Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1153 The Power of Crab General

Crab General, Shangluo met Crab General that day.

Similar to the Roman phlogiston divers - especially the cyberized phlogiston divers - the so-called "Crab Generals" are a group of powerful warriors wrapped in shells.

Like the Phlogiston Submarines, the essence of these Crab Generals is in their shells. It doesn't matter if the outer shell is broken, as long as the essence is not damaged, the outer shell can be replaced at will.

This form was relatively obscure in the past phlogiston soldiers. It was usually manifested as resurrection with the help of a clone, but in fact, it was to make the body replaceable while the soul was immortal. Although there are many forms of expression, "the essence of the soul transcends the body" is the common feature of all phlogiston soldiers.

"Speaking of which." Shang Luo suddenly asked Apollonia while following the Dragon King, "I know that the essence of the phlogiston submersibles is the same. But their power manifests in different forms to me? What is the principle behind this?"

【Because it is a difference in physical strength. Although the essence is the same, the phlogiston soldiers of different systems drank the divine blood from different sources and transformed their bodies differently, so the power system is different. For example, the blood of the Hydra troops who can split themselves comes from the blood of the Titans. Compared with the divine blood of Olympus, they will show more changes in physical strength - of course, the previous differences are not important. The premise for blood to take effect is at least a physical body. After cyberization, the Romans have become the underworld in the full sense, and things like divine blood are irrelevant. 】

What Apollonia felt sorry for was that no matter what blood they drank before, everything would be the same after cyberization. After all, based on physical transformation, after the physical body no longer existed, no matter what kind of blood they drank before, everything would be the same now - and they didn't even need to drink blood before. It was not difficult for the Romans to preserve themselves spiritually, and it was even easier than becoming a qigong practitioner in the East. They just needed to become a magician.

The problem that Rome had difficulty overcoming was the perishable nature of the human body. All previous reforms had been done in various ways to improve the human body. However, after Rome chose this path, all previous efforts were wasted.

No matter what kind of phlogiston submersibles they were, after cyberization, they were all similar to the Crab Generals. They all used armor to restrain their souls, allowing them to appear in the sun, and moved like diving suits. The visual effect was even more like that of villains. If they were blown up, they would be teleported to cyberspace, leaving only equipment scattered all over the ground.

But no matter what, it is still a powerful force after all - but compared with the tens of thousands of similar forces in the Dragon Palace, even Rome pales in comparison.

[So I am very curious about how Ryugu managed to produce so many phlogiston submarines.]

"By the way, how many are there in Rome?"

[It was difficult to count in the past, because it was difficult to count the various troops blessed by supernatural powers into a unified whole. Now it is easier to count after cyberization - it has been cyberized, and the data obtained from Victoria is 482 people. ]

“So there are less than 500 people?”

【Yes. Although this number will eventually be around 1000, after all, many people have not entered Cyberlania. But compared with the scale of nearly people in the Dragon Palace, the strength of the Roman Empire is actually an order of magnitude behind. If the two sides are really exactly the same, then the prospects of the Roman Empire are extremely bleak. Monopolizing the resources of half of the earth, if it can't even beat the East China Sea, I don't know how Rome will deal with things like the Messiah, the invasion of the elves, the advent of the demon, or the rebellion of the automatons in the future.】"So you hope that the power of the Dragon Palace is at least limited? For example, it is very powerful in some aspects?"

[I don't hope so. Just because the Romans couldn't do it, we can't assume that the East China Sea can't do it either. That would be too arrogant. Although I don't dare to believe it, maybe the East China Sea really has a high-end combat capability that is an order of magnitude higher than Rome.]

——The facts confirmed Apollonia’s guess.

I saw with my own eyes the "crab generals" preparing to land. There were more than 500 crab generals gathered in the hangar of this ship alone.

Wearing black power armor, the Crab Generals come in a variety of styles. In addition to the heavy chassis with six legs, there are also more ordinary two-legged ones. Regardless of the number of legs, the structure of these Crab Generals is similar. They are all surrounded by an opaque glass ball like an aquarium, wrapped in black armor. The armor presents the minimum standard of "armor", with simple and smooth lines, without a trace of superfluous parts.

All of these crab generals have an appearance similar to "heavy diving suits", which is very similar to the phlogiston divers, and the same is true for the divers on submarines that Shangluo saw.

Depending on the species, these crabs also carry various types of light and heavy firearms as weapon platforms. As commandos, crabs usually have two legs, which are lighter than six-legged ones. They hold these easy-to-move medium-caliber firearms, which are direct-fire firearms between guns and cannons with a caliber of about 20 mm. It is not wrong to call them "handheld machine guns."

However, although they are more "filial" versions, these crabs are more than 2 meters tall, standing there like a wall. The six-legged ones are even closer to 3 meters tall, with the huge six legs supporting the body like a turret. In fact, they are faster and more flexible than the two-legged ones, and can even move sideways. It's just that because of their large size, Ryugu still retains the two-legged crabs for street fighting.

[It's over. They are really at the same level of combat power.] Apollonia felt despair. [All the extraordinary combat power of the entire Roman Empire is standing here, and there are about this number. In other words, the people standing in this hangar alone have surpassed the entire Roman Empire.]

"Victoria, did you see that?"

【She saw it. She didn't want to talk now. The past history of the Roman Empire seemed unimportant in the face of this order of magnitude gap. It seemed as if the Romans had been slacking off. You could say that the Roman Empire had many magicians and other combat forces, but the Roman Empire was half the size of the earth after all. Half the earth is not as big as the East China Sea. This is really... As a citizen, I feel sad about this. I wonder what the Romans were doing. Why can't the Romans solve the problems that the Dragon Palace can solve.】

"By the way, how did you tell at a glance that this was a battle of the same level?"

[Because no matter before or after cyberization, the problem that troubled Rome was always the same: the number of immortal bodies. ]

(End of this chapter)