My Ability Pool is Superior - Chapter 402: Mona Tower

Lu Bai looked at the white-robed Mona person whose face had suddenly changed color and asked with a knowing smile, “Why aren’t you talking anymore?”

The problem with the technology side is that they pursue collective prosperity, without the sense of security inherent to the extraordinary side where greatness belongs to oneself.

Fortunately, the white-robed Mona person was not his true body present on site; otherwise, he absolutely could not have calmed down this quickly.

After a moment of silence, the white-robed Mona person probed with an inquiry: “How did you escape?”

From his expression, he did not even hope that Lu Bai would give him a reply.

And the fact was indeed so.

Lu Bai completely ignored the white-robed Mona person’s question and asked on his own: “What I said earlier was right, wasn’t it?”

In theory, unless the technological level reaches a certain point, new-generation weapons will not automatically grow out of the ground.

The difference from normal scientific research is that violent groups, or rather armies, have very strong inertia; once they are accustomed to a certain type of warfare, it is hard for them to try stepping out of their comfort zone, and they would rather build upon the existing foundation by adding bricks and tiles.

Setting aside some results born from accidents, in many cases, weapon research and development first decides on a development direction, then strives on that basis.

This leads to the equipment style of an army gradually becoming uniform.

After suffering several consecutive attacks from the Mona person, Lu Bai had more or less discerned some of the flavor.

It seemed that the Mona person’s space warfare concept was mainly focused on long-range infiltration and interior destruction.

This development direction.

Lu Bai suddenly felt that if humanity’s technology had not been interrupted, this might very well have been a direction that humanity would likely choose.

After all, humanity’s aerospace development had the same problem as well: the energy scarcity of spacecraft.

To propel something that large to first cosmic velocity or even higher required an exaggerated amount of fuel.

Yet they could not blindly add more fuel, because the fuel itself had weight; propelling greater weight consumed even more fuel.

Although it would not lead to the absurd logic that more fuel means less fuel, the marginal benefits in this truly made people give up on the approach of brute force hurling bricks.

A slight understanding would reveal that after humanity’s aerospace technology gradually matured, the fuel mass carried by spacecraft each time had undergone rigorous calculations, almost exactly enough to achieve the objective, with extra redundancy completely negligible.

Under this premise, if considering arming spacecraft with weapons, unless one had a brain fart, no one would think of installing a high-energy-consumption weapon like the Star Annihilator Cannon.

In this way, means that could ignore armor and destroy specific areas became the optimal solution in such situations.

Although the Mona person’s current technological level was clearly already capable of interstellar colonization, the imprint left by their early development was still not so easily erased.

You say this route was wrong, mainly relying on technological level to crush?

So what? Winning is what matters.

For military strategists, what is needed is not correctness, but victory.

Thinking of this, Lu Bai did not wait for the white-robed Mona person’s reply; he rubbed his brow and looked up.

This development direction seemed to mean that the starship in low Earth orbit would not have armor thick enough; perhaps at most just to guard against conventional strikes?

He asked casually, as if offhand: “What is this starship called?”

The white-robed Mona person was waiting for his own starship to launch the next attack on Lu Bai and originally had no intention of answering.

However, since it involved his own starship, he still said proudly: “This is the great Mona Tower, our Mona people’s first starship equipped with a warp engine.”

Listening to the white-robed Mona person’s words, Lu Bai silently searched through his own “discard pile” but ultimately gave up on [Five Immortals Seeking Bestowal].

Mainly because the effect that [Five Immortals Seeking Bestowal] could exert depended on the anchor point’s imaginative ability.

Even if he modified the anchor point’s thinking in advance, what could not be imagined still could not be imagined.

For example, if locked onto an invincible image under heaven, what to do when facing enemies from the sky?

Because imagination is ultimately illusory; to make it real, specific numerical values were still needed.

No matter if combat power was trillions or tens of trillions, no matter how exaggerated the boasting, the performance was still not as shocking as just transforming into a Super Saiyan.

Especially facing a race like the Mona people, who could already manipulate natural rules to a certain degree; if unlucky, it might even be inferior to simply hanging a [Steel Body] as now.

At least pure numerical values would not be affected by any accidents.

After selecting through the “discard pile,” Lu Bai nodded: “So if I destroy this thing, it would be bad for you all, right?”

“Heh, overestimating yourself. Although I don’t know how you luckily escaped from the gravity weapon’s attack area… Are you serious?”

The white-robed Mona person wanted to mock a bit more, but toward the end, he inexplicably felt some unease.

In his impression, a starship of this specification was beyond the scope of what manpower could destroy, but the problem was, given Lu Bai’s performance over this period, it was also hard to say he was any kind of human.

For the sake of caution, he still sent a message to remind his kin on the Mona Tower to be careful.

Regrettably, this reminder would not have much effect.

To ensure his next attack hit, Lu Bai even activated [Flash Time].

Zero point five seconds was not long, but achieving first strike effect was undoubtedly assured.

The ink black of [Ink Black] madly spread out, used by Lu Bai to obscure the battlefield.

He then squatted down, grabbed the white-robed Mona person’s calf, and amid the other’s exclamation at the sudden change of circumstance, swung this Mona person up like a soft sword.

After simply adapting, he finally held the white-robed Mona person and slashed a massive indigo sword light toward the Mona Tower in the sky beyond; unfortunately, with endless black paint obscuring, for the time being no one could see this terrifying attack.

[Great Swordsman’s Flying Slash (Color): Powerful long-range attack technique, unleashing sword qi through great power to form a sword wave attack, sufficient to easily cleave an island; note that the stronger the slash unleashed, the greater the consumption.]

This time, Lu Bai held nothing back; after one strike, he was immediately drained of strength, unable even to move a finger.

Fortunately, in the instant he powerlessly lay back, he still remembered to switch the [Restore] ability slot to [Steel Body].

Even an ability like [Ink Black], whose consumption was almost negligible, could no longer be maintained.

But it was already enough.

The sword light over ten meters in diameter was now so distant that only a green line remained.

This was due to the speed of light propagation speed; in fact, at this moment, this flying slash had already struck the Mona Tower.

And cleaved it in two.

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