Chapter 2534

2534 - Continuous Work

Young Sector 99, Planet Nihari, Northern Region.

Rumble of disturbance

At this moment, the sky over the Northern Region began to behave strangely.

One of the Crucibles exploded, but its remnants did not fly far, and those around it were not afraid that a terrorist act had occurred—rather, they looked up in astonishment and admiration.

The remnants of the Greed Crucible began to coil around themselves into a majestic green whirlwind, and the large pieces began to disintegrate while the small pieces turned to dust.

After the whirlwind became like a desert storm filled with all sorts of different colors due to the dismantling of metals, something else happened... Human arms emerged from the whirlwind—many of them—and began grabbing a number of resources and ores nearby and hurling them inside, where the same thing happened to them, and they crumbled into dust.

And even after all the new resources had been swallowed, something else began to happen... The dust started to re-form, and all the stones that had been destroyed began to appear again, but this time with different compositions of ores, containing new elements.

Finally, the hurricane began to lower those stones and arrange them with its many hands one after another, until it finished preparing the Crucible completely... It was in the same place, and almost the same shape, but there was something different about its aura...

And the hurricane did not rest, for in the next moment it swallowed another pile of resources until it ground them into dust, and used barrels of dark liquids to mix everything, then with its hands that numbered in the hundreds, the hurricane began to draw on the Crucible, from the outside and the inside, tremendous connected patterns, linking every stone and every small piece of metal to one another.

Until, at last, the hurricane disappeared.

"....."

Clamor, clamor

"Yeeeeees!!"

"Our work just got easier, haha!"

Celebrations erupted in the Northern Region the moment the hurricane vanished, especially in the Crucibles Square!

But the hero of the day, Zara, did not seem in the mood to celebrate. "Hooo~"

Zara took a small step back and sat on a seat prepared for her in advance, then rested her head on both her hands.

"Her Highness, is everything all right?" A girl beside her bent over slightly and asked.

"...I'm fine." Zara replied quietly, then raised her eyes with difficulty to look toward her artwork.

This was the last Greed Crucible to ascend to the third generation and receive the Path of Destruction upgrade.

After her earlier daring attempt to produce one—an experiment that nearly cost her her life—Zara healed herself and then planned the subsequent upgrades more carefully. She had been pressing on urgently ever since the Break Incident in the Buffer Zones, yet even so, she had only finished upgrading the efficiency of 35 Greed Crucible-3s today.

Now, each of these crucibles could produce a complete fourth-generation Note's Fleet within a single month.

One month to produce a mother vehicle, ten support vehicles, and 500 combat vehicles...

In one month, 35 Note-4 Fleets could be produced.

In one year, 420 Note-4 Fleets could be produced.

...Hedrick, who had once ruled one of the most powerful Millennial Empires, had possessed a squadron of only about 500 fleets, accumulated over hundreds of thousands of years... while here, that number could be manufactured in 15 months.

A number unheard of in the universe before, a number no one could even conceive of.

Of course, this assumed that Emily and Kristan wouldn't allocate a number of them to copy equipment, talismans, transport vehicles, and the like... but even so, their production had reached an insane figure.

Were it not for the immense transport network that Emily had built with tireless dedication, and were it not for Robin's Private Trade Network returning to operation with even greater strength after the destruction of the Buffer Zones, the headquarters would never have been able to provide this quantity of resources... but they were available, and production had never reached this figure in the history of the universe, and it would most likely continue to rise.

Only in this way could what was in hand be secured, while simultaneously coveting more.

...Thinking about it, Zara began to slowly massage her forehead and the side of her cheek. "Has the collection of the essential resources for building more Crucibles been completed?"

"Yes." Zara's assistant nodded. "The new planets are full of bounty, and though only a decade has passed since exploration began, many resources that were once rare have reappeared, and we bought up everything that was put on offer immediately."

Then the assistant smiled. "The headquarters says we already have enough to make seven third-generation Crucibles of Greed right now!"

"Seven?" Zara looked down for a moment, then nodded and stood up with a slight sway. "Alright, let's take a look."

"Her Highness!!" The assistant took a step and stood before Zara. "Please stop. You've already written the method for crafting the third-generation Greed Crucibles, and our veteran builders can finish the task. The upgrade was the difficult part due to the interweaving of new laws and resources, but building from scratch will be easier."

"It will be hard on them and will take a long time." Zara let out a serious sigh. "We don't have time. Nihari Ascension Day is approaching!"

According to the timeline drawn up for them, they had only 50 years until the day of the Nihari Galaxy's ascension, and judging by the situations and wars, it might not be a very peaceful event.

A formidable deterrent force must be displayed on that day.

"My Lady," the assistant spoke, "you still have to oversee the classification of the fifth generation of Note Vehicles, you still have to follow up on the progress of Sky Opening City that has accumulated over years, and most importantly..." The assistant hesitated for a moment.

"What is it?" Zara noticed her hesitation.

"His Majesty..." Zara's assistant murmured, "he sent a new giant project today, something that will make you put the Greed Crucibles on the shelf for a while."