Above The Sky
Chapter 742 - 742 11 The Weight of Exoskeleton Armor and Inheritance 7800_2

742: Chapter 11: The Weight of Exoskeleton Armor and Inheritance (7800)_2 742: Chapter 11: The Weight of Exoskeleton Armor and Inheritance (7800)_2 “And now—I have indirectly solved this problem!”

Ian suddenly realized that all of this was a match made in heaven!

Whether it was the Sovereign Technology, artificial intelligence, or the Silver Chip, perhaps they were all from the same origin from the start!

Clearly, whether they were calculation units or supply units, they were all parts created by the Silver Chip to assist itself in calculating and completing tasks.

If one were to follow normal logic to improve oneself, then Ian should continuously hunt beings of the Second Energy Level and beyond, transforming their souls into his own components.

But to be honest…

isn’t this just what the Deceased Monarch does?

This is also why, from the beginning, Ian felt that something was odd and subconsciously felt that this ability was very much in line with that of the Deceased Monarch…

because at their core, they are actually exactly the same!

It’s more appropriate to say that since the creator of Sovereign Technology, the Duke of Sorin, was originally continuing the Spirit Seed of Fire project of his mentor Inega II, and Inega II was also the holder of the Silver Chip from the previous generation…

“The Silver Chip is the prototype for both the Deceased Monarch and the Spirit Gods, and the Deceased Monarch might even be said to be a crude imitation of the Silver Chip.”

The Silver Chip transforms unclaimed spirit substance into special-purpose units, similar to how raw materials are manufactured into corresponding chips and industrial products.

In contrast, the artificial souls created by the Duke of Sorin are just ordinary souls shaped into uniform blocks of stone, readily assembled into a fortress.

However, the raw materials for the former are extremely rare, and even an emperor would find it difficult to obtain too many.

The latter, on the other hand, developed a technology that could empower every intelligent being in the world with a soul.

Both complement each other, and it’s hard to say they are unrelated.

That’s Ian’s view, and the reality is probably so.

Inega II must have also noticed the abilities of the Silver Chip early on, but he knew that even if he killed everyone in the world except himself, the accumulated souls would probably not be enough to break through the Star Prison Tianyu.

After all, in the Spirit Disaster Path, Ian raised a soul in every person on the Terra Continent and even with the power of the Void Spawn, he did not fly out of there.

Considering the quantity of souls in the beings of Terra several decades ago, such ability had no significance whatsoever.

Therefore, based on the power of the Silver Chip, Inega II designed the Spirit Seed of Fire, a spacefaring vessel project.

But he clearly did not solve the technology challenge of how to transform unclaimed spirit substance or souls into related ‘units’ without relying on the Silver Chip.

And the most important source of units, the problem of unclaimed spirit substance, was also not settled.

The Duke of Sorin inherited Inega’s unfinished wishes, and through the creation of artificial souls, he mass-produced pre-sculpted souls corresponding to specific shapes, bypassing this technological challenge and achieving ‘Sovereign’.

So the innate ability of Soul Plunder that comes with the Sovereign’s power, to be compatible with the Silver Chip…

may not be a coincidence.

Instead, it is a technological breakthrough that has been passed down through two generations, and perhaps even more, and has now converged in Ian’s hands…

At this moment, Ian truly felt the weight of inheritance—it is because of the research of predecessors, generation after generation, who accumulated the outcomes, that he, as a successor, could stand on the shoulders of giants and gaze upon an even more distant world.

He fell silent for a while.

Then Ian quickly shifted his thoughts back to artificial intelligence.

If Ian could develop a link between the calculation unit and the core structure of Terra artificial intelligence, he might solve a part of the problem of artificial intelligence miniaturization.

Correspondingly, he could also optimize Terra’s artificial intelligence through the structure and algorithms of calculation units.

No.

Ian even suspected that the artificial intelligence completed in the hands of Inega II and the subsequent development corpus was very likely not a mere mechanical artificial intelligence, but partly a Spirit Energy artificial intelligence with a spirit substance structure…

Just as the Spirit Seed of Fire emulates the unit combination capabilities of the Silver Chip, artificial intelligence is likely a simulation of a large number of calculation units combined into an intelligent computing module!

If that is indeed the case, then optimizing artificial intelligence through calculation units could be surprisingly simple!

However, there definitely still exist corresponding technological challenges, and Ian has never received education or learning in this field before, so starting anew might be a bit troublesome.

But that’s not really a problem.

“Adalbert!

He has the complete set of Spirit Energy research materials from the Duke of Sorin!”

In an instant, Ian thought of that overly moral Deceased Monarch, the gentle and young researcher whose mind certainly contained technology for imitating the Silver Chip to change soul structure, and he certainly possessed a complete set of Spirit Energy technology—challenges and hurdles that Ian can foresee and that he is about to face probably have already been resolved and even mastered by him!

Once the incognito individual also arrives at South Ridge and they join forces, they could quickly create the Spirit Energy artificial intelligence Ian envisions!

“With this, the planning of the realm order might not require as many hands as imagined…”

Staring at the spirit substance calculation module before him, Ian murmured softly, his tone tinged with inexplicable excitement, “If it really can be completed, with the help of artificial intelligence, I can achieve perfect planning and allocation of the realm’s resources…

The speed of development will rise by several levels!”