Chapter 219 (1/2)

Volume 8 / Chapter 219

TL: LightNovelCafe

Editor: Hungry Panda

Strategist expected the Albatrus’ completion to take 3 or 4 months. They finally saw results a few more weeks after 4 of those months.

1000 members going.

Their group is made up of Lifers who are all level B or beyond. The cyborgs behind them are also at the top.

They will assist with the Albatrus’ system and take care of what Lifers cannot. They can be thought of as seamen.

The Albatrus’ huge form shaped as bilateral streamlines is appearing on top of the support fixture entangled in a complicated manner. Because they created most of the ship’s hull out of black iron alloy, it looks black from the outside and is glossy as if coated.

950m in length, 250m in width, 250m in height, total weight including load 1.2 million tons.

The width and height are the same to create a circular hull. It’s impossible to tell where the front and back is and where the entrance is by sight. They can’t do it, but it looks like it’ll just go rolling if they push it over.

Its appearance, configuration, and even its weight did not make sense.

Zing.

When Strategist sent a signal from the head, a part of the hull opened dozens of square structures 5m by 5m came out into the air and came down. The method of boarding is unusual as it is a cutting-edge level S store weapon. When they stepped onto the structures, they were automatically taken on board.

The Lifers went to went to their designated rooms in order to unpack their bags but after this, their roles become clearly divided by level. None of them can be looked down on because they’re all level B Lifers. However, there are clear distinctions in those higher and lower.

The lowest were on standby in waiting rooms placed throughout the Albatrus under their respective party leaders control so that they could go into battle at any time.

The main system from headquarters will be activated soon. Force leaders took their places where 8 sub-systems had been placed in order to assist.

Cha Jun Sung’s group and Strategist’s group go into the command room.

Dozens of cyborgs are sitting in front of computers under the command room. Strategist took the chip out of his PDA and stuck it in the command room’s main system.

Then the Albatrus, which had been running on minimal energy with a level C energy core, began to run properly.

[Albatrus’ main system activated. I, Uranos, Ollaborke Den’s helper, will carry out duties as the General of this ship, the Captain.]

It is impossible for these simple Lifers to control the Albatrus. Even the 8 sub-systems will be controlled by the force leaders’ helpers.

The subs are being submitted to the main temporarily. They act independently, but the main system gets the final say so that they cannot act arbitrarily. Put negatively, Uranos is basically the king while aboard Albatrus. But still, he’s just a helper assisting Lifers.

Albatrus’ engine grows hot due to the energy cores and there are sudden changes on board, but this did not show outside.

The ship is being activated, but they have not turned on the propeller that will take them forward.

If they turn the propeller on while on land, it will break through the stadium walls and wreak havoc in Mechanic City.

It might as well be a 950m missile.

Modern submarines gain driving force from propellers, but the Albatrus is different. Energy cores bring driving force while discharging air to the base. When it goes into the ocean, this is used as water power. That’s why they need to maintain this state until they go to the ocean.

[Currently boarding. Enjoy your time exploring the ocean.]

Strategist’s gentle voice can be heard.

Lifers utilize their PDAs at the same time. They’ll start their first entry with a level B mission.

There aren’t level A missions in the ocean. That’s why there are 1000 people as well. There’s a limit beyond that because it’s a level B.

Vroom!

The space near the Albatrus becomes completely distorted. This is what happens when the 1000 summons gates for each person becomes integrated.

The Lifers watching this strange scene from outside, could only blink. Someone even tried filming it.

Then the moment the distorted space swallowed the Albatrus, the huge ship disappeared from Mechanic City’s stadium.

***

When the Lifers and Cha Jun Sung became aware that they had entered the mission, the Albatrus was already floating somewhere in the broad Pacifiic Ocean.

[Front mirror image change. Welcome to the underwater world.]

Once Uranos’ command was entered, the front became a screen.

Hundreds of cameras attached to the Albatrus give them the impression of looking at the ocean through a glass wall.

It feels like they are walking on water.

Cha Jun Sung looks down.

Rather than the hard ground, there is the deep sea that looks like it’ll swallow him up. The ocean does not fit inside a narrow screen. The entire headquarters becomes a screen so the Lifers can check the ocean with their own eyes,

It does not apply to the Lifers in waiting rooms, but there are similar screens in the 8 places with sub-systems.

‘How interesting.’

Cha Jun Sung looks on in wonder.

He has been on such a huge ship very few times in the virtual version. He’s almost never been on such a ship.

He has been on an armored tank as large as a 4 or 5 floor building and a ship bigger than an apartment building, but this is the first time he’s been in such a large submarine. Albatrus is a submarine, but they can take the top off to make it look like a ferry.

It is versatile and has all the functions possible for the ocean.

At the bottom of the Albatrus, the propulsion engine uses the energy core’s power to go in reverse and float 1.2 million tons of weight. It is just floating, and does not advance. Everyone is awed by the mirror image of the sea. They don’t care because they have plenty of time.

[Water barrier deployed. Energy core output 20%, simulation result shows it can easily block the destructive power of tons.]

Woong!

Something like a transparent veil covers the Albatrus.

This is also technology that utilizes water power, and it is a defense against the enemy’s attack.

The basis of battle is hitting without getting hit, whether it is a war in the air, on the ground, or in the water. If they need to get hit, they can hit while getting hit. No matter how well Uranos controls Albatrus, it is not possible to protect this kind of large body against the enemy 100%.

[Sound wave, Raider confirmed. Energy core output 10%, exploring life and geographic features within a 50km radius.] [Porthole opened. The arrangement of 100 hydraulic guns, 10 water pressure guns, 3 water artilleries, and 300 combat-type small submersibles completed.]

Uranos got an understanding of the Albatrus step by step.

They tried several times before going out, but practice and combat experience are different even for artificial intelligence. Even thousands of energy cores need each system’s output to be distributed properly. It is important that it does not get concentrated in any one place.

If they only focus on the barrier, other things can’t help but be neglected.

Energy isn’t infinite.