The Rise of the Black Plain
chapter-2027

After a brief conversation with his captives, Minos went to the robot construction area of the alien facility.

Arriving at the site after walking around for a few minutes, Minos came across a place that could easily accommodate the body of the group's level 93 dragon.

This place was huge, with several different assembly lines, assembly areas, casting areas, and maintenance areas. In short, there was a little bit of everything in this enormous place where several robot bodies were being built before.

At the same time, spaceships and ships were there, some of which were nearing completion, while others were at the beginning of their construction.

The aliens were preparing to dominate the Spiritual World, along with the reinforcements that would come to this planet when the universal wormhole was ready. But that didn't mean they weren't taking care to prepare for that moment.

Some of the items they needed to finish building had components that didn't exist in the Spiritual World. But their people would bring these things to them, so they created the troops and transportation for their group to use to rule this world and later to send resources to the Mechanic Empire.

So there were several structures in this large area, some that Minos' group wanted to find ways to use and others that they wanted to learn how to build.

Passing many of these alien technologies, Minos soon arrived where those most capable of understanding them were working with what little they had.

"So, what have you discovered so far?" He asked as he stopped next to a large robot that was 50% complete.

The grade-3 blacksmith, who was there along with an array master of the same grade and some of Minos' 10th-stage crewmates, said. "Your Majesty, we are far from understanding the enemy robots. Their methods are very complicated. I myself have no idea how they can create this kind of armor on their robots."

Minos saw the man tapping on the outside of an already completed part of the robot.

The array master said. "They seem to have found a way to combine very high-level forging skills with special inscriptions. However, I haven't been able to understand how these structures work together."

A mermaid who was there, someone with great mental ability and learning capacity, then said. "I don't dare talk about the forging or inscriptions that may or may not be related to the construction of these robots. But Minos, it's clear that they won't work without that special essence you got your hands on months ago."

Minos remembered the golden thing he had taken from the head of the first enemy he had destroyed.

The mermaid continued. "Without these essences, these robots don't have the intelligence of the beings we have faced. In fact, without them, they're practically big armors with no room for humans to wear them."

"The enemy is probably bringing in more of that essence to give life to these beings in production," Minos muttered, understanding that there would be reinforcements, but they wouldn't necessarily come to the Spiritual World in full force.

Part of the invaders' previous plans had been to create an army there!

But those plans would surely change since so much had happened!

'We have to consider that the enemy might have the means to know what has happened here. In that case, they will come with more force than they would have if we had not acted.' Minos closed his eyes, worried.

But he did not regret what he had done. If he had not acted against the enemies, there would have been no way for Minos to know the opposing forces and the nature of the threat he faced, let alone ways to counterattack.

He had done something that would have had negative consequences, but there were no alternatives. Either they had to ignore everything and face an utterly mysterious enemy, or they would have to do what they did and end up provoking their enemies to put even more force into their plans.

Minos looked at these people and said. "Let's continue to study the robots. It may be impossible to figure out how they work for the most part. But if we can understand how they form these super-resistant metals, how they protect the essence of their armor so that lightning strikes won't destroy it, we will have made great progress.

We don't need to completely master the enemy's technology. As long as we can learn a few things from them, we'll strengthen what we already have. This will increase our chances in the future war!"

Upon hearing Minos' words, the people nodded in agreement, knowing that they really didn't need to understand everything.

Anything they understood and were able to combine with what they already knew would have a great positive effect on strengthening themselves and their power.

While some were looking more enthusiastically at this 50% complete robot, another person approached Minos and said. "Your Majesty, as much as robots are a mystery to us, enemy ships and spaceships seem less complex to understand.

Like alien armor, they are easier to learn how to control. We are still in the early stages of controlling these ships, but we are making encouraging progress."

"Oh?" Minos walked next to this man while the Sea Folk woman was currently on one of the 100% ready ships in this area.

She said to him. "I used to think that my Sea Empire was the most advanced in the world when it came to ships... But I have to admit that we're a long way from our enemies' naval technology, Minos.

I've only understood 10% of what this alien ship can do, but I can tell you that it easily surpasses my people's most advanced ships.

To give you an idea, if we had made the voyage we have made since we met using this shit, we would have saved more than 60% of our time on the high seas. With ships like this, the enemy could reach the major points of the Spiritual World before our forces moved, which could give them many advantages in a war of conquest."

That was exactly the purpose of the spaceships and ships being built by Iktun's group: to create the tools that would give their state victory in the war of conquest of this world!

Someone else said. "They really are fantastic. Not only that, we can certainly learn to control and maintain them within the next few months. The only problem is learning how to build more like them. Assembling them isn't a problem, but building them from scratch, without off-the-shelf parts, will be a problem."

The problem was that they didn't know how to build the components of these vehicles. If they did, they could have hope. But without those methods, it would be virtually impossible to build anything from scratch.

"That's good. Keep working." Minos said before asking. "But are you really able to finish assembling some of these ships?"

The man thought for a moment and said. "It is possible. If we use the remaining parts and the unfinished ships, we may be able to do it once we've learned more."