Soul Trigger

Chapter 317 Evolution, Expansion, and Development (Part )

The Spine Fleet, one of the true galactic fleets of the World Tree Group, gallops across the solar system.

The Nidhogg Sky is the mothership of this fleet, and it itself is also an ultra-giant mobile dock.

In addition to possessing the asteroid-destroying firepower needed for space warfare, it also contains the World Tree prototype technology and is equipped with a shipbuilding assembly line, which can mass-produce a complete set of "Spine Fleets".

Ji Li was almost selected, but he sighed:
"With my current spiritual essence, I can't even afford the basic Odin model. Even if I choose this, I'm afraid I won't be able to build Nidhogg Sky at all. The city construction system also costs spiritual essence."

No matter how good something is, it is meaningless if you can't use it.

After a slight sigh, Ji Li directly chose the second option:

Hephaestus Institute.

[I got a new building: Hephaestus Institute].

Opening the Skynet map and the city construction system, Ji Li saw the consumption of 1500 decarbonization particles, which was equivalent to 1.5 gray foxes. Without much hesitation, he directly bought a building at the front-line base.

In the inner city, the roots of the World Tree proliferated and quickly formed a dark and magnificent research institute:

[Hephaestus Research Institute: This building is a scientific research building. It can crush technological factors through built-in AI, copy and expand technological blueprints, and integrate and extend existing technologies beyond specifications. ]

[I can place idle personnel with scientific research capabilities into it to improve the efficiency of building operations and provide additional special increases.]

[The current list of people that can be stationed in the World Tree Technology Breeding Farm is: Pioneer "Gray Fox". ]

[After entering the World Tree Technology Breeding Farm, the pioneer "Gray Fox"'s own scientific research capabilities will be greatly improved, and the scientific research efficiency will be increased by 200%. ]

[After the pioneer "Gray Fox" is stationed, the automatic research efficiency of the Hephaestus Research Institute will be increased by 40%, and a special bonus will be obtained: "Pioneer Ingenuity"]

[I should let Gray Fox go in and work for me properly. ]

Ji Li's mouth twitched immediately: "That's really...nothing wrong with it."

After giving Gray Fox the order to move in, Ji Li entered the research institute panel through the city construction system.

He does not need to enter the research institute himself, he can remotely control it through the core of the Demon King's City.

Just after opening it, before he went in to see the specific functions of this place under the rules of the Lingbo Prison, he saw that there were already two scientific research progresses inside:
[Project 1: High-density kinetic barrage machine gun-EA08——"Multi-function firepower" is being improved (Gray Fox occupies it independently and cannot be completed immediately through AI computing power)]

[Project 2: Pale Wind Demon Lance (fake)——"Change to the real one" is being improved (Gray Fox occupies it independently and cannot be completed immediately through AI computing power)]

"…Change it to real?"

Ji Li was somewhat surprised at his former boss's scientific research spirit and subjective initiative, which made him want to find out what the other party was doing.

However, time was urgent at the moment, so he suppressed his curiosity and entered the main system of the institute.

The institute's system is divided into three sections: urban construction, logistics and tactics.

City construction includes all the buildings that Ji Li has completed so far, and can spend spiritual essence to transform and improve their functions with different effects and directions.

For example, to strengthen the drone monitoring network, there are two directions: [mother-child split] and [covert operation], and you can choose one of them.

One is that small drones will carry swarms of micro-drones, increasing the number of drones and monitoring coverage.

One is to equip small drones with optical camouflage and spiritual lurking technology, greatly reducing the risk of being detected by the enemy.

In addition, there are also things like strengthening the blockade wall, providing more population in the breeding cabin, and strengthening the machine gun.

Kinetic machine guns were considered part of the city's defense structure.

Logistics is to strengthen the existing weapons and equipment, but Ji Li strictly speaking does not have any weapons and equipment at all, so he directly skipped this part.

Tactics are about being able to spend spiritual essence to enhance specialized characteristics of combatants. For Ji Li, this part is the highlight.

However, he first spent 300 spiritual essences to enhance the small drone with [Secret Operation], so that it could get closer to the approaching United Army to obtain intelligence, and then officially entered the tactical panel: -
Tactical research: Provide combatants with targeted optimization and transformation for different tactical requirements.

Targeted transformation: Spend spiritual essence to select an existing soldier's characteristic for targeted enhancement.

No facial bones:
[Spirit and Flesh Integration Efficiency Converter: Unit "Faceless Bone" initial level +3, overall quality increased by 20%]

Ghost Warlord:

[Multi-layer projection mapping: The initial level of the "evil spirit followers" transformed by the spirit fire is +6, with a small spirit fire core, and can use spirit fire and black ice independently]

[Recycling Disperser: Can recycle "Evil Spirit Followers", gaining level +2 and comprehensive quality +8% stackable characteristics based on the number of recycled ones, up to 10 evil spirit followers can be recycled. ]

[Spiritual Fire Internal Circulation: The body becomes fragile and transformed into a special type of soldier that fully serves the spiritual essence. The unity of the soul and the flesh is reduced by 100%, the ability of the collapsed spiritual fire is increased by 300%, and the ability to fight with hand-to-hand combat is lost. ]

……

After a rough glance, Ji Li basically understood that the tactic was to spend spiritual essence to strengthen the troops he already had, but the effects were very mixed.

For example, the soul-sucking ghost can strengthen its soul-sucking ability to absorb souls over a large area, but the cost is that it will lose the atomization ability.

The option to enhance the atomization ability can greatly increase the speed and strength of the Soul-sucking Ghost after it is atomized. The level can even be +10, and it can also perform various spiritual spells after atomization.

However, the ability to absorb spiritual essence must be sacrificed. In addition, the characteristics of other arms can be extracted to strengthen other arms, such as the atomization ability of the soul sucker, but the price is that this arm will be lost forever.

After reading it all, Ji Li frowned until he noticed another option in the corner:

[Crushing Algorithm Transformation: Crush one of your own potential spiritual qualities and obtain the strengthening formula for the five crushed characteristics.]

[The formula can be used on any type of soldier in the transformation interface without consuming spiritual essence. However, the potential spiritual essence that has been shattered will never be regained by any means in "Outside the Realm".]

The screen then displayed his current characteristics, which were basically the same as those displayed in the Ascension Protocol Attribute Panel.

After reading the detailed explanation, Ji Li roughly understood:

Under the current Lingboyu rules, the types of troops and so-called skills he possesses are all extracted from the characteristics he already possesses.

For example, the evil warlord comes from the spirit fire, the fungal beast comes from the mournful strain, etc.

The meaning of the crushing algorithm is to permanently remove a characteristic that can be used to extract a type of soldier or skill in the future, and obtain the opportunity to strengthen any type of soldier five times.

The content of the enhancement is the spiritual essence that was shattered by oneself.

For example, if he shattered the characteristic of collapsing spiritual fire.

Then, within the rules of this spiritual prison, no matter how many tasks and achievements he completed in accordance with the rules, he would no longer be able to obtain the skills, arms and weapons extracted from the trait of the collapsing spiritual fire.

The five strengthening formulas obtained will strengthen the soldiers he chooses according to the characteristic of Collapse Spirit Fire that has been removed.

"...Some characteristics have little effect in the current Lingbo Prison, such as attribute enhancement and clone characteristics, but they can be reused."

Moreover, among most of Ji Li's abilities, one ability itself contains multiple characteristics.

Just the reverse nightmare includes entering dreams, vortex control, clones, spiritual essence acquisition, etc., so there are naturally many strengthening directions that can be extracted.

After making up his mind, Ji Li directly threw all his attribute amplification characteristics into the crushing algorithm:
【You crushed 5 traits.】

[You have obtained 25 strengthening formulas. ]

[Based on the 40% increase in efficiency of the current stationed personnel, you have obtained 10 additional strengthening formulas. ]

"Gray Fox's move was really correct."

Ji Li was obviously very satisfied with the hint from the research institute, and he threw five of them in a row to the soul-sucking ghost that he had high hopes for.

But after seeing the following prompt, his face immediately fell:
【You used a reinforcement formula. 】

[The enhancement failed, the Soul-sucking Ghost did not undergo any changes. ]

And this message jumped five times in a row.

Not believing in evil, he threw five more, but still got nothing.

Then he threw ten directly in and got a reinforcement:
[Strengthening succeeded, the total amount of spiritual essence that the Soul-sucking Ghost can carry increased by 8%]

"It's useless."

The soul-sucking ghost can absorb spiritual essence and feed it back to Ji Li, so he has no shortage of spiritual essence when fighting.

After thinking for a while, he decided to give up this disappointing "lottery" and turn to studying targeted reinforcement.

At this moment, the red crystal suddenly hummed, and a message popped up in front of his eyes:
[Trigger the special ability of the current stationed scientific researchers: "Pioneer Ingenuity"]

[Faced with the bizarre spiritual essence system, Gray Fox quickly discovered a new algorithm that overturned the previous spiritual essence operation system]

【Gray Fox has improved upon the knowledge of the Hephaestus Institute.】

[All enhanced branch enhancements have been merged, and all negative effects in the enhancements have been completely deleted]

The next message made him full of questions:
[The crushing algorithm has been enhanced and the efficiency has been optimized:

Shatter one of your own potential spiritual qualities and gain 500 strengthening formulas for the shattered quality.

According to the 40% efficiency increase of the current stationed personnel, one of the potential spiritual characteristics of the self is shattered, and 700 strengthening formulas under the shattered characteristic are obtained.

Ji Li: “Huh?”

After a brief moment of shock, he tentatively broke down a feature:
[You crushed the characteristic "Soul Mach"]

[You have obtained 700 "Soul Mach" strengthening formulas]

“It really works…”

Ji Li's pupils shrank slightly:

"Then... just throw a hundred of them to the soul-sucking ghost first."
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PS: I caught up before dawn. I wish you all a happy new year.

(End of this chapter)