What Angus was worried about wasn't the technology, but the manpower.
Just as he said, from a technical point of view, it wasn't a problem at all to modify a floating island. After all, the City of Silver had experience. As long as they captured Jean, wouldn't it be easy to modify a floating island?
However, the biggest problem now was that there wasn't that much available labor.
This surprised Tang En. "Didn't we just release a batch of labor? Logically speaking, we should have enough manpower now. "
"That was half a month ago."
Angus sighed and said, "You probably don't know what happened when you were in a coma for half a month, right?"
"I already know."
"Then it's simple. Because of what happened a while ago, there are varying degrees of panic in various cities, so many employees have gone home."
Angus spread out his hands. "The factories in many cities have already shut down, so they can only transfer manpower from us. Plus, we are now in a state of full production, so we don't have any extra manpower at all."
Tang En frowned. He still underestimated the impact of the news of the rebels and demons on society. This impact would probably last for a long time before gradually returning to normal.
Tang En wouldn't be harsh on the employees. After all, they were just ordinary people. The current Tang En didn't have enough charisma to make them ignore their families, blindly follow him, and trust him.
However, this situation now meant that the production efficiency of Ellington's side would drop a lot, and the production of weapons and equipment would be correspondingly affected.
After a moment of silence, Tang En suddenly thought of something and smiled. "No, I suddenly remembered that we actually still have good labor that we can use."
"Do we?"
Tang En nodded and pointed to the sky. "In the City of Silver, other than the registered Mages who have been hired, there are still many theoretical Mages who haven't left."
Angus froze and suddenly realized. "Now that you mention it, it's true!"
If it weren't for the conversation with Jean just now, Tang En probably wouldn't have thought of this. Those theoretical Mages couldn't fight on the battlefield, nor were they willing to do ordinary research. They only wanted to stay in the City of Silver's library to study the so-called mysteries of magic …
However, in Tang En's opinion, no matter how deep and powerful your magic research was, it was equivalent to being useless if you didn't use it.
Therefore, after hearing Angus's words, he thought of using the Mages in the City of Silver.
No matter how useless they were, they could use magic to build a floating island, right? If a theoretical Mage couldn't even do this kind of work, he should leave the group … I mean, he should hurry and change his profession.
"But will they agree?"
Angus had a lot of doubts. After all, those theoretical Mages were arrogant fellows. If Tang En suddenly ran over and asked them to do construction work, they might not necessarily accept. Those who were willing to accept had already followed Tang En and made a lot of money.
"There's no need to ask for their consent. As long as Jean gives the order on behalf of us, there's no room for them to object."
As the saying goes, there's no individual in war, and there's no wronged soul under a nuclear bomb. Once a calamitous war struck, Tang En wouldn't care what those people thought. As long as he gave the order, they would have to do it even if they didn't want to.
Therefore, after confirming that he was going to use this plan, Tang En immediately started to act. He found Gene and told him about his plan. After the two of them met and discussed it, they immediately hit it off. Tang En also quite agreed with this idea.
From a long-term point of view, the modified floating island could not only be used for ultra-long distance expeditions, but it could also be used as an aerial fortress to defend and counterattack. It could be mobile and could also be used for defense. After the modification, a large floating island could even be turned into an aerial stronghold. It could be used to defend against the invasion of Chaos in the future. There were many benefits.
Therefore, they immediately started to act. Jean immediately began to pass down orders, asking the Mages in the City of Silver who hadn't joined the work to all take action. Everyone had to participate in the construction.
As soon as this order was issued, good lord, the City of Silver instantly exploded. The Mages thought that this was going to make them go to war with the demons. They were so scared that their faces turned green, and they shouted that they didn't want to participate in the battle. But when they found out that they were just being asked to do construction and not participate in the battle, they felt deeply insulted and demanded to be treated equally and fairly. As Mages, how could they carry bricks? This was simply an insult to them!
After hearing this news, Jean impatiently gave an order. "Those who don't want to work, destroy your magic power pool and leave the City of Silver. Get the hell out of here!"
Now, he also realized that he had protected these Mages too well. They were the ones who didn't want to fight, and they were the ones who felt that doing logistics work was insulting … Damn it, do you really think that the whole world is your mother and everyone has to take care of you?
Tang En had already started to produce all kinds of magic thrusters for the floating island, but Jean's side hadn't pulled together a sufficiently efficient team. If this news got out, wouldn't those guys laugh their heads off?
After Jean's harsh words, the theoretical Mages who were mediocre in all aspects and liked to bury their heads in learning suddenly realized that they seemed to have made a very stupid choice. Therefore, the City of Silver's efficiency finally increased.
A large number of Mages left the City of Silver and searched all over the world for suitable floating islands. Those that were too small wouldn't do, those that were too big wouldn't do, those that were too brittle wouldn't do, those that were too hard wouldn't do …
After they found some suitable floating islands and marked them, Ellington's side had already produced a batch of magic thrusters designed for the floating islands. This kind of magic thruster's characteristics were that it had a lot of thrust, a lot of power, and a lot of magic power, but it was slow. It couldn't be helped. Although the floating island floated in the air due to its own characteristics, its mass wouldn't disappear. It was just that it offset gravity, so it was almost weightless.
But as long as there was mass, it would need a lot of thrust to move it. Therefore, normal magic engines couldn't do it at all. The magic engine that Ellington made this time used the power of the divine runes that Tang En had just mastered. That's right, he used the divine runes to strengthen the power output module of the magic engine.
This was a very clever method. The power of the divine runes was too strong. If the divine runes were directly used to move the floating island, there would be a huge "phenomenal" change. It might cause space to distort and vibrate, and these "phenomena" might attract the attention of the creatures of Chaos.
Tang En only used the divine runes to strengthen the power output of the engine, so there wouldn't be such a strong effect. This was because from the appearance alone, it was only the magic engine's output that became stronger. It was still a phenomenon that belonged to the world itself.
At the same time, they also made a large matrix defense module. After these matrix defense modules were installed on the floating island and connected to each other, they could form a magic shield that covered the entire floating island. It was very convenient to install, but it also consumed a lot of magic power.
All kinds of magic engines, as well as large matrix defense modules, were transported to the marked floating islands in batches. The magicians that had been forcefully conscripted began following the orders of the engineers, obediently modifying the floating islands and installing various equipment.
After installing the magic engines and the matrix defense modules, the power core was also sent over. The power core used on the floating island was different from the other equipment because it required a large amount of magic power to move the floating island. So, the lowest level energy used was Magic Essence. Going one step further, they had to use high level Magic Essence extracted from the Star Realm or even Magic Core.
Modularizing all the systems was a request from Tang En. The obvious advantage was that it was very easy to organize, install, and disassemble, so it was very easy to standardize the process. Even if these magicians were amateurs, they could understand the command of "combine the first and second parts of the power core".
This modification of the floating island was a test. If the effect was good, the production process of all kinds of large equipment in the future would become this kind of modular production method and installation process.
After the power and defense systems were ready, the weapon systems were delivered. The weapon systems were actually relatively simple. Because it was a floating island, the weapons and equipment developed for the Helicarrier could all be used directly. There was no need to modify them to directly install the main cannons on the floating island. Those magic energy cannons with fixed directions could be drilled into shooting holes in the floating island, achieving 360-degree coverage with no blind spots.
And these were just the conventional firepower configurations.
In addition to these, due to the natural combat base attributes of the floating island, there were even more exaggerated weapons being put in place one after another.
For example, the modified Dongfeng series missiles, the repaired golden giant statues that could be used at any time, and the newly developed floating cannons that were equipped with small artificial souls, implanted combat modules, and could vertically move up and down to attack enemies …
These weapons were put in place one after another, revealing a very clear signal to outsiders. Tang En Majesty was really planning to take the initiative and attack the demons this time.
However, at this moment, the people of the Irus Empire still didn't know that the construction of the floating island fortress wasn't the whole plan, because …
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