Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 1404

All the leaders appeared, but everyone had a somber look on their faces. With one look, everyone could guess what the others had experienced and gave a sympathizing look.

"Let’s start by sharing data," one of the leaders said, and everyone agreed. The meeting immediately started with these leaders reviewing the battle experience of all the bases. Although there were a few outliers where one squad was enough for one cultivator (one pilot single-handle killed a cultivator), the overall result was the same for more than two million bases.

Du Cong was not the only one who decided to use numbers to eliminate the enemy, so all these leaders realized the bleak future awaiting them. Wang Wei trained them to be compassionate and look out for their fellow compatriots, but now, they had the burden of sending these young people to their death.

"There is some good news," said Leader Lang Xi from Base #23456.

"What did you find?" The others knew Lang Xi was excellent at data analysis.

"Have you noticed that the bases with primary research on puppetry suffered fewer casualties? Lang Xi pointed out.

"Of course, since they did not have to send their pilots," someone sneered.

"And what does that tell you?" Lang Xi said, rolling his eyes at this man’s jealousy. Doesn’t he know we are all in this together?

"Our focus should be building puppets," Du Cong said. "With more puppets, we can reduce the amount of pilots that die."

"We can probably replace all 3-C pilots with puppets," commented another user. 3-C pilots are the group that suffered the most significant casualties.

"That sounds like a good approach."

"Don’t forget that the price of building one puppet is more expensive than building a 3-C armor and training a 3-C pilot."

"We can always research ways to reduce the price. Our people’s lives are more important."

"Fair, but what do we do with the 3-C pilots and lower?"

"We increase their resources to ensure they become 4-B and higher pilots," someone suggested. "Those who cannot be promoted can be turned into teachers if they have the talent." As of now, puppets cannot completely replace pilots for many reasons, including costs, cultural acceptance, and, more importantly, higher-level puppets require souls and cannot be easily manufactured.

"Do we need to vote?" someone asked.

"No need since we all agreed."

"Let’s do it to make it more formal."

"But who will supervise this election? The Great Guardian is not here."

"We should probably elect a representative to lead these meetings."

"Do we do it now?"

"If so, I want to be the leader."

"Me too."

"I don’t trust your judgment, so I want to be the leader."

"What did you say?"

"Don’t think I don’t remember how bad your grades were when we trained under the Great Guardian."

"You! That was the past."

"Enough," someone yelled. "We can ask the guardian to hold elections, but for now, we still are discussing important matters."

"Yes, let’s get back to the main topic. Lang Xi, did you discover anything else from the data?"

Wang Wei calmly observed these leaders. Their failure was expected and could have been ever more severe. The rumor about the effects of mortal blood on the plague has spread, but Wang Wei and the other lineages have reacted swiftly, killing anyone who tried. Previously, they would only capture and seal anyone with the plague, hoping to wait until they had a cure to heal these people. However, as soon as the news spread, they changed their tactics.

Wang Wei allowed some small fries to bypass their defensive lines as a test for these mortals.

’I just need to slowly increase the strength of these cultivators,’ Wang Wei analyzed. ’That also means it won’t be long before the first confrontation between 7-A pilots and Law cultivators.’

Wang Wei waited three months until he allowed the first Law Cultivator to bypass their blockade. During this time, these mortals have fought countless cultivators and created many new tactics. Although more than 50 billion people died in just three months, they killed hundreds of cultivators, including many in the Primordial Spirit Realm.

Wang Wei calmly watched the battle. The mortals were suffering a devastating loss.

"The pilot can no longer bear it," Wang Wei commented. The Law Soul was responsible for building the 7-A armor, but a pilot was still required. However, even if the armor was designed for mortals to use, not just anyone could control an armor with the power of law embedded in it.

7-A Pilots are the elite among elites — their minds have been trained to bear the burden of the law. Unfortunately, their control over the law is subpar compared to a cultivator whose soul is countless times more powerful than theirs.

Additionally, the armor designs were flawed as they failed to consider the environment. In the current battle, the repeated use of the law has created an area infested by, well, the power of law. It makes sense since the power of law could be considered the highest form of energy or power, so when one or more people use it in an area, its power will become concentrated.

Such a change is nothing to a cultivator with a powerful soul, but the same cannot be said for those 7-A pilots. Their frail mind and soul already had to bear such a burden with their armor’s law, so this law zone became a nightmare for them. The result was that the squad composed of 20 of the best 7-A pilots from all bases were massacred by this one cultivator.

The leaders quickly gathered to find the source of the problem before coming up with solutions. They summoned their best rune engravers and armor makers to attend the meeting. Soon, many solutions were discussed, including better training for 7-A pilots, linking their souls to bear the brunt of the power of law, and adding more souls into the armor to relieve the burden.

"These guys are thinking like cultivators when they should be thinking like scientists and engineers," Wang Wei muttered before sending them another message. He suggested these people stopped focusing too much on armor after the law level. Instead, they should build 7-A battleships that ordinary, enlightened humans can operate.

Their tactics should change to a few 7-A Pilots holding the cultivator long enough for their fleets — which should be composed of countless 7-A battleships — bombard the cultivators into oblivion with their cannon that contained the power of law.

"Cultivation Civilization prioritized individual power, but the strength of your mortal civilization is community," Wang Wei uttered. "Heavenly Dao has broken the rules and allows you to mass-produce weak artifacts, so use it wisely.’

Whether it’s armor or battleships, they are at the bottom of the barrel compared to the things Artifact Refiners make. However, their advantage is that they are cheap and can be mass-produced. That’s why Wang Wei suggested they change their ways of fighting to resemble modern warfare from Earth.