Rex stepped out of the Spirit Tower while stretching his arms. Initially, he only thought about speeding 10 hours inside the virtual world, but once he started working he lost the track of time and was completely absorbed in his work, resulting in him staying inside for 40 hours before coming out.
Unlike in real work where he had to try experimenting with real things, waste precious material in failures, and get distracted by certain wordily desired, in the virtual world he was the only one, there was no disturbance, no need to worry about wasting precious material or wasting priceless time in collecting the materials again.
Before coming out he had taken a bath inside. It was a mystery what would the people of Golden Bird Continent think if they know that the one-liter millennium spirit water mentioned in the second prize is actually from Shadow Lord's bathroom.
Rex walked in the garden while calculating the gains.
'To think I not only completed the Predator series Combat Bots blueprint, but Project Arms also reached the middle phase, with the combined knowledge between the two I have made unexpected gains. Now I also understand what Zakiya was talking about when she mentioned Law Arrays…' Rex thought while taking a stroll in the garden.
{Brother Rex!!!} Jiang Shuang came flying out of his balcony the second he saw Rex.
[A wild Jiang Shuang has appeared!]
Rex sighed. He then turned towards him as he spoke.
"Now What?" Rex said. He now fully believed that whenever Jiang Shuang appears he would bring a problem related to business with him.
{Brother just what were you thinking when putting that kind of rewards in the competitions, those prizes have already surpassed the ones given to the winners of the InterContinental Fighting Competition. Since the news spread, two forces had already attacked Corentis, both of them were bandit groups but I believe someone probably influenced them to do so to test the water,} Jiang Shuang sent a message after he read Rex's lips.
Rex didn't respond instead he observed him and noticed that he was wearing earplugs.
{I already know that but… why are you wearing earplugs?} Rex asked.
{That... I don't know where should I start from… Yesterday Little Aru came to me and started coughing, I thought he had some problem like dry throat so I took out my special spirit orange juice to share with him but who knew that he would fiercely start screaming all of a sudden. I didn't know why did he get so angry just after looking at the spirit orange juice, by the time he stopped screaming, my ears also stopped listening, I was still fortunate to have Heaven Venerable cultivation base, the poor maid cleaning the room was not that lucky and directly fainted.
Fortunately, she only fainted and was fine after enough rest, as for me the physician told me that my eardrums were pushed to the limit and now needs rest for a few days. Brother Rex, you should have told me that their race has some problem against spirit orange juice, if I had taken out spirit orange juice in front of Lady Lerna instead of him then…} Jiang Shuang was scared just when thinking about it.
Rex didn't know what to say. The second Jiang Shaung mentioned the name of Little Aru, he remembered that he was the one who threw the pot at him, the spirit orange juice was innocent.
{This… how should I say it, Little Aru has a painful memory related to spirit oranges. In the past, because of bloodline mutation he had become allergic to spirit oranges, if he took even a single bite then his whole body would swell making him go through severe pain, luckily after years of research I formulated a medicine and cured his allergy but his trauma against spirit oranges has yet to fade,} Rex said in an emotional tone.
[Wait… Little Aru is not even one year old,]
'Don't mind the small details, my Act's effect is still maxed out,' Rex thought.
Jiang Shuang slightly nodded in understanding, he decided never to drink spirit orange juice in Frozen Flame City, no matter what.
{Now let's come to the point, I know that it's risky to do so but it's the only way to spread our reputation in the continent as fast as possible. Don't worry about the safety as long as you and Jiang Qing are in Frozen Flame City even Azure Emperor won't dare come to your door, if you want you can also invite your wife here, it's not like we lack resources for cultivating,} Rex said.
Seeing how resolute Rex was when saying that, Jiang Shuang couldn't refute in any way.
{If you say so… It's not like we can change it now anyway,} Jiang Shuang said.
After a brief talk, Rex headed to his workshop and put the blueprints to use.
A few days later…
Sung Lee had sent the exact date of their departing, it was two days later than his previous estimation. Counting from today, Rex still had five days left until the date arrives.
The open ground behind the castle garden…
Rex was sharing a table with Jiang Shuang, at present, they were both looking at the three combat bots standing in a line.
The three combat bots were different from all the series until now, they were of the humanoid category but didn't have much resemblance except their base body structure, their size was around 40% bigger than an adult human being. Their face didn't had any human face resemblance, instead of two they had three round eye sockets which were arranged in a triangular formation at three nodes and had equal distance from each other. All three of them were naturally cameras for switching between close, mid, and long-range quickly, hence they only looked like three red pearls and not pupils.
The bots didn't have a black-gold or black-silver pattern but red-purple. All three of them were facing the training metal puppets placed around 200 meters away from them.
"Give me their heads," Rex said after bringing his smart band closer to his mouth.
Their red pearl-like eyes shined for a brief moment before all three of them raised their right hand and pointed at the three training puppets far away.
Suddenly, the metallic joints around their fingers and palm area moved and were replaced at a face pace, their hands soon transformed completely, now instead of fingers or palm they had three silver barrels sticking out of their arms. A bright white radiance appeared at the opening of the three muzzles.
"Extinction Ray Cannons?" Jiang Shuang subconsciously blurted out.
....ZZzzzzzzzz...
Three beam of lights were shot from the three barrels one by one, in an instant, all training puppets had three visible holes in their head and molten metal was flowing out of them.
"They use the same technology as Extinction Ray Cannon, although their destruction power is far lesser than those cannons but their penetration force, and energy consumptions are significantly reduced. Don't think that this is the only weapon these Predator series Bots have, their whole body is installed with several different types of ray weapons and arrays.
Even if they cannot fly with their combat abilities they can take down anyone in 1 Km range, I haven't used them in battle so I am not sure about their realm combat power but if that attack hit a Golden Core expert on their head, chest or dantian... they are done for," Rex said.
As Rex finished speaking, another figure in black approached them, he was carrying a tray in hands with two bowls on it after arriving near the table, he placed the bowls in front of Rex and Jiang Shuang.
Jiang Shuang looked at the figure with some pain in his heart.
From body built, the figure looked like a fully matured thin man, he was wearing a black tuxedo, paint, shoes, and white gloves that covered his hands. his overall getup was resembling a head butler, but he was covering his face with a silver mask that only had two curved almond-shaped eye sockets but that too had black glass preventing others from seeing his eyes.
The man had shoulder-length black hairs tied into a ponytail behind his head and the color of his skin around his neck was glossy and chocolatey similar to Rex's bloodline form.
"Master Rex, here is the Seven Spiced Herb Delicacy you ordered," The man spoke in a polite tone but his voice sounded somewhat emotionless.
"Brother Rex, you sure it's an Assistant series Combat Bot? It feels like you have used some evil ways to control a human," Jiang Shuang said while staring at the men in black.
"Hehe... It will obliviously resemble a humanoid creature because this was what I intended to achieve when making him. It's no less expensive than making a Predators series Bot you know. Although Mr. Black doesn't have any weapons in his body but the AI system in him is more advanced than others. He has generation two Smart Brain in him, his learning speed and intelligence is high, I don't need to worry about him betraying me and you saw it right... he can even cook after watching Lucia do it, hmm... the taste is still a bit lacking though," Rex said while tasting the soup.
When Jiang Shuang first saw Mr. Black he didn't believe his words at all, and when he tried to sense his life force, an invisible barrier stopped him from probing Mr. Black's body.
"But I don't understand why you made him, it was better to just make a Predator series V
Combat Bot and hide him in the storage ring, their combat abilities are also superior, what can he do using external weapons," Jiang Shuang didn't think that it was a good idea to invest money in things that are not worth it.
'He doesn't understand... Mr. Black is like a walking scanner that can scan, analyze, and learn things from watching like other bots, with him keeping an eye on others while acting as a human I won't need to use clones to keep a watch. And show off is also one thing, it sounds funny but when people see you at the high position they serve you better, I have no plan of acting low key then do face slapping whatsoever,' Rex thought.
"Who says that just because he doesn't have an inbuilt weapon, he cannot fight in a better way," Rex waved his hand and an equipment resembling a thin but long gun and a rectangular magazine like battery appeared in his hand.
"It's a Lvl 2 Ray Weapon at a level similar to Spirit rank Mid grade weapon, it's called Ray Gun. It uses the same principles as Extinction Ray Cannon but in a more sophisticated way, you see this Mini-Qi battery, it can store Qi from the user in advance than after connecting it to the Ray Gun one can fire without wasting their Qi. Furthermore, the weapon requires ID access to use, so we don't need to worry about it being stolen, if someone tries to use it and fails three times in succession it will automatically self destruct," Rex said as he loaded the magazine into the flat long-barreled silver gun resembling a long-barreled UZI submachine gun. He then threw it towards Mr. Black.
Mr. Black efficiently caught it like he had practiced this for years, without any further orders he pointed the gun at one of the training puppets with deformed head and fire three shots at its chest.
In the next moment, three more holes appeared on the puppet, although they were narrow compared to the holes on its head but their penetration power wasn't much less than them.
"This... Brother Rex, if you knew how to make weapons like that before, then why didn't you make them before, the overall power of Frozen Flame would have increased by a big margin already of you had done that," Jiang Shuang suddenly asked.
Rex first took a spoon, drank some soup then spoke.
"It's not good to be that greedy, at that time we weren't strong enough to keep such weapons, many peoples won't be able to hold back after seeing them. Furthermore, it's quite troublesome and time-consuming to make them, I will keep their production rate low and won't use them until necessary for now," Rex said.
"Hmmm... it's true too, I just remembered, Little Jiang also wishes to go to Myriad Beast Continent, so if you don't mind...." Jiang Spoke slowed down by the end of the sentence.
"I don't mind taking one more person with me, but there is a high chance that would I need to reveal some of my cards while switching between different identities there... Tell me something, will it be alright if she knows about the identity secret too?" Rex asked.
Jiang Shuang's eyes shined, he vigorously nodded his head.
"Then tell her the same conditions I told you, if she agrees we will sign a contract," Rex said while eating the soup.
Jiang Shuang smiled bitterly. He could put his life at stake but things were different when it comes to his child.
"Haha... Brother Jiang listens to the whole thing, I trust you and Little Jiang is a smart girl I won't make her sign the real contract, I will just make a fake contract and then let her sign it. I just want her to believe that she had signed a contract, even if she reveals it she won't suffer any loss okay?" Rex said. With his current strength, things won't go too bad even if his identity was revealed but if something happened to Jiang Qing because of the contract then his relation with Jiang Shuang will be affected as a result he might lose a trusted and capable partner which is not good for the future of the organization.
Jiang Shuang sighed in relief, if it was a fake contract then he can take it.
"Oh, looks like Aiden and others are back, they brought other captured demi-human with them let's go and see..." Rex suddenly stood up and said.