Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 825 - 54: The City in the Sky

Perfikot chose to ignore Ailey’s pestering.

Although she occasionally flitted around the Alchemy Workshop, causing some minor annoyances for Perfikot’s work, one had to admit that her divine power was indeed useful.

Even though Perfikot’s mental defenses shielded her from the effects, this power still enhanced her work efficiency. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

This made Perfikot very curious about how exactly Ailey’s divine power worked.

But she currently didn’t have the time to study Ailey, merely jotting this down for future research once current matters were resolved.

During this period, under Perfikot’s renovations, the Alchemy Workshop had completely changed its appearance.

Rather than an Alchemy Workshop, it was more like a large automated production line or a building-shaped robot.

Perfikot applied a lot of alchemy to transform the workshop into a fully automated factory.

As long as raw materials were input, it could process them into various components and then assemble them as needed.

This entire process required no human involvement; the factory itself could complete all the production processes, even including final assembly testing.

The operation of this factory astonished Ailey; she had never imagined humans could create something so astonishing, comparable to the power of the gods.

But Perfikot wasn’t content with just having transformed a factory into an automated one.

After the factory was completed, she took Ailey across the Northern Territory, leaving her mark on places like mines, blast furnaces, and towns.

Ailey didn’t quite understand what Perfikot was doing, but as they visited more places, she gradually began to piece everything together.

Perfikot was building a fully automated system: a mine that could automate mining, a blast furnace that could smelt metal ores on its own, a town that could migrate across the ice fields...

These things, which seemed as though they could only exist in legends, were being created one by one in the face of Perfikot’s powerful alchemy.

And all these things being created were serving a core goal—what Perfikot intended to manufacture.

However, Ailey didn’t know Perfikot well enough to understand what she was trying to create, but she could deduce from Perfikot’s actions that it was certainly something monumental.

After all, Perfikot was highly purposeful in her actions; it was clear these large automated machines she was modifying were in preparation for some big endeavor.

It didn’t take much for Ailey, following Perfikot closely, to figure this out.

She could even see that it was a colossal project needing a massive amount of steel, much bigger than any Floating Battleship she had ever seen.

"What exactly are you building? You’ve done so much preparation—surely even for mass-producing Floating Battleships, it would be enough?" Ailey couldn’t hold back and asked Perfikot this question.

Perfikot glanced at Ailey and then lowered her head, busying herself with her work, but she still replied, "I was wondering when you’d finally ask that question!"

"I’m not stupid, you know. You think you can hide it, but I can see what you’re up to~!" Ailey grinned, pressing Perfikot for more: "So, what on earth are you doing? A superweapon? Or something that can change the situation?"

"It’s a Floating City. I plan to build a city that can fly." There was no point hiding it, so Perfikot directly told Ailey.

Ailey widened her eyes, looking at Perfikot as if she were insane, but quickly asked, full of awe, "You really can make a city fly?"

"The theoretical groundwork tests are all complete, and the Floating Battleship served as preliminary validation of this technology. So far, everything is normal and meets my expectations for the Floating City’s technology," Perfikot nodded slightly, essentially confirming her capability to make a city fly.

Ailey was greatly astonished, but she then asked, "But what’s the use of a flying city? Are you planning to drop a city on the gods? It could work, but that seems such a waste!"

Ailey had never seen a flying city, but to the gods, building a temple suspended in the air wasn’t difficult, so she had seen fallen divine temples crashing from the sky.

When Perfikot said she wanted to make a city fly, Ailey immediately thought of this.

"Indeed, it would be wasteful, and even as wasteful as I am, I wouldn’t just drop a city like that," Perfikot obviously wasn’t that lavish, nor was the Floating City meant to be used that way.

As she said this, Perfikot also added, "But in desperate times, this city can indeed be used as a brick to drop—whether on gods or anything else, I doubt they could withstand a whole city crashing down."

Perfikot had seen gods, and even a chief god; though she’d never seen a chief god in action, she could deduce from the War God and the divine corpse she had encountered just how powerful a chief god might be.

The results weren’t very optimistic, but Perfikot was at least sure that even the War God couldn’t withstand the impact of a Floating City falling.

"Gods couldn’t withstand it, true, but that’s way too over-the-top!" Ailey shook her head. Though she couldn’t imagine what it would be like if a god were struck, she could envision the world-altering destruction of a whole city crashing down.

"I wouldn’t do it lightly; I’ll install weapons on the Floating City powerful enough to slay gods," Perfikot explained to Ailey, also emphasizing, "But when all else fails, the Floating City itself will be a weapon."

"It’s hard to imagine. At first, I thought you’d been busy with other stuff and didn’t take my warnings seriously," Ailey shook her head in amazement; she really hadn’t expected Perfikot to be preparing such a stunning grand move: "I never guessed you’d been preparing for deicide all this time!"

"Deicide isn’t such a big deal. The Godslaying Armor I developed for dealing with divinities has long possessed god-slaying power," Perfikot stated plainly—a mere fact, not humility.

"Yes, yes! You’re the greatest, Alchemist~!" Ailey responded earnestly, seemingly in agreement.