High Above

Ian's analysis of the rebellious mountain people is valid.

Laian Territory has been a holy land for mountain people since ancient times. From the perspective of the imperial people, the water and soil in this area are suitable for cultivating psychic plants. It is a rare source-rich planting area, especially the area surrounding Lake Laian. A circle of land is covered by a natural spiritual energy field. Even just living there may increase the adaptability of the source material.

Therefore, both the rebel mountain people and the Xuanfeng tribe want to be the first to take this place as their own, and no matter which side succeeds, it will be the meat in the mouth of the mountain people themselves in the end, so Feiyandi and most of the rebel mountain people The center is not here.

But Ian is here, and as a white citizen of the empire, Ian rules this place... That must be unacceptable.

The reason why the mountain people cannot accept it is simple. The reason why the Flying Flame Land cannot accept it is because the Ryan Territory is actually one of the closest entrances and exits to the Agate Stone Plain around the Midela Autonomous Region.

Looking at the map, you will know that if the Moldor and Aldo colonies located in the northwest of Nanling want to follow the road to the imperial core city circle on the east side of Nanling, they must go to the Hal Basin in the southeast, and then go east Midla Autonomous Region.

If the Midela Autonomous Region wants to go to the Agate Stone Plain, it has three options. The first is to pass through the Gu Yanfeng Gorge, and then pass through Laian City, which is a smooth road.

The second option is to go south to Milak Territory, pass through the Moore Bush Gap, and after crossing the river, you can reach the Agate Stone Plain.

The last option is to climb a mountain to the north and follow the mountain trail to the north side of the agate stone plain surrounding Nauman City.

Of course, there are many trails besides this. For example, the troops gathered in the Totaku Basin on the northeast side of Odor Colony. There is an ancient mountain people's road there. From here, you can go eastward and come all the way through the mountain gorges. To the edge of the golden plain above the city of Naumann.

That was actually the road most commonly used by mountain people in the past, because the current Agate Stone Plain was actually a dense coastal jungle in the past.

All in all, the mountain people seem to have many choices, but the Ryan Territory must try to regain it. Whether it is from the perspective of faith in the Holy Land or from a convenient strategic perspective, they must try to see how hard Ian's nail is. Not hard.

The Marquis of Barton gave Ian such great support because he hoped that Ian could block the vanguard of the mountain people and delay it for a while.

Anyway, the high-level combat power of the mountain people, whether it is the Flying Flame Land or the Steel Winged Dragons, are all contained. If the simple second-level mountain people want to break through Ian's armor and elite troops, they will definitely be in trouble. Broken blood flow.

As for whether the mountain people will continue to try to take this road in the future, it depends on whether Ian can hurt them-in other words, this is the scope of Ian's personal ability.

Ian also knows this very well, and he 100% does not believe that the residents of Ryan Territory are of the same mind as him.

Half of the residents of Laian Territory are mountain people, and their trust in the empire is not high to begin with. Now I just make them feel that "this lord can handle it, let him rule". As soon as the mountain people gain the upper hand, these people will defect. It would be as simple as drinking water.

After all, we cannot ask the residents of the fringe cities in the empire's frontier provinces to serve their country wholeheartedly... This is unrealistic. It is better to say that this is the normal state of war on the Terra continent. There is not so much impassioned nationalism and the spirit of family and country.

"We have to win. If we win, the people will follow us. If we don't win, no one will feel at ease. Don't think that you are the lord, and the people will support you."

This is what Ian said to Scott: "Instead of electing a group of militiamen who don't know whether they are loyal or not in the city of Ryan, which has long been afraid of war, it is better to wait for the Marquis of Barton and the Poin Workshop." The reinforcements' and the real reinforcements brought by Qingchao."

"Sir, Qingchao may bring a group of Harrison Port mercenaries over, I know..."

Scott was a little confused: "But the Marquis... didn't you say that we can recruit as many people as we can, but they won't give us people?"

"Aren't the mercenaries in Harrison Port just the private soldiers of the Viscount who have exceeded the establishment?"

Ian's eyes flashed, he looked at the workshop area in front of him, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "And the soldiers that the Marquis escorted my grain transport convoy... aren't they just reinforcements to support me?"

"Although they themselves may not think so, since they are in my territory, I reluctantly recruited them temporarily."

——Then, arm them with brand new weapons and equipment.

Ian, who led the team to the workshop area, immediately ordered the local workshop leader to come over to see him. This middle-aged bald technician named Amber did look very reliable, and he knew he was capable at a glance.

He couldn't help but feel troubled when he heard Ian's request and summoned almost all the skilled workers and alchemists before evening.

"Sir, I will definitely try my best to complete your order, but there are two difficulties in this task."

As soon as he opened his mouth, he knew that he was a pure technician, the kind with no political content at all. Amber said bluntly to Ian: "First point, although we have a list of relevant technicians, the workshop stopped after the death of the previous lord. It's been a long time... Many people have been poached or moved away in the past six months, and I can't guarantee that they can all be found."

"Second, you are asking to start construction now, which is really a bit difficult - the rebel mountain people previously dismantled the raw materials of element crystals and alchemy furnaces, and we only have the most basic metal materials left. This is considered starting construction... …I don’t know what to drive.”

These two questions are indeed the most practical ones.

Naturally, Ian will not get angry because the reality does not comply with his instructions, and accuse the craftsmen of not doing things well - he is a technician himself, and he still doesn't know that he needs to be realistic when doing projects and tasks?

The first question actually doesn't matter, because Ian doesn't need a full set of workshop manpower, just a little operating experience, so he asked Amber to find as many people as he can, and there will be guard soldiers following him to catch them. Make a new list and get more food.

For the second question, Ian asked in detail how many materials were left in the alchemy workshop today. After receiving the answer that "almost all sublimation materials have been exhausted," he couldn't help but frown.

This is indeed a difficult problem.

The scientific name of what Ian wants to start work on in the Alchemy Workshop now is 'exoskeleton powered armor' on Earth.

In the continent of Terra, this kind of armor actually has a very simple name 'sublimation armor'.

Standard armors such as the Sky-Enclosing Armor and the Inspector Knight's standard armor all come with a little power. They are a kind of equipment between normal armor and armor. They are commonly used by various adventurers and explorers when exploring mazes. —After all, armor is stronger if it is stronger, but in terms of battery life and size, it is still difficult to use.

Sublimated armor has relatively few problems in this regard.

However, the power armor that Ian wants to build is actually slightly different from the sublimation armor.

In essence, sublimation armor is still based on sublimation. Its automatic power is not used to drive the armor, but to activate some kind of sublimation ability, such as the accessory of the jet flight that surrounds the air armor - another example is the magnetic field. The Light Knight's magnetic sand armor does have self-power, but it requires the sublimate to use larger and more source of energy to drive it to exert its true combat effectiveness.

In essence, sublimated armor is a small armor with the sublimated as the power furnace core.

But the power armor that Ian wants to make is something that has its own power. Even if the operator is an ordinary person, it can exert greater power and even some sublimation abilities.

Obviously, this design idea is very weird - instead of arming a group of ordinary people and giving them a little sublimation ability, it is better to directly strengthen a sublimator!

The latter can obviously chop up the melons and vegetables of the former, right?

This is the truth, but Ian has a plan. He has planned to reorganize the military system of his territory from the beginning, and with the exoskeleton armor he designed by combining earth technology and Terra technology, when the number of people increases, It may not be able to pose a threat to the sublime.

And the most important thing is that it can cause a dimensionality reduction blow to the enemy's conventional troops that is the same as that of the Ascendants.

——Yes, my soldiers can't defeat the sublimated ones... But not only can your soldiers not be able to defeat the sublimated ones, they can't defeat my soldiers!

As long as Ian can ensure that he can defeat the enemy's Ascended One, wouldn't the result be an all-round crushing of the enemy?

However, if you don’t even have the raw materials, then no matter how good the plan is, it will be useless.

"Sir, if what you want to make is this kind of sublimated armor..."

At this moment, Amber was flipping through a stack of design drawings given by Ian. A set of huge, bulky, thick and ferocious armor, similar to a diving suit, gradually emerged in his mind, and he understood clearly: "Then everything else is easy to say, but We don’t have the ‘flare chip’ from the Ministry of Armed Forces.”

The golden-haired craftsman with golden eyes and some wrinkles on his face raised his head and said to Ian seriously: "You want to create a kind of scorching light ray that can continuously emit the previous one...or, in other words, a light prism ray. Sublimated armor, right? This is indeed an extremely powerful weapon, but if you want to deal with enemies, it is definitely not a good thing to use the same weapon design."

"And we don't have any raw materials for pharmaceuticals that can be used as raw materials for its weapons... We only have pure Xiahui grass extract left here. In other words, even if we need to replace it with a new weapon system, we can't There must be raw materials for this weapon system, and it must be activated only with the source of Xiahui grass extract."

"That's it."

Ian was also a little worried. He did carry some raw materials with him, but the quantity was obviously not enough to arm an army. Moreover, rather than power armor, it was safer to ensure the ammunition of the rechargeable rifle first.

To be honest, just in yesterday's battle, nearly half of the ammunition of the rechargeable rifle was consumed. This is also one of the shortcomings of sublimated armor and alchemy equipment. Compared with the supply of conventional weapons, they want to continue fighting, even if It would be difficult for an alchemist lord like Ian to maintain himself.

——Is it possible that we have to wait for the next batch of supplies from Nauman City?

Ian thought this way, but in this case, he would owe a favor to the Marquis of Barton. Although this is not a big deal, but that kind of eagle owl will not get involved in this kind of relationship if he can.

But at this moment, Scott came over and whispered to Ian: "Sir, have you forgotten your trophy?"

Ian raised his eyebrows: "What trophy?"

Scott was confused instead: "These are the trophies left behind by the three mountain leaders you killed yesterday - Kari Yamaguchi was killed by our soldiers after the war, and Sisang Jiangu was burned by you. The upper body, and Martin Xuanfeng was directly incinerated by the charge of your armored main gun... But didn't their weapons stay behind?"

"Kari's half of the mace, Xisang's Thunder Bow, Martin's thunder sword... and the Dragon God Ring, didn't you say yesterday that you would put it in the castle when you have time? Do you want to watch it again?"

"Oh!" Ian suddenly realized. Because he killed those three people a little too fast, he subconsciously divided the opponent into the area of ​​'turning into ashes'. He didn't expect that there was anything left of the opponent: "It's really nothing. To think that they can actually survive being exposed to light, these weapons are a bit powerful."

It seems that I still made an empiricist error and mistakenly thought that there would be no loot under the light beam, but Terra is full of materials with weird strengths.

What an unexpected gain.

"Can sublimated materials that have been used as weapons be used as raw materials again?"

Ian turned his head and asked the stunned Amber craftsman.

"Then, of course, sir..."

Amber was completely stunned, and he said tactfully: "But what about re-melting the already formed sublimated weapons into raw materials... It's a bit of a waste of resources, it's a waste of money... That kind of weapon, Lord Lord If you use it yourself, it will definitely be better than our soldiers using this kind of armor..."

Ian shook his head: "I just asked you if you could."

"Theoretically yes."

Amber hesitated for a moment, but his sense of responsibility as a craftsman prevented him from agreeing immediately: "But I want to see the condition of those weapons, sir."

Ten minutes later the weapons arrived.

A giant sword nearly three meters high, a thunder long bow, and a half-melted crystal iron club.

【Thunder Sword】

[Second level·Weapon·Elite·Inedible]

[A confident work cast by the last great mountain craftsman, Tieyei Shilin. It is a weapon made of magnetic thunder rock and thunder crystal iron deep in the Silver Wing Peak. As long as the sublimate holds it in hand , input the source material to activate the 'Thunder Blow', which will erupt an ultra-high-heat arc when it hits the enemy and melt the enemy's armor and flesh]

[If you infuse the essence for a long time, you can use the 'Thunder Sword'. The surging lightning will spread from the blade, transforming into a huge essence sword that can crush the city wall]

[It was used to cut through the defense line of the empire's fully armored heavy infantry. Even the armor can be broken. Only the strongest mountain warriors can use it]

[Contains source quality: 3659.5163 elite units]

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