"This tower is... an alchemy tower?"
"It looks like an alchemy tower, and the aura is similar, so it should be a space-based alchemy tower."
"I heard that the Golden King is a master alchemist. I didn't believe it at first, but now that even his alchemy tower has been upgraded to the level of a divine artifact, it seems that the rumor is probably true!"
"Hiss... an alchemy master? There are probably only a handful of alchemy masters in the Prado Universe System, right?"
Beyond the Golden Star, on a planet specially created to receive foreign guests, the visitors were abuzz with discussion, their opinion of the Golden Divine Kingdom rising even higher.
A Divine Kingdom is the foundation of a powerful force. With enough effort, it is almost certain to rise to prominence and hold a pivotal position in the universe.
If the master of this Divine Kingdom is also a Rare alchemy master, then its development potential will be even greater. After all, reaching the level of an alchemy master is already equivalent to a walking money-printing machine, with an astonishing ability to make money.
The outside world was in an uproar over the Nirvana Tower's advancement, while inside the Nirvana Tower, in the troop production layer and the barracks layer, Logo was using the newly upgraded Nirvana Tower to produce new types of troops.
Inside the troop-producing layer, the Maker series alchemy assistant, now at its 52nd generation, was waving its numerous tentacles, sending various precious resources into the alchemy nest.
Then, the mother nest began to expand and contract, its surface flashing with countless Alchemical Runes like stars in the sky, while the energy circuit at its bottom continuously supplied an exceptionally pure flow of energy, maintaining the operation of this production machine.
The advancement of the Nirvana Tower has always been a holistic improvement.
Therefore, despite the numerous preparations and immense difficulty involved before the promotion, once the promotion is successfully completed, it signifies that the entire Nirvana Tower system has undergone a transformation and sublimation. Every organ and every alchemical space with its unique purpose will possess the qualities and status of a divine artifact.
The Nirvana Tower, once Demigod, could produce six-star alchemical units through the Mother Nest, but its speed was always a major weakness. However, if placed within a plane, it could easily crush imperial-level forces, or even plane-level forces.
However, once the conflict escalates to the level of the Astral Realm, the troop-producing capacity of the Demigod Nirvana Tower is far from sufficient. The small number of troops produced will be completely wiped out in an instant during a war Astral Realm civilization.
Moreover, what the Golden Divine Kingdom is most lacking right now is manpower. The operation of the entire Divine Kingdom cannot be sustained by the few people on Golden Star alone; they are stretched thin.
Therefore, Logo decided to spare no expense in frantically increasing the population and troop numbers.
The advancement of the Nirvana Tower, which increased the speed of troop production, was just one of his many population plans. In addition, Logo had almost exhausted his alchemy skills, putting ethics and morality aside for the time being. Life Factory sprang up one after another, producing massive numbers of people every minute and every second.
Not only humans, but all intelligent life forms in the Elven Plane with a certain population size were included in the Life Factory's production plan before the war of destruction.
As the factory's flesh-and-blood machines churn, perfectly preserved biological cells evolve rapidly, defying the laws of nature, quickly passing through their infancy. They are then infused with relevant knowledge, issued identity certificates, and become qualified citizens of the Golden Empire.
During this process, there were outsiders who protested Logo's behavior, especially citizens from the Astral Realm. Based on the basic moral principles of the Astral Realm and the relevant biological treaties clearly stipulated in the Civilization Council, they attempted to stop Logo's immoral behavior.
However, these people who spoke without thinking only received a dismissive remark, "The Golden Empire hasn't joined the Civilization Council yet, so it doesn't need to follow the Council's laws."
Upon hearing this, all the dissenters fell silent. They then remembered that the Golden Empire had not joined the Civilization Council. As for the reason... to put it bluntly, it was to protect the major civilizations from the ravages of the Eight Gods' Realm. The Golden Empire Golden Divine Kingdom served as a Sturdiness fortress on the front line of defense, and its application to join the Civilization Council was temporarily suppressed.
Once they realized this, even the most shameless person couldn't say much, and the public outcry that had just been stirred up subsided.
Of course, these people didn't know that Logo hadn't taken their words to heart at all. He understood perfectly well that only strength truly determined the status of the Golden Divine Kingdom; everything else was utter nonsense.
Logo was not opposed to the idea that the Golden Divine Kingdom would become a logistics base and a war fortress; he saw crisis as a dangerous opportunity.
Chaos is what builds the ladder to success. The benefits of joining the Civilization Council are nothing compared to the treatment the Golden Divine Kingdom currently receives. Logo isn't afraid of danger; he's afraid of not having the opportunity.
Inside the troop production layer, the first mother hive finally produced a brand new alchemical unit, which was then teleported to the barracks layer.
Logo moved swiftly, arriving at the barracks level, in front of the alchemy unit, and carefully examined its details.
"Forge Colossus - Divine Fire Titan" is the name of this alchemical unit. It was designed by Logo by simplifying the Divine Body structure of the Titan God Race.
The Divine Fire Titan has a distinct steampunk style, appearing rugged and bold. Its chest is a reactor furnace, which looks unremarkable but can actually hold an entire star. Its joints can spew out alchemical flames with astonishing temperatures. Its back is equipped with beam-type weapons that resemble honeycomb rocket launchers, but their power is enough to easily wipe out a planet.
These are just some of the Divine Fire Titan's secondary abilities. Its primary role is as a battlefield advance core, used to destroy enemy fortified units. Its arms can transform into a heavy hammer, and each attack is accompanied by a firestorm explosion, making it extremely destructive and particularly adept at siege warfare.
After the Nirvana Tower was upgraded to the level of a divine artifact, the first alchemical soldier was born. As if sounding a horn, the second, the third... alchemical soldiers with different appearances and different roles appeared one after another in the barracks.
Logo looked at them one by one.
The second alchemical unit is named "Ripper - Chainsaw Radiation".
Its role is to counter armored units and disrupt enemy battle formations, primarily responsible for melee combat.
Resembling a humanoid high-tech mecha, it is covered in serrated armor and wields a high-speed rotating split chainsaw with a ghostly blue edge. While cutting enemies, it also releases decay radiation pulses, making the metal structure extremely fragile and accelerating the overload of the energy shield.
When necessary, the Ripper can also self-destruct, releasing a spherical radiation field. The dense, highly penetrating energy streams are enough to instantly kill an ordinary Demigod, leaving not a trace, and disintegrate and dissipate all matter within the spherical field, turning it into dust.
The third unit type is the "Radiance Arbiter".
Positioning, beyond-visual-range precision strikes, primarily responsible for long-range attacks, evolved from the Wings of the Firmament.
Its appearance resembles a mechanical jellyfish, with tentacles serving as energy conduits and a compressed, crystallized thundercloud-like energy core. It combines light and lightning elements, resulting in high speed and explosive power.
Not only can it launch physical ammunition at long distances, achieving instantaneous strikes by inscribing spatial runes on the projectiles and penetrating energy shields, but it can also release a "Thunderstorm Matrix" after fully accumulating energy, covering a large area, unleashing tracking lightning, and remotely sniping or wiping out large numbers of enemy war units.
The fourth type of unit, "Shadow of Incorporeality - Phase Infiltrator", is a space-based and shadow-based unit.
The role is clearly defined: an assassin responsible for decapitation strikes behind enemy lines, destruction of key facilities, and harassment operations.
Its appearance is that of a semi-transparent humanoid creature with a hunched body, skin covered with liquid metal scales, and Void crystals embedded in its joints. It can draw energy from the Void and Teleportation.
The Shock Dagger equipped by the Shadow of Incorporeality can penetrate the defenses of most Demigod in an instant, directly destroying their life core.
In large-scale battles, it can also release pheromones to interfere with enemy communications, forge commander voiceprints to issue incorrect orders, and perform a whole host of other tricks, making it one of the few top-tier alchemy units.
The fifth type of unit, "Plague Hive - Corruption Mother," is an out-and-out biological weapon, a terrifying weapon created by Logo based on the body structure and laws of the Crimson Mother Hive - Lilithus.
It is positioned as an ecological extinction weapon, aimed at wiping out the enemy's offspring. Deploying this weapon means completely breaking off relations and going all out, showing no mercy whatsoever.
The Plague Hive appears as a bloated, fleshy, mobile fortress, its surface covered in slime. Hatching sacs and ejection pores are located beneath this slime, and the interior is filled with hundreds of millions of biochemically mutated bees.
Once war breaks out, the Plague Hive will spray corrosive spore clouds across enemy territory, causing vegetation to wither, water sources to become poisonous, and the entire planet's ecosystem to be completely destroyed and rendered uninhabitable in a short period of time.
After that, the Plague Hive will release swarms of bees carrying neurotoxins, using the virus to turn the devastated planet into a zombie production base, transforming it into an army that it can control.
The sixth type of unit, "Time-Eroding Guardian - Hourglass Construct," is a unit created by Logo based on the Time-Eroding Ouroboros.
The role is to control the pace of the battlefield, a support role.
Its appearance is that of a human with a snake's head. It is made of refined quartz and brass and has a unique mechanical structure. Inside its chest cavity, there is a time wheel that rotates in the opposite direction. It can deploy a slowing force field with a radius of at least ten kilometers, which can slow down the movement of enemy troops while giving friendly troops a speed boost.
Furthermore, the Time-Eroding Guardian can also reverse the state of an allied combat unit by consuming its own durability, returning it to three seconds prior. This can be used to repair damage or reverse fatal wounds, making it incredibly powerful.
The Time-Eroding Guardian unit is also the one with the most terrible side effects among the many units created by Logo this time. If overused, it can easily cause time paradoxes in a certain area. If a time storm is accidentally triggered, it may even wipe out friendly forces. Therefore, it is necessary to grasp the timing of its use.
The seventh type of unit, "Flesh Reconstructor - Symbiotic Cocoon".
His role is that of a medic, responsible for frontline medical care and bio-enhancing.
Its appearance resembles a spider, serving as a vehicle. Its abdomen is a transparent culture chamber containing alchemical hormones and highly active Transcendent cell solutions.
It can inject cell repair fluid through its tentacles to achieve instant hemostasis and limb regeneration, and can also guide organ mutation to become stronger.
For critically wounded and dying soldiers, the Flesh Reconstructor can seal them into its body and integrate its own life force into the soldier's body through a symbiotic cocoon to provide life-saving treatment.
Logo inspected all seven Demigod alchemical units, and their performance was largely as expected.
Combined with the various alchemy units already in use, this allows for deeper tactical synergy, with units complementing each other's abilities and forming closer connections.
At the same time, when creating new alchemical units, Logo placed greater emphasis on balance; each unit, while powerful, had no particularly obvious weaknesses.
After inspecting the alchemist units, Logo slowly floated up, extending his right hand. A ball of golden-blue flame emerged from his palm—the "Fire of Birth."
After advancing to the rank of Grandmaster Alchemist, Logo naturally gained another "secondary talent" related to the Fire of Birth, named "Initial Spark."
The Initial Spark, a special "spark core" that combines energy programming and biological neural networks through Alchemical Runes, was originally inspired by the "Mechanical Spark" of mechanical Transcendent, but its effects are much more powerful, and the difficulty of mastering it is billions of times greater.
By implanting an "Initial Spark" into alchemical soldiers, the soldiers can achieve self-iteration, adapt to the environment, devour resources, and evolve in a specific direction. It's as if the creator has exchanged the right to evolve life with the creation itself, giving the soldiers the seed of life. That's why it's called the "Initial Spark." The word "initial" means the first spark of inspiration.
Since the Initial Spark that Logo possesses is not the original version, but a completely new version that he upgraded and innovated, its mechanism and characteristics are extremely complex, and can be roughly divided into three points.
First, the core of the Fire Seed is composed of an energy carrier, based on high-energy particles and integrated with a quantum neural network. It can be compatible with both magic and technology systems. The advanced evolution algorithm can adjust the evolution direction in real time based on combat data, environmental parameters, and resource acquisition. This is similar to Lancelot's "Endless Divine Body" characteristic.
Second, the path of autonomous evolution. Alchemy units, endowed with the Initial Spark, possess exceptional combat adaptability. They can automatically analyze enemy weaknesses and optimize their own structure, essentially undergoing autonomous training. Their thinking ability and intelligence level are also directly elevated to a very high level.
Third, the evolutionary tree system.
It is mainly divided into the precision and heavy-duty aspects on the mechanical side, the flesh regeneration, toxins, and group consciousness links on the biological side, and the Fate observation and information gathering on the mystical side...
In short, with the Initial Spark, Logo's Nirvana Legion, in addition to updating itself, also possessed the ability to iterate and upgrade autonomously, becoming stronger with each battle.
The powerful Initial Spark naturally has its limitations. Since it is a secondary talent of the Fire of Birth, the strength of the Fire of Birth is positively correlated with the quantity and quality of the Initial Spark.
Logo doesn't want to pursue quantity; he values quality more. This means he won't provide many Initial Spark, limiting them to leader units.
With a thought, Ares, the Lord of War clad in golden armor, appeared before Logo, kneeling on one knee, "Greetings, my lord!"
"Hmm, Ares, I am very satisfied with your performance. Next, I will grant you a great power. Are you willing to accept it?"
"I will never refuse the grace of my Lord," Ares proclaimed fervently.
"Very well, then accept my gift to you, and strive to become a true God of Warfare!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Logo flipped his hand, and a hazy ball of light, like a miniature sun, fell from his palm and entered the body of Warlord Ares.