High Above

"how?"

When Goblin Ian returned to the Governor's Office in Nauman City, Marquis Barton asked: "How do you feel about the specific strength of the Demon Legion, and what is the strength of Deathstroke?"

"There is a fourth energy level. At least, with the blessing of the cursed earth, there is a fourth energy level. His mind light body is a bit weak and should only be an enhanced third energy level, but the subspace reaction is very strong, which proves that his spiritual I think this is one of his 'trump cards' because of his huge 'body', which allows him to use his third-level body to exert the power of his fourth level."

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 his best to save me just now, But they are warning me of possible sneak attacks."

"What a pity. This is probably the instinct of a being in the fourth-level virtual realm, because if he really attacks my fairy body with all his strength, then my body will give him a fatal blow from behind."

After finishing speaking, the door to the Governor's office opened, and another Ian - a physical Ian wearing exoskeleton armor, entered the door, and answered the words extremely smoothly: "It is said that sublimated creatures of the fourth and fifth energy levels have an instinctive ability to predict. , I am used to being a prophet, so I may not know it very well. Marquis, do you know?"

"I'm only the third level."

Even Marquis Barton didn't know whether to focus on Fairy Ian or Lord Ian for a while.

He just shook his head slightly: "The fourth energy level is not so easy to kill. If you destroy the big demon's body in the material world, he can still continue to fight in the virtual realm - this is the difficulty of demons. They can't even kill them." Not necessarily dead.”

"The monster will die when it is killed." Ian said: "The demon's immortality is meaningless in front of the goblin. I can directly chase him to the virtual realm and kill him a second time. The only problem is that I just sensed a sense of crisis... …”

"Deathstroke still has a trump card."

This is actually half nonsense. As the vanguard of Feiyan Land'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 were just to find out Deathstroke's trump card.

It would be better if the opponent can be induced to use some Abyss Dragon-related techniques.

It's a pity that the other party held back.

Goblin Ian returned to Lord Ian's body. The reunited Ian looked serious and came to the office map: "Although the harassment during this period made the devil miserable and allowed me to find out the reality of the demon army, but Their strength has not been compromised.”

"According to the intelligence from the Western Region, the original demon army split into three parts, two-thirds of which stayed in the Western Region to involve the Imperial Legion, and only one-third came to us, but their number is still more than three thousand. "

"Every demon is an ascendant and possesses power beyond the average first-level ascendant, and hundreds of demon officers all have strength around the second level."

"If all the strength of Nanling is gathered together, it is not impossible to compete. It can even exceed the strength on paper." Marquis Barton also pondered: "But the combat power cannot be compared at all. Gather all the nobles, knights and sublimated people and fight as an army. , this is impossible.”

"Yes."

And Ian also nodded slightly: "This time, they massacred the entire Golden Plains. 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 army’s dress change is not over yet.”

The so-called legion change refers to the exoskeleton armor, auxiliary aiming system and other equipment that were mass-produced using Silver Peak Collar technology during the recent period after Ian took over the Nauman City Military Factory. In addition, there are armored electromagnetic ejection seats, automatic agent injection for exoskeleton armor, and automatic escape systems.

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

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

Moreover, because time is too short, the army's replacement rate currently does not exceed 30% - this is a very contradictory thing. If the demon army does not come soon, the people in the military factory will not hand over power so easily. Therefore, there is no way to change clothes in advance. We can only wait for the demon army to arrive soon before those troubled nobles will obediently hand over their power.

Ian was not sorry for this. He even felt that the people from Feiyan had arrived well and there were no foreign enemies. Where did he get the opportunity to lay out network terminals in Nanling so quickly, and where did he get the opportunity to clean up those who did not obey his orders in an open and honest manner? Thorny noble?

Although it sounds cold-blooded, 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's defense lines, rush into the city and the rear to massacre civilians, and the more they kill, the stronger they become. This is also the real reason why the Western Territory 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 demon's advance from the front, but when the demons enter the city through the spread of despair, they can slaughter everything behind them and become stronger and stronger.

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

But there are still some people who are unwilling to leave. If it weren't for the fact that demons can use the curses of people who are not killed by them, Ian would like to kill these idiots with his own hands. But there was no other way but to make one final use of the waste and conduct one last sneak attack to see if he could hit Deathstroke hard.

In the end, Deathstroke didn't give him a chance.

"In recent times, Chongling Sect has been promoting propaganda."

At this moment, Marquis Barton spoke. The old man looked much more relaxed after putting down his stall. At least Ian did not see too much worry on his face: "They said that the prophet had predicted all this and declared that this was a holy war. …”

"A strategy."

Ian came back to his senses and said with a smile: "As long as you tell everyone that this war is a sacred war that must be won, then even if the opponent is a demon, they will not have the slightest fear."

"I see."

Marquis Barton seemed to see something more, but he didn't say much. He moved to another topic: "Even if we can resist the demon army, what about Deathstroke? Is there any way for you to defeat a fourth-level head-on without relying on sneak attacks?"

"Or……"

The old man slowly raised his head and looked at the sky. He seemed to be hinting: "Can you call on some power to intervene in this battle?"

Neither goblins nor dragons, nor the four orthodox religions, will intervene in this war. They will only help the Silver Peak Territory protect the 'civilians'. This is why so far, there are still some cities surviving in the Western Region, because the main churches and temples of the four orthodox religions exist in those cities.

However, Marquis Barton was obviously not talking about those forces.

"I will definitely call if there is a need."

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

"What's more, although Deathstroke is a fourth-level demon, he is still a fourth-level demon, or a fusion demon. I have a way to deal with him."

"I didn't know you were an expert on demons."

Marquis Barton raised his eyebrows, but he did not pursue the question. Instead, he discussed with Ian the cooperation issue of the Nanling Chamber of Commerce - the war they are about to face now is a full-scale war against the Flying Flame Land, and the supplies of the Chamber of Commerce are definitely needed. Called, but the compensation process after the war needs to be discussed. Ian is also willing to owe some debt to the Chamber of Commerce and let them go to Silver Peak to collect materials to repay the loan.

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

Adebert aside, isn't Xio the Dragon of the Void Realm? She has also been plagued by the poison of the Void Demon for hundreds of years, so she must be an expert in this area!

"Huh? Why don't you just eat a weak thing like a demon?"

Silver Peak Leader, Xio looked confused when being questioned: "As for the strong ones, just fight them normally, destroy their soul structure, use spiritual energy to dispel the remaining curses, collect the fragments, and burn them with the fire of the spiritual world. , it’s all clean.”

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

Xiou was deeply suspicious of Ian coming over to ask her how to deal with Deathstroke. She felt that Ian could kill the dark gold dragon, and in the end he could even use the body of the dark gold dragon to withstand the fifth-level attack and destroy everyone. What's so difficult about a fourth-level demon?

What's more, didn't Ian just have a blow with Deathstroke today? You are not at a disadvantage, so why worry so much.

"If I call down my Immovable Fortress 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 at a small price."

Ian shook his head: "But if it is just a goblin, then there is indeed an order of magnitude difference between my energy level and it... Except for the fact that the core of my goblin body is made of the Ladder of Life Tree, the other materials are not from my body. luxurious."

"As for the pair of shaking blows, I used the resources of the Heart of Terra - if I had been using the computing power of the Heart of Terra, then I could indeed face Deathstroke head-on, but the Heart of Terra still needed The troops responsible for calculating mechanical information, without the blessing of the Heart of Terra, these troops can be said to be at a loss when facing the demonic army."

This creates a difficult problem: when it comes to duels, Ian is indeed not afraid of the death knell. But Deathstroke also has a large army of demons, and whether it is Adlbert's Giant of Light or the mechanized troops, they need the assistance of the Heart of Terra to be fully effective.

But there is only one Heart of Terra.

"so……"

Seeing that Xiou understood the difficulties of the territory and couldn't help but frown, Ian Tuqian said: "Xio, please do me a favor."

"What are you doing?" The red-haired dragon girl opened her eyes wide. She felt something was wrong for some reason: "I will help you fight against those demon officers, but what else do you need my help for?"

"I'll lend you your dragon soul!" Ian said bluntly: "I will create a calculation matrix with you as the center. When I call on the power of the Heart of Terra, your soul will be responsible for the military calculations!"

Xiou looked confused: "Huh?"

Ian struck while the iron was hot: "Xio, your dragon soul has great potential, especially the dragon crystal thinking organs. Each of them is comparable to a real biological quantum computer - oh, you can just understand it as a source of matter 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 solved!”

"Wait a minute..." Xio was a little confused at this moment: "You mean, you want me to stay at the rear during the war and serve as a computing center?"

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

"This is too boring!" Xio said indignantly: "No need to fight? I also want to protect the Silver Peak Leader with my own hands!"

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

Xio was moved: "It seems a bit interesting... Let's talk about the strategy in detail, it sounds like it's very powerful!"

Xio didn't have much objection to Ian's desire to use his dragon soul as a computing center, because for dragons, things like soul and body were originally tools. Since she had decided to use it as a If he helps Ian in the name of dragon, then it's no big deal to use his soul as an assistant.

However, it would be best if she could do what she likes - Xio doesn't really like fighting. She has been stuck in the dragon's lair for hundreds of years and she really doesn't know how to fight.

On the contrary, she was very excited to play the games recently developed by Xia Hui City, and even won the first place in the Tetris competition in Xia Hui City's Yinfang Tavern.

She was also quite good at the board games played in the tavern (basically equivalent to AI bullying), playing for three days without a single defeat.

Commanding unarmored combat? It sounds a bit like playing chess...I did it!

And just when Xiou was full of enthusiasm and planned to try it 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 is operating at full capacity and the other side is shut down.

But Ian must leave a margin of 10% or 20% as a back-up at critical moments - Xiou's willingness to help with this is indeed a big help.

As for the fact that Xio has no experience in commanding unarmored wars, it actually doesn't matter at all: the Heart of Terra has prepared a full set of databases and soul applications. As soon as Xio's dragon soul is in place, it will be ready immediately. Can start.

To put it simply, Xio is the dragon circuit of the Heart of Terra. He is responsible for providing strategic decisions and computing power. The Heart of Terra will solve the specific tactics.

"I hope my preparation is sufficient... This is the Silver Peak Leader and the first challenge in my future career."

Walking out of the conference room with Xio, Ian stood on the top of his lord's mansion, silently overlooking the land that belonged to him.

July has arrived, and the hot sunshine shines on the hot, humid and dreary city after the early rain.

A series of criss-crossing streets were laid out in front of him. Also laid out was the Heart of Terra, the most powerful artificial intelligence known to all.

Hidden in the deepest part of the virtual realm, it is building a sufficiently powerful wireless intelligent network, a psychic network, through signal base stations laid in every corner of Nanling.

With it, Ian can put his hands into every factory and city hall in Nanling. He can supervise every production plan while monitoring whether everyone abides by production rules and whether there is corruption.

Creating the Heart of Terra is Ian's most successful and correct choice. After all, he cannot do everything alone, 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 naturally 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 mistakes.

Only with sufficient information acquisition and transmission channels can artificial intelligence exert its greatest effect. Whether it is government or commercial operations, those parts of the work that are full of 'oil and water' and 'tricky' must be efficient and stable, unified and inconsistent. Will betray the intelligent management system to replace.

Among other things, in Nanling, Ian would never allow the people below to use chicken feathers as arrows after his orders were issued, expand the situation, and use policies to cause trouble for the people, which in turn would cause trouble for the implementation of the policies.

As long as anyone dares to do this, Ian will definitely kill him - do you really think the Silver Peak Territory needs so many officials? If you don't work hard, then you can use it as a battery for the artificial intelligence that works hard!

His law is iron and no one is allowed to provoke it.

"In Nanling, it's enough for the time being."

With silver-blue light shining in his eyes, Ian looked around his city, but his vision followed the veins of the Heart of Terra and swept across every corner of South Ridge: "Almost the entire province has been lit up by me. , my position will not be shaken even after the war. I am already the de facto controller of Nanling."

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

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

The question is, where do high-quality souls come from?

Ian looked north.

demon.

Demons, aren’t they the highest quality souls?

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 all the enemy's trump cards are used, and there is no ability to resist at all... we must defeat them head-on and above board, so that all the loot can be disposed of.

You must not lose, and you must not have any accidents.

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

Lowering his eyes, Ian looked at his city.

Xiahui City, as the main city of the Silver Peak Territory, is operating with extraordinary efficiency under the current state of war. All alchemy workshops and all industrial parks are operating at overload, and transportation back and forth on the streets After transporting the raw materials, the material vehicles will immediately leave full of weapons and medicines.

If people are used to manage it, there will definitely be a certain amount of corruption in the process. But management relying on artificial intelligence, at the very least, will not have any problems in distribution.

Under the huge war propaganda, everyone knew how powerful and terrifying the Demon Legion was, but also because of the propaganda of the Silver Peak Leader, everyone knew how powerful the new weapons were, and the Demon Legion was repeatedly defeated by the Silver Peak Leader's sneak attacks. In the scene, no one has any fear of the devil.

Although the enemy is strong, it is not invincible, and look - those machines rolling out of the factory, those huge and towering steel giants, armed with those exoskeletons and powerful guns, even old farmers can defeat Warcraft .

Now, the entire city is tense because of the invasion of the demon army, but it also shares the same hatred and is exceptionally united and powerful.

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

On the first day this policy was promulgated, the whole city was filled with praises. Even the fusion demon Fusion Shadow praised from the bottom of his heart, "Long live Ian".

Although he still thought he was a spy from Feiyandi, but now, it didn't matter whether he was a spy or not.

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

But there will always be spoilers in this prosperity.

[Tide of Beasts, Ian]

In the early morning of the next day, Ian connected the emergency communication of Marquis Barton, and the old man's extremely serious voice sounded: [In the direction of the golden plains, the beast tide is coming! 】