King from scratch

Li Ming was surprised by the sudden devotion of the dwarves.

You know, the so-called teaching of the dwarves before is to throw the players into the black factory and let them learn by themselves. Compared with the teaching methods of the mages, it is completely stocked.

This is also most of the reasons why the players are mourning. Swinging the hammer is already boring enough, and the dwarves don't care about anything, so that most players quickly give up after trying a few times at first.

Li Ming "takes" the round gadget out of the space ring, seeing this scene with eyes, it seems that it appeared in Li Ming's hand out of thin air.

Li Ming's hand sank, and the weight beyond his expectation almost dropped his hand and hit himself.Compared with the palm-sized area, its weight is obviously not scientific.

But considering that the science of this world has little to do with the earth, Li Ming ignored this point frankly and handed the heavy disc in his hand to An Mai.

Amai took the disc with some nostalgia, and shook it at the other dwarves: "How is it?"

The dwarves said one after another.

"Shoddy."

"The workmanship is not good."

"Waste of material."

"not so good."

"How old was I when I made this thing." Amai didn't refute their evaluation, and said objectively: "It's not bad to be able to do this."

"Then you are too easy to be satisfied, I did much better than you at that time."

An Mai wanted to make fun of himself, instead of arguing with them about his childhood skills, he turned his head and continued to talk to Li Ming: "Look at it. This is how it works."

He threw the palm-sized, bare, unadorned device, which was just a solid disc no matter how you looked at it, to the ground.

The aether fluctuated, and the plain disk showed its true colors.

The disk falling towards the ground stopped abruptly, and the sound of mechanical operation was heard. The disk unfolded from the inside, assembled itself in front of Li Ming, and became a pocket aircraft suspended in the air within a few minutes. adorned with two pocket ammunition...

Li Ming silently stared at the pocket aircraft in front of him, losing his ability to speak.

Instead, the dwarves on the side booed one after another.

"Your preference was quite special when you were a child. This attack mode has a relatively small lethality."

"I like another attack mode, have you set it?" Another dwarf took control from Amai while speaking, and activated its other form familiarly.

The pocket aircraft deformed online, and the mechanical operation was deconstructed and reorganized. After a while, a pocket human figure appeared in front of Li Ming.

It has limbs and a head, although there are no facial features or more detailed parts, but a rough human form can be seen.

"It's so nostalgic." The dwarf who manipulated it said while using it to attack.

The palm part of the pocket-shaped humanoid changes, and a faint blue light appears, and the etheric circuit is ready...

With a crisp sound of "Boom", a small pit fell into the ground a few meters away from Li Ming.

This voice attracted the attention of other dwarves, and some dwarves raised their voices to urge the other dwarves around Li Ming: "Stop playing, hurry up and help."

Most of the dwarves around Li Ming were gone, An Mai laughed and said to the other dwarves, "Isn't it memorable?"

"It's just that this thing is too small, and the number of replenishment of the ether circuit is too frequent." The other dwarves sighed: "There is no sustainability, and it is not fast enough."

Another dwarf delivered fair judgment: "You're asking too much for a training toy."

An Mai turned to Li Ming, who had been silent for a long time, and said, "This device can be used to exercise the ether circuit..."

Halfway through speaking, An Mai noticed that Li Ming didn't respond, and waved at him: "Why are you standing there? Come here, I'll teach you how to use it."

Li Ming walked beside him, knelt down and listened to An Mai's rambling.

"There are ten attack modes, and different attack modes consume different ethers. After using them up, you need to replenish the ether circuit in time to ensure that you can continue to use it next time. By the way, if you become proficient in the future, you can design a new one yourself. attack mode..."

"However, these ten attack modes all correspond to different ether circuits. I guess you won't be able to learn them in a while. I will teach you the simplest two first, and you can learn the others slowly by yourself."

An Mai guided Li Ming's ether into the disk.

The disk, which looks ordinary on the outside, has an exquisite internal structure that can be called a workmanship. It is precisely because of such an exquisite internal structure that it can change between different forms without hindrance.

Of course, the exquisite structure also means that the structure is very complicated, and countless lines, ether loops, and mechanical structures are combined to form this heavy disc.

And if you want it to transform into other forms, you must use ether to connect the correct circuit in series to activate it.

For a dwarf, something that can be learned at a glance has become the first problem Li Ming has to face in controlling the disc.

Li Ming was so obsessed with learning endless new knowledge that he didn't notice that a level-[-] skill was quietly added to his skills, 【Activate Machinery】.

"Okay, let's try it first." Connor, who had been arguing with Moody for a long time, made a final decision, and ended the planning of the new design with these words.

He passed the new design to the other dwarves: "Try this."

"Eh? Is this design interesting?"

The blueprints were quickly circulated among the dwarves, and the response was eager.

"The idea is very novel."

"It feels okay."

Saying so, the dwarves threw themselves into casting.

Amai glanced at the situation over there, ended the sudden lecture, and was about to start forging.

Li Ming came to his senses and subconsciously asked, "Is this the toy you used when you were young?"

"It's very interesting." An Mai grinned and patted Li Ming's shoulder: "Although it is indeed a bit difficult for you..." At this point, he muttered: "How could someone connect such a simple structure?" I can’t even remember it.” So much so that it couldn’t even transform the disk into other forms.

Li Ming could hear clearly, but the dwarf obviously thought his voice was low enough, so after muttering, he raised his voice again: "It's okay, it's normal, all races on the continent know that dwarves and other races are involved in forging. It’s not at the same level at all.”

What Li Ming cares about is another question: "Then what are your toys now?"

It's not like they can use this kind of transformation weapon when they are young, but they will lose it when they grow up?

"At this age, who still plays with toys?" An Mai said confidently.

"Then..." Li Ming thought about the wording: "What is the difference between machinery and quick construction?"

"For us, there is no difference." Am Mai: "We have both aspects at the same time."

An Mai pulled out a turret from his personal space, the heavy turret was suspended in the air, and automatically locked on the target of attack - Moody.

Moody, who was discussing something with Connor, turned his head sharply and looked in their direction.

Ammai stretched out his hand to disassemble the fort, almost at the speed of a phantom, and rebuilt it into a tool cart in a few minutes.

"This is machinery and quick construction." An Mai casually carried the tool cart back to the space, and said to Li Ming, "Have you heard of the dwarf's mechanical army?"

Li Ming heard about it in the video series "Being a King from Scratch", and he nodded.

An Mai patted Li Ming's head: "This is the prototype of the mechanical army."

"As long as the dwarves are together, the mechanical army can regroup at any time."

The problem is, the dwarves are not together.

Li Ming was tongue-tied, and subconsciously asked in the chaotic thinking caused by his words: "So, your attack method is to use mechanical weapons?"

"Of course, we're dwarves. Quick construction ensures that we can maintain the number of mechanical corps on the battlefield, and mechanical means literally, we make, manipulate, and use machinery."

The infrastructure ability of dwarves is not their real value. The real value of dwarves is the combination of design, invention and forging.

"Amai, what are you muttering about? Hurry up."

"Go and practice." An Mai pushed Li Ming and walked towards the dwarves.

Li Ming glanced at the disc in his hand, then at the information on the character panel, and fell into long-term thinking.

"Okay, Li Ming, put the black blood stone in and have a try."

After Connor inspected the assembled parts, he put it on the open space and greeted Li Ming.

This is the reason why Li Ming exists here, to test whether the design of cooperation between dwarves and mages is successful.

In fact, as an experimental product, so far, Li Ming has never encountered a real threat.

It's not because the dwarf's design has never failed, but because even if the black bloodstone is out of control, it will not cause harm to the player.

The special feature of the kingdom is one of the phenomena caused by two worlds bordering but not assimilated. NPCs and players are immune to black bloodstone attacks.

Li Ming picked up the ordinary black blood stone, squatted down, and glanced at Connor.

For the sake of safety, in order to avoid the danger caused by the failure of the test, everyone stayed far away, and Connor remotely guided Li Ming's next actions.

"There is a groove on this part, you put the black bloodstone in first."

Step by step, Li Ming put the black blood stone into the opened groove.

"Press it down, there is a self-closing cover next to it, check if it is closed."

With a crisp "click", the lid closed, tightly restricting the black bloodstone in the groove.

"Closed." Li Ming shouted at the top of his voice.

"Then load the parts onto the simulator."

Li Ming picked up the parts where the black bloodstone was installed, and repeated the installation process he had done many times before.

The problem that has not been solved is mainly the part of the Black Bloodstone Energy. Besides, other designs of the suspension train have already been completed. The simulator is a device that is used to test whether the Black Bloodstone Energy is controllable after shrinking the other parts several times.

In contrast, this energy controllable device has also been shrunk several times, reducing the energy released each time the black bloodstone is activated as much as possible, and minimizing the danger after failure.

Of course, this didn't do anything. The last time it failed, it directly blew up the entire open space. If the mages hadn't reacted in time, even the dwarves and mages who were standing far away would have been affected.

The excessively surging energy of the Black Blood Stone is enough to create an astonishing disaster scene when it gets out of control.

Li Ming installed the parts familiarly, and turned to look at Connor who was standing far away.

"Attention everyone," Connor said at the top of his voice, "Li Ming activates the device!"

Li Ming took two steps forward, walked to the start button at the front of the simulator, looked back at the dwarves again, made sure that they had retreated far enough, took a deep breath, and pressed the switch.

The switch was activated, the machine made a sound, and the first part began to quickly diffuse ether fluctuations, turning on the entire machine and interacting with the energy core where the black bloodstone was located at the rear.

Li Ming stared at the rapidly extending line of the ether, and the light representing a certain part of normal operation lit up with the smooth extension of the ether, starting from the driving part and spreading all the way to the core energy installed under the vehicle.

Li Ming has watched too many times, the scene where the light goes out in the middle and then explodes.

The violent ether fluctuations swept across the entire flat land, which was a disaster that could not survive at all.

But this time, the light flickered for two seconds in the middle position—that is, the area where the energy core is located, and it seemed that it would go out in the next second. After everyone who witnessed this scene raised their hearts, it slowly lit up again. The light representing normal operation lit up the second half of the area for the first time, and lit up the entire simulator along the way.

After a slight roar, the simulator floated up, started running at a very low speed, slowly increased the speed, and with a bang, it completely fell apart in front of Li Ming's eyes.

"Success!"

Counting the time, the dwarf who didn't wait for the explosion confirmed the success of the design plan, and celebrated happily.

Connor retained some sense, and raised his voice to confirm the situation with Li Ming: "Li Ming, how is the situation?"

Li Ming stared at the scattered fragments in front of his eyes and said uncertainly: "It seems to be over..."

The crowd came from a distance and surrounded him, staring at the shattered pieces and smiling happily.

"It really worked!"

"Connor, you can do it!"

"I have to tell Adisseo about this, he can't believe it, we actually sat down.!"

In the excitement of the dwarves, Li Ming said uncertainly: "But it broke?"

"The output of energy is too large, exceeding the speed it can carry, so it disintegrates directly."

Amai glanced at the situation in front of him, and explained casually: "However, being able to successfully output the energy of the Black Bloodstone is already a phased victory, and the next step is to adjust the efficiency of energy output."

"Look, it can be done." Connor showed off to the surprised mages: "We did it!"

"No, how did you do this?" Moody, who personally completed the entire design with Connor, fell into a bewildered confusion: "Ether circuit?"

"It's not just the ether circuit!" Connor said excitedly, "There are also materials."

Speaking of this, he directed Li Ming and said, "Take out that core energy."

Li Ming pulled the fragments and took out the intact parts from the pile of fragments.

Not only was the part undamaged, he opened the cover and looked inside the part. The black bloodstone was firmly fixed in place without moving.

"The parts are made of agarwood." Connor happily explained to the mage: "The etheric circuits on the parts are drawn with the blood of a demon whale, and the nodes of the etheric circuits are made of sea dragon stones..."

"This whole set of materials," Connor said, patted his chest, "The agarwood tree and the magic whale are extinct creatures, and the sea dragon stone is priceless..."

The mage thought for two seconds and asked Connor, "Do you use these materials every time you try?"

"Of course, it must be exactly the same as the actual operation, so that we can be sure that there will be no problems during the actual operation."

"Does the king know that you are so wasteful?"

"How can this be considered a waste? This is called a necessary expenditure," Connor said confidently to the poor mages, "That's what the king told me."

The scene in front of me had a severe impact on the mages who had been on the verge of bankruptcy all year round.

It seems that it would be nice to cooperate with the human king...

The mages looked at each other and looked at each other, and their thoughts were very consistent: In fact, in addition to the established research projects, they can also contact the human kingdom for extra money, earn some magic materials and so on.

The mages, who are withdrawn, cold, do not interact with outsiders, and resolutely refuse to cooperate, are obviously not so determined in front of Wudoumi.

No way, who made research too expensive?Every large-scale research project means that a mage is on the verge of bankruptcy, and the research results may not be successfully obtained.

In fact, dwarves are strikingly similar to wizards in this regard.

Not only the mage's research costs money, but the equipment of the dwarves is also very expensive-the consumption of materials is like a stream of water, in order to maintain a dwarf's mechanical equipment.

This is why players almost never see dwarves attacking, to the point where they mistake dwarves for pure support.

After the dwarf kingdom fell apart, the poor dwarves could not spend recklessly, so they could only save the number of attacks as much as possible to reduce the consumption of materials.

This is the normal state of most dwarves on the mainland. Unless they encounter a situation where they have to make a move, the dwarves will not use the machine rashly.

Because of using the machinery many times, they couldn't replenish the equipment in time, so that they couldn't use the weapons. The end was already in front of them-Duolongna and the others were rescued by Ai Zhijin from the slave merchants.

Half of the dwarf's combat power is composed of machinery, and the other half is supported by unimaginable wealth. The combination of the two can allow the dwarf to exert its real combat power.

"Okay, the next step is to adjust the efficiency of energy output." Connor clapped his hands to calm down the excited dwarf: "Let's discuss how to improve it."

"This is simple, just adjust the ether loop."

"I think you can consider setting different energy output efficiencies..."

"Let's change it like this, add some more here..."

The dwarves get together, you say something, I say something, start writing again on the design drawing, and piece together new ideas for revision.

That is a scene that rarely happens on the earth. The intensity of human thinking is limited, and it takes enough time to think and modify the thinking.

But for dwarves, their talents in casting and design are enough to support them to directly outline specific modification plans.

The scene was busy again, and the dwarves obviously had no problem with working overtime to complete the task, after all, they loved labor and casting.

The information that Li Ming learned was collected into the functioning state machinery at the first time, and new changes were made based on this.

The race information of the dwarves has been changed, some judgments about the different world have been completely overturned, and the follow-up plan has been readjusted. These small changes are very weak in the huge state machine, and it is difficult to describe in detail from an overall perspective.

So maybe we can focus on another meeting to know about this new change.

As the reporter of relevant information, Li Ming did not participate in this meeting, and the few people in the meeting were still familiar faces.

"Judging from the video, the combat effectiveness of the dwarves is different from our initial judgment."

"At present, the kingdom has not encountered ordinary humans in our definition, and it is impossible to accurately judge the combat effectiveness of humans in other worlds. However, judging from the series released by His Majesty the King, the Diman Empire can occupy the entire plain. In theory, the combat effectiveness of humans is not enough. As for being too weak."

"It is reasonable to speculate that due to the existence of ether, there is an objective gap in the combat effectiveness of the two worlds. From the current point of view, the mechanical army of the dwarf kingdom mentioned above is enough to match the armies organized by various countries on Earth."

"I don't agree with this judgment. Judging from the fact that the dwarves mentioned in the video that this is just a childhood toy, I fully doubt that the strength of the mechanical army may exceed our imagination."

"In other words, the race with the lowest combat effectiveness that we know so far, the strength of the dwarves can cause a devastating blow to all countries on the earth?"

"The premise is that the mechanical army of the dwarves reappears. From the current point of view, this possibility is very small."

"At present, there is no sign that the earth is in contact with another world, and the universe has not changed. The only ongoing change is the controllable increase of the ether content."

"That is to say, the observation station's conclusion is that the earth will not border another world?"

"Judging from the current situation, probably not."

Someone was genuinely relieved.

The more you understand the other world, the more clearly you will perceive the strength gap between the earth and the other side.

If the two worlds meet at the physical level, it would be absolutely catastrophic for the earth.

"His Majesty the King said before that he has saved the world." He Xiangwen said: "If it refers to this, then it is true."

"This is not the topic of today's meeting," someone pulled back the topic: "The question is, what impact will the dwarf's strength change have?"

"The strength of the kingdom has increased?"

"Or does it have no effect? ​​What changes is not the strength of the dwarves, but our perception of the strength of the dwarves, but in fact, the strength of the dwarves has never changed, so I think nothing will change for the different world. "

"There is a word that has always been closely connected with the dwarves, the unity of the dwarf kingdom. The dwarves have never given up on reunifying the dwarf kingdom. If this is just a race that is good at building, then whether the dwarf kingdom is unified is not a matter of concern, but if this race also means With an army of machines..."

"That completely changes the nature of the problem."

"So, the more important thing right now is, what is the dwarf going to do next?"

"There is a problem with our judgment on the development of the kingdom..."

The atmosphere of the meeting gradually became serious, and the final conclusion of the meeting was integrated in the dialogue between you and me.

"War is imminent! The kingdom and the earth have far less time than we think."