Destroyer: Building a Dimensional Universe from Scratch

In the evening, the lights were turned on, illuminating the grand banquet hall of the capital's administrative center. Here gathered all the heroes in the base, including ship girls, sirens, elves, and heroic spirits, to celebrate the return of a successful expedition. Today's banquet hall is more lively than before, and the richness of species diversity is remarkable.

The shipgirls were in groups of three or five. The aircraft carriers and battleship girls who were drinking red wine occupied several tables, while the small destroyers who were drinking juice sat together. There were also the shipgirls and river ships from the Northern Alliance who were busy pouring vodka into their mouths. The heroic spirits and elves were mixed together. The Siren leader and her executors sat in a corner in a low-key manner. At this moment, the artificial angels replaced Bri and Manju and took on the roles of waiters and chefs, shuttling back and forth in the banquet hall, carrying various plates.

These artificial angels were equipped with all-round housekeeping skills and were extremely graceful, even the royal maids would feel inferior to them. However, due to their absolute obedience to their masters, and even their overly humble attitude, many ship girls were flattered.

An artificial angel with a ponytail knelt on one knee respectfully, raised the tray in her hand above her head, and handed it to Yixian: "Master, this is the red wine you asked for, please enjoy it." Seeing this scene, Yixian, who was gentle by nature, quickly reached out to help her: "Hey, no need to kneel, get up quickly."

A trace of shame flashed across the angel's face: "Master? Did I do something wrong?" Yixian quickly explained: "No, no, no, you don't have to do this, just stand." She patiently taught: "Our etiquette here is a little different from yours, you don't have to salute like this in the future."

On the other side, Binjiang directly pulled up the angel who was still kneeling on the ground, handed her a bottle of vodka, and reserved a seat for her. "Why are you being so formal? Come on, let's drink together!" Hearing what Binjiang said, the angel responded respectfully: "Yes, Master." "Don't call me Master!" Binjiang corrected. "Understood, Master." The angel still habitually called him Master. "I told you not to call me Master, others will misunderstand that I have a special hobby." Binjiang knocked his forehead helplessly.

Heroic spirits like Nero, Aurelion, Black Jeanne, and Egil, or those with proud personalities, might be able to accept the service of angels with ease; but the more thin-skinned ship girls like Changchun, Taiyuan, and Javelin have already bowed to and apologized to the angels, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

After the banquet calmed down a bit, Lu Chen briefly told the ship girls about the experience of the expedition and what he saw and heard in Synapse, but did not mention the specific situation of the Lord of the Sky, only saying that he was trapped in a virtual world.

The story about the current situation of Synapse amazed the shipgirls. Kewei shook his head and sighed: "It is hard to understand how such advanced technology has ended up like this. Is the end of the development of a civilization to destroy itself like this?" Gudako thought that if there was nothing to do in this universe, it would be better to find some aliens to beat up, "That would be fun!"

Lu Chen clapped his hands with a smile and announced the rich results of this expedition: "We invited scientists from Synapse and more than 3,000 mecha girls, and also obtained the manufacturing technology of Universal Angel."

Daedalus stood up and greeted everyone, full of curiosity about these strange creatures from another world. She mentioned that the universal angels are divided into combat, household, entertainment, medical and other types, and can play a role in many fields such as long-range strikes, close combat and assistance, and will be able to fight side by side with the ship girls in the future.

Lu Chen pointed at Ikaros beside him and explained that the technology of the Universal Angel is essentially a kind of advanced artificial intelligence, but it looks like an angel. Although the mass-produced Battle Angel is not as powerful as Ikaros, if it is equipped with advanced weapons and increased in number, it will also become a force that cannot be ignored. They are agile and can fight in groups inside and outside the atmosphere and even in near space, similar to strategic units for large-scale airdrops.

What’s even more clever is that the angels can be stored in the ship’s cabin when not in use, and can be taken out and put into battle at any time when needed.

Akashi shook his cat ears and browsed the design drawings brought by Daedalus on the holographic interface, saying: "It's actually not difficult to make, meow... and the cost seems to be lower than that of the Siren Executor. After all, you don't need a magic cube to make them."

Lu Chen waved his hand generously and confirmed the future production plan: "Let's make tens of thousands first. We need long-range, close-combat, and electronic warfare auxiliary types, and equip each ship girl with some."

Regarding the household universal angels, Lu Chen suggested: "Everyone has received them, so get along well with each other in the future. In addition, we can produce an extra batch to do some daily chores. After all, they are really pleasing to the eye."

“Commander, I feel like these angels are too polite to us.” Yixian raised his hands embarrassedly, expressing his discomfort with being called “Master.”

Lu Chen explained: "You can answer this question according to your own preferences. The universal angel can understand what you mean."

Daedalus added: "You can treat them as friends, or as subordinates, or even more. After the inscription, the omnipotent angels will be absolutely obedient to their masters and carry out all your orders unconditionally."

After hearing this, everyone had different expressions, and they exclaimed that this artificial intelligence technology is really amazing.

Heizhen crossed her legs and asked, "Where's the wishing stone tablet, Commander? I thought you were going to dig it up in its entirety?"

Lu Chen replied: "As for the matter of the stone tablet, we will send a scientific research team to study it in the future. I am more concerned about its operating principle than its function of fulfilling wishes."

"It would be great if we could master the method of making the stele and integrate it with me or the Ten Thousand Years Snowstorm, so that it has the power to control the multiverse..."

Hearing this, both the Heroic Spirits and the Elves were surprised. "Isn't that equivalent to being a god? Omniscient and omnipotent?!"

Lu Chen nodded and continued, "Well... to be precise, this is more like a 'God' in the field of science and technology, right? An artificially created God? Whether it is technology or magic, when it reaches its peak, the power that can be controlled is essentially the same. They all change the laws of the universe through will."

In the past, at the beginning of the space age, humans could only change the surface environment of planets. With the advancement of technology, they were gradually able to transform the ecological environment of galaxies and the Milky Way. In the magic world, junior magicians can create fire, telekinesis, and turn stone into gold. Powerful ones like Mio and Thor can intervene in the laws of the universe through their will.

Whether it is technology or magic, the highest realm can change the laws and create or destroy the world. Now Lu Chen has the opportunity to get the moon first by using advanced engineering, physics and the help of Daedalus to start from the field of technology and study how to reach the god level and master the power that can control the laws of the universe. Thinking of this, the scientific research team including Daedalus and Akashi couldn't help but take a breath: "This is an incredible project..."

Continue to efficiently handle the affairs of the base and quickly make a series of arrangements. The Builder took some of the Queen of Sai and Bri through the anchor point and set foot on Synapse again. They chose to build a small-scale outpost on the main island and planned to stay there for a long time in order to conduct in-depth research on those mysterious stone tablets.

Thanks to Daedalus' introduction, their actions went much more smoothly, and the Synapse Council did not raise any objections. Akashi brought a scientist into her workshop and began to produce and modify the Universal Angel as planned.

Akashi clearly divided the work: "Our production tasks here are mainly handled by three types of cloth. General-purpose cloth is used for daily work, trial-type cloth is responsible for complex operations, and as for precise and difficult processing, it is handed over to special-purpose cloth."

Daedalus was surprised to see the various colored girls in front of him - purple, gold and colorful Brie. "The only tools you use are wrenches, drills and hammers? Is this how you process chips and reactors?"

Akashi replied calmly, "Don't worry about Brie. If they say they can do it, they can do it." Then, she handed the design drawing to a colorful Brie. With a "bang bang bang" sound, the Brie used a huge cat hammer to quickly knock out a palm-sized chip on the workbench.

After more than half a month of hard work, the production line of the Universal Angels was officially established, and the Universal Angels could be seen everywhere in the urban area of ​​the base. Some household Universal Angels took over from Brie and took on the job of taking care of Loli; while the combat angels, under the command of the ship girl, underwent rigorous training around the city and near the naval base. Thousands of combat angels assembled into an array, using naval guns, missiles and other weapon systems to carry out intensive firepower strikes on the target; some melee angels held ion lightsabers and swooped down from the air like Valkyries under the protection of the Aegis, stirring up huge waves on the sea. The whole scene was spectacular, and people couldn't help but imagine how powerful their combat effectiveness would be when they really went into battle.

On the other side, after spending a few nights with the Oathship, Mio and Kuang San, Lu Chen came to the Imperial Library. This library has become a huge dome building with an area of ​​more than one million square meters and a height of more than ten floors. Its scale is even nearly ten times that of the largest library on Blue Star, the Eagle Fort Congress Library. Every time they come back from an expedition to other worlds, the collection of books here will increase a lot, and the library will also expand accordingly.

Walking into the first floor hall, the interior decoration is elegant and luxurious, and countless bookshelves are filled with a large number of books. The ship girls, little lolita, and Bri are either standing or sitting, reading the books in their hands attentively. Seeing Lu Chen coming, they all put down their books and saluted to greet him.

On the way to the top floor, Lu Chen came to a simply decorated room and met the librarian, Lukeya, and her assistant, Honjo Niya. There were some visitors in the room, including Kanae and several other girls from the Demon Slayer world. They were asking Lukeya questions about magic, and there were some magic books and alchemy materials scattered on the table.

Seeing Lu Chen, Kanae immediately stood up and greeted him: "Hello, Commander!" The three Butterfly sisters also bowed respectfully. Lu Chen briefly asked about their recent situation and learned that they traveled between home and the library every day, eager to absorb nutrients from the knowledge of other worlds. Even if their own hardware conditions were insufficient, they wanted to improve their soft power as much as possible. At this moment, Lu Chen had become an existence beyond their reach.

After saying goodbye to Shinobu Kocho and the others, Lu Chen stayed alone and talked with Lukoa and Niya. Lukoa opened her eyes lazily, revealing the golden-green light in her heterochromatic pupils.

Lu Chen got straight to the point and said, "I want to learn some magic."

Lukoya smiled and said, "Oh? It's rare that you are interested. Lu Jun, what type of magic do you want to learn?"

Lu Chen thought for a moment and then answered, "I want to learn how to control time."

He explained: "The current 'Eternal Snowstorm' already has the power to destroy stars, but when it comes to using magic, I don't know anything else except the release of magic power that King Dai taught me. I think it's no longer necessary for me to learn damage-type magic such as fireball and lightning, after all, the 'Eternal Snowstorm''s cannon can achieve the same effect. So I prefer to learn some time magic that is more practical and has a wider coverage."

Hearing Lu Chen's answer, Lu Keya smiled and said, "You are very ambitious, Mr. Lu."

She paused and continued, "But time-control magic is quite difficult to learn. You haven't learned magic systematically before, right? If you want to control time freely and achieve large-scale time and space stop or time reversal, it will take a lot of time and energy. It's not as simple as modifying the hull and letting Brie do it."

Lu Chen understood this, but he was not afraid of trouble: "I know, I can learn slowly."

Seeing that he insisted, Lukeya didn't say anything more: "Okay. It just so happens that I also want to help a little." As she said, she gently hugged Lu Chen's head and rubbed it, and then pinched his cheek, "Every time I see you, I feel like I am crushing the weak."

Lu Chen couldn't help but smile bitterly. Facing this dragon lady, he was always in a weak position and didn't know when he would be able to turn the tables.

Lukeya went to the top shelf of the library and found a black book that was thicker than a dictionary and even bigger than a proclamation. There was a dragon head on the cover of the book, and it looked very new. But when he opened it, he saw that the inside pages were full of incomprehensible text.

Lu Chen asked doubtfully: "Which world did this book come from? I don't think I've ever seen something this advanced before."

Lukoya replied with a smile: "Of course I wrote it myself. Don't you remember asking me to organize the magic knowledge I have?"

Lu Chen then remembered that he had asked her to help sort out the relevant content before. "Not many people can understand this book. If you want to learn the magic of controlling time, you must pay the price of 'time'. Therefore, I usually won't teach others this kind of magic, but for you, that's no problem."

Time magic involves manipulating the laws of time, and the price paid is not just limited to magic power. Ordinary people who try to learn it may suffer a significant reduction in their lifespan because they cannot withstand the pressure of the passage of time.

However, Lu Chen didn't care about this. He was a magic cube spirit with eternal life, and he could live until the final heat death of the universe. For him, it was no problem for him to use magic that controlled time.

Taking the huge book that Lukoya handed over, which recorded the basic knowledge of time control magic, Lu Chen knew that although this learning path was difficult, it was full of challenges and unknowns.