January of the 118th year of the Sky Era, this should have been a happy day, but due to the fall of Tulip City and the siege of Gasya City, a series of major events, everyone was not in the mood for the New Year.

This also includes Rocky.

Of course, he wasn't worried about Gaisya City, this kind of thing was not his turn to take care of, he was worried about the development of the new armor.

When Rocky returned to Thunderhawk City, the new Warframe designed by Hammer Fire entered the manufacturing stage, and at the same time, Orton and others also began to improve the culture of Warframe technology, and promoted the Rune Warframe Project in a two-pronged manner.

It was from then on that the things that made Rocky upset came, and the thing was actually very simple, with only two words: spending money.

The development of the new Warframe was far more difficult and complicated than Rocky had imagined, and in fact, at the end of December of 117, Hammerfire had already created the first version of the White Demon Warframe, and then conducted the first experiments.

Rocky did not participate in this experiment, on the one hand, he was recuperating from his injuries, and on the other hand, because this was only a preliminary test, the main purpose was to test the strength of the battle armor, because the magic rune was to be directly engraved on the battle armor, and the magic energy that could be provided was much larger than the traditional old-fashioned battle armor, in this case, whether the battle armor made with traditional technology could withstand the runes, and whether it could withstand the large amount of magic energy provided by the runes, must be tested.

The result of the experiment was a failure.

According to everyone's original design, a total of three levels of runes should be engraved on the white demon battle armor, including twenty fifth-level runes, fifty fourth-level runes, and one hundred third-level runes......

The failure of this experiment is obviously of great significance for the rune armor project, because before this, most of them, including Orton, who knows the most about runes, have also been talking on paper, and many ideas are only theoretical possibilities, so through this failed experiment, everyone has no doubt that they have a more in-depth and thorough understanding of runes.

But then, the armor has to be remade.

In desperation, Erin went to the Sleepless God City again, spending nearly 300,000 gold coins to buy at least enough raw materials for Hammer Fire to make two sets of battle armor.

And with the new ingredients, the second version of the White Demon Warframe was quickly released, and then it exploded again......

The second version of the White Devil Warframe also ended in failure after the test, but this time it was not because the Warframe could not withstand the magic energy and failed, in fact, after the failure of the first version of the White Devil Warframe, Hammer Fire and Orton and others worked together to improve the design of the Warframe, on the one hand, to improve the raw materials required to make the Warframe, and on the other hand, to reduce the runes engraved on the Warframe, so when the second version of the White Devil Warframe came out, it not only withstood the magic energy provided by the runes, but also could already use the runes as the driving core to operate normally。

But even so, the new Warframe is still not a success, because even if the new Warframe can already rely entirely on runes to function, it is at best a set of rune armor, and it is still far from the Warframe, and if you want to make it a real Warframe, you must equip it with Warframe technology to meet the combat requirements.

It was at this step that something went wrong again.

As mentioned before, the new warframe is designed based on the 4th generation warframe, and the technology it carries is also improved on the basis of the mature technology of the 4th generation warframe, but when the warframe really runs with runes as the core, Orton and others found that the magic energy provided by runes has far exceeded the maximum value of the old 4th generation warframe.

This raises two problems.

First, the technology suitable for the 4th generation Warframe will undoubtedly produce more power due to the support of more abundant magic energy, and can even extend some new technologies that originally only exist in theory but are difficult to implement, but in the same way, more abundant magic energy to support it also makes the technology that has become more mature very unstable.

Second, if you want to stabilize the improved technology, it is actually very simple, as long as you control the magic energy output of the battle armor, which is so simple that Orton and them can solve it with their fingers, but once the magic energy output is reduced, although the stability is achieved, it is equivalent to wasting a lot of magic energy provided by the runes in vain.

How to maximize the technology carried by the warframe on the premise of ensuring stability has become a difficult problem that requires repeated trials to find a balance.

Under the test again and again, the second version of the armor was quickly scrapped, followed by the third and fourth versions of the armor were also scrapped one after another, and it was not until the improved fifth version of the armor was released that some progress was made in this regard.

It's just that at this time, with the production of five versions of the armor in a row, the one million research funds provided by Rocky have also been completely spent......

No way, this research is too expensive, no, it's not costly, it's just burning money!

Rocky once asked Erin to calculate that in addition to the equipment needed to make the armor, the manufacturing cost of the first version of the White Devil Armor did not count manpower or equipment, and the raw materials alone would require 90,000 gold coins, which means that 90,000 gold coins of raw materials were needed to create a White Devil Warframe.

And this is just the manufacturing cost of the first version of the warframe, in fact, when the first version of the warframe failed, the hammer fire made all-round improvements to the warframe, especially in the materials, which made the raw material cost of the second version of the white devil skyrocket, from 90,000 to 110,000 gold coins in an instant.

After that, the third and fourth versions of the armor have also been improved to varying degrees, and the manufacturing cost has been increasing, and after the fifth version of the armor is released, this new armor that everyone has worked hard to research, not counting anything else, the cost of raw materials alone has reached 200,000 gold coins!!

200,000 gold coins, what is this concept?

In the fifth-generation warframe, the most expensive mass-produced warframe is only 1780,000 gold coins, and the special type in the fourth-generation warframe is generally only about 200,000 gold coins, and this is the selling price, if calculated by cost, then even if it is the top special warframe of the fourth generation, the production cost does not exceed 200,000 gold coins!

Such a huge amount of money was completely beyond Rocky's imagination, and more importantly, beyond his reach, because even if Hammerfire had already made the fifth version of the Warframe, the research was still not over, and he had already begun to improve the sixth version through a series of experimental data.

But at this time, Rocky couldn't come up with any more money......