Chapter 778 Amos's Eye Weapon System (Taboo-Grade), Seeking Greater Gains

“So this is the Ruined City? I see.”

Yu Yuan walked through the Ruined City, gazing at the mechanical buildings and giant weapons destroyed by war, his heart stirring with emotion.

Suddenly, he stopped.

A massive hole had appeared in the ground ahead, cutting straight through the entire city. It was hundreds of meters in diameter.

“This was the result of the Mechanical Leader firing the cationic particle-concentrating cannon.”

Diona came up behind Yu Yuan. A backpack had appeared on her back, clearly the reason she had come here.

“By the way, why did the Mechanical Leader attack your people?”

Diona fell silent for several seconds before slowly replying, “The stated reason was that the Mechanical Leader demanded we upload our consciousnesses, abandon our bodies, and all undergo mechanical ascension. We refused...”

“And the real reason?”

“The Amos's Eye Weapon System...”

“What is that?” Yu Yuan asked thoughtfully.

“A Taboo-grade weapon that might pose a threat to beings above Gold.”

Well, then!

Yu Yuan understood.

He saw Diona hand him a chip.

Meeting Yu Yuan's astonished gaze, she said calmly,

“This is the core chip for the Amos's Eye Weapon System. I want to join your civilization!”

Yu Yuan took the chip.

【Ding! Congratulations on obtaining the high-value resource, ‘Amos's Eye Weapon System.’】

——Amos's Eye Weapon System

Quality: Taboo-grade

Description: Based on fragmentary records, three generations of research by the Mechanical Floating City produced this ultimate civilization-strike system.

Usage Requirements: Requires a 20-million-level power core to operate.

Charging Time: 60 seconds

Attack Speed: Beam

Trait: +250% damage against mechanical life.

Function: Can lock onto enemies, with a 100% hit rate.

Delivers devastating destruction to its target, with a 100% chance of destroying a Transcendent-level biological defense layer and heavily wounding the target, and a small chance of killing it outright.

Includes a high-energy proton stream and a high-energy heavy-ion shockwave.

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Yu Yuan's eyelid twitched.

A 100% chance... of destroying a Transcendent-level being's defense layer...

How was that possible? Even beings at the Transcendent level couldn't be certain something like that would work, could they?

And such a weapon of mass destruction had ended up in the hands of a Silver-tier woman?

Yu Yuan felt as if none of it were real.

He looked at Diona.

“If the Mechanical Leader destroyed your civilization because of this thing, why is it in your hands? Don't give me some idiotic excuse like the Mechanical Leader didn't know about it.”

Diona gently shook her head.

“Because this is a copy chip. The real chip was taken away by the Mechanical Leader long ago. Before the Mechanical Leader launched its attack, our leader sensed the danger, so he had me take the chip and teleport to another world...”

She paused briefly.

“Not long afterward, news arrived that the Mechanical Leader had crushed the rebellion.”

“The leader of the Mechanical Floating City... was my father.”

At that, Yu Yuan understood.

After a long while, Yu Yuan held out his right hand to Diona.

“Welcome aboard.”

-

With Diona's arrival, the Warriors of the Ten Thousand Nations Pact Civilization's Pioneering Group began clearing out the Ruined City.

They took away every weapon, piece of Mechanical Armor, and piece of equipment left behind.

All the collected design blueprints were sent to the Mechanical Research Institute.

The 【Mechanical Titan Base Unit】 was deployed in this world and began dismantling the Ruined City.

The long-sealed city was severed from its history.

“Investor, we've cracked the Ruined City's antigravity particle engine. Diona was actually the ace student at the Mechanical Floating City's Mechanics Academy. Our research suggests this might improve the efficiency of the Alchemical Dragon's antigravity engine...”

“The 【Mechanical Multidimensional Factory Construction Blueprint】 has been completed. The construction and production speed of mechanical weapons has increased by 80%, and we're nearing the end of manufacturing the Alchemical Dragon's components.”

Masier reported to Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan was standing in the Mechanical Multidimensional Factory.

Magnetic rails, gears, gantry cranes, and hoists bustled with activity.

The Alchemical Dragon's composite alloy scales were being assembled before his eyes.

There were eighteen spaces like this in total.

They worked day and night to complete the production of the Alchemical Dragon's components.

All the mechanical engineering personnel from Ladiz and Wu Qiming had been brought in.

During this time, Wu Qiming had also been lavishly recruiting mercenaries. Anyone with a particular skill was hired on the spot.

As a result, his mercenary civilization was gradually making a name for itself.

Everyone knew there was a wealthy, foolish employer paying above market rates to recruit mercenaries with mechanical or engineering skills.

Applicants arrived in an unending stream.

So much so that the temporarily deserted Hunter Training Camp had to reopen.

It offered these mercenaries a brief orientation. Yu Yuan didn't care whether they were actually trained; his goal was to stamp the Ten Thousand Nations Pact Civilization and its Civilization Leader into their minds.

In short, brainwashing.

As it turned out, the Hunter Training Camp was practically an essential facility for a recruitment camp.

Young or old, male or female, tall or short, handsome or ugly.

Whatever they had been thinking when they joined, whatever their motives had been,

after three days, every one of them would become a loyal Warrior of the Ten Thousand Nations Pact Civilization.

They would fight to their last breath and die in its service.

Pay? Bounties?

What were those?

They would fight for the Ten Thousand Nations Pact and die for their Leader.

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Civilization Relic.

A critically important surgery was underway.

“Leader, the Death Worm is in a deep coma, and the mechanical control device in its head is also experiencing severe interference. The odds of a successful operation are very high.”

Yu Yuan watched as the Death Worm underwent brain surgery and nodded slightly.

With all the instruments in the Morphis Civilization Relic laboratory, removing the mechanical control device went exceptionally smoothly.

Once the control device, about the size of a motorcycle, was removed, the Death Worm was completely freed from the Mechanical Leader's control.

The Death Worm was also recovering quickly under the treatment beam.

Or rather, as a Gold-tier life-form, its own life energy was constantly repairing its body.

But with so much of its brain tissue destroyed, fighting was out of the question.

Simply put, it was now a “vegetable worm.”

“How is the research on the Death Worm's genes coming along?” Yu Yuan asked.

“We've deciphered its gene sequence. It's relatively simple, and we've also finished making the suppressants, which will ensure the Death Worm remains no threat.”

Hearing this, Yu Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

As a Gold-tier creature, the Death Worm was absolutely not going to survive.

Its potential was low, and even among Gold-tier creatures, it ranked among the weakest in combat.

In Yu Yuan's eyes, the value of subduing it was nowhere near as high as the value of corrupting Xiao Xi.

Xiao Xi was a genuine rising star.

The only reason Yu Yuan hadn't killed the Death Worm yet was that he wanted to try something.

The reward for completing a Fate Card task was closely tied to the target used to complete it.

In Yu Yuan's eyes, the Death Worm wasn't worth much. Using it to complete a Gold-tier Fate Card task would be a complete waste.

At best, it could serve as a fallback when all other options failed.

Now that he had a fallback, his survival was secure.

Naturally, Yu Yuan wanted to try to obtain greater gains.