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Chapter 934: The Triad Set
Chapter 934: The Triad Set
Everyone’s time is precious.
So during these past two hours, everyone used their psychic abilities to communicate and exchange information, making the process both efficient and convenient.
By the time the meeting was nearly over, everyone present had a comprehensive understanding of the current state of Earth’s military.
Among them, the one who gained the most information was undoubtedly the First Emperor.
The First Emperor had just emerged from his seclusion and was still largely unaware of the outside world.
During these two hours, he absorbed all the information, gaining a clear understanding of their own strength.
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Speaking of Earth’s military strength, it’s important to start with the conventional forces.
Each soldier in the regular army has a minimum strength level of Tier 3.
Depending on their specialization, the soldiers form tactical squads to engage in joint operations.
Each tactical squad consists of about 30 people, roughly the size of a platoon.
Each squad includes 5 tank roles (defensive warriors, defensive knights, body cultivators, blood armor warriors, etc.), 5 healer roles (priests, healing druids, fangshi, etc.), 5 support roles (bards, shamans, etc.), and 15 other damage-dealing roles.
These soldiers are equipped with gear either from the game or manufactured in the real world, and they also wear military weapons obtained from the Skrull.
The equipment is self-explanatory.
The military weapons include the Skrull’s latest laser rifles, tactical suits that activate gray energy shields, and mechanical sprint leg guards that significantly boost movement speed for short durations.
According to tests conducted by the Earth Coalition Government, a Tier 3 player wearing the laser rifle, tactical suit, and mechanical sprint leg guards (the "Triad Set") can increase their overall strength by 50%!
With the "Triad Set" on, a soldier’s combat capability surpasses that of a Skrull soldier.
This "Triad Set" is the basic configuration for every soldier on the battlefield.
The Earth Coalition Government already has a stock of these "Triad Sets."
The largest portion of these "Triad Sets" comes from the arsenal Su Yu stole from G2 and the rebel forces of the Bak Country.
This batch includes about 250,000 sets, which can arm around 200,000 soldiers, accounting for wear and tear.
The second-largest batch comes from the Skrull bases captured by Earth’s cultivators, amounting to about 200,000 sets, enough to arm 160,000 soldiers.
Additionally, there are smaller batches, such as the ones Su Yu exchanged for gold with Cindy Doppler and a batch gifted by the cultivator Zhu Yuanzhang.
Combined, Earth now has about 600,000 "Triad Sets," enough to arm 480,000 soldiers.
This is already a formidable military force!
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It’s worth noting that players like Zhong Feng, Yun Zhong Mu Di, and Bing Hong cha have made multiple trips to Skrull, bringing back many valuable items.
However, what they brought back were mainly psionic stones, cultivator equipment, enhancement gems, rare metals, and almost no military gear.
During the meeting, Chairman Hu Jing instructed that the next time Zhong Feng and others go to Skrull, they should sell a significant portion of these items for military gear to bring back, to arm more Earth forces.
Su Yu also timely suggested that for purchasing military gear, they could collaborate with Cindy Doppler.
After all, Bak Country is the third-largest nation on Skrull, and they have some military resources, making them a suitable partner.
Additionally, Su Yu didn’t mention, but if possible, they could also collaborate with Hayden Solaris.
Hayden Solaris is a duke in the Solaris Empire and has have some connections, potentially securing the most advanced military gear from the Solaris empire.
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However, the "Triad Set" alone is not enough for a real war.
Even if Earth had 6 million "Triad Sets," the Skrull could still easily eliminate Earth’s forces.
The reason is simple: the "Triad Set" is just the basic foundation, like armor in ancient wars, and not the core of warfare.
The true core of warfare is the "Grand Triad Set," which includes—floating battle vehicles, mechs, and drone swarms.
These three elements are the true core of modern Skrull warfare!
Speaking of the "Grand Triad Set," it’s important to understand the nature of war on Skrull.
Warfare on Skrull is entirely different from that on Earth.
On Earth, if it’s land combat, the basic tools are aircraft, tanks, missiles, artillery, and infantry.
However, on Skrul, the most noticeable difference is the rarity of "missiles" as a weapon. They are almost never used.
The reason is simple: Skrul has advanced energy shield technology. These shields can be equipped with numerous interference modules, and psychic adepts can cast illusions on them, significantly reducing the accuracy of missiles.
This makes it extremely difficult for attackers to use missiles against fortified targets.
Moreover, missiles are completely ineffective against high-tier adepts.
Third-tier adepts can withstand bullets; sixth-tier adepts can survive small nuclear explosions. The rigid trajectories of missiles make it nearly impossible to hit high-tier adepts.
For these reasons, the Skrul rarely use missiles in their wars, only mass-producing a few tens of thousands of them recently for their upcoming invasion of Earth.
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Since they don't use missiles, the Skrul's combat methods naturally differ from those of Earth humans.
The most common combat method for the Skrul involves high-tier adepts coordinating with hover battle tanks, supported by swarms of small drones, forming combat units.
Each combat unit consists of a heavily armed hover battle tank, 3-5 high-tier crew members, and over a hundred small drone fighters. This is the core of the Skrul's combat forces, perfectly blending advanced technology with the power of adepts.
This combat style is reminiscent of the "chariot charges" from the Warring States period of ancient China, but in a cybernetic form.
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The Earth United Government learned about the Skrul's unique combat methods months ago.
In the face of the powerful Skrul, Earth's traditional combat methods are utterly ineffective.
Missiles? They can't hit the targets.
Fighter jets? Useless.
Tanks? Sitting ducks.
Infantry? Ha.
To combat the Skrul, the United Government decided to "learn from the enemy to defeat the enemy."
They have been studying the Skrul's combat methods for a long time.
Currently, Earth's military has over 2,000 hover battle tanks, 32,000 drone fighters, and 6,200 war mechs.
The United Government has built Earth's core combat force around these military assets.
Zhong Feng's next trip to Skrul is to purchase military equipment, with these "three major pieces" being his primary focus.
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This is the Earth United Government's military preparation.
In addition, the United Government has a crucial mission: to develop resources within the game and cultivate more high-tier adepts.
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Speaking of high-tier adepts, there is a topic that brings both joy and frustration to the United Government: insufficient resources.
Currently, Earth has four god-tier adepts: Chancellor Cao, First Emperor, Elder Yang Jian, and Su Yu.
There are many more who have the potential to reach the god tier!
Among ancient cultivators, Emperor Taizong of Tang and Emperor Wu of Han have the potential to restore their Greater Emanation stage (the former has a higher chance, the latter a lower one).
Among modern players, Xiao Tian, Zhong Feng, Old Meng, Yunzhong Mudi, and 14 others who entered the Final Secret Realm all have the potential to reach the god tier, as their talents have been significantly enhanced.
Talent enhancement is usually a cause for celebration.
However, the frustrating part is that Earth's total resources are insufficient to allow all these players to reach the god tier.
The resources required to cultivate a single god-tier adept could be used to cultivate 200-300 sixth-tier adepts!
The United Government needs not only god-tier adepts but also a sufficient number of sixth- and seventh-tier adepts.
Thus, this situation brings both joy and frustration to the United Government.
It's worth mentioning that the "thousand-mage army" that Su Yu's clone is cultivating also consumes a significant amount of resources, enough to cultivate several god-tier adepts, causing the United Government considerable headaches.
Due to the resource shortage, during a meeting, Speaker Hu suggested to Su Yu that he could gather more resources in the game to help fill the United Government's gap, now that he has reached the god tier.
However, Su Yu firmly stated that this was impossible, as he also needs resources.
Su Yu is not content to stop at the lower god tier; he aims to become a peak god-tier adept like Chancellor Cao!
To achieve this goal, he needs to consume resources sufficient to cultivate two or three god-tier adepts over the next three months.
The resources he will obtain in the near future are not even enough for his own use, let alone to contribute to the United Government.
After hearing Su Yu's response, Speaker Hu's headache only worsened.
It seems that the resource gap will be a permanent challenge!
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However, he is not one to give up easily.
Speaker Hu Jinyi did not force Su Yu to provide resources. Instead, he focused on the 37,160 credits that Su Yu possessed.
"Su Yu," Speaker Hu Jinyi communicated warmly using his psychic powers, "You still have over 37,000 credits at the Holy Silver Secret Academy, right?"
"Yes, that's correct," Su Yu nodded.
"Then what do you plan to do with these credits?" Speaker Hu Jinyi looked at him expectantly.
"Well," Su Yu rubbed his chin and replied, "Before I left for Skrull, I had already decided to contribute these credits to the war effort.
Dona said she had opened the exchange list to me, but I haven't had the time to check what's available yet.
However, considering my plans and today's meeting, I intend to exchange some of the things we need most urgently..."
Su Yu then began to elaborate on his entire strategy.
Currently, the most critical resource lacking on Blue Star was a teleportation array capable of transporting materials across continents.
As a spatial mage, Su Yu had been planning to construct such an array for months.
Once built, the array would not only facilitate the global flow of resources but also help the United Government control the continents more effectively, preventing the surrender faction from becoming too rampant.
However, the problem was that even the best-laid plans can falter without the necessary materials.
Blue Star did not have the materials required to build a continent-spanning teleportation array, and Su Yu hadn't encountered them on Skrull either.
But the Holy Silver Federation definitely had these materials.
Su Yu wanted to see if he could exchange some from Dona.
In addition to the materials for the teleportation array, Blue Star also needed a large number of mid-to-high-level defensive runes.
Dona had previously gifted Su Yu a mid-level defensive rune.
Using this rune, the humans on Blue Star had constructed a powerful energy shield around the United Government's headquarters, which covered the entire complex.
Blue Star needed a lot more of these runes.
Once the Skrulls were confined to the hot spring at Mount Fuji, the humans could use the runes to build multiple layers of defensive barriers around the mountain, effectively trapping the Skrulls inside like a fortress.
This was the primary use of the defensive runes.
Moreover, Blue Star needed many other things, such as powerful war weapons, more advanced space technology, and even genetic weapons specifically designed to target the Skrulls...
The specifics of what to exchange would depend on what Dona had available.
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As Su Yu was enthusiastically describing his plans, a "beep" suddenly echoed through the meeting room.
Hearing this, Su Yu paused his explanation.
Soon, the voice continued, "Speaker, an important guest has arrived."
This voice belonged to the AI system created by the United Government, "Deep Blue."
"Deep Blue" provided services to the entire headquarters area, but it gave priority to Speaker Hu Jinyi.
Since the meeting room was crowded, Deep Blue did not directly reveal the identity of the "important guest."
However, Speaker Hu Jinyi quickly guessed who it might be, as his list of "important visitors" was very short.
On the list, besides Commissar Zhang, Emperor Tang Taizong, Su Yu, Zhong Feng, and Chancellor Cao, there were only two others: the Holy Silver, Link, and Dona.
Since the others were already in the meeting room, he immediately understood that the visitor must be either Link or Dona!
"Ladies and gentlemen," Speaker Hu Jinyi stood up and apologized, "I need to step out for a moment. I'll be back shortly."
"Please go ahead, Speaker," the others responded.
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Speaker Hu Jinyi turned and left the meeting room to greet the distinguished guest.
However, he returned after just five minutes, accompanied by a female Holy Silver, Dona.
"Hey! Everyone's here!" Dona smiled as she greeted the top-tier powers of Blue Star.
She quickly spotted Su Yu, who was sitting in a prominent position at the meeting table. "My junior is here too! Congratulations on reaching the divine level!"
"Thank you, senior," Su Yu replied politely.
Su Yu then looked at Speaker Hu Jinyi. "Speaker, what happened? You looked so radiant when you left, but now you're as pale as a ghost. What did Dona tell you?"
"Ladies and gentlemen," Speaker Hu Jinyi looked at the assembled group and smiled bitterly. "There's some bad news! Lady Dona is here to inform us of this bad news."
(End of Chapter)
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