MMORPG: Divine Mech Hunter
Chapter 1148 - Chapter 1148 Chapter 1148 Choice

Chapter 1148: Chapter 1148: Choice Chapter 1148: Chapter 1148: Choice The Mechanical Core has many names: Heart of Machinery, Titan’s Heart, Heart of Creation. Rumor has it that if you continually upgrade the Mechanical Core, it will become a true Titan’s heart, of course, this is just a rumor and has not been confirmed, but its rarity and preciousness are beyond doubt.

However, no one has been able to upgrade it as a whole, not even Li Yao, so he could only select one of its functions to enhance a specific aspect of its quality.

This is a versatile treasure, but in Li Yao’s view, whether it’s improving the quality of mechanical life or increasing the grade of engineering, both are highly uneconomical actions.

Take a first-grade Heart of Machinery for example, for a large Mechanical City, it may produce one first-grade every one to three years, but to evolve to second-grade, the same city would need ten to fifty years of time, and from second-grade to third-grade, it would need a hundred to three hundred years. To reach the fourth-grade, it would need thousands of years, and the fifth-grade would be measured in tens of thousands of years.

This one is a top-level first-grade, and as Li Yao knew, the Gryphon Lord has stayed in this city for some time now. According to the descriptions of several Legion commanders, the Gryphon Lord had obtained a Heart of Machinery.

His armies were also built up through various blueprints obtained from the Heart of Machinery. It was said that the acquisition of this second Heart of Machinery was limited by the Gryphon Lord’s strength.

Therefore, he planned to craft a peak-level epic Mechanical Battle Puppet and then use the second-grade Heart of Machinery to evolve it into a legendary grade in one fell swoop, thereby breaking through to a faction level.

Li Yao shook his head slightly. Although the lord was a tech enthusiast, if his plan were carried out, the odds of his success were too great.

Only now it had been intercepted by him. But Li Yao also had some regrets, for a second-grade Heart of Machinery and a first-grade one were two completely different concepts.

It couldn’t be helped. He didn’t have the time to spend countless years waiting for it to reach second-grade slowly; he could only first turn it into an arsenal and then think of other ways to upgrade the Heart of Machinery. Moreover, integrating the Heart of Machinery was imperative; he must make use of it before the Gryphon Lord arrived.

Li Yao knew all too well that these subordinates who had surrendered were very unreliable. Maybe they wouldn’t continue to follow the Gryphon Lord, but getting them to fight against the Gryphon Lord would be problematic.

Furthermore, with the insect swarm crippled, even the Gryphon Lord had suffered a severe blow from the Black Heart Lord; it would be impossible for him to defend the city. It was important to remember that the troops in the Gryphon Lord’s hands were all elite.

Li Yao grabbed the Heart of Machinery and used it directly. The Heart of Machinery emitted a beam of light, which immediately entered the Frame Space.

Seeing that the integration had truly succeeded, Li Yao finally felt relieved. His War Space was too low-level; if it couldn’t be merged into the Frame Space, it would have been a tragedy. Moreover, the integration was unavoidable. But now Li Yao could rest easy.

With a thought, Li Yao quickly flashed out of the secret chamber, then to the warehouse. In the warehouse, besides the supply of food and military provisions, there were more metal ingots. Even if they were only common Copper Ingots and Iron Ingots, they were sufficient for Li Yao.

As the engineers busied themselves, Li Yao saw that the copper metal unit of the Mechanical Core had reached a hundred thousand, and the Copper Ingots in the warehouse had also disappeared by a large amount.

The engineers each took out blocks of items flickering with rune light from a corner in the Frame Space that looked just like Array designs. These were Matrix modules that Li Yao had prepared long ago.

Through such Matrix modules, various engineering tasks could be fragmented and refined.

At this stage, even if one acquired the Heart of Machinery and thus obtained the qualification and right to produce corresponding unit types, the general approach was to recruit mechanics to manufacture them in the armory.

For example, to make an airplane, it had to be crafted individually by one person. Otherwise, it would definitely not match, even if there were relevant standards. This resulted in craftsmen doing everything personally, which was both time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Of course, items produced by a single craftsman were more likely to be masterpieces or “Flash” creations.

The advantage of the matrix lay in standardized production, with each process having fixed tasks. Then, the identical parts assembled together could complete the product. However, the downside was that there would rarely be masterpieces or miraculous “Flash” works. The quality of production was consistent with the output.

But Li Yao didn’t care as the Legion needed mass production. As for masterpieces, those could be handled freely by mechanics who had been freed up and by himself.

With the integration of the matrix, the armory continued to consume copper. The armory that should have been built with thirty thousand copper took fifty thousand to complete.

Of course, that was just the basic infrastructure, such as equipment for smelting metals, forging metals, and making universal parts. Specific selection and arrays still required decisions from Li Yao.

Li Yao couldn’t help but marvel at his own spur-of-the-moment idea. The armory was next to the conversion pool, where various residues and dense smoke could be transformed by the pool, ensuring both environmental protection and waste utilization–a perfect combination.

After that, Li Yao looked at the mechanical units that could be produced at level one. As expected, they included the Mechanical Walking Bird and Mechanical Leopard, standardized hunting rifles of various calibers, and the war machines were mortars and the most inferior stone throwers. Moreover, constructing these also required the establishment of corresponding unit buildings, each demanding ten thousand units of copper ore, with the assembly line requiring an additional fifty percent, making it fifteen thousand.

Li Yao was speechless at the sight of these junk items. He could easily buy them without the Heart of Machinery, and their power and attributes were quite average.

Besides, he had acquired so many Gatling guns and airplanes, as well as reserve military equipment from the Gryphon City armory. These were elite items, at least of the second or third tier that could only be produced as masterpieces, rendering the junk unnecessary.

What delighted Li Yao was that the Heart of Machinery had an enhancement point. Much like a queen insect, it could enhance the strength of his mechanical units.

There were many enhancement options, such as strengthening armor, sharpening weapons, etc. After thinking for a long time, Li Yao finally chose to enhance firepower.

Enhanced firepower meant that under the influence of the Heart of Machinery, the attack speed of melee troops increased by 10%, the ammunition loading speed of ranged troops increased by 25%, and their range by 20%.

It was a enhancement focused more on range, which Li Yao considered deeply. Whether it was airplanes, Gatlings, fire guns, stone throwers or cannons, they were basically ranged weapons. In Li Yao’s view, Mechanical Beasts were essentially meat shields–a successful meat shield unit just had to engage the enemy, leaving the ranged units to do the harvesting.

An increase of one-quarter in ammunition loading speed was already quite remarkable. In a face-off between cannon or gunmen units, this loading speed could determine the outcome, not to mention that the range had also increased by a fifth, which was incredibly advantageous.

Next, Li Yao turned his attention to the production line, namely the new choices brought by the matrix, which were the auxiliary stream unit types that he had been looking forward to with the low-tier Heart of Machinery…

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