Chapter 1276 Heavily Armed Floating Island Fortress

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

As he said, from a technical point of view, transforming the floating island is not a problem at all. After all, the experience of the City of Silver is there. As long as Jean is captured, wouldn't it be appropriate to transform a floating island?

However, the biggest problem now is that there is not so much available labor force.

This surprised Tang En: "Didn't we just release a batch of labor force before? Logically speaking, our current manpower should be quite sufficient."

"That was half a month ago."

Angus sighed and said, "I'm afraid you still don't know what happened during the half month you were in coma, right?"

"I already know."

"That's easy. Because of what happened a while ago, there are now varying degrees of panic among people in various cities, so many employees have gone home."

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

Tang En frowned. He still underestimated the impact of the news about the rebels and demons on society. I am afraid that this impact will last for a long time before it gradually returns to normal.

Tang En would not criticize those employees harshly. After all, they were just ordinary people. Now Tang En was not so charming that he could make them ignore their families and blindly follow him and trust him.

However, now that this situation has occurred, it means that Ellington's production efficiency will drop a lot, and the production capacity of weapons and equipment will also be affected accordingly.

After a moment of silence, Tang En suddenly thought of something and smiled: "No, I suddenly remembered that we actually still have a good labor force that we can use."

"Is there any?"

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

Angus was startled and suddenly realized: "When you say that, it's true!"

If it hadn't been for the chat with Jean just now, Tang En probably wouldn't have been able to remember this. Those theoretical magicians are not able to fight on the battlefield, but are unwilling to do some ordinary research work. They just want to stay in Silver. Study the so-called mysteries of magic in the city's library...

However, in Tang En's view, no matter how in-depth or powerful your magic research is, if you don't use it, it is equivalent to waste.

Therefore, after hearing what Angus said, he thought of using the magicians in the Silver City.

No matter how useless they are, they can still use magic to build a floating island, right? If a theoretical magician can't even do this kind of building renovation work, he'd better quit the group as soon as possible... I mean, he'd better change his profession as soon as possible.

"But will they agree?"

Angus had great doubts. After all, those theoretical magicians were arrogant guys. If Tang En suddenly came and asked them to work as construction workers, they would not necessarily accept it - those The magicians who are willing to accept it have already followed Tang En and made a lot of money with their mouths full of oil.

"There is no need to ask for their consent. As long as Jean issues orders on our behalf, there is no room for their objection."

As the saying goes, there is no ego in war, and there are no innocent souls under nuclear bombs. Once a natural disaster-level war strikes, Tang En will not care what those people think. If you give an order, you will do it even if you don't want to.

Therefore, after deciding to use this plan, Tang En immediately started taking action. He found Jean and talked about his plan. After the two met, they immediately hit it off, and he quite agreed with this opinion.

From a long-term perspective, the transformed floating island can not only carry out ultra-long-distance expeditions, but can also stay in place as an aerial fortress for garrison and counterattack. It can be maneuvered or defended. A large enough floating island can even be transformed into a An aerial stronghold can also be used to defend against Chaos invasion in the future, and it has many benefits.

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

As soon as this order was issued, my dear, the City of Silver exploded instantly. Those magicians thought that this was the rhythm for them to start a war with the devil. They were all frightened and their faces turned green. They shouted that they did not want to participate in the battle. But when they found out the facts and found out that they were only asked to do construction instead of participating in the battle, they felt deeply insulted and demanded equal and fair treatment - as a magician, how could he move bricks? Woolen cloth? This is simply an insult to them!

After hearing the news, Gene impatiently issued an order: "If you don't want to work, just use up your magic pool and leave the City of Silver. Get the hell out of here!"

Now he also realizes that he has protected these magicians too thoroughly. It is them who do not want to fight. They are the ones who feel insulted by doing logistics work... Damn it, I really think that everyone in the world is your mother, everyone has to do it. Taking care of you?

Tang En has begun to produce various large and small magic thrusters for the floating island, but Jean has not yet assembled a team that is efficient enough. If this is revealed, those guys will not be allowed to Are they laughing their heads off?

After Jean's harsh words, those theoretical magicians who usually like to study hard because they are mediocre in all aspects suddenly found that they seemed to have made a very stupid choice, so the efficiency of the Silver City finally improved. .

A large number of magicians left the Silver City and searched for suitable floating islands all over the world. Those that are too small will not work, those that are too big will not work, those that are too fragile will not work, and those that are too hard will not work...

After they searched for some suitable floating islands and marked them, Ellington also produced a batch of magic thrusters that were said to be designed for floating islands. The characteristic of this magic thruster is that it has a large thrust. , the power is strong, the magic utilization rate is very strong, but the speed is slow - there is no way, although the floating island is suspended in mid-air due to its own characteristics, its own mass will not disappear - it just offsets the gravity, So it has almost no weight.

But as long as the mass still exists, it will definitely require a huge driving force to push it. Therefore, ordinary magic engines cannot do it at all, and the magic engine made by Ellington this time uses Tang Dynasty. En has just mastered the power of the divine runes - yes, he used the divine runes to strengthen the power output module of the magic engine.

This is a very tricky method. The power of the Divine Word runes is too powerful. If the Divine Word runes are directly used to drive the floating island, it will inevitably bring about huge "phenomenal level" changes, which may cause distortion and vibration of the space. Wait, these "phenomena" are likely to attract the attention of chaotic creatures.

However, Tang En only used the divine word runes to strengthen the power output of the engine, so it would not have such a strong impact, because from the perspective of the phenomenon, it is just that the magic power output by the magic engine has become stronger, and it still belongs to this world. phenomenon itself.

Also manufactured at the same time are large matrix defense modules. Install these matrix defense modules on the floating island, and then connect them to each other to form a magic shield that covers the entire floating island. It is quite easy to install. It's convenient and fast, but the magic power consumed is also very huge.

Various magic engines and large matrix defense modules were transported in batches to the marked floating islands. The forcibly recruited magicians began to faithfully transform the floating islands according to the engineers' orders. Install various equipment.

After the magic engine and matrix defense module were installed, the power core was also delivered - the power core used on the floating island is different from all previous equipment, because it has to drive such a huge floating island operation , the amount of magic required is too huge, so the lowest-level energy used is magic essence. Going one step further, it is necessary to use the high-level magic essence mined from the star realm, and even magic crystal cores.

It is Tang En's request to make all systems modular. The obvious benefit is that the installation and disassembly work is very simple and convenient, and standardized processes can be easily implemented, even for these completely amateur magicians. , and can also understand the command to "combine the power core part one and the second part."

This transformation of the floating island is a test. 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 were ready, the weapon system was then transported to the place. The weapon system is actually relatively simple. Because it is a floating island, all the weapons and equipment developed for the helicarrier can be directly used. The main gun can be directly mounted on the floating island without modification, and those fixed-direction magic artillery can drill shooting holes inside the floating island to achieve a full range of 360 degrees without blind spots. Fire coverage.

And these are just conventional firepower configurations.

In addition to these, due to the natural combat base properties of the floating island, there are more and more exaggerated weapons being put in place.

For example, the modified Dongfeng series missiles, the golden giant statue that has been repaired and can be put into use at any time, and the newly developed floating cannon that is equipped with a small artificial soul, implanted with a combat module, and can vertically lift and lower itself to track the enemy and strike, etc. …

The successive placement of these weapons revealed a very clear signal to outsiders - His Majesty Tang En, this time he really planned to preemptively attack the demons.

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