High Above

  Chapter 638 can be regarded as remembering that there are still spoils of war

  Ian's analysis of the rebellious mountain people is well founded.

Lai'an has been a sacred place for mountain people since ancient times. From the perspective of the people of the empire, the water and soil in this place are suitable for growing psionic plants. It is a rare planting area rich in resources, especially the area around Lai'an Lake. A circle of land is covered by a natural spiritual energy field, even if it is just living in it, it may increase the adaptability of the source quality.

Therefore, whether it is the rebellious mountain people or the Xuanfeng tribe, they want to take the lead in taking this land as their own, and no matter which side succeeds, it will be the meat of the mountain people themselves in the end, so Feiyandi and most of the rebellious mountain people The center is not here.

  But Ian is here, Ian, who is a white citizen of the empire, rules this place... that must be unacceptable.

  The reason why the mountain people can’t accept it is very simple. The reason why Fei Yandi can’t accept it is because the Leian Territory is actually one of the nearest entrances and exits to the Agate Stone Plain around the Midra Autonomous Region.

Looking at the map, you can see that if the Moldor and Aldo colonies located in the northwest of Nanling want to follow the road to the core city circle of the empire on the east side of Nanling, they must go to the Hal Basin in the southeast, and then go east to Autonomous District of Midra.

   As for the Midra Autonomous Region, if they want to go to the Agate Stone Plain, they have three options. The first one is to pass through the mouth of Guyan Peak, and then pass through Lai'an City. The road is smooth.

  The second option is to go south to Mirakland, cross the Moorbush Gap, and after crossing the river, you can come to the Agate Stone Plain.

  The last choice is to climb over a mountain in the north, and then follow the mountain path to the north side of the agate stone plain around Nauman City.

Of course, there are also many trails besides this. For example, the troops gathered in the Totaku Basin on the northeast side of the Odor colony. There is an old road of the mountain people there. If you go east from here, you can come all the way through the mouth of the mountains. To the edge of the golden plain above Naumann.

  It was actually the road most commonly used by mountain people in the past, because today's agate stone plain was actually a dense coastal jungle in the past.

All in all, the mountain people seem to have many choices, but they must try to take back the Leian Territory. Whether it is from the sense of belief in the Holy Land or from a convenient strategic point of view, they must try Ian's nail. not hard.

  The Marquis of Barton gave Ian such great support, but also hoped that Ian could block the vanguard of the mountain people and delay a little time.

Anyway, the high-level combat power of the mountain people, whether it is Feiyandi or the steel pterosaur group, is restrained. The pure mountain people's second energy level, if they want to break through Ian's armor and elite troops, they will definitely have to meet their heads Broken blood.

   As for whether the mountain people will continue to try this way in the future, it depends on whether Ian can hurt them—that is to say, this is within Ian's personal ability.

  Ian is also very aware of this, and he 100% does not believe that the residents of Leonland are of one mind with him.

Half of the residents of Laian Territory are mountain people, and their trust in the empire is not high. Now I just let them feel that "this lord can be dealt with, let him rule." As long as the mountain people take advantage, these people will turn against It will be as simple as drinking water.

  After all, the residents of the border cities in the border provinces of the empire cannot be required to serve the country wholeheartedly... This is unrealistic. It is better to say that this is the normal state of war on the Terra continent. How can there be so much impassioned nationalism and family spirit.

   "We have to win. If we win, the people will follow us. If we don't win, no one will feel at ease. Don't think that you are the lord, and the people will support you."

Ian said this to Scott: "Instead of choosing a group of militiamen who don't know their loyalty in the city of Laian, which has long been afraid of war, it is better to wait for the Marquis of Barton and the Boin Workshop." Reinforcements' and Qing Chao brought over, real reinforcements."

   "My lord, Qing Chao may bring a group of Port Harrison mercenaries, I know..."

  Scott was a little puzzled: "But the Marquis... Didn't you say that we can recruit as many people as we can, but they don't give us people?"

   "Aren't the mercenaries in Port Harrison the private soldiers of the Viscount who exceeds the establishment?"

  Ian's eyes flickered, he looked at the workshop area in front of him, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "And the soldiers who the Marquis escorted my grain convoy over... aren't they just used to support my reinforcements?"

   "Although they themselves may not think so, but now that they have arrived in my territory, I have reluctantly recruited them temporarily."

  —Then, arm them with brand new weapons and equipment.

  Ian, who led the team to the workshop area, immediately ordered the head of the local workshop to come to see him. This middle-aged bald mechanic named Amber indeed looked very reliable, and he knew he was capable at a glance.

  He heard Ian's request, and when he called almost all the skilled workers and alchemists together before evening, he couldn't help but feel troubled.

   "My lord, I will do my best to complete your instruction, but there are two difficulties in this task."

As soon as he opened his mouth, he knew that they were pure technicians, the kind without any political elements. Amber said bluntly to Ian: "First, although we have a list of relevant technicians, the workshop stopped working after the death of the previous lord. It's been a long time... In the past six months, many people have been poached or moved away, and I can't guarantee that all of them will be found."

"Second, you asked to start work now, which is really a bit difficult-the rebel mountain people removed all the raw materials for elemental crystallization and alchemy furnaces, and we only have the most basic metal materials left. This is considered to be a start... I don't know what to drive."

  These two questions are indeed the most practical ones.

  Ian naturally wouldn’t get angry because the reality didn’t conform to his instructions, and accused the craftsman of being unfavorable in doing things—he is a technician himself, and he doesn’t know the truth of seeking truth from facts in engineering and tasks?

The first question doesn't really matter, because Ian doesn't need a full set of workshop staff, just a little operating experience, so he asked Amber to find as many people as he can find, and there will be guard soldiers following him to catch them. Make a new list and get more food.

  The second question, Ian asked in detail how many materials are left in the current alchemy workshop, and he couldn't help frowning after getting the answer that 'almost all sublimation materials are exhausted'.

   This is indeed a difficult problem.

  The scientific name of what Ian wants to start the alchemy workshop on earth is 'exoskeleton power armor'.

  In the continent of Terra, this kind of armor actually has a very simple name 'sublimation armor'.

Standard armors such as air-wrapping armor and patrol knights have a little power, which is a kind of equipment between normal armor and armor. It is often used by all kinds of adventurers and explorers when they are exploring mazes— After all, armor is as strong as it is strong, but in terms of battery life and size, it is still difficult to use.

   As for sublimated armor, the problem in this respect is relatively small.

  However, the power armor Ian wants to build is actually slightly different from the sublimated armor.

In essence, the sublimation armor is still dominated by the sublimator. Its automatic power is not used to drive the armor, but to activate some kind of sublimation ability, such as the accessory of the jet flight of the air-wrapping armor—or magneto-optic The knight's magnetic sand armor does have self-motivation, but it requires the sublimator to use more and more source quality to drive it to exert real combat power.

  In essence, the sublimation armor is a small armor with the sublimation as the power core.

  But the power armor that Ian wants to make is something with self-motivation, even if the operator is an ordinary person, it can exert greater power and even a part of sublimation ability.

  Obviously, this design idea is very weird—rather than arming a group of ordinary people with a little sublimation ability, why not just strengthen a sublimator directly!

  The latter can obviously cut the melons and vegetables of the former, can't it?

The truth is this, but Ian has a plan. He planned to reorganize the army system in his territory from the very beginning, and with the exoskeleton armor he designed by combining Earth technology and Terra technology, the number of people is large. It may not be impossible to pose a threat to sublimators.

   And most importantly, it can cause a dimensionality reduction blow to the enemy's conventional troops that is the same as that of the sublimator.

  —Yes, my soldiers can't beat the Ascendant...but your soldiers can't beat the Ascendant, but also my soldiers!

  As long as Ian can guarantee that he can defeat the enemy's Ascendant, won't the result be crushing the enemy in all aspects?

   It's just that if there are no raw materials, no matter how good the plan is, it will be useless.

   "My lord, if what you want to make is this kind of sublimated armor..."

At this moment, Amber is flipping through a stack of design drawings given by Ian. A set of huge, bulky, thick and ferocious armor similar to a diving suit gradually emerged in his mind, and he knew it clearly: "Then everything else is easy to say, but We don't have the 'flare chip' of the Armed Forces."

The hairless Jinmin craftsman with a little wrinkle on his face raised his head and said to Ian seriously: "You want to create a kind of scorching rays that can be fired continuously...or, in other words, prismatic rays. Sublimation armor, right? This is indeed an extremely powerful weapon, but if it is to deal with the enemy, it is definitely not a good thing to adopt the same weapon design.”

"Also, we don't have any medicine raw materials that can be used as raw materials for its weapons... We only have pure Xiahui grass extract left here. In other words, even if we want to replace the new weapon system, we must There must be raw materials for this weapon system, and it must only be activated with the source quality of the Xiahui grass extract."

   "That's it."

  Ian is also a little worried. He did carry some raw materials with him, but the quantity is obviously not enough to arm an army. Compared with the power armor, it is safest to ensure the ammunition of the rechargeable rifle first.

To be honest, in just one battle yesterday, the ammunition of the rechargeable rifle was consumed by nearly half. This is also one of the shortcomings of sublimation armor and alchemy equipment. Compared with the supply of conventional weapons, they want to continue fighting, even if it is It is difficult for an alchemist lord like Ian to maintain.

  —Is it possible to wait for the next batch of supplies from Nauman City?

  Ian thought so, but in this case, he would owe the Marquis of Barton a favor. Although this is not a big deal, that kind of eagle owl would not get involved if he could not have this kind of relationship.

  But at this moment, Scott came over and whispered to Ian: "My lord, have you forgotten your spoils?"

  Ian raised his eyebrows: "What spoils?"

Scott was confused instead: "It's the spoils left by the three mountain leaders you killed yesterday - Kari Yamaguchi was repaired by our soldiers after the battle, and Xisang Jiangu was burned off by you , and Martin Xuanfeng was directly incinerated by the charging of your armored main gun... But didn't their weapons stay?"

"Karui's half-handled mace, Xisang's lightning bow, Martin's thunderous sword... and that dragon **** ring, you said yesterday that you put it in the castle, when you have time Want to see it again?"

"Oh!" Ian was stunned, because he killed those three people too quickly, he subconsciously divided the other party into the area of ​​'turned into fly ash', but he didn't expect that the other party would have something left: "I really don't know. Thinking about surviving under the light prism, these weapons are a bit powerful."

  It seems that I still made an empirical mistake, mistakenly thinking that there will be no spoils under the light prism, but there are all kinds of strange strength materials in Terra.

   What a windfall.

   "Can sublimation materials that have been used as weapons be used again as raw materials?"

  Ian turned his head and asked the stunned craftsman Amber.

   "Well, of course, my lord..."

Amber was completely stunned, and he said somewhat euphemistically: "How about recasting the already formed sublimation weapon into raw materials... It's a little wasteful, it's a waste of money... That kind of weapon, Lord Lord yourself If you use it, it must be better than our soldiers using this kind of armor..."

  Ian shook his head: "I'll just ask if you can."

   "Theoretically yes."

  Amber hesitated for a moment. His sense of responsibility as a craftsman prevented him from agreeing immediately: "But I want to see the situation of those weapons, my lord."

   Ten minutes later, the weapons arrived.

  A huge sword nearly three meters high, a thunder bow, and a half-melted crystal iron stick.

  【Thunderbolt Sword】

  【Second Energy Level·Weapon·Elite·Inedible】

【Casted by the last mountain craftsman, Tiyer·Shilin, the self-confident work uses the weapons made of the magnetic thunder rock and thunder crystal iron in the depths of Silver Wing Peak, as long as the sublimator holds it in his hand , input the source quality, you can trigger the 'thunder strike', when it hits the enemy, it will burst out a super high heat arc to melt the enemy's armor and flesh]

  【Infuse the source quality for a long time, you can use the 'Thunder Light Sword', the surging thunder light will spread from the blade, transforming into a huge source quality sword blade that can smash the city wall]

  【It was once used to cut through the defense line of the Empire’s fully armored heavy infantry, even armor can be broken, and only the strongest mountain warriors can use it】

  【Contains source quality: 3659.5163 elite units】

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  (end of this chapter)