“That, Classmate Laixi, are my requests a bit…”
Custom machine functions were basically all located inside the mana curtain it generated to obscure vision.
Standing beside the rack and watching Ye Xu stroke the crimson armor of “Infernal Prison,” Anlor rubbed her hands together a little embarrassedly, her shoulders twisting continuously, her face covered in a blush.
“I’ll do my best.” Turning his head to glance at Anlor, Ye Xu helplessly sighed.
What this girl had described wasn’t a modification direction at all—it was practically slapping “I want to pilot the Flame Demon” right in Ye Xu’s face.
In short: fire. Lots and lots of fire. She wanted maximum firepower, capable of burning everything in front of her to ashes with explosive flames.
You had to admit, it would have been simpler if Anlor had just directly told him she wanted to pilot the Flame Demon.
Because he could quietly call Rawi over and lend her the Flame Demon for a couple of laps.
But the requests Anlor had made…
To put it this way, in Anlor’s and most people in this world’s view, the Flame Demon’s every strike was wrapped in red lotus flames capable of burning all things in the world—like the powerful strength of a flame sovereign. It was essentially an extremely powerful magitech armament.
But in reality…
That thing wasn’t an armament at all. The Flame Demon was truly using its own authority to dominate the flames between heaven and earth.
Not only did every attack carry scorching flames, but once a fire-attribute magic was activated, it could produce an amplification ten times higher than ordinary Magitech Knights.
“Heh~ yo!”
Exerting strength with both hands, Ye Xu climbed onto the rack. Several tools appeared in his hands as he began tinkering with the back of the Magitech Knight.
Accompanied by several clang clang sounds, the thick armor plates protecting the magitech core were dismantled by Ye Xu and placed on a nearby rack.
Ye Xu looked at the silver-gray magitech core in front of him, which had grown dim and lusterless without mana infusion, and stroked his chin in thought.
“If you have nothing else, you can leave first. I’ll finish adjusting it for you before this week’s practical combat class ends.”
A rough plan had already formed in his mind. Ye Xu nodded. All kinds of tools began appearing in his hands—screwdriver-like ones, drill-like ones, pen-like ones, and peculiar items resembling angle grinders and scalpels.
“Oh oh, okay…”
Having zero understanding of magitech studies, Anlor naturally had no idea what Ye Xu was doing. She gave one last worried look, but in the end she still trusted Ye Xu. She waved and left.
“Then, Classmate Laixi, I’m heading out. See you~”
The little flame princess lifted the red mana curtain behind her and waved at Ye Xu.
“Mm. See you.”
Anlor had already canceled the hangar’s mid-tier package, so the hangar staff wouldn’t approach this machine anymore. Maintenance was left entirely to the owner. Ye Xu wasn’t actually worried about others getting close, but for safety’s sake it was still better to be as discreet as possible.
Stroking the magitech core, Ye Xu inputted the mana code Anlor had given him and directly obtained the highest control authority over the Magitech Knight.
Without any system assistance, Ye Xu inputted a string of precise commands directly into the core.
The next instant, the mana curtain that originally only obscured vision expanded in the blink of an eye until it completely shrouded both the Magitech Knight and the rack itself.
If anyone with ill intentions attacked now, they would be shocked to discover that this mana curtain could already defend against the vast majority of fourth-circle and below magic attacks launched by Magitech Knights.
With the preparations complete, Ye Xu began his work.
With jaw-dropping skill, he precisely and meticulously dismantled the several-hundred-gold-coin magitech core into thousands of basic components without damaging any parts or internal runes, laying them out around him.
Then, according to the design in his mind, he began adjusting and modifying them one by one.
In fact, even if Anlor hadn’t said anything, Ye Xu had already had his own plan.
——The plan to imitate an Eternal Night Knight.
More accurately, the plan to create a Magitech Knight with power comparable to an Eternal Night Knight.
The power of an Eternal Night Knight came from the Night God Throne, and the power of the Night God Throne came from the authority produced by the distortion and domination of laws by the tens of thousands of magi-spirits it controlled.
The divine-emissary-level magi-spirit inside an Eternal Night Knight’s magitech core served as the port, directly connecting to the system and allowing it to call upon that powerful authority.
Logically speaking, twelve divine-emissary-level magi-spirits meant twelve Eternal Night Knights.
But back when they were still the rebel army, resources had been tight. Even after squeezing everything dry, they had only managed to build nine. The final three hadn’t been completed in time, and afterward they hadn’t wanted to add more combat strength to the empire, so they simply hadn’t bothered.
After all, the Imperial Seal couldn’t peer into his inner thoughts and didn’t know that the Eternal Night Knights could actually have three more.
Twelve divine-emissary magi-spirits were equivalent to the maximum twelve portions the Night God Throne’s authority could be divided into. This meant there could be at most twelve Eternal Night Knights. Even Ye Xu couldn’t create even one more.
Naturally, Ye Xu had no intention of transforming this Infernal Prison into an Eternal Night Knight.
The characteristics of an Eternal Night Knight were far too distinct. If he really built one, it would be no different from shouting at the entire human world:
“OK, brothers, everyone look at me!!!”
That would make him a complete idiot.
He had another idea.
Replicating the birth of an Eternal Night Knight was impossible—or rather, the Night God Throne System that had created them was almost impossible to reproduce.
There could never be a second power in the world capable of nurturing magi-spirits and condensing authority. No other living being could possess such vast mana.
Humans were one of the races with the strongest innate spirituality, yet in tens of thousands of years of history, even the strongest humans didn’t necessarily have mana equal to a fraction of Ye Xu’s.
But… if he thought in reverse and chose to cram a sufficient number of magi-spirits into one object, thereby birthing a single authority that, while not as powerful as the Night God Throne System, would be just enough to use?
For example, fusing dozens of magi-spirits together, linking them without fully merging them, creating a “composite magi-spirit,” then stuffing it into a magitech core to nurture the power of a law-based authority.
Then form a contract with a person to call upon that power.
It seemed almost impossible to achieve.
Because magi-spirits and fairies shared the same origin. No matter how weak, they were still independent living beings.
The reason they obeyed the Night God Throne System was that they had been nurtured by Ye Xu inside the Night God Throne System and regarded him as their creator, so they were obedient.
Otherwise, even if you forcibly crammed them together, as long as they hadn’t completely merged, they would either refuse to work or separate again after not too long.
And once they truly fused, although the magi-spirit itself would become stronger—for example, increasing efficiency in absorbing external mana and providing a stronger boost to the pilot—without mutual interference between magi-spirits, there would be no authority power to add on top. The enhancement would ultimately be nothing special.
Ye Xu had already begun searching for a solution to this problem several years ago, right after he had developed the Night God Throne System and the Eternal Night Knights.
——After all, the rebel army and the ideal nation they dreamed of couldn’t rely on him and the Eternal Night Knights forever.
In the final period of the rebellion war, he had finally obtained results and developed an independent system.
He called it the “Throne System,” the counterpart to the Night God Throne’s “Divine Throne System.”