Chapter 1827 - 470: Hei Ye Before Dawn

Chapter 1827: Chapter 470: Hei Ye Before Dawn

Lie Zhua’s fresh blood seeped into the cracks between the bricks of New Star Valley’s plaza, congealing into a brand of vengeance burned into the hearts of the Downspirit Clan.

The Bone Splitting Clan Supervisor Shui Ya was very satisfied with the effect this "sacrifice" produced; in its eyes, the members of the Downspirit Clan had visibly become more "docile."

Open rage and resistance vanished, replaced by deathly silent, numb obedience.

Soon, new shackles descended in full.

The Code promulgated by Shui Ya was carved onto the black stone stele at the center of the plaza:

First, all War-level Weapons must be handed over.

Second, the Bone Splitting Clan holds absolute dominion over all resources, technology, and population of the Downspirit Clan.

Third, the Downspirit Clan must unconditionally obey all conscription orders and complete designated labor and production tasks.

Fourth, all forms of assembly are forbidden; a collective liability system will be enforced...

In the days that followed, within the steel jungle of New Star Valley, the clanging marching steps of the Thunder Armor Corps on patrol were no more, replaced by the footsteps and whip cracks of the Bone Splitting Clan’s Lizardman guards.

The energy rail network still operated, but its loads were no longer free citizens—only train after train of conscripted Downspirit youths.

Silent, they were shipped off to the various mines and frontline fortifications controlled by the Bone Splitting Clan, and even to far?flung supervisory posts overseeing other slave races.

This ongoing "bloodletting" was a deliberate dispersal strategy by the Bone Splitting Clan, to prevent any organized resistance force from forming within the Downspirit Clan.

Countless families were forcibly torn apart, their futures unknown.

Yet just as Tu Hu had foreseen, during this period the Bone Splitting Clan began to gradually rely on the Downspirit Clan.

Over several years, with one astonishing achievement after another, the Downspirit Clan forced the Strength?revering Bone Splitting Clan, for the first time, to witness directly the world?shaping transformations that "creative research ability" could bring.

Previously, the frontline corps of the Bone Splitting Clan still relied on bellowed shouts and bone whistles for transmitting orders, but under the fourth?generation leader Jingsi’s guidance, a Bone Talisman communication device, developed based on Spirit Language Communication Technology, was distributed to the Bone Splitting Clan’s management.

During this period, the communications team also built for the Bone Splitting Clan a vast network of information relay base stations.

Orders that traveled thousands of miles in an instant allowed the "pilot corps" to coordinate far more efficiently in sweeping campaigns, with a marked reduction in casualty rates.

Only then did the Bone Splitting Clan’s power echelon realize that war could be fought with such little effort.

Immediately afterward, faced with war spoils and plundered resources piled like mountains, the Qi Ming team "proactively" submitted a resource transport proposal.

Using Energy rail technology, they linked the resource points of several major occupation zones, frontline fortresses, and Bone Splitting Clan territories into a single network.

Transport routes that had once depended on slave pack beasts and taken several months were shortened to a matter of days.

Endless supplies were fed into the war machine with unprecedented efficiency, making the Bone Splitting Clan’s conquest even more effective.

In a few short years, the Downspirit Clan’s value in the eyes of the Bone Splitting Clan surpassed the sum of all other slaves.

But the true importance of the Downspirit Clan had only just begun to erupt.

As the Bone Splitting Clan’s reliance on the Downspirit Clan grew by the day, Tu Hu’s stratagems unfolded in tandem.

To fathom the enemy’s war potential is the first step in vengeance.

To accomplish this, they had to fully embed themselves into the Bone Splitting Clan’s war system.

The burden of executing this critical mission fell upon "Tiexin’s" shoulders.

Tiexin was, in Tu Hu’s eyes, of the fourth generation—born in the Downspirit Clan’s most flourishing era, yet forced to grow up in the most Darkness?ridden years of humiliation.

Its Life trajectory had, from the very beginning, been steeped in both the hopes and the shadows of the entire clan.

The "Equipment Department" it led, in order to embed itself into the Bone Splitting Clan’s war system, put forward a project to redesign weapons and Equipment.

Before this, the Bone Splitting Clan warriors’ Equipment had been crude.

The Bone Armor on their bodies was taken from hunted Wild Beasts, its defense enhanced only through rough polishing.

Their weapons were mostly Wolf Fang Clubs inlaid with Sharp beast fangs, or Bone Blades fashioned by modifying the natural shapes of certain creatures’ massive bones.

All defense and Attack means depended almost entirely on each individual’s innate physical toughness and the Combat Skills honed in slaughter.

Tiexin’s choice was to "tailor?make" a set of standardized armaments for the Bone Splitting Clan.

When this plan was reported to Tu Hu and Jingsi, it was approved.

Tu Hu gave only one sentence:

"Let them grow used to something better, until they can no longer do without it."

The Iron Heart Team started with materials.

They conducted a detailed analysis of the Bone Splitting Clan warriors’ physical structures, their force?generating methods in battle, and the circulation trajectories of their Energy (Blood Evil Qi).

Then they submitted a request to Supervisor Shui Ya, hoping to draw upon a batch of resources to devote to weapons and Equipment research and development.

The application was swiftly approved.

The first step of the Iron Heart Team was Melt Bone and Cast Armor.

They built a Bone Melting Furnace in New Star Valley, using the energy field to smelt the bones of powerful Wild Beasts together with specific Metal ores into an entirely new Bone Alloy.

This material retained the bones’ natural affinity for the Bone Splitting Clan’s Blood Evil Qi while also possessing the malleability of Metal.

On this basis, they designed the "Fierce Beast" series of standardized Bone Armor.

The Armor structure was optimized to match the limbs; key areas adopted multi?layered composite structures, making it lighter in weight yet multiplying its defensive power several times over.

They also etched Energy?guiding flow patterns on the interior, enabling passive guidance of the wearer’s Blood Evil Qi to cover the entire body, forming an invisible Energy Buffer Layer.

The second step was to refine the Blood Evil into blades.

The Iron Heart Team believed that the Bone Splitting Clan warriors, by crudely pouring Blood Evil Qi into primitive Bone Blades, were not only inefficient but also prone to destroying their weapons.

They designed a series of hollow "Bloodthirsty Blade" weapons.

Inside was a complex cavity structure that allowed Bone Splitting Clan warriors, when they Held and swung them, to naturally generate suction, guiding Blood Evil Qi to converge far more efficiently at the Sharp edge, dramatically enhancing destructive power and triggering localized Energy shock upon striking a target.