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Chapter 1268: The Hope of Revival (It’s still light at o’clock, the summer is so long)

After getting the two magic mounts, Duanmu Huai left with satisfaction. On the other side, the open space behind the Stormwind Auction House was now tightly sealed off.

"Is this the mecha that the adventurer took out?"

Varian stared at the four-meter-tall mecha in front of him with a serious expression, while the dwarf merchant stood beside him, not daring to breathe.

Duanmu Huai didn't know that the real manipulator of the deal was actually the royal family. In fact, when they came to the auction house, the MI7 had been sending people to keep an eye on them. After Duanmu Huai and the dwarf merchant failed to make a deal, the MI7 agents immediately found the dwarf merchant to inquire about the situation.

After learning that the other party was willing to barter because he had no money, the Military Intelligence Department immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to investigate the other party's wealth. So they asked the dwarf merchant to negotiate with Duanmu Huai again to see what they could get in exchange.

Of course, the melta bomb is not a good idea. It is too powerful and it would be difficult to find a place to put it. In the end, the agent proposed a limitation that it has no military use.

As for the money for the two magic mounts, it would naturally be paid through the royal family's public account.

So on the surface Duanmu Huai was trading with the dwarf merchants, but in fact he was doing business with the royal family.

Well, of course Duanmu Huai himself doesn’t care. All he has to do is get these two magic mounts.

But Varian had a lot more to consider.

"How to use this thing?"

It's not that Varian had never seen a mecha before. After all, the dwarves are the best at engineering and have made similar things. But this mecha is completely different from what Varian has seen before, which makes him a little curious. Fortunately, there is an instruction manual in Duanmu Huai's mecha, and most dwarves are proficient in engineering. Even if they don't understand the text, they can guess a little bit by gesturing at the pattern on it.

Hearing Varian's question, the dwarf merchant hurried forward and pressed a button. Then he saw the hatch at the rear of the mecha open, revealing a space large enough for one person to stand.

The original Knight Mech was not set up like this. In the Human Empire era, the Knight Mech needed to be controlled through the Mechanical Throne. In order to operate the Mechanical Throne, the connection line of the Mechanical Throne must be inserted into the neural interface of the driver's brain and cerebellum through surgery.

Just thinking about it, you can tell how troublesome this method of operation is. This is also the reason why Duanmu Huai has never been very interested in the Knight Mecha and Titan.

This did not change until Duanmu Huai obtained the sound and light control system of Gangbusta in the world of mobile suits.

The control method of the Gunbasta is very simple and clear. To put it simply, it is a cylindrical control platform, and the driver can synchronize with the mecha as long as he stands inside. In other words, whatever action the driver makes inside, the mecha outside will make the same action.

  Isn't this better than the Mechanical Throne?

After that, Duanmu Huai replaced all the mechas of the Inquisition, including the Knight mechas and Titans, with the sound and light synchronization control platform of Gangbusta. In this way, he only needed to put a puppet in the control platform to activate the mecha and launch an attack.

And since the puppet comes from Duanmu Huai's soul card, there is no need to worry about it being contaminated and invaded by electronic demons like intelligent AI.

In fact, in order to guard against treacherous tricks and electronic demons, all the mechanical devices of the Inquisition are strictly speaking artificial. However, Duanmu Huai does not have so many imperial soldiers, so he can only use puppets instead. Of course, most of the time, the puppets only need to do some basic work.

It was precisely because of this that Duanmu Huai took out this knight mecha for a trade. Anyway, all the equipment of the Inquisition that he had modified was almost all manually operated. As long as the Storm Kingdom could find enough manpower, even a destroyer could fly.

Of course, Duanmu Huai would not give him a destroyer. Knight mechas were also often used to "maintain law and order" on many medieval civilization planets during the Human Empire period. Some planets even had a large number of medieval cavalry, with a few knight mechas in front to keep the peace.

If a college student traveled to the Knight Planet during the Human Empire era, and saw that he was surrounded by unscrupulous medieval nobles oppressing the poor, he would rise up and lead the rebels to the gate of the lord with his life-long knowledge, ready to give the other party a little shock of modern civilization, but he saw a knight mecha walking out of the gate of the other party's castle...

Wow, the painting is so beautiful that it’s hard not to look at it.

So Duanmu Huai doesn't care if this thing is placed in Azeroth.

Okay, back to the topic.

After the dwarf merchant briefly introduced the operation method, a knight loyal to the royal family took the initiative to step forward to act as the operator. Varian and others stepped back a few steps, watching the knight walk into the cockpit, and then the hatch slowly closed. After a moment, everyone saw the eyes of the mecha suddenly light up, and then stood up directly.

Then the mech turned and looked at Varian.

"His Majesty."

"How does it feel?"

"Very convenient, Your Majesty."

The knight operating the mecha sounded very surprised.

"As long as I make a move inside, it can be completely synchronized with the mecha outside."

"Really?"

Varian's eyes lit up when he heard the knight's report.

"Give it a try." The next experiment naturally couldn't be done behind the Stormwind auction house. Fortunately, SI:7 was no pushover, and soon they brought the mech to a secret location nearby. Then the knight controlled the mech and began a series of experiments under Varian's watchful eyes.

Of course, because Duanmu Huai was lazy and did not install long-range weapons on the knight mecha, now this knight mecha can only use the chainsword and flamethrower.

But even so, the combat effectiveness displayed by this knight mecha still shocked Varian.

Its chainsaw sword could easily split the thick walls of Stormwind City, and the flames it emitted not only had a wide range, but even melted the stones completely. Varian even ordered his men to bring heavy armor and large shields, but the latter were directly melted into a pool of molten iron by the flames it emitted.

"He said it was for felling wood?"

Looking at the red molten iron and the broken stone wall in front of him, Varian's expression was quite interesting, while Mathias, Reginald and others standing beside him were also speechless.

Strictly speaking, this thing can indeed be used to cut down trees, and it is more efficient than an ordinary lumberyard.

"Does the Inquisition have this kind of mecha?"

Varian turned to look at Mathias, who shook his head.

"I saw some tall warriors wearing heavy armor, but I didn't see this kind of mecha."

Since this thing can only be controlled by puppets, and puppets cannot perform complex tasks, Duanmu Huai's Inquisition generally does not use Knight Mechs to assist Titans. After all, puppets have limited reaction capabilities. They are OK for controlling heavy fortresses with high firepower like Titans, but it is more cost-effective to use them as individual soldiers on the Night Guard.

“But their logos are the same.”

Without Mathias's telling, everyone saw the skull pattern on the mecha—well, if they didn't know about the Inquisition, they would have thought it was a symbol of some undead.

After all, who in their right mind would use a skull as a symbol?

But after reading the court manual, everyone was able to understand this approach.

"So that adventurer is indeed from the Inquisition. Are they here to gather intelligence?"

"I can't tell at all."

Mathias shook his head helplessly. The MI7 agents had been watching them for quite some time, and found that these people were just eating, drinking, having fun, and strolling around the market, just like tourists. He also suspected that the other party was deliberately paralyzing him, so he ordered his men to tighten their nerves and make sure to investigate thoroughly.

In the end, after being so tense for a while, I realized...well, they are just here to have fun.

"Either way, this is an opportunity for us."

  Varian stared at the mech in front of him with excitement. Although most of this mech was still unknown, at least from its performance, a knight mech was almost comparable to an elite troop!

Stormwind Kingdom is not peaceful right now, especially the threats from the ogres and trolls in the south still exist, plus the civil strife caused by Onyxia and the covetous eyes of the Horde army, which make Varian very nervous. He is now eager to enhance the combat effectiveness of Stormwind Kingdom.

Not to mention the Dark Portal...

The appearance of the knight mecha gave Varian a glimmer of hope.

After the court wizard confirmed that this was not a magical creation but a purely mechanical product, Varian immediately became interested.

  Since Duanmu Huai can take out such things at will, does that mean... the Tribunal has more of these mechas that need to be dealt with?

Apart from anything else, as long as they can buy a hundred or so knight mechas, the combat effectiveness of the Storm Kingdom will be improved by leaps and bounds!

After all, real war is not a game, where players can just click the mouse and soldiers can fight to the death and not retreat until the last man standing.

But in reality, when you witness your companions being burned to death in raging flames or torn to pieces by a huge chainsaw sword, and the opponent is an indestructible steel mecha, the blow to morale is devastating.

"Mathias."

Thinking of this, Varian made a decision and looked at the head of MI7 again.

"It seems that we need to send a delegation to the Inquisition to have a detailed discussion with them."

"That's not a problem, but here..."

"Let them be."

Varian thought about it and finally made a decision.

"Let the court mage open the portal directly and send them to Silithus. No matter what they want to do, at least it has nothing to do with us."

  In Varian's opinion, at this stage, it is a good choice to build a good relationship with the mysterious force of the Inquisition. In this case, he will naturally not provoke Duanmu Huai. Besides, Silithus is far away in Kalimdor. Even if Duanmu Huai provokes something there, it will not affect Stormwind City across the sea, right?

Not to mention, Varian now has a new goal in his heart.

Make Stormwind great again!