Time always passes without you noticing.

It's been half a month since Sophia returned to the bottomless abyss, and Stephen still hasn't received any news.

Nor could he pin all his hopes on the Lord of Death, Sauron, so after the second batch of resources from the Dark Abyss was brought back, Stephen began to prepare to further upgrade the Floating City.

The combat capability of the Floating City is composed of three parts, the first part is the Golem Legion, and now Stephen has begun to mass-produce steel golems, their combat power is roughly equivalent to that of the armored infantry of the interstellar age, but there is no means of long-range attack. This is true in the design of golems, as wizards are ranged turrets, and the conventional ranged attacks carried by golems and the like are not worth mentioning at all. Ordinary hot weapons are the power of one-ring and two-ring spells, and the power of a three-ring fireball spell is already stronger than that of howitzers, so hot weapons have not developed much since the Thursilver era. (Note: The dwarves of the Thorium Age had already developed artillery.) ）

This was the case until the Arcane Empire, when Arcanists made breakthroughs in their research, and after the development of energy-based ranged weapons, long-range attacks were carried on higher constructs, such as Arcane Wards, Magical Armor, Spellbreakers, and so on.

These high-grade alchemy structures are extremely expensive, more expensive than diamond golems, and are therefore limited in size.

The second part is the maze lock structure, the super-large maze lock that envelops the entire Arantir has been completed, but Stephen has not been fully upgraded, the maze lock is a super-large device that integrates attack and defense, but now the maze lock of the floating city only has defensive capabilities and lacks offensive means. At the same time, the forbidden demon realm has not been completed, and it is impossible to open a super-large forbidden demon space, and the rainbow bridge has to be further upgraded to gain the ability to perform long-distance space folding.

The third part is the strategic ultra-long-range strike means, which Stephen has done a lot, the lethality of the Magic Crystal Superconducting Pulse Cannon Type II is huge enough, and one attack is enough to severely damage or even kill the ancient evil, but because of the problem of energy supply, the Magic Crystal Superconducting Pulse Cannon cannot carry out a continuous bombing strike with coverage, and at the same time, it cannot carry out a devastating blow with super-strength overload.

He needed a more advanced source of energy.

This source of power was once controlled by the Supreme Arcane Council, but it was firmly in the hands of a few people, and even Stephen was only aware of part of it, which he used to transform the Elemental Fusion Furnace.

Of course.

This energy source is not without substitutes, there are still some things in the multiverse that can provide endless energy, and the one he is most familiar with is the Miser Energy Core, which is the top technology of the Thur Silver Age. However, if there is something similar to the Cosmic Cube and the Tinder Source, Stephen will be even happier, because he can directly upgrade the combat power of the Floating City to the level of the Star Destroyer.

Endless energy, super output power.

As long as these two points can be achieved, Stephen can equip the floating city with the super strategic weapons he masters, but with the current output power of the elemental fusion furnace, the most he can do is to maintain the simultaneous opening of the maze lock and the charged magic crystal pulse cannon, and the power of the maze lock cannot be opened to the maximum value, and the energy consumed in the forbidden demon field is very huge.

Inside the laboratory.

Stephen's figure is suspended in mid-air, the hand of alchemy is controlling more than a dozen extremely sophisticated silver-white constructs like Rubik's cubes at the same time, and the assistants next to him are the prophet - Ankara and the insight - Akasha, at present, these two are the only qualified assistants of Stephen, and the other people in the Five Rings Tower are really poor in academic ability.

They are sorcerers who are biased towards improving their combat effectiveness rather than mastering more academic knowledge.

Airplanes.

A central crystal with a diameter of thirty centimeters was suspended, Stephen stretched out his hand and pointed to the energy pool next to him, and Ankara immediately activated a mana siphon, extracting the power in the energy pool and turning it into an elemental siphon into the central crystal. Inside the central crystal, as many as 10,000 intricate rune marks lit up one after another, and with a wave of his hand, Stephen assembled those Rubik's cube-like constructs.

At this time, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Take a break." ”

Their work has been going on for a week.

Most of this work was done by Stephen, but the two legendary witches also helped a lot, that is, their alchemical abilities could meet Stephen's requirements.

"Is it done?" asked the prophet-Ankara after a pause.

Stephen nodded and said, "Almost." ”

"The next step was to install it on the Rainbow Bridge and test it. ”

Eyewitness Akasha was a little excited, "When are we going to start?"

"Afternoon. Stephen said, "Let's go get something to eat first." ”

He hadn't left the lab for three days.

Outside the door.

The head maid, Tinax, had been waiting for a long time, and at her command, a sumptuous lunch was soon served.

The group ate silently.

In the afternoon, Stephen installed the just-completed alchemy device on the Rainbow Bridge, and then said in a deep voice, "Taling 1." Start the Elemental Furnace. ”

"Prepare to recharge. ”

Airplanes.

The entire floating city shook slightly.

Dressed in archmage robes, Stephen made his way to the astrological platform and inserted his staff into the energy tank, channeling the vast source of energy from deep underground.

"Open the Lock!"

"The Mystery Lock is activated. ”

"Activate the energy protection barrier. ”

"The energy shield is activated. ”

A translucent light blue energy barrier enveloped the entire Floating City, and the movement here alarmed many people in Arantir, and countless people were looking towards it. The inhabitants of Floating City have been temporarily resettled elsewhere, and all who remain on it are wizards.

One by one, the energy transmission network began to recharge, and lilac energy halos were everywhere.

"Began to get off the ground. ”

"Start the Floating Ring. ”

Hundreds of wizards were busy running around the floating city, constantly checking the situation everywhere, and the entire Arantir seemed to have a slight earthquake, and then the alchemy structure on the ground began to separate from the surface, and the floating rings were charged one after another, and in the shocked eyes of countless people, the city rose to about a hundred meters in the air.

Stephen's Floating City had the ability to fly early on.

But flying is only one of the most basic abilities of the Interstellar Floating City, and what he has to test now is a more high-end ability.

"Activate the Rainbow Bridge!"

"Start charging!"

"Lock the space marker!"

"Calculate the spatial deviation value!"

"That's it. ”

"Charge complete. ”

"Prepare for the space fold...... Spatial wormhole is being opened...... Increase the energy supply ...... of the puzzle lock High protective force field of open and high lock......"

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