Chapter 285 Future Vision and Space Changes

He has been thinking about how to solve the two major flaws of talismanic magic weapons.

The first is the issue of stability.

Traditional magical weapons are stable but have limited use. Talisman magical weapons can theoretically be used continuously, but are easily affected by fluctuations in the laws of different planes, resulting in failure.

His previous solution was modular design and rapid battlefield modification, but this was still inefficient and dependent on advance preparation.

Another is the issue of supplies.

The production of talismans and magical weapons is time-consuming and labor-intensive. A stockpile of a few thousand for a war is already the limit. As the battle progresses, the number of them will decrease, making it difficult to sustain.

Now, with this automatic factory that can be stored in the body's internal space, everything can be easily solved!

He can use the factory to mass-produce talismans and magical tools at any time within the space inside his body.

After entering a new dimension and finding out the approximate parameters of the local elements, you can directly adjust the production line in the space to create talismanic magical tools that are fully adapted to the current environment!

In Jemin's vision, when the space inside his body expands further in the future, he might try to move the entire cannon fodder production line in.

Realize a true "mobile army" and fight and produce at the same time.

If the cannon fodder he developed could utilize resources efficiently enough, he could even achieve a perfect cycle of replenishing battlefield resources while fighting!

By then, he alone could be called the Swarm!

However, those things will happen a long time later.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Benjamin began to follow the included instruction manual to learn in depth the operation method, maintenance process and the meaning of the core control runes of this complex machine.

After spending several days to master its basic operations, he took a deep breath and walked under the suspended factory.

The consciousness sinks into the Dantian, communicates with the golden elixir, and activates the power of space in the body.

An invisible and huge suction force was generated with him as the center, covering the automatic factory above.

The protective magic circle on the surface of the factory sensed the sequence code prepared in advance on Jemin's body, and did not resist. Instead, it emitted a soft light in response.

Soon, wrapped in the power of space, the huge factory began to become blurred and distorted.

Finally, it turned into a stream of light and was successfully absorbed by Benjamin into the space inside his body, which was no longer the same as before.

The next step is to find a suitable "home" for this giant beast in the internal space, and then carry out preliminary debugging and installation.

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After successfully integrating the automatic factory into the internal space and preliminarily setting up the relevant production procedures, Jieming couldn't wait to carry out several trial productions.

The talismanic magical instruments were produced like flowing water from the preset production line, completing basic shaping, rune engraving and energy infusion. The efficiency was far superior to manual production, which made him very satisfied.

However, problems also emerged.

The first thing to be affected is energy supply.

Relying on energy crystals or small portable element pools to power the factory not only results in unstable output power, affecting the processing quality of high-precision components, but also consumes energy at an alarming rate.

After producing only a few batches of talismanic magical instruments, the reserve of high-purity crystals was visibly reduced to a small amount.

At this rate, he would probably have to carry a crystal mine with him to sustain the consumption of continuous combat.

"Energy is the blood of industry. It is true everywhere." Benjamin sighed, his consciousness withdrew from the space inside his body, and connected to the magic network terminal.

He checked his current military merit balance. Although the previous bulk purchases had consumed a lot of it, the stable income brought by the "Self-Stabilizing Field Regulation Agreement" still made him feel confident.

Without much hesitation, he quickly placed an order in the internal mall of the Noren Workshop and purchased a large level 4 elemental pool.

Unlike those level five and above element pools that are often used to support the energy of the entire plane, the level four large element pool is specially designed for large-scale war equipment, high-energy research equipment or small and medium-sized production bases.

In order to be able to be stuffed into the war machine, its size is relatively controllable. After being processed with sophisticated space folding technology, it can be completely accommodated by the current internal space of Jemin, and there is even a lot of room left.

The manufacturing process of the fourth-level large element pool is not that complicated, and the reserve is quite sufficient.

Not long after Benjamin placed the order, the elemental pool emitting stable and powerful energy fluctuations was delivered.

Jemin carefully placed it next to the automatic factory and completed the docking of the energy interface.

With the official launch of the element pool, vast and pure energy instantly poured into the factory's energy network, and the stability and efficiency of all equipment operations were improved to a higher level.

It is estimated that this large-scale fourth-level element pool is enough to support the full-power and uninterrupted operation of this automatic factory for hundreds of years without charging!

The breakthrough in energy issues rekindled Benjamin's thinking.

"Since the internal space can accommodate a factory, why can't it accommodate a mobile laboratory?" He stroked his chin, his eyes shining.

Although when participating in a plane expedition, the command will build a public laboratory in the camp.

However, those facilities often have general functions and limited accuracy, and are far less convenient than the exclusive equipment that he has carefully configured and is accustomed to using.

Of course, with the current capacity of his internal space, it is not possible to fit in a large comprehensive laboratory with complete functions.

However, it is entirely feasible to prioritize moving in some critical, rare, or highly frequently used core experimental instruments.

The energy provided by the fourth-level large element pool is also enough to drive these precision devices.

"Well... we also need to plan out enough storage areas to store various raw materials, as well as the spoils and biological samples collected during the war..." While planning the zoning of the space in his body in his mind, Benjamin was counting the items currently stored in the space.

Automatic factories, fourth-level element pools, spare energy crystals, some commonly used magic materials, several dormant black giant cores... His consciousness swept over these items like a scanner.

Suddenly, his consciousness stopped abruptly when he passed by an inconspicuous metal sealed box in the corner!

A feeling that something was extremely wrong came over me.

He remembered clearly that this box contained his most important asset - the twenty-nine strands of the hard-earned plane origin!

When they were first put in, each test tube emitted a dazzling and intoxicating light of energy.

But at this moment, through conscious perception, the test tube in the box... seemed to become abnormally "dim"?

Benjamin's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately used his mind to open the metal box.

The scene before him made his pupils shrink instantly and his breathing stopped!

Inside the box, twenty-eight of the twenty-nine crystal test tubes that were supposed to be neatly arranged and glittering had turned completely transparent!

The liquid halo-like origin inside disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.

The light in the last remaining test tube became extremely dim, like a candle in the wind.

The volume had obviously shrunk by half, and it was still decreasing at a speed that was barely noticeable to the naked eye, but which Benjamin could clearly sense!

"Where...where is my origin?!"

Shock, confusion, and even a hint of absurdity instantly gripped Benjamin.

He treasured these essences like treasures, ready to exchange them for key resources at a critical moment. How could they just disappear out of thin air?!

And it was within his internal space. How is this any different from gold bars in a safe disappearing out of thin air?!

The space inside his body is an independent area that is completely under his control. Now, apart from himself, there is no other creature that has consciousness and can absorb the essence!

Well, there seems to be only one answer...

Jieming's consciousness suddenly turned to the internal space opened up by the "Inner Circulation" technique and relying on the golden elixir.

Could it be... this space is "stealing" his essence?!

In order to verify this conjecture, he suppressed the turmoil in his heart and spent several days concentrating highly on observing the condition of the last ray of origin.

He clearly "saw" that the faint light was absorbed by invisible roots, blending into the "barrier" and "earth" of space, and finally disappeared completely.

And at the moment when the last wisp of origin was completely absorbed, Benjamin keenly noticed that the entire space inside his body seemed to have undergone an extremely subtle and indescribable change.

The boundary of space seemed to become a little more stable, and the thin spiritual energy that spontaneously emerged in the air seemed to become a little more active, and the texture of the space barrier under the feet also seemed to become more "real".

This change was extremely subtle. If he was not the master of space and had not paid close attention throughout the process, he would not have been able to detect it at all.

From the perspective of the "price-performance ratio" of input and output, it is a huge loss to use the extremely precious origin in exchange for this almost negligible "solidifying the foundation" effect!

According to the most rational judgment, the best solution is to immediately stop this "wasteful" behavior and firmly grasp the resources that may be obtained in the future.

Benjamin fell silent.

On the one hand, there are precious resources that can be seen and touched.

On the other hand, there is the potential for spatial growth, which is illusory and whose final effect is unknown.

However, this decision doesn't actually require too much effort.

It took almost no time for Benjamin to make a decision: from now on, he would regularly allocate a portion of his income to continue purchasing the origin of the plane, to "feed" this space in his body that seemed to have a unique "appetite"!

He didn't know where this would lead in the end, but he had a strong intuition - it couldn't be a bad thing.

"It'll just mean I'll have to live a little more financially in the future and buy less unnecessary knowledge and research materials," Benjamin consoled himself. "But if my stinginess with this little investment now leads to some congenital flaw in my internal space at a critical moment in the future, or I miss out on some crucial evolutionary opportunity... that would be truly regretful!"

(End of this chapter)