God of Technology: Creating the Internet in Another World-Chapter 387: Automated Defense Isn’t Half Bad Either

Just as everyone was caught up in the Church of Technology’s unmatched combat prowess, people noticed something else. Inside the tech clerics’ base, aside from the rapidly repairing watch wall, some of the clerics were assembling strange metal devices.

These things were huge. Pretty thin, sure, but once put together they were about the size of a house. As countless energy storage runes got installed, the whole contraption started rotating left and right.

Before long, a magic conductor projector under the device displayed an image.

The crowd went nuts!

"What the heck is that?"

"Looks like... the surrounding terrain?"

"What are those moving black dots? Could those be ice spirits?!"

"The Church of Technology really is something else. They can cram any kind of magic into a mechanical device."

"That’s not even the half of it. I just asked my father—he’s a legendary magician—and even his sensing magic can’t cover an area this massive."

"It projects everything around it so everyone can see the terrain and moving enemies. Once you take them out, they disappear. This feature is insanely powerful, a total war weapon!"

"Just stick one of these on your castle walls and you’ll never have to worry about a surprise attack again!"

"I think the device’s biggest feature is probably that you can use it to draw a perfect map. That’d be hugely helpful for controlling your own territory."

"..."

No matter what the folks in the livestream were saying, the tech combat clerics on site kept moving methodically according to plan, wiping out every ice spirit that charged at them and installing all sorts of equipment they’d already planned for.

With the sensing device in place, every enemy nearby had nowhere to hide.

The magic conductor weapons’ attacks became way more accurate too.

Once everything was ready, Wolf General Lucina immediately ordered: "Activate automated defense weapons. Clerics will take turns resting according to plan."

The automated defense weapons were yet another war weapon invented by magic conductor experts after the sensing device.

All you had to do was install them in a fixed area, and when the sensing device detected enemies, the automated defense weapons would fire ray magic at the targets.

Maybe it wouldn’t be a game-changer on its own, but it could work alongside regular combat clerics, letting some people rotate out for rest without losing any combat effectiveness.

Everyone watched in surprise as these really small turrets got placed out front. They didn’t get why the Church of Technology’s clerics suddenly switched to smaller weapons.

Could it be that in just this short time, the big weapons’ energy or lifespan was already maxed out?

If that was the case, it seemed like the tech clerics’ plan to completely wipe out the ice spirits might not be so possible after all.

The livestream instantly filled with doubts.

In the Teylir Emirates.

The leaders of the major tribes watched this scene and all breathed a sigh of relief.

"If it can only last this long, we can totally handle that kind of pressure."

"Here I thought they were invincible. Turns out it’s just intermittent, like summoning a miracle."

"Too bad the God of War hasn’t responded to our prayers in a long time. Otherwise, if miracles clashed, they’d go down quick."

In that moment, they seemed to forget that just a second ago they’d been worried sick. Now they all looked completely relaxed.

Especially after seeing some people on the Magic Net comment that while these magic conductors were impressive, they couldn’t be used continuously and needed some downtime or their lifespan would shrink. That really sealed the deal.

However.

The next second.

Their expressions started going stiff, one by one.

They actually saw these smaller turrets start moving on their own.

Whenever an enemy appeared in range, it would instantly get hit.

Pretty quickly, people figured it out—as long as the sensing device could detect a black dot, the turret would instantly nail it. The whole process didn’t need any human intervention at all.

Didn’t that mean in defensive battles, all they’d need was to prepare some of these sensing devices and turrets, and they could just lie back and watch enemies die one by one?

Had the Church of Technology really reached such a terrifying level?

Even Wolf General Lucina herself didn’t quite dare put all her defensive eggs in these devices’ basket. She just treated them as support.

A device that could save some of the clerics’ manpower and let them take turns resting. At the same time, it was like a temporary protective device for the base.

But to everyone else, it wasn’t like that at all.

After getting shocked by these devices, once they snapped back to reality, they only had one thought left: these devices were basically invincible.

They could defend automatically.

As long as you could supply magic power, you’d have invincible defense.

And magic power?

Ever since the Church of Technology’s wild mages spread the technology for self-charging arrays and the Magic Power Network, pretty much every territory had it. For them, it had basically become unlimited energy.

If magic power could solve it, was it even a problem anymore?

These sensing devices, these auto-attacking devices—once you used them all together, would they even need that many soldiers to guard their territories?

The nobles’ minds started racing.

Quite a few people with connections to Viscount Roster were already reaching out to him, wanting to buy a batch.

The battle north of the watch wall kept going.

Watching the blurry black dots gradually become clearer, watching more and more ice spirits all gathering toward this area, Wolf General Lucina vaguely seemed to remember something.

Last time when fighting off these monsters, she’d vaguely noticed that some ice spirits weren’t really like the kind their ancestors faced anymore—completely mindless monsters. A few ice spirits were gaining intelligence.

This abnormal gathering might be because some intelligent ice spirits were commanding these less intelligent monsters to gather here.

Of course, it was also possible the ice spirits had characteristics they didn’t know about. After discovering a gap in the watch wall, or sensing living things here, they automatically gathered in this direction. That wasn’t impossible either.

The specifics would need further verification.

"Everyone, stay alert. The ice spirit army is here!"

Wolf General Lucina looked at the black dots on the sensing device that looked like a tidal wave and issued another command.

Ice spirits weren’t afraid of death, but if there were intelligent beings among them, they’d definitely try to control these ice spirits as much as possible, charging at them with fewer losses.

Maybe they could figure out from these ice spirits’ advancing routes and attack plans whether it was intelligence or just instinctive charging...