Chapter 708, Relic Technology
These hundreds of millions of Blessing Points were almost entirely obtained through victories in the war.
Martins supported the Western Front, and the Alliance became one of the main forces involved in the final battle on the Western Front, basically defeating and eliminating the Ironclads.
The Alliance entered the Queen's Starfield alone from the southeast, fighting the Zerg along the way. From rescuing the remnants of the northern front to intercepting Zerg support forces... these battles, which took place one after another, provided a considerable amount of Gift Points.
The biggest prize, of course, came from the victory at the Second Battle of Rheaduches.
With victory after victory, the accumulated Blessing Points reached 120 million.
Gu Hang left behind 20 million yuan, intending to use it as a resource for future development.
Once the alliance plan is approved, he will use all of these resources to cultivate production, management, and research talents, as well as to exchange for numerous factory, academy, and research institute buildings, to rapidly expand production in order to quickly reconstruct newly incorporated planets within the alliance's territory while dealing with high taxes.
He plans to use the majority of the remaining 100 million Blessing Points on what has always been the most costly Blessing Points: technology extraction.
The good news is that he has over 100 million Gift Points.
The bad news is that he has already emptied the million-dollar prize pool.
Although there's still a fairly good drop rate for technologies like Elite and Advanced. Even Epic technologies still have a decent drop rate.
However, these levels of technology offer limited improvement to the current Alliance. Even epic-level technology, while not entirely useless, would at best be considered icing on the cake.
Apocalyptic technology is the most crucial element.
Unfortunately, the probability of getting an Apocalypse-level item in the million-dollar price range is now less than one percent.
There's nothing more to say; we can only look up to the tens of millions.
The probability of a "heavenly revelation" level event in the tens of millions is 30%.
One hundred million Blessing Points can buy a full ten-pull.
Gu Hang is really looking forward to producing a top-notch product.
With eyes closed, he clicked repeatedly, and 100 million Blessing Points were consumed like flowing water.
The fourth time, an apocalyptic technology appeared.
[Apocalyptic Technology: Relic Technology]
After a careful examination, Gu Hang discovered that this was a technology category capable of manufacturing weapons known as 'holy relics'.
The value of the relics is still quite staggering. The Ordovician Spear and Shield wielded by Lou Salis are both relics. While he might be similar in combat strength to Martinus, these two pieces of equipment practically guarantee him a victory.
Marshal Leruwa of the Black Cross Army also played a crucial role in the Second Battle with his 'Holy Sword'. Without this sword, he probably wouldn't have been able to slay the overlord of the insect hive.
Without that victory, humanity would likely have had to pay a much higher price and spend far more time to achieve a breakthrough.
Even artifact-level equipment, weapons, and items can be helpful to Gu Hang. Any scepter or sword designed to enhance spiritual energy, even at Gu Hang's level, will receive a certain boost.
Although it's not much, it's quite remarkable that he can feel a clear improvement right now.
Relics are of immense help in enhancing elite combat capabilities.
However, after looking at the manufacturing requirements, Gu Hang felt they were quite demanding.
Generally speaking, for a normal sacred object to be formed, it not only requires top-notch materials and craftsmanship to create a top-notch weapon, but more importantly, it must go through a key event to make it an important part of a heroic deed or a grand scene.
For example, in a great battle that decides the fate of a galaxy, the enemy leader is slain; or a hero, wielding a sword, single-handedly drinks the blood of thousands of aliens on the battlefield, turning the tide of a crucial battle...
From then on, it possessed the basic conditions to become a 'sacred relic'.
But it's not quite there yet. It needs to be nurtured over a long period of hundreds of years, worn and used by important figures, and praised by millions of people, so that it can acquire a certain ritualistic and symbolic meaning.
Only after a long period of time will it be sublimated, becoming a symbol of belief, faith, and emotion, and transforming into a 'sacred object'.
In Gu Hang's view, it essentially symbolizes a weapon, or even transcends to leave a mark in the subspace, possessing the essence of the subspace. The attributes and effects of sacred objects are often mysteriously and directly related to the great event that forged it and people's impressions of it over the long years.
Producing it through a black box makes things much simpler.
No major events or a long period of nurturing are needed.
However, it's not like other finished black boxes of technology where having basic materials is enough.
Besides ordinary materials that can turn stone into gold, it also requires one more thing: the nature of subspace.
This thing can't be conjured up by a black box; you can't just put in some energy or random materials and make it happen.
But Gu Hang can do it.
His Storm Kingdom possesses secondary divine power within the warp. Slicing off a portion, while resulting in the loss of some of the kingdom's essence, preserves its true warp nature, which can be used to create sacred artifacts.
As for the losses, they will have to be recovered by consuming powerful psionic units or by allowing the divine kingdom to upgrade and repair itself over a long period of time.
Is it worth it?
It's still quite a good deal.
Even without telling others, just the fact that he crafted a sacred scepter to enhance his spiritual energy would bring a far greater increase in spiritual power than the loss of his divine essence.
Forging a holy sword for Martins would significantly boost his combat power.
Gu Hang will still try to build some.
However, the production speed is... also quite slow.
The finished black box can produce 'holy objects' at a rate of about one every two years. The shape is customizable; it can be a firearm, a sword, a battle axe, etc. But in general, the finished product will not be large, which means that in most cases, it can only be used as personal weaponry.
Although mass production was impossible due to the need to consume the subspace essence of the Storm God Kingdom, the low output of one artifact every two years still disappointed Gu Hang—his plan to wholesale holy relics when necessary had failed.
As for the mother machine black box... there isn't one. It's a design blueprint, meant to teach people how to manufacture and how to accelerate the formation of sacred objects through special rituals. Its significance lies in lowering the standards for major events, even allowing for the artificial creation of them using propaganda and public opinion; it can also reduce the subsequent nurturing time, which often lasts for hundreds of years, from one hundred years to fifty years.
Is it useful?
That will definitely be useful.
It's just rather useless.
Slightly relieved of his disappointment, Gu Hang continued to draw.