Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 380 A Tough Project
In a huge valley within Sokovia.

The factories and residents that originally lived here had all been emptied and relocated a year ago.

This valley has long since been transformed into a heavily fortified military stronghold.

Its security was so tight that in this heavily guarded military location, one could hardly see any ordinary human beings.

Whether it's transporting various materials or operating construction equipment such as large cranes, everything is mainly carried out by a variety of Hello Engineering robots of different colors.

In the center of this canyon base, two 'buildings' stand out the most.

One of them is a colossal object that is nearly two kilometers long, with its outer shell made entirely of pure metal, resembling both a building and a machine.

In another, smaller location, there was a completely black, somewhat dilapidated alien spaceship.

At this moment, the outer sides of these two giant creations, one large and one small, were covered with vast stretches of structural buildings, with countless factory robots swarming over them, busily working without stopping.

In the outermost areas, there are even many machinery factories that are constantly roaring.

Large quantities of raw materials were continuously transported into these factories, where they were then processed into all sorts of strange components and delivered to the two giant creations like an assembly line.

At this moment, focus your attention on the smaller black spaceship wreckage.

A soft popping sound came from the inside of a broken section of the ship's hull.

Immediately afterward, amidst a series of alarm sounds, a disheveled Luca quickly emerged from within.

"Cough cough cough~ Damn it! Those Dark Elves are such idiots! A perfectly good pulse engine, and they made it all so fancy, like some kind of greenskin technology!"

He ignored the Hello robots that were quickly passing by to put out the fire.

Luca leaped out from the gap in the spaceship, which was dozens of meters high, and landed steadily on the ground.

However, before he could even take a breath of the fresh air around him...

The next moment, Orange Haro, who had also jumped out from the wreckage of the dark elf warship, flapped his big ears and smashed them directly onto his head.

"Boom~"

There was a muffled sound.

"Stupid Luca! Stupid elf!"

Luca, who was hit on the head by a 'falling object' from dozens of meters high, showed no signs of distress. He simply caught the small object as it bounced up and held it back in his arms.

"Be careful~"

After casually patting the little guy, Luca didn't say anything more about it.

With his body nowadays spending a few days in the dimensional battlefield every now and then to receive Hextech energy infusion and enhancement, this little thing's impact really doesn't hurt or itch at all.

Turning his head to look at the wreckage of the warship that had stopped smoking, Luca temporarily abandoned the idea of ​​continuing to study dark elf technology.

That's right, the purpose of establishing this military base was to find the wreckage of this dark elf mothership.

Or to be more precise, it was the preliminary work done to synthesize [Macross SDF-1].

Luca's original plan was that once the base was established and all the supporting industrial equipment in the vicinity was ready, he would use it to craft the materials needed to synthesize [SDF-1] while also researching the technology contained in the wreckage of the dark elf mothership. This would save him from having to wait until the mothership wreckage disappeared after the synthesis was completed, leaving him with nothing to research.

However, as the project progressed, Luca gradually realized that he seemed to have overestimated his own abilities.

Although with Luca's current knowledge, he is no longer the fake inventor who could only rely on Harrow to save face.

Even on this Marvel planet, he would definitely be considered one of the top scientists.

However, the reality is that neither of his anticipated goals has progressed very smoothly.

The first step is to reverse engineer the technology from the wreckage of the Dark Elf mothership.

After getting to know them better, Luca realized that while the technology these grey-skinned people possessed seemed incredibly high-tech, with spaceships, warships, light guns, and grenades, its essence was utterly absurd.

While they share some common technological elements, they are also mixed with a large amount of weird and wonderful stuff like theology, magic, runes, and prayers.

Fortunately, Luca himself had some expertise in demonology and dimensional technology; otherwise, let alone reverse engineering the technology, he would have had some difficulty even understanding the theoretical basis of dark elf technology.

If Luca could understand the idea of ​​reinforcing the energy conduit's capacity by engraving a magic array, then...

That thing about being able to exponentially increase the computing power of a runic brain through sincere prayer to the ether in the Dark Realm, thereby manifesting a stable black hole engine—that's what it's all about.
All Luca could say was that he understood the text.
As for the simultaneous development of [SDF-1] crafting materials.

Everything else is relatively easy to handle. Various types of artillery, missiles, combat robots, etc., do not require special manufacturing. Luca's stockpile of weapons is quite abundant in order to cope with the battle on the dimensional battlefield.

With 198 transformable fighter jets, Luca, through several attempts, developed a prototype that could pass the Golden Finger test at the lowest cost and began mass production.

The most awkward ones are 'one super-large particle main gun' and 'four large electromagnetic railguns'.

The terms 'extra-large' and 'large' sound rather vague.

Initially, Luca actually wanted to cut corners and produce only things that were tens of meters in size, trying to fool his own magic touch.

Logically speaking, a cannon of this size would definitely be considered a 'super-large weapon' on Earth. If Luca didn't have a compression device like the [dehydration gun], it would require a special train track just for transportation.

As a result, the system's judgment gave absolutely no feedback, and even several attempts to add an extra 'shell' to pass it off as genuine failed.

In the end, Luca could only throw these 'pieces' into the dimensional battlefield, using them as regular weapons to consume Hellfire's energy, firing a couple of shots at the demons whenever he felt like it.

Left with no other choice, Luca had to create a giant particle cannon that was hundreds of meters long, according to the standard reserved in the magic circle.

As a result, this 'main gun,' which might only be able to fire once before completely disintegrating and whose power was rather lackluster, successfully passed the test.

Now, the only remaining challenge is the 'humanoid deformable mechanical skeleton over 1500 meters tall'.

"Hey"

Looking at the huge construction site in the distance, which covered more than ten square kilometers, even Luca himself couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

"I hope it works out."

"Such a large project, if it fails to pass the assessment again, then demolition and reconstruction will probably take several more years."

(End of this chapter)