Otaku Witch

A month later.

In an office, several witches secretly gathered together, engaging in a secret meeting.

"Senior Mia, what’s this about?"

Sophia looked at the office, with doors and windows locked, curtains drawn, and darkness looming, frowning and somewhat confused as she gazed at the Radiant Dragon Witch shimmering even in the dim light.

She had been reviewing some documents regarding the operation of the workshop when she suddenly received a message from Senior Mia saying there was an urgent matter to discuss, which was why she came over, but was surprised by this arrangement, as if it was some sort of underground deal.

Moreover, it seemed she wasn’t the only one who had received the message; the Pure White Witch glanced at the other people in the office.

Yes, all familiar faces.

Alice, Madeline, Audrey, and even a cute yet ugly willow scarecrow. However, from the twisted and bizarre face with two goat-like pupils, one could confirm the identity of this mysterious Senior Fanny.

Most of the main members of the Witch’s Home were present.

Oh, wait, guess who hasn’t been invited to attend this meeting?

Sophia looked around the office again and confirmed that the young lady was indeed not there.

Well, during this period, the young lady was obsessed with shipbuilding, almost out of her mind with excitement; if it weren’t for the Ancestral Elder insisting she eat, she might truly neglect food and sleep.

However, because of this, the construction speed of the Golden Princess Ship was unexpectedly fast. In a little more than a month, it was almost completed, a speed that made the veteran shipbuilders from other workshops exclaim it was a miracle.

Nowadays, that group of shipbuilders was already fully transformed into the young lady’s followers. They almost regarded her as a deity, completely obeying her.

This is understandable since what shipbuilder could resist an absolutely correct leader?

Actually, the reason shipbuilding took so much time was that constant debugging and error correction required time, one could say that nearly eighty to ninety percent of the time was spent finding and fixing loopholes.

If all the processes were absolutely correct and just followed step by step construction, it really wouldn’t take much time.

For example, those proven mass-produced warships, the average manufacturing time for a standard-form warship could be completed in just two or three days, frighteningly fast.

Of course, even this fast, warships were still in short supply; after all, standard-form warships were consumables on the brutal frontline battlefield, with countless warships crashing into the void every day.

Legendary Battleships’ unique special nature also destined them not to be mass-produced like standard-form warships; their billions of parts almost all needed customized processing, and if any main part’s component had an error, it might require the entire part’s components to be rebuilt, which was exhausting.

Since Legendary Battleships required a one-time assembly into modulated form, their manufacture generally divided into three steps.

The first step was crafting individual components, which only needed maximum precision, just work hard at it.

The second step was assembling the individual components into key ship modules, like engine simulations, firepower modules, radar modules, etc.

However, this second step also required one-time forming; otherwise, it would lead to loss of the module’s spirituality, and whether it can be done requires a bit of luck.

After all, whether components can successfully combine into modules is a matter of fate; high precision in component making doesn’t ensure completion; this still depends on if the components’ spirituality aligns or gives face. If two components dislike each other and refuse spiritual fusion, congratulations, everything’s back to square one.

Yes, the Machine Spirit is this capricious; if the Machine Spirit is displeased, then it’s all for naught.

Even siblings could turn against each other; not to mention parts made by different shipbuilders, it’s quite normal to have a few that don’t get along.

Thus, distinguishing a shipbuilding workshop’s skill relies mainly on how well the workshop can appease the Machine Spirit.

Generally speaking, a third-rate workshop’s module assembly success rate is around ten percent, a second-rate workshop’s is thirty percent, a first-rate workshop’s is fifty percent, and the former Five Workshops had a success rate of eighty percent.

But it’s not merely assembling spiritual modules and calling it a day; there’s yet the third step, the entire ship organization phase.

Similarly, it’s best to aim for one-time molding and likewise requires solving the issues with each module’s Machine Spirit, striving to make them voluntarily merge into a complete Ship Spirit.

But module Machine Spirits are much harder to appease than component spiritualities; the stronger the module, the more individualism it has, the more self-authority it wields. Persuading them to abandon individuality and merge is understandably difficult.

Therefore, the success rate of this third step is lower; a third-rate workshop’s success rate is one percent, a second-rate workshop might achieve ten percent, a first-rate won’t exceed twenty percent, even the former Five Workshops might not exceed forty percent.