Chapter 1127: Chapter 578: Open and Hidden Strife, Movements on All Sides
After being scolded, the guy who talked about tearing up the contract didn’t respond.
And some X-level life forms that haven’t torn up the contract suddenly felt relieved.
Not really used to the days when the High-level Life Form Union has your back.
On big matters, it might be hard to unite now, but if threatened in business, some hot-tempered guys probably wouldn’t mind speaking out.
“I plan to provide some resource support for our Deputy Chairman.” Someone unexpectedly spoke, “The Three Civilizations’ massive warning this time is largely due to the presence of the Union, fearing we will unite and back Azure Dragon.”
The noisy sound suddenly quieted, but moments later, it elicited a warm response.
Since Azure Dragon has shown his means, they didn’t mind giving some support to see how long he can hold on.
Once the agglomeration effect forms, the fear towards the Three Civilizations weakens substantially.
“Sigh… trying to integrate these people is really troublesome.”
Moments later, the virtual projection in front of him dispersed, Anatoli stood up and sighed.
Gust remained seated, “Being able to achieve this is already good, if not for Chrono’s death, this group of people still wouldn’t do much.”
“Chrono…” Anatoli involuntarily showed some trepidation, “Really a big surprise, but the Three Civilizations don’t seem disturbed by this news.”
Gusta explained: “To my knowledge, they seem convinced Azure Dragon didn’t win head-on but used other means.”
“That’s good…” Anatoli sighed with relief, yet hesitated, “Then… isn’t Azure Dragon still at a disadvantage?”
“Whether disadvantaged or not doesn’t matter.” Gusta shook his head,
“We just want to use him to unite the High-level Life Form Union’s consensus, to plant a seed, to make them understand, united, we can truly counter the Three Civilizations, but this is a slow process.”
“Hope…” Anatoli said two words but stopped.
He wasn’t sure if he hoped Azure Dragon would succeed or fail.
The interstellar realm remained eerily quiet, but even ordinary life forms felt something was off, some hidden information secretly circulated, like “Three Civilizations are uniting,” “Azure Dragon… Holy Castle,” etc.
But they were soon sealed away, and those who incidentally learned of it were all dumbfounded.
Yet, there was an imperceptible change in the looming pressure, many again got in touch with the Mechanical Court, engaging in new trades.
However, even in this impending storm, time flew by like a fleeting white horse; in the blink of an eye, a month and a half passed.
On this day, at the Shipyard of the Constant Star Main Base, Li Ming waited early, and two distinct transport ships landed with tail flames spewing, magnetic anchor chains piercing into the berths.
As the hatch opened, a mechanical body descended from each, locking onto Li Ming: “Sir Li Ming, these are items sent by the Divine Craftsman (Creator) Mechanical Soul.”
Li Ming’s gaze fell on the ship, a touch of heat flashed in his eyes, and without hesitation, he beckoned people to unload.
The orderly metal boxes, in total, were not many, but extremely precious X-level alloys, strategic reserve resources belonging to the two.
A half month ago, some resources from the Holy Revolution Army had already arrived, providing him with 2 billion metal energy.
Adding up his savings during this time, the metal energy balance reached 6 billion; absorbing this bulk, he wondered if it could reach 20 billion.
Li Ming pondered, but Ulrich hurriedly came over, looking odd, and leaned in to quietly report: “…received another company’s communication, willing to offer a 50 billion interest-free loan…”
“Interest-free loan again, if they’re willing to give it, then just take it.” Li Ming said nonchalantly.
Ulrich nodded, hesitating to speak; he originally thought what the Mechanical Court faced would be a scene of betrayal.
As a result, the slump seemed to last just over a month.
Soon after Li Ming returned, companies that had responded coldly before changed their attitudes, eagerly approached, even willing to offer generous interest-free loans and new contract orders.
It left Ulrich somewhat puzzled.
Li Ming understood well that Anduin had already informed him of the anonymous meeting a month and a half ago, probably orchestrated by Gusta and Anatoli.
The rise of Chrono, equivalent to tearing open a crack under the shadow of the Three Civilizations, many people wanted to hedge their bets.
This period, scattered interest-free loans neared 400 billion star coins, Li Ming took a portion to purchase alloy resources.
Remarkably, even the alloy resources he purchased from several channels were slightly cheaper altogether.
Following this batch of resources, Li Ming returned to the Heavenly Palace, and after letting the transport mechanical bodies leave, he eagerly opened the boxes.
The dazzling array of colorful splendor made him squint, and at once, he began absorbing metal energy without pause.
Although the metal energy contained was considerable, due to the extremely cutting-edge alloys, it did not take much time at all.
Just in one short day, his metal energy balance reached a scary 18 billion.
Li Ming swallowed a gulp, regrettably still hadn’t found the auxiliary materials for upgrading to the Ultimate Control Object.
Not even a clue, he could only speculate based on the previous needed resources for upgrading, from Dimension Crystal to Blood of the World.
Essentially, dealing with Dimension Worlds, if wanting to upgrade to Ultimate Control Object.
It might require the upper-level material of Blood of the World–World Source Material.
According to the Observer, this stuff is the primary material for upgrading Dominator Titan, only born in Dominator-level Dimension Worlds.
But presently in the Deep Dimension, he hasn’t heard of any Dimension World of this level being born.
“The road will appear ahead…” Li Ming calmed his thoughts, drawing out the Eternal Silence Star in his body.
Clenching it tightly, vast metal energy surged out, and in but a moment, a hundred billion metal energy vanished without a trace.
In the Control Bar, two nearly identical fragments gleamed brightly.
He slowly exhaled, a long-missed feeling of pain surged through him, but soon he began trying the differences post-control.
A blurred region of space-time deformation covered his body surface, which is [Regional Time Regulation], exquisitely refined, like mimicry-like skin.
Before control, he far from could achieve such refinement, which has many benefits, reducing loss being one.
He attempted to slow time flow, suddenly feeling his body hollow, stamina pouring out like a flood.
Then everything around entered a state of special slowdown, the distant trajectory of the cutting machine’s operations was clearly identifiable, able to see changes in light when each thin alloy slice cut through.
“Indeed, it’s only after control…” Li Ming couldn’t help but sigh, the precision level of such control far exceeds normal usage.
He could even leverage this time flow divergence in combat.
However, when he tried to activate the ability of another fragment, he found that space-time flow couldn’t be stacked, still 1:2.
“Only by combining, can the capabilities become stronger.” Li Ming extended his hand, two more fragments of metal energy emerged in his palm.
This time, he received entirely different information.
“It takes just 1 billion metal energy to fuse…” Li Ming raised his eyebrow slightly, couldn’t help but sigh, wealthy indeed, using “just” for 1 billion metal energy.
“But, why isn’t there a prompt for the required metal energy to fully repair?”
He muttered, beginning fragment fusion.
As metal energy surged out, the two fragments in his hand trembled, azure light flowed out, weaving an overlapping ouroboros ring between the fragments.
Then transformed into liquid threads repairing another fragment, each light thread splits into more upon contact, gradually drawing the two fragments together.
At the moment of their joining, a bluish arc burst forth, forging along the spacetime creases of the fragment cracks, quickly fusing them together.