Raine didn't want to go out with a bare small carrier. The enemy had hundreds of ships in their fleet, and he would be shot down even if he was strong.
The speed of the carrier was slower than before... This was probably the first time in upgrade history that a ship's speed had regressed.
Flexibility had also been reduced. When facing encirclement, it would become an easy target.
"Okay, it looks like we need to make some money!"
As he spoke, a group of crew members rowed over on a small boat from the shipyard.
"Captain, you're so unfair! You didn't even bring us over!" Fancy grumbled.
Raine helplessly said, "If you were on the old ship, I could have brought you over. But how can I bring you over if you're on land?"
Raine's explanation was ignored, and the group of people began to wander around the spacious deck.
Although the length of the new carrier was only 50 meters longer than the optimized Yamato, and the width was only 12-13 meters wide, the carrier deck was very clean, and all the weapons had been moved to the side of the ship, making the deck surprisingly spacious.
"Is this a runway for planes?! And there are parking spots! But where are our planes?"
"Captain, where is this ship strong?"
Faced with everyone's questions, Raine could only explain the current situation and said, "The situation is like this. We need to find a way to make more money and form a carrier formation."
Avril thought for a moment and said, "Captain, this upgrade has used up all our savings. If we want to make money, we have to go out."
Raine also knew that they didn't have any money now. He had calculated the cost of building the carrier, and there was no surplus.
"Well, it looks like we can't rush things," Raine shook his head. The system didn't even tell him that after the upgrade, he had to raise money to form a carrier formation.
"Oh, right, Captain, since we're going to stay here for a while, let's just occupy Java Island, Eastern Dawn Island, and Misty Island first, and collect some tolls or something," Shobe suggested.
Raine thought for a moment and said, "I guess that's our only option for now."
On that day, Raine first occupied the Governor's Mansion on Eastern Dawn Island and then announced the takeover of the three islands.
The local residents did not dare to have any objections. These people had occupied the shipyard for some time, and they had not seen the Terror King Fleet. Although they had doubts in their hearts, they did not dare to question them.
The people in the King-class sea areas seemed to have little reaction to the change of ownership of the islands, perhaps because they had experienced it many before.
Anyway, Raine was now the governor of the four islands in the Eastern Dawn, with East Sulphur Island already sunk, leaving him in charge of three islands.
"What's going on? Why are the residents not reacting at all?" Raine returned to the shipyard bored.
"Captain, there are no armed forces on the island anymore. Without opposition from armed forces, who among the residents would dare to speak out?" Shobe said.
"Yeah, do you think they would fight us for the Terror King? They want Charles died as much as we do," Trueking also said.
This coup seemed to be somewhat eventful, but Raine did not care whether there were opposition forces quietly forming. He wouldn't be staying here for long anyway.
The plan to build a carrier fleet was not urgent, but strengthening the crew was something that could not be delayed.
The secret room was still in the captain's room, but now the system had redesigned it.
The current secret room was a hexagon with a central room containing pearls and fire Heaven Crystals, and six surrounding rooms, one of which contained a strange bird egg, and the other five were empty.
"Well? System, why did you create so many rooms?"
The system did not respond...
Raine was speechless. It seemed that when he received the achievement reward last time, the artificial intelligence system appeared again, but it quickly disappeared. Now this system was an emotionless machine.
He had to check it himself.
"Check the status of the Heaven Crystals."
[Fire Heaven Crystal Status.]
[Energy Stability System: Normal]
[Energy Extraction Function: Stable]
[Flame Shield (Level 2): Defense 50,000, Duration 120 seconds.]
[Flame Shield (Level 3): Research progress 0%, requires the next level ship technology.]
[Mutation Enhancement (Level 2): Can simultaneously affect 6 units.]
[Mutation Enhancement (level 3): Research progress 0%, requires the next level ship technology.]
[Flame Spray (Level 1): Research completed, requires Flame Spray Tower.]
[Nuclear Power (Level 1): Research completed.]
"What the fuck, you secretly completed so many research projects?!" Raine exclaimed in shock.
It was really shocking to see it now that the data representation of Heaven Crystal's ability was not only available but also upgraded after the ship's upgrade!
"So, does that mean I can enhance five crew members at once?!" Raine suddenly felt excited. It was too inefficient to enhance them one by one before.
"By the way, replace the power system of my ship with a nuclear power system!"
[No available equipment found. Please purchase or manufacture the corresponding equipment. Click the nuclear power division menu to view.]
Raine immediately clicked on the nuclear power option and found that he had never heard of the required equipment. As for buying it directly on the island, it was even more impossible.
To make it himself, Raine calculated that he would need at least 500,000 gold pearls...
He then opened the Flame Spray Tower and found that it required a large number of rare metals, which Raine was powerless to obtain.
"Damn it, what I lack now is money! Forget it, 35 knots is 35 knots. Let's first work on the aircraft carrier formation."
Although he couldn't use the Flame Spray Tower or nuclear power for now, the strengthening of the defense shield and the increase in mutated enhanced personnel had already exceeded Raine's expectations.
He immediately called the crew members over.
"Anyone else wants to enhance their fire attribute? Sign up yourself!"
This time, surprisingly, nobody was enthusiastic about signing up. Raine was a little surprised and looked at Onebear. "Onebear, don't you want the fire attribute?"
"Captain, I do want it, but...I have been hesitating for a while. Should I choose the fire attribute or the earth attribute... I heard that the Earth Heaven Crystal can enhance defense power significantly. Twobear and I are not agile enough, so it's better to increase defense rather than fire damage."
"Yes, Captain. The mysterious stone in the King-class sea area, I think it's very likely to be the Earth Heaven Crystal. So Onebear and I are considering waiting for it."
Raine pondered for a moment and realized that it made sense. Onebear and Twobear were not Trueking, and their agility was not high enough to easily land hits on enemies.
"Well, that works too. And Truequeen, what about you?"
"Captain, my brother is already a fire attribute. I want to see if there are other attributes available so that we won't have such a single attribute in the future."
"That's a good point too!" Raine was surprised to see that his crew had become so insightful and were thinking more than he was.
"Avril, what about you?"
"Captain, I can't fight, so this fire attribute is useless for me. I want to see if there's a chance to wait for the wood attribute, which might help with my healing abilities."
Charge King, Windbell, and Arsan were all aquatic creatures mutation, and Raine's primary mutation was the Scaly Dragon, which was not suitable. Armin was an air unit, and it was unknown whether this fire element would help her.
Should he send an ordinary crew member instead?
Raine thought for a moment, then suddenly looked at a person in the crowd who had been keeping their head down. "Hey, Tik, you go!"
"Huh?" Tik was surprised and raised his head.
"Yes, this time it's you, White, Tiger King, and two more crew members. Don't worry, I can guarantee your safety. Give it a try!"
Raine didn't want to go out with a bare small carrier. The enemy had hundreds of ships in their fleet, and he would be shot down even if he was strong.
The speed of the carrier was slower than before... This was probably the first time in upgrade history that a ship's speed had regressed.
Flexibility had also been reduced. When facing encirclement, it would become an easy target.
"Okay, it looks like we need to make some money!"
As he spoke, a group of crew members rowed over on a small boat from the shipyard.
"Captain, you're so unfair! You didn't even bring us over!" Fancy grumbled.
Raine helplessly said, "If you were on the old ship, I could have brought you over. But how can I bring you over if you're on land?"
Raine's explanation was ignored, and the group of people began to wander around the spacious deck.
Although the length of the new carrier was only 50 meters longer than the optimized Yamato, and the width was only 12-13 meters wide, the carrier deck was very clean, and all the weapons had been moved to the side of the ship, making the deck surprisingly spacious.
"Is this a runway for planes?! And there are parking spots! But where are our planes?"
"Captain, where is this ship strong?"
Faced with everyone's questions, Raine could only explain the current situation and said, "The situation is like this. We need to find a way to make more money and form a carrier formation."
Avril thought for a moment and said, "Captain, this upgrade has used up all our savings. If we want to make money, we have to go out."
Raine also knew that they didn't have any money now. He had calculated the cost of building the carrier, and there was no surplus.
"Well, it looks like we can't rush things," Raine shook his head. The system didn't even tell him that after the upgrade, he had to raise money to form a carrier formation.
"Oh, right, Captain, since we're going to stay here for a while, let's just occupy Java Island, Eastern Dawn Island, and Misty Island first, and collect some tolls or something," Shobe suggested.
Raine thought for a moment and said, "I guess that's our only option for now."
On that day, Raine first occupied the Governor's Mansion on Eastern Dawn Island and then announced the takeover of the three islands.
The local residents did not dare to have any objections. These people had occupied the shipyard for some time, and they had not seen the Terror King Fleet. Although they had doubts in their hearts, they did not dare to question them.
The people in the King-class sea areas seemed to have little reaction to the change of ownership of the islands, perhaps because they had experienced it many before.
Anyway, Raine was now the governor of the four islands in the Eastern Dawn, with East Sulphur Island already sunk, leaving him in charge of three islands.
"What's going on? Why are the residents not reacting at all?" Raine returned to the shipyard bored.
"Captain, there are no armed forces on the island anymore. Without opposition from armed forces, who among the residents would dare to speak out?" Shobe said.
"Yeah, do you think they would fight us for the Terror King? They want Charles died as much as we do," Trueking also said.
This coup seemed to be somewhat eventful, but Raine did not care whether there were opposition forces quietly forming. He wouldn't be staying here for long anyway.
The plan to build a carrier fleet was not urgent, but strengthening the crew was something that could not be delayed.
The secret room was still in the captain's room, but now the system had redesigned it.
The current secret room was a hexagon with a central room containing pearls and fire Heaven Crystals, and six surrounding rooms, one of which contained a strange bird egg, and the other five were empty.
"Well? System, why did you create so many rooms?"
The system did not respond...
Raine was speechless. It seemed that when he received the achievement reward last time, the artificial intelligence system appeared again, but it quickly disappeared. Now this system was an emotionless machine.
He had to check it himself.
"Check the status of the Heaven Crystals."
[Fire Heaven Crystal Status.]
[Energy Stability System: Normal]
[Energy Extraction Function: Stable]
[Flame Shield (Level 2): Defense 50,000, Duration 120 seconds.]
[Flame Shield (Level 3): Research progress 0%, requires the next level ship technology.]
[Mutation Enhancement (Level 2): Can simultaneously affect 6 units.]
[Mutation Enhancement (level 3): Research progress 0%, requires the next level ship technology.]
[Flame Spray (Level 1): Research completed, requires Flame Spray Tower.]
[Nuclear Power (Level 1): Research completed.]
"What the fuck, you secretly completed so many research projects?!" Raine exclaimed in shock.
It was really shocking to see it now that the data representation of Heaven Crystal's ability was not only available but also upgraded after the ship's upgrade!
"So, does that mean I can enhance five crew members at once?!" Raine suddenly felt excited. It was too inefficient to enhance them one by one before.
"By the way, replace the power system of my ship with a nuclear power system!"
[No available equipment found. Please purchase or manufacture the corresponding equipment. Click the nuclear power division menu to view.]
Raine immediately clicked on the nuclear power option and found that he had never heard of the required equipment. As for buying it directly on the island, it was even more impossible.
To make it himself, Raine calculated that he would need at least 500,000 gold pearls...
He then opened the Flame Spray Tower and found that it required a large number of rare metals, which Raine was powerless to obtain.
"Damn it, what I lack now is money! Forget it, 35 knots is 35 knots. Let's first work on the aircraft carrier formation."
Although he couldn't use the Flame Spray Tower or nuclear power for now, the strengthening of the defense shield and the increase in mutated enhanced personnel had already exceeded Raine's expectations.
He immediately called the crew members over.
"Anyone else wants to enhance their fire attribute? Sign up yourself!"
This time, surprisingly, nobody was enthusiastic about signing up. Raine was a little surprised and looked at Onebear. "Onebear, don't you want the fire attribute?"
"Captain, I do want it, but...I have been hesitating for a while. Should I choose the fire attribute or the earth attribute... I heard that the Earth Heaven Crystal can enhance defense power significantly. Twobear and I are not agile enough, so it's better to increase defense rather than fire damage."
"Yes, Captain. The mysterious stone in the King-class sea area, I think it's very likely to be the Earth Heaven Crystal. So Onebear and I are considering waiting for it."
Raine pondered for a moment and realized that it made sense. Onebear and Twobear were not Trueking, and their agility was not high enough to easily land hits on enemies.
"Well, that works too. And Truequeen, what about you?"
"Captain, my brother is already a fire attribute. I want to see if there are other attributes available so that we won't have such a single attribute in the future."
"That's a good point too!" Raine was surprised to see that his crew had become so insightful and were thinking more than he was.
"Avril, what about you?"
"Captain, I can't fight, so this fire attribute is useless for me. I want to see if there's a chance to wait for the wood attribute, which might help with my healing abilities."
Charge King, Windbell, and Arsan were all aquatic creatures mutation, and Raine's primary mutation was the Scaly Dragon, which was not suitable. Armin was an air unit, and it was unknown whether this fire element would help her.
Should he send an ordinary crew member instead?
Raine thought for a moment, then suddenly looked at a person in the crowd who had been keeping their head down. "Hey, Tik, you go!"
"Huh?" Tik was surprised and raised his head.
"Yes, this time it's you, White, Tiger King, and two more crew members. Don't worry, I can guarantee your safety. Give it a try!"
