Chapter 1278: Heavily Armed Floating Island Fortress

Angus's concern was not about technology, but about manpower.

As he said, from a technical point of view, it is not a problem to transform the floating island, after all, the experience of the Silver City is there, as long as Jean is captured, it is not appropriate to transform a floating island?

The biggest problem now, however, is that there isn't that much available labor.

This surprised Donn: "Didn't we just release a batch of laborers before? To be reasonable, we should have quite enough manpower right now. ”

"That was half a month ago."

Angus sighed and said, "I'm afraid you don't know what happened to you in the last half month that you were in a coma, right?" ”

"I already know."

"That's simple, because of what happened a while ago, so now there are different degrees of panic in various cities, so many employees are going home."

Angus spread his hands: "The factories in many cities have been shut down, so we can only transfer manpower from us, and we are now in full production here, so there is no extra manpower available." ”

Don frowned, he still underestimated the impact of the news of the rebels and demons on society, and this effect would probably last for a long time before it gradually returned to its normal state.

Don En won't criticize those employees, after all, they are just ordinary people, and now Don En doesn't have so much charm to make them ignore their families, blindly follow him, and trust him.

It's just that now that this situation has appeared, it means that the production efficiency of Ellington's side will drop a lot, and the production capacity of weapons and equipment will be affected accordingly.

After a moment of silence, Don suddenly thought of something, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "No, I suddenly remembered, in fact, we still have a good labor force to use." ”

"Yes?"

Tang En nodded, pointed to the sky and said, "Silver City, in addition to those registered magicians who have been hired, there are many theoretical magicians who have not left there. ”

Angus was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized: "You say that, it's true!" ”

If it weren't for the conversation with Jean just now, I guess Don wouldn't have remembered this, those theoretical magicians, not only can't go to the battlefield to fight, but are not willing to do some ordinary research work, just want to stay in the library of the Silver City to study the mysteries of so-called magic......

However, in Don's opinion, no matter how deep and powerful your magic research is, if you don't use it, it's a waste.

So, hearing Angus say this, he thought of using the magicians in the Silver City.

No matter how wasteful they are, they can always do such a thing as using magic to build a floating island, right? If a theorist can't even do this kind of architectural renovation work, he should quickly withdraw from the group...... I mean, let's change jobs quickly.

"But will they agree?"

Angus had great doubts, after all, those theorist magicians were some arrogant fellows, and Don suddenly ran to tell them to do the work of construction workers, they would not necessarily accept itβ€”those who were willing to accept it were already making a lot of money behind Donn.

"There is no need to ask for their consent, as long as Jean gives orders on our behalf, there is no room for them to object."

As the saying goes, there is no ego in war, and there is no soul under the nuclear bomb, once a natural disaster-level war strikes, Tang En will not care what those people will think, and if you give an order, you have to do it if you don't want to.

Therefore, when it was decided that he wanted to use this plan, Don immediately began to act, he found Jean and told him about his plan, and after the two men met, they immediately hit it off, and he quite agreed with this opinion.

From a long-term point of view, the transformed floating island can not only be used for ultra-long-distance expeditions, but also can be left in place as an air fortress to garrison and counterattack, can be mobile or fortified, and the large enough floating island can even become an air stronghold after transformation, and can also be used in the future to defend against chaos invasion, with many benefits.

So, they immediately began to act, and Jean immediately began to convey orders, asking all the magicians in the Silver City who had not yet joined the work to act, and everyone must participate in the construction.

As soon as this order was issued, good guys, the Silver City exploded in an instant, and those magicians thought that this was the rhythm of making them fight with demons, and suddenly their faces turned green with fright, and they shouted that they didn't want to participate in the battle, but when they figured out the facts and found that they were only allowed to engage in construction instead of participating in the battle, they felt deeply insulted and demanded equal and fair treatment - as a magician, how could they move bricks? It's an insult to them!

After hearing the news, Jean impatiently gave an order: "If you don't want to work, you can abolish your mana pool and leave the Silver City, give me a sneaky getaway!" ”

Now he also found that he had protected these magicians too well, and it was they who didn't want to fight, and it was they who felt insulted by doing the logistics work...... Damn, do you really think that everyone in the world is your mother, and everyone has to take care of you?

Donn's side has already started to produce all kinds of magic thrusters for the floating island, but Jean's side hasn't pulled up a team that is efficient enough, if you say it, won't those guys laugh off their big teeth?

After Jean's harsh words, the theorist magicians who usually like to bury their heads in hard work because they are mediocre in all aspects suddenly find themselves as if they have made a very stupid choice, so the efficiency of the Silver City has finally improved.

A large number of mages left the Silver City and searched the world for suitable floating islands, too small, too big, not good, too brittle, too hard, not good......

After they searched for some suitable floating islands and marked them, Ellington had also produced a batch of magic pushers designed for floating islands, which were characterized by high thrust, strong power, and strong mana utilization, but slow speed - no way, although the floating island was suspended in mid-air due to its own characteristics, its own mass would not disappear - it was just canceled by gravity, so it had almost no weight.

But as long as the quality still exists, it will inevitably require a huge boost to push it, so ordinary magic engines can't do it at all, and the magic engine that Ellington made this time uses the power of the Divine Rune that Don just mastered - that's right, he used the Divine Rune to strengthen the power output module of the magic engine.

This is a very clever method, the power of the Divine Rune is too powerful, if you directly use the Divine Rune to drive the floating island, it will inevitably bring about huge "phenomenal" changes, perhaps causing spatial distortion and vibration, etc., these "phenomena" are likely to attract the attention of chaotic creatures.

And Tang En only used the Divine Rune to strengthen the power output of the engine, and it would not have such a strong impact effect, because from the perspective of the phenomenon alone, it is just that the magic power output of the magic engine has become stronger, and it still belongs to the phenomenon of this world itself.

At the same time, there are also large matrix defense modules, which can be installed on the floating island, and then connected to each other, to form a magic shield covering the entire floating island, which is quite convenient and quick to install, but the magic power consumed is also very huge.

Various mana engines and large matrix defense modules were shipped to the marked floating islands in batches, and the forcibly recruited mages began to honestly transform the floating islands and install various equipment according to the engineers' orders.

After the mana engine and matrix defense module were installed, the power core was also sent - the power core used on the floating island was different from all the previous equipment, because to drive such a huge mass of the floating island operation, the magic power required was too huge, so the lowest energy used was the essence of magic power, and further, it was necessary to use the high-level magic essence mined from the astral plane, and even the magic crystal nucleus.

Modularizing all the systems was Donne's request, and the obvious benefit was that it was easy to organize the installation and disassembly, and that the process could be easily standardized, so that even the most complete mutilace could understand the command to "combine the first and second parts of the power core".

If the effect is good, I am afraid that the production process of various large-scale equipment will become this modular production method and installation process in the future.

After the power and defense systems are ready, the weapon system will be transported in place, the weapon system is actually relatively simple, because it is a floating island, so those weapons and equipment developed for the Helicarrier can all be used directly, and even the main gun can be directly erected on the floating island without modification, and those fixed-direction magic energy artillery can completely dig a shooting hole inside the floating island, to achieve all-round 360 degrees of firepower coverage without dead ends.

And these are just conventional firepower configurations.

In addition to these, due to the natural nature of the Floating Island's base of operations, there are more and more exaggerated weapons that are being put in place one after another.

For example, the magic transformation of the Dongfeng series of missiles, the golden giant statue that has been repaired and can be put into use at any time, and the newly developed floating cannon equipped with a small artificial soul and implanted with a combat module, which can vertically lift and lower the ability to strike the enemy on its own......

The successive arrival of these weapons revealed a very clear signal to outsiders - His Majesty Don really intends to preemptively launch an attack on the demon this time.

However, at this moment, the people of the Ilrus Empire do not know that the construction of the fortress of the floating island is not the whole plan, because ......