Chương 24: Chapter 24: Press Q to Use Elemental Burst
The innovation in weapons has reduced the training cost of a soldier.
"A common tribal warrior must first safely grow to a certain age and then undergo at least several years of training. During this time, he needs proper training and sufficient food, or his body won't withstand any training and he won't have the strength to fight."
"He also needs armor and weapons... even without armor, at least he must have weapons. The forging industry of the Tanit is quite average, which is another considerable investment."
"Additionally, the only technology the desert people can rely on is the weapons inhabited by malevolent Jinn, but these weapons are limited in number, and not every tribal warrior can wield them."
Rama scrutinized these rather crude robots.
"And for such an investment, the value of a tribal warrior in a conflict is very limited."
"They must form a sufficient structure and be led by a competent commander to be effective."
In war games, you only need to invest coins and a bit of time to get batches of soldiers, but in reality, the investment in training a single soldier almost entirely exceeds his individual value.
The only way to recoup the cost is to wage war and win.
Only in this way can a king recoup his investment in the army.
This investment is too large.
But when weapons evolved from swords and bows to cannons and firearms, the era changed further.
These combat machines didn't necessarily have to be human-shaped, but out of habit, Rama designed and forged them based on the human form.
He found a Khaenri'ah factory in the desert.
After the fall of the Khaenri'ah, not all of their factories in the seven nations were destroyed.
Some of these factories were discovered, while others remained hidden.
Of course, most of the materials in these factories had been used up.
The factories seemed to have received the same order: to turn all materials into the Ruin Guard series of armed machines and then release all the guards.
After dismantling the few remaining guards in the factory, Rama began studying the Khaenri'ah technological tree.
The technological growth wasn't very high.
At that time, he had been studying the Scarlet King's technology for a long time but ultimately declared failure.
The basic parts of the Scarlet King's technology and Khaenri'ah's technology that Rama mastered were completely different.
The Scarlet King's technology was half dependent on spirit wardens, and the other half was knowledge that the Scarlet King had taken from outside the world—of course, the Scarlet King was eventually sealed.
Khaenri'ah followed the same path, a non-conventional route, and was also officially sealed by Teyvat. After the official sealing, they also rebooted Khaenri'ah's data storage. If some Khaenri'ah remnants hadn't survived and formed the Order, Khaenri'ah would have completely disappeared.
Rama studied orthodox elemental technology.
He accessed the seven types of elemental power in Teyvat, then searched for alchemical materials that could store elemental power, finally completing the creation.
Energy is the cornerstone of technology. Higher energy can replace the lower energy as the core to establish a technological tree, but lower energy can hardly participate in constructing a technological tree that requires higher energy.
Elemental power was somewhat lacking. The special power excavated by the Scarlet King and Khaenri'ah was much more useful than elemental power.
However, overusing it could lead to being sealed and erased, which was quite terrifying.
These robots were fully armed with swords, spears, bows, Ruin Guard series missiles, and constructs' beam emitters... any weapon that could be mounted was equipped by Rama.
Their active time was short. The robots' activities and battles consumed a lot of energy, but the energy cores Rama equipped them with were insufficient.
The Scarlet King developed the semi-eternal control matrix, Khaenri'ah produced the eternal beasts carrying the perpetual mechanical array, while Rama's energy core was dismantled from the eyes of Ruin Sentinels, known as the "Chaos Series," at best considered blue-grade materials, incomparable to the core materials dropped by world bosses.
So these people deserved to be sealed, each running towards "perpetual motion" and actually achieving results—utterly unreasonable.
Given the working efficiency of the core energy, it was unrealistic to expect these robots to sustain long battles.
So Rama's final modification involved some rewiring, installing some special gifts, and turning them into bombs.
"Now it's time to see how efficient you are." Rama's eyes were filled with anticipation. "Do your best."
Khaenri'ah was destroyed, but the hidden factories they established worldwide still contained Khaenri'ah's technological tree.
The technology they left behind was delightful.
And if he could get the "Akasha" from the Akademiya and decode the "Akasha Terminals" technology, he could play on a larger scale.
But first, he had to win.
The robots began their work.
Rama observed how his battle mechanisms performed, then approached the elite warriors wielding malevolent spirit weapons.
They didn't hesitate and instantly released the spirits hidden in their weapons.
Not many warriors wielding malevolent Jinn weapons.
These people were the tribe's precious assets. Because of the Jinn, they had surpassed human limits, gaining superhuman strength.
In the desert, the number of these elite warriors could almost directly determine the strength of a tribe or a Gilded Brigade.
"Very decisive."
Driving the malevolent Jinn came at a cost. Seeing an enemy and releasing all the Jinn, should these people be considered reckless or decisive?
Rama's smile was calm.
Without a foundation in mechanics, he would have to protect these people as much as possible.
Because in future battles with the Akademiya's "Thirty-Man Regiment," these warriors wielding malevolent Jinn weapons would be the main force.
But Rama didn't need their strength.
Rama needed the resources in the desert, the king's prestige, and the banner of righteousness, but he didn't value the strength of the tribal warriors.
The Jinn swooped down from above, and a blow infused with elemental power would make most people retreat.
However, Rama simply raised his hand and effortlessly caught the Jinn's form.
Fiery pyro energy surged through his palm, finally exploding in a golden pillar of fire behind the Jinn.
The tribal warrior holding the weapon stood dumbfounded, his weapon covered in cracks before completely shattering.
The weapon housing the Jinn was naturally destroyed with the Jinn's death.
He knelt on the ground, suffering some backlash due to the Jinn's death.
This guy, is he a human-shaped Hilichurl?
"I should greet you all."
The Jinn circled Rama. They weren't mindless creatures but skilled hunters.
Rama's smile was gentle, "But there's no need for that, let's just say goodbye."
"Yes, may we meet again in the golden dream."
He waved goodbye, and a dozen-meter-tall humanoid armor formed from condensed pyro energy exploded behind him.
"I pressed Q."
Good night.
(End of this chapter)
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