C2 Construction and Explosion of Soldiers
Constructing an energy station requires 400 gold coins, 400 units of iron, and 400 units of energy. Proceed with construction?
Building a smelting plant will consume 400 gold coins, 400 units of iron, and 400 units of energy. Would you like to build it?
Wang Changqing, unable to contain his excitement, rubbed his hands together and confirmed his choice without a second thought.
Within moments, two metallic structures were erected by four robots, and the construction was astonishingly completed in mere minutes.
Energy Station: Construction Complete
Smelting Plant: Construction Complete
Energy Station: Produces 100 units of energy daily.
Smelting Plant: Maximum daily output of 100 units of iron.
Wang Changqing accessed his Lord's panel and quickly reviewed the resource data at the bottom of the screen.
Gold Coins: 1,100
Iron: 1,100
Wood: 2,000
Stone: 2,000
Food: 2,000
Soul Crystal: 2,000
Energy (Energy Crystal): 1,100
"Wood, stone, and Soul Crystals are just junk to a Mechanical player like me. I need to trade them for something more useful," he murmured to himself before opening the Lord's Exchange Market.
500 units of wood are going for 500 gold coins.
200 units of stone are listed at 201 gold coins.
360 units of iron can be had for 359 gold coins.
A Level 1 Magic Core is priced at 50 gold coins.
Level 1 Shadow Fox Fur is fetching 10 gold coins.
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In less than an hour since his arrival on the Initial Continent, the Lords from the commercially advanced Blue Planet had already established the basic order of the Lord's Trading Market.
Though the market's initial organization seemed somewhat haphazard, the prices were bound to undergo significant changes as the Lords acclimated to the new world.
[Sell 1,900 units of wood?]
[Sell 1,900 units of stone?]
[Sell 1,900 units of Soul Crystal?]
[Spend 100 gold coins to purchase 100 units of iron ore?]
[Spend 150 gold coins to buy 150 units of energy?]
After a flurry of transactions, Wang Changqing retained only 100 units each of wood and stone, converting the rest into gold coins, iron, and Energy Crystals. Following the trades, he had amassed 3,000 units each of gold coins, iron, and Energy Crystals under his command.
After scanning the trading market, Wang Changqing noticed that no one was selling food; in fact, many were buying it, and the exchange rates were climbing. It didn't take long for him to grasp why. His Mechanical Department didn't require food, unlike other Arms such as Orcs, Giant Demons, and Magic Beasts, which were heavy consumers.
Besides his Mechanical Department, only the Undead Department had no need for food. Considering the eight billion population, the proportion of Lords from these two departments was likely minuscule. Even if these Lords dumped their surplus food into a market of eight billion, it would barely make a ripple. The price of food was bound to soar until the end of the Desolate Expansion period.
Constructing an intelligent mining robot production line costs 200 gold coins, 200 units of iron, and 200 units of energy. Proceed with construction?
[Construct]
[The intelligent mining robot production line has a maximum daily output of 20 units.]
[Constructing the Type 1 sniper combat robot production line requires 200 gold coins, 200 units of iron, and 200 units of energy. Proceed with construction?]
[Construction complete.]
[The sniper combat robot production line has a maximum daily output of 20 units.]
[Constructing the Nano Reconnaissance Robot production line costs 200 gold coins, 200 units of iron, and 200 units of energy. Proceed with construction?]
[Construction complete.]
[The Nano Reconnaissance Robot production line has a maximum daily output of 20 units.]
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Armed with the necessary resources, Wang Changqing swiftly established five production lines, including those for intelligent mining robots, Type 1 sniper combat robots, Nano Reconnaissance Robots, Defender combat robots, and Type 1 butcher combat robots.
[The intelligent mining robot production line can manufacture intelligent mining robots.]
[Level: 1]
[Production Capacity: 20 units per day]
[Production Requirements: 10 gold coins, 10 units of iron, and 10 energy crystals]
[The Type 1 sniper combat robot production line can manufacture Type 1 sniper combat robots.]
[Level: 1]
[Production Capacity: 20 units per day]
[Production Requirements: 10 gold coins, 10 units of iron, and 10 energy crystals]
Following the establishment of the five production lines, Wang Changqing immediately churned out 100 combat robots. Observing the 60 combat robots neatly lined up in front of the Lord's Hall, he felt a reassuring sense of security.
Having just arrived on the Initial Continent, he was an ordinary person devoid of any combat prowess. Confronted with an unknown world, unfamiliar surroundings, and unseen enemies, he had felt utterly vulnerable. Now, with these 60 combat robots at his disposal, his immediate safety was assured.
Furthermore, another 60 combat robots would be ready tomorrow. Even if he chose not to construct any additional combat robot production lines, he would command a force of 420 combat robots within a week.
These combat robots were the cornerstone of his existence in this brave new world.
Type 1 Sniper Combat Robot: Energy Level 1, Height: 3 meters, Weight: 1 ton, armed with a super long-range kinetic sniper rifle, Operational Radius: 100 kilometers.
Type 1 Defender Combat Robot: Energy Level 1, Height: 2.5 meters, Weight: 1.5 tons, equipped with a Level 1 energy shield and a rapid-fire machine gun, Operational Radius: 100 kilometers.
Type 1 Butcher Combat Robot: Energy Level 1, Height: 3 meters, Weight: 1.8 tons, outfitted with twin rapid-fire kinetic cannons, Operational Radius: 100 kilometers.
Energy Level 1 indicated that the energy utilized was on par with a Level 1 creature. However, there was a catch: the efficiency of energy utilization. It's akin to the disparity between a steam engine and an internal combustion engine – the efficiency with which thermal energy is converted to kinetic energy is vastly different.
Take, for instance, a Level 1 Behemoth compared to a Level 1 Ram; the Behemoth could easily crush the goat into a meatball with sheer force.
While the robots' Energy Level was 1, the firepower of their weapons was on a whole different scale.
The singular drawback of mechanical soldiers was their inability to self-upgrade. They couldn't advance through training, combat, or by consuming the flesh of higher-level magical beasts. They could only progress through technological improvements. But with every loss comes a gain, and Wang Changqing saw this clearly. He believed that what he had gained far outweighed what he had lost.
After deploying 20 Nano Reconnaissance Robots to survey his domain and its periphery, a prompt appeared on the display before him:
Mining Robot has discovered a small iron mine.
The mining robot is currently extracting iron ore. Each intelligent mining robot is estimated to be capable of gathering 20 units of iron ore per day. Would you like to deploy all the intelligent mining robots to excavate this modest iron vein?
"Did I just discover a vein? What great fortune!" Wang Changqing pondered briefly before dispatching 19 intelligent mining robots to the small vein, while the last one continued its prospecting duties across the territory.
Despite Wang Changqing's skepticism about uncovering another vein within his lands, he sent out an intelligent mining robot anyway. After all, he mused, how can you know for sure without giving it a shot?
The essence of the Mechanical Force strategy is to rapidly multiply the ranks of soldiers—more soldiers, and then even more. Once the combat robots amass into the millions, they could boldly confront a Level 10 Saint domain powerhouse.
On the Initial Continent, Level 10 signifies the Saint domain, Level 20 is Epic, Level 30 is Legendary, and Level 40 enters the divine realm of the Gods.
"Oh, that's right, I seem to have a few hundred subjects..."
