Lord of the Sky City-Chapter 701 - 664 Comprehensive Transformation

Chapter 701: Chapter 664 Comprehensive Transformation Chapter 701: Chapter 664 Comprehensive Transformation Orton’s plan brought about new changes to the upgrade of Thunderhawk City.

According to Orton, the reason his armed Sky City plan had repeatedly failed was because the magic energy technology at the time couldn’t meet the requirements of the plan. And what exactly were his requirements? Simply put, to add weapons to Sky City.

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This weaponry could mean installing magic energy cannons with extremely long ranges on the city, or directly transforming Sky City into a floating mothership-like large combat platform. In short, to turn Sky City into a huge weapon of war, akin to a moving fortress, so that it could be fully engaged in actual combat.

While this idea was undoubtedly good—otherwise the Magic Energy Research Institute wouldn’t have originally supported the plan and invested so much into it—people soon discovered, after numerous trials, that no matter what level of armament was applied to Sky City, it couldn’t get around a major problem: the city’s power supply was insufficient.

Giving Sky City combat capability was not as simple as merely installing a few large cannons. The range of ordinary magic energy cannons was too short; they couldn’t even reach enemies outside the city, let alone worry about whether the cannonballs could make it past the defensive net. Therefore, if Sky City was to truly have offensive power, even just installing the most basic magic energy cannons required them to be transformed into super cannons.

In pursuit of this plan, Orton and the support of the Magic Energy Research Institute did indeed research such super cannons. These cannons had a range of tens of thousands of meters and power far surpassing that of battleship-class main guns. One shot could sink a floating aircraft carrier without any issues. However, the consumption of such super cannons was also enormous; ordinary magic stones simply couldn’t withstand it, and they had to rely on the mana from Sky City itself, that is, the mana from super crystals.

This was where the problem arose. Although the mana from super crystals was vast, Orton didn’t plan to merely install a super cannon on Sky City; to arm Sky City, at least hundreds or even thousands of super cannons were needed to truly have offensive capability. But with the super crystal already having to support the flight and operation of the city, as well as the defensive net, there simply wasn’t excess energy to sustain the consumption of so many super magic energy cannons.

That was the crux of the problem with the armed Sky City plan: all the ideas were good, but they couldn’t be realized.

But now things were different. Now there were mana runes, and Orton and his team had thoroughly researched and mastered these runes. So with the dual support of runes and super crystals, the armed Sky City plan seemed to have a glimmer of possibility of success.

Of course, this possibility was just a glimmer, and everything still depended on the final outcome.

In order to make this plan successful, Orton also got involved in the city’s design and planning. The first thing he did was to transform Thunderhawk City—or to be more precise, to transform the city’s magic energy supply system, making Thunderhawk City a dual supplier with super crystals and mana runes. Doing so would allow not only the implementation of the armed plan but would also double the magic energy supply of the entire Thunderhawk City.

Once this plan was undertaken, Thunderhawk City would completely become the most unique city in the sky. Thunderhawk City was set to double its mana supply, which would bring countless benefits. Not to mention others, just consider the defensive net. Once the city’s mana supply doubled, Thunderhawk City’s defensive net could be significantly strengthened. Isn’t the benefit to Thunderhawk City obvious?

But this was also a major project that involved the city’s entire magic energy supply system. Orton alone couldn’t complete it; he had to cooperate with a master of city transformation like Wynn to accomplish it.

And this would also affect the entire city’s planning, as transforming Thunderhawk City’s magic energy supply system was only the first step. Once that step succeeded, Orton planned to designate large areas for the installation of super cannons, all of which tied into the planning for the upgrade.

At first, Rocky thought that Wynn would not agree to this, but to his surprise, after Orton met with Wynn and shared his ideas, the two hit it off immediately, and Wynn immediately made changes to his original plans for Orton’s sake.

This was simply incredible, because masters like Wynn rarely change plans they have already designed, which could be said to be a common stubbornness among masters, or conversely, a sign of their pride. Therefore, he never expected Orton and Wynn to get along so well.

It was not until later that he found out that Orton and Wynn had known each other for some time and had in fact met through the Sky City military upgrade plan, which was why Wynn had so readily agreed.

Upon learning this, Rocky felt somewhat depressed. He suddenly realized that everything seemed to have been arranged, which made it difficult for him not to suspect that Orton had manipulated the situation.

However, he was certain about one thing, that Orton would definitely not harm him, and once the Sky City military upgrade plan was completed, Thunderhawk City would be completely transformed, of that he was sure.

With Orton involved in the city’s upgrading, Rocky found that he did not need to worry too much.

And when Rocky had some free time, he examined the recent development achievements of the city.

A lot had happened during this period, but the development of Thunderhawk City had not halted; rather, it had progressed quite smoothly.

Firstly, the construction of the new armory had begun. According to Old Jack’s estimate, it would take another three months before the new armory was ready, and by then, the production rate of Thunderhawk Armor would at least double. For this, Old Jack had already started recruiting new workers and had begun their pre-job training.

While the new armory was being built, the old one continued to produce without pause; many orders had been completed, and a large number of Thunderhawk Armor had been manufactured. These newly produced armors were soon carried away by the Apple Tree Chamber of Commerce and successfully delivered to various customers, and Rocky was quite confident that these customers would be satisfied with the New Armor, especially now, with the skies in such chaos and Demons attacking in small groups, there would be plenty of opportunities for them to witness the power of Thunderhawk Armor firsthand.

Beyond these developments, Thunderhawk City’s traditional industries were also thriving. The textile industry, as Thunderhawk City’s most traditional sector, had been the most stable ever since the Ruby Chamber of Commerce had become involved.

As for the leather manufacturing industry, it had seen significant growth due to the promotion of luxury goods.

Although Rocky had been busy and even faced several major crises in the past six months, he had never forgotten the promotion of luxury goods. However, due to his own circumstances, he had left these matters to the Ruby Chamber of Commerce. Thanks to Amanred’s efforts, the income from luxury goods had now completely surpassed the traditional income from leather manufacturing, which led Rocky to start preparing for the transformation of Thunderhawk City’s leather industry, decisively abandoning traditional products, and focusing all production capacity on the manufacture and sales of luxury goods.

Overall, in the absence of invasions or blockades from external enemies, the development of Thunderhawk City was quite smooth. In contrast, other cities in the sky might not have been so lucky, because while Rocky was focusing on this brief period of stability to strengthen himself, the world outside had already become more chaotic.