It was midsummer in the year 734 of the Aran calendar. It had been more than a month, nearly two months, since the birth of the first robot transformed by fire. The number of robots has also increased to 1,977, and is about to exceed the 2,000 mark.
This growth rate is very...slow, compared to the entire group of elemental creatures. This trouble was something Lin didn't expect at first.
Because the size of the original settlement did not match the new body size, and because it was impossible to return to the base in order to conquer other people in the early stages, the robots abandoned their original settlements and devoted all their efforts to the great cause of adding companions. The time is roughly divided like this. It takes an average of three days to move to the next settlement, five minutes to fight or show muscles, and another three days to transform the fire.
In other words, about half of the time is wasted on the road. Then the Tinder transformation robots came one by one, which was quite inefficient. Regarding the former point, Lin has no solution, which can be said to be a flaw. You can't use Flash to help them get on their way. If you really do that, I'm afraid if you don't help a few times, there will be some kind of pitiful guy who is contaminated by alien energy and transformed into an evil god among the robot tribe.
As for the latter, there is also no good solution. Lin Ding can think of some ways to save time.
It is not feasible to use fire to transform more than two people at the same time. Because during the process, the souls of elemental creatures that are transformed at the same time will interfere with each other, intertwine and merge, and become no longer pure. This kind of thing is a big taboo for elemental creatures, which is why they don't directly devour each other in their original growth method. Now that you have become a robot, you must also avoid this kind of thing.
That only simultaneous transformation experiment cost a lot of someone's brains in order to deal with the aftermath. In the end, even Fen, a master of undead magic and a genius in playing with souls, jumped down to help, and the souls of the two elemental creatures were separated again and they were individually transformed by fire.
The time that should be saved is the time required for the second and third transformation of each robot. Because after every actual battle, no matter whether they have contributed or not, as long as they see any novel ideas from their companions, there will always be people who want to try it themselves. Since you want to try it, you have to change yourself to look like that, or add new functions, which requires Tinder to take action again.
Using fire is equivalent to a thorough body scan and complete examination, and then giving the best plan according to the wishes of the person being transformed. This process will of course take some time. Fortunately, no matter how serious the difficulty in choosing is, no matter how long it takes in the world of thinking, it will only take a moment to change to reality. Even so, time cannot be saved when it comes to body transformation and reorganization.
If it were to be transformed for the first time, the elf core of the original elemental creature would have to be transformed into a nuclear reactor, and even the structure of the whole body would have to be reorganized. All of this would be impossible if it were not led by fire. However, most of the modifications after the second time were minor changes, and there was no need to use the big weapon of fire.
On the other hand, after the robots are damaged, they have the same function of self-repair as they did in the elemental creature period. The specific operation is to use magic shaping to 'restore' the parts of specific parts to their appearance after being transformed by fire. This kind of ability is great, but in the eyes of the robots, it is a waste.
The waste here involves the robot's existing energy system. One is the energy converted from the core of the original elves, which they call the original energy. The method of cultivation and accumulation is the same as that of the past era of elemental creatures. It relies on absorbing free pure energy to grow bit by bit, and relies on rest and sleep to recover the consumed part.
Another new energy source is, of course, the electrical energy output by nuclear reactors. Electricity is not only responsible for driving all functions of the robot's mechanical body, but also is the source of energy for the weapon system. It can be said that robots mainly rely on electricity for their daily battles. But when you want to use magic shaping to repair yourself, it consumes mainly the original energy and supplemented by electricity.
To put it simply, the technological part consumes electricity, and the magic part consumes source. The source accumulation and recovery are very slow, and the electricity produced by the nuclear reactor can basically support the robots to operate all year round without any need for rest or forced entry into energy-saving mode.
It's so unscientific because no matter what the robots say, they are magic creatures based on magic after all.
Moreover, compared with electric energy, electric energy has the cost of squandering, but the use of original energy requires careful consideration. That's why the robots think that it is really a waste to use the original function of solidifying the body and continuously repairing it all the time.
It is very simple to cancel such a function. But this requires other means of repairing the damaged body, and the loss is low, so it can be used as a regular means. Self-repair that requires consuming the source can be used as an unconventional last resort.
In order to help the robots make some small modifications to the mechanical body, in order to help the robots do some repair work, in order to complete these two projects, the first specialized branch of the robot family appeared - mechanics.
Compared to the new robots who prepare at least five weapon systems on their bodies, the mechanics are more reserved. Basically, there are one kind of long-range combat weapon and one melee combat weapon. Most of the functions and the knowledge system stored in the memory are used to repair and transform robots.
The most important mechanic also has the ability to adjust the robot's core program, that is, to change the body structure solidified by fire. Only by doing this, when each robot uses the last resort to repair itself, will the subsequent active transformation not be overwritten and restored to the appearance after the Tinder transformation.
In addition, the mechanic's database will also be regularly exchanged with Tinder to complement each other. It can be regarded as a kind of data update to prevent the information stored in the fire from being out of touch with the latest transformation progress of the robots.
In this way, the robots will no longer need fire when they carry out secondary transformation; repairing damage can also reduce the consumption of original energy. Let this group of reborn robots become machines in the true sense that do not need to rest.
After the specialized branch of mechanics appeared, robots also found their own specialization direction according to their own interests and personalities, or the needs of the entire group. Such as the long-range specialization of multiple rocket launchers, the multi-armed close combat specialization, the clairvoyance and stealth detection specialization, the meat shield type defense specialization and the communication command specialization. There are so many directions that it’s hard to describe them all.
Only a few leader-type robots still maintain their all-powerful form. In other words, the leader type does not choose a specific direction of specialization. They maintain a high level whether in long-range or melee combat. Comparing the aspects of detection, defense and speed separately, it may not be as good as those specialized robots, but it is still far higher than the average level of outstanding robots.
In front of the robot group that was gradually forming a system, the first challenge came faster than Lin imagined. The elemental lord Pablo has integrated the old forces, with more than 10,000 people, to destroy this unknown emerging force.
