Otherworld Bone Dragon Operation Guide

Chapter 188 Upgrade of the Bone Mark
Although it's fire-fighting equipment, when filled with alchemical explosives in another world, its destructive power is no different. The loading of specialized products is currently limited by the materials available—even if Su Ming were to squeeze tons of magic to construct cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine, he couldn't do it.

Therefore, as long as it has a shell and basic guidance capability, the fire-fighting rocket is a "simple" product that is just right for Su Ming at this stage.

"So you only need the rocket body and the launch platform?" Miao Xin confirmed.

【Yes, the propellant and explosives are ready.】

You must have a lot of fires to put out in that other world.

"There's no way around it, life here is so rich." Su Ming quickly completed the search. "I've already selected the 'suppliers,' please visit them as soon as possible."

With factories shut down and most staff on holiday during the Spring Festival, it's a good time to "stock up." Although there's still time before reaching the holy mountain, it's never too early or too much when it comes to weapons reserves.

"I'll go tonight," Miao Xin replied.

Firefighting equipment is just the first step, an initial weapon deployment for the Youth Civilization Unit. Ordinary rockets are insufficient for conquering the Holy Mountain Divine Might Prison.

Su Ming unfolded the data and began filtering for the next target.

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After the matter was resolved, Su Ming released the little troublemaker from his control, but did not disconnect. He looked at the bustling crowd in the market and missed that atmosphere.

Miao Xin found a corner to sit down. [Master, are you homesick?]

"I give up, don't call me that anymore," Su Ming replied. "I want to eat skewers, play games, do all sorts of random things, without worrying about my life being in danger. This place is exciting, but I really miss this peaceful life."

"Was your life before you transmigrated not tough?" Miao Xin asked.

"It's alright, just a normal office worker," Su Ming replied. "The salary is decent too; I can afford most things."

Miao Xin looked up at the sky. Today was a rare sunny day in winter, the sun shining brightly and the sky a clear blue. [But not me. I chose competitive gymnastics when I was young, and I was very talented and performed exceptionally well. After ten years of hard work, just as I was beginning to show promise, I tore my ligaments. Then I couldn't keep up in school, my grades were so bad I couldn't even get into a vocational college. Then my father was seriously injured in a car accident, my mother died unexpectedly, our savings were wiped out, and we were left with debts.]

Miao Xin hadn't told Su Ming the details of these things yet, but it seemed that his ordinary life was something that some people could only dream of.

Miao Xin broke free from her fusion with the little troublemaker and floated in the air as a ghost. As she reminisced, a cold wind swept through the market, growing stronger and stronger, and passersby quickly wrapped themselves up in their clothes.

"I have to take care of my family, but jobs like cashier don't cover my income, so I can only do various odd jobs. I'm busy every day, with no weekends or holidays, and I have no time to improve myself or break out of this cycle." She joked, "I'm practically born vengeful spirit material. That's probably why the killer targeted me, right?"

Su Ming really wanted to say that what he was doing was far from enough, but wisely he didn't. He took control of the troublesome kid, tightening the scarf around his neck that was being blown up by the wind to avoid giving anything away. "I'll find this murderer and give him a piece of my mind."

"I'm really looking forward to it," Miao Xin said.

The cold wind around her subsided, and the warm sunshine returned to the market.

Aside from her hair growing slightly longer, the ghost girl's appearance remained largely unchanged, clearly indicating that her control had improved recently. [Su Ming, do you know what I was thinking when you commanded me to charge at those heavily armed soldiers in America?]

"What the hell?" Su Ming chuckled.

"No, what I'm thinking is, this is amazing!" The ghost girl's soul fire suddenly intensified, startling Su Ming. "To be brought back to life after death and experience a challenging adventure." Miao Xin opened her arms, looked up at the sky, and exclaimed, "What could be better than this!"

She turned to Su Ming, "Su Ming, we're the same kind of people. When you chose to use Earth's technology to fight against powerful enemies from another world, racking your brains to devise various tactics and wreaking havoc on your opponents one after another, I could sense that you were enjoying it!"

Su Ming fell silent. Before him lay a bustling market, vibrant with the sounds of fireworks, everything lively and peaceful. People came and went, huddled together, relaxed and at ease.

After a long silence, he finally spoke, "I've learned a lot, Miao Xin. If we met in real life, we could definitely become friends."

Miao Xin shook her head. "If everything were normal, and we met, I would definitely hand you takeout and say, 'Please give me a five-star review.' Then, we would pass each other by."
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Su Ming was about to talk about something else when he heard Zi Jin calling him.

"What's wrong?" He disconnected from Earth.

"Something's happened to Catherine!" Violet pressed her earpiece. "The signal is very weak, so I don't know the specifics, but Qiluo and Catherine are on the run!"

Su Ming realized that if something still went wrong under these circumstances, the problem could only be with the White Scatter Cavalry!
His earlier jinx came true; it really was the Kingdom of Cold Mountain that assassinated Catherine.

"Provide support first!" Su Ming decided immediately. "Warnings of wide-area magic are ready. You go after them immediately; Hanster, start the motorcycles as fast as you can and prepare to depart; Yunier, deploy the two largest drones!"

He quickly gave instructions and ran to the control panel. Although the specifics were still unclear, he needed to prepare for the worst.

Violet quickly donned her equipment, gathered the magic array materials, summoned the Divine Favor Scepter, and soared into the sky, heading straight for the direction Catherine had left.

Hanster ran to the driver's cab, contacting Gospel via communication equipment as he turned on the boiler to start the steam.

Yunier lowered the side panel of the machine warehouse, unfolded and powered on the two octagonal drones, and placed them on the takeoff platform.

Su Ming quickly activated the system, sending the two drones flying at a high speed of 250 kilometers per hour. He activated the relay communication equipment and finally established a clear connection with Qi Luo.

"What's going on?" he asked hurriedly.

"It's White Scatter Cavalry!" Qiluo briefly explained the situation. "There's a large group of mages chasing us! And there are cavalry units on the ground!"

"What I feared most has come to pass," Su Ming cursed inwardly.
A drone had already ascended to an altitude of 500 meters, and Su Ming immediately turned on the camera to capture the movements of the unicorn and the scholar.

Using the Youth Civilization Unit as the starting point, Zijin has already flown five kilometers. Judging from the signal strength of the communicator, Qiluo's location is still more than twenty kilometers away, and no useful information can be seen from the camera.

Considering the enemy is rapidly approaching, "Violet, deploy a magic circle on the spot!"

"Here?" The scholar was quite surprised. Because there were many obstacles on the ground, her vision would be obstructed after landing. "The hexagram spell is a straight-line attack. Even without mental lock-on, it can only hit targets within sight," she reminded Su Ming.

"Right here, we'll use the drone to aim at it later," Su Ming replied.

Zijin didn't quite understand, but she still followed Su Ming's instructions and landed on a nearby hillside, then set up the amplification array as quickly as possible.

Su Ming typed on the keyboard, beginning the process of loading drivers onto a drone. This was newly installed equipment, and while it originally required practice, he had no choice but to proceed. A few minutes later, as the drone flew, Su Ming finally saw the unicorn in the footage. She was carrying Catherine, dodging and fleeing from the combined attack of three archmages.

She was surrounded by halos of several colors, some beneficial, some defensive. Catherine, who was on her back, had already tucked the child into her clothes and was now retaliating with a spellbook in hand.

The situation is dire. Unicorns have an advantage over humans in flight, but this is no longer the case with Catherine in tow. The pursuing archmage is followed by a second echelon of about a dozen people.

Further away, several cavalry units could be vaguely seen on the ground, also moving rapidly in this direction.

Su Ming hovered the drone and began calibrating the equipment.

On the unicorn's side, Catherine was in bad shape, with blood trickling from the corner of her mouth. She took the little dumpling out of her arms and tied it to the unicorn's back.

"So you're planning to entrust your orphan to someone else, you poor, deceived person?" Qi Luo said, her breath coming in short gasps.

“We can’t escape together.” Catherine looked behind her, judging when to jump down and cover their retreat. Unicorns’ speed and endurance are not as good as humans’; if this dragged on, all three of them would be doomed.

"I think you can wait," Qiluo stopped her. "I have a feeling that those two are going to pull something again."

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After Zijin completed the amplification array, she could not see the target; the distance of more than ten kilometers was too far.

If the attack is launched at this distance, the magic will continue to dissipate during flight, and the residual power of 'Hexagon - Divine Decree' will not be enough to kill those archmages.

However, given the nature of unicorns, they couldn't sustain this for long.

“Su Ming, the Hexagram Technique requires all elements to work in balance,” Zi Jin said. “My current level of dark element is too low, and I can’t make up for it with the Bone Mark! Moreover, if I overdraw the Bone Mark, the Youth Civilization will also be unable to operate.”

Losing the ability to act when about to be exposed to a large number of enemies is extremely dangerous.

“I know.” Su Ming quickly set up the drone. “You’re already a Saint-level, and the dark elemental power provided by the White Bone System is holding you back.”

"so?"

Su Ming finished setting up the drone and switched it to automatic mode. He unfolded the Bone Mark, and specks of fluorescent light swirled around it.

“So we need to optimize and upgrade,” Su Ming said. “There’s no time to explain in detail. Zi Jin, may I exercise deeper control over you?”

Looking ahead, all that met her eyes was sunlight and white snow, a dazzling and vibrant scene that seemed to stretch all the way to the ends of the earth.

She cleared her mind and said, "Do what you want to do!"

Su Ming took a deep breath and extinguished all the nodes of the white bone mark, instantly sealing off all of Violet's activities.

At the top of the hillside, the girl collapsed on the snow, her heartbeat and breathing suddenly stopping.

This was complete control over the Bone Mark. She understood that Su Ming had already mastered it when she learned he had deciphered the entire mark. This was something the previous two controllers, Saint Magus Russell and Galio, had failed to achieve.

Su Ming then ventured deeper into the runic sea, halting the swarms of runic fish that were surging about. The ocean became deathly still, the world of violets darkened, and the divine scepter, having lost its anchor, dissipated beside her.

Su Ming raised his hand, White Bone Mark - Overwrite!

A completely new runic structure unfolded in the sea of ​​consciousness. The originally cumbersome multi-layered network was torn apart, and the endless runes were removed from the spell cycle, making the remaining structure simple and beautiful.

The simplified runes were not discarded; instead, they swarmed together, flying to distant places to build new functional blocks. The boundaries of the rune sea continued to expand outward, rapidly spreading and growing in the darkness, its scale expanding exponentially.

Su Ming's mental energy was rapidly depleted, but fortunately, the thickness of his spiritual awareness had been increasing during this time. When the new structure fully unfolded and the spread stopped, Su Ming snapped his fingers in the darkness.

A pulsation appeared, and starlight ignited from one point, setting nearby companions ablaze, one after another, like serpentine snakes of light spreading outwards. The speed increased continuously until it resembled a stream of light, quickly circling once before converging at the other end of the small world. Stars shone brightly, the original ocean vanished, and everything resembled a vast starry sky!

The spirit of Violet reappeared in this newly formed sea of ​​consciousness, and she was immediately stunned by this magnificent sight.

"Su Ming, I truly find you terrifying." Her voice carried a hint of intoxication. "You were able to modify the bone mark to this extent, it's truly beautiful!"

In the core area where the two were located, simple runes flew like comets. Energy was drawn from the surrounding stars and converged here along the path of light, faintly carrying a sense of grandeur.

“I didn’t do it.” Su Ming’s voice was somewhat tired. Although he had used external forces by taking a shortcut, this was still a creation of the scale of a forbidden spell. “I can’t describe to you what a supercomputer is, but the combined computing power of all the scholars in this world is not even a fraction of its.”

While using neural networks to analyze the bone imprints, Su Ming also proposed the task of optimization and upgrading. With the help of modern artificial intelligence, the original rune sequence was modified into a more efficient structure, and a large amount of redundant code accumulated over hundreds of years of evolution was released from the loop.

The forbidden-level rune sea, created over two hundred years in another world, is as immature as an infant in the face of supercomputing platforms and artificial intelligence models. The newly calculated, optimized, and reorganized Bone Mark has achieved a huge breakthrough in efficiency and performance.

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"The brute force of numbers is truly magnificent!" Violet's spirit form solidified completely, and she turned to Su Ming. "Then I'm off!"

The two high-fived in their spiritual realm, and the girl's spirit vanished. The next moment, the violet's true form on the hilltop opened its eyes.

Boundless ripples spread across the vast snowfield, causing Violet to momentarily lose control of her mental energy. The complete reorganization of the bone mark allowed her power to flow without hindrance. The previously weakest element, dark magic, now directly dominated her magical cycle.

She floated in the air, summoned her divine weapon again, and then flicked her finger lightly.

The domain of natural rhythms unfolded, and magical elements within a radius of several kilometers instantly collapsed, surging towards the scepter like a tidal wave. Six colors of light intertwined on the scepter, then became incomparably bright in the next moment!
Feeling an unprecedented power in her hands, Violet took a deep breath, her light brown and azure eyes filled with starlight.

"Six-pointed star, sacred divine decree!"

A massive surge of energy erupted, heading towards the target ten kilometers away.

The massive surge of magical energy startled everyone, including the mage group chasing Catherine, who halted in their tracks out of fear. They watched in disbelief as a dazzling beam of light rose from the ground in the distance, shooting straight into the sky.

(End of this chapter)