After conducting a general study of the Aolei Empire's Steam Soldiers, Lu Xingshi rushed to the front lines to take command.
As for Steam Soldiers, these Extraordinary Soldiers, Lu Xingshi's greatest impression was that they had no major shortcomings.
By integrating machinery with power generated from Extraordinary Steam of the vitality-and-blood type, they possessed immense potential in endurance, explosive power, recovery, and resistance.
They could also undergo further advancement through enhancements from the later Steam Animal series. Not only could they gain greater strength, but they could also acquire a powerful weapon.
Because they possessed complete technical knowledge, the fatality rate in manufacturing Steam Soldiers was so low it could be ignored. Out of every thousand people, only one would fail.
Correspondingly, beneath all those advantages lay one negligible flaw: they were expensive.
But that was not a flaw of the Steam Soldiers. It was a flaw of the Aolei Empire.
If Lu Xingshi had not shifted the cost of the Moonlight Werewolves under his command onto the moon, the Moonlight Werewolves would have cost far more than Steam Soldiers.
Precisely because they cost more, the Moonlight Werewolves were stronger than Steam Soldiers. That was true at every stage.
Otherwise, where would all that extra cost have gone? Naturally, it could only have turned into strength.
"My lord, the enemy has sent you a letter."
Lu Xingshi took the letter and read it. It was a surrender solicitation written to him by Meng Shou of the Aolei Empire.
As long as he was willing to hand over the method for cultivating Moonlight Werewolves, relinquish his identity as a noble lord, become an enfeoffed lord of the Aolei Empire, and reside in the imperial capital, they could promise that he, his children, and his descendants would remain nobles for life.
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