Nearly 12,000 freshly baked hybrid golems.

They are positioned in order of emphasis.

1. Engineering coolies.

2. Patrol scouts.

3. War cannon fodder.

Kane acted, bringing with him three thousand golems. The rest will eventually be withdrawn to the newly built Sand Sea stronghold, further establishing it as a strategic fulcrum for the First Order on Gradius.

Its only peculiarity is that since all hybrid golems are equivalent to experiments, they do not interact too often with other combat units of the First Order, but operate independently.

Through this round of experiments, Kane has gained something, but he himself is not very satisfied.

At the same time, he also realized that environmental factors were an indispensable focus if he wanted to achieve satisfactory results in this area. To put it bluntly, he'd have to take the research experiments to the subspace.

So he planned to put this project back for a while, and his divine intuition told him that the opportunity to enter subspace had not yet come.

Kane arrived at his destination with the puppet warband through a directional jump projection.

It's a valley-like oasis with translucent walls of wind that create a barrier that minimizes its exposure to outside influences.

Kane only glanced around a few times before losing interest. The environment here is naturally formed, and there is no creation that can provide the information he wants.

Even the archaic-looking buildings at the end of the valley didn't look much in his eyes.

According to his analysis, this building should have been built by the servants of the ancient saints, and as for where the servants went, he deduced that most of them had died out.

In the eyes of most of the existing intelligent beings in this universe, the ancient saint clan is synonymous with superiority, and some races even simply call them the celestial god clan.

But in Kane's eyes, the Old Saints were nothing more than that.

Not to mention the great activity of the subspace storm and the birth of the evil god that they single-handedly promoted, it is just that their creation experiments are all criticism.

Before the Orcs and Eldari were created, the Old Saints worked tirelessly as a civilization booster for many years. Many races are grateful to the Ancient Saints for this, after all, without the Ancient Saints, even if they do not perish in ignorance, it will take a long, long time to embark on the road of civilization.

But just like Sarnaga did in the SC universe, helping a population quickly improve its civilization level is actually a matter of pulling out seedlings and helping them grow.

A lot of experience can only be gained by trying it out yourself, or even repeating it.

And if a population reaches a higher level of civilization too early and too smoothly, it is like a child playing with a gun, and there is a high probability of accidents.

Looking at the operations of the Ancient Saints from a darker perspective, they achieved their fundamental purpose by 'helping others', collecting enough information and data to lay the foundation for the creation of the Orcs and Eldarins, but what about the races that were fueled by the seedlings?

None of them have survived to this day, more complete than the mass extinction of species during the Earth's previous ice ages.

Some people will say that the star god played a very bad role. Crazy harvesting of life.

Yes, but the star gods are counting on repeated harvests, so they instinctively do not engage in extermination, but harvest wherever the crops are vigorous. The spawning water of the ancient saint clan is sprinkled everywhere, after all, they need the diversity of species to repeatedly verify some theories.

All in all, whether or not the Ancient Saints are aware of the harm they have caused to the species of this universe, the life population that passes through their hands has such and such fatal problems.

Kane was completely uninterested in this kind of intelligent life, or even the civilization it founded, and even felt that studying too much would risk being led astray.

With a wave of his hand, Kane took on the role of an engineering coolie and demolished the building in the valley.

The technique is similar to that of the Circle of Wonderland's famous fossils of clay, but the Hybrid Golems take it a step further and simply turn into finer particles of powder, which are blown away by the wind.

The operation of the hybrid golems reflects Kane's exploration ideas.

Most people spend a lot of time exploring the grass with their faces, solving puzzles, and fighting wits and monsters with various mechanisms.

He gave full play to the advantages of his own strong productivity to carry out a demolition exploration.

He didn't lack that time, not to mention that the demolition style was not necessarily the inefficient and slow one.

After the surface structure was demolished, the underground part began.

The specific operation, in fact, is not much different from the demolition of surface buildings, and the main difficulty is nothing more than the transfer of earthwork, and the establishment of a teleportation circle is enough.

The Mixed Golems even played the usual characteristics of the First Order under the guidance of Miranda, and used the materials that were dismantled, and soon set up camp.

Kane just needs to stay in his room, drink tea, look at the papers, and wait.

This kind of dungeon exploration is obviously boring and boring, and most of the mechanisms have been destroyed before they can play their role. And those well-prepared defensive units, because of the loss of geographical advantages, were in a disadvantaged position and were encircled and annihilated.

Fortunately, Kane himself is not interested in playing any adventure games, and even if he can enjoy the state of being able to steal half a day of leisure, it is always not too much.

In this way, morning and dusk alternated, three days and nights, plus half a day, and on the evening of the fourth day, the progress of the exploration was stuck, and Kane needed to make a move.

Take a trackless maglev train and spiral down the tunnel, this dungeon is not large in scale, the depth is average, and the main body is within the earth's crust.

At its deepest point, the vertical height from the surface is only 17.5 kilometers.

In the background that the entire dungeon has basically been dug into a mining hole, the scenery along the way is naturally lackluster.

If there are some things worth mentioning, then the Divine Power Conduit is one.

In the process of demolishing the dungeon, Kane's command discovered that the dungeon's divine power system operated according to a fixed mechanism. There is no will, only procedure.

So Kane quickly gave a countermeasure, through the divine power node device and the divine power conduit, to carry out drainage, so that the divine power system can always be guaranteed to operate.

Divine power nodes are not common, and divine power conduits can be seen everywhere, like the roots of a big tree, with fine branches, covering the entire dungeon.

Of course, Kane's men didn't give in too much to him because they needed to preserve his integrity. So along the way, Kane could see several parallel divine power conduits from time to time.

As far as the divine power mechanism of the dungeon is concerned, these scattered divine powers are still in charge of each other, but in fact, they have been sorted out and summarized, and they are no longer of practical significance.

However, what made Kane a little confused was that relying on this set of mechanisms and energy output power alone, there was no way to build a god-like force field that protected 130,000 square kilometers of land in time.

Obviously, the secret hidden under this land is not only this portal, but also a behemoth that has not yet been discovered.

In fact, after the hard work of the coolies, the entire dungeon has been conquered, and the so-called difficulty of card progress is just the last suspicious thing, except for it, it can be said that the dungeon has been completely stripped away and lost its original pattern.

When Kane saw the suspicious object, he quickly judged that it was a special door.

Although it looks more like a stone platform with gold trim.

In the main hall of the underground palace of more than 5,000 square meters, this golden stone platform with a diameter of nearly 100 meters is very conspicuous. The placement of objects in the main hall, and even the layout of the entire main hall, are all set around this high platform.

At first glance, it may be reminiscent of functions such as stages, lecterns, and sacrificial platforms, but if you remove the floor of the main hall, you will find that the divine power mechanism is closely related to it, and it can be said that it is a transcendent version of the place where cables gather.

The ball of holy light suspended in the air brings plenty of light to the main hall, there is no shadow, and every corner is illuminated.

Kane paced, walking around the round platform, sometimes stopping to look at the runes etched into the gold rim and the corresponding clusters of divine power below.

This device, even for Kane, is the kind that requires a lot of time and effort to crack.

This is the first time he has encountered a real high-tech creation since he came to this universe, and it is also the path of the fusion of science and magic.

Of course, in terms of the current performance, the depth and breadth of his technology, I am afraid that there is still a gap from the whole set of technical systems he has mastered, but they have different experiences and different paths to climb, so if you compare them, you will find that some of the other party's technical points are higher than the high poles he has mastered, and even blank spots for him.

However, Kane is also confident. He is a multiverse, and to this day, there are no major leaks in general technology.

Therefore, even the technical blank spots for him are basically niche, that is, the kind that is easy to use in individual universes, out of that universe, and other universes basically do not recognize.

But he also admits that niche things are sometimes very attractive.

With it as the core, it is possible to do a new trick.

Therefore, the attitude of prudence and reverence cannot be lost.

As far as the portal of some special divine power in front of him is concerned, he will not easily try to use it until he completes the analysis.

The First Order's powerful creation power once again took advantage of it, and in a few hours, a qualified research institute was established near the main hall.

In addition, using the excavated topography and materials, a semi-permanent multi-purpose facility will be built within 24 hours.

The Burdington was already moored in the dockyard of the Newbuild.

At high altitude, the synchronous starport is in full swing of construction.

The strong production capacity determines the resilience of the First Order is amazing, coupled with the fact that the Chaos Forces have given up the mode of legion war after seeing the Holy Light Nuclear Fireball Annihilation Array, and the small elite invasion is still on the way, which gives the First Order a rare window period and can devote most of its energy to post-disaster recovery, so it quickly entered a state of acceleration.

While researching the Gates of the Ruins Divine Power, Kane also interacted with the Empire's higher-ups, and even received some special visitors.

For example, the Eldarin, and the representatives of the Titanium Clan.

The First Order and the Holy Light Sect derived from it have made such a big move, as an old interstellar civilization race, the Eldarin Clan, and the Titanium Clan, which attaches great importance to intelligence gathering, naturally cannot be ignorant.

In fact, they had long been concerned about the sudden rise of this new force in the human empire.

By the time the Gradius incident happened, the attention had risen to a higher level.

They even tried to get in touch with the First Order.

It's just that Kane was not there at that time, and the day-to-day affairs were presided over by Miranda.

When Miranda presides over affairs, the starting point of thinking about things is the perspective of strengthening and developing the First Order.

From this point of view, neither the Eldarin nor the Titanium is an object with a high cost performance for cooperation.

However, the Spirit Clan and the Titanium Clan also came to interact with a sense of pride and reserve, as well as some conditions.

The result was naturally a discord.

But what happened to Gradius recently has once again turned everyone's perception upside down.

The Spirit Clan and the Titanium Clan, this time they completely let go of their pride and came to build a relationship with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.

In Kane's words: everything starts with power.

The upper echelons of the empire have been interacting closely with him recently, in fact, because of this.

Even if there is no way to prove that Kane is directly related to the birth of the God of Light and the emergence of the Dark Trench. But isn't it enough that he made such a big move as soon as he arrived at Gradius?

If you say something that doesn't sound good, you will rush to this ability to make trouble, who will catch it?

This is no longer a matter of how many fleets and how many troops can shout and speak loudly.

It was also through this incident that several imperial bigwigs truly realized what Kane said: In the transcendent world, technology is a younger brother.

Kane's didactic words are really not less.

Before, these bigwigs didn't say anything on the surface, but they were inevitably disgusted in their hearts, thinking that Kane was a little floating and took himself too seriously.

Now, the actions of a certain bigwig are very representative, he asked people to collect as much as possible what Kane said, even if it was not preachy, just spitting out, or casually expressing opinions, and then organized a special team to analyze and understand these words.

Is it a poor comprehension? It's so complicated?

No, it's important!

Different environmental backgrounds, different contexts, the meaning of the same sentence may not be the same. Therefore, what this big guy wants is to accurately analyze the meaning of what Kane said.

And this is not just because of the strength that Kane has shown, which has further increased his weight in people's hearts.

is also because, in addition to preaching more at the beginning, Kane talked less and less later, especially after going for so many years, after coming back, he basically played 'silence is golden', without sharp accusations and no mean poisonous tongue.

Even if you interact with the bigwigs, you no longer count people or things.

Smart people know that this is actually a kind of alienation, or disappointment, in short, it is not a good thing.

In contrast, the empire is now increasingly dependent on the First Order.

Not to mention anything else, that is, the two projects of the Holy Light Sect and the Non-Subspace Jump Engine, the empire has reached the point where it cannot do without the First Order.

Although it is said to be a sea trial, in fact, the empire has begun to taste the sweetness of the leap in non-subspace.

For example, the route from the solar system where the capital star is located to Khulna in the Gothic star region of the hazy star field.

With the god-level confrontation in the Gradius star system, the war in the Gothic star sector has actually come to an end.

Abaddon took his expeditionary fleet and ran away in disarray.

But this time, unexpectedly, the leaders and faces on the side of the Chaos forces basically did not laugh at Abaddon, and praised a few of them.

Especially after the appearance of the Holy Light Nuclear Fireball Annihilation Array in the Gray Dyrus star system, all those who are qualified and capable of understanding the front-line battle situation for the first time can be said to have lowered their eyebrows and lost their voices collectively.

Death, utterly dead, and as small as cosmic dust, easily erased.

High-level demons, demon princes, princes, and even the great demons clearly felt what it meant that the life of cannon fodder was worthless, and what it meant to be insignificant under the general trend.

Many demons feel uncomfortable, even a sense of unreality as if they were in a dream.

It's as if you wake up and Paradise becomes a jungle of death.

Time allowed them to calm and relax, and they realized that Paradise was basically still a paradise, but if it was related to the First Order, then they had to be careful, as for the territory of the pure First Order, it was definitely a first-class and dangerous death jungle. It doesn't matter if you accumulate it for millions of years or tens of millions of years of savings, it will die out completely.

The longer you live, the more afraid you are of death. This is a statement that can be seen as truth among the demons.

Since even the demons have felt that the way of the world has changed, it can be imagined that it has touched other living beings greatly.

Of course, it has to be those intelligent races who are qualified to serve at the table, like those who can't even get out of the gravity well, or like the Orcs who are not stingy, and are basically indifferent to the changes in this general trend.