Chapter 1369 - 642: How Will You Respond When I Present the Saint Byron Code?

The Church reacted quickly, making a decision upon capturing the ripple stirred by [Crown] in the sea of human collective unconscious.

At that time, the war across the sea had just ended.

Ocean Subhumans and Empire Soldiers were tallying the spoils at Dolphin Bay, setting up temporary camps with smoke spiraling upwards.

After today’s great battle, the soldiers were too exhausted, so besides a feast of wine and meat, a formal celebratory banquet was scheduled for three days later, with representatives from all factions of humanity attending at the Corridor of Truth.

If possible, the [Radiant Queen] will also try to foster the establishment of a union among human countries.

Using the Southern Line countries as a base, the "South-North War" will commence, reclaiming all fifty northern countries and regions on the continent.

Byron and Violet didn’t stay on the island; they had their portable Divine Kingdom and didn’t need to inconvenience themselves.

Violet dragged all the Whale Oil Powered Miracle Object Battleships seized in the battle from various Old God Churches back to "Golden Mist Palace" and immediately initiated new research topics overnight.

Although most of these battleships were damaged in the fierce combat, simply dismantling them for various Extraordinary Materials would yield a substantial fortune.

Furthermore, relying on her [Creation] and [Craftsman] divine positions, the [War Queen] could dismantle them effortlessly, rendering such large-scale war Miracle Objects devoid of any secrets to her.

The girl activated her Prosthetic Limbs, transforming into the form of a Mechanical Girl, her silver hair defying gravity and floating like dense seaweed, with her full computing power activated.

Countless streams of data composed of characters and formulas cascaded rapidly like a waterfall in her azure eyes as she reported to Byron:

"These Whale Oil Miracle Object Battleships have no significance for repair.

In my view, their design philosophy and technical reserves are too crude, with many technical difficulties forced through with hard use of Extraordinary Materials.

Even the crucial propellers are driven by ’Vortex Array’; truly extravagant!

The Whale Oil Power Furnace’s conversion efficiency to mechanical energy is too low, making the input-output disproportionate, causing the combat power of a single battleship to barely surpass our Pre-dreadnought Ships.

If they were integrated into the Navy, we would need an additional set of logistic systems, making it completely unprofitable; it would be better to dismantle them for material recovery.

For instance, those large-caliber Alchemical Cannons can be equipped onto [The Golden Deer], assimilating into part of the Legendary Warship, compensating for the deficiency of Sail Battleships not being able to equip turrets.

Moreover, apart from being expensive, this equipment is not entirely useless.

At least in terms of intelligence, they significantly surpass our mass-producible Dreadnoughts, employing an Enlightenment Technology that imitates Ship Spirits and Ghost Ships to assist soldiers in maneuvering the battleship.

It does bear some resemblance to the Molten Furnace Church’s Mechanical constructs.

Just now, I have integrated this knowledge through my divine position, preliminarily creating an ’Artificial Ship Spirit’ technology.

The materials dismantled from these Miracle Object Battleships, along with those previously collected [Melter Giant] souls, can be suitably utilized."

Byron’s eyes immediately lit up:

"Artificial Ship Spirit? The battle auxiliary system resistant to signal shielding has finally been resolved?"

Industrial 1.0 is the Steam Engine Era, Industrial 2.0 is the Electric Era, Industrial 3.0 is the Information Age, and Industrial 4.0 is the era of utilizing information technology to promote industrial reform, essentially Byron’s previous life’s Intelligent Era.

Fundamentally, it’s intelligence + everything.

This is a prerequisite for becoming Industrial Cthulhu, an ineffable entity at the national level.

Thus, after successfully crafting the Difference Engine and Analytical Machine, acquiring the two major capabilities of [Computing Power Center] and [Root Server], they began researching how to integrate Alpha onto the Dreadnought.

By constructing a supercomputing center composed of Steam Engine, Difference Engine, and Analytical Machine, the central intelligence can allocate sub-intelligent units for auxiliary calculations, greatly enhancing calculation efficiency and convenience.

A comprehensive battle platform like a Dreadnought is sufficient to establish a small auxiliary combat system.

However, there’s a key issue here: machines don’t inherently belong to the collective unconscious, permanently connected humans known as Transcendents; they need to connect to the Law Net like every colonial [Lighthouse Matrix].

If the battleship ventures into areas without Law Network coverage, such as beyond their territorial waters, losing signal becomes easy.

Once it exits the human-governed territory, such as counterattacking the World Rift or delving into the open sea, it would be utterly blinded.

Without Alpha computing power augmentation, it is left with just the capacity to store 1000 fifty-digit decimal numbers with an astonishing memory of 20.7 KB, rendering even the most outstanding commanders speechless upon seeing it.

Byron heard that the White Eagle once equipped a 4KB computer on the big rocket, with which they successfully landed on the Moon despite a machine incapable of holding even a single pixel-image.

In a word: exhilarating!

He wonders if those astronauts were frightened to death.

Byron believes even if he assigned this task to Alpha and gave it 4KB of computing power to control, it would have a program meltdown, incoherently begging for mercy:

"I swear on my mother, I can’t do it!"

Regardless, Byron won’t risk his officers and soldiers with such uncertainty.

If miracles could remedy this flaw, then even without Legendary Warship Skill, an ’Artificial Ship Spirit’, which greatly enhances the comprehensive combat power of a battleship, could be considered as successfully researched.

This would be the most suitable Miracle Object ship prow for the [Dreadnought]!