Emperor of Arcane

As a super-large magical creation, the cost of building a floating city is beyond imagination.

This thing is not just a gold-eating monster, it can eat anything.

Dozens or hundreds of kilograms of thorium, it can be used whenever it is needed.

Thousands of kilograms of refined gold, I don’t know where they are spent.

The super magic materials calculated in tons are simply heartbreaking.

Not to mention the various manpower costs, the investment of a large number of new technologies, and the construction of various magic arrays and facilities.

For a mage lord at the level of a duke, the cost of building a floating city can drain the resources of the entire territory.

Even for ordinary kingdoms, it is definitely a matter that will seriously damage their vitality.

But for the Gulf Territory, this is not something unacceptable.

The huge investment and consumption, with the current ability of the Gulf Territory to earn resources, only accounts for 1/3 of the total.

Even if the entire continuous investment and construction process lasts for 6 to 9 months, the Gulf Territory will not be under too much pressure.

Compared to the Karl family, sucking blood from the entire Karl Plain, it took the family hundreds or thousands of years of accumulation, and it took five or six years to barely build a frame for the floating city.

There are still many things inside that need to be filled and improved.

The most important thing is that as the leader, the great arcanist Karsus must also devote himself to it all the time.

Compared with Matthew's comfort and comfort, it is completely incomparable.

The more important point is that the Gulf Territory has invested so much resources and money.

In exchange, it has improved the development technology, expanded hundreds of production lines, strengthened thousands of production processes, and even the technical progress and high bonuses of hundreds of thousands of workers.

This implicit improvement and strengthening is obviously more important than the discussion of the purpose of the first floating city.

After discussing with everyone, I finally chose a result that was not unexpected to Matthew-war weapons!

For now, there is still considerable room for development in all aspects of the Gulf Territory.

Especially the increasing number of territories, a large number of professionals, and increasingly amazing students.

No matter which aspect the floating city takes, it will bring some improvement, but it will not bring about fundamental changes.

Whether on the ground, underground, or even in the sea, the production factories, research institutes, and living areas of the Gulf Territory are being rapidly developed and expanded.

And if you want to protect the Gulf Territory and continue to develop rapidly, you must have a stronger military force to protect everything.

All commanders and managers of the Gulf Territory understand that the Gulf Territory, which has caused so many things, already has many enemies.

The Kingdom of Cole Elf, which is being dragged down by the Gulf Territory's "civil strife plan" and "diverting troubles to the east".

Many sects are rapidly recovering their strength and trying to compete for influence and more believers.

The Naga Empire, which has occupied a considerable area of ​​​​sea and is rebuilding its civilization system and manufacturing and learning various production tools.

A huge number of Japanese pirates who are endless to kill and destroy.

Although they are willing to cooperate with the Gulf Territory now, they may turn against the major territories and kingdoms of the northern continent at any time.

Even in the half plane occupied by the Gulf Territory, there are still many hostile forces.

These guys are now harboring ill intentions towards the prosperity and various technologies of the Gulf Territory. The reason why they did not declare war publicly is because the Gulf Territory’s army can fight, right?

In this case, strengthening military force is always the first choice!

Matthew affirmed their sobriety, nodded with a smile, and continued:

"Since you have chosen to build a war fortress, let’s build the strongest war fortress!"

"The territory needs a powerful fortress that can operate stably and play a role in any situation."

Any situation!

It must operate stably!

And it must play a role!

The big guys who accepted this task were immediately excited.

They put the basic structure of the floating city back on, and made a comprehensive redivision of the regional settings, preparing to arrange more weapons for the floating city fortress.

Designing a large-scale war fortress, considering various situations and different opponents’ defense settings and attack preparations, is the key problem they have to overcome.

Their discussion is not aimless.

But according to the various enemies and possible situations.

Conduct precise and tedious discussions to ensure that there are corresponding emergency preparations.

For example, if they encounter a real dragon or flying unit that is almost as powerful as Yaya, with a huge body, super high defense, extremely fast speed, and extraordinary attack power.

How should the protection of the war fortress be arranged?

What kind of defensive weapons should be prepared? Counterattack means?

For example, they encounter a large number of distorted flying dragons.

They are numerous, have excellent defense-breaking capabilities, and can attack from all directions.

What kind of countermeasures can be prepared?

What kind of cleaning and killing weapons should be prepared?

In addition to combat issues, security tasks and work are also very important.

They must consider various situations.

Lost power!

How to deal with emergencies when the floating city is rapidly descending?

When in a demiplane or area where elemental energy is scarce, how to ensure the continuous operation and combat effectiveness of the fortress?

When encountering an enemy where conventional weapons are useless, what countermeasures are there?

If the battle lasts too long, the floating city's material reserves will be exhausted.

What are the ways to recover quickly? Or prevent such situations from happening?

Various problems and difficulties that need to be solved have brought them new thoughts.

They do not think that the various problems and situations discussed by the Lord and others are making things difficult for them.

The commanders of the Gulf Territory who are familiar with history, have read a lot of materials, have been in contact with many wars, and have commanded many operations are all clear.

These situations will definitely occur.

As long as the time is long enough, no matter how small the probability of an event is, it will definitely happen.

The key to the problem is.

After these situations occur, are there corresponding defense measures?

Or can these defense measures take effect as soon as possible.

Small problems become bad situations, and bad situations become major disasters. The longer the problems are delayed, the bigger and more serious they become.

This situation is common!

And their discussion is to solve this problem.

It is better to be prepared than not to be prepared.

It is better to have a plan than to have no idea what to do.

Their discussion lasted for several days.

One problem after another was solved with the cooperation of various technologies, machinery, tools, and professional capabilities in the Gulf Territory.

What they have to do next is to manually "manufacture" various situations and further verify the various methods they have discussed.

What needs to be improved will be improved.

What needs to be strengthened will be strengthened.

If it cannot be solved temporarily, throw it out.

Let other more professional people study and solve it.

The speed of solving problems in the Gulf Territory is so fast.

The reason for such an effect is the improvement and constraints of various systems, the convenience brought by the accurate implementation of rules and laws, and the zero tolerance for corruption and selfish greed.

The Gulf Territory may never be able to eradicate such situations.

However, the Gulf Territory can always find the bugs in time and then crush them to death as quickly as possible.

The location of the Gulf Territory's experimental process is specially placed in the dangerous Catachan demiplane that needs the floating city to play.

Since the first pioneering war, the Gulf Territory's control of the Catachan demiplane has never been effectively expanded.

Not only because various distorted monsters began to appear on a large scale, but also because the twisted jungle of the Catachan demiplane is becoming more and more powerful.

Taller trees!

Larger scale!

Stronger recovery ability!

More energy storage!

This has nurtured more legendary distorted monsters!

The birth of various new weapons in the Gulf Territory is inseparable from the high-intensity actual combat environment of the Catachan demiplane.

Fortunately, although the Gulf Territory cannot go out anytime and anywhere, the twisted jungle is indeed indispensable.

Not only because of the research and improvement of various weapons and equipment in the Gulf Territory, but also because the Gulf Territory has absorbed more and more Catachan warriors and personnel.

Especially those adventurers who dare to fight here for a long time have made a qualitative leap in both strength and wealth.

Correspondingly, the number and strength of various distorted monsters are constantly changing and improving.

Especially with the arrival of the elemental tide.

Various large distorted creatures are increasing, and even giant distorted creatures have appeared.

Although the giant distorted creature did not have time to show its power, it was destroyed by the attack of the dragon tooth missile.

But it is certain that the number of giant distorted creatures will increase next time.

The huge defense pressure and the need to find corresponding solutions have become a problem for the commanders of the Gulf Territory in the Catachan demiplane.

How to solve these problems?

They have considered using various fighters, even mechanical dragon bombers.

However, if they only rely on bombing attacks, after destroying the first batch of giant distorted creatures discovered.

The Twisted Jungle has placed the production sites of giant distorted creatures in underground caves.

Although the Gulf Territory has developed some new missiles that can drill into the ground to kill.

However, it is undoubtedly very uneconomical to compete with the Twisted Jungle for resources in this way.

But if ground troops are sent to quickly project power over a distance of hundreds of kilometers, there is great uncertainty and danger.

Now, they finally have a way!

A floating fortress that can stay in the air for a long time, carry a large number of combat units, carry out long-term long-distance fixed-point projection, and reserve a large amount of resources, can fight to support war, and is not afraid of consuming combat.

With a war fortress, the Gulf Territory can carry out long-distance and large-scale combat and strikes.

The twisted jungle can indeed be cultivated and expanded underground.

But in that case, the efficiency will be reduced by dozens of times, and the Gulf Territory would like them to do so.

December 15.

Catachan demiplane.

Volcano fortress.

Hundreds of heavy excavation equipment are working at the same time, piling up soil and rocks and sending them into a giant mechanical device as big as a crater.

This giant mechanical device named "Taotie's Mouth" has a huge diameter of 500 meters and can handle hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of soil and rocks every day.

It has powerful automated and integrated capabilities such as manufacturing high-strength magic cement, extracting and mining minerals and preliminary processing, and designing and manufacturing large military fortresses.

It is precisely because of its existence that the Bay Territory will blatantly build the Volcano Fortress in the crater, just to declare to the Twisted Jungle:

"I am making trouble, and it will definitely pose a huge threat to you."

"If you disagree, you'd better stand up now, either take action or protest."

"Protesting will not have any effect, and I have been waiting for a long time to take action."

And as more and more parts of the floating city are built, its size is also becoming larger and larger.

In order to capture such a large fortress.

Will the Twisted Jungle produce and develop more terrifying giant distorted monsters.

In order to better launch an attack from the ground?

Once the other party makes arrangements in this regard and changes in resource investment.

Then the Bay Territory will make a lot of money!

The floating fortress can fly!

December 17.

Densely packed distorted monsters approached the volcanic fortress.

Even if they are 30 kilometers away, they have long been seen by the Bay Territory.

In order to prevent distorted monsters and twisted jungles, complete various unpredictable mutations and evolutions.

The Gulf Territory has only updated the strength and performance of various weapons, further improved efficiency, and has not caused much change in the way of fighting.

Nor have they used rockets and missiles other than light and heavy artillery.

More importantly, they are training the cooperation of combat soldiers, actual combat capabilities, and completing the improvement and improvement of existing weapons and equipment.

At the same time, this is also a testing ground for the computing center to participate in combat.

The current combat method of the Gulf Territory is undergoing a diversified and three-dimensional transformation.

With the help of the computing center, a large number of computing tasks can be answered quickly, and modularization and systematization can be greatly improved.

Of course, the soldiers of the Gulf Territory did not give up the training of fighting away from the computing center during normal training.

Even in actual combat, they often take the initiative to complete this test under the prompting of the commander.

The Hummingbird UAV quickly sent back information.

Various detailed information such as the number, type, strength, speed, etc. of the enemy will be quickly transmitted back to the command center.

The command center responded immediately and issued various orders at the same time.

"Enemy spotted, first level alert!"

"Attention all combat units, 100,000 enemies approaching."

"The enemy is expected to arrive at the battlefield in 2 hours, 43 minutes and 52 seconds, and all artillery units begin to assemble."

"The combat material production factory is started!"

"The command authority of the wartime computing center is established."

"..."

The guards who were well prepared quickly rushed to their combat posts.

The somewhat silent volcanic fortress became lively again

The dark muzzles were slowly raised.

Some shells were placed in the rear to avoid the temporary inability to provide shells and firepower due to artillery accidents.

The side of the muzzle control display clearly showed the shooting coordinates sent by the computing center.

The gunners carefully checked the accuracy of the shooting coordinates and quickly compared them one by one.

Other combat personnel were also doing their jobs.

The most excited ones were the adventurers who gathered here these days.

They reluctantly left the construction site and quickly rushed to the familiar combat area. They patiently said to the other new companions:

"The Catachan demiplane is different from other places. The dangers here are much greater."

"Poisonous insects, poisonous gas, poisonous blood and other various dangers can kill you at any time."

"High dangers also have high rewards. Be obedient, adapt slowly, and fight two battles with the territory, and you can basically get on the fast track of development."

"The various training auxiliary potions in the Catachan demiplane are very famous..."

In addition to the adventurers, the captured warriors from the Kor elves also joined the battle sequence.

They were led by the psychic ranger Tyrael and the legendary ranger Iris, and they were very focused on preparing for the next battle in the Gulf Territory.

Most of them have undergone dragon warrior surgery, and their emotions are very stable and their personalities are relatively calm. They are not like the "unlucky guys" captured by the Gulf Territory at all.

This group of Kor elves took the initiative to apply to join the combat sequence.

They highly recognize the system of the Gulf Territory and believe that other Kor elves need to change their concepts and receive re-education.

In their opinion, the current Kor Elf Kingdom has become a plaything of the Elf Gods.

Unable to continue to expand and develop, it is confined to a vicious circle with a strength limit.

Just like the ban order issued by the Elf Gods to the Kor Elf Kingdom before they fell asleep.

For these Kor elves, going from one extreme to another, the leader Tyrael expressed his helplessness.

Iris, who was following him, seemed much calmer, just quickly debugging the combat armor.

He turned his head to look at the Kor elves preparing for battle, staring at the endless twisted jungle in the distance, and said in silence for a long time:

"See? Can we survive in such a world? And persist for so long?"

After hearing this, Tyrael shook his head with a smile and said after a long pause:

"This is what the Bay Leader said, being able to think independently is the most difficult thing..."

Before they could discuss it clearly, the artillery phalanx in the distance roared one after another.

The continuous firelight illuminated the somewhat gray sky, and penetrated into the clouds mightily, setting the entire sky on fire.

Watching them disappear, Iris's eyes flashed with a faint golden light, he raised the flamethrower in his hand and said without thinking:

"Get ready to fight. Watch the Gulf Territory fight here. It will definitely give you a lot of surprises!"

boom! boom! boom!

The violent explosion immediately set off a violent burst of fire.

The terrifying shock wave was mixed with deadly shrapnel.

Neither the huge twisted plants nor the dangerous aberrant creatures could withstand this terrifying impact, and huge gaps were torn open during the covering bombing.

The billowing smoke gradually dissipated, revealing a large pit and many scarred, deformed monsters.

However, there are so many of them that the area covered by the firelight is only a drop in the bucket of these aberrant monsters.

Moreover, their recovery ability is super strong, even wounds that are enough to tear their bodies will heal in a very short time.

They withstood the continuous artillery bombardment and rushed towards the volcanic fortress standing in the distance.

Tyrell, who saw this scene through the magic image screen, was a little stunned. He looked at the cannon that was still firing, and doubts emerged in his mind. He asked directly to the senior next to him:

"It obviously has no effect, so why waste the shells?"

Iris, who had been in the Catachan demiplane for quite some time, pointed at the large monsters scattered in the picture and said with lingering fear:

"Believe it or not, if there were no artillery for deterrence, all those running towards us would be these huge super monsters that are hard to be harmed by swords."

As soon as they finished speaking, the two of them saw a huge mad bull in the video, whose head was smashed by a cannonball falling from the sky.

Its huge body fell to the ground with a clang. It was quite tenacious, and its limbs were still twitching and struggling on one side.

The scene, which was quite fitting for the situation, made Tyrell quite emotional, and he began to look forward to what kind of tactics and arrangements the Gulf Territory would have next.

However, he could no longer see the normal picture.

When a huge army of aberrant monsters surged in with the help of the twisted jungle.

The Gulf Territory only resisted as usual for about two hours, and then issued an order for a full-scale defense.

Facing the volcanic fortress firing with all its strength, the smaller aberrant creature was completely unable to stop it.

The defense gap represented by body size can only be broken through with a certain probability unless one can overcome the shackles of a super level.

But small, aberrant monsters don't deserve such a chance.

They are just cannon fodder that comes one after another, providing time for the larger army of heavy-duty aberration monsters in the distance to get on their way.

“Large-scale deformed monsters numbering in the millions have been discovered, and 14 legendary enemy monsters have been discovered so far…”

"The enemy has gathered all the legendary aberrations and large aberrations within a radius of 500 kilometers, and it seems that they are preparing to investigate the floating fortress."

"The highest alert is activated, and we begin to request support and cooperate with friendly forces in operations."

"The floating fortress is ready to start!"

As the order was issued, the floating fortress located on the top of the crater, even though its appearance was still in tatters, had begun to gather a considerable energy response.

The extremely astonishing energy reaction immediately caused turmoil in the surrounding elements, and was quickly noticed by the Twisted Jungle.

Prepare to explore the twisted jungle, and continue to send a large-scale aberration army to advance rapidly this way.

At this moment, cannon muzzles were exposed one after another on the surrounding walls of the floating fortress, firing out clusters of deadly firelights.

The densely packed destructive shells instantly turned the entire area 3 to 5 kilometers outside the city wall into a sea of ​​fire.

The terrifying shocks and the flames rising into the sky fully demonstrated to the Twisted Jungle what a weapon of destruction is!

In the floating fortress that had completed a main gun salvo, large and small mechanical arms were rapidly loading and accumulating launch data.

Even if it is located on the ground, the terrifying destructive power of the floating fortress can still destroy most enemies.

As for the large army of aberrant monsters rushing in, you should be lucky enough to see its other form - the floating combat form! (End of chapter)