Chapter 312: Mechanical God Set

Chapter 312: Chapter 312: Mechanical God Set

"Not great. So far, the best they’ve managed is becoming low-ranking officers. As for us support staff, we have no combat strength, so we have to fend for ourselves. Luckily, the equipment from the old Star Wish Cafe was still working, so we reopened it to make ends meet."

Xiaoqi shook her head and replied.

"Sigh."

Long Ming just sighed and didn’t say anything more.

...

「A short while later.」

Xiaoqi led Long Ming and Xiaopang back to the Star Wish Cafe.

"Boss, I’m gonna head back and rest. I’ll come find you tomorrow!"

Xiaopang said to Long Ming.

"Okay."

Long Ming nodded.

Xiaopang left cheerfully.

"Long Ming, I had Cloud Fish and the others prepare a room for you. You can make do with it for now."

Xiaoqi took Long Ming to the fourth floor and opened a freshly tidied room.

"As long as it’s a place to stay, it’s fine. Besides, this room is great."

Long Ming glanced around the room. It was about twenty-something square meters. It not only had a bed, a desk, and a private bathroom, but there was also a gaming pod in the corner.

"Well, get some rest."

Xiaoqi said to Long Ming with a smile.

"Okay!"

After saying goodbye to Xiaoqi, Long Ming closed the door.

He went into the bathroom to wash up, then took a shower to calm his mind.

Everything that happened today had practically upended his entire worldview.

「A few moments later.」

Long Ming lay on his bed and opened the Civilization Forum.

The entire Civilization Forum was incredibly active, with millions of new posts appearing every second.

And this was at night, when most people should be asleep.

Long Ming took a deep breath and began to look up all sorts of information about the Star Alliance.

Although Xiaoqi and Xiaopang had given him an introduction, they had only provided a rough outline. Much of the information was vague.

「Time passed bit by bit.」

「Over two hours later.」

As Long Ming read through the information he had found, he grew more and more alarmed.

The Star Alliance’s main structure was a parliamentary system. It was headed by a council president, two vice presidents, and several thousand councilors. City Lord Qian Luo, for instance, held the rank of an ordinary councilor.

On the surface, its laws leaned toward democracy, but in reality, there were disparities.

As an alliance formed from the fusion of multiple civilizations, it was riddled with internal factions. The various Star Islands were highly autonomous and didn’t really listen to the Star Alliance.

But this was also normal. For the people of Mountain City Mountain, for example, an order from City Lord Qian Luo was certainly more effective than one from the Star Alliance.

Of course, the Star Alliance didn’t care if the subordinate Star Islands were obedient or not; it had countless ways to ensure its commands were carried out.

Furthermore, the class divisions within the Star Alliance were stark.

Within the Alliance, you either had to be rich and powerful, rising to become a corporate magnate, or you had to become a high-ranking government official or councilor.

Of course, if you had nothing, you could always risk your life by joining the military.

The Alliance government was extremely strict about military merit. Only those who distinguished themselves in battle and earned merits could be promoted.

Currently, the highest-ranking military officer in the Alliance government was an Admiral. No one had yet been promoted to Grand Admiral.

Besides class discrimination, there was also severe discrimination between the internal civilizations.

Since the Star Alliance only accepted human civilizations, all the internal races were human, but their appearances and skin colors varied. Here, the most popular skin color was pink—even more so than white—while black was the most looked down upon.

Additionally, the Star Alliance had been stuck at Level 5 Civilization for a long time, unable to advance.

’This raised a suspicion in Long Ming’s mind. He was starting to wonder if the Star Alliance was unable to win its own civilization advancement trials, and was therefore desperately absorbing lower-level civilizations to replenish its ranks.’

But even if this speculation was true, no one could complain. After all, the Star Alliance had extended a helping hand when all those civilizations were on the brink of annihilation.

Thinking this, Long Ming reached up to rub his temples and continued scrolling through the posts.

Just then, he suddenly saw a popular complaint thread. The title was eye-catching: "Kavatry: The Most Frustrating World in History."

Curious, he clicked on it.

"What is this bullshit instance? It’s poor as dirt! I haven’t even found a single blue-grade item."

"Same here. I lost my shirt."

"I’ve never seen such a poor instance."

"Bro, has this instance been farmed to death?"

"No way! I used a tool to check, it’s a newly opened instance. Besides, the boss inside is ridiculously strong. We got wiped out before we even got close to the castle."

"Yeah, that monster is just insanely strong."

"I heard some guy wiped even while wearing a full V3 Mechanical God set."

"For real? A V3 set wiped in a normal Level 2 Civilization instance?"

"It’s absolutely true. The guy who wiped was Young Master Jiefei from the Taliduo Group. Heard he took a girl in there to show off, but ended up losing his V3 Mechanical God: Destroyer. Now they’re organizing experts to go in for revenge—and more importantly, to recover that Mechanical God set."

"Damn, so you’re saying this instance is a hidden one?"

"Yeah, the invitation scrolls for this world are being sold for astronomical prices now. I mean, just the dropped V3 Mechanical God alone is something money can’t buy."

...

Reading this, Long Ming became even more interested in this so-called Mechanical God equipment.

After all, the equipment from each civilization was different.

He immediately searched for related information.

WHOOSH!

Countless informational posts popped up.

Long Ming carefully read through the information and quickly understood what a Mechanical God was.

The Star Alliance’s primary weapons were Mechas.

Mechas were divided into two main types. One was for large-scale siege warfare—these Mechas were extremely cumbersome. The other type was the Mechanical God series.

The Mechanical God series started at the V3 level, also known as the Third Generation Mechanical God. Currently, there were three levels: V3, V4, and V5.

This Mechanical God equipment was mainly divided into two categories: standard-issue and custom-made.

For standard-issue Mechanical God equipment, performance varied between models due to differences in technology and materials used by various manufacturing companies.

As for custom-made equipment, it was more expensive. But of course, you get what you pay for, and the performance of custom-made Mechanical God series equipment far surpassed that of the standard-issue ones.

Additionally, starting from the fourth generation, one could choose to add nano-ore to the Mechanical God series. This ore allowed the equipment to nano-disassemble and reconstruct, making it portable. Of course, the price for this was also extremely high.

Furthermore, also starting from the fourth generation, the Mechanical God series began to diverge into two types: mechanical and biological.

The biological type was even more expensive to produce and much more difficult to pilot. ℴ

This type of Mechanical God equipment had very high requirements for its user in the first place; not just anyone could use it. In a sense, the user acts as the Mechanical God’s spine and must endure an immense load.

Therefore, users needed to raise their Genetic Level and undergo special training.

Just then, Long Ming’s gaze fell on the reference price for a Mechanical God, and he couldn’t help but suck in a sharp breath.

A V3 Standard Mechanical God had a starting price of 1,000,000 Star Coins, while a custom-made one started at 10,000,000 Star Coins.