Lord of the Sky City-Chapter 708 - 671 Competition

Chapter 708: Chapter 671: Competition Chapter 708: Chapter 671: Competition The collaboration with the Apple Tree Chamber of Commerce allowed Rocky to enter the armor market, and within a short period, armor manufacturing became the pillar industry of Thunderhawk City, significantly advancing the city’s development.

For this reason, Rocky naturally became the most direct competitor of Sigma and Uranus Corporation.

Therefore, even without the interference from the Shadow Alliance, these two companies would have tried to suppress Rocky and Apple Tree Chamber of Commerce. In fact, they had already taken action. For example, when Rocky had just launched the Tank-type Armor, both companies had subsequently released their own Tank-type Armors, clearly contesting Rocky.

While there were objective reasons for this, like the companies jointly targeting Rocky at that time, subjectively, they were also pleased to do so, and they would have acted this way even without the targeted attacks at that time.

Admittedly, as titans in the armor manufacturing sector, both companies far surpassed Rocky in terms of strength and reputation and even surpassed the Apple Tree Chamber of Commerce. Therefore, since they also released Tank-type Armor, business became challenging for Rocky’s side, and it’s no exaggeration to say that if Rocky hadn’t launched the Thunderhawk Armor shortly thereafter, his and the Apple Tree Company’s situation would have been much more difficult.

However, Rocky didn’t care much about this because he ultimately possessed the trump card of Rune Technology. As long as he held this trump card, he had the capital to compete with anyone, even if the opponent was much larger and wealthier than him.

So facing the competition of the Mass Production Type Holy Angel Armor, Rocky didn’t care at all—on the contrary, he wanted to compete with them, and naturally, the most crucial means of competition was to launch a new Armor.

For example, he intended to reclaim the market for Tank-type Armor!

As mentioned before, while the Demons’ continuous attacks brought chaos, they also presented huge opportunities, one of which was the market for Tank-type Armor.

With the Demons’ attacks becoming more frequent, the land-based industries of various forces suffered significantly. Coupled with the inefficacy of the fifth-generation armors in facing the Demons’ attacks, the market for land-specialized Armor witnessed explosive growth. Given the unprecedented high demand for land-specialized Armor to protect the land-based industries, Rocky naturally would not miss this opportunity.

It wasn’t just him; Archimonde had also repeatedly expressed the Chamber of Commerce’s intentions subtly, hoping Rocky could reclaim the Tank Armor market. Simply put, they hoped he could design a new type of Tank Armor, preferably one centered around Rune Technology, because only then could it maintain competitive strength in the market.

Thus, Rocky personally drafted the design in front of him, creating the third version of the Tank-type Armor.

But the design of this new type of Tank Armor actually didn’t take much time, because as Rocky said, when he and Hammerfire designed the first version of the Tank Armor, it was based around Rune Technology. However, it was later changed back to a traditional form to sell to the Sky Alliance, so now he just needed to make some adjustments to the first version of the design, add some new technology, include some new weapons, and correct some flaws.

And Rocky believed that as long as the new Tank Armor was released, it would undoubtedly reclaim its previous customers and leave Sigma and Uranus Corporation with no foothold in the market for land-specialized Armor!

Afterward, Rocky left the study with Liliya and went to the laboratory to hand over the third version of the Tank Armor’s design to Hammerfire; then, they went to see Wynn.

All this time, Orton had been representing Rocky in managing all matters related to the city’s upgrade, and with his involvement, a detailed plan for the city upgrade had been made. Therefore, when Rocky saw Wynn and Orton, he saw this plan.

“Hmm…”

Looking at the detailed plan in his hands, Rocky initially nodded repeatedly because, in his eyes, this plan was excellent. Not to mention anything else, the city planning map drawn by Wynn alone was a work of art, looking as beautiful as a painting. Rocky could even envision how beautiful Thunderhawk City would become if it really were upgraded according to this plan.

However, his brow furrowed as he read halfway through.

Because according to this plan, Thunderhawk City had to land once after the large Super Crystal was transported in order to complete the upgrade!

Landing on the land…

This was somewhat unexpected for Rocky, leaving him puzzled, “Master Wynn, what’s this all about? Why do we need to land on land?”

“Because Thunderhawk City needs to expand in size.”

Wynn wasn’t surprised by Rocky’s question and immediately answered, “After all, Thunderhawk City is a small Sky City; its current area is too small. We cannot meet the upgrade requirements without expanding the ground base by landing on the land and absorbing more soil to expand.”

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So Wynn’s point was simple: the city had to absorb more land to form a larger ground base, allowing for city expansion above it. To achieve this, it could only descend to land and absorb the soil using Mana power.

But having a Sky City descend to land was no trivial matter!

The land had long been occupied by Demons, and given the current craziness of the Demons, even a single Skyship landing posed deadly risks, let alone an entire Sky City landing on land—the consequences could be unimaginable.

So after listening to Wynn’s explanation, Rocky’s brows didn’t relax but furrowed even more. He then turned to Orton and saw him nodding at him.

In this matter, Wynn had not deceived Rocky; indeed, not only did upgrading Thunderhawk City require landing on land, nearly every Sky City needed to go through this step during a major upgrade, and this was precisely why few Sky Cities chose to upgrade actively. The upgrade of a Sky City was not only time-consuming and costly but incredibly dangerous.

“Hmm…”

Seeing Orton nodding, Rocky knew this matter seemed non-negotiable, so after frowning and thinking for a while, he finally nodded in agreement.

Seeing him nod, Wynn immediately brightened with a smile and handed him a list. The list wasn’t long but was extremely important, as it was the purchasing list for the large Super Crystals.