are built with funds, will they be considered dimensional beings? Or extraterrestrial matter?' Luca could only sigh at this model where the other side was almost unilaterally funding the war between the two sides.

'The Ancient One truly lives up to her reputation as an expert at getting things for free!'

That's right, Luca has decided to take on this war and has decided to send the 'Yuri base vehicle' to establish a front as the main force on the battlefield.

After all, the very existence of the 'Yuri base vehicle' is for the purpose of quickly setting up front-line positions.

Using New York's terrain as a battlefield isn't actually that big. If it were a direct confrontation with the entire Hell Dimension, Luca might hesitate a bit.

But given that this is just a 'local battlefield' against them, and they have units like the 'Yuri Tech Tree' that can recycle and reuse resources, there's no reason for Luca not to try and engage them!
'At worst, we can just give up the Hextech Dimension if we lose; it's better than handing it over outright.'

Of course, Luka still needs to carefully plan how to play.

As the original [Yuri Base Vehicle] Luca, who possessed the power to spread concepts, would definitely not be sent to such a dangerous battlefield. If it were damaged, he would probably be heartbroken for a long time.

However, with the resources available to Luca, creating several new replicas of the 'Yuri base vehicle' would be no problem at all.

'Build several more, deploy some on the dimensional battlefield, and reserve a few in the Hextech Dimension as a precaution.'

'However, once we get back, we still need to make some targeted adjustments to the units and weapons sent to the dimensional battlefield. At the very least, we must optimize the energy weapons, and it would be best to make some more equipment that can detect the enemy's energy level.'

According to the rules of the 'Dimensional Battlefield', once the energy attack dissipates, the two sides will split the damage equally.

If energy itself is quantified, a high-energy-consuming attack like 'Destroyer Arrow' is worth 100, but in the end, it kills some enemies whose total energy value is only a dozen points, and Luca, who launched the attack, actually suffers a huge loss.

Similarly, the feasibility of recovering live-fire weapons also needs to be considered.

If the recovery rate is less than 50%, and it takes manpower to clear the battlefield, then it is not as cost-effective as energy attack.

"Oh, and the portals. Although that old guy, the Ancient One, agreed to send a group of Kamar-Taj sorcerers to help, if we can figure out how teleportation works, it'll be more convenient to create our own dimensional portals."

Since Kamar-Taj sorcerers who use magic are basically at a complete loss when they enter the dimensional battlefield, even the intervention of a powerful figure like the Ancient One is equivalent to giving energy to two more dimensions for nothing.

Therefore, Kamar-Taj may only serve as a gateway for Luca's upcoming war.

'Technology upgrades, production capacity expansion, base establishment... hmm. Ideally, we should also select a commander who can be permanently stationed on the dimensional battlefield. Looks like we'll have quite a few things to do next.'

As Luca pondered his next move, he stepped back onto the temporary research vessel Tony had assigned to him and Banner off the coast of New York.

What he didn't know was that after he left, the Ancient One was actually in a good mood as well.

Outside Earth's space, after receiving the message from her clone, the Ancient One showed a satisfied expression.

'Another impressive new achievement. Looks like I'll have to postpone my retirement!'

'Hmm~ But we can still find an opportunity to bring Strange back to Kamar-Taj first.'

'Although he's not yet capable of participating in a massive project like completely eradicating Hell, training him early will allow him to better handle these daily tasks later on.'

As she pondered this, Gu Yi released her right hand and began to stroke her golden hair.

Only when the chains binding the enemy vibrated did she grasp them again and give them a strong shake.

"Stop fooling around! I'm thinking about something!"

(End of this chapter)