Chapter 314 - 307: Great Tech, Game-Changing
Chapter 314: Chapter 307: Great Tech, Game-Changing
The view switched to the perspective of the last two Mad Bees.
A rapid descent.
They broke through the thin mist.
The Mad Bees’ miniature Demon Eye lenses finally captured the true culprit on the cliff wall.
Amidst the glowing plants, translucent shadows lay in wait.
They had flat bodies, wide wings, and long, slender tails.
They were, shockingly, ray-shaped creatures!
The moment a Mad Bee drew near, a transparent organ on the back of one of the ray-shaped creatures lit up with a faint glow, and invisible ripples spread out.
The Rune Circuits inside the Mad Bee instantly overloaded. It flashed with red light, then went completely dark and plunged toward the valley floor.
The feed cut out.
Back in the workshop, Allen wasn’t annoyed in the slightest. In fact, the corners of his mouth curled up.
’Interesting.’
"So it wasn’t some special ore after all. I got my hopes up for nothing."
He replayed the final footage, his eyes gleaming. "But this biological ability... tsk tsk, it’s really something."
"Jarvis, pull up the data on that interference waveform."
[Analyzing data... Preliminary conclusion: This biological attack has extremely high penetration. It can create a sympathetic resonance with conventional Magic Circuits, causing Magic Power to overflow and paralyzing the unit.]
"A purely natural biological jammer?"
Allen’s fingertips tapped lightly on the table. The look in his eyes as he regarded the creature was like that of a gamer who had just found a rare elite monster with an ultra-high drop rate.
"A godly mechanic like this is a complete waste on a random mob holed up in the Silent Abyss. It belongs in my tech tree."
"Collect information on this new species. Name it ’Abyss Ray’. And I want them captured alive."
Allen’s mind raced.
’Limited by its biological size, its power output must have a ceiling.’
’It can paralyze a twelve-kilogram Mad Bee and a Spider Slayer weighing tens of kilograms, but it absolutely can’t shake a Hive Mother Ship that weighs several thousand tons.’
As his teacher used to say, in the face of absolute mass and power, all flashy tricks are useless.
Allen gave the order decisively.
"Hive Mother Ship, cancel hover."
"Descend directly into the abyss."
"Since we’re already here, let’s grab some local souvenirs to take back!"
[Command confirmed.]
The massive, inverted-pyramid-shaped mother ship began its descent.
The several-thousand-ton metal behemoth compressed the air, emitting a low rumble as it forcibly tore through the grayish-white mist.
The Abyss Rays dwelling within sensed the arrival of this uninvited guest with its overwhelmingly powerful presence.
The faint lights on the cliff walls flickered violently.
Hundreds of Abyss Rays glided out from the vegetation.
They converged in the air, the transparent organs on their backs simultaneously flaring with a blinding light.
The high-frequency Magic Power interference waves formed a tsunami on an informational level, crashing toward the Hive Mother Ship.
On the mother ship’s outer armor plates, the ghostly blue anti-interference Rune Array instantly erupted with a brilliant light, forcefully withstanding the impact!
The two invisible forces collided in mid-air, even stirring up ripples visible to the naked eye.
[Warning! Sustaining high-intensity Magic Power resonance attack!]
[Outer shield energy drain rate: 12%.]
[Core data link interference level: 19%.]
’This little power? It doesn’t even have what it takes to overload my three singularity engines.’
But on second thought, Allen grew excited again.
’For such tiny things to actually affect a war fortress when they swarm... the potential of this biological Magic Power resonance mechanism is simply unfathomable!’
"Good! The fiercer the resistance, the more I like it." Allen broke into a perverse grin.
"Activate capture modules."
[Roger.]
Armor plates on the mother ship’s underside slid open, and four specialized launchers extended their dark, gaping barrels.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Four giant nets, woven from high-tensile materials and coated with a Magic Power-insulating layer, shot out with a howl.
The giant nets unfurled in the air, covering a range of several hundred meters and directly ensnaring a group of Abyss Rays that couldn’t dodge in time.
The net’s ropes tightened.
The Abyss Rays struggled madly in the net, the organs on their backs flashing continuously as they tried to release their interference waves.
A blast of high-voltage current acted as a forced physical sedative, and the Abyss Rays’ eyes all rolled back as they fainted in unison.
Mechanical winches turned, dragging the giant nets into the mother ship’s internal quarantine bay.
[Capture successful. Total live specimens: 64.]
"Beautiful! This was a huge score. Return to base!" Allen ordered impatiently from his workshop.
The mother ship’s massive form ascended once more, carrying its spoils as it left the abyss behind.
...
「Main Workshop, Underground Laboratory.」
It was the same old place where he had researched the Crystalization effect.
An Abyss Ray was secured to a metal operating table with special restraints, still struggling in vain.
Beneath its translucent skin, one could faintly see blue blood flowing.
Allen put on a white lab coat, his eyes filled with a fanatical fervor.
"Beginning dissection."
The scalpel sliced through the jelly-like, transparent epidermis—fast, precise, and ruthless.
At the same time, his Spiritual Power formed countless microscopic tendrils that probed into the creature’s body, sensing the function of every single organ.
’Heartbeat is extremely low... lungs are atrophied, absorbs ambient Magic Power through its skin... Found it. The key is here.’
Allen’s scalpel tip stopped at an oval-shaped organ at the end of the Abyss Ray’s spine.
The organ was about the size of a fist, and its interior was a natural crystal core structure, with a complexity no less than any of the aerial cores Allen had carved by hand!
"Jarvis, create a real-time energy model. Stimulate its nerve endings and record the organ’s fluctuations."
[Roger. Initiating Magic Power stimulation.]
As a faint Magic Flow was injected, the oval-shaped organ instantly lit up with a brilliant light.
Allen could clearly "see" the surrounding Magic Power being converted and then radiating outward at multiple specific frequencies.
"It really is Magic Power frequency hopping!"
Allen’s breath couldn’t help but quicken. "Too perfect! What a flawless evolution!"
"It can instantly convert stable Magic Power into high-frequency interference waves. This is practically a natural electronic warfare suite."
He put down the scalpel, the sub-routines in his brain running at full speed as countless ideas burst forth like sparks.
He now understood how the Abyss Ray paralyzed his Golems.
A conventional Golem’s control network uses a fixed Magic Power frequency.
But this thing can perform multi-frequency, random "frequency hopping" and release a reverse resonance wave. It cuts the problem off at the root, causing the Golem’s Rune Circuits to burn themselves out!
The effect was somewhat similar to the Magic Pulse and Magic Turbulence Witchcraft he had studied before, but the principle was completely different.
The specific details still required research, but based on the effect it demonstrated, it could absolutely be considered an extremely sophisticated method of electronic warfare.
Any other Wizard would probably just see the Abyss Ray as a troublesome Magical Beast, or use its materials to create interference Scrolls.
But Allen was different.
He saw the missing piece of the puzzle in his "Celestial Net" system!
"Ever since I established the Golem Legion, I’ve relied on encryption algorithms to ensure communications security." Allen pulled up the architectural diagram for the Celestial Net, his expression graver than ever before. "But I’ve neglected the most fundamental level of conflict—warfare on the Magic Power frequency level!"
If he were to encounter a High-tier Wizard proficient in this area in the future, they wouldn’t even need to destroy his Golems. A single large-scale interference Witchcraft could paralyze his entire legion on the spot!
The existence of the Abyss Ray had taught him a harsh lesson and served as a major wake-up call.
"Jarvis, create a new project."
[Please provide a name.]
"Codename: Research and Technical Replication of a Novel Communication and Attack Method Based on a Magical Organ."
A gleam of excitement shone in Allen’s eyes.
"I’m going to analyze this organ’s natural Rune Circuits. I’m going to replicate it, and then I’m going to integrate it into all of my Demon Eye networks and Golems."
"I will give my Sky Net System the ability to perform tens of thousands of random frequency hops per second!"
And that wasn’t all. The spear and the shield always arise together. By mastering this frequency hopping technology, he could also create jamming weapons to use against his enemies.
"Communications countermeasures, electronic suppression, Magic Power frequency hijacking..." Allen listed the terms one by one.
His mode of warfare was about to officially ascend from pure physical firepower to the level of information warfare.
"Dissect all the remaining dozens of Abyss Rays."
"Extract their organs."
"Come, let’s light up the information warfare tech tree with our own hands!"