The story of the black silk female knight

Two colossal mechanical beasts, Xuanwu, served as mother ships, along with over 60 lanternfish warships.

Each of the mechanical behemoths, Xuanwu, has a Moon Radiance-level expert and several Star Radiance-level experts on board, and every 10 Lanternfish warships will also be commanded by a Star Radiance-level general.

This scale is at least 10 times stronger...

That would be at least 20 mechanical behemoths, 20 Moon-level experts, over a hundred Star-level experts, and hundreds of thousands of imperial troops.

It's very likely that we'll also have to add Xiao Yu, who can single-handedly defeat all the strongmen of the Four Islands Alliance, and is currently the only known Sun-level expert.

How to fight this?

Whether it's high-end combat power or grassroots combat power, it seems that the Central Continent Empire has an absolute advantage... and that's only at the very least.

Can we really win this battle?

Many pessimistic people have already shown signs of worry.

"You can win."

Seemingly sensing the thoughts of those pessimists, Tia was the first to speak up, her beautiful face radiating confidence, as if even the conference room brightened up because of it:

"Let's set the strength of the Central Continent Empire according to this standard. I will let everyone see for themselves why I am the most suitable commander of the allied forces!"

"Yes, it's good that Tia is confident."

Ailanfeier smiled and nodded, then quickly changed the subject:

"Let's leave the matter of the coalition commander for now. It's time to discuss the next steps... For example, after the coalition is established, what form should it take, and where should it be trained?"

"Of course, the navy will take the lead!" x3

Tia, Himiko, and Admiral Sunglasses spoke almost in unison.

It can be said that great minds think alike.

After hearing the three people's brief explanation, the others quickly expressed their approval.

To counter invaders from across the sea, a strong army alone is not enough; a powerful navy is also essential to truly defeat the enemy and deter them from further aggression.

And speaking of the navy...

"Our navy is terrible right now, it's a complete mess!"

The sunglasses will once again be in sharp commentary mode:

"The Fran's warships look imposing... The hulls are large and sturdy, and the magic towers and crossbows on board seem quite powerful... But when these ships were first designed, their main enemy was sea monsters."

If the opponent is a sea monster, the Fran fleet is indeed powerful, but if the opponent is a human fleet... Hmph, the Fran navy's warships are nothing more than some large fishing boats with thicker armor and stronger weapons, and they are no match for them.

As for the small warships of the Four Islands Alliance ninja force... while they're good at harassing enemy lines and cutting off supply lines due to their stealth and maneuverability, they're no match for even the heavily armed fishing boats of the Franco Navy in direct combat!

"...Our navy's warships are heavily armed fishing boats, so your warships must be powerful?"

Upon hearing what the admiral in sunglasses said, Tia retorted somewhat unhappily with a sarcastic remark:

"Are your warships suitable for war? Armored merchant ships? Armored cruise ships?"

"Our navy is no good either."

The general in sunglasses nodded quite readily:

"Therefore, the first thing we need to do after the coalition is formed is to completely upgrade all the navy's equipment! The training methods for the soldiers also need to be changed! Because the enemies they will face next will no longer be monsters, but the same humans!"

As an enemy, a well-trained, well-coordinated, and well-equipped human army is far more dangerous and terrifying than any monster!

"Yes, I agree with that."

Himika also added:

"I have personally witnessed how the Central Continent Empire's army conquered cities and territories in the Eastern Continent... We must not use our experience in dealing with monsters to fight them, otherwise we will only suffer a crushing defeat!"

"That's quite a coincidence... Just so happens, I have a plan for a complete overhaul of all military equipment."

Tia smiled slightly, took out a document from her spatial storage pouch, and gently pushed it towards the center of the conference table:

"It's just that this plan is a bit too big. It would be difficult for our Bretania family, or even the entire Kingdom of Fran, to push it forward on our own... But if everyone works together, and with the technology of the Sage's Tower and the miracles of the witch, it might actually be possible."

Everyone looked at the document with great curiosity.

The filename is quite long.

"An idea for using alchemy to bring the military into the industrial age"

what is this?

Everyone was quite curious, but Valensa immediately covered her face.

Last night in bed, when Tia brought up these things, Valensa thought Tia was just joking with her... Turns out she was serious?

Himika immediately gave Chiba Shin a wink, and Chiba Shin understood. Soon, she brought over several ninjas and used the copying ninjutsu to make several copies of the manuscript written by Tia, distributing one copy to everyone in the conference room.

Everyone looked on with curiosity and was soon amazed by this wildly imaginative idea.

Those present were all important figures from various factions, with long-standing family traditions of learning and knowledge of planets and other worlds, and they had also heard of so-called technology.

It's not that no one on the continent of Frenoia has wanted to develop technology... Medical technology developed from necromancy is actually part of the technological path.

However, this is ultimately a civilization of extraordinary beings that focuses on cultivation. Things that require a long period of technological development to accomplish may not be as effective as a spell that a magician can chant after several years of training.

Furthermore, if technology were to truly develop, it could very well shake the existing order that is currently maintained by high-level cultivators... Therefore, technology on the continent of Frenoia has never truly taken root.

However, everyone present... especially the sages and the great witches, had some understanding of the capabilities that come with industrialization.

After all, spellcasters who become powerful enough will like to explore other worlds, and it's normal for them to have encountered advanced technological civilizations.

If the army of the Frenoia continent could truly achieve full industrialization, coupled with the power of magic, its combat strength could indeed be greatly enhanced.

However, given the current level of technology on the continent of Frenoia, it would normally take at least another century to achieve full industrialization... because mathematics education is not valued much here.

Aside from magicians, alchemists, and clerical workers in finance who must be good at math, many ordinary people can't even do basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within 100, let alone physics and chemistry... How can we quickly enter industrialization under such circumstances?

Tia's document presented a truly feasible idea.

Tia is inspired by the phenomenon in technological civilizations where ordinary people have no understanding of electronic components, yet they can still play mobile phones and game consoles very well.

In the document, she pointed out that it was a pity that all the alchemists on the continent of Frenoia were gathered together and asked to manually create various industrial devices according to the blueprints without having to worry about the operating principles.

When recruiting and training workers, they don't need to know anything about physics and chemistry; they just need to be able to use the industrial equipment correctly according to the operating manual.

In this way, the coalition forces can overtake the competition and quickly enter the era of industrialized weaponry.

As for where to get the detailed blueprints and operating manuals for those industrial equipment? They must come from established technological civilizations!

Since Tia dared to make this proposal, it proves that she can definitely get these things.

Whether it's through the path of the sages to obtain it from otherworldly civilizations, or through the path of the Church of the Sun to obtain it from extraterrestrial civilizations, no one else cares.

The second scenario, in particular, is even less of a concern... after all, the Church of the Sun is not nominally allowed to provide any support to either side in a human civil war.

But if my wife remembers what I said in my sleep, does that not count?

In short, no one is worried about the mature technology sources that can be directly copied, and there seems to be no need to worry about the possible situations that may arise when implementing this plan.

When people who have never used industrial equipment before use it, there will inevitably be many safety accidents at first.

But there's nothing to be afraid of—just seek timely treatment from the clergy. Even people who have recently died in accidents can be resurrected on the spot, let alone someone who is just missing an arm or a leg.

So, this plan... seems to actually be feasible?

Chapter 19: To resist foreign aggression, we must first stabilize the country!

"I think...we can give it a try."

After carefully reviewing Tia's plan for industrializing the coalition's equipment, the first person to express his support was the president of the America Merchants Association.

"You can definitely try it."

The second to speak was the Crown Prince of Fran.

The president of the Chamber of Commerce was thinking about the commercial prosperity that industrialization could bring.

We can test it out using the logistics and equipment of the coalition forces first. If this industrialization method is really feasible, it may be applicable to America in the future.

As for the Crown Prince of Fran, he had been very interested in the equipment of technological civilization since Valensa had the skeleton soldiers use semi-automatic rifles to fight wild beasts. At that time, he wondered if there was any way to mass-produce automatic rifles and arm all Fran soldiers.

Unfortunately, after careful study, it was discovered that although the manufacture of automatic rifles seems simple, it requires a well-established industrial system to support it, and in this respect, flange is still far behind.

The only way for Fran to produce automatic rifles on its own is to have mid- to high-level alchemists handcraft them according to blueprints.

But that would be too wasteful... because other magical weapons crafted by mid- to high-level alchemists with the same amount of effort are far superior in performance to automatic rifles, making it a losing proposition.

The solution that Tia has proposed now solves this biggest problem.

Alchemists only needed to handcraft the industrial production equipment according to the blueprints; the subsequent mass production could be done by workers who had received only basic training.

While this is certainly not easy and there will inevitably be many accidents in the early stages, the Church of the Sun's treatment capabilities, which far surpass those of hospitals in technologically advanced civilizations, are fully capable of bearing these risks. The benefits that will come once the plan is completed are also highly anticipated.

So, after the president of the America Chamber of Commerce and the Crown Prince of France expressed their support, others also spoke up, believing that the plan was worth trying.

The only group with mixed feelings was the Sage's Tower.

The knowledge related to industrialization most likely comes from technological civilizations from another world, and limiting the impact of these other world technologies on the world has always been the philosophy of the Sage's Tower.

Tia's plan clearly contradicts the ideas of the Sage's Tower.

But rules are dead and people are alive.

The Sage Tower had just suffered such a great loss at the hands of the Central Continent Empire, and it was filled with resentment.

They would not object to anything that could help defeat the Central Continent Empire.

So despite her complicated feelings, the Sage Tower readily agreed to support Tia and would even contribute some of her previous research findings to facilitate better integration and transformation between magic and science.

Tia's proposal was successfully approved.

Following the summit, the Franco-American and Four Islands Alliance immediately mobilized their most elite soldiers to form a naval-led coalition, which underwent unified training and attempted industrialized equipment and logistical innovations.

The summit then moved on to new topics.

So where should the coalition headquarters be located?

As a place that will concentrate the best talents and resources from across the mainland in the coming years, the location of the Allied Forces headquarters will inevitably greatly boost the local economy.

However, once the war begins, the Allied Headquarters will inevitably become the enemy's primary target, and its surrounding areas are likely to suffer a devastating blow from the Central Continent Empire. Even before the war begins, they will have to face various forms of infiltration and sabotage by Central Continent Empire spies.

It has both advantages and disadvantages, roughly half and half.

As the leader of the merchant group, the president of America's Chamber of Commerce once again took the lead in expressing his desire to locate the headquarters of the coalition in Gundia, America's largest port city.

But it was quickly met with unanimous rejection from others.

The reason is simple: America's location is in the northwest of the Frenoia continent, which is the farthest place from the front line once the war starts.

The allied forces meant to fight against the Central Continent Empire are deployed in the place farthest from the Central Continent Empire? This is no joke.

The Witch Forest and Sage Tower in the eastern part of the Frenoia continent have too high a concentration of magic, making them unsuitable for ordinary people to stay for long periods. They can be used to build camps for a few elite squads of the Allied Forces, but they cannot be used as the headquarters of the Allied Forces.

The most suitable location for the Allied Forces headquarters would be somewhere along the southern coast of France, or perhaps Sword Island within the Four Islands Alliance.

However, after some discussion, Sword Island was also ruled out.

Sword Island was already under the militarized management of the Chiba family, and it would inevitably become a front-line battlefield once war broke out, so it was theoretically very suitable to become the headquarters of the Allied Forces.

However, Sword Island's weakness is that it is too far forward and lacks strategic depth... If the main fleet of the Central Continent Empire surrounds Sword Island, it will be difficult for other places to provide assistance, and they can only watch helplessly as the Allied Forces headquarters is destroyed under the enemy's rampage.

Therefore, building a strong defensive line on Sword Island is a certainty, but Sword Island is not suitable as the headquarters of the Allied Forces... or rather, it is not suitable as a place for the Allied Forces to mass-produce new weapons and equipment after industrialization.

So where would be the most suitable place?

After studying the map for a long time, the group finally found this place.

A place that left Valensa with mixed feelings—the very battlefield where she had recently fought Elena, located about 100 kilometers east of the capital of Fran.

Because of the raging evil power of the evil goddess sisters during their fight, what was once a fertile plain is now gone, with nearly a hundred meters of soil swallowed up.

Afterwards, seawater overflowed, and now the area has become a completely inland sea, shaped like the symbol Ω on the map, with a maximum diameter of over 40 kilometers and a mouth width of only about 5 kilometers.

The headquarters of the coalition forces, which is destined to be primarily naval, can be built along this inland sea coast. It can launch fleet attacks to defend against enemies overseas, or rely on the mainland for support and solid defense.

With the ability to both attack and defend, advance and retreat as needed, and the help of an evil god who has already completed the initial demolition, it is truly the perfect location for the construction of the Allied Forces headquarters.

Everyone was satisfied, and the matter was considered settled.

The formation of the coalition forces has now come to an end... As for how the coalition forces will be trained and equipped after their formation, these cannot be decided in a single meeting; they require continuous research, experimentation, and improvement in the future.

With the most important issue of forming a coalition successfully passed, the comprehensive cooperation on economic and livelihood issues will naturally not encounter any obstacles.

The Central Continent Empire's vanguard fleet's operation this time has made all the forces on the Frenoia continent clearly feel the pressure to survive, and they must unite.