In the midsummer of the year 734 of the Aran calendar, more than a month, nearly two months, had passed since the birth of the first robot transformed by fire. The number of robots had also increased to one thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven.
people, will soon exceed the 2,000 mark.
This growth rate is very... slow, compared to the entire group of elemental creatures. This trouble was something Lin did not expect at the beginning.
Because the size of the original settlement did not match the new body size, and it was impossible to return to the base in order to conquer other people in the early stage, the robots abandoned the original settlement and devoted all their efforts to the great cause of increasing their companions. Time
It's roughly divided like this. It takes an average of three days to move to the next settlement, five minutes to fight or show off muscles, and another three days to transform the fire.
In other words, about half of the time is wasted on the road. Then the fire-modifying robots come one by one, which is also quite inefficient. Regarding the previous point, Lin has no solution. It can be said to be a flaw. It cannot be used.
Use the flash technique to help them on their way. If you do that, I'm afraid if you don't help them a few times, there will be poor people among the robots who are contaminated by alien energy and turned into evil gods.
As for the latter, there is also no good solution. Lin Ding can think of some ways to save time.
It is not feasible to use fire to transform more than two people at the same time. This is because during the process, the souls of elemental creatures that are transformed at the same time will interfere with each other, intertwine and fuse, and become no longer pure. This kind of thing is a taboo for elemental creatures.
This is also the reason why they did not directly devour each other in their original growth method. Now that they have become robots, they must avoid this kind of thing.
The only simultaneous transformation experiment, in order to deal with the aftermath, a lot of someone's brains died. In the end, even Fen, a master of undead magic and a genius in playing with souls, jumped in to help, and the souls of the two elemental creatures were separated again.
Let them undergo fire transformation individually.
The time that should be saved is the time for each robot to be transformed twice or three times. Because after every actual battle, no matter whether they have contributed or not, as long as they see any novel ideas from their companions, there will always be someone who will do the same.
I want to try it myself. Since I want to try it, I have to change myself to look like that or add new functions, which requires Tinder to take action again.
Using fire is equivalent to doing a thorough body scan, a complete examination, and then giving a set of best plans according to the wishes of the person being transformed. This process will of course take some time. Fortunately, no matter how serious the difficulty of choice is, in thinking
No matter how long you delay in the world, it will only take a blink of an eye in reality. Even so, time cannot be saved when it comes to body transformation and reorganization.
For the first transformation, the elf core of the original elemental creature must be transformed into a nuclear reactor, and even the structure of the whole body must be reorganized. All of this would be impossible if it were not led by fire. But the transformations after the second time are mostly small places.
The changes actually do not require the use of the big killer weapon of fire.
On the other hand, after the robots are damaged, they have the same function of self-repair as they did in the elemental creature period. The specific operation is to use magic shaping to 'restore' the parts of specific parts to their appearance after being transformed by fire.
This kind of ability is great, but in the eyes of the robots, it is a waste.
The waste here involves the existing energy system of the robots. One is converted from the original elf core, which they call the original energy. The method of cultivation and accumulation is the same as in the past era of elemental creatures, relying on absorption and dissociation
The pure energy grows bit by bit, and the consumed part is restored through rest and sleep.
Another new energy source is, of course, the electric energy output by nuclear reactors. Electricity is not only responsible for driving all the functions of the robots' mechanical bodies, but also is the source of energy supply for the weapon systems. It can be said that the robots mainly rely on electric energy for their daily battles.
.But when you want to use magic shaping to repair yourself, it consumes mainly the original energy and supplemented by electricity.
To put it simply, the technology part consumes electricity, and the magic part consumes the source. The accumulation and recovery of the source are very slow, and the electricity produced by the nuclear reactor can basically support the robots to operate around the clock, without any interruption.
Any rest or forced into power saving mode is required.
It's so unscientific because no matter what the robots say, they are magic creatures based on magic after all.
Moreover, compared with the source of electricity, electric energy has the cost of squandering, but the use of source energy requires careful consideration. Therefore, the robots think that it is really a waste to use the function of the source to solidify the body and continue to repair it all the time.
It is very simple to cancel such a function. But in this way, there must be other means of repairing the damaged body, and the loss is low, so it can be used as a regular means. And if it needs to consume the original self-repair, it can be used as
An unconventional last resort.
In order to help the robots make some small modifications to the mechanical body, in order to help the robots do some repair work, in order to complete these two projects, the first specialized branch of the robot family appeared - the mechanic.
Compared with the new robots that prepare at least five weapon systems on their bodies, the mechanics are more reserved. Basically, there is one type of long-range combat weapon and one melee weapon system. Most of the functions and the knowledge system stored in the memory are used.
Used to repair and modify robots.
The most important mechanic also has the ability to adjust the robot's core program, that is, to change the body structure solidified by the fire. Only by doing this, each robot will not automatically transform the subsequent changes when it uses the last resort to repair itself.
Cover it up and restore it to its original appearance after the Tinder modification.
In addition, the mechanic's database will also be regularly exchanged with Tinder to complement each other. It is a kind of data update to prevent the information stored in Tinder from being out of touch with the latest transformation progress of the robots.
In this way, the robots will no longer need fire when they undergo secondary transformation; repairing damage can also reduce the consumption of source materials. This group of reborn robots will become machines that do not need to rest in the true sense.
After the emergence of the specialized branch of mechanics, robots also found their own specialization directions according to their own interests and personalities, or the needs of the entire group. Such as long-range specialization of multiple rocket launchers and multi-armed melee combat.
Specializations, clairvoyance and stealth detection specializations, human shield defense specializations, and communication command specializations. The various directions are difficult to describe.
Only a few leader-type robots still maintain their all-round form. In other words, leader-type robots do not choose a specific direction of specialization. They maintain a high level in both long-range and melee combat. Compare detection, defense and speed separately.
In terms of performance, it may not be as good as those specialized robots, but it is still far higher than the average level of robots.
Facing the robot tribe that was gradually forming a system, the first challenge came faster than Lin imagined. The elemental lord Pablo integrated the old forces, with more than 10,000 people, to destroy this unknown emerging force.