The Martial Unity

Chapter 3674: Nibbling At The Edges

Deep within the depths of Greater Tekvoria, a large subterranean manufacturing plant hummed as its invintium fabricators crafted large plates of armor that spanned nearly five kilometers in length. As the armor plate began passing through the assembly lines and the various automated work stations, several dwarves crafted large, yet complex internal components, integrating within the giant armor plate as the construct increasingly began taking shape.

It was a submarine.

It was a new class of aquatic war machines that NOVA had personally designed and had enslaved dwarven craftsmen to craft to harness the Path of Creation in her constructs.

Typhon-class destroyer submarines.

These were submarines designed for maximal war underwater to inflict massive damage on sea monsters and keep them busy.

Alongside them were smaller crafts that were designed for a different, more humble purpose: to collect negatron matter remotely and from afar without needing to be anywhere near the sea monsters and beasts of the oceans.

RUMBLE!

The giant aquatic war machines were dumped into the oceans surrounding the Continent of Acherialis, to be quality tested before being deployed to the Great Void Ocean right away.

The very moment it had become clear that the True World War, as it had come to be known, was going to become a protracted conflict between two halves of Gaian civilization, NOVA had immediately begun deploying its tremendous cognition towards innovating in aquatic warfare.

It wasn’t that she invented brand-new technologies that had never been invented before, no. It was that she, and many others among the enemies of the Panamic Alliance, had begun investing tremendously into aquatic warfare over the past two months, deploying existing technologies to benefit this purpose to the very maximum.

In the past, the civilizations of the true world had not kept up their aquatic warfare on par with the surface, aerial, or space warfare technology. After all, it didn’t make sense to invest resources and capital into warfare in a medium that saw very little warfare.

Particularly so for aquatic warfare tens of thousands of kilometers below sea level. Not a single damn person fought a war at those depths, so what the hell was even the point in developing these technologies?

It was why the sea monsters of the Great Nam Ocean were able to utterly dominate the entire world’s aquatic forces at those depths when Rui led them to war in the Great Void Ocean. It wasn’t that the true world was weak; it was that they had reserved most of their resources for surface, aerial, and space warfare.

That had changed in just the span of two months.

Mining, logistical, transport, and research spacecraft were called from outer space while outposts on distant planets designed to search for resources were returned to Gaia and stripped of their valuable resources, which were then redirected towards constructing a powerful aquatic warfare capital.

All civilizations, including the Panamic Alliance, raced to create powerful aquatic war machines. The Panamic Alliance knew that the sea monsters would not win against the entire true world, blasting them with cutting-edge oceanic war machines, and they went all out themselves, constructing their own brand of submarines, a project led by none other than Princess Ranea.

She had sponsored the first Kandrian submarine many decades during the Kandrian Throne War, making the Emperor of Harmony entrust her with this duty and a tremendous budget while he busied himself with the war for allies.

The Marinaera Kingdom experienced a large surge in bargaining power and influence as its specialty became exactly what the Martial Artists of the Panama Continent needed. Its Martial Sages were the saving grace and were among the only pathwalkers’ forces that the Panamic Alliance had that could perform at their full power at those depths.

Yet, despite that, it was not easy to hold off the war machines of the true world that increasingly challenged the sea monsters directly without flinching.

RUMBLE!!!

A large fleet of typhon-class destroyer submarines, followed by an even larger fleet of remote mining crafts, surged straight towards the Great Void Ocean at great depths, completely drowned in darkness.

”Sir,” one tekvore crewmate reported. ”Our sensors have picked up distant lava veins sprawled across the ocean floor. We have reached the mining site!”

”Large mass movements detected!”

”SONAR has detected a large number of sea monsters charging in our direction!”

The tekvore captain sharpened his eyes. ”Commence aquatic siege! For NOVA!”

”For NOVA!”

BOOOOOM BOOOOOM BOOOOOM BOOOOOM BOOOOOM!

The destructive sieges battered the sea monsters as the sea monsters retaliated with powerful blows themselves. The two sides ravaged each other as several sea monsters and ships fell in the very first exchange of attacks.

”Commencing remote negatron extract systems!”

The mining crafts that hid behind the powerful typhon-class began extracting negatron from the ocean cracks at an alarming rate! NOVA had innovated a unique remote negatron extraction system that could rely on the strange properties of negatron matter to draw them out.

Because they had negative mass and energy, applying force on them had the opposite effect than it did on normal matter. If one pushed them forward, they would go backwards!

This, along with some other strange properties regarding their inertia, allowed one to rapidly extract and purify them simultaneously in ways that would be simply impossible for regular minerals.

VMMM!

Like a suction force, the mining crafts just barely managed to extract some negatron matter for a few before they were firmly interrupted by reinforcements.

BOOOOOM BOOOOOM BOOOOOM BOOOOOM!!!

”Sir! A fleet of Sage-level submarines from the Panamic Alliance had laid siege upon our mining crafts!”

”Retreat!” the captain barked. ”We got our hands on just a little bit of negatron matter. We must send that back home to her Imperial Majesty before we try again.”

Greater Tekvoria, along with the other enemies of the Panamic Alliance, had been limited to nibbling around the edges of the Great Void Ocean, barely managing to extract some negatron matter before they were thoroughly beaten back.

It was humiliating, but this was the only way that they could ensure that they got their hands on at least a little bit of negatron matter.