Skill Extraction: Exploring Dungeons-Chapter 752 - 661: Signal Network

At this moment, the Lantern Territory is advancing rapidly as if equipped with propellers.

The core reason for all of this is that the logistics support from the Platinum Country is exceptionally strong.

Food, clothing, tools, raw materials, everything is being crazily transported through the mountain wall entrance at the rear of the fortress.

The Platinum Country used to be the most fertile land in their world.

After ten years of recovery from the Mist, it had already bounced back, with vast land and abundant resources, but a sparse population. Kane used many automatic machines to collect resources.

With these resources, the territory could develop rapidly without worrying about logistics and supplies.

Members of the Knight Order can now calmly hone their skills at the Guild Hall’s Knight Order station and training ground.

They strive to hone their strength to the Silver Bottleneck stage, at which point there will be a massive improvement.

As for defense work, it is entrusted comprehensively to the soldiers from the soldier alliances who joined.

Through Bonona’s persuasion during this time, apart from a few larger soldier forces, the remaining small and medium-sized soldier forces have fully joined Kane’s camp.

The main reason is that these forces are too small and all consist of various soldiers. Previously, to defend against the cannibal ghost’s attacks, their logistics were in chaos.

To survive, they had no choice but to consider joining other forces.

Kane noticed this opportunity.

This allowed Kane’s territory to rank third among all the surrounding forces.

The first naturally is the Ogre Territory, the second is the Beastman Territory.

These two are quite belligerent, but the Beastmen are at least a normal race. They only want the land and its resources. As for the civilians, they are free to join if they wish, or leave if they don’t.

They wisely adhered to the rules imposed by the Mist. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

As for the Ogre Territory, well, those who understand know it’s already on the death list.

Additionally, the Beastman Territory was very clever to realize that Kane and his people are also rule-abiding, after learning this fact.

They directly signed a series of peace treaties with Kane, conducting a simple deployment along the border.

Subsequently, they dispatched some units to defend the border with the Ogre Territory.

Then they transported most of their troops to the other side of their territory for attacks and occupation of other forces, and they developed quite a bit of unoccupied land.

Through information from the Dark Servant, Kane learned that the Beastman Territory is not solely composed of Beastmen.

Instead, it is a mixed territory of Beastmen, Elves, and Humans.

It’s hard to imagine that in some worlds, three races with deep-seated hatred could coexist harmoniously in this dungeon and fully integrate.

According to information from the Dark Servant, it is likely due to the deep friendship formed when various races banded together to survive when the world was destroyed, lasting until today.

Indeed, a massive external crisis can promote internal unity.

In diplomatic dealings with Kane, the formal name of the Beastman Territory is the Mahachi Tri-Alliance Federation.

The soldier alliances that joined Kane brought more combat forces.

This brought Kane’s soldier count close to 20,000.

Furthermore, they gained two new gold-level members who joined alongside the soldier forces.

Kane recruited them into the Guild.

They are a War Mage named Hartlama and a rare Shadow Assassin named Saqi.

War Mage Hartlama also brought Kane a team of 300 War Mages, all at the Silver level.

The spells known by these Mages are all born for war, including various wide-ranging offensive spells and extensive enhancement spells.

Shadow Assassin Saqi brought Kane a complete intelligence personnel training system and teachers.

In just over half a month, they trained quite a few spies for Kane, finally enabling the lower to mid-level intelligence system to operate.

Next came various large infrastructure developments in the territory, countless acres of farmland were cultivated, and more ingredients sealed by the World Table were unsealed and re-cultivated outside.

The previous War Fortress has now been expanded into the gateway of the territory.

The central hub of Kane’s territory was moved to a more rearward position, where they rebuilt a small city.

With Kane’s new skill enhancement and the raw materials contributed by the people within the territory, it took less than half a day to construct the framework of a city.

Although it’s just a small city, accommodating tens of thousands of people is still very easy, and as the population increases later, expansion can be very easily done.

Having finished these matters, Kane could finally begin his final grand plan.

This was a plan he had been preparing for more than six months. In the past half year, besides comprehending the rules, he had been conducting various research and inventions.

Strictly speaking, these plans were something he had been contemplating since reaching the Silver stage and deciding to form a force.

Kane is now in a laboratory within a cliff, accompanied by Funa and Star Symbol from Raphael’s team.

These two have considerable mechanical knowledge. Even if they can’t become a Master in the Mechanical Association, obtaining a senior title is definitely not a problem.

These two are the personnel Kane recruited to assist him in launching the plan.

This base inside the cliff is where rockets were previously launched, with the entire cliff hollowed out by Kane and reinforced with steel pillars, further strengthened all around, and the base dug deeper.

Apart from the three, more mechanical spheres were flying around in the sky, their appearance indistinguishable from those intelligent mechanical cores in the Guild Hall.

These are the Intelligent Cores condensed by Kane using gold-level skills.

The intelligence level of these cores is just one level lower than the intelligent assistant Kane customizes individually for others.

They have become the best helpers in the entire experiment base, even allowing some simple tasks to be entrusted to them.

If that doesn’t work, Yoyo can assist instead.

Kane is spending magic power to construct a decrypting mechanical device and engraving intricate magic patterns on it.

Without turning his head, he asked, "Funa, how is the debugging of the No. 3 lathe assembly line going? Is it ready for use?"

Funa, also wearing protective goggles, heard the question from afar and didn’t put down her testing instrument, saying: "We are in the final stages of debugging, there are basically no major issues."

Hearing Funa’s response, Kane nodded satisfactorily, then released a large amount of magic power from his hands to materialize the precise mechanical structure before him.

As the materialization occurred, some magic materials accumulated around also transformed into streaming light, merging into it.

With the help of raw materials, he can greatly reduce the magic power Kane spends on materialization, making him feel much better.

When this precise mechanical structure was successfully constructed, a mechanical sphere flew down, extending several mechanical arms to firmly fix it.

It then lifted it to the position of the Star Symbol not far away.

Watching this scene, Kane said to the distant Star Symbol: "I have already constructed the most important core component, you handle the shell and other propulsion devices."

"No problem, President, leave it to me."

Kane nodded and immediately headed to the next level below the base.

The lower level is full of various precise electronic parts, with a large magic core in the center.

It is constructed from the combination of mechanical structure and magic patterns, and if someone understands divinity, they may even feel the divine aura upon it.

However, Kane, who walked down now, has been fully transformed, with cracks like those on a mechanical puppet appearing on his face, blue magic glow flickering within the cracks.

His eyes have also become structures that resemble machinery.

Upon entering, Kane instantly entered the God of All Machines’ Divine Power state.

Entering the Divine Power state of the God of All Machines allows Kane to better connect and test the various magic machinery around him.

It even makes inspiration for mechanical manufacturing burst rapidly, so he only enters this Divine Power state when operating some precise instruments or conducting important structural research.

As Kane enters mechanical form, the mechanical wheel on his back instantly splits, turning into cone-shaped metal iron plates.

These metal iron plates fly around, then embed into the reserved slots in various positions of this level.

A huge amount of magic brilliance bursts from Kane’s eyes.

"Yoyo, initiate Stage One, countdown begins!"

On the back of the central magic core, Yoyo’s voice appeared: "Stage One initiated, countdown 10 seconds!"

"10, 9...2, 1."

"Launch!"

As Yoyo’s voice faded, a huge hole opened again at the launch silo before the cliff, larger than the one used for rocket launches before, and a colossal machine rose from it.

This is a 9-meter diameter cylinder that slowly ascended and instantly ejected three openings around it.

Each opening gently pushed out a rocket.

Each rocket aimed in different directions, then fired, leaving three long white trails quickly ascending the sky.

Since it only needs to be shot into high altitude to reach the predetermined world barrier, vertical launch is not necessary at all.

After these rockets have soared to high altitude, only the final rocket heads remained.

The heads scattered, launching mechanical spheres the size of human heads.

They are two to three times smaller than the previous cruise monitors, without surveillance camera equipment for detection.

There’s only two large reflective panels extending from them with intricate magic patterns, allowing them to sustain functionality with minimal magic power while broadcasting signals to the surroundings.

This is the signal relay station created by Kane.

With this, Kane can let his electronic equipment transmit information in real time within a certain range through magic ripples.

Directly allowing the surrounding area to enter the modern information era.

Each rocket carries 24 signal relay stations.

Meaning there are a total of 72 signal relay stations floating in the sky now.

The array they form completely covers this area: Kane’s Lantern Territory, the Mahachi three-race federation, Ogre Territory.

And a large circle of other small forces around them.

However, it’s only limited to this surrounding area, further away is not a matter of desire but infeasibility.

The magical fluctuations there are too intense, and signal relay stations sent there may be destroyed at any time.

Even for Kane, the cost of these signal relay stations is somewhat excessively expensive, each consuming a vast amount of materials, magic power, and effort from Kane.

Just like the outside of the Mist, sometimes it’s not that the Mechanical Association and various forces lack such technology, but that it’s fundamentally impossible to popularize this technology.

But the current coverage is entirely sufficient for Kane and his team.