Chapter 1591 - Scouts (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Around the Naqdal Continent, a large cluster of drone bases was taking shape.

Sentry turrets had replaced the drone turrets and early-warning towers, which were previously erected to guard against the second wave attack of the festered monsters. The new, silver-gray space structures floated like monuments in space, each installed with guns of different sizes and missile launchers. The powerful shield generator on each sentry turret could cover a wide area. The precise placement of these sentry turrets ensured that shields would overlap each other to form a large group of staggered shields. This technique, adapted from the Xi Ling military technology, had been simplified and widely adopted in various cluster-based forts and bases around the macroworld.

Six large done nests were scattered within the protective range of the sentry turrets. The drone nests that glowed softly in the dark looked as if some strange sandcastles of metal and rock. They continued to expand with hundreds of factories and drone hangers connected to them and churn out thousands of drones. The cold and efficient machines shuttled between bases with the engineering drones continuing to expand the nests, and the armed drones in the hangers were arranged in rows of ten thousand parked under their respective racks, ready to be deployed to the battlefield.

In between these facilities were command centers, radar stations, data centers, accelerator tracks, and residential and ecosphere centers.

Some of the facilities were still under construction. No matter how efficient the drones were, it was impossible to finish building the complex, special-purpose structures immediately. But a few days after the work started, things began to take shape. Hao Ren believed that it was already a space city.

The project was massive but relatively scattered. That made it easy to form a few layers of structures around the Naqdal Continent. In the center of these structures, Hao Ren had another ambitious project.

He was to modify and reequip Naqdal Continent.

Naqdal Continent, a broken fragment of the mighty war machine, Naqdal Planetary Fortress, by itself was already an excellent foundation of a weapon of war.

Underneath the crust of rocks and soils hid the solid alloy structure that the guardian giants built. There was still a modular power reactor, which was reparable, buried there. The continent had the largest shield system Hao Ren had ever seen in the Plane of Dreams. This shield system, when it was still intact, provided solid protection for an entire planet. Even with a part of it left, the system could shield the whole continent.

The shield generator was not running in its best performance right now, but by replacing some of the core components, fixing the overloaded coils, and recalibrating the operating frequency, it would operate at its top performance.

There were many energy cannons left on the surface. Not only that, but the ancient temples could also be used as a weapon in a space battle. As long as there was sufficient energy supply, they would not be any less powerful than the sub-cannons of Nolan or the main gun of the armed drones. Some of the high-end stuff was even more powerful.

In the eyes of the sprites, however, the ancient facilities on Naqdal Continent were beyond repair but not to Hao Ren. His black technology could fix these things. Even if it could not, the drone factories could make a bunch of standard parts to swap out the old ones.

Hao Ren’s decision to leave behind a large number of autonomous research facilities at the Gate of Solenne to study the remains of the guardian giants was a wise move. He had accumulated tons of knowledge about the technologies of the guardian giants, and now, all this information came in handy.

The ‘all-rounder’ job nature of the inspectors necessitated the use of equipment and technology with high compatibility. This would ensure the hardware of the inspectors to work with the technology of different civilizations. So, Hao Ren had no problem in repair or even upgrade the Naqdal Continent.

Meanwhile, Hao Ren had explained his decision to reequip and transform the Naqdal Continent into a battle fort.

“The drones are, of course, powerful, but they also have an obvious weakness. There are not many ultra-large drones and even mobile drone fortresses available, and they are impractical. War at the demigod level is unfolding in the Star Cluster X, and the enemy is the demigod guardians whom the Mad Lord had corrupted, the drones will be at a disadvantage even with the edge of number because the festered monsters have highly intelligent command units. So, we need to make up for this shortcoming by building a fortress, which will be the mothership to help the drone cluster move forward.”

Vivian looked at Hao Ren for a long time with a doubtful look. “And?”

“And it feels so cool.”