Chapter 1210: 382. New Mechanos_2

After arriving at the manor in the sub-dimensional realm, the first thing Noland Lee saw was Mechanos transporting building materials and constructing houses under Nolin’s command.

Dodging this busy group, Noland Lee headed to the open-air Mechanos manufacturing factory built near the manor.

This was a place for assembly-line production of Mechanos, currently equipped with a warehouse for storing alchemy materials, three conveyor belts for transporting materials and parts, a series of mechanical operation desks for assembling Mechanos and engraving Array patterns, and a platform for testing the finished Mechanos.

With sufficient raw materials and a stable energy supply, this production line, entirely manned by Mechanos as workshop workers, could manufacture between 30 and 50 specific models of Mechanos each day.

All Mechanos manufactured from the production line were used to assemble new lines, further boosting the output of Mechanos.

In this recurring cycle, after about two more months, Noland Lee could increase the daily production of Mechanos to 1000.

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Is 1000 Mechanos a day sufficient?

Not enough, still not enough.

Take a look at the letters in the maze space.

The people who send letters to harass this innocent little wizard might send teams or magic avatars for visits, and Noland Lee must properly host them.

He absolutely cannot let the visitors discover his true identity, or else the consequences would be endless.

Fortunately, very, very few wizards knew about Mechanos; otherwise, Noland Lee really couldn’t use Mechanos to entertain his guests.

Assuming there might be a dozen Nine Circles Wizards appearing in the maze space in the future, Noland Lee felt he needed to increase the production line’s daily output to 10,000 to ensure that his army of Mechanos wouldn’t collapse under sudden combat situations.

For this, Noland Lee needed to prepare a vast amount of alchemy materials and magic energy.

“Nolin, have you calculated it yet? If I want to increase the daily output to 10,000, how much alchemy material and magic energy do I need to keep on hand?” Noland Lee asked Nolin, who was busy on the production line.

Nolin, with a mechanics tool bag on her back, from which mechanical arms extended to grasp parts or hand her tools.

Seeing that Noland Lee had arrived, Nolin set down her work, and the Mechanos staying next to the magic access meter brought him a stack of paper reports.

“Sir, the results of my calculations are all here.”

Noland Lee took a brief look.

The good news was that the stored alchemy materials and unused soul energy could ensure the production line operated continuously for 15 days at a capacity of 5000 Mechanos per day.

The bad news was that to ensure a stable daily production of 10,000 Mechanos, the total amount of materials and soul energy in the warehouse would need to be more than 20 times what it was now.

The most scarce of them was alchemy materials, and within those, the most rare was the all-purpose metal powder.

When Noland Lee saw this analysis, his teeth ached slightly…

If he hadn’t shut down the Pollution Zone “Grey Wasteland,” then by now, Union City could definitely produce all-purpose metal powder at a rate a hundred times faster than before.

With such a tremendous output, it would undoubtedly satisfy the needs of the Alchemy Cathedral and also bring him, Noland Lee, an abundant supply of all-purpose metal powder.

But unfortunately… he had closed the “Grey Wasteland”…

Through this, Noland Lee also realized a fatal flaw in Mechanos.

That was their over-reliance on Alchemy from the Alchemy Cathedral and all-purpose metal powder.

On one hand, this would mean that Noland Lee was always at the mercy of the Alchemy Cathedral; on the other hand, metal Mechanos were also at risk of being used by the Metal Ancestor Dragon.

Therefore, it was time to prioritize the design and development of non-metallic Mechanos.

Noland Lee discussed with Nolin for a while, and she brought him some good news.

Whenever Nolin had spare moments, she would proactively execute the commands previously issued by Noland Lee.

Among many commands that Noland Lee had somewhat forgotten was one concerning “developing non-metallic Mechanos.”

Nolin, who despised the Metal Creation Group, was very eager to distance herself from them.

She was extremely dedicated to any development projects not based on “metal materials.”

“Developing non-metallic Mechanos” became her top priority on her own initiative.

At this moment, the magic access meter already had a complete set of schemes for creating non-metallic Mechanos.

Noland Lee was overjoyed and heartily praised his capable assistant.

He went to the magic access meter to review the plans, gradually becoming immersed in thought.

Non-metallic Machinery Spirits, compared to the current Metallic Machinery Spirits, have one advantage and one disadvantage.

The advantage is their extremely low cost.

By personally participating in the mining of non-metallic ores, Noland Lee was able to purchase high-quality non-metallic ores at incredibly low prices.

This way, the cost per non-metallic Machinery Spirit would drop to about one-fifth of that of Metallic Machinery Spirits, and without using any All-purpose Metal Powder.

The disadvantage of non-metallic Machinery Spirits is also quite apparent, that is, their larger size.

Hmm… not quite…

Noland Lee squinted at the characters in the project plan, and according to the content written, he gestured the size of the non-metallic Machinery Spirits with his hand.

Not just large…

The non-metallic version would be 500% larger than the metallic Capacitor Package Device Spirit and about 200% heavier.

This was equivalent to increasing the size of a Machinery Spirit from that of a basketball to that of half a person.

If it were so, many tactics would have to be modified.

Noland Lee flipped through the project plan and was enlightened.

Nolin had actually considered the large size disadvantage of non-metallic Machinery Spirits and had made certain optimizations.

In the latter part of the plan, Nolin proposed a guess.

That is to completely abandon the high mobility combat units of Machinery Spirits and instead, channel material and energy into fixed turrets and self-propelled fire units.

A technology product of the Metal Creation Group called the “Sentry unmanned aerial vehicle” was perfectly suited for construction from non-metallic materials.

This cumbersome and bulky drone, with extremely high defense and firepower, is usually installed on battle cruisers, battleships, raider ships, and drone mother ships, and focuses on specialized killing power and defense instead of mobility.

Interestingly, Nolin’s predecessor, Synthetic Human DKP-15, commanded a Heavy Transport Ship, which housed a simple factory for the production and modification of Sentry unmanned aerial vehicles.

Before becoming captain of the ship, Nolin had studied the knowledge of manufacturing Sentry unmanned aerial vehicles.

This valuable technological information was stored in a storage unit and had now been imparted to her by Noland Lee.

Noland Lee flipped through a few more pages of the project plan and, as expected, saw the overall manufacturing plan for the Sentry unmanned aerial vehicles.

Without hesitating, he launched the Deconstruction Technique on the plan, successfully triggering an interaction with “Plastic Power Magic Academy” and “Alchemy”.

Long strings of System Text refreshed in Noland Lee’s mind, cascading down like a waterfall.

Setting aside the lengthy production process, just looking at the product’s effects, this thing, temporarily named by the system as “Sentry Mechanism,” perfectly met most of Noland’s needs.

It held ten times the energy storage of a Machinery Spirit, elevating a single Machinery Spirit’s energy to 10 million points, significantly enhancing its killing power and endurance.

The large caliber Energy Injector, much like a cannon barrel, was definitely capable of intimidating all ill-intentioned guests.

Its external armor, composed of multiple layers of non-metallic armor plates, though bulky and somewhat rough, was genuinely effective in defense, sufficient to ignore magic attacks from Six Circles or below.

If anti-demon material could be acquired, the defensive performance of the Sentry Mechanism could be further improved.

This was indeed the dream entity Noland Lee had envisioned.

The corners of Noland Lee’s mouth rose into a smile as he looked at Nolin, who appeared a bit nervous, and said:

“Very good, extremely good. I am very satisfied with this plan; I couldn’t find a single fault with it.” noveldrama

Nolin breathed a sigh of relief as if a burden had been lifted, fearful that Noland Lee would be dissatisfied with her proposed plan.

Noland Lee urged Nolin to relax and, using “Mind Infusion,” transferred the construction scheme he had obtained through Deconstruction.

Although she had already witnessed Noland Lee’s creative talent in the field of magic multiple times, Nolin was still astonished that he could produce a “magic-modified” Sentry unmanned aerial vehicle in such a short amount of time.

After a brief moment of being dazed, Nolin began to attentively read the plan in her mind.

“Sir, if we proceed with this plan, our current production line that produces 50 Machinery Spirits daily will need to undergo extensive modification. It is expected that after the modifications, the production line will be able to produce five Sentry Mechanisms daily.”

Noland Lee looked toward the vast forest and mountain landscape and took a deep breath:

“There’s no time like the present, let’s start modifying the production line now, to increase our capacity sooner!”

“Yes, Sir!”