Chapter 498 Career Advancement

Back in the main base, Li Ming went straight to the warehouse, and Suzaku had already connected to the management system.

As soon as he arrived at the warehouse gate, the alloy door in front of him opened automatically.

What came into view were rows of metal racks, neatly placed with pieces of mother ore of various shapes.

Mother ore can reduce the switching time of the controlled objects, and the current interval is fifteen minutes.

In the early stage of the development of the Mechanical King Court, in order to avoid wasting power, he did not let Ulrich collect mother ore.

After it was initially established, he let Ulrich start this matter.

At the beginning, Ulrich took over a large part of Monroe's wealth in the Land of Stars, and it took decades to collect more than a thousand pieces.

And the Mechanical King Court collected ten thousand pieces in just three or four years, and the efficiency was very different.

He absorbed it familiarly. With his current life level, the efficiency of absorbing various special energies is already very high.

It took only two or three hours to absorb almost all of the ten thousand pieces of mother ore.

When the mother ore energy reached 10,000, as expected, a special reminder was triggered, asking him whether to consume 10,000 pieces of mother ore energy to reduce the cooling time of the controlled object.

Natural selection confirmed, and the dense mother ore energy turned into streams and dissipated from the control page.

The switching time of the controlled object was also shortened by half again, reaching 7.5 minutes.

The difference between 7.5 minutes and 15 minutes is not too big at present. Now there is [Heart of Talos].

Under normal circumstances, he rarely switches controlled objects in battle, but further reduction is always good. The resources consumed are not much for the Mechanical King Court.

It took a little more time to absorb the remaining mother ore.

Li Mingcai focused on the neatly arranged pieces of metal materials, all of which were various cutting-edge alloys. This was the accumulation of the Mechanical King Court in half a year.

He couldn't wait and started to absorb them piece by piece. It took another three hours to absorb all the metal materials.

In the control page, the balance of metal energy has reached 3.3 billion, which is about the same as he estimated.

While the Mechanical Royal Court is fulfilling his various needs and tasks at the same time, it can still provide 500 million metal energy every month.

It feels so good to sweep with one click.

Li Ming couldn't help rubbing his hands. He really hoped that there was a progress bar in front of him, and he could pull it to ten years later.

Various thoughts drifted in his mind, and he had already passed through the corridor and returned to the room.

Sitting cross-legged on his exclusive seat, a mechanical heart appeared in his hand, emitting a soft golden and silver interwoven light--[Heart of the Holy Spirit].

Even if this thing requires 2 billion metal energy to control, it is quite sufficient for him now.

Control it immediately, and then consume it.

In the control page, a ray of light gathered and gradually immersed in [Mechanical Lord]. The text kept trembling and finally froze--

[Mechanical Son: Possessing [Power of the Son] and [Guard Squad] capabilities. ]

[Power of the Son: Can use metal energy to carry out large-scale transformation, repair, strengthening and construction of controlled objects. There is a certain probability of [mutation] during the construction process, and has the [Glory] characteristic. ]

[Guard Squad: You can construct eight mechanical bodies with the [Guard] characteristic.]

The other instructions did not change much, and the number of guards naturally increased by two.

Then, he specifically clicked on [Mutation] to take a look.

He could only perform the highest level 2 mutation on the original basis, and still could not surpass his own life level.

And the extra ability was this [Glory] characteristic.

"Two billion metal energies, in addition to increasing the number of guards, this ability should not be weak." Li Ming muttered in his heart and clicked on the ability description.

[Glory: The mechanical body you construct will enjoy the exclusive sequence of the control object data bonus, and the bonus sharing is 1%.]

! !

Li Ming was shocked, and then carefully checked it word by word.

All mechanical bodies can enjoy the bonus?

He exhaled. Although 1% is small, his total blessing is high. The power blessing of the main combat system is more than 350 times the normal.

1% is 3.5 times, which is already very considerable.

This kind of blessing does not change with the changes of his controlled objects. It requires the construction of an exclusive sequence for engraving.

This means that this blessing can be used for the birth of the Mechanical Holy Spirit.

"Tsk..." Li Ming immediately couldn't wait to build a dedicated control sequence.

Mainly from the five major blessings of strength, defense, speed, and physical strength.

He has a total of eight control columns, and he plans to allocate two specialized types of controlled objects to each.

"If the ability is not shared, the Heart of Talos will be useless, the Justice Armguard, the Life Power Core, the Vortex Swift Shadow..."

He muttered to himself, and it took several hours to get the best match.

For this, he also spent 300 to 400 million metal energy to upgrade several controlled objects with defensive characteristics.

Finally, the bonus enjoyed by ordinary mechanical bodies has become 1 times the strength blessing, 2 times the defense, 1 times the speed, and 1 times the physical strength.

In summary, each of his mechanical bodies is at least twice as strong as the original level, the cost remains unchanged, and the quality is greatly improved.

"It's a pity that we can't share abilities..." Li Ming couldn't help thinking again.

Otherwise, if the [Life Power Core] is installed, each person will have two lives, which would be abnormal.

I don't know if we can share abilities after upgrading in the future.

Fantasizing in his heart, he spent nearly 300 million metal energies to build two mechanical guards, which are only A-level for the time being.

After waiting for another three or four months, he can be promoted. After reaching S-level, his strength will increase slightly again. With the guards, he is almost close to 1000X.

After finishing here, he left the core base and prepared to enlighten the mechanical body.

The career is promoted first to avoid the embarrassing situation that new abilities appear, but the mechanical body has already been enlightened.

…

On the capital star of the empire, Heckler had just finished a secret meeting and got off the aircraft with a solemn expression. The servants had already opened the palace door.

"The corpse of the Overlord-level Terrax..." He murmured in his heart, and his shock was still there.

Only the core of the core of the empire was at the secret meeting this time. He thought that the Eternal Silence Star had a trace.

As a result, he accepted such a big news without any psychological expectations.

"This corpse may bring great changes..." His face was uncertain. In the empty corridor, only his footsteps echoed, and the guards on both sides lowered their heads.

If they really found a way to evolve into the ultimate life form, he would not be the first one in terms of status and strength.

The previous generation of evolutionary bodies took the wrong path, and it was even more impossible to be promoted.

The one with the greatest chance of promotion was Adam.

"The ultimate life form..." Heckler couldn't help but have a headache when he thought about it. This was a force that could reverse everything.

If Adam succeeded, then there was no point in playing, just bow down and surrender. No... At that time, Adam really dared to kill them.

Suddenly, he paused. In front of the study door, John was already waiting here, and his expression seemed a little anxious.

"What's wrong?" He pushed the door into the room, and John followed closely behind.

Until the door of the room was completely closed, the patterns on both sides closed, and a flash of light appeared, Jon whispered: "Sir Ivan, we have lost contact."

"Hmm?" Heckler's eyes narrowed slightly, "Something happened to the Mechanical King's Court?"

"According to the intelligence information, the person we sent over was exposed at the beginning, and the target he brought back was just a fake body." Jon explained as briefly as possible: "And Sir Ivan thought that the undercover was intact, which showed the weakness of the Mechanical King's Court, so he just rushed in directly."

"At that time, you were still in a closed-door meeting, and Sir Ivan acted on his own. There has been no response so far. The Mechanical King's Court is intact, and no battle has taken place yet."

After he said the last sentence, Heckler was already sitting behind the table, frowning, but did not respond.

Jon gritted his teeth and said, "I guess it has probably fallen into the hands of Qinglong, but Qinglong has not contacted the Empire to propose a deal to redeem the captives."

"The undercover is not dead, so he thinks the Mechanical King Court is weak?" Heckler said this, obviously a little angry, "What a fool."

Jorn remained silent. Of course, Ivan's guess was not just this short sentence, but it was actually quite reasonable, but he obviously couldn't say it at this time.

"Falling into the hands of Qinglong, this matter... is troublesome." Heckler was angry in his heart. There were enough troubles, and his subordinates were still so stupid.

"Trouble?" John was confused. "Does Qinglong dare to do anything to Lord Ivan? He is from the Empire."

"So what if he is from the Empire?" Heckler said coldly, "Do you really think no one dares to kill him?"

"Kill him?" John was shocked, but he pondered: "If he is really killed, wouldn't it be a good thing? Qinglong will become the enemy of the Empire, and it will be easier for us to take action."

Jon paused, carefully glanced at Hehe's gloomy face, and whispered: "Yes, this is an idea. Should we contact Qinglong and put pressure on him to force him to take action against Lord Ivan."

"The Empire will not take action against Qinglong." Heckler glanced at him, "The latest news is that the Empire and the Federation will adjust their thinking on the Mechanics Association and merge it into the Interstellar Alliance."

"What?" John was stunned, "Not demolishing it? Just say not to demolish it?"

As Heckler's confidant, he understood the value of this news, and realized Heckler's reaction just now, and instantly understood: "Is this the work of Qinglong?"

Heckler remained silent. He would definitely not tell John about the corpse.

But Adam did not tell him the specific reason why the Mechanics Association did not demolish it.

He just vaguely guessed that Qinglong might also know about the corpse, so that the Empire and the Federation could retreat at the same time.

In this way, the Empire or Adam would not do anything to Qinglong because of Ivan.

This is the overall situation.

"This..." John swallowed hard, and when he saw that Heckler did not respond, he realized that it must involve some big secret.

Even if Ivan was really dead, it would seem insignificant.

"Don't be obsessed with Robin for now, let's catch the others on the list first." Heckler kneaded his brows, "How many people have been caught so far?"

"Your Highness..." Jon hesitated, "Ninety percent of the others we sent to catch on the list have died."

Heckler suddenly looked at him with a grim look in his eyes, "Ninety percent!? Those civilizations don't take the Empire seriously?"

Jorn hurriedly said, "We are still investigating. This death rate is even more exaggerated than a year ago. Something is wrong."

"The Holy Castle is right in front of us. We can't get stuck here." Heckler's face was uncertain. He caught nothing with his big net, but Robin was clear.

He stared at Jon with a flickering look in his eyes, "You said before that you would force Qinglong to kill Ivan and organize a feasible plan."

Yorn was shocked and nodded hurriedly: "Yes."

……

After leaving the base, Ulrich was still waiting and asked: "Are you going to deal with those mechanical bodies?"

Seeing Li Ming nod, he continued: "Sending those mechanical bodies can basically fill our current manpower gap."

"However, the expansion in the chaotic star gap has reached its limit, and I am afraid it will be difficult for us to expand the scale."

With the efforts of many parties, the Mechanical King Court has reached the upper limit of the chaotic star gap in just five or six years, of course, in this industry.

He was quite helpless: "Arms have almost been monopolized by us, the market for mechanical body employment is not too large, and other industries have already been owned."

The chaotic star gap is basically a group of predators, and there is no good trading environment like the orderly civilization.

Only arms are the biggest piece of fat meat, and there are many related markets that have no soil for growth, such as prosthetics, spaceships and warship manufacturing, and various living equipment and utensils.

Ulrich shook his head and said, "In addition, the Mechanic Association is on the verge of dissolution. We have tried to enter several civilizations, which has consumed a lot of energy, but the results are very shallow. We can only take it step by step."

The shallow results he mentioned refer to the expansion speed of the chaotic star gap.

"Don't worry." Li Ming said lightly: "It won't be long before there will be a turning point."

Ulrich was stunned, and didn't ask much, but he was quite excited.

I used to think that the chaotic star gap was big enough, but now it feels different. Looking at the interstellar space, I know how small the market of the chaotic star gap is.

"There is one more thing..."

Li Ming flew out, and Ulrich followed closely behind him, hesitantly, and said: "Theo is ready to be promoted to an S-class life form."

"Oh, this is a good thing..." Li Ming was slightly stunned, and then he was a little emotional.

When he first met Theo, he was preparing to become an S-class life form, but it took another seven or eight years before he was ready.

Even if the gene seed is developed to 100%, it cannot evolve immediately. Most life forms need a period of precipitation.

Looking at Ulrich who lowered his eyebrows and looked obedient, he also knew what this guy was thinking.

In the early days of the Mechanical King Court, Theo and his people made great efforts. Li Ming would naturally not forget it. He nodded and said, "I will contact Yeyue Biological Company and ask them to give a discount. You can allocate a sum of money to buy S-level gene seeds for him."

"Yes." Ulrich couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

As the Mechanical King Court expanded, mechanical bodies have become the mainstream.

Ulrich had to admit that these mechanical bodies were really useful.

The number of S-level mechanical bodies has also been supplemented.