The decision to name it the "Gaboga Plan" rather than the "Tyrant Plan" was a thoughtful one for Li Lin.
Gaboga was his favorite war machine from the game DNF, "Toxic Milk Powder and Disconnected Warriors," used to battle the ninth apostle, Bakkal, the Dragon King.
The apostles were embodiments of the dark side of the Great Will, with formidable strength in the world of Arad.
Since Bakkal forbade the use of magic, the heavenly beings of Arad pushed technology to its peak, aiming to overthrow his tyranny.
The most outstanding seven engineers, also known as the "Mechanical Seven Gods," devised the plan codenamed "Mechanical Giant Gaboga," pooling all their efforts to create a machine capable of confronting the apostle.
Though the plan was tragically aborted due to the betrayal of one member of the Seven Gods, and Gaboga itself was never completed, it was sealed away in an alternate dimensional space, with neither summoning instructions nor methods passed down.
But Gaboga represented the pinnacle of true technology. If it could be built, defeating the Dragon King would be assured.
The Gunslinger's transition to an engineer and the awakening of his first skill as the "Mechanical God of War" provided scattered clues about Gaboga, capable of opening a dimensional gateway to summon Gaboga's right arm for a devastating strike.
As Li Lin's level increased, the design plans for the Tyrant Mech would gradually unlock. Investing resources into researching it now would be wasteful.
Li Lin's creation, the Airborne Mechanic Storm, based on the DNF mechanic skills, along with the current Gaboga Mechanical Giant, lacked corresponding technical details in the system panel, making it suitable for Heimerdinger's research.
Moreover, purely focusing on technology, the Gaboga Mechanical Giant was suitable in all aspects.
However, without the original design plans and relying solely on technology without rune magic, could it reach the level of a deity?
Li Lin dared not guarantee.
The most cutting-edge technology in the design of Gaboga involved the use of "alternate dimensional space" and equipment for "space transfer."
Unlike Jayce's use of technology to control magic with Hextech Flying Gates, Gaboga belonged entirely to the field of technology, utilizing purely mechanical devices to manipulate alternate dimensional spaces.
The ammunition and missiles consumed by Gaboga could also be stored in the alternate dimensional space, directly refilling its ammunition slot through "space transfer."
It could be said that it could provide continuous firepower suppression.
Even the Mechanic's second awakening skill, "Extradimensional March," which called forth a legion of combat robots from the alternate dimensional space, was inseparable from spatial technology.
However, Li Lin's system of inventors could unlock "subspace technology."
But "subspace technology" required a high level and the unlocking of a series of prerequisite technologies, such as "quantum theory," "applied quantum mechanics," and "material transformation," which were far beyond his current capabilities.
At this stage, being able to build Gaboga as a whole would be commendable.
In the following days, Li Lin roughly sketched out the external design of Gaboga from memory and handed it over to Heimerdinger.
The only difference was that the original Gaboga was an entirely intelligent mechanical war god capable of autonomous combat.
Li Lin's version added a neural connection cockpit to its head, requiring someone to pilot it.
Heimerdinger was very satisfied with this machine and immediately called a meeting of all professors in the academy, with the construction site for the mech determined to be the mechanical forge workshop of the Piltover Academy.
Among them, Heimerdinger personally took the lead, serving as the chief designer alongside Li Lin, with Jayce and Viktor serving as auxiliary team leaders and supervisors responsible for the overall construction of Gaboga.
As for the weapons, Li Lin was not too confident in leaving them to Heimerdinger alone to develop.
After all, at this stage, not to mention his own technology, even the top energy weapons in Piltover, only Jayce's "Electric Shock" could be used.
Moreover, Heimerdinger even wanted to add a flame jet device to Gaboga, a very low-end weapon that left Li Lin speechless.
Ornn, the demigod of primal fire, was the embodiment of original flames.
And His brother, Volibear, the embodiment of storms, could fight him on equal terms.
Adding a flamethrower to Gaboga, was it because Volibear was too cold in Freljord and needed to warm up by the fire?
At the meeting, Li Lin immediately rejected Heimerdinger's idea and presented his own technology used in the Genesis Plan, the Infinite Armor.
Plasma cannons and electromagnetic kinetic weapons, with a slight upgrade, would definitely become powerful weapons for Gaboga.
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Time passed like flowing water, fleeting.
In the blink of an eye, more than two weeks had passed since Progress Day, and the Twin Cities entered December, welcoming a new year.
During this time, Li Lin was either at the academy discussing the construction of the Gaboga mech with Heimerdinger, Jayce, and Viktor, or he was busy improving the defense system of the Kiramman estate or researching the issue of Kai'Sa's Void skin and bio-armor, almost going without sleep for days.
This high-intensity work was challenging even for a body enhanced by genetic augmentation drugs.
Caitlyn couldn't understand why Li Lin was pushing so hard to develop weapons for war, thinking he harbored ambitions of world domination.
Fortunately, through careful observation, she realized that Li Lin didn't harbor such dangerous intentions, which put her mind at ease.
However, she still insisted that Li Lin stop working tirelessly and agreed to some of his special requests, which allowed him to barely recover to sleeping only four hours a day.
As noon approached, the clock in the underground garage struck twelve times.
Li Lin installed scanning devices at various corners and the main entrance of the living room, completing the comprehensive and flawless defense project of the main residence.
Now, if any strangers invaded the Kiramman estate, regardless of where they entered from, they would be warned and reported by the AI.
If intruders carried weapons, the AI would assess the threat level and fire shock rounds to disarm them.
If the criminals were too brazen to obey commands or posed a life threat to anyone in the Kiramman household, they would be dealt with lethally by the AI-controlled weapon systems.
Of course, all this was only valid when Li Lin wasn't at home.
He controlled the multi-functional flying robotic arm to fold into a square-shaped aircraft and then had the AI fly it back to the workshop.
At that moment, the door of the living room corridor gently opened, and Kai'Sa, dressed in casual clothes, walked in.
Recently, through continued research on bio-armor and Zac's cells, Li Lin had solved the problem of Kai'Sa's prominent shoulder cheek pouches.
He utilized the "mimicry" technology from the Infinite Generation Armor, allowing it to shrink and fold into a ball as much as possible, expanding only when needed.
This not only reduced the energy consumption of Kai'Sa's living skin on the cheek pouches but also allowed her to wear normal clothes like an ordinary person, concealing the scales on her body.
However, no matter how much the cheek pouches shrank, there were still two relatively prominent bulges, but Kai'Sa didn't mind.
Being able to wear normal and beautiful clothes again was already enough for her.
Kai'Sa trotted to Li Lin's side and tugged at his sleeve. "Caitlyn sister asked me to tell you that it's time for lunch."
Before Li Lin could respond, the neural control device connected to the network in his ear transmitted the voice of the AI:
"Master, you have an incoming call from Piltover University, from Professor Heimerdinger."
"Heimerdinger has been marked as a priority contact for you, and the call is being automatically answered."
With a light "beep" sound, Heimerdinger's voice came through the phone: "Hello? Li Lin?"
"It's me, Professor. What's up?" Li Lin responded while gesturing to Kai'Sa to go ahead and eat first.
Kai'Sa raised her eyebrows in obvious displeasure, also gesturing with her mouth: Caitlyn sister will be angry!
But she knew that a call from Professor Heimerdinger was definitely important, so she didn't linger and left after signaling to Li Lin to hurry up and eat.
At the same time, Heimerdinger's tone on the phone was slightly excited: "Hurry, child, come to the academy! We've made a breakthrough today!"
"Hmm?"
Li Lin was momentarily stunned. How long had it been since they made a breakthrough?
But he quickly recovered. After many discussions among the professors, they unanimously agreed to use the "nuclear fusion reactor" proposed by Li Lin as the energy core.
But since the radioactive materials used to extract special elements for fusion reactions were not yet available, they began researching the weapon systems of Gaboga.
Gaboga had three main weapon modules: the kinetic machine gun turret, the missile launch slot, and the energy weapon module.
The missile launch module didn't need much consideration. With the "high-density compression ammunition" and "ammunition loading efficiency" technology, the missile launch slots on Gaboga's shoulders could be loaded with hundreds of mini-compressed missiles at least.
The problem lay in upgrading the "plasma cannon" and the "Gauss electromagnetic machine gun."
Through research and discussion among the professors and scientists, they determined the direction of upgrade for energy weapons and kinetic weapons.
The "plasma cannon" was upgraded to the "plasma cannon," and the "Gauss electromagnetic machine gun" was modified into a 150MM "electromagnetic coil gun" using specially designed ammunition.
However, these upgrades posed significant technical challenges, especially regarding how to increase the power of the already unstable "plasma cannon" to become a "cannon"?
Even if an explosion occurred at Piltover University, destroying a building would be considered normal.
But if there was a mishap with the plasma cannon, causing an explosion, it wouldn't be as simple as destroying just one building.
Li Lin understood from Heimerdinger's tone that this problem seemed to have been overcome, and he felt excited.
"I understand. I'll be right there."
(End of this chapter)