The Elemental Military Factory was located in the west of Imperial City, not far from Xiao Wu’s military factory.
This factory was built overtime, but the current elementalist engineering team was no longer what it used to be. There was Chi Yu as the ‘accelerator’ and the final product was perfect.
At this moment, the square in front of the Elemental Military Factory was already crowded with players who came to apply for jobs. What was even more frightening was that, looking from a distance, one could still see players coming continuously.
A military factory, which could only accommodate a maximum of 10,000 people, couldn’t afford such a large army of players.
Xu Sili hurried over with Aina’s help and couldn’t help having a headache when he saw this scene.
He still underestimated the players’ enthusiasm for high-end equipment blueprints.
It was only by learning the blueprint that they could collect materials for production. Without the blueprint, everything was in vain. Thus, the temptation of getting the blueprint as long as they applied for the job was too great.
Xu Sili visually estimated that the number of players who came to apply for the job this time was over 100,000.
How could such a large quantity be transformed into effective productivity? He thought for a while before calling up the task editor. He reworked the rules.
So not long after, the players still struggling to squeeze in received a new system notification.
[Announcement from Roland’s faction: Due to too many braves participating in the production mission of the Elemental Military Academy, the task rules have been modified to some extent.]
[Modification 1: Players need to form a team to receive production tasks at the Elemental Military Factory. The number of people in the team must be more than 50. The team leader must go to collect it (Please line up in a civilized manner. It is prohibited to make noise and make trouble in the factory. Violators will be severely punished.]
[Modification 2: The elemental cannon blueprint will be split into four parts. The player team that successfully receives the mission will obtain the first-stage blueprint. After completing the production of all parts in the first stage, you can enter the second stage and so on.]
[Modification 3: The production materials will be provided by the Elemental Military Factory. Players in each team can receive two copies. Submitting the elemental cannon x1 to the Elemental Military Factory will be regarded as a successful mission. The mission reward will be 100,000 Escher coins.
[Note: if the mission fails, you need to compensate for the materials cost according to the price. Please be careful when accepting the mission.]
[New: Elemental cannon production progress ranking leaderboard.]
[The settlement will occur at midnight every night. The top ten teams in progress can receive personal guidance from the elemental alchemist, Teacher Aina, the next day. The top 100 teams in progress can receive a number of Escher coins.]
Once this page full of system notifications appeared in front of him. The noisy and lively square in front of the Elemental Military Factory suddenly became quiet.
Some players were still thinking about the modifications and new content. Players who finished reading quickly didn’t dare to disrupt the order due to the first modification. They were afraid that they would not only fail to receive the task, but they would also be punished.
However, when people kept reminding them that the nearby public channels could be used, everyone quickly switched to the voice system.
The players started to discuss it and communicate again, but the NPCs could no longer hear what they were saying.
Their mouths were opening and closing, and their expressions and movements were clearly talking, but the square was completely quiet. The scene was really weird.
Aina stood on the flying saucer and wasn’t surprised when she saw this scene. She knew that the braves had some strange abilities. They could even come back from the dead. What was there to be surprised about?
What she didn’t understand was why the braves were so keen to work despite not even receiving a salary.
“They want the production blueprint of the elemental cannon,” Xu Sili gave Aina the answer.
Aina was confused again.
“But they can learn it as long as they go to the Elementalist Academy.”
She made all alchemy knowledge available to students. She hoped to train a group of alchemists for the empire as soon as possible.
It was just that in the past one hundred years, she had been greatly influenced by the interstellar knowledge system. In the middle and late stages, Roland’s students might not be able to understand the books she brought back.
It was because they hadn’t received education in this area.
Xu Sili couldn’t help smiling after hearing this. He agreed to Aina’s disclosure of the elemental cannon blueprint.
However, the scope of the disclosure was only the Elementalist Academy. Probably, only the players who were committed to developing the plot of the academy would have access to it. It would be some time before this was discovered.
He said, “Let the braves help with making the elemental cannon. Roland’s productivity can’t keep up, and the demand for the elemental cannon is huge. We can only rely on the help of the braves.”
“Once it is done, I will pay them a certain amount of compensation.”
The equivalent for 100,000 Escher coins for an elemental cannon wasn’t much to him. After the battle on the front line gradually subsided, a large amount of military resources were saved. Roland’s economic development was getting better and better, and the national treasury was becoming increasingly full.
As an elemental important weapon, 100,000 for an elemental cannon was definitely worth it.
However, 100,000 Escher coins was a huge sum of money for the players.
After all, a team of 50 people could get 2,000 Escher coins per person when evenly divided. According to the 1:6 purchase price of Escher coins to real money, this was more than 10,000 yuan.
With such a generous reward and the ability to learn the elemental cannon production for free, Xu Sili didn’t have to worry about no players participating, even though he also set slightly harsh conditions.
Sure enough, the players below had already started team mode.
Most people must be looking for those in the same mercenary group. After all, their character was guaranteed and the strength of the mercenary group could be improved. In the future, elemental cannons would definitely be indispensable in guild battles—if there were guild battles.
Xu Sili watched for a while.
The number of players below gradually decreased, leaving only the captains to receive the mission. The situation that was about to get out of control finally got on track due to his intervention. He couldn’t help sighing with relief.
“Teacher Aina, I’ll leave this place to you.”
Xu Sili explained a few things to Aina. The most important thing was that she had to teach ten teams of players every day. He didn’t know if she could handle it.
“Don’t worry, leave it to me. There will be no problem!”
Aina waved her hand. It was only a few hundred people… as long as it wasn’t thousands.
Then seeing that Xu Sili was about to leave, she added, “Your Majesty, maybe you can go and look at Bazel’s place.”
“Huh? Teacher Bazel?”
“That’s right. The old man is very strong. I told him yesterday about the successful research of the elemental cannon and he was a bit stimulated. I think the potion you asked him to develop should be almost ready.”
Xu Sili couldn’t help his eyes lighting up when he heard this.
The underwater breathing potion!
However, he still took it slow. If the potion was really researched, Teacher Bazel would probably find him soon.
Speaking of this, he couldn’t help looking at Aina. “Teacher, if the underwater breathing potion is really successfully developed, it might not be long before we enter the sea.”
Aina frowned slightly. “The interstellar beasts on land haven’t been cleared yet. Isn’t it a bit inappropriate to rush into the sea?”
She did some research after she came back and found out how terrifying the sea of Escher Star was now.
Even with the underwater breathing potion, she felt it would be difficult to fight against the giants of the sea with human strength.
Xu Sili shook his head. “I promised Chamo that I would help him find the sea elves. At the very least, I have to go to the sea elf tribe to take a look.”
“The underwater breathing potion is important, but I hope there will be a lot of safeguards.”
Aina looked at him doubtfully. “What do you mean, Your Majesty?”
“What if… I mean if, if I give you a blueprint of a sea ship, are you confident in making it?”
Xu Sili looked at Aina and asked very seriously.
Si Sheng, who was guarding beside him, couldn’t help raising an eyebrow when he heard this. He glanced at the young man with a strange look in his eyes.
Aina was even more puzzled. “Does the sea ship you mentioned need to use alchemy?”
“Correct.”
Xu Sili nodded. “It isn’t an ordinary sea ship. It has many functions that can ensure the safety of navigation to the greatest extent. It can even sneak into the sea to compete with the interstellar beasts in the sea.”
Aina’s eyes became brighter and brighter as she listened to his description.
“Your Majesty, is there really such a ship?” She became very interested in the ship Xu Sili described. “Did you dig it out from some ruins?”
“Almost. I know where it is. If you can make it, I will go and get it.”
There was a hint of hesitation in Aina’s eyes. “Is that place dangerous?”
“It isn’t dangerous.”
Xu Sili shook his head, paused and said, “It is just a bit troublesome.”
Aina hesitated for a moment. Then she became firm again. She said, “Your Majesty, I can’t guarantee you, but I want to give it a try.”
“If I don’t succeed in the end, you can punish me.”
Xu Sili couldn’t help laughing. “Teacher Aina, you are a pillar of the nation. I can’t punish you for this.”
He thought for a while before sighing, “Oh, I’ll just go get it. It has to be done sooner or later anyway. With you here, the chances of success will be much greater.”
He muttered to himself for a while. Finally, he said goodbye to Aina and returned to the palace with Si Sheng.
On the way back, Si Sheng asked him, “That type of sea ship blueprint… didn’t come from some ruins, right? Do you want to make deals with people from another world again?”
Xu Sili sighed. Since redeeming the fixed-point transmission technology last time, his Future Forum points had directly decreased to the single digits.
It had slowly recovered a lot after more than a month of accumulation, but it was far from enough to obtain the blueprint of the sea ship.
This was originally something that would appear several years later. It was also by relying on sea ships that the players of the Future Forum finally defeated the sea beasts and forced the overlords of the sea to hide in the deep sea.
But even the deep sea wasn’t safe because this type of sea ship had a submarine mode.
Sea ships had different levels, and the functional power was very different. It was said that the most powerful sea ship could leave safely even when surrounded by more than a dozen overlords of the sea at the same time.
Seeing these posts about sailing, Xu Sili had yearned for it. This type of sailing gameplay was also very attractive to players.
However, the points required for even the lowest-level sea ship was beyond his reach.
“Ah Li?” Si Sheng’s voice brought his mind back.
Xu Sili turned to look at him, snuggled in his arms and whispered, “Ah Sheng, you might have to make sacrifices again.”
Sure enough, if there was one then there would be two. If there were two then there would be three. Human desires were endless.
Si Sheng didn’t think much of it. As long as his lord god wasn’t seen by others, the rest didn’t matter.
What he was actually more curious about was how Ah Li communicated with people from another world… In addition, how did they see the photos?
Why did those people… like seeing him and Ah Li together so much?
Proofreader: Purichan
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