As a super large magical creation, the construction cost of the floating city is beyond imagination.
This thing is not just a giant gold-swallowing beast, it can swallow everything.
Dozens or hundreds of kilograms of thorium can be used as needed.
Thousands of kilograms of fine gold have been spent no one knows where.
The super magic material measured in tons is simply heartbreaking.
Not to mention the cost of all kinds of manpower, the investment of a lot of new technology, and the construction of various magic circles and facilities.
For a Duke-level mage lord, the cost of building a floating city can drain the resources of the entire territory.
Even for an ordinary kingdom, it is definitely something that will severely damage their vitality.
But for the Gulf Territory, this is not something unacceptable.
Despite the huge investment and consumption, the Gulf Territory's current ability to earn resources only accounts for 1/3 of the total.
Even if the entire continuous investment and construction process takes 6 to 9 months, the Gulf Territory will not be under too much pressure.
Compared to the Karl family, sucking blood from the entire Karl Plain required hundreds of thousands of years of accumulation. It took five or six years to build a framework for the floating city.
There are still many things inside that need to be filled in and improved.
The most important thing is that as the leader, the Grand Arcanist Karsus must also devote himself to it at all times.
Compared to Matthew's comfort and comfort, it is completely incomparable.
The more important point is that the Gulf Territory has invested so many resources and money.
In exchange, there will be improvements in development technology, the expansion of hundreds of production lines, the strengthening of thousands of production processes, and even technological progress and high bonuses for hundreds of thousands of workers.
This implicit improvement and strengthening is obviously more important than the discussion of the purpose of the first floating city.
After discussing it with everyone, we finally chose a result that was not surprising to Matthew - weapons of war!
For now, there is still considerable room for development in all aspects of the Gulf Territory.
In particular, there are more and more territories, a large number of professionals, and an increasingly amazing number of students.
No matter which aspect the floating city takes, although it will bring improvements, it will not bring about fundamental changes.
Whether on the ground, underground, or even in the sea, the production factories, research institutes, and living areas in the Gulf Territory are undergoing rapid development and expansion.
If you want to protect the Gulf Territory and still develop rapidly, you must have stronger force as a guarantee for everything.
All the commanders and managers of the Gulf Territory understand that the Gulf Territory, which has caused so many things, already has many enemies.
The Elf Kingdom of Cole was held back by the Gulf Territory's "Civil Disruption Plan" and "Diversion of Disaster to the East".
There are many sects that are rapidly regaining their strength and trying to compete for influence and more followers.
The Naga Empire, which has occupied a large area of sea, is rebuilding its civilized system, manufacturing and learning various production tools.
The Japanese pirates are huge in number and can be killed and destroyed endlessly.
Although they are now willing to cooperate with the Gulf Territory, the major territories and kingdoms of the Northern Continent may turn against each other at any time.
Even in the demiplane occupied by the Gulf Territory, there are still many hostile forces.
These guys now have evil intentions towards the prosperity and various technologies of the Gulf Territory. Isn't the reason why they have not publicly declared war just because the Gulf Territory's army can fight?
In this case, strengthening force is always the first choice!
Matthew affirmed their sobriety, nodded with a smile, and continued:
"Now that you have chosen to be a war fortress, let's build the strongest war fortress!"
"The territory needs a powerful fortress that can operate stably and function under any circumstances."
Any situation!
All must run stably!
And it's bound to work!
The big guy who accepted this task immediately became excited.
They re-arranged the basic structure of the floating city, completely re-divided the area settings, and prepared to arrange more weapons for the floating city fortress.
Designing a large-scale war fortress, considering various situations and different opponents' protection settings and attack preparations are the key issues they have to overcome.
Their discussions were not without purpose.
But based on various enemies, possible situations.
Conduct precise and detailed discussions to ensure appropriate emergency preparedness.
For example, you encounter a real dragon or flying unit that is almost as powerful as a fang, is huge, has super high defense, is extremely fast, and has extraordinary attack power.
How should the protection work of the war fortress be arranged?
What kind of defensive weapons should be prepared? Countermeasures?
Another example is encountering a large number of deformed flying dragons.
They are numerous in number and have excellent defense-breaking capabilities. They can launch attacks from top, bottom, left, and right, and from all directions.
What kind of countermeasures should be prepared?
What kind of cleaning and killing weapons are prepared?
In addition to combat issues, security tasks and work are also very important.
They have to take into account a variety of situations.
Losing motivation!
How to deal with emergency situations when the floating city drops rapidly?
How to ensure the continuous operation and combat effectiveness of the fortress when it is in a demiplane or area where elemental energy is scarce?
What kind of countermeasures are there when encountering an enemy against whom conventional weapons are of no use?
If the battle lasts too long, the floating city's material reserves will be exhausted.
Is there any way to perform quick recovery? Or prevent this kind of situation from happening?
Various problems and difficulties that need to be solved have brought them new thoughts.
They do not think that the various issues and situations discussed by the lord and others are making things difficult for them.
Commanders in the Gulf Territory who are familiar with history, have read a lot of information, been exposed to many wars, and have commanded many operations all know this.
These situations will definitely occur.
As long as the time is long enough, no matter how small the probability is, the event will definitely happen.
The crux of the matter is.
After these situations occur, are there any corresponding defensive measures?
Or whether these defensive measures can take effect as soon as possible.
Small problems turn into bad situations, bad situations turn into catastrophes, and problems get bigger and worse as they drag on.
This happens all the time!
And their discussion is to solve this problem.
It’s better to be prepared than not.
It’s better to have a plan than not knowing what to do at all.
Their discussion lasted for several days.
One problem after another was solved with the cooperation of various technologies, machinery, tools, and professional abilities reserved by the Gulf Territory.
What they have to do next is to manually "manufacture" various situations and further verify the various methods they discussed.
What should be improved should be improved.
If it is time to strengthen, then strengthen it.
If it cannot be solved for the time being, raise the issue.
Let other more professional people study and solve it.
That's how fast the Bay Territory solves problems.
The reason for such an effect is the improvement and restraint of various systems, the convenience brought by the accurate implementation of rules and laws, and the zero tolerance for corruption and selfish greed.
The Gulf Territory may never be able to eradicate such conditions.
However, bay collars always find bedbugs in time and crush them as quickly as possible.
The experimental process location of the Gulf Territory is specially placed in the demiplane of Catachan, which is dangerous and requires the floating city to function.
Since the first pioneering war, the Gulf Territory's control of the Catachan demiplane has never been effectively expanded.
Not only because all kinds of aberrant monsters began to appear on a large scale, but also because the twisted jungle in the demiplane of Catachan was becoming more and more powerful.
Taller trees!
Greater scale!
Greater resilience!
More energy storage!
As a result, more legendary aberration monsters were raised!
The birth of various new weapons in the Gulf Territory is inseparable from the high-intensity actual combat environment of the Catachan demiplane.
Fortunately, although the Gulf Territory cannot go out anytime and anywhere, the Twisted Jungle is indeed unreachable.
Not only because of the research and improvement of various weapons and equipment in the Gulf Territory, but also because the Gulf Territory has absorbed more and more Catachan warriors and personnel.
Especially those adventurers who dare to fight here for a long time have made a qualitative leap in both strength and wealth.
Correspondingly, the number and strength of various aberration monsters are constantly changing and increasing.
Especially with the coming of the elemental tides.
A variety of large aberrant creatures continue to increase, and even giant aberrant creatures appear.
Although the giant aberrant creature did not have time to show off its power, it was destroyed by the attack of the dragon tooth missile.
But what is certain is that the number of giant aberrant creatures will definitely increase next time.
The huge defensive pressure and finding corresponding solutions have become a problem for the commanders of the Gulf Territory of the demiplane Catachan.
How to solve these problems?
They considered using a variety of fighter jets, even a mechanical Wyvern bomber.
However, relying solely on bombing attacks, after destroying the first batch of giant aberrant creatures discovered.
Twisted Jungle places the production sites of giant aberrant creatures in underground caves.
Although the Gulf Territory has developed some new missiles that can penetrate the ground to kill.
However, it is undoubtedly very uneconomical to compete with Twisted Jungle for resources in this way.
However, if ground troops are dispatched and power is projected over a distance of hundreds of kilometers very quickly, there will be great uncertainty and danger.
Now, they finally have a way!
It can stay in the air for a long time, carry a large number of combat units, carry out long-distance fixed-point delivery, and reserves a large amount of resources. It can carry out war-based floating fortresses without fear of attrition.
With the war fortress in place, the Gulf Territory will be able to carry out long-distance and large-scale battles and strikes.
Twisted Treeline is indeed capable of underground cultivation and expansion. But in that case, the efficiency will be reduced dozens of times, and the Gulf leaders are eager for them to do this.
December 15th.
The demiplane of Catachan.
Volcano Fortress.
Hundreds of heavy-duty excavation equipment are working at the same time, continuously piling up soil and rocks and feeding them into a giant mechanical device the size of a volcano crater.
This giant mechanical device, named the "Taotie Mouth", has a huge diameter of 500 meters and can handle hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of soil and rocks every day.
It has powerful capabilities in automation and integration such as manufacturing high-strength magic cement, extracting, mining and preliminary processing of minerals, and designing and manufacturing large-scale military fortresses.
It is precisely because of its existence that the Gulf Territory will blatantly build the Crater Volcano Fortress in order to declare to the Twisted Jungle:
"I am causing trouble and will definitely pose a huge threat to you."
"If you don't agree, it's better to stand up now and either take action or protest."
"Protesting will not have any effect. We have waited a long time to take action."
Moreover, as more and more parts of the floating city are built, its size is also becoming larger and larger.
In order to capture such a huge fortress.
Will Twisted Jungle produce and develop more terrifying giant aberration monsters?
In order to better attack from the ground?
Once the other party makes arrangements in this regard, and changes in resource investment.
Then Bayland will make a lot of money!
The floating fortress can fly!
December 17th.
Densely packed monsters are approaching the volcano fortress.
Even if they are 30 kilometers away, they have already been seen by the Gulf Territory.
In order to avoid aberrant monsters and twisted jungles, complete various elusive mutations and evolutions.
The Gulf Territory only updated the strength and performance of various weapons to further improve efficiency, without causing much change in the way of combat.
Rockets and missiles other than light and heavy artillery were also not used.
It is more about training the cooperation and actual combat capabilities of combat soldiers, and completing the perfection and improvement of existing weapons and equipment.
At the same time, this is also a testing ground for the computing center to participate in the battle.
The Gulf Territory's current fighting method is undergoing a diversified and three-dimensional transformation.
For a large number of computing tasks, with the help of the computing center, answers can be obtained quickly, and modularity and systematization have been greatly improved.
Of course, the soldiers of the Gulf Territory did not give up the training of fighting away from the computing center during their normal training.
Even during actual combat, they often take the initiative to complete this test under the prompts of the commander.
The Hummingbird drone quickly transmitted the information back.
Various detailed information such as the enemy's number, type, strength, speed, etc. will be quickly transmitted back to the command center.
The command center responded immediately and issued various orders at the same time.
"Enemies found, first level alert!"
"Attention all combat units, enemies of the order of 100,000 are approaching."
"The enemy is expected to arrive on the battlefield in 2 hours, 43 minutes and 52 seconds, and the artillery units have begun to assemble."
"The combat material production factory is launched!"
"The command authority of the wartime computing center is established."
"..."
The guard soldiers who had been prepared quickly rushed to the fighting position.
The somewhat silent volcano fortress became lively again
The dark muzzles were slowly raised.
Some of the artillery shells were placed at the rear to avoid being temporarily unable to provide artillery shells and firepower due to artillery accidents.
On the side of the muzzle control display, the shooting coordinates sent by the calculation center clearly appeared.
The gunners carefully checked the accuracy of the shooting coordinates and quickly compared them one by one.
Other combatants are also doing their jobs.
The most exciting ones are the adventurers who have gathered here these days.
They reluctantly left the construction site and quickly rushed to the familiar combat area. They patiently said to the other new companions:
"The demiplane of Catachan is different from other places. The danger here is much greater."
"Various dangers such as poisonous insects, poisonous gas, and poisonous blood can kill you at any time."
"High risks also bring high rewards. Be obedient, adapt slowly, and fight two battles with the territory, and you will basically be on the fast track of development."
"The various training auxiliary medicines in the Catachan demiplane are very famous..."
In addition to the adventurers, also joining the battle sequence were captured warriors from the Cole elves.
They are led by the psychic ranger Tyrael and the legendary ranger Aerys, and are very focused on preparing for the next battle in the Gulf Territory.
Most of them have undergone surgical transformation by dragon warriors. They have very stable emotions and relatively peaceful personalities. They are not like the "unlucky guys" captured by the Gulf Territory at all.
This group of Cole elves took the initiative to apply to join the combat order.
They strongly approve of the system of the Gulf Territory and believe that other Cole elves need to change their minds and receive re-education.
In their view, the current Elf Kingdom of Cole has become a plaything of the elven gods.
Unable to continue to expand and develop, it is limited to a strange circle with an upper limit of strength.
Just like the ban order issued by the elven gods to the Cole Elf Kingdom before falling asleep.
Tyrell, who led the team, felt quite helpless as these Cole elves went from one extreme to another.
Iris, who was following him, seemed much calmer, just quickly debugging the combat armor.
He turned his head and glanced at the Cole elves who were preparing to fight, stared at the endless twisted jungle in the distance, was silent for a while and said:
"See? Can we survive in a world like this? And last this long?"
After hearing this, Tyrell shook his head in confusion and pondered for a while before saying:
"This is what the Gulf leaders said, being able to think independently is the most difficult thing..."
Before they could discuss it clearly, the artillery array in the distance roared one after another.
The continuous firelight illuminated the somewhat gray sky, and penetrated into the clouds mightily, setting the entire sky on fire.
Watching them disappear, Iris's eyes flashed with a faint golden light, he raised the flamethrower in his hand and said without thinking:
"Get ready to fight. Look at the Gulf Territory fighting here. It will definitely give you a lot of surprises!"
boom! boom! boom!
The violent explosion immediately set off a violent burst of fire.
The terrifying shock wave was mixed with deadly shrapnel.
Neither the huge twisted plants nor the dangerous aberrant creatures could withstand this terrifying impact, and huge gaps were torn open during the covering bombing.
The billowing smoke gradually dissipated, revealing a large pit and many scarred, deformed monsters.
However, there were so many of them that the area covered by the firelight was only a drop in the bucket of these aberrant monsters.
Moreover, their recovery ability is super strong, even wounds that are enough to tear their bodies will heal in a very short time.
They withstood the continuous artillery bombardment and rushed towards the volcanic fortress standing in the distance.
Tyrell, who saw this scene through the magic image screen, was a little stunned. He looked at the artillery that was still firing, and doubts emerged in his mind. He asked directly to the senior next to him:
"It's obviously of no effect, so why waste the shells?"
Iris, who had been in the Catachan demiplane for a long time, pointed at the large monsters scattered in the picture and said with lingering fear:
"Believe it or not, if there were no artillery as a deterrent, all those running towards us would be these huge super monsters that are hard to be harmed by swords."
As soon as they finished speaking, the two of them saw a huge mad bull in the video, whose head was smashed by a cannonball falling from the sky.
Its huge body fell to the ground with a "clang". Its vitality was quite tenacious, and its limbs were still twitching and struggling on one side.
The scene, which was quite fitting for the situation, made Tyrell quite emotional, and he began to look forward to what kind of tactics and arrangements the Gulf Territory would have next.
However, he could no longer see the normal picture.
When a huge army of aberrant monsters surged in with the help of the twisted jungle.
The Gulf Territory only resisted as usual for about two hours, and then issued an order for a full-scale defense.
Facing the volcanic fortress firing with all its strength, the smaller aberrant creature was completely unable to stop it.
The defense gap represented by body size can only be broken through with a certain probability unless one can overcome the shackles of a super level.
But small, aberrant monsters don't deserve such a chance.
They are just cannon fodder that comes one after another, providing time for the larger army of heavy-duty aberration monsters in the distance to get on their way.
“Large-scale deformed monsters numbering in the millions have been discovered, and 14 legendary enemy monsters have been discovered so far…”
"The enemy has gathered all the legendary aberrations and large aberrations within a radius of 500 kilometers, and it seems that they are preparing to take a closer look at the floating fortress."
"The highest alert is activated, and we begin to request support and cooperate with friendly forces in combat."
"Floating Fortress, ready to start!"
As the order was issued, the floating fortress located on the top of the crater, even though its appearance was still in tatters, had begun to gather a considerable energy response.
The very astonishing energy reaction immediately caused turbulence in the surrounding elements, and was quickly noticed by the Twisted Jungle.
Prepare to explore the twisted jungle, and continue to send a large-scale aberration army to advance rapidly this way.
At this moment, cannon muzzles were exposed one after another on the surrounding walls of the floating fortress, firing out clusters of deadly flames.
The densely packed destructive shells instantly turned the entire area 3 to 5 kilometers outside the city wall into a sea of fire.
The terrifying shocks and the flames rising into the sky fully demonstrated to the Twisted Jungle what a weapon of destruction is!
In the floating fortress that had completed a main gun salvo, large and small mechanical arms were rapidly loading and accumulating launch data.
Even if it is located on the ground, the terrifying destructive power of the floating fortress can still destroy most enemies.
As for the large army of aberrant monsters rushing in, you should be lucky enough to see its other form - the floating combat form! (End of chapter)