Colonia Storm Tour

A mist-like nanodrone enveloped Gardenia's entire body, activating Nirvash and conducting a final check. Once everything was complete, the nanodrone dispersed, and the wall spun down.

With a hissing sound as the wall descended, Gardenia emerged from her equipment slot and examined her extensive gear.

"Not only does it look better than the wiring suits I wore in AST before, but it also looks like I'm armed to the teeth, giving people a lot of confidence."

As she spoke, Hua Zhizi looked at the triple plasma cannons on the left and right sides that were used to launch plasma waves. "They don't look bulky at all. They really feel agile and light."

"If you don't find it cumbersome but rather light, then it proves that you have successfully taken the first step in mastering Nirvash. Next, we'll see how it performs in battle, whether it's a mule or a horse, we'll have to put it to the test."

Lin Haiyuan looked at the two cyclone engines that had been disassembled to the waist and said, "Take out the Aroundight from Lancelot."

"Ah."

As Hua Zhizi spoke, she drew Aroundight from behind her and began charging the double-edged lightsaber.

A light appeared that was different from the blue light emitted by the original Aroundight; it was the pale green glow that was identical to that emitted by the plasma weapon of the Foehn Wind.

"Oh, it looks like it's emitting the same light as those plasma weapons!"

Gardenia, curious, gripped the handle behind the handguard with both hands and pulled it as far away as possible to observe it.

"This lightsaber won't explode when it hits an enemy, but compared to the original Aroundight, the higher heat means greater cutting and killing power. If you're interested, you can use it to perform an anti-tank Iaijutsu or rip open the bellies of some armored vehicles and tanks that don't have heavy armor."

When Lin Haiyuan mentioned this, he thought of the legendary anti-tank gymnastics that had to be done before and after sleep, before and after meals, and before and after using the toilet. It was a gymnastics that one had to learn to become a powerful soldier in the "urban management" force.

"Even if it can't explode, as long as it's powerful, that's fine. This way, it can more effectively suppress and cut through the magician's arbitrary domain."

Youhua Zhizi likes the more powerful color of Aroundight turning into forgiveness green. Rather than thinking of choosing "forgive her", Youhua Zhizi thinks of the buzzing green lightsabers of the Jedi Knights in Star Wars, although the red lightsabers of the Sith Knights also look more powerful and cool.

Just then, the wall above Rowan's dedicated equipment slot rotated and descended, and Rowan, looking somewhat uneasy, emerged, equipping Brunhilde.

Her dress-like European-style armor, the OL skirt that went with her top, the half-concealed shoulder armor, the striped and blocky stockings, and the steel boots, along with the metal ring on her head that looked like a hairpin and the feathers on both sides, really made the already beautiful Rowan look like a majestic Valkyrie. If you ignored her uneasy expression, she would be perfect.

"How are you feeling? Do you feel anything unusual now?"

Lin Haiyuan asked her with concern.

"I didn't feel anything unusual. I just felt like I lost consciousness for a moment and then woke up. When I woke up, I found myself wearing a bodysuit and a CR-UNIT called Brunhilde. I also had a lot of knowledge about how to use it."

As Rowan said this, he crossed his arms over his chest. "Why do designers always like to show off the shoulders and chest? That shoulder armor doesn't seem to provide any protection or cover at all."

She began to criticize the design elements, which seemed obviously superfluous or completely misused.

"You'll have to ask the designers in Ratatosk what they were thinking. I still added a shoulder armor with a ramming edge to the flowery Nirvash."

Lin Haiyuan shrugged. He thought to himself, "This is actually quite to my liking... Just imagining defiling such a Valkyrie in bed... hmm... the image is too beautiful and too exciting."

"Wenwen, yours can actually be considered a formal dress or a cosplay outfit. Mine is just a bodysuit, and it's easy to feel shy wearing it casually for a while. It took me a long time to get used to it."

Gardenias comforted Wenwen.

"Emmmm... Come to think of it, it makes sense, but I still don't understand fighting others while wearing this kind of clothing. It feels completely different from what I imagined."

Rowan then gave an example from his surroundings, "For instance, like cavalrymen or spearmen covered in metal armor, they give people a feeling of being very strong and safe, and seem to be armed to the teeth and difficult to deal with."

"Wenwen, going into battle dressed as a metal can might not be a good thing. In fact, if you really want to fight magicians and elves, the mechanical exoskeletons of the cavalry and spearmen will actually be a hindrance. Their protective function is actually quite limited. The most important means of defense are still your own evasion and your free domain."

The presence of gardenias explains why magicians don't fight dressed as metal canisters. Besides the artist's and author's aesthetic sense, it's also because it's better to dodge well than to catch well. Of course, everyone knows what would happen to Zero-type Turkey if it didn't take into account its defensive capabilities.

"Moreover, Rowan is an elf. If you control your power well enough, theoretically you can fight using both CR-UNIT and elf power simultaneously."

Lin Haiyuan shared his speculation: In the original novel, Origami Tobiichi's spirit power was sealed and then manifested as a limited-edition spirit form superimposed on Brunhilde. However, Rowan's spirit power is not sealed now, so whether he can achieve the same result is intriguing and worth trying.

Anyway, even if Brunhilde explodes, Lin Haiyuan has the ability to "borrow" some money from other Swiss bank accounts and get another one from Ratatoskr. Of course, it might take some time. This is not because craftsmanship is such a mess that it seems like a complete waste of time, but because the reason Lin Haiyuan got a Brunhilde so quickly is also because Ratatoskr, who is greedy for money, directly took the Brunhilde that was on Ulmus and sold it to Lin Haiyuan.

It finally gave him a taste of that kind of pleasure: "Having money really does allow you to do whatever you want."

However, Ratatosk suddenly remembered something important: Foehn doesn't seem to have any magicians, so what's the use of giving you a CR-UNIT?

Lin Haiyuan mentioned that there was a former AST magician in his team, and Woodman immediately realized what was going on. Whether Woodman truly understood or not was not Lin Haiyuan's concern.

"Huh? Is this even possible?"

There are gardenias, but I've never heard of an elf's spirit armor being able to be stacked on a CR-UNIT.

"That's just my speculation. Whether it can actually be done depends on what Rowan does."

Lin Haiyuan said it was just his speculation before turning his back to the world.

"Follow me to the teleportation room to the experimental site. We'll find out if it works by trying it out there."

After Lin Haiyuan finished speaking, he opened the door to Equipment Room 0 and walked out.

Gardenia and Luo Wen followed Lin Haiyuan's steps and walked alongside him.

Rowan knew the location of the teleportation room, but she didn't know that the teleportation room could also send people to the command center of the Colonia Flanking Air Base in the East China Sea.

It's worth mentioning that the energy reserves of the Colonia flank air base have now fallen to the warning level. A day after their meeting, Lin Haiyuan and Walker.net AI officially began deploying a Chrono Teleporter and a large number of Fenfeng power generation units in 4V Kaohsiung to enable Chrono Teleportation. The Chrono Teleporter in Kaohsiung will then work with the Colonia flank air base to teleport Fenfeng's drone units and special assault teams. Why not just use the Chrono Teleporter directly? Because Fenfeng currently only has enough resources to build one Chrono Teleporter. They don't want to use the piecemeal tactics of dropping paratroopers to die and wear down the enemy, as seen in games. Therefore, they want the Colonia flank air base and the Chrono Teleporter to work together for Chrono Teleportation.

The Colonia Flanking Air Base has now once again reduced the output power of the airflow control system, and the wind speed of the Colonia storm has been reduced to 32.6 meters per second, which is equivalent to a Category 11 strong tropical storm. In order to further reduce the consumption of hyperspace teleportation, the output power of the airflow control system is being gradually reduced to 0%, meaning it will appear harmlessly over Keelung Port.

According to the plan created by Lin Haiyuan and Walker.com AI, after completing the mission of teleporting the troops to the Kari region of Tibet, the Colonia Flanking Air Base should also activate the Mind Illusion System and appear above Keelung Port. Then, it should activate the backup battery and power generation bellows array to maintain the operation of the Mind Illusion System and all facilities. Then, it should use low-cost teleportation to transfer hydrogen-helium-tritium fusion fuel to the nuclear fusion reactor of the Colonia Flanking Air Base. After a long inspection to confirm that the nuclear fusion reactor is operating normally, and after a period of charging to confirm that the energy has been restored to 100%, the backup battery should be charged to 100%. Only then can the Colonia Flanking Air Base activate the airflow manipulation system again to fly to the designated area and continue to perform various tasks that require its use.

After arriving at the spacious experimental site via the time-space teleportation device on the mining vehicle, Lin Haiyuan glanced at the two girls equipped with CR-UNIT a few times and then said.

"Walker.com AI, now testing begins."

Lin Haiyuan shouted.

"Huh, why didn't I hear Walker.net AI speak just now?"

Luo Wen then realized that she hadn't heard WalkerNet AI's voice while they were talking in the equipment room—she had known about WalkerNet AI's existence shortly after arriving in Burning Wind, and such things couldn't be hidden from her keen senses.

"The Walker AI didn't need to speak just now."

Lin Haiyuan answered Luo Wen's question on behalf of Walker.com's AI.

In front of the gardenia, a floor made of multi-layered nanofiber metal and special concrete was raised with many steel targets.

"Commander Lin, what should I do now?"

A gardenia called out.

"You should be able to feel that you can control the plasma cannon part of the Anarak device, right? Use it to fire a shot according to the knowledge in your mind."

Lin Haiyuan issued the test order.

"Ok!"

The sight of gardenias immediately conjures up the most direct and simple command in my mind: "Fire!"

Upon receiving the command, the three spiked rings on Nirvash's back emitted a similar aura, their arrow-shaped lenses glowing pale pink. Then, a violently hot, pale green plasma began to rotate within the device, confined by both magnetic field and magic, converging towards the singularity. Immediately afterward, two triple-mounted plasma cannons, each the size of an M134 machine gun, erupted from their muzzles like a tsunami, once again controlled by magic and magnetic field.

After a piercing explosion, a surging wave of plasma swept across the steel target in the rectangular area in front of it, emitting an unusually dazzling high-temperature green glow from the plasma.

As the plasma waves swept forward with earth-shattering ripples and rolling sounds, the steel targets that came into contact with the plasma waves were annihilated in the waves in less than a second.

Finally, after the plasma cooled and dissipated into harmless gas, only a charred floor and the completely destroyed steel target remained.

"Walker.com AI, report."

Lin Haiyuan watched with satisfaction as the steel target, with the strength of a light to medium-sized vehicle, was completely destroyed in the plasma waves created by Nirvash.

"The plasma wave created by Nirvash did not decrease in power as expected, nor did it increase in power at all."

Walker.com AI's report shows that Nirvash is impartial and conventional.

"An increase is a good thing, no increase is not a bad thing either. Stability is the most important thing. Continue to test the use of plasma waves to sweep various types of targets."

Lin Haiyuan nodded in satisfaction and then ordered to continue.

As a result, the experimental site was filled with the explosive sounds of plasma waves emerging and the earth-shattering explosions that rolled forward.

Nirvash's long-range attack test was considered complete only after the plasma waves swept through the three major target groups without any decrease in power.

“Well done. Nirvash’s ranged attack has been confirmed to be working properly. Now, take your Aroundight and chop the targets you just chopped. But this time there’s a time limit. How long do you have to chop one type of target? And then it’s multiple types of targets.”

After Lin Haiyuan finished speaking, he raised his hand again and then lowered it to make a starting gesture.

"Yes!"

Gardenia then drew her double-edged lightsaber, charged it instantly, took a deep breath, and used the zero gravity and acceleration control effects of her Freedom Domain to accelerate to her maximum speed in an instant, descending from the sky like those Bakumatsu slashers.

"Drink it all!!!"

Like a hot knife through butter, the green double-edged lightsaber easily cleaved the simulated human metal target in two. Without stopping, she turned and slashed horizontally, effortlessly slicing the other simulated human target in half. Then, like a ballerina, she stood on tiptoe and transformed into a storm of death, spinning like a top as she harvested the surrounding simulated human metal targets.

Well, the Sword Saint's Blade Storm, but she can only use it like that to practice on targets or fight weak enemies. For elite magicians, it has too many openings.

After watching all the simulated human metal targets being harvested by Gardenia jasminoides, Lin Haiyuan began the next round of testing, which involved moving targets that would wander around aimlessly.

When it came to this test, Gardenia lost the momentum of Blade Storm reaping minions earlier, and instead became more like a butterfly in a flower bush, fluttering and spinning in a dance of death.

"A dance like a butterfly..."

Standing next to him, Rowan gave this assessment.

"I had the same thought, but cutting down tanks wasn't so easy."

After Lin Haiyuan finished speaking, he moved on to the next round of cutting down tanks.

As he said, it would take Gardenia time to shred all the weapons of the simulated tank before breaking into the driver's compartment and dismembering the crew inside, since these simulated tank targets really could retaliate.

Faced with overwhelming firepower, Hua Zhizi had no choice but to painstakingly navigate through the barrage of bullets, then use her random domain to block some of the bullets for a period of time before launching her attack.

In order to destroy those targets who knew how to fight back, Gardenia used the time it took for three tests to defeat this opponent.

After finishing with the targets, Gardenia landed in front of Lin Haiyuan and let out a soft breath.

Are you already feeling tired?

Lin Haiyuan inquired about the gardenia in front of him.

"No, it's just that flying through that terrifying firepower and having to use the Freedom Domain to hold off the enemy for a while before launching an attack requires complete concentration to control the Freedom Domain. It's been a long time since I've been in such a thrilling state."

Gardenia replied that, in fact, as she said, she did not feel tired at all.

"So you're all warmed up now, then we can begin the final step of the test."

After Lin Haiyuan finished speaking, he looked at Luo Wen beside him and said, "Luo Wen, you can come here with Youhua Zhizi to learn how to pilot Brunhilde. You already have the theoretical knowledge. Now all you need is an experienced pilot to teach you and conduct simulated battles with you. I will decide whether you can manifest your spirit armor and use long-range firepower to attack her based on the progress of the tests."

"Yes……"

As Luo Wen took a step forward, he suddenly turned around and looked at Lin Haiyuan as if he remembered something.

"Chief Lin, after I lose my elven powers, will I be able to adapt to living my current life without them?"

Lin Haiyuan raised his eyebrows at Rowan's sudden question: "Even if you lose your elven power, as long as you can continue to control your Brunhilde, you can live that kind of life forever. Even if you can't, I can arrange for you to take on another position according to your wishes. Go ahead and test your combat skills. I'll take care of those things for you."