Age Of The Endless Star Ocean Chapter 339: Luxuriously Outfitted Sky Dome - Novel Cool

Chapter 339: Luxuriously Outfitted Sky Dome

Chapter 339: Luxuriously Outfitted Sky Dome

There was no need to hide this, so Song Chi nodded straightforwardly.

Upon confirmation, Song Xuan Cang's projection avatar's eyes flashed with evident surprise. It had been less than three years since Song Chi emerged from the Dragon Spine Mystic Realm, and to have completed the assimilation of the Star Sea Law in such a short time was clearly abnormal.

Song Xuan Cang knew that Song Chi must have had some extraordinary encounter, but he did not press for details. Instead, he continued to explain based on his previous questions:

"In the Primordial Mystic Realm, the 10-year limit for Law Enlightenment only applies to Flame Vessel Captains who are just beginning to comprehend the laws. As their Law Enlightenment improves, their resistance to the fragmented laws in the Mystic Realm also increases, naturally extending the time they can spend in the Primordial Mystic Realm."

"Similarly, the higher one's Law Enlightenment, the faster the subsequent assimilation process will be after leaving the Primordial Mystic Realm."

Seeing Song Chi nod thoughtfully, seemingly without a clear understanding, Song Xuan Cang continued:

"To be more specific, if a Flame Vessel Captain has a Law Enlightenment of Minor Mastery (10% to 39%), they can stay in the Primordial Mystic Realm for over 50 years, and the subsequent assimilation will only take 10 years."

"For Flame Vessel Captains with Intermediate Mastery (40% to 69%), they can stay for one to two hundred years, and the assimilation will only take a few years. As for Major Mastery, they can easily stay for several hundred years in the Primordial Mystic Realm."

Hearing this, Song Chi finally had a complete understanding. Knowing that his current Law Enlightenment of 0.48% was not much different from before, he would only be able to stay for an additional one or two years, and the subsequent assimilation would still take several decades.

Thinking about this, he felt a bit hesitant.

The [Spatial Law Fruit] was now useless to him. If he entered the Dragon Spine Mystic Realm again, he would be unable to enter the Market for cultivation and Law Enlightenment for several decades after coming out.

In this case, it might be better to directly use the Market for Law Enlightenment, as the speed might not be much slower.

After a moment's hesitation, Song Chi made his decision: to temporarily forego entering the Dragon Spine Mystic Realm for Law Enlightenment and wait until he reached the Minor Mastery stage of Spatial Law before considering it again.

With this decided, he asked his second question.

"What about secret techniques?"

Song Xuan Cang's response was quick.

"You have already comprehended the [Dragon Whale State] and [Return to Ruins Slash], right?"

"Yep!"

"In that case, before you break through to the Fourth Rank in Guiding Technique, it's best not to spend too much time comprehending new secret techniques. Secret techniques are valuable in their precision, not in their quantity. Your main task now is to maximize your Law Enlightenment before breaking through to the Fourth Rank. This is the most important thing!"

"Thank you, Clan Head, for your guidance. I understand!"

With his two biggest concerns resolved, Song Chi took out the numerous mechanical remnants he had obtained from the "Sky Canopy Mechanical Civilization" ruins before leaving. Among them, the most valuable were a few relatively complete Fourth-Rank Hellfire Mechs and Fourth-Rank Tank Mechs.

Seeing these, Song Xuan Cang was quite pleased. The Fourth-Rank mech remnants were quite valuable, and if the family's Technology Department could successfully replicate their blueprints, there was a good chance of mass production.

While the Hellfire Mechs might not match the firepower and defense of mobile warstars or be equipped with advanced brain core chips, their advantage lay in flexibility. Their firepower was even better than that of ordinary Fourth-Rank units. With some manual pilots, they would certainly be quite effective.

Of course, this was only possible if they could enter mass production.

Song Chi was also quite hopeful. Compared to the goblin magic energy bombing drones, the Hellfire Mechs were clearly more suitable as carriers for the [Sky Canopy Sub-brain].

Imagine the scene if tens of thousands of Hellfire Mechs were summoned in a large-scale military operation. It was almost unimaginable.

However, this was just a thought. In the short term, it was impossible. Not only did the family's Technology Department need to overcome the technical challenges, but even if they could mass-produce them, equipping them would not be simple.

Each Fourth-Rank mechanical unit was extremely expensive, and equipping tens of thousands of them would be a huge financial burden. With his current assets, it was far from feasible.

Before leaving the Ancestral Hall, Song Xuan Cang awarded Song Chi 200 gold merit points as a reward for submitting these Sky Canopy mechanical civilization artifacts.

After leaving the Ancestral Hall, Song Chi visited the Merit Tower and spent 5 gold merit points to redeem his full quota of 500 titanium crystals for the past three years. He also casually redeemed 5 law stones.

Additionally, after a few months of buffer time in the Sky Canopy mechanical civilization's territory, it was now the start of a new year, and he collected his sequence subsidy for the year.

Titanium Crystals: 3,000 units, Law Stones: 200 units, Fourth-Rank Floating Land Essence: 200 strands, Third-Rank Floating Land Essence: 2,000 strands

With this new batch of resources in hand, Song Chi finally managed to replenish his high-tier resources, allowing him to breathe a sigh of relief.

Recently, he had acquired several high-tier components but was unable to enhance them due to a lack of resources. This included the newly obtained Celestial Brain System and Mother and Child Spirit Control Ring, as well as the previous Behemoth Heart and Aurora Jump Device.

On the way back to the Green Moon Estate, once he returned to his personal courtyard, Song Chi immediately entered the market ruins.

He then began the next round of enhancements for the Sky Dome.

Before enhancing the Celestial Brain System component, he first enhanced the Behemoth Heart and Aurora Jump Device.

Behemoth Heart lv30 → lv50

Aurora Jump Device lv30 → lv40

The Behemoth Heart component was more crucial for the Sky Dome, so he directly enhanced it to the fifth rank.

After reaching the fifth rank, the Behemoth Heart significantly increased the hull's durability by 90%, nearly doubling the Sky Dome's hull strength.

The "Behemoth Dominant Body" characteristic's duration also increased from 40 seconds to 60 seconds, and the cooldown time was reduced from 48 hours to 24 hours.

As for the Aurora Jump Device, Song Chi initially planned to enhance it to lv50, but he was concerned that he might not have enough titanium crystals, as he still had several other components to enhance.

At the fourth rank, the Aurora Jump Device's maximum jump distance reached 900 light-years, and the "Leap Star Map Collector" characteristic's collection radius increased to 4.57 × 180 = 822 light-years, resulting in a significant attribute boost.

After enhancing these two components, Song Chi turned his attention to the Celestial Brain System component.

Quickly, he enhanced this component to lv10, and upon checking the attribute panel, he saw that it still only required a semi-automatic intelligent chip, so he rapidly enhanced it to lv20.

After reaching lv20, enhancing this component required titanium crystals and low-tier fully automatic intelligent chips.

After scanning the 50 low-tier fully automatic intelligent chips in his possession, Song Chi continued enhancing.

However, he had to stop after reaching lv30, as further enhancement would require intermediate fully automatic intelligent chips.

The good news was that after enhancing to lv30, the component's attributes saw a significant boost.

Celestial Brain System lv30

Quality: Silver

Characteristic 1: Computation efficiency increased by 170%

Characteristic 2: Database capacity increased by 170%

Characteristic 3: Fully automatic sub-brain mechanism

Characteristic 4: Celestial Sky Autonomous System

Consumption: 800/s (Dark Energy Points)

Effect: Significantly improves the control efficiency of the equipped warship.

No need for charging or buffering.

Upgrade Required: 30 strands of Third-Rank Floating Land Essence, 30,000 Dark Energy Points, 54 titanium crystals, 1 intermediate fully automatic intelligent chip

Note: This component requires an additional 4 slot positions.

Fully Automatic Sub-Brain Mechanism: Consuming 250,000 Dark Energy Points, the Celestial Brain System differentiates into 100 sub-brains. When these sub-brains integrate into regular machinery, they transform into special intelligent units. These units will operate autonomously and engage in combat while being fully under the command of the Celestial Brain System. Duration: 90 minutes, Cooldown: 5 years.

Unfortunately, the "Celestial Sky Autonomous System" characteristic seemed to be a fixed attribute and did not change.

Despite this, Song Chi was quite satisfied with the significant attribute boost, especially the "Fully Automatic Sub-Brain Mechanism" characteristic, which could differentiate into 100 sub-brains at the third rank. With further enhancement to the fifth rank, it could potentially differentiate into thousands, and at the seventh rank, it might even reach tens of thousands.

Next came the Mother and Child Spirit Control Ring component. The Enslavement Badge component's enslavement slots were currently tight.

Without further ado, he directly enhanced this component to lv40. It wasn't that he didn't want to enhance it to lv50; it was just that doing so would require an additional 975 titanium crystals. After enhancing the previous three components, he only had a little over a thousand titanium crystals left. If he continued to enhance the Mother and Child Spirit Control Ring, he wouldn't have enough resources to enhance the other components.

After some consideration, he decided to stop. His only fifth-rank combat unit, the "Flamewraith Giant," already had an Enslavement Badge. The other units could temporarily make do with the lv40 Mother and Child Spirit Control Ring.

Following this, he moved on to the purple Virus Spore Repulsion Membrane component, which was a defensive component for special environments. He spent 330 titanium crystals to enhance it to lv40.

Upgrading to level 40, this component is now sufficient to defend against fifth-tier spore virus invasions. While it’s not entirely foolproof, it at least gives the Sky Dome a significant level of resistance.

In the Sky Dome’s main control room, with the completion of this new round of upgrades, Song Chi was left with only eight hundred titanium crystals. Although his resources were nearly depleted, the Sky Dome’s strength had significantly improved.

Song Chi was extremely satisfied with this. He opened the warship’s attribute panel.

【Name: Sky Dome】

【Model: Flame Torch - Cruiser Class Ether Energy Airship】

【Level: Lv32】

【Additional Characteristics: Stabilize air】

【Basic Components: Orange Flame Torch Hull Lv32, Soul Devouring Light Cannon (Red) Lv50, Pure Yang Sword Light Cannon (Orange) Lv50, Shadow Demon Cannon (Orange) Lv50, Crimson Flame Sky Curtain Cannon (Orange) Lv50, Electromagnetic Thunder Light Cannon (Purple) Lv40, Cold Light Heavenly Frost Cannon (Purple) Lv40, Neutron Star Core Armor (Red) Lv50, Light Energy Fusion Engine (Red) Lv59, Immortal Realm Five Elements Energy Shield (Silver) Lv50, Spirit Insight Eye (Red) Lv50, Ether Energy Training Chamber Lv32 (12/12)】

【Additional Components:

Bodhimanda Meditation Seal (Gold) Lv50,

Final Shelter (Silver) Lv50, Mirage Dragon Transformation Pearl (Silver) Lv50, Celestial Brain System (Silver) Lv30,

Enslavement Badge (Red) Lv50, Chikura's 004 Cultivation Secret Realm (Red) Lv50, Behemoth heart (Red) Lv50, Mother and Child Spirit Control Ring (Red) Lv40,

Spirit Pillar (Orange) Lv40, Void Shadow Assassin Puppet Tree (Orange) Lv50, External Armor-Piercing Cobalt Bullet Launcher (Orange) Lv50, Taiyi Soul-Stabilizing Stele (Orange) Lv50, Brainwave Remote Control System (Orange) Lv40, Aurora Jump Device (Orange) Lv40, Life System Medical Repair Pod (Orange) Lv50,

Phantom Propulsor (Purple) Lv40, Water Molecule Isolation Membrane (Purple) Lv40, Void Escape Pearl (Purple) Lv40, Plasma Guardian (Purple) Lv40, Abnormal Status Purifier (Purple) Lv40, Holy Cross Beacon (Purple) Lv40, Proportional Scaling Device (Purple) Lv40, Void Membrane (Purple) Lv40, Ultrasonic Magnetic Detector (Purple) Lv40, Master-Servant Contract (Purple) Lv40, Psionic Beam Fusion Device (Purple) Lv40, Pseudo God-Binding Chain (Purple) Lv40, Winged Deployment Platform (Purple) Lv40, Multi-Function Converter (Purple) Lv40, Virus Spore Repelling Membrane (Purple) Lv40

Purple River Leap Device (Blue) Lv30, Fixed Point Deployment Platform (Blue) Lv30, Blood Soul Seal (Blue) Lv30, Spatial Beacon Emitter (Blue) Lv30, Sonic Silence Field (Blue) Lv30, Flame Torch Warship Crew Certificate (Blue) Lv30,

Fire Chrysanthemum Puppet Tree (White) Lv29, Healing Fruit (White) Lv29 (51/62)】

【Ether Energy Pool: 680,000 / 680,000】

【Resources: Slightly...】

It has to be said, the Sky Dome’s attribute panel has grown so extensive that it’s almost overwhelming to look at. Even Song Chi himself felt a bit dizzy just glancing over the long list, it’s clear how much the Sky Dome has been upgraded and enhanced. This sense of satisfaction stems from the sheer number of high-quality components the Sky Dome now carries, making it an extremely luxurious and powerful vessel.

Song Chi focused on the special components section. Unbeknownst to him, the blank slots had already dwindled to just 11. It wouldn’t be long before the Sky Dome would need to upgrade its hull level again.

With a satisfied expression, Song Chi exited the Sky Dome and recalled the warship. He didn’t rush to the Ether Energy Training Chamber or immediately delve into law comprehension. Instead, he needed to carefully plan his next steps.

While comprehending laws and upgrading his guiding technique are crucial, he hadn’t forgotten about the fragment of the Immortal Continent. That suspected fragment from a super Star Sea Floating Land of 7th level or higher still awaits exploration.

Additionally, he needs to pay attention to the acquisition of intermediate and advanced intelligent chips. He hopes that the gnome Luke and Alon won’t disappoint him in the future.

Lastly, he needs fifth-tier Void Crystals. After the "Chikura's 004 Cultivation Secret Realm" component was upgraded to level 50, further enhancements will require fifth-tier Void Crystals, which is a significant challenge.

Song Chi had already reserved a high-priced acquisition slot in the Market’s exclusive acquisition shop, specifically for the fifth-tier Void Crystals. However, after many years, there has been no progress.

PS: I revised Chapter 336 from yesterday. You can go back and re-read it; it should be much better now.

PS2: The writing was a bit watery. I need to think about the subsequent plot. This is the only chapter for today.

(End of Chapter)

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