Chapter 445: Review Meeting (1/2)

The day after the centipede extermination — Hourai Island, 3rd of July.

Stearleana came back and they were having a sort of review meeting.

“I assumed our current defenses were more than enough but I came to realize that they’re insufficient,” said Jin.

He thought there was not anyone Hourai Island’s current forces couldn’t assassinate.

Reinhardt and the others couldn’t also say that it was just Jin worrying too much.

“If we consider the worst case scenario, getting stronger isn’t really a bad thing… one could just not use their strength if it isn’t needed.”

Even Saki came up and said so. It seems yesterday’s experience was intense.

“Master, in my opinion, the weapons’ specialities are somewhat unbalanced.”

An gave her remark. Elsa and Reinhardt had known about her but Saki, Belche, Mine and Stearleana saw her for the first time.

As Laojun’s right-hand, she is the one receiving reports from the Quinta and usually giving out orders to prevent any sort of unfavorable situation for Jin or the Hourai Island. It might be appropriate to call her the manager behind the scenes.

She was also attending the meeting this time as Jin wanted to hear her opinion as the strategist.

“In terms of long-range combat, we got lasers and the Magi cannon.”

An continued.

“As for medium to long-range, we have the Induction Radiator but there’s a possibility it may not work against some opponents. For close combat, there’s the Vibration Sword and Paralyzer as well as the Golem and Titan squad as our resource.”

Jin just silently listened.

“As for defense, we have Barrier and Magi Jammer and Treatment Cure for support.”

An then went on to give her opinion from a different perspective as well.

“We have enough anti-personnel firepower for swordsmen or magicians or the like. However, against monsters, if we consider extermination is an option, we do not really have the means to properly deal against a case like yesterday’s one where the battle took place in a very limited area. It is also unfavorable that the titans are not armed.”

Reinhardt had decided to just keep silent and listen but he couldn’t help but speak up there.

“H-However, I do not think such opponents would appear often, right?”

“Not exactly. The Death Serpent Mr. Reinhardt defeated before and the Sandworms in Harihari desert would be a good example.” said Reiko.

Although all of these were in the past and Reiko did defeat them, they came attacking without caring about the damage to the environment.

“I plan on using the magic sword-I mean, the plasma sword like this time in such a case.”

“…We don’t have a blunt-type weapon.”

“Elsa?!”

Jin was surprised to see Elsa say that. Not just Jin, even Reinhardt and the others too.

“…We are all allies. It’s only natural that I want to help brother Jin.”

“…That is true. Elsa did say the other day that he was taking too much upon himself, too. Sorry, Jin. I guess we were kinda being spoiled by you as well.”

“Yeah. Mr. Jin, you don’t have any piercing weapon either, right?”

“There’s also the option of binding the enemy, like, with a rope or chains, you know?”

“Light, water, bullets… we have those, so heat or ice, maybe?”

Seeing everyone try and come up with useful ideas made Jin really happy. Lance, drill, mace, heat rays, freezing, anchor rope, etc.

These along with the in-development Mana Bomb and Gravity Weapon would be close to idealistic.

“Also, you have too many weapons focusing on just power.”

“Right, I guess you can say that. Especially in close-range. There are too many one-shot KO ones.”

Even Jin admitted to it. For anti-personnel, the paralyzer would sort of work that way.

“How about throwing knives or darts or a small calibre gun, like some kind of a projectile weapon?”

They were precisely doing what is known as brainstorming at the moment.

“(Throwing knives, gun, spear, mace, rod, drill, anchor rope, heat rays and freezing, eh…)”

Laojun, who had been observing their conversation, already started working on the possible ones from these as their discussion ended.

Since the discussion about weapons reached a point where they can take a break, it was time for tea. Reiko’s subordinates, Luna and Soleil came in with tea.

“By the way, Laojun, you said ‘We still have 2 other cards to play’ that time, what did you have in mind?”

Reinhardt asked as he drank his tea.

“Yes. One was to freeze them with ice magic. Arthropod… it’s an insect so I assumed it would be weak in low temperatures. The other was to have Ms. Reiko throw a Magi Cannon’s cannonball at it.”

They do seem effective methods.

“However, neither could match up to my lord’s method.”

“Even I didn’t think of freezing.” Jin said after a laugh.

The group then moved onto the next topic.

“Let’s have Laojun explain to us everything we know about the enormous centipedes.”

Jin said after a sip of his tea.

“Yes, it is still not clear why the pedes grew that big, however, we have made significant progress in analyzing the materials.”

Since these gigantic centipedes were able to give a hard time to even the Hourai Island forces, it would be safe to assume that their material would be excellent.

“Their outer shell is extremely tough. It reflects almost 90% of laser beams. It is assumed that this percentage can be further increased through additional processing.”

These materials seem to be perfect for shield or armor.

“It is still unclear how a creature living in the depths of the Earth acquired such high resistance to light.”

It’s only natural for the creatures which live underground to be weak to light. In fact, the Grand Spider and Grand Caterpillar hate light.

“We found out that their liquid ends up melting most things. As of now, the only materials it can not melt are the pede’s body itself and the Grand Spider’s string. The Sea Dragon’s material also gets melted.”