I became a god through frontier slaughter, and I crushed the academy's prodigies!

Chu Feng rubbed his hands excitedly, pointing to the mountains of dark purple metal debris.

"Guard Shen, a rough estimate suggests that the extraordinary metal extracted from these 100,000 killing puppets is at least 60,000 tons! And the portable signal amplifiers carried by those Purple Spirit Clan mind masters have extremely complete miniature spirit pattern arrays; with slight modifications, they can be used on our heavy fortresses!"

Shen Tian looked at the endless convoy of heavy transport vehicles in front of him.

The tracks rolled over the scorched earth, producing a dull rumble.

With his gaze slightly lowered, Shen Tian summoned the system panel that only he could see.

Kill Points: 4,725,300

The numbers were not static; they were jumping wildly at a dizzying speed.

Every second, the value would surge by hundreds or even thousands of points.

This enormous profit comes from far more than just the Jiangcheng battlefield that has been completely leveled.

At this moment, Tianyun Prefecture is like a massive war machine, operating at full capacity.

In Jiangcheng and Fengcheng, 20,000 soldiers of the Po Jun Division had just joined forces to annihilate the 100,000-strong vanguard army of the Zi Ling Clan.

Meanwhile, outside the defensive lines of the other six major cities, deafening artillery fire also tore through the sky.

Rock City Defense Zone.

Zhao Kuang was shirtless, and a layer of dark red blood energy flowed across the surface of his bulging muscles.

He stood on a small hill made up of the corpses of strange beasts, dragging a heavy horse-slaying sword with one hand.

Before him surged low-level alien beasts like a black tide.

There was no fear, no retreat.

Three thousand Po Jun Si warriors from Yan City lined up behind Zhao Kuang, each with bloodthirsty red eyes.

In front of them stood five hundred heavily armed fortresses lined up in a row.

"Fire!" Zhao Kuang's roar pierced through the screen.

Two thousand energy-concentrating cannons simultaneously lit up with a blinding, eerie blue light.

The next instant, terrifying beams of energy intertwined to form an impenetrable net of death fire, slamming into the center of the beast horde.

Dark red mushroom clouds rose one after another from the horde of beasts, and violent physical shockwaves blew groups of strange beasts into the air.

Immediately afterwards, tens of thousands of Exploding Spiders frantically climbed up the limbs of the alien beast.

With a series of muffled explosions, the heads of countless high-level alien beasts burst open from the inside, and the scarlet blood rained down, staining the entire wasteland a dazzling dark red.

Absolute firepower crushing.

Six major cities, six meat grinder-like battlefields.

With the blessing of Shen Tian's 1% attribute sharing and the [Undying God-Demon Body], the warriors of the Po Jun Division transformed into killing machines, working in conjunction with the Tian Gong Division to continuously send war puppets to the front lines.

Those beast tides that once struck fear into the hearts of humankind have been transformed into a series of easy harvesting games.

The firelight was reflected in Shen Tian's eyes.

This is exactly the form of warfare he wanted to see.

The Dragon Kingdom's past war strategy relied on warriors using their flesh and blood to fill gaps in the defenses.

The training of a martial artist requires more than a decade of time and a vast amount of resources, but on the battlefield, often all that investment can be wiped out by a single attack from a high-level beast.

But now, Tianyun Prefecture has completely abandoned this backward and brutal war of attrition.

They traded steel for lives, and used assembly lines to combat reproductive power.

Standardized parts, modular assembly, plus a network of spirit signal towers.

No high-level mind masters are needed; all that is required is to sit safely in the rear, and thousands upon thousands of mechanical creations will charge into the enemy lines one after another.

The industrial mobilization capabilities of the infrastructure powerhouse have unleashed a terrifying effect in this world of extraordinary power, akin to a dimensional reduction attack.

Despite facing enemies from all directions, Tianyun Prefecture not only showed no signs of weakness, but instead grew stronger and richer with each battle.

The Purple Spirit Clan delivered high-purity extraordinary metals and spirit rune technology, while the alien beasts delivered mountains of alien beast materials and massive amounts of kill points.

This war machine is devouring any enemy that dares to approach, transforming them into even greater kinetic energy.

Chu Feng interrupted Shen Tian's train of thought.

"Shen Qinwei, there's a very real problem."

"We can't eat anymore."

"Tiangongsi's production capacity has reached its limit."

"For the past two weeks, the mines in Jiangcheng and Fengcheng have been delivering tens of thousands of tons of raw ore every day. Now, in addition to these 60,000 tons of high-purity scrap metal that we seized from the Ziling Clan, the temperature of the three hundred blast furnaces in the underground space of the Tiangong Division has not dropped for seventy-two consecutive hours."

He zoomed in on one of the surveillance videos. In the video, molten iron was rushing along the production line, and several mentalists were pale-faced, their hands trembling as they inscribed spiritual runes.

"We have too many raw materials."

As the scale of the war continued to expand, a single Tiangong Division indeed seemed far too weak.

Shen Tian shifted his gaze from the screen, sweeping it across the endless wilderness stretching to the horizon.

Vast resources that cannot be converted into immediate combat power are nothing more than a pile of scrap metal.

Xu Daozhen cut off Tianyun Prefecture's resource allocation for three years, and the Ziling Clan's army could launch a counterattack at any time.

With its current underground workshops covering only a few dozen square kilometers, the Tiangong Division is simply not capable of supporting a full-scale war that would affect the entire territory of Tianyun Prefecture.

What he needs is a steel torrent strong enough to overwhelm the monster horde, an overwhelming swarm of mechanical insects, and true industrial hegemony.

"The Heavenly Crafts Bureau is too small."

Shen Tian turned around and quickly swiped his finger across the screen to bring up a topographical map of Tianyun City.

A beam of pale blue light pierced the air, outlining the contours of mountains and cities.

Shen Tian put two fingers together and drew a huge circle next to the existing location of the Heavenly Crafts Bureau.

The area of ​​this circle is more than ten times that of the current Tiangong Division, encompassing a vast expanse of desolate, uninhabited land.

"If you can't eat it all, then stretch your stomach."

"Anyway, we now have the ability to expand our territory."

Shen Tian looked at Chu Feng, his voice steady.

"Begin the expansion plan. Build another city next to the Tiangong Division. A city specifically for military manufacturing."

Chu Feng gasped, his pupils contracting sharply.

Build a city? Just to create puppets, build a city straight from the ground?

This completely overturned Chu Feng's understanding.

Within the existing system of the Dragon Kingdom, the Heavenly Crafts Bureau will always be an entity dependent on the city.

"Shen, Guard Shen..."

Chu Feng stammered and swallowed.

This idea was bold, but it excited Chu Feng.

"Building a factory isn't difficult; with engineering automatons, leveling the land and erecting the framework only takes a few days. But... where are the people?"

"The core of the war puppet is the spirit rune array, which machines cannot do. All the spirit masters in our Heavenly Crafts Division combined are less than a thousand, and they are already working around the clock. Even if we build a new city and create more production lines, it won't work without spirit masters to inscribe the spirit runes."

This is a very real bottleneck.

Mentalists are already rare among humans; perhaps only one in a thousand will emerge.

Shen Tian's expression remained unchanged, as if he already had a plan.

"A high-level mage is not needed."

Shen Tian spoke up,

"Those fourth and fifth-rank masters are too proud and arrogant; they wouldn't be good enough to be assembly line workers. We need first and second-rank masters, and even apprentices who have just awakened their spiritual power and haven't received their rank certification yet."

"Disassemble the spirit rune array of the war golem."

Shen Tian gestured with his hands in the air.

"A heavy fortress requires one hundred and twenty spirit runes to be inscribed. Don't let one person inscribe all one hundred and twenty. Divide it into one hundred and twenty processes, with each person only responsible for inscribing the simplest one. Repeat, mechanically repeat."

A thought flashed through Chu Feng's mind: Assembly line work!

This will greatly reduce the mental strength required of the chanter.

"But even among low-level Nen Masters, there aren't nearly enough of them."