Pirate Kingship-Chapter 843 - 509: Omnipotent Machine Spirit: Planetary Engine! (Part 2)

Chapter 843: Chapter 509: Omnipotent Machine Spirit: Planetary Engine! (Part 2)

Byron stepped forward cautiously and touched the golden projection, and in a trance seemed to hear a sacred chant echoing in his ears:

"Ring the bell once, push the lever, activate the piston and pump; ring the bell twice, press the button, ignite the engine, light up the turbine, inject life;

Ring the bell three times, sing in unison, praise the God of All Machines!"

When he came to his senses, he realized that the sacred chant was a figment of his imagination, but the presence of a living [Machine Spirit] was undeniably real!

Whoosh—!

A gust of wind swept by, and the enormous projection enveloping the prototype machine instantly dissipated, replaced by a golden Leviathan Whale soaring in the air.

It was not a creature of flesh and blood, but a mechanical entity composed of levers, gears, drive shafts, cylinders... and so on, with white hot steam continuously spewing from its vents.

Its eyes were pure yet bewildered, with a straightforwardness unique to machinery.

After circling once around Byron and Violet, its designer and creator—and effectively its parents—it suddenly darted into the Whale Oil Steam Engine, transforming it into pure gold.

Finally, the complete information also appeared in the [Sailing Logbook].

[Zero-Level Sacred Relic: Whale Oil Powered Steam Engine]:

"The world’s first Zero-Level Sacred Relic created by mortals below the Divine Domain, instead of by Gods.

It was not achieved through the extraordinary rank of the Gods, but through its own unparalleled influence and creativity.

The Gods of the old era desired only faith and anchoring, never intending to change human life.

The world under their reign would continue to repeat history for a thousand, ten thousand years, never birthing a different future.

A ’gospel’ collectively bestowed by one, ten, a hundred Gods upon humans cannot compare to it.

Henceforth, the energy levels mastered by humans have undergone a revolutionary transformation.

Prototype’s original rated power: 900,000 horsepower!"

Byron and Violet, who have always walked at the forefront of the era—not only building the Industrial City Rapids Fortress, but also crafting a modern industrial system from scratch—resonate most with these words.

According to Byron’s criteria from a past life to classify technology and civilization, the primary basis is energy level.

The advancement of civilization is essentially the advancement of the total energy level controlled by humanity. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

This principle is the same whether in the mortal world or the extraordinary world.

From the agrarian civilizations using livestock power, to generations one and two of techno-civilizations using steam and electricity, to the foreseeable nuclear fusion energy, Byron’s previous life development trajectory has confirmed this point.

As long as humankind can obtain sufficient energy, many technological bottlenecks under the energy ceiling will no longer be developmental hindrances.

Clearly, this steam engine signifies humanity’s first energy level leap, securing its Zero-Level status through its own influence has no issue.

Until Byron saw its rated power, his heart couldn’t help but tremble thrice:

"’Horsepower’ was initially created to replace horses with steam engines to pull mine carts, calculated roughly by early engineers as a unit of power."

horsepower is equivalent to lifting a 75-kilogram object 1 meter high every second, approximately 0.735 kilowatts, roughly akin to a horse drawing water."

I remember the Watt steam engine’s power in my previous life was only about 10-20 horsepower.

And the power of my Zero-Level Sacred Relic is as high as 900,000 horsepower, which can be converted to 700,000 kilowatts, enough to rival the turbine power of the largest hydropower station in a certain Eastern Great Country."

With such small size and such great power, if directly installed on a sailboat, wouldn’t it easily achieve first cosmic velocity, escape planetary gravity, turning the outer world into starry seas?"

It’s simply a revolutionary super power source!"

But the next ability shown by the Zero-Level Sacred Relic made Byron realize his thoughts were still too conservative.

Ability One: [Omnipotent Machine Spirit]:

"Steel, Whale Oil, Blaze, Steam, and the mighty human Willing Power undergo a chemical reaction, giving birth to a Leviathan Whale Spirit, an omnipotent machine spirit that can perfectly control the deployment of steam engine horsepower."

Giving orders to the whale machine spirit can automatically generate something like a ’kinetic field’ in a Divine Domain within a hundred kilometer radius.

The machine spirit centrally regulates, freely allocating its horsepower, turning every manpower, livestock power, hydraulic, and wind power tool within this range into steam power machinery.

No need to build any steam pipelines or drive shafts, it can drive all large mechanical equipment within this range out of thin air.

Simultaneously, five percent of the horsepower from every newly birthed Whale Oil Powered Steam Engine will be summed to the prototype.

The more thorough the world industrialization, the higher the prototype’s power."

Byron was somewhat lost:

"It has all the advantages of a steam engine without any drawbacks. Is this the power of a Zero-Level Sacred Relic?"

He knew that coal-fired steam engines in the past were phased out in factories due to low energy efficiency, bulkiness, long startup times, large footprint, and inconvenient usage, replaced by electric motors, and in transportation by internal combustion engines.

But now, [Omnipotent Machine Spirit] has perfectly solved this problem, surpassing expectations tremendously, demonstrating unprecedented adaptability.

Imagine tens of thousands of electric cars running on the road, within a hundred kilometers, equivalent to installing a hydropower station, never again fearing mileage anxiety. What would that scene be like?