"How are these drone mechs?"
Leo wasn't worried about the time. Everything was prepared, and it wouldn't take more than ten years for him to advance to level five. He would have a forty-year buffer period, enough time for him to familiarize himself with the power of level five.
He looked down at the unmanned Homo Sapiens Mecha below. Although he had received reports about researching unmanned mechs, he hadn't expected so many to be produced at once.
Looking at the materials used in these mechs, they are all made of a mixture of energy metals and alloys. Although their manufacturing value is not as high as that of mechs made entirely of energy metals, they are still quite valuable.
Currently, the Academy's energy metals are either secretly hidden in the Rota World or scavenged from several other worlds. Although the Gnoll World also produces energy metals, the output is not high.
Not to mention the New Earth, there simply aren't any energy metal veins there!
This has resulted in the Atomic Control Academy having limited energy metal reserves, and they are still in a state of depletion, with each use dwindling.
Yaoyao a slightly embarrassed smile and said, "The research department has always had unmanned control projects. The last time we were on leave, they wanted to apply to combine it with artificial intelligence, but we were participating in the rotating war, so it was delayed for two hundred years."
"In other words, they obtained actual data on the application of mechs on the battlefield, which allowed them to improve their plans significantly. This is the first batch of finished products."
"I was planning to test their effectiveness on the battlefield during the next war, but since we're here, I brought them all with me."
"The researchers were a bit anxious, so they produced a little more than needed. They were worried that a small quantity would affect data collection in actual combat."
Yaoyao wouldn't say that it was because those researchers flattered her so much that she generously allocated them an extra amount of energy metal.
How were the results of the previous experimental tests?
"It's only passable; the performance shown in the tests was only 60% of the mechanical puppet's effectiveness," Yaoyao dared not lie about the data.
The drone A mainly relies on its internal artificial intelligence to collect information and can take action according to the instructions it receives.
While they may appear similar to traditional mechanical golems in the Wizard World, there are still some differences in their ability to receive commands and process information.
More importantly, mechanical puppets are the result of countless years of honing and fighting, and they excel in every aspect.
While the unmanned armor has more functions, it is, after all, a new product that has not been tested in actual combat, and has many defects and needs further improvement.
"60%, not bad."
"Keep researching; who knows which path leads to the ultimate?"
Leo was not dissatisfied with the low efficiency of the drone mechs. These drone mechs might have been mediocre in other aspects, but at least what he saw was good.
The army of Gulu Beast, mechanical golems, and drone mechs—these things entering this small world are like a dimensional reduction attack.
In just five years, they swept the entire world clean, capturing all creatures of level one and above.
Within a radius of thousands of kilometers, all the captured lives had been gathered, awaiting Black Soluo's control!
Surrounded by an overwhelming army of soul skeletons, Black Soluo demonstrated how to control these puppets.
By absorbing fragments of soul essence and then inserting one's own soul essence into it, control is achieved!
A total of 80 million puppet soldiers increased Black Soluo's forces from a mere 3 million to nearly 30 times their original strength!
Having witnessed firsthand how the Lord of Souls controlled the puppets, Leo truly understood why the Lord of Souls never took the puppet army seriously on the world battlefield.
In nearly five hundred years of war, the Lord of Souls has never used any sophisticated command; he has always relied on sheer numbers and mindless, relentless attacks by his puppet armies!
Their troop production rate is even more exaggerated than that of the Stigmata Wizard; even the Stigmata Wizard could not achieve such extinction-like control over all life on the entire world.
Because these puppets' future advancement is not considered, their soul essence has been damaged, completely cutting off their path to the next level. Therefore, they only require a small amount of resources to sustain them, which is something that Stigmata Wizard cannot match.
When training slaves, the Stigmata Wizard try their best to train powerful slaves with training value, and they are always carefully selected.
Like Leo's Gulu Beast, which was a slave that he had been training since he was First-Level Wizard.
Once the slave army is fully formed, the subsequent investment will be enormous. 70% of the Atomic Control Academy's resource expenditure is used to train the Gulu Beast army.
With a quantity of fifty million, the resources consumed each day would drive any lower-level creature mad.
Since advancing to level four, Leo has controlled two and a half worlds. Unlike more senior Stigmata Wizard, who control more worlds and produce more resources, supporting hundreds of millions of slaves is not a problem.
Because of a lack of resources, Leo resorted to plundering each world he visited during the War World.
The fate of this small world is already sealed. Even if he could advance to level five right now, Leo would still suppress time and move as many resources as possible.
While Black Soluo controlled the puppet, his soul strength continuously increased, which also enhanced Leo's physical strength, allowing Leo was already approaching the limit of level five, to continue to improve his strength!
Black Soluo's soul is the same as Leo's, which means that Leo can also control these puppets. At the same time, Leo, who has learned the ability of the Lord of Souls, can also control the puppets himself, but Leo doesn't think much of this low-level control method.
"How many souls have you controlled?" Leo asked Black Soluo clone beneath the countless soul skeletons.
"Two hundred million," Black Soluo replied with a smile.
"That's a bit little," Leo said, frowning slightly.
Seeing Leo's dissatisfaction, Black Soluo immediately defended himself, saying, "I controlled them from highest to lowest strength. Those few dozen level-four souls alone took up a lot of space. They weren't many, but they were of high quality."
"Two hundred million it is. Once the resources here are moved, you can go beyond the world and take control of the Black Metal Module," Leo said, calculating the time.
"How about we wait a bit longer? I also feel that 200 million souls is a bit too few. If we can't control it and it backfires on us, my entire soul will turn to metal, and you'll lose a very good pawn." Black Soluo was a little worried. It was his first time trying to control a cosmic-level treasure. Although he had a 60% success rate in his previous predictions, he was still a little apprehensive as the moment approached.
He was an avatar, but he didn't want to die before he could even unleash his full power after just advancing to level four!
He still has time to back out, but once he takes control, the cosmic treasure will leave him no time to regret it.
This is not an experiment that can be repeated; it's a gamble with only one chance!
I bet it will succeed!
The so-called 60% success rate was deduced from information gathered indirectly from Beast Blood Boiling.
Whether it's actually accurate... it's definitely not accurate!
He had never actually controlled a cosmic-level treasure and had no idea where the limits of its power lay.
Ever since Leo advanced to Level Four Stigmata Wizard, Yaoyao pulled the shadow of the Metal Module out of the Shadow World with him, he has been searching for a way to control it.
Leo didn't even dare to touch this cosmic treasure until he found a way to completely control the Black Metal Module.
Analyzing his experiences in the Rota World and the insights he gleaned from Beast Blood Boiling, Leo ultimately concluded that the biggest challenge in controlling the Metal Module was preventing the soul from being assimilated by Metal Module.
Back then, when the Level-Five World Lord of the Rota World had no hope of defeating the wizard army, he directly integrated the incomplete Metal Module into his body. Although he gained immense power, the scene of his fifth-level soul being metallized in less than ten seconds still filled Leo with fear.
The soul of Level-Five World Lord couldn't withstand it for even ten seconds before being completely metalized, demonstrating the power of a cosmic-level treasure!
Beast Blood Boiling was trapped in his own demiplane for nearly two thousand years in order to solve this problem.
Leo's solution was inspired by the Black Skull Stigmata Great Wizard. Since the Metal Module could assimilate souls, he would use countless souls to counteract this ability.
This method is utterly unwise; it's just the simplest, most foolish thing to do!
Whether due to the betrayal of the Black Skull Stigmata Great Wizard or the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard, Leo could not control the Black Metal Module with his main body. Coincidentally, during the Returning Breath World, Leo directly split his soul to cultivate the clone Black Soluo.
One of Black Soluo's main purposes was to control the Black Metal Module!
In fact, Leo and his clone Black Soluo shared a common understanding that they hadn't mentioned: if this method failed to assimilate the soul with the Metal Module, then Leo would completely tear apart Black Soluo's soul, severing the Metal Module's attempt to assimilate the main body's soul.
This is the worst possible outcome. Not only will Leo lose a portion of his soul, but Leo strength will also be greatly reduced, and it may even affect his path of Elemental Body Tempering.
but,
What's the point of a life without taking risks?!
No living being can control everything, Supreme Lord!
Four years later, 60% of the world's resources have been moved, and the remaining 40% are all located more than 2,000 meters underground, which will take more than ten years to mine.
"Stop mining and return everything."
At a single command, all the puppets, Gulu Beast, mechanical puppets, and drone mechs in the entire world departed.
Leo and his clone Black Soluo flew out of the world and arrived outside of it.
The pressure from a cosmic-level treasure is something no small world can withstand. Once the pressure erupts, the entire world will instantly shatter, and the clone Black Soluo will have to merge with it outside the world.
This small world must not be allowed to fail; it must be reserved for Leo to use when he advances to level five!