Cyber Era Witch
Chapter 867 - 706: Crafting the Supreme Ring

Chapter 867: Chapter 706: Crafting the Supreme Ring

Diamonds are mined from a type of igneous rock called Kimberlite, which has veins around 1 to 2 square kilometers in area and less than 10 kilometers deep.

Zanges’s diamond mines are extremely exaggerated, as if a drill exceeding the skyline had plunged straight down from above and carved a 10-story deep circular spiral pit on the open ground.

Like an abyss, bottomless.

However, the storm that Storm Princess brought was even more terrifying than this man-made terrain, having thrown the mining site into utter disarray. She had not unleashed her full power, but her mere presence was enough to overturn cranes and crush machinery.

Heavy excavators, drilling rigs, and shield machines were unable to escape the disaster, with overturned equipment and constructions scattered everywhere in the mine pit, creating a scene of utter chaos.

The nearby warehouses, employee dormitories, and dispatching center also encountered major deformations, as if an invisible giant hand twisted them out of shape.

A Witch of Dominator Level like Storm Princess could destroy an entire city by herself. The members of Renwang Security were quite relieved to avoid a confrontation with her, the more they saw the terrifying traces left by Storm Princess, the more they appreciated Tsuchigumo’s sudden outburst of "Second Magic."

Led by Standing Black Hat as the president, they approached the warehouse guided by surviving miners.

Near the entrance, they saw at least dozens of miners’ bodies piled up in the corner, likely hit by the storm winds traveling at tens of kilometers per hour, causing them all to crash against the walls, now with their brains spilled, flesh a blur, limbs twisted bizarrely, the entire wall smeared with blood.

From the pile of bodies came faint moaning sounds; a dying black miner lay in the pile of his comrades. With eyes wide open, he looked outward as the survivors tried to dig him out, but there were too many dead, so they couldn’t pull him out for the moment.

The warehouse door was wide open; the surviving miners no longer tried but hurriedly went in to look for diamonds.

The diamonds, in crystal form, were piled up near the sorting machine, eyes of people outside quickly shifted from the dark skin and bright red blood to the sparkling and translucent diamonds.

The dream of Golden Township is wonderful, but the dream of diamonds is even more enticing.

"We must act before Warlord Keith comes to inspect his property." Yizhen Tian strode in.

She wore a halo similar to Chainsaw Angel’s, and when the halo was activated, the Angel’s power would be exceptionally strong.

At this moment, she tapped her halo with her finger, and a conspicuous shadow quickly covered it. The grey-black halo seemed to have an attraction that made one unable to help but focus on her halo.

After activating the halo, she simply raised her hand, and the whole warehouse’s raw ore, weighing who knows how many tons, rose from the ground, gathering into a floating ore sphere!

Yizhen Tian thus commanded the floating ore sphere to follow her, as if it was telekinesis! And of a very high purity at that.

Other miners looked up in awe at this miracle. They had intended to take advantage of the chaos to grab a diamond or two for themselves, but this Angel swept away all the diamonds with a wave of her hand. There was not a single dead angle in the warehouse, all the crystal ores, rough stones, and uncut diamonds were pulled away, forming into a sphere.

"We need to transport them to a safe place, buy some Synthetic Humans to sort the grades, then sell them to Taixi Continent or Xia’s cutting centers." Netherworld Thunder God looked up.

Tsuchigumo also raised her head to gaze at the diamond sphere Yizhen Tian had gathered with the "Angel’s Power."

She originally did not want to say anything but turned her head to see Cyber Specter and suddenly drummed up some inexplicable courage.

"I want some big diamonds." Tsuchigumo boldly said.

"Oh—" Yizhen Tian was a straightforward Angel, casually separating a few shiny, huge raw diamond ores from the ore and giving them to Tsuchigumo.

These diamonds, in their rough state and yet to be cut and polished, already appeared lustrously bright and of pure quality, the treasures among diamonds.

Tsuchigumo was very pleased; she could now give a report to the Cyber Specter.

This artificial intelligence must be planning to use these diamonds to build some advanced machine.

Tsuchigumo, carrying approximately 20 kilograms of diamond ore, walked with her four knife-like legs, turning her head to win favor from the Cyber Specter, only to see it chatting with some black miners.

After the people from Renwang Security retreated, Cyber Specter followed.

"Now indeed all the black people have been sent to the plantations and mines," said Cyber Specter.

"Yes, after Warlord Keith took over Zanges, he practically went to the interior every week to plunder black people, using them as slaves and selling them all over the world. And it’s not just Keith, not just Zanges, the whole Hot Tree Continent is being partitioned and looted," said Tsuchigumo, floating in the air, quietly talking with Cyber Specter.

Since the beginning of this year, the population of Hot Tree Continent has decreased by 100 million.

"The miners used to live in the grasslands and rainforests of the interior and now they’re going back," said Cyber Specter.

"Going back to do what?"

"Hunting, farming," said Cyber Specter.

"But they will be captured to work again, there’s nowhere to go, Keith won’t let them off easily, next time they might not be able to contact us," Tsuchigumo pondered.

"Yes."

"The biggest feeling I’ve had since coming to Hot Tree Continent is... that this land was born for the grass. Isn’t it a blessing for these black people to be brought from no man’s land to modern society? They can’t stay forever on the uncivilized land being chimpanzees," Tsuchigumo sighed.

There were originally 5000 miners in the mining area. Half died after the riot, and even the one who first called Renwang Security for help was nowhere to be found; he might be among the corpses shot dead.

The rest took the opportunity to escape, returning to their homes in the interior, trying to hide.

The interior region is also the dark heartland of Hot Tree Continent, still living the primitive life of witch doctors, nomads, and hunting.

Leaving all the vehicles, machinery, and intelligence in the mining area to Renwang Security, Standing Black Hat led the team to collect as much useful material as possible before retreating using the mining area’s trucks.

As a meritorious hero, Tsuchigumo did not need to drive and could sleep in the back compartment.

With a stiff appendage on her back, she could not lie down to sleep, so Tsuchigumo could only sleep flat, then fold up her appendages.

Cyber Specter went to check those beautiful diamonds, the quantity was enough, after being cut from the rough stones at least six diamond rings could be cast.

Three rings for the Witch, one for the Humans, one for the White Dragon, and one ring to rule them all.

Arranged as such, everything is in its rightful place, absolutely satisfying a certain Witch’s vanity.

After checking the diamonds, the Cyber Specter scrutinized the carriage, including the Tsuchigumo Witch.

Operating in the form of a Synthetic Human, it received feedback all in code and digital signals, operating on a level of absolute rationality that is unattainable for humans.

Even those humans who strive with all their might to become "rational people" can never possess the absolute rationality of a robot’s level.

The basic neural network used by Synthetic Human intelligence includes nearly 10 million parameters. When encountering a problem, a Synthetic Human first compares the problem with the gradient structure information library to find the most appropriate "problem," then judges based on the corresponding set of answers, and afterwards evaluates the effects of those answers to see if they help solve the problem.

If it does not resolve the problem, or if it is not helpful, then it regenerates and reschedules the problem and answer.

Every step involves attempts and computations on the scale of millions, until the discrepancy between the problem and the answer narrows and the problem is solved.

After computing, Digital Mind’s judgment on Hot Tree Continent was actually similar to Tsuchigumo’s statements.

The awakening of Hot Tree Continent requires a tenfold increase in fierce modernization compared to the current situation, demanding the migration of all Black natives from the inland.

Within this cruel awakening, 5 to 10 years will see nearly a hundred million Blacks detach from the primitive mode of production and join in modern division of labor, undergoing technical education, transforming from peasants, small producers, and hunters into another identity with more potential – workers.

Following that, they can also apply the basic tricks of modern economic development: establishing an industrial-level consumer market, exporting goods, accepting investments, and ultimately achieving modernization.

...However, under the meticulous design of huge corporations, the self-struggle of all the lower-class people in Hot Tree Continent only facilitates the harvest of the world’s upper class. All the actions of the lower class have already fallen into the plan, never truly achieving progress and transcendence. Hot Tree Continent could only ever be a piece of land getting scraped bare.

What to do? Just one option - kill.

Unless the Warlords and the major corporations entrenched in Zanges are eradicated, this systemic contradiction has no prospects for resolution.

Moreover, relying on divine intervention or great figures is unstable; it must depend on the self-rescue and self-awakening of countless people.

...

After the convoy arrived at the temporary camp on the outskirts of Zanges, President Standing Black Hat got off to settle affairs with the intermediary, and by the way, deal with the diamonds.

The so-called "intermediaries" are special people responsible for issuing tasks to various Mercenary groups and Security companies, and relay intelligence information; each intermediary has their own interests and networks.

Among them, some intermediaries don’t get along with Black Fire Innovation.

There are many intermediaries in Zanges, each with different tempers, and Standing Black Hat carefully chose partners to dare to bring a team that had just had a conflict with Black Fire Innovation to this suburban area.

Netherworld Thunder God opened the rear carriage, watching the sleeping Tsuchigumo intently.

"Wake up!" she shouted.

Netherworld Thunder God is a very powerful Witch, holding a high status within the Security company.

Her appearance was particularly dazzling, with golden hair, fair skin, like a princess in a fairy tale, dressed in lightweight tactical Armor, boldly exposing her thighs and arms.

She even possessed a Digital Mind and was now scanning the Cyber Specter, attempting to discern something from it.

However, the Cyber Specter had more advanced technology, so with a little disguise, it left no trace for Netherworld Thunder God to spy.

Still, her curiosity was intense, and with her posture, she even aspired to transform her thunder into tangible photonic signals, forcibly entering the Cyber Specter.

Achieving a higher level of invasion and integration.

Thankfully, the appearance of this Synthetic Human was ordinary enough that Netherworld Thunder God probably didn’t want to forcefully enter such a modest Synthetic Human.

"Hmm..." the sleeping Tsuchigumo opened her eyes and climbed up from the bottom of the carriage, turning to look at Netherworld Thunder God outside.

"Come out, we’d like to check your Second Magic Power," Netherworld Thunder God said cautiously.

After seeing Tsuchigumo’s astonishing display earlier, they had more questions in their minds.

How exactly did Tsuchigumo manage to command the robots of the Black Fire Innovation side?

Always a unremarkable Ninja Witch, capable of conducting regular combat, reconnaissance, and infiltration missions, has she now become a hacking master?

"Ah, uh..." Tsuchigumo fell silent.

"Let them check, do whatever, have fun," the voice of the Cyber Specter entered Tsuchigumo’s wireless earpiece.

"...Okay..." Tsuchigumo climbed out of the carriage with trepidation and followed Netherworld Thunder God to the suburban site.

This site was located at the bottom of a fjord, with no water in the riverbed, surrounded by a harsh and dry climate, complex terrain, where Renwang Security Company had their own warehouses and barracks.

Like receiving a sentence, Tsuchigumo followed Netherworld Thunder God into a room, where her teammates sat across the table.

"Tsuchigumo, originally named Mishima Naomi, an early employee, all sisters." Yizhen Tian sat behind the table, nonchalantly speaking, having to work hard to fold her wings so as not to hit anyone, "So tell us the truth, how did you come to have this ’Second Magic Power?’"

If she always hesitated, they’d discover something. Tsuchigumo moved her gaze imperceptibly, glancing through the corner of her eye to see a camera in a corner of the room.

Hoping that the Cyber Specter already controlled it, but the static camera made Tsuchigumo feel uneasy.

Take a deep breath.

"I had a dream about Golden Township." Tsuchigumo smoothly replied, "I dreamt I was walking in Zanges, with all the robots there serving me, and the entire network world was at my command. Then I awoke, and I felt... even on the battlefield just now, as if I could control those robots..."

They stared at Tsuchigumo intently, unconvinced.