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Control Effect: Mechanical Body Recovery Blessing--500%
Control ability--Fortress Storage: Capable of storing one hundred million F-Level mechanical bodies, with a tenfold reduction in storage capacity for each higher level.
This is an advanced mechanical body storage device.
Almost only F-Level mechanical bodies were left on the scene; after the purple-gold sphere floated back, Li Ming did not put it into the control bar.
A slightly larger metal device appeared in his palm, with a rhombus shape. Dark purple energy flowed like molten lava along the seams, but was pulled back before it overflowed the surface.
One side of the device opened, releasing a brief gravitational ripple that wove dust in the air into a spiral spinning around it.
Beneath the metal cover was a honeycomb structure, housing purple-gold spheres.
Counting this one, there were already six in total.
Mechanical Fortress--X Level: An advanced mechanical body storage device specially crafted by the Divine Craftsman--Li Ming.
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Control Effect: Mechanical Body Recovery Blessing--50 times
Control ability--Internal Link: Capable of storing one hundred matching Mechanical Body Warehouses. The mechanical bodies stored within can be directly consumed within the control bar by using related abilities.
This device is not a restoration from the Hammer Divine Craftsman’s blueprints, but something Li Ming has gradually upgraded over time.
The needed feature is this Internal Link ability.
The more mechanical bodies there are, the longer the time required to fuse and give birth to mechanical life forms. On a real battlefield, the enemy won’t give you that time.
He stored our main combat-ready mechanical bodies and sent Ulrich to deploy the remaining F-Level mechanical bodies to various locations.
After leaving here, he briefly instructed Ulrich before returning to the Heavenly Palace.
"...There are only five portions of the Blood of the World left; it probably won’t last long..." Li Ming glanced at the control page.
The controlled objects he had crafted weren’t limited to just the Mechanical Fortress. In the past half-year, he had intermittently added up to five, functioning in various areas.
He also incorporated an X-Level artificial intelligence, differing in division of labor from the Vermilion Bird, mainly to manage open businesses.
The Vermilion Bird was responsible for the Dominator Laboratory and managing secret bases.
The forbidden life forms were no longer an issue for him; even now, he was fairly confident he could kill them, let alone when he advanced to X-Level life forms.
Considering this, he walked to the internal warehouse. The metallic door opened automatically, revealing eleven large silver-white metal boxes neatly arranged.
Li Ming approached one, entered the unlock code, and the metal panels around the box fell away, revealing dazzling light through the crevices.
Rows of crystals, each the size of a glass marble and nearly identical in appearance, were neatly arranged on the shelf racks; they were precisely artificial mother ores.
"Tsk..." Li Ming couldn’t help but rub his hands and looked toward the other boxes.
With further cooling reduction, he needed one hundred thousand mother ores.
But what lay before him was one million one hundred thousand.
Yes, he had managed to gather even the number required for the next cooling reduction.
Each of these mother ores costs over a million Star Coins.
He needed so many at once that even Mikhail was quite surprised. The production line wasn’t set up yet, and the entirety of five months’ output, hastily produced, only met his demands.
Mainly, it’s about being financially resourceful.
"Another reduction leads to three minutes and forty-five seconds; even if a million units cost one minute and fifty-two seconds, and then to one minute, fifteen seconds..." Li Ming thought for a moment, and couldn’t help but smirk.
The halving effects were quite annoying.
Shaking his head, he started to absorb the artificial mother ores; these things could only be absorbed one by one, costing him much time.
Even at his constant pace, it took a full ten days to completely absorb the one million one hundred thousand mother ores.
This was only because he employed the Time Distortion Position after absorbing several thousand; otherwise, it would have consumed even more time.
After finishing the absorption, Li Ming exhaled deeply. The Time Distortion Position merely shortened relative time.
The actual time he spent didn’t decrease; the long, dull repetition truly sickened him.
To shake off this feeling, he began to consume.
Do you want to consume ten thousand units of mother ore energy to perform control object switching cooldown reduction?
Of course, confirming, ten thousand units of mother ore energy dissipated completely, and the cooldown further reduced to three minutes and forty-five seconds.
Without batting an eye, Li Ming continued to upgrade, yet the prompt he received this time left him quite surprised.
Do you want to consume one million units of mother ore energy to completely eliminate control object switching cooldown?
"Completely eliminate?" Li Ming was slightly stunned, then exhaled and smiled: "Not bad, not bad, at least there’s some humanity in it; no need for endless stack-ups."
This was an unexpected gain; he rarely switches control objects in combat now, but at least it was one less thing to worry about.
In high spirits, Li Ming returned to the development room, gulping down a few vials of elixir, ready to continue developing the Genetic Seed to reach 100% as soon as possible, when the intelligent terminal suddenly chimed.
Li Ming wasn’t annoyed by the interruption; such occurrences had been frequent over the past half-year.
He glanced at the virtual screen that popped up next to him, and the note on it surprised him--