Chapter 272: Number Three Test Subject

Mingde Hall Number Two Laboratory.

"Teachers, what stage has the Number Two experiment reached?" Luo Yu asked habitually.

Yet, just because of this one sentence, he was subjected to half an hour of verbal bombardment before he managed to escape into the office.

The Number Two experiment was actually mostly complete, but ever since Luo Yu forged Spirit Metal last time, some of Number Two's components had begun to be replaced directly with Spirit Metal. However, the quantity of Spirit Metal Luo Yu could forge alone was extremely limited, so currently, only a portion was being used for experimentation and observation.

The effect was surprisingly good, but although the methods and courses for forging Spirit Metal were available, the number of students who elected to take them was extremely scarce; even among those who did, they couldn't even achieve Hundred Refinements in forging.

However, these headache-inducing matters were not for Luo Yu to consider. In any case, those teachers had plenty of ways to stimulate them to enroll; the simplest method Luo Yu provided was to directly set a price for Spirit Metal.

The world bustles for profit, and the world jostles for profit.

The logic was just that simple: demand stimulates supply, and once there is supply, it can satisfy demand and development. Spirit Metal was destined to be the hard currency of the future.

"Teacher, to what extent has the Number Two experiment actually reached?" Luo Yu looked at Kong Deming respectfully and asked.

Kong Deming smiled proudly and said, "Actually, Number Two is already nearing its end, and the difficult problem of soul power consumption has also been effectively overcome. Now, what we need to verify is what kind of improvement the Spirit Metal you developed can actually bring. Generally speaking, the effect is quite astonishing. If the whole thing were made entirely of Spirit Metal, Number Two could fully reach the combat power of a Super Douluo level. However, if it wants to contend with a real Super Douluo, it is still somewhat lacking, though the gap is almost negligible."

The original intention of the Number Two test subject was to create a weapon capable of rivaling the Title Douluo level. Now that Number Two could fully rival a Super Douluo, this was completely an unexpected joy.

"Since there are no more problems with Number Two, we need to proceed with the next plan. The schedule for the Number Three experiment also needs to be brought up."

Number Three was a new concept proposed by Luo Yu; it was actually a super-simplified version of Number Two. He didn't expect Number Three to reach the Soul Douluo level; it only needed to reach the Soul King level.

The purpose of Number Three lay in large-scale deployment for Soul Engineer Legions. A single Soul Engineer Legion still found it difficult to exert a powerful effect in front of an elite Soul Master legion, but once Number Three was mass-produced...

It could basically allow people with strength below the Soul King level to reach the combat power of a Soul King through Soul Guidance Mecha. In other words, it achieved a soaring increase in combat power.

You can imagine: a bunch of people without Soul King strength, yet piloting mecha, fighting a Soul King to a standstill, and the number of opponents is far greater than yours, and they can even use high-level Soul Guidance Weapons with very little soul power.

For the conventional Soul Master system, that would be a devastating blow!

I worked so hard to cultivate to the Soul King level and was promoted to an elite Soul Master legion, and you tell me that most of the people on the other side aren't Soul Kings, but every one of them has the strength of a Soul King, and there are far more of them than us?

How do you fight that?! It's game over!

Once Soul Guidance Mecha are officially put into mass production and the problem of combat power is solved, the Sun Moon Empire can develop Soul Guidance Technology for civilian use on a large scale.

As for the traditional Soul Master side, I believe the Three Great Empires will be able to collect enough data.

This point is not worth worrying about.

"But does the mass production of Number Three need to use Spirit Metal?" Kong Deming looked at Luo Yu and asked.

"Except for the core components and some important parts, the rest can use normal metal. If necessary, some Rare Metal can be mixed in."

The quantity of Spirit Metal was extremely scarce. Now, except for the little that Luo Yu could forge, it was basically impossible to manufacture. Because of confidentiality, Spirit Metal was only circulated within Mingde Hall. The reason it wasn't being released for the time being was that Number Two hadn't been completely finished yet, and currently, no core personnel within Mingde Hall were capable of forging Spirit Metal, which was why it had been repeatedly postponed.

Regarding such a plan, Jing Hongchen and Kong Deming were both supportive. Core technology must be fully grasped by one's own side before news is released; otherwise, once the news leaked, their advantage would instantly turn into a disadvantage.

"For Number Three, the first-generation design might have some flaws, but we can modify it and try to make the data fit the original version. However, is the design for Number Three really feasible? I'm worried..."

What Jing Hongchen worried about was that Number Three would be like Number One, consuming a large amount of manpower and material resources, yet the experiment would still progress slowly, or the thing produced would be extremely costly.

"Hall Master need not worry. The Number Two experiment has already succeeded. If it's just designing a Soul King-level mecha, we can fully manufacture it with our current data. It just needs time to be tested. If there are any subsequent problems, we can refer to the Number Two solution to make improvements. If it really doesn't work, we will then use Spirit Metal to replace the materials."

Spirit Metal solved many previously difficult-to-crack problems from the root. Kong Deming's idea was very simple: if problems arose during the experiment, then directly use Spirit Metal to solve the difficulty. A breakthrough had already appeared in terms of materials, and with Soul Guidance Technology being sufficiently advanced, plus having the successful precedent of Number Two, they would absolutely not encounter the previous difficulties.

"The creation of Spirit Metal is truly something that transcends the era!"

Looking at the more than one thousand jin of Spirit Metal piled up in the warehouse, Jing Hongchen only felt that after Number One was stolen back then, everything later seemed to go very smoothly. Perhaps for him, this could be considered a blessing in disguise.

"Teacher, Spirit Metal is actually just something that has just broken away from the category of ordinary metal. In the report I made, I have already simply planned out the future path. After Spirit Refinements comes Soul Refinements, then Heavenly Refinements. As for what is after Heavenly Refinements, I don't know either. Perhaps one day in the future, someone in the Sun Moon Empire will be able to surpass me and reach that level."

The Sun Moon Empire was a country full of hope. If nothing else, at least on the matter of unifying the continent, it had more hope and vitality than the Three Great Empires.

I don't know why, but the current Sun Moon Empire is more like the Spirit Empire that was defeated back then.

It's a pity that it ultimately couldn't beat the protagonist's halo, but this time, it might not be the case.