God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 411: The Aerial Combat Plan Is Also Pretty Strong
Hearing the apprentice’s words, everyone fell silent.
Thinking it over carefully, why did it feel like every single one could work?
No, actually—these approaches working together would be the best choice.
Any single one alone just felt... incomplete.
If they only had the fortress, they could only conduct large-scale attacks without any way to do precision strikes.
If they only had the flying combat units, then they definitely couldn’t conduct long-range attacks.
And if it was just airdrops? Sure, the cost would be lowest and easiest to achieve, but the precision would be lacking. Though if they could combine it with the fortress, that’d be better.
As for giving War Soldier 3.0 direct flight capabilities, that also seemed like a decent direction, just harder to pull off.
You could say each direction had its own advantages and, at the same time, certain disadvantages. So it seemed like combining all of them together would be the best choice.
"For individual units like the dragons, what’s your idea? Build mechanical constructs that mimic the body structure of flying creatures? Or use magic runes to enable flight?"
Wild Mage was silent for a while before finally asking.
"Either works. As long as it can fly and attack, even merging it with War Soldier 3.0 would be fine." The apprentice was a firm pragmatist.
As long as it worked, it was good.
No matter what method they used.
Mechanical or runic, magic power or human power—none of that mattered. As long as it was practical and could achieve the desired effect.
"Fair enough."
Wild Mage didn’t commit either way. "But there’s one problem. With the technology we currently have, trying to keep a fortress flying continuously would probably be extremely difficult. On one hand, there’s the weight issue. On the other, the energy problem."
"Self-charging arrays of the same area couldn’t possibly power a fortress forward. And even stacking multiple self-charging arrays and draining all the surrounding magic power wouldn’t make it happen—unless we could create self-charging arrays with even greater absorption."
Wild Mage was the authority on this stuff.
Pretty much everyone knew one thing—Wild Mage’s self-charging arrays were constantly being upgraded, but no matter how many people participated or how they upgraded them, they’d always lag behind Wild Mage’s own work.
Under these circumstances, if even Wild Mage said it couldn’t be done, it was probably genuinely difficult.
But the apprentice shook his head slightly. "Who said the fortress needs to be constantly moving? The greatest advantage of an aerial fortress is that it can move. Most of the time, it’d be in a hovering state."
"We just need to make sure that in the hovering state, the self-charging array can store part of the magic power in energy storage runes. That would count as success."
The apprentice’s thinking was simple. An aerial fortress wasn’t an aerial combat unit—it didn’t need to move quickly at all. Just treat it as a fortress built in the sky.
Simply put, it went like this: when the aerial fortress was hovering in the sky, if magic power input exceeded output, then magic power would accumulate. Using that accumulated magic power to conduct short-distance flights would let the aerial fortress reach wherever they wanted to go.
That way, wherever the Church of Technology’s legions went, they’d have a solid fortress—a fortress most enemies couldn’t even attack. In this fortress, their combat clerics could naturally get the best living conditions, could relax, get treatment, and recover.
At the same time, this fortress would also have certain offensive and defensive capabilities, which would really demonstrate its enormous strategic value.
As for rapid movement... getting such a huge fortress to move quickly was just impossible!
Hearing the apprentice’s words, everyone nodded slightly.
It did seem to be that way.
"In that case, let’s just take these ideas and nail down a solid proposal, then go ask Viscount Roster for approval. I believe with his strategic vision, he’ll definitely approve our project."
Seeing that everyone was interested in this plan, Wild Mage nodded and made the decision.
He actually knew very well that this project would be difficult, but once completed, the derivative technologies alone would be enough to change the entire world and accelerate the magic-tech industrialization process.
Soon, a project outline was sent to Viscount Roster.
Having just left the livestock farm and confirmed the impact of Golden Spike Grain’s bumper harvest and the massive grain investment on the farms, Viscount Roster had just left the site when he discovered it was a message from Wild Mage. He immediately perked up.
Wild Mage was a reserved person.
He usually only took the initiative to reach out after something succeeded or when something was particularly major. Other times, it was basically always Viscount Roster making first contact, and only then would the other party communicate.
But this time, he’d taken the initiative to come to him—there must be something important.
With that thought, Viscount Roster instantly focused and examined it carefully.
"Aerial forces, attacking enemies from the air. The enemy has no way to attack them, but they can directly bomb huge groups of enemies from the sky... damn, there’s actually such a sweet deal in this world."
Looking at this proposal, even Viscount Roster was a bit shaken.
This world had plenty of supernatural professions, and they often possessed incredibly powerful combat abilities. Most importantly, they could fly in the sky and attack.
Even without thinking about those, the dragons’ flight capabilities and combat power were well-known. So having one more combat mode with flight capabilities wasn’t exactly strange.
But the problem was, the strategic value described here was just too massive!
Plenty of things could fly, but very few had super destructive power. When this thing combined with magic conductors, there’d definitely be a qualitative change.
Especially the aerial fortress.
Once this aerial fortress was built, it would be like a mobile headquarters, able to launch countless attacks anytime and unleash endless combat power.
"I approve this proposal. Calculate how much money you’ll need. I’ve recently made some money from the stock market—should be enough to push this project forward."
Viscount Roster didn’t hesitate much before deciding. This project could definitely be done, and it was highly significant.
Just as some magic-tech experts said, using this kind of combat method against these ice spirits was actually kind of extravagant. But in the future, their enemies wouldn’t just be these ice spirits.
More importantly, forging such war weapons would definitely require using lots of new technologies. These new technologies might increase the investment in creating war weapons by countless times, but the return would be an entire era!
Any random technology pulled out might change this world.
