Lord of the Sky City

Chapter 752: Chapter 715: Transformation Complete!

Due to the surprisingly peaceful surroundings, the demons had retreated under the floodwaters, and Orton, after completing the original upgrades and renovations, decisively chose to continue letting Thunderhawk City stay on the ground for further modifications.

In the past, even someone as eccentric and crazed as Orton would never dare to do such a thing, but this opportunity was too good and too rare to miss. Not just Orton, but even Rocky couldn’t resist, so they decided to let Thunderhawk City remain on the ground for a little longer.

During this time, Orton would further modify the city, with the main goal of building enough Magic Energy Conduction Systems inside the city to provide sufficient mana for arming the city. Although this work could be done in the air, it could be completed much faster on the ground. According to Orton’s estimate, what would take three months in the air could be smoothly accomplished in at most a month and a half on the ground.

Once this phase of the transformation was completed, the next step would be to produce and install the weapons for the armed city. This was naturally not something Rocky needed to worry about; it could be entirely entrusted to the Apple Tree Corporation. If the Corporation was unable to fulfill the task, they could look for suitable merchants in the Eternal City. In short, this was not a difficult matter.

As time swiftly passed by another half a month, the floodwaters by the lake had already receded. At first, the demons were sparse, but as time progressed, the demons that had retreated due to the flooding began to appear again along the riverbanks. Initially, they appeared in small numbers, but the size of their groups grew larger and larger. Naturally, the fleet led by Rocky did their best to reduce the demons’ numbers as much as possible, with battles occurring nearly every day.

However, the demons, after all, are demons; their numbers were simply too great. Once they found that the lakeshore was no longer covered by floodwaters, they became more numerous and ultimately swarmed in. Fortunately, it takes time for the number of demons to grow from a few to many, and it was during this time that Orton completed the modifications first, allowing Thunderhawk City to once again soar into the sky!

Thunderhawk City rose from the bottom of Red Water Lake back into the high skies. With that, this round of modification and upgrading was thoroughly complete, and it even exceeded expectations. Not only were the processes smooth, but they achieved more and were better.

After this round of modification and upgrading, Thunderhawk City also underwent significant changes.

Firstly, the city had gotten bigger.

The primary goal of this round of descent and upgrading was actually to scale up Thunderhawk City to the size of a medium Sky City. To accomplish this, the city itself had to expand. So, when Thunderhawk City flew back into the sky, the entire city was almost twice as large as before. The new soil absorbed from the lake bed was purified and solidified by mana, forming a solid foundation that made the city appear much larger from afar as well as up close.

Secondly, the city’s power system became stronger due to the replacement of the Super Crystals and the addition of runes.

In the past, Thunderhawk City was just an ordinary small Sky City, not much different from other small Sky Cities in the world, and possibly even inferior. But now, Thunderhawk City was using genuine large Super Crystals. Compared to the previous small Super Crystals, the large ones could provide the city with over ten times more mana. More importantly, while the large Super Crystals supplied mana, the Mana Runes would provide an almost equally immense amount of mana to the city.

This type of transformation was unprecedented among all Sky Cities and was something other Sky Cities simply could not achieve. Yet, Thunderhawk City had done it, and it was because of this transformation that the city’s internal performance had nearly surpassed all other Sky Cities except for the God Cities!

Under the support of an immense amount of mana, the flight speed of Thunderhawk City increased exponentially. This was critically important because everyone knew that despite being able to fly, the enormous structures like Sky Cities could not be fast. Many people had sought to solve this problem, but it remained unresolved.

In reality, making a Sky City fly faster wasn’t difficult; providing much more power to the Sky City could increase its flight speed. However, the issue was that with current technology, even the mana provided by large Super Crystals was limited and insufficient for high-speed flight. But this issue was resolved for Thunderhawk City.

During the past month’s transformation, Orton and the research team combined their efforts to create thousands of Level 5 Magic Energy Runes around the Super Crystals, supplying the city with an enormous amount of mana. A portion of this mana would be directed into the city’s power system to increase the flight speed of Thunderhawk City. From then on, Thunderhawk City’s flight speed might not match that of warships and Armor, but it would undoubtedly leave other Sky Cities far behind. It’s no exaggeration to say that if another city were to attempt to pursue Thunderhawk City, they wouldn’t stand a chance, no matter how hard they tried.

The enhancement of flight speed was just one of the many benefits gained by Thunderhawk City. With the support of far more mana than any other Sky City, Thunderhawk City’s defensive systems were also significantly strengthened.

Although Thunderhawk City could previously deploy a Defensive Net, its strength was only average, certainly unable to compare with those of medium and large Sky Cities. But now, with the support of mana, the strength of Thunderhawk City’s Defensive Net had dramatically increased.

Years ago, when Thunderhawk City faced an assault by Wild Horse City, its Defensive Net was nearly breached, forcing Rocky to join the Sky Alliance for protection. But the same situation was unlikely to happen again now. With mana support, the strength of Thunderhawk City’s Defensive Net could compete with that of large Sky Cities and might even be a bit stronger if one were to scrutinize the numbers. This meant that even if besieged again, Thunderhawk City would have significant self-defense capabilities, something that other small and medium Sky Cities simply could not accomplish.

Lastly, and most importantly, during this past month of modifications and upgrades, Orton had nearly completed all the preliminary preparations for the City Armament Plan. These preparations had equipped Thunderhawk City with the necessary conditions to install more weapons. So the next thing to do was to proceed with the actual weapon installation on Thunderhawk City.

Of course, this task couldn’t possibly be completed in one day, as the weapons needed by the city were all massive, and Thunderhawk City itself definitely couldn’t produce them. In fact, these weapons were unique, with some existing only in Orton’s concept. This aspect truly required time and care.

However, Rocky also knew that he didn’t have much time left and needed to start preparations right away. Because when Thunderhawk City took to the skies once more, and Rocky finally ended his long month-long patrol duty, Athena came to see him.