Chapter 1099: Chapter 573: Mass-Produced Soldier Persons, The True Form of the Traitor_2
"Many [Artisans] didn’t transition to [Whale Oil Powered Machinist] until after I advanced to the Fifth Order.
Before their own organs started to decline, they found it difficult to make the decision to chop off their own limbs to replace them with mechanical prostheses.
But in this war-torn era, there are just far too many able-bodied yet limb-deficient people.
The most typical of these are the pirates under our command.
The most significant breakthrough of our ’Mechanical Augmentee’ project isn’t the hard-to-popularize [Intelligent Machine Protocol] but the mass-producible, as many as you need, ordinary soldiers.
Also named by us as: [Soldier Person]!"
With a small gesture, a whole set of modification plans was retrieved from the Golden Mist Palace and handed to Byron.
This plan was completed jointly by Whale Oil Mechanics, the Bloodthirsty Cult skilled in genetic modification, and the Skinners’ Church adept in surgery.
In fact, the technological prerequisites in various aspects had already been met through the unconscious accumulation of humanity and major departments under command over the years, merely combined by experts like Whale Oil Mechanics.
The main materials of the prostheses are high-strength metal materials, commonly using various rust-proof alloy steels.
Among Artisans, [Blacksmiths] studying metal materials have exceeded the productivity level of this era, at least not inferior to those Sons of the Sun on the Southern Continent.
It is said that in the laboratories of various Grand Artificers, there are over a hundred types of rust-proof alloy steel alone; as long as you have money, any parameter can be developed for you.
The weapons used by Transcendents and Miracle Object Embryos mostly originate from their hands.
It’s just that the lack of large-scale industrial production conditions has been a limitation, but this is a minor issue for Torrent Fortress.
And the research on souls in the Extraordinary World has been ahead of the technological world by tens of thousands of years from the outset.
The technological world requires complex brain-machine signal transmissions, but in the Extraordinary World, just a cheap rune engraved on one’s bones can substitute.
The position of the rune evidently referenced Violet’s own Deep Sea Tracing Ritual.
The positions of the six curse seals required by the beast number 666 are on the limbs, the base of the tongue, and the most important first cervical vertebra "atlas", also called "Atlas".
The effect is simple and direct: it can transform biological signals from the bodies of mortals, emulating the [Mechanical Consense] of Whale Oil Mechanics, to control mechanical bodies via the spine, and even more external plugins.
After reading the document, Byron thought further.
If he simplified his "Breathing Method: Storm King’s Seal" to teach them, letting these ordinary mortal soldiers walk the path of the human mind realm of "Flow State", "Divine Sight", "Unity of All Things".
Then directly imitate the Fourth Order Dragon Taming Technique of Knights to employ [prosthetic limbs], automated assembly lines, steam battleships, steam locomotives... and other mechanical creations.
It could surely significantly tap into the industrial and war potential of mortals.
Just as the Second Avatar said, establishing a stable human nature and exceptionally powerful [Soldier Person] force is definitely no problem.
And it allows them more opportunities to awaken spirituality in long-term social practice, step by step, embarking on the digital life path.
The number of mortals is far greater than that of Transcendents; once excavated, the overall strength of humanity will definitely usher in an explosive growth.
This is called: hey, we, the working class, have power!
Byron closed the modification plan and suddenly remembered [Puppet King] Louis, who had become a plaything in the hands of the [Capricious Joker].
In fact, the first person to successfully take this step should have been him.
The last time they met, he completely transformed himself into a mechanical puppet using [Flesh Is Futile], making significant progress on the puppet path.
Back then, he was schemed against by his brother Enrique IV’s title ability [Be Like Me].
It conceptually castrated the psychological state of specific targets, turning them into an "Incompetent" like Enrique IV.
Regardless of whether the opponent’s body is healthy or possesses some black sorcery that can affect the body, they will be mentally castrated, even Fifth Order cannot be exempt.
No one knows if it’s due to the saying "To master divine skills, one must first self-castrate", "With no woman in mind, naturally draw the saber of Nature God", but Puppet King Louis has made obvious rapid progress in the research on the Transcendent path.
[Puppeteer] has the matching ability of [Puppet Transmogrification] at the Third Order, which can transform ordinary puppets into various killing weapons, and even powerful miracle objects.
And Puppet King Louis had already deeply transformed his own body with the most outstanding knowledge in the same sequence.
He even applied both the Philosopher’s Stone and Spring Drive power systems.
If given time, it’s possible he might even install a small whale oil steam engine produced at Torrent Fortress, slowly achieving another form of immortality!
"[Puppet King] is gone, but the ideas offered remain, and the knowledge he left after his death should have also sunk into the collective human unconscious sea.
Someday I can go fishing for it, and collaborate with other Puppeteers of the Hall Sequence to try developing 2.0, 3.0 versions of Soldier Person."
Such is the advantage of the collective world, with a manifest human collective unconscious sea recording historical changes, no invention or creation will ever be lost.
Even if the development speed is slow, the human race will only grow stronger.
Byron believes that as long as they can survive this Great Flood, the next "colonized" will certainly not be them.
