High Above

  Chapter 905 The enemy's soul is also my currency

"how?"

   When the goblin Ian returned to the Nauman City governor's office, the Marquis of Barton asked: "How do you feel about the specific strength of the demon army, and what is the strength of Deathstroke?"

"There is a fourth energy level. At the very least, there is a fourth energy level under the blessing of the cursed soil. His heart light body is a bit weak, it should only be a strengthened third energy level, but the subspace reaction is very strong, which proves that his spirit Its 'mass' is huge, I think this is one of his 'hole cards', allowing him to exert the power of the fourth energy level with the body of the third energy level."

The goblin Ian landed on the table, he pondered for a while, and then summarized the information: "In any case, he is a real big devil, and he can already create a subspace maze around him—he didn't try to keep me just now, but It is to warn me of a possible sneak attack."

   "It's a pity, this is probably the instinct of beings in the fourth level of the void, because if he really hits my fairy body with all his strength, then my body will launch a fatal blow to him from behind him."

After finishing speaking, the door of the governor's office opened, and another Ian—the physical Ian wearing the exoskeleton armor entered the door, and said very smoothly: "It is said that the sublimated creatures of the fourth and fifth energy levels have an instinctive predictive ability, I am used to it as a prophet, so I may not be very clear. Marquis, do you know?"

   "I'm only level 3."

  Even the Marquis of Barton didn't know whether to focus on Ian the Fairy or Ian the Lord.

He just shook his head slightly: "The fourth energy level is not so easy to kill. You destroy the body of the great demon in the material world, and he can continue to fight in the virtual world—this is the difficulty of demons. They can't even kill them." Must die."

"The monster will die if it is killed." Ian said: "The demon's immortality is meaningless in front of the goblin. I can go directly to the void and kill him a second time. The only problem is that I just felt a sense of crisis... "

   "Death knell still has cards."

   This is actually half nonsense. As the vanguard of Feiyandi's invasion of Nanling, the Demon General, how could he not have a trump card? Ian's series of raids and sneak attacks this time is just to find out the death knell's hole card.

  It would be even better if the opponent could be induced to use a little technology related to Dragon of the Abyss.

  Unfortunately, the other party held back.

The goblin Ian returned to the body of the lord Ian, and the reunited Ian looked serious, and came to the office map: "Although the harassment during this period has made the demon miserable, and it has also allowed me to find out the reality of the demon army, but Their strength has not been compromised."

"According to information from the western region, the original demon army split into three parts, two-thirds of which stayed in the western region and involved the imperial army, and only one-third came to us, but the number is still more than 3,000. "

   "Every demon is a sublimator, and they all have power beyond the general first-level sublimation, and a hundred demon officers have the strength of about the second level."

"It's not impossible to compete with all the strength of Nanling, and even surpass it on paper." Marquis Barton also pondered: "But the combat power is not comparable at all. Gather all the nobles, knights and sublimated people to fight as an army , which is impossible.”

"Yes."

And Ian also nodded slightly: "This time, they slaughtered the entire Golden Plain. I can no longer contain the spread of the cursed soil. Within a few days, they will launch a strong attack on Nauman City or other areas, and we The Legion's costume change is not over yet."

  The so-called legion replacement refers to the mass-produced exoskeleton armor, auxiliary aiming system and other equipment using Yinfeng collar technology after Ian took over the Nauman City Military Factory in the recent period. In addition, there are armored electromagnetic ejection seats, automatic drug injection for exoskeleton armor, and automatic escape systems.

  With the permission of the Marquis of Barton, a brand new mechanized army is gradually taking shape.

   But all of this is based on the support of the Heart of Terra. Without the terminal network servers of Terra Heart and Silver Peak, most of the mechanical information systems will be useless.

Moreover, because the time is too short, the replacement rate of the legion is currently not more than 30%—this is a very contradictory thing. If the demon legion does not come quickly, the people in the military factory will not be so easy to hand over power, so There is no way to change their costumes in advance. They can only wait for the demon army to arrive soon, and the group of nobles with expensive heads will obediently hand over the power in their hands.

Ian is not sorry about this, he even thinks that the people from Feiyan came here well, there are no foreign enemies, how could he have the opportunity to lay network terminals in Nanling so quickly, and how could he have the opportunity to clean up those who did not obey his orders A thorn-headed nobleman?

  Although it sounds cold-blooded and ruthless, war is indeed a great opportunity to reshuffle power and reform policies.

   But this is not enough.

  The most terrifying thing about the demon army is that as long as the cursed soil spreads, they can directly cross the army defense line, rush into the city and the rear to slaughter civilians, and the more they kill, the stronger they become. This is also the real reason why the western region cannot resist the demon army.

  The strength of the city defenders in the western region is not bad. They can use heavy firepower to block the advance of the demons, but when the demons enter the city with desperate spread, they can slaughter everything in the rear and become stronger and stronger.

  So, in order to cope with the characteristics of the demon army, Ian withdrew everyone who could be evacuated from the golden plain.

  But there are still some people who are unwilling to leave. If it wasn't for the demons who can use the curse of those who are not killed by themselves, Ian would like to kill these idiots with his own hands. But there is no way, I can only use the last wave of waste, and then carry out the last sneak attack, to see if I can severely damage the death knell.

   As a result, the death knell did not give a chance.

   "Recently, Chongling Sect has been promoting it."

At this moment, the Marquis of Barton spoke. The old man looked much more relaxed after leaving the stall. At least Ian didn't see too much worry from his face: "They said that the prophet had predicted all this and declared that this is a holy war." ..."

   "A strategy."

  Ian came back to his senses, he smiled and said: "Just tell everyone that this war is a holy war that must be won, then even if the opponent is a demon, they will not have the slightest fear."

"I see."

  The Marquis of Barton seemed to see more things, but he didn't say much. He moved to another topic: "Even if we can resist the demon army, what about the death knell? Without relying on sneak attacks, can you defeat a fourth energy level head-on?"

"Or…"

  The old man slowly raised his head to look at the sky, he seemed to be implying: "Can you call some forces that can intervene in this battle?"

   Neither goblins, dragons, nor the Four Orthodox Churches will intervene in this war. They will only help the Silver Peaks protect the 'civilians', which is why there are still some cities in the western region that have survived so far, because there are major churches and temples of the four major Orthodox churches in those cities.

  However, the Marquis of Barton was obviously not talking about those powers.

   "If there is a need, I will definitely call."

  Ian nodded slightly, but he said meaningfully: "But I am an imperial noble, Earl of Silver Peak, how could I call some exiled power?"

   "What's more, although the death knell is the fourth energy level, it is a fourth energy level demon, or a fusion demon. I have a way to deal with him."

   "I didn't know you were a demon expert."

The Marquis of Barton raised his eyebrows, but he didn't ask further questions. Instead, he discussed with Ian about the cooperation of the South Ridge Chamber of Commerce. The war he was about to face now was an all-out war against Flameland. Yes, but the compensation process after the war needs to be discussed. Ian is also willing to owe some debts to the chamber of commerce, and let them go to Yinfeng to get supplies to repay the loan.

  Although the Marquis of Barton is right, he is indeed not an expert on demons...but there are some in his territory.

  Aside from Yadbert, isn't Xio the Dragon of the Void? She has also been infested by the poison of the void demon for a hundred years, so she must be an expert in this field!

   "Huh? Demons, weak ones can just eat them."

Leader Yinfeng, Xiou who was being questioned looked at a blank face: "As for the strong ones, just fight normally, destroy their soul structure, use spiritual power to dispel the remaining curse, collect the fragments, and burn them with the fire of the spirit world , it's all clean."

   "Besides, Ian, can't you still beat that fourth-level demon?"

Xio was deeply skeptical about the fact that Ian came to ask her how to deal with the death knell. She thought that Ian could kill the dark gold dragon. In the end, he could even drive the body of the dark gold dragon to withstand the attack of the fifth energy level. What's so difficult about a fourth-level demon?

   What's more, didn't Ian fight Deathstroke today? If you are not at a disadvantage, why worry so much.

   "If I call down my immovable strong city body, fuse the two, reshape the Herald of Steel, and match it with the heart of Terra, then I can indeed defeat it head-on, at most paying a little price."

Ian shook his head: "But if it's just a goblin, then there is indeed an order of magnitude gap between my energy level and it... My goblin body, except that the core is made of the Ladder Life Tree, other materials are not as luxurious as my body .”

"As for the shocking blow, I used the resources of the Heart of Terra—if I have been using the computing power of the Heart of Terra, then I can indeed face the enemy head-on, but the Heart of Terra is still responsible Without the blessing of the heart of Terra, the computing machine information troops, these troops can be said to be collapsed in the face of the demon army."

  This creates a problem: In terms of heads-up, Ian is indeed not afraid of death knell. But the death knell still has a large army of demons, and whether it is the giant of light or the mechanized army of Adalbert, it needs the assistance of the heart of Terra to exert its full effect.

  There is only one Heart of Kotera.

"so…"

  Seeing that Xiou understood the difficulty of the territory and couldn't help frowning, Iantu said in awe: "Xio, please do me a favor."

   "What's the matter?" The red-haired dragon girl opened her eyes wide, and she somehow felt something was wrong: "I will help you fight and deal with those demonic officers, but what else do you need my help for?"

   "Borrow your dragon soul!" Ian said bluntly: "I will center on you and create a calculation matrix. When I invoke the power of the heart of Terra, your soul will undertake the calculation of the army!"

  Xio looked bewildered: "Huh?"

   And Ian strikes while the iron is hot: "Xio, your dragon soul has great potential, especially the dragon crystal thinking organs, each of which is comparable to a real biological quantum computer—oh, you can just understand it as a source quality computing chip."

"The potential of the dragon soul you usually use is less than 10%, but as long as you connect to the heart of Terra network through meditation, the heart of Terra can use your soul to calculate and create an extra dragon soul out of thin air. extension!"

   "In this way, the computing power crisis in our territory will be resolved!"

   "Wait..." Xiou was a little confused at the moment: "You mean, you want me to stay behind during the war and exist as a computing center?"

   "Yes." Ian laughed, and Xiou completely understood his plan, saving a lot of tongue.

   "This is too boring!" Xiou was indignant: "There is no need to fight? I also want to protect the Yinfeng leader with my own hands!"

  Ian is persuasive: "You remotely control so many unmanned armors, it's nothing more than changing from playing in person to leading a team, and shooting has become a strategy. There is not much difference!"

  Xiou was moved: "It seems to be a little bit interesting... If you talk about the strategy in detail, it sounds very powerful!"

Xiou didn't object to Ian's desire to use his dragon soul as the calculation center, because for dragons, things like soul and body are tools. Since she has decided to use a If you want to help Ian in the name of the dragon, then it's no big deal to take out the soul as a support.

  However, it would be best if you can do what you like—Xio actually doesn’t like fighting very much. She has been stuck in the dragon’s lair for a hundred years, and she really doesn’t know how to fight.

   On the contrary, it was the games recently developed by Xiahui City. She played them with great enthusiasm, and even won the first place in the Tetris competition at Silver Square Tavern in Xiahui City.

   And those board games in the tavern, she is also quite good (basically equivalent to AI bullying people), and she has not lost a single battle for three days.

  Command unmanned armored combat? Sounds a bit like playing chess... I did it!

   And just when Xiou was full of energy and was about to try now, Ian also breathed a sigh of relief.

  Although the computing power of the heart of Terra is indeed unable to load Ian's combat and war systems at the same time, it is not to the point where one side runs at full capacity and the other stops.

  But Ian had to leave a margin of 10 to 20 percent, as a back-up at critical moments - Xiou was willing to help with this, which really helped a lot.

As for the fact that Xiou has no experience in commanding unmanned armor to fight wars, it doesn't really matter at all: the heart of Terra has prepared a full set of database and soul application programs, and as soon as Xiou's dragon soul is in place, it will immediately can start.

   To put it simply, Xio is the dragon in the heart of Terra's loop, responsible for providing strategic decision-making and computing power. The specific tactics, the heart of Terra will solve it by itself.

   "I hope my preparations are sufficient... This is the first challenge of Yinfeng collar and my future career."

   Walking out of the conference room with Xiou, Ian stood at the top of his lord's mansion, silently overlooking his own land.

  July has arrived, and the hot sun is shining on the hot and humid city after the early rain.

   A criss-crossing street was laid out in front of his eyes, and the heart of Terra, the most powerful artificial intelligence known, was also laid out.

   It is hidden in the deepest part of the void, and it is building a sufficiently powerful wireless intelligent network, a psionic network, through the signal base stations laid in every corner of Nanling.

  With it, Ian can reach out to every factory and city hall in Nanling. He can monitor every production plan while monitoring whether everyone abides by the production rules and whether they are corrupt.

Creating the Heart of Terra was Ian's most successful and correct choice. After all, he couldn't do everything by himself, but leaving his world in the hands of others... It's not that Ian doesn't trust his partners. Or future officials, but they're all human, and humans make mistakes.

  As a leader, the only thing he can do is to use various methods as much as possible to reduce the possibility of their making mistakes.

Only with sufficient information acquisition and transmission channels can artificial intelligence exert its greatest effectiveness. Whether it is government or commercial operations, those jobs that are full of 'oily' and 'tricky' must be efficient and stable, unified and consistent. Will betray the intelligent management system instead.

   Among other things, in Nanling, Ian absolutely does not allow his orders to be issued, and the people below use chicken feathers as arrows to expand the processing and use policies to trouble the people, which in turn brings trouble to the implementation of the policies.

  As long as anyone dares to do this, Ian will definitely kill him—do you really think that the Silver Peak collar needs so many officials? If you don't do a good job, you can use it as a battery for a good artificial intelligence!

  His law is iron, absolutely no one will allow anyone to provoke.

   "In Nanling, it is enough for the time being."

Silver-blue light shone in his eyes, and Ian looked around his city, but his vision followed the veins of Terra's heart and swept every corner of Nanling: "Almost the whole province has been lit up by me. , My position will not be shaken even after the war. I am already the real controller of Nanling."

   "But the computing power of the heart of Terra has not been fully utilized - there are too few souls and not enough energy."

   "Next, either use time to accumulate, or find the right opportunity to acquire a large number of high-quality souls."

  The question is, where does the high-quality soul come from?

   Ian looks north.

   Devil.

  Aren’t demons the souls of the highest quality?

   This is why Ian is so cautious in dealing with the demon army—not only is the enemy stronger, but also because he has a strong desire for the enemy itself.

   We must ensure that the enemy's cards are exhausted, and there is no resistance at all... We must defeat them openly and aboveboard, so that we can deal with all the spoils.

   There must be no loss, and there must be no accidents.

   "No matter whose life it is, I will not waste it... Even the soul of the enemy is my currency."

   Lowering his eyes, Ian looked at his city.

As the main city of Yinfeng Territory, Xiahui City is currently operating at an extraordinary efficiency under the state of war. All the alchemy workshops and all industrial parks are all operating at overload. The supplies vehicles, after transporting the raw materials, will immediately leave with weapons and medicines.

  If it is managed by people, there must be some corruption in this process. But relying on the management of artificial intelligence, at least, there will be no problems in distribution.

Under the huge war publicity, everyone knows how powerful and terrifying the Demon Legion is, but it is also because of the propaganda of the Yinfeng Leader that everyone knows the power of the new armed forces, and that the Demon Legion has repeatedly been defeated by the Yinfeng Leader's sneak attack In the scene, everyone has no fear of demons.

  The enemy is strong, but not invincible, and look - those machines rolling out of factories, those huge and towering steel giants, armed with those exoskeletons and powerful guns, even old farmers can defeat monsters.

  Up to now, the whole city has become tense due to the invasion of the demon army, but because of this, they share a common hatred and are extremely united.

Of course, hard work cannot ignore mental health: According to the policy of the city hall, each of the five squares in Xiahui City will set up three ice cream and drink distribution points, and everyone with a tax or student certificate will have You can get a free ice cream and iced drink.

   On the first day this policy was promulgated, praises filled the entire city, and even the fusion demon, Fuying, praised "Long live Ian" from the bottom of his heart.

  Although he still thinks he's a spy for Flameland, it doesn't matter if it's a spy or not.

  As long as Ian can continue to bring victory and peace to the people, then his territory will always be such a prosperous scene.

   But this prosperity will always have spoilers.

  【Beast Tide, Ian】

  In the early morning of the next day, Ian got through to the emergency communication of the Marquis of Barton, and the old man's extremely serious voice sounded: 【The direction of the golden plain, the beast tide is coming! 】

  (end of this chapter)