Pirate Kingship

"Is this ’Zaku’ talking about something similar?"

Little Hans’ brain was running at high speed, even to the point of being somewhat distracted.

However, the prosthetic body, with its highest level of modification in the entire Empire, seemed to have a mind of its own, easily evading the crab’s giant pincers attacks.

A red light flickered in the right eye, conveniently recording the physiological structure of the Crab Slave in detail.

Inside the eyeball, there was a mechanical structure that kept rotating, emitting a pleasant sound similar to that of a ’rolling ball’ during the operation of a Difference Engine or Analytical Machine.

However, this was a standard Miracle Object [1473 Style Auxiliary Artificial Eye].

It could serve as a medium, borrowing computing power from the Supercomputing Center where the Law Network was covered, to accelerate thinking and assist in controlling the prosthetic body.

With this little gadget, the Mind Realm need not reach the level of awakening the Self God to simulate half the might of Mechanical Mindset under the Celestial Descent state!

Similarly, as an invention of Babbage, even though it belonged to Miracle Objects rather than mass-producible industrial goods, it was already quite remarkable.

Of course, without the net, it’s just a piece of scrap iron.

The pure mechanical structure with ’KB’ as the storage unit couldn’t support the auxiliary function of the artificial eye.

Fortunately, the other set of Sacred Relics, the Jenny Machine and the Weaving Machine, combined to form a [Psychokinesis Weaving Machine], gaining the ability of [From Bits To Pieces] (Chapter 517):

"Every piece of cloth is woven from countless threads, each thread is spun from fibers, best representing the power of the collective...

Myriad strands of psychokinesis weave into a Divine Robe in the most primitive collective way, draping over the master’s body, equivalent to a local area network independent of the [Silver Law].

No matter where in the world you go, you don’t have to worry about being without a Law Network around you.

Even if you achieve a Divine Position, don’t be afraid that countless people’s Willing Power will be twisted into someone else’s image.

This treasure elevates faith beyond the original concept of the country and the diocese, rising into the realm of all beneficiaries, building a ’Shadow Demon Network’.

Signal coverage radius around oneself reaches 100 kilometers!"

At this moment, Byron was like carrying a signal base station with him.

Even before expanding the colonies, building the Lighthouse Matrix, and welcoming the descent of the Law Network, he could provide large-scale networking services for Soldier Persons and Whale Oil Mechanics.

Meaning, even if Byron left the Golden Deer possessing the "Empire is Navy, Navy is the Empire" capability and charged inland, the capabilities of the collective and the Kingly Title wouldn’t be affected at all.

This is a convenience that other colonial Empires do not possess.

There are side effects, too. When the North Sea Empire and Golden Empire still have this [Mandate of Heaven] of the Industrial Revolution, naturally everything goes smoothly.

Once deindustrialized and losing the Mandate, a series of national-level tragic consequences will occur:

"The number of genders slowly increases to 97, social fracture index rises to 40%, and there’s a high probability of being parasitized by some external ethnicity.

The probability of Federation disintegration increases by 50%; the chance of indigenous colonial prime ministers rises by 60%; without-profit shopping probability increases by 99%; ’son’ becomes ’biological father’ probability increases by 100%."

Thus, Whale Oil Mechanics and Empire’s industrialization are both in meetings of honor and shame, fully aligned in their interests, and luckily they’re not afraid to work diligently.

"Soldier Persons replace the gunpowder tube, Musketeer Corps steps in.

Navigators detect the hydrology to prevent grounding."

The Golden Deer approached the grounded Ying Ge, discovering the water flow becoming more turbulent, and the Fish Poison Potion being quickly washed away.

No wonder the Ying Ge couldn’t hold on.

Moreover, these monster creatures have a special combat habit, usually fighting in water; even with the Dragon Dung Potion for protection, it can’t hold for long when the flow is gentle.

Upon reaching here, the newly reloaded crew members performed even more energetically.

"Mystic Art: Firework Fan·Spiral Cannon!"

Little Hans stomped with his foot, twisted his waist, followed with his shoulder, pushed with his elbow, rotated his wrist, struck with his fist, coordinating the mechanical structures all over his body into an integrated whole, his wrists rotating like a drill, piercing through a giant Crab Slave jumping onto the deck.

He also yelled out the move’s name in an exaggerated manner.

Then leaped up, his feet enveloped in flames, repeatedly kicking, instantly exploding three Crab Slaves in the air.

"Mystic Art: Black Sky Wind·Tornado Kick!"

Other Soldier Persons imitated as well.

In battle, every move carried a huge blaze, sheer violent output, also making the ship full of the smell of gunpowder.

"Mystic Art: Black Sky Wind·Stabbing Step!"

"Mystic Art: Firework Fan·Sky Bombardment!"

This was the battle technique custom-made by Violet, the Legendary Mechanic, for Soldier Persons.

Three forms of leg techniques, collectively known as Black Sky Wind; three forms of fist techniques, collectively known as Firework Fan; together combined into: "Mobile Mystic Art·Army Six Forms."

Other conventional moves included: Knee Cannon, Elbow Cannon, Chest Cannon, and the most unpredictable... Mouth Cannon.

Which could be fired simply by opening the mouth during battle, capable of launching scatter bombs, acid liquid bombs, poison bombs, shattered glass, lime bombs of various special shell models making it unpredictable.

But only fully modified bodies could use them, also called [Mass Projection] or [Saint Byron’s Traditional Skills].

By programming through [1473 Style Artificial Eye] and plug-in card, embedding auxiliary algorithms into Soldier Persons and Whale Oil Mechanics, even researchers could exert combat power stronger than elite soldiers.

Following this development trend, when the Material World loses glamorous witchcraft, only peaks at ’Steam’.

If Soldier Persons fight amongst themselves, it could test whose hardware is stronger, whose algorithms are more precise, and whose artificial eye computing speed is faster.