My Cell Prison

Chapter 776: Chapter 776: Artisan Street
 

[Great Demon]

A particularly special regiment leader among the Thirteen Knight Orders.

Founder of the demon class, for more details, refer to the chapter of regiment leader in the section about the Knight Orders.

Based on his personal exploits, he is indeed the best choice as the leading figure in the Big Expedition… With the experience of the Great Demon Leader, the expeditionary army would get immense help in their deep penetration into the Old King’s Territory.

Of course.

The Great Demon Leader doesn’t hold all the power of the expeditionary army either.

Detailed distribution of positions is being formulated in full swing.

…

A week passed.

Han Dong woke up on a spacious round table of dark wood, a big puddle of drool which leaked out from him due to overexertion directly in front of him.

On his left lay three notebooks filled with notes, while on his right were various books relating to dark magic.

Some of these books were even limited to certain identities for borrowing, they were high-level books marked with the word “seal”.

Just as most knights who passed the assessment were queueing outside the church, accepting the holy baptism, or relaxing in various ways, Han Dong chose to immerse himself in the library.

Utilizing his special trait of Dark Knowledge, he deeply read a wide range of books.

However, Mia across from him at the round table accompanied him all along… even though it was as dry as reading books, she was delighted as long as she could stay with Nicholas.

Perhaps being influenced by Han Dong, Mia made progress from initially failing to focus on reading books to finally starting to read books about witchcraft, insects, etc., and gained a lot.

Just as Han Dong planned to borrow a whole new batch of books.

A librarian, who was made up of complete mechanical structures, abruptly approached their table.

He handed over an old bronze letter of considerable texture, with a wax seal carrying the insignia ‘cogs of different sizes’ printed on the surface.”

A mechanical voice echoed from his throat full of thin tubes and gears: “Valen. Nicholas, this is a letter from Mr. Newton for you, please finish reading it within ten minutes.”

“Thank you.”

Han Dong observed the fully mechanized administrator, conscious of the recent changes within the Knight’s Academy. About 20% of the staff had been replaced with mechanical administrators.

Other than 50% of brain tissue retained, all the other parts were replaced by metal. Han Dong couldn’t confirm whether their brains retained autonomy.

Concerning ‘Artificial Intelligence’, it was a rather controversial topic even in Han Dong’s previous world too.

He believed the parliament would keep a tight check on it, and it wasn’t necessary for him to worry.

Furthermore, according to Han Dong’s collaboration with the Steam Knight Order, the technology the Gold Master applied wasn’t a fully-fledged AI. It must have been based on the modification of human consciousness under certain constraints.

The content of the letter read:

“Mr. Nicholas, I heard you have successfully passed the screening and joined the expeditionary force, and I would like to congratulate you.

As our secret partner of the Steam Knight Order, you have provided very effective assistance in the area of life technology. You are especially invited to visit the rarely opened headquarters of the Steam Knight Order.

There will be a commissioner to receive you at the door, all you need to do is mention my name.

By the way, I have specially instructed the chief engineer of the Power Armor department to tailor make a set of Power Armor for you.”

After finishing the letter, Han Dong let out a sly laugh:

“Since when has Mr. Newton been so circuitous with his words? If there’s anything he needs my help with, why not just say it directly? Or is it that, whatever he needs help with is not suitable to be written in the letter?

Well, I’ve had a headache from reading too many books lately, it’d be good to go relax at the Steam Knights. All conversations concerning the experiments we had before were carried out externally.

Word has it that the headquarters of the Steam Knights is the largest among the thirteen Knight Orders, I’ve never been there officially.”

Just as Han Dong was about to stand up, due to her insect senses, Mia instantly woke up: “Dear, where are you going?”

“Um…Steam Knights.”

“Can you go in? That’s a high secret area of the Holy City, it is a secret area strictly guarded by the thirteen Knight Orders.”

Han Dong shook the letter in his hand, “I was invited, do you want to come?”

“Ah? Can I?”

“We can give it a try, if it really doesn’t work out, you can just head back to the Doomsday Knight Brigade.”

“Hehe, husband is the best.”

“Stop using that term indiscriminately.”

The reason Han Dong included Mia was,

firstly, she looked quite pitiful after following him around for so many days,

secondly, if Mia were by his side, for some problem situations it would be difficult to refuse, he could use her as an excuse.

Taking a ride on an orbiting railway departing from the Knight Academy, they arrived at a special street on the second floor – [Artisan Street].

Buildings were primarily made of heavy metals.

Around the place were big and small gear transmissions, different styles of boiler engines, and neatly arranged exhaust pipes and metal chimneys on the walls of the buildings.

Miniature railways were also set up in the relatively broad streets facilitating fast transportation along the entire Artisan Street.

A good deal of mechanical workshops was set up here.

Any young person with a bit of mechanical talent can try their luck here.

Various shops were also located on both sides of the streets, one can buy any kind of metallic handicraft as long as they can afford it…The most valuable were two things.

The first was steam technology infused automatic burst fire guns. Some residents, who had never entered the Fate Space and did not dare to, would purchase them at a high price.

After all, peculiar incidents would happen fairly often within Holy City.

Bullets with over 30% copper content were somewhat effective against the evil.

Although they might not be able to kill the evil, they could buy a good deal of time.

Moreover, loud gunfire could also attract the attention of patrolling personnel nearby.

The second was the Steam Prosthetic Limbs or simple exoskeleton devices.

Under such circumstances, not only people with missing limbs would suit up prosthetic limbs.

Some healthy young people would choose to cut off their feeble human arms and replace them with powerful steam power driven prosthetic limbs, in order to gain superhuman strength in advance.

They could even install flamethrowers, firearm structures, et cetera within the prosthetic limbs.

Such modification allowed one’s survival rate in their first Fate encounter to greatly increase.

Of course, the cost was quite hefty.

The initial Fate encounter Han Dong experienced was [Being Possessed].

Mister Edward in there was such a prosthetic limb modifier, his flamethrower together with the strength of the prosthetic limb, could even fight an ‘unfightable’ evil spirit head-on, and thereby manage to survive.

It’s a pity that he ended up in the same batch as Han Dong, otherwise, he might be a formal Knight now.

Mia also came here for the first time, holding Han Dong’s arm; they looked like a couple shopping at a walking street for the first time, looking around.

“Can we go to that shop to have a look?”

Mia pointed her finger at a shop named – [Charlie’s Clock Shop].

As Han Dong looked over there, it seemed he saw an acquaintance.

A man in the shop with a dangerously receding hairline immediately caught Han Dong’s attention, “Hmm!? Knight Charlie, what is he doing here?”