The Almighty Ring

Chapter 860: The Military’s Development

After briefly explaining his plan to the guild’s high-ranking members, Jiang Fei acquired a large number of ingredients from Rosette Rose. He planned to use the remaining time to focus on creating equipment.

Jiang Fei was not too concerned about earning the money needed for the ingredients. He had a bunch of recipes which allowed him to not only create high-tier equipment, but also several middle to low-tier equipment which could sell for a lot of money.

After all, Jiang Fei was able to create the best equipment in town. Even his failed attempts would result in equipment that were better than what other players could craft. It was known in Dawnlight that items produced by Jiang Fei would always sell out.

As crafting a large amount of equipment needed a lot of time, and Jiang Fei had opted to craft shields and heavy armor which consumed significantly more time, his crafting mission was very tiresome.

Jiang Fei had chosen these two types of equipment mainly because these were the most tempting to the other bigger guilds. Apart from Glorious Peak, only a few of the other guilds had been able to clear the Elite mode Dragon Nest dungeons. Even Glorious Peak was unable to clear the Light Dragon Nest dungeon.

The strength of a group’s tankers determined whether the group could clear the dungeon successfully. Therefore, equipment which greatly enhanced tankers’ capabilities were precious to these bigger guilds.

Jiang Fei spent the rest of the day in the blacksmith’s workshop. However, he was only able to craft a single Ancient grade shield after spending an entire day in the workshop. This was mainly because his recipes were not good enough.

When it was six o’clock in the morning, Jiang Fei logged out of the game.

“Ahh! I still need to craft equipment the next time I go online…” Jiang Fei sighed.

Just as Jiang Fei logged out of the game, Bai Wanli rushed over to his side.

“Brother Jiang, you have finally woken up!” Bai Wanli sounded very concerned.

“What happened?” Jiang Fei was stunned.

“Ahh! You have no idea! Last night, a group of backup soldiers arrived. They instantly commanded us to follow their orders. Naturally, we disagreed. We almost got into a fight!” Bai Wanli said unhappily. Although the Martial Art Alliance agreed to cooperate with the military, there was no way the arrogant martial artists would kneel to a bunch of androids.

“Eh?” Jiang Fei frowned. Were the Androids commanding the martial artists to obey them? That was not part of his agreement with the military.

“Come and have a look!” Bai Wanli pulled Jiang Fei along.

This was not the first time he came looking for Jiang Fei. In fact, he had sought for Jiang Fei’s help when the conflict had occurred the night before. However, Ariel and the group of female Bio-Humans had stopped him from doing so. Hong Yu and the rest only allowed Bai Wanli to approach Jiang Fei after Jiang Fei had logged out of the game.

“Alright! I’ll head over now!” Jiang Fei nodded. He wanted to know what was happening.

After arriving at the Planet Namek-inspired Bio-Experimental Laboratory, Jiang Fei discovered that the martial artists had all drawn their swords and were ready to fight against the Supreme Androids who had also bared their energy cannons.

“You must listen to our command!” One of the leading Supreme Androids said.

“Get lost. I don’t even know who you are. Why should we listen to you?” Zhu Tianfei snarled.

“According to my permit, you are all under my jurisdiction!” The Android said forcefully. It did not seem to care who it was talking to.

“Get lost! You and your military group have no rights to command me. If you infuriate me any further, you’ll have to look after this darned toy on your own!” Zhu Tianfei said as he pointed at the Bio-Experimental Laboratory.

“If you leave the battlefield without permission, you will be charged with treason. I have the right to punish you immediately!” The Android said.

“Darn you and your laws. I am going to tear you apart. Do you hear me?” Zhu Tianfei was a crude man. He was not going to tolerate the way the Android had just treated him.

“Damn! It’s heating up!” Jiang Fei frowned. He too realized how serious the issue had become.

“What exactly is going on?” Jiang Fei asked.

“Brother Jiang, you are finally here. If you came any later, I would have torn these metallic crap apart!” Zhu Tianfei seemed very angry. He would have fought against these Supreme Androids if it were not for Jiang Fei.

“What happened?” Jiang Fei asked with a frown.

“How am I supposed to know? These fellows started commanding us as soon as they arrived. What rights do they have?” Zhu Tianfei said as he glared.

“Who is your leader here?” Jiang Fei looked at the Androids.

“I am the Z8 special task force’s commander, Z8-001. I have been ordered to take charge of the commanding rights!” The Android at the front of the group said.

“Your commanding rights do not include the right to command the Martial Art Alliance. Martial artists do not belong to the military!” Jiang Fei said with a frown.

“I was told that I had been granted full commanding rights of the front-liners. If you refuse to accept my commands, I will have to eliminate with the basis of treason!” Z8-001 said.

“Eh?!” Jiang Fei frowned. Could the military have decided to go against the martial artists in advance? That was highly unlikely the case. Based on the current capabilities of these Supreme Androids, there was no way they could win against the Martial Art Alliance.

By then, although the second batch of backup soldiers had arrived, there were still less than 500 of these Supreme Androids. Despite being able to gravely injure the Martial Art Alliance, these androids would also face destruction. More importantly, the mutants were approaching fast at the current point of time. The Chinese military could not possibly be dumb enough to initiate an internal conflict.

“Captain, I have detected an odd signal!” Right then, 0541 said to Jiang Fei.

“What’s odd about it?” Jiang Fei immediately asked.

“I have detected free will in this Android!” 0541 answered.

“What does that mean?” Jiang Fei was stunned.

“Basically, this Android’s man-made soul has reached a very advanced stage. It is already close to the level of Hong Yu and the other Bio-Humans. Therefore, it has a certain level of independent thinking abilities. I believe it was only granted commanding rights over the Androids. However, it might have the intention of forcefully taking over the Martial Art Alliance through its threats. If the Martial Art Alliance refuses to oblige, I think it won’t initiate an attack due to its internal limitations.” 0541 explained.

“I see…” Jiang Fei nodded. It seemed that the military had managed to further develop their man-made souls. The man-made souls they used in the past all lacked free will and were more like soldiers in games with limited intelligence and very little independent thinking abilities. The Z8-001 which stood in front of Jiang Fei must be an exception with a certain level of intelligence.