Chapter 455 - 38: Anti-gravity Bomber

Chapter 455: Chapter 38: Anti-gravity Bomber

The Anti-Gravity Engine was a technology most lords of the Titan Race had unlocked.

However, a standard Anti-Gravity Engine, made from heavy rock, could only reduce the effects of gravity in a high-gravity environment. It lessened the load, making the object it affected lighter.

To create a device capable of flight within the Titan Race’s domain, a stronger "Super Anti-Gravity Engine" was needed. This engine required heavy rock compression techniques and more advanced anti-gravity technology.

However, Lin Yu had not obtained these technologies from the lords who had pledged their allegiance to him.

This was because most of these lords, located in the borderlands, were marginal figures. The unique technologies they possessed had some interesting features but were not particularly powerful.

They were hardly an improvement over the anti-gravity technology already common among the nobility.

Among the lords who had pledged fealty, the one with the highest status was the Slime Breeder—Keze.

Before being selected for the grand tournament, Keze had been nothing more than a privileged heir, content to coast through life without any ambition.

He was Prince Clara’s youngest son. His mother had died from complications during childbirth.

As a result, Keze was not favored by Prince Clara and was left to raise himself, with no one to discipline or guide him.

After a stint of carousing and acting the part of a profligate son, Keze was put in his place by Prince Clara. He then chose to become a shut-in, a rich heir content to simply live out his days without purpose.

Therefore, Keze didn’t possess any of the unique technologies from the Prince’s Mansion. He only knew some of the common technical knowledge widespread among the noble class, and even that he had only learned by studying constantly during his rest periods.

Since there were no ready-made solutions, they had to rely on their own efforts.

To create a flying machine that could take off even in the high-gravity environment of the Titan Race, the relevant researchers from the World Tree Territory Research Institute joined forces.

Things went relatively smoothly at first. Through numerous experiments and by replacing components inside the Anti-Gravity Engine with runes, they successfully miniaturized it.

Adhering to the principle of "if quality fails, quantity prevails," the institute began building a multi-engine aircraft. They hoped to make the craft fly in the Titan Race’s territory by relying on the combined power of multiple Anti-Gravity Engines.

However, the research quickly hit a bottleneck.

When multiple Anti-Gravity Engines were active at once, they would interfere with each other, reducing their effectiveness.

Instead of one plus one being greater than two, the result was one plus one being less than one.

Afterward, the institute continued its experiments. Inspired by books found in the Wisdom Library, they created a "Variable Combined Rune Array."

This Rune Array could combine the effects of a varying number of Anti-Gravity Engines as needed, while also preventing them from interfering with each other.

The final result was the creation of a large, composite Anti-Gravity Engine that could provide different levels of anti-gravity lift based on varying requirements.

Using this composite Anti-Gravity Engine, the institute built an Anti-Gravity Flying Device capable of flying in the high-gravity environment of the Titan Race.

It could then drop bombs (Elemental Bombs) from high altitudes to bombard ground targets. Thus, this flying machine was named the Anti-gravity Bomber.

After receiving requests for support from the lords who had pledged their allegiance, Lin Yu dispatched ten Anti-gravity Bombers to each of them.

This would both increase their combat effectiveness and serve as a field test for the power of the new Anti-gravity Bombers and Elemental Bombs.

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Udi was one of the lords who had pledged allegiance to Lin Yu. As the heir to a newly ennobled family, he was desperate for more knowledge to deepen his family’s foundation.

Therefore, he was easily persuaded by Al. He set out with his army and the bombers provided as support from the main territory...

In the forest, Udi waited quietly with his army.

RUSTLE RUSTLE RUSTLE~

The sound of someone moving through the trees approached, and a scout returned from the front.

"My lord, the Slimes have begun to retreat."

"The lord who was attacked suffered heavy losses. I saw that many soldiers in his territory were wounded."

"Good. Then it’s our turn. Let’s not let our Slime brothers’ efforts go to waste."

The army set out immediately. The organized troops brushed past the great retreating host of Slimes.

At that moment, on the walls of the besieged city, the lord—Ryan—saw the Slime Monsters retreating and breathed a sigh of relief. He had the townspeople carry the wounded soldiers away for treatment.

Suddenly, he noticed the distant forest begin to shake violently.

’It can’t be... they’re coming again?’

With a grim expression, Ryan ordered his men to prepare to fight again.

When the figures emerged from the forest, Ryan saw that they were not Slime Monsters, but an army of the Titan Race.

Just as he thought reinforcements had arrived, Ryan noticed something was wrong.

"Something’s wrong! Why don’t they have any banners?"

When the nobles of the Titan Race went to war, they had their soldiers carry clear family emblems, but this army had no such banners.

Recalling recent messages in the chat channel, Ryan was certain this army was here to attack him.

His heart sank completely.

"Temple Guards, tend to our wounded soldiers first. We have another hard battle ahead of us."

"Ready the Gravity Cannons! Open fire the moment they’re in range."

Ryan immediately scrambled to arrange his defenses.

Soon, Udi arrived at the base of the city walls with his army.

"Fire!"

Ryan was the first to attack. Gravity Bombs from the Gravity Cannons shot straight into Udi’s army.

"Raise shields!"

Seeing the bombardment from the Gravity Cannons, Udi’s army showed no signs of panic.

They brought out several large shields and planted them at the very front of their formation.

These shields utilized a unique technology Udi had mastered—Multiple Gravity Barriers.