This orbital strike cannon, named "Eye of Divine Might," is a space-based satellite weapon capable of operating independently of spacecraft. It is deployed in outer space and at the edge of the atmosphere, orbiting planets.
The Eye of Divine Might is not a particle beam weapon like the DarkStar Main Cannon, but uses solid projectiles with a large warhead. It can be equipped with different types of ammunition, giving it more tactical options. It strikes the ground from outer space, and through propulsion and gravity acceleration, it gains stronger kinetic energy and power. With its virtual technology algorithm support, the positioning of the strike coordinates is extremely precise, with negligible errors.
The production cost of this railgun is quite high, second only to the Mad Ape Mech, and that doesn't even include the cost of firing each shot.
With so much money spent, the return is naturally good. The Eye of Divine Might has tremendous attack power, like a giant cannon turret deployed in outer space. It only has two limitations: first, its attack speed is slow, and the cannonballs have to fly for a while.
Secondly, it cannot be used for interstellar warfare and can only be used for air-to-ground strikes, but it is very suitable for mercenary operations involving dropping cargo pods and kicking down doors.
This weapon is Han Xiao's most destructive means, but for now there is only one. The strategic support flow is currently only in its infancy, but Han Xiao has money in his pocket and can build more when he has time.
Once the strategic support flow is fully formed, dozens or even hundreds of orbital strike cannons firing simultaneously can flatten the surface of an asteroid in no time, fully demonstrating the principle that money talks in the Mechanic Class.
Bigger is better, more is better. While other superhumans are stuck in a bottleneck and stagnating, only Mechanic Class can steadily improve their combat power by spending money.
"With this equipment, I can finally be considered to have the strength expected of this level."
Han Xiao nodded secretly.
With a total cost of nearly one million Enas, and after upgrading all combat machinery, its destructive power truly reached the level of a "Calamity Grade," capable of summoning nuclear bombs to swarm the planet and destroy its surface ecosystem in an instant.
After roughly counting all the machines— the Watch Protocol, Mechanical Exosuit, Short-Range Warp Engine, the 004 and 005 mechanical legions, the Strong-Adhesion Electromagnetic Swamp, the Eye of Divine Might space-based satellite— Han Xiao organized the compression sphere and put it on his body. Large weapons like the mechanical legions and space-based satellites were stored in the spaceship's warehouse.
Besides the combat machinery, Han Xiao also came up with an interesting blueprint during this time for interstellar spaceship boarding operations, and he also built it.
"Ravager" assault pod, amphibious warfare equipment.
This is an externally mounted pod, installed on the spaceship. It contains shock-absorbing equipment and can carry a portion of the landing personnel. The pod is launched the instant the enemy ship's shields are breached, latches onto the enemy ship, and inserts itself into the enemy ship's outer armor via its embedding device. A thermal cutting device then burns through the armor, sending the landing personnel inside into the enemy ship... Of course, if things go wrong, the pod can also self-destruct.
In interstellar warfare, assault pods are frequently used. The personnel landing inside have no way out; they are put in a life-or-death situation, and it's all or nothing. They are basically suicide squads.
Han Xiao thought this thing was perfect for players; it was the real deal for a "suicide squad."
Raising your hands high and shouting "Ula ura" or something like that sounds really cool.
Han Xiao is currently researching the Frenzied Falcon Class spaceship, but he lacks some knowledge, which has stalled his progress in reverse engineering the blueprints. In his previous life, advanced Mechanic Class players could also build spaceships, but it was mostly a team effort, with each person having different areas of expertise and assembling different components.
Han Xiao didn't want to be assigned tasks; he wanted to learn the entire spaceship manufacturing process.
Independently building a spaceship is a landmark achievement, a special Legend Points, much like his yet-to-be-completed [Legendary Hunter] milestone.
However, he is still lacking some knowledge, and he is currently in dire need of potential points, which puts him in a somewhat awkward position.
After entering interstellar space, Han Xiao lacked experience in large-scale exploitation; his main focus was on accumulating wealth.
After all, he needs time to update his equipment after the upgrade, and he also spends a lot of experience on upgrade blueprints and fusion blueprints.
Therefore, our current experience reserves are almost exhausted.
"Let's find some time to reap some experience points..."
Han Xiao pondered.
His equipment has been upgraded, and besides acquiring potential points, he also needs to continue improving his raw strength.
"I'm currently level 142. Although I've only just entered the A Tier, with my current equipment, my combat power is comparable to higher-ranking opponents. Moreover, my specialty is exceptional durability, which is a huge advantage. If my opponent's abilities are too common, my win rate will increase significantly..."
Han Xiao mentally assessed his own combat strength. Generally speaking, most Galaxy characters enter Grade A between level 150 and 160, depending on their specialties, skills, and attributes. However, he entered A Tier at level 140, which is rare even among those awesome protagonist-type characters.
Once you reach Grade A, you can consider every 20-level advancement or each major job change as a watershed moment. Han Xiao is currently in the Rank 140 to 160 range, where the experience required for leveling up is enormous, almost always starting at one billion experience points.
In the previous version, when the level cap was raised to this level, the starting experience from quests was already in the tens of millions. Even so, players still needed to grind for a long time to level up.
Even if you can exploit players, it's still very difficult to accumulate enough experience to instantly level up to 160. In the short term, you can forget about advancing. However, there is another way to improve your strength: changing your main class.
Han Xiao's [Virtual Mechanic] is currently level 17, and he only needs 3 more levels to advance to the next class, which will require approximately 3 billion experience points.
This time, Han Xiao doesn't plan to sell knowledge. That stuff is a one-time transaction with limited quantities, and it's not suitable to just dump it all on players at once.
He decided to pass on his blueprint skills, which was the real, much larger source of profit.
Although the target audience for blueprint skills is limited to Mechanic Class players and the profit is not as high as Advanced Knowledge, the advantage is that there are too many blueprints that can be created by combining different knowledge, which is almost inexhaustible. In version 1.0, Han Xiao pretended to be Mechanic Class mentor and tricked more players into switching to Mechanic Class in order to expand the market for blueprint skills.
Besides, I don't just sell low-level blueprints to players; I can sell exceptionally high-level blueprints as well.
Players may lack the necessary knowledge and buy advanced blueprints that they can't use immediately, only looking at them with envy. However, some people will still buy them... because having an advanced blueprint that they can't use right now is better than nothing, and just looking at it makes them look forward to it.
He never underestimated the desire of Huaxia players to hoard goods.
Thinking of the players... Han Xiao opened the forum and glanced at it. The forum was always just as lively as ever.
The strategic equipment sold last time was used by players in the new mercenary missions. Many people took screenshots and posted them online. Among them, the Worker Bee Armor received particularly good reviews, allowing many casual players to find a new way to make money - fighting and killing is not good, mining is more practical!
The second most popular item was surprisingly the nuclear magnetic propulsion flight backpack. The comments weren't focused on the flight itself; they were all about how awesome the explosion was...
This gave Han Xiao even more confidence in the Ravager's assault pod.
He knew it; self-destruction was the perfect match for players!
After browsing through several pages of posts, Han Xiao saw not only sharing posts, casual chat posts, and general discussion posts, but also expert players creating guides and introducing new tactics. After reading for a while, he suddenly noticed a post had become popular and quickly bumped it up.
Wienka Beginner's Guide, Part 3
I clicked in and took a look. The player who posted the message was clearly obsessed with the Veyne Cards; instead of buying equipment, they spent all the money they earned on building their deck...
Wow, salted fish!
Why do you spend all your time playing these fancy tricks instead of actually fighting monsters?!
"These players have still been corrupted by Veyne Cards..."
Han Xiao's lips twitched. Could it be that Veyne Cards was his biggest business competitor?
A quick glance revealed that the Shattered Star Ring deck had been updated, which was the focus of the post and drew a flurry of comments from players. Among the updated cards was the Black Star Army.
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Shattered Star Ring deck adjustments:
The Mercenary Card [Black Star Mercenary Group] has been changed to the Mercenary Card/Faction Card [Black Star Army]. The card's attributes have been enhanced, and a new special effect has been added.
The attributes of the Civilization Card [Goddora] have been enhanced.
The attributes of the faction card [Floating Dragon Island] have been enhanced.
New Enhancer Card ["Black Star" Han Xiao].
A new historical card, [DarkStar Demise], has been added.
The original faction card [DarkStar] has been moved to the discard pile.
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Han Xiao immediately understood why the post had suddenly gone viral.
Nowadays, in the eyes of players, the Black Star Army represents their faction. Seeing the faction appear in the deck makes players extremely excited, and the comments section explodes. In their view, the changes to the Veyne Cards reflect the results of their contributions to the faction's growth.
The update to the Veyne Cards reflects the trends across all regions of Galaxy to some extent, as it has even added its own exclusive powerful cards, and the card attributes are quite good...
This proves that his deeds have spread far and wide, and he has become a well-known figure.
Han Xiao's heart stirred slightly as he suddenly realized that the Veyne Cards seemed to be a potential ranking list, showing a person's fame and status in the interstellar world.
After browsing the forum for a while and taking some potions from Slaik and his group of secret prisoners, Han Xiao closed the door and left the mechanical modification room.
Having wasted nearly two months building the machinery, Han Xiao didn't forget his mission to send Hila and Aurora to Dragon Calm.
Now that the Black Star Army has grown in size, players and regular mercenaries share a large number of tasks. Currently, it seems that no high-difficulty tasks require personal intervention, so Han Xiao decided to complete Ames's instructions first.
Hila is usually in the practical training room, Aurora should be there too.
He ran into Sylvia on the road. She looked flustered, as if she was avoiding something. She quickly greeted him and then ran away. Han Xiao didn't think much of it. After walking for a while, he saw Reynold looking around at the intersection. He went up to him and said a few words of encouragement. When he saw Reynold about to take out a small notebook, Han Xiao quickly shut up and strode away.
Upon arriving at the combat training room, as expected, Hila was undergoing combat training there, Aurora was also dragged into it.
Because of her past experiences, Hila has a strong desire for power. Since entering interstellar space and encountering so many powerful individuals, her sense of crisis has become increasingly acute. She wishes she could stay up all night and spend all her time training.
The effect was also remarkable. The interstellar era training room could simulate real combat effects and force out the combat potential of superhumans. Hila's talent had always been quite good, and with her hard work, her strength had increased significantly recently. Just a few days ago, Han Xiao sparred with Hila and found that Hila had already leveled up several times.
Han Xiao opened the door, and the virtual battle scene instantly disappeared.
Hila stopped, wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand, and frowned, saying, "What are you doing here? Want to spar?"
She was wearing a black combat suit, which was very tight and looked like a layer of black skin, outlining her hot body with a prominent bust and buttocks, making her extremely attractive.
Han Xiao glanced at it, shook his head helplessly, and couldn't help but say, "Can you change into a more useful combat suit? Don't I have any armor for you to choose from?"
"Too bulky."
Hila gave her a look of disgust.
"What do you mean 'clumsy'? That's called safety. You just think it's ugly, what do you know about aesthetics?"
Han Xiao rolled his eyes. Tch, woman.
The two were exchanging barbs, Aurora her hands on her knees, was bent over, panting and unable to utter a word.
She was forced to participate in special training, but she couldn't keep up with the intensity of the Hila and was so exhausted that her whole body felt like it was falling apart.
However, Aurora had no complaints. She had gone through a tough period and knew the importance of strength. She hadn't slacked off in her training, which was why she was so tired. After all, virtual combat wouldn't cause real damage. If she had just slacked off, she wouldn't be this exhausted.
Han Xiao pulled out a high-energy nutrition bar and casually tossed it to Aurora, then said, "Alright, you guys stop training. Pack up, I'll take you to Dragon Calm."
Upon Aurora quickly stopped tearing at the packaging of the nutrition bar and exclaimed with delight, "Finally, I can see Big Sister Ames?!"
Hila's eyes brightened slightly, and a smile curved her lips. Only after entering interstellar space did she fully understand Ames's reputation in the universe, and she had been looking forward to formally following her in her training for a long time.
Beep beep beep--
Just as Han Xiao was about to say a few more words, his communicator suddenly rang. He took it out and saw that it was a communication request from Ames, saying that Dragon Emperor Dragon Emperor arrived.
"Ames?"
"Hmm, Black Star, when are you sending my student over?" Ames's projection appeared, her expression a half-smile, and a pair of long, white, python-like legs came into view.
"I was dealing with some things before, which delayed me for a while. I'll send them to Dragon Calm in a few days." Han Xiao nodded.
"Okay." Ames hesitated for a moment, then suddenly said, "You'd better come quickly. When you get here, I need you to come with me somewhere."
Where to?
"War Realm."
Ames's tone was flat, revealing no emotion.
Han Xiao's eyebrows twitched, a strange sense of foreboding creeping over him, as if his leisure time was about to vanish again.
Can I not go?
"Hmph, no way."
Ames hung up the call.