The Lord of Ashes

Thain's main experimental inspiration for Skynet's research project came from two points.

One is the magic net presented by the goddess of magic, which is a ready-made research carrier.

The second is the Ark given to Thane by the Queen of Blades.

After Thain's Rubik's Cube analysis and research, Thain discovered that the power of the original law left by the Queen of Blades in the Ark contained the thread of faith that the Queen of Blades used to control the Zerg creatures.

In addition, Thain already has a relatively deep understanding of the power of this kind of faith by studying the power of the Light Gods' faith.

That's why he could combine his existing mechanical system and strive to create a brand-new thing called "Skynet".

The goddess of magic's magic net will definitely not be able to be used in the future.

But Skynet replaced it.

It will help Thane unify the power of faith of his intelligent robot family and enhance their overall strength.

Thain has long discovered that the Rubik's Cube itself is no longer enough to strengthen control over the intelligent robot family.

It’s not that the Rubik’s Cube level is not enough, but that it now has too many functions.

There is overlap in many aspects.

Thain also needs the help of the Rubik's Cube to control the fortress robot.

So looking at it all, it would be best for Thane to create an auxiliary equipment to help him strengthen his control over the intelligent robot family.

Once Skynet is formed.

In the next plane war, those intelligent robots may not need to be appointed by Thain himself. Skynet can assist Thain in completing the appointment of each intelligent robot army.

And Skynet will also help Thane and share the work of awakening the intelligent robot family.

Including those intelligent robots damaged in the war, as long as their black boxes are successfully returned, Skynet will directly send them for repair.

Thain is even working on a method to resurrect fallen intelligent robots without the need for a black box as a carrier.

Intelligent robots have no souls, but they have data streams.

How to save data streams through methods other than black boxes is a major difficulty currently faced.

The emergence of Skynet may perfectly solve this problem.

However, this experimental project is too in-depth and cannot be achieved in a short time.

Even if Thain's mechanical mysteries have reached the level of a seventh-level arcanist, he still has to think long term.

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In addition to the experiments on the transformation and upgrading of Skynet, Thain has not given up his research on the Ember Fire recently.

Currently, the only difference between Thane being promoted to a True Spirit Mage is not his research in the field of mechanics, but actually his understanding of the power of his original ashes.

Fortunately, Thain also had a new understanding of the power of ashes to improve and transform some time ago.

This was due to the God Crystal explosion that Thane came into contact with when he was outside the Wizarding Star Territory.

At that time, as one of the most precious treasures of civilization in the wizarding world, the most powerful knight's master suit, as well as the angel of destruction of the two knight secret realms, both received considerable benefits and blessings from that unprecedented explosive event.

This made Thane couldn't help but consider that since the power of destruction can be continuously devoured and strengthened by external forces.

So can the Ash Law he masters be improved by similar means?

This time, what Than thought of was not to absorb more rare flames into his Ember Flame.

But to truly understand the meaning of "ashes".

Once it involves research at this level of concept, it is no small project.

In the wizarding world, only those who have reached the realm of true spirit masters or above can carry out research and exploration in related fields.

For the current research on Thane, the advantage is that the continent of Faerûn at this time is full of ashes and destruction.

This means that his next experiments will definitely not lack materials and research environment.

It was also during this period that Thain developed two or three new types of forbidden spells for the Secret of Ashes, and planned to test them in actual combat during this war.

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The war in Faerûn continued in the year 158.

The main army led by Thane finally reached the southern coast from the purgatory space in the far west of the Faerun continent.

At this point, judging from the mainland territory, one-third of the world has been included in the hands of the wizard civilization.

Of course, it is incorrect to judge the overall war process in Faerûn only from the perspective of occupied area.

Because there are still a lot of local gods, they did not die, but fled back to their own kingdom of God, and gave up on their hundreds of millions of believers in Faerun.

Even the gods themselves have no idea how long they can last hiding in the space of the Kingdom of God.

And it lost hundreds of millions of believers as the underlying cornerstone, relying only on the little defense power and population of the subspace of the Kingdom of God.

These local gods of Faerûn are like rootless duckweeds.

Thain and other conquerors of wizard civilization did not immediately deal with the gods hiding in their own kingdoms, but continued their own advancement.

After completely occupying the entire continent of Faerûn, Thain and others have enough time and energy to deal with these "ground rats" one by one.

As Thain led his army to continue to advance south, Lady Night of the Dark Alliance appeared in front of Thain less and less often.

Thain is not yet sure how many omnipotent souls a new ruler has.

But Thain based his research on the situation on another battlefield, the God of Justice, as well as Thain's own knowledge of the master-level creatures.

He believes that Lady Night still has a lot of energy left.

I just don’t know why, but now I always have an attitude of avoiding war.

As a result, a large area of ​​the Dark Alliance territory under her command was lost. In recent years, hundreds of gods have died at the hands of Thane and others.

In comparison, the God of Justice on the other side appears to be more diligent when fighting against Hela, the goddess of death.

Moreover, the Titans led by the goddess of death Hela do not like to accept the surrender of the local gods of Faerûn.

Because a local god went to Hela with five godheads, but was killed by the Titan god under Hela's command.

So much so that if the indigenous gods of Faerûn now want to surrender, they can only go to Thane.

And this also made the intensity of the battlefield responsible for Hela's side and the resistance of the enemy legions far greater than that of Thain's side.

Fortunately, the Titans are never afraid of competing with others.

Thain can still find time to conduct his own experimental research, but Hela heard that she has seldom rested since entering the battlefield of Faerun.

This is a Titan with a strong female nature.

No wonder there is a saying in the Wizards Alliance that the next title of God King of the Titan World will be passed to Hela.