Seeker and the Overcors continued to make their round discussions about the soldiers they want to create. The foundations to build a scout was perfect. But there were more roles to build.
"Following gaming terminology, we need to build a good Tank." Arthur explained.
"A Tank should be a heavily armored unit. It acts as an insurmountable wall that the enemies cannot easily destroy. The Tank is sothing that will make the enemy automatically know that it would take a lot of firepower to defeat it. It cannot also be ignored as it would have various abilities to deal with heavy damage."
"Tanks in most gas can take a lot of damage. I don't think that we can build sothing immaterial unless we have those Altals." Lowengren countered.
"The Unlocking can create ways to create a Tank that does not necessarily focus on durability."
"Then what should a Tank have?" Lowengren answered.
"A Tank should beco the main focus of the enemy. This will give ample ti for the rest to attack and destroy their enemies. In gaming terminology, this Tank should take all the aggression or the argo of its enemies. The Tank should have the ability to stay survive the onslaught as well."
"Actually, I like ng's version of a tank. Those tals that utilize Magnetic technology. In replacent of durability, is the ability to reform or regenerate. Tanks have that." Seeker opened up.
"My thoughts exactly. If we build a heavy Exoskeleton with Magnetic capabilities to withdraw and retrieve the piece of tals that may be chipped or cut off, we can create a diverse tank. Of course, the Tank we have to make should be a Tank in and out his suit." Arthur explained.
"So if the Scout has senses, a bit of sight and hearing from Richie, what can we put in a Tank? Unlike the Scout, this Tank seems to be heavily reliant on the technology. Unless we make sothing similar to ng…" Lowengren didn't want to complete the sentence.
"My Path is not easily copied." ng's tone was not angry but maintained a slightly respectful disposition.
Even Seeker frowned at this.
"The suit that I wear is costly. It's hard to acquire Altal now. China was only able to find a small mine but have long depleted it. And although we have the ans to create hybrid Altal, it would take so ti. Five months to produce a batch of Hybrid Altal. Unless we have the mine that the WGP has up in the Arctic nations, we won't be able to produce an armor similar to mine."
"You have the process of making hybrid Altals? You an its not sothing to mine?" Seeker was dumbstruck.
"I presu we didn't have it in your future?"
"No! We didn't! We had to use various weapons that were borne of others Path. The weapons that we had were obsolete. The WGP was disbanded three years before the great war. So the factories and mines that they owned were lost. I always assud that Altals were mined, and making a hybrid needed a small bit of Altal."
"We nad it that way to fool our enemies. The truth is that we made it from another tal we discovered in our country. Through a secret thod, we made it look like that it's being ld and combined with actual Altal."
"I see. Then if you could not provide it in my future… it ans that these hybrid tals require certain tals found only in China?"
ng noded.
"If this is the case, then I should prioritize on the mass production of these Hybrid Altals." He gave Lennox a glance.
"For now, I can send you so of the materials my soldiers salvaged to make a batch of these tals. I'll give you all the data we know."
Harker couldn't believe what he was hearing. The information that ng was offering could have started a Continental War. But now, he is freely giving it to Lennox.
Lennox simply nodded.
"The best course remains the need for to establish a new base in China. We have so intelligence that a mine may be near Mordor."
So that's why you guys are pretty resolved in defending that area." Seeker realized.
"As with Russia and the Caliphates." ng added.
"No wonder that region was the most guarded location in my future. Tyrant Empress and those she enslaved set out to retrieve those areas. But by the ti they did, most of the opposing countries had already built those Gargantuan with that tal."
"Do you have any other information about the Gargantuan? I can build it if you have the designs. Those charts and illustrations you drew based on your mories have so many terminologies that only the future engineers could understand."
"None. I'm pretty sure those were encrypted terms. Our scientists figured it out, but… I didn't bother to ask what it ant. It was very irrelevant for to study anyway."
"Shouldn't guys like you who co from the future follow the clichés of being a vast know-it-all?" Lennox frowned.
"That's not even a thing." Seeker complained.
"It is a thing. People from the future should know all about these advanced technologies and teach us how to create it. Those who are sent back to their younger selves must have god-like knowledge to cure disease, create weapons, and so on. You only carried with you so half-baked cultivation technique."
"Half- baked? You couldn't even figure it out in my future! And why I should know those things? Do Ti-Travelling Reincarnators study physics, engineering, dicine, farming, and animal husbandry instead of fighting the alien threat?" Seeker gave a sarcastic remark.
"I'm just saying, that of all the Ti-Travelling Reincarnators, you are the worst Reincarnator."
Seeker rolled his eyes.
"Moving on…" Arthur urged.
"I think you guys are ignoring another problem." ng interrupted.
"The main problem with creating an armor-like mine is that it is costly since you have to apply the magnetic technology. If you want to deploy it in battle, it has to be under One China's banner. It also needs to be made near Mordor. So how can you deploy these weapons around the world?"
"That won't be an issue," Lennox replied.
"Those weapons won't be sothing that the WGP can detect. Although right now, it will be quite taxing for . But the progress of Charles' study of the Unlocking has greatly aided in improving my potential."
Even ng grew curious at Lennox's boastful claims.
"How strong have you grown exactly? I haven't t you in my future, but I am pretty sure you weren't this strong at this ti." Seeker wondered.
"Before I acquired the Unlocking, I could only create several thought processes. But after utilizing Charles drugs as a baseline and the data of Seeker's brain, I was able to increase the capacity and storage of my brain."
"Capacity and storage?" ng raised an eyebrow.
"The mind of Lennox is the most complex among Overcors. At least, in terms of the physical form of the brain. His mind is like a computer. Arthur of the future confided that you could even emulate simple gas in your mind. I bet the main key to your growth was my brain's data." Seeker laughed.
"It was. Your brain kept changing. For soone like , it was easy to change my cells to follow your foundation. The truth of the Unlocking hidden in your brain allowed to reach a level that can emulate gas now."
"Emulate gas?" Harker asked.
"What kind of gas?" Lynd asked curiously. It was the first ti he dared talk so casually to an Overcor.
Seeker turned to Lennox as did everybody else.
"Currently, several of my thought processes are working together to play one of the surviving relics of the Post-Modern world. Of course, the ga I chose is simple. It won't have too many elents, which makes it easier for to emulate."
The room was silent.
"So that's why I never see you relaxing. So of your thought processes were actually playing gas!" Arthur finally realized it. The missing pieces of the enigma, which made up his father, finally made sense.
"Twenty? Thirty? Just how many thought processes do you even have prior to the Unlocking?" Arthur complained.
"I don't follow. How does he play a ga in his head?" Lynd was the first to ask.
"It's a video ga. He's playing a video ga in his head. He programs his thought process to act or perform several commands like a computer. At his level, a single thought-process could do multiple tasks."
"I don't understand." Lynd inquired further.
"Lennox has great morization. He has a photographic mory and can use his imagination to ntally reproduce or imagine a vivid picture. It's hard to explain, but basically, he can imagine an entire video ga. Of course, depending on the number of thought process, he may choose to emulate older gas for its lack of complexity."
"So… he's playing right now? As we speak?" Lynd asked further.
Lennox frowned as he revealed a slightly frustrated expression.
"I'm still looking for the six fishing tiles. It's a tireso activity. I've been in this cursed route for hours already."
"What ga is he talking about?" ryl asked Lynd.
"Ruby? Your head is playing Ruby?" Lynd ignored ryl and asked Lennox to confirm.
"No. Not Ruby. Erald. Of course, I modded it a bit so that all of them appear on various routes spread evenly. It's a mod that maintains vanilla storyline, which I prefer, but at the sa ti allows to play it without the pesky need to trade from other versions."
"You even modded it?!" Lynd was starstruck at Lennox's explanation.
"Yes. I also changed the evolution sequence so that many of them will evolve without being traded. The later versions have too many variables. So it will slow down my progress in my other research, which is currently working to find ways to improve our chances for the coming war." Lennox gave a very, very rare boast.
Lynd stared in worship at the being known as Lennox.
"I must copy that Path!" Lynd vowed to himself.
"I don't quite see the worth of this imagination exercise." Harker turned to Seeker in confusion.
"His imagination is very powerful, Harker. To him, it's as if he's really playing the ga. I'm sure you've noticed it. Your recollection is stronger than ever. You can even recall music as if you actually hear it. In his case, he's doing it in a very larger and more complicated sense."
"But that doesn't make any sense. Isn't he basically playing pretend in his brain?"
"Not really. His control over his thoughts is very profound. He can program so of his thoughts to think but only follow a simple rule. That is how he's playing the ga. He makes so of his thought processes act like codes. In his current ga, so of these thoughts dictate the random encounters, the events, the RNG, everything. And even though his thoughts make all of these, he himself doesn't know it."
"He can not communicate with himself?" Harker repeated.
"Cannot communicate with himself?" Seeker replied with a fuddled look.
"I an, he can choose not to talk to himself?"
"Erm…"
Harker looked like he wanted to release all the frustration, but Seeker was his boss.
"Just kidding. I get what you an. Yep. He does that. His other thoughts have no idea what these randomly generated numbers or rules are. That's how he's able to play a ga ntally and enjoy it as if he's playing it for real."
At that mont, Lynd imagined himself playing Skyrim. But since he didn't even have a second thought process, Lynd could only keep it to himself. It beca his goal. He could play 24/7 with this!
"I must find the Way!" Lynd was motivated.
"How can any of this be of use to making a Tank?" ng finally stepped in and asked.
"He can assign commands to his lightning. We've seen what his lightning is capable of. If he was given ti, he could program his lightning to beco almost sentient." Seeker explained.
"Sentient energy? I heard that WGP has such technologies."
"Mine is different. I create thought processes and bestow it to the energy I make. I can hide it in an Exoskeleton or Armor. I don't think the WGP will go through the trouble of analyzing the Exoskeleton's or Armors we send and test it with any sentient detecting techs."
"Exoskeletons that have your thought processes? If I had that, I wouldn't need to walk out of my armor." ng knew the vast possibilities of creating such equipnt.
"This ans that the Tank we create can make an imitation of the various skills that the Tanks in Piercing can create." Arthur nodded.
"Crowd control skills?" ryl gave her guess.
"Yes. My team is pro-gars. They adapt to new characters and can use the skills given the right ti they have. It doesn't have to be the exact sa skills. As long as it's a skill that can do the purposes of crowd control, Dara will adapt."
"The Queen of Tanks." ryl muttered Dara's title.
"I can train her." ng and Lennox offered together.
Arthur and Seeker gave the two a strange look.
"Really? The two of you? Charles would probably beco her slave after you teach her."
"I believe, with enough electrical stimulation, I can force her to awaken a secondary thought process. I know that for players like them, especially tanks, what they have to have the most is the presence of mind. Although gaming strategy works here, this isn't a ga. Dara has to have the capacity to always be aware of what is going on around her."
"I see… That's an exciting proposal. You plan to make her your guinea pig?"
"She already has the basic training. I'm sure that out of all the players, the Tanks of Piercing are the most suited for my experints. They stand at the forefront of the battle. They need fast hands to carry their slow-moving bodies and react accordingly. They have to keep in mind the health of their allies and as well as their own. The strain that they go through is the broadest. Marksmans and snipers focus on one opponent. Scouts focus on a single enemy when attacking, but observes the whole battle from afar. But a Tank is soone who stands at the very forefront of the battle. The burden of multi-tasking falls on them. So I think she's the best candidate for my experints."
"What about you, ng?" Seeker turned to Greydon.
"I have developed a very unique and powerful thod of using my Armor. It will save her so ti on how to use the Magnetic capabilities of the suit. I'm sure with Lennox's, he can easily code his lightning to create an electromagnetic push and pull that would be more complicated than the magnetic ans of reforming those armors."
"Of course. My Lightning can push Chinese electromagnetic techs to another level. But right now, it will take an effort as I have to expend a lot of energy to make one." Lennox explained.
"I guess… We have the solid foundation of a Tank. But what about the pilot? Do we have any specific sciences that can improve her strength?" Arthur asked the team.
"Dawn technology aided with that Path." Lennox smiled.
"I propose an experint. It is risky… But since Seeker has acquired the foundations needed for this, we can create a limited version of it."
The theory that Lennox proposed stunned everyone. Even before the experints began, Dara was actually asked whether or not she would allow herself to beco the first Guinea pig. As animal trials are not possible whenever the Unlocking is involved, the only choice is to go straight to human trials.
Dara agreed.
The process was one of the most intensive operations that even made Arthur sleepless. He would talk and even comfort Dara, which was rare even as their leader.
The Clown, the Businessman, and the Lumberjack stood as Dara's large Exoskeleton rushed forward.
Suddenly, the movents of the Exoskeleton beca so fast. It had no boosters, but it could fly with the strange electricity that created magnetic capabilities.
The Exoskeleton zood fast, but the Clown simply stood up and punched out, hitting the Exoskeleton.
CLANG!
A loud tallic sound rang out as if two large tals struck each other.
But as the Clown's fist struck Dara's Exoskeleton, the entire body broke into pieces like an empty knight's armor.
Dara was standing on one of the pieces that were mysteriously floating.
She wore the sa synthetic outfit that Titan had and continued to run forward. Her right fist was glowing bright red, and she punched out.
One of the most significant advancents that Seeker had was that he was finally able to trace ng's cells. Through the study of creating cancer cells and aided by the Dawn soldier's research, they were able to turn Dara's right hand into a formidable weapon.
Tank's required great defense. But to be a threat, they need to have the capability to deal massive damage.
BOOM!
The punch exploded out and even sent the Clown flying.
The Armor quickly reford at Dara's left hand, and she punched the Businessman.
CLANG!
The tal fist and the face of the Businessman also create a powerful clanging sound.
The Lumberjack was struck by the debris of Dara's remaining armor.
Each armor that struck the Lumberjack emitted a bright electrical spark that disabling the Lumberjack from making other movents.
"It worked!" Dara was delighted as she witnessed the successful infliction of a crowd controlling skill that used Lennox's lightning.
This gave Dara the ti to ready another attack.
Her right hand gave the sa reddish glow.
BOOM!
The Lumberjack was then blown backward as well.
"MaliciousUnicorn has logged in. Piercing Armor has joined the battle.." Dara smirked confidently.
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