This is really not mechanical ascension
Chapter 604 - 317: Is the Azure Dragon’s Technique Time Reversal?

Chapter 604: Chapter 317: Is the Azure Dragon’s Technique Time Reversal?

After determining the direction and main objectives of development, everyone temporarily assigned positions, with Ulrich acting as the internal manager, which was his old profession.

Jesaya acted as his deputy; Ulrich had the authority to decide, but both were qualified to report directly to Azure Dragon.

Monroe was in charge of field operations, and Sandro as his deputy, both familiar with the ropes.

Connet was responsible for external connections, waiting for the power to take shape slightly before undertaking mercenary work, selling weapons and ammunition, with Theo acting as the supervisor.

This arrangement was quite shrewd; Ulrich couldn’t help but nod secretly in approval, as it was a mutual check and balance system that wouldn’t pose problems in the short term.

Li Ming felt that building a force was quite like playing a development game, especially since he was using Mechanical Soldiers as the fundamental framework.

He only needed to earn resources to build it up, primarily arranging talent initially.

With his current team, he was actually not weak at all.

Several A-level life forms under his command, except for Sandro, each had their strengths and were very experienced, which could save him a lot of trouble.

Since all the mid-level subordinates were Mechanical Soldiers, with no risk of being sidelined, he could operate semi-autonomously behind the scenes, leaving the monotonous tasks to Ulrich and others.

Li Ming would develop comfortably in his identity until a major problem arose, then he would switch accounts.

It was only after four or five hours later that everyone left the meeting room, with Li Ming quite pleased.

After returning to his room, before developing the Genetic Seed, he habitually glanced at the intelligent terminal, first logging onto the Star Network, and found that his backend information was about to explode.

Almost every contact had sent him messages.

Due to his personality, those added as friends were generally friends with good relationships.

The message box was filled with words like "Holy crap" and "awesome".

He replied to a few critical ones, including the Three Yangs and Luo Chuan, who were both surprised and concerned.

"Take care of yourself when showing off..." Yang Yu sent a playful message.

Li Ming replied to several messages, including one from Dean Chen, who, while expressing admiration, also inquired about Old Wu’s condition.

Li Ming assured him; previously, as Azure Dragon, he had half-warned Asimara, so the other party definitely wouldn’t dare make a move against Wu Yanqing.

There were also Roth and others who seemed very excited and emotional; they were undergoing special training in Yitelan with other civilization geniuses.

A-level life forms, for low-level civilizations, were quite remote, not to mention S-level life forms.

"Who is this Mr. Huang?" While browsing and replying, Li Ming suddenly came across an unfamiliar name — Huang Jianzhong.

The latter first praised a few words, recalled the past, and then turned the conversation to mention cooperation, but it was clandestine cooperation, as they needed to avoid the pursuit of the Star Abyss Empire.

After thinking for a while, Li Ming remembered that this was a regional manager of a certain company with whom he had dealt on Blue Star.

After pondering for a moment, he simply deleted him.

Back on Blue Star, he had set his account to be unsearchable, otherwise, he would probably be overwhelmed by friend requests by now.

After spending some time, he replied to all the necessary messages.

Li Ming then started reading the recent news, possibly due to data promotion, he quickly scrolled to a video summarizing his life.

"They’re summarizing my life already? I’m not dead yet..." Li Ming muttered, watched a bit, then left the page satisfied, casually hitting follow.

Soon, he saw the latest sensational news, a statement from the Star Abyss Empire.

Firstly, it denied that the body shown in the video was the son of an Empire Duke, because Gabriel had already died in the big explosion at the Land of Stars.

This news had already caused widespread attention long ago, now it was being used defensively.

Clearly, the Star Abyss Empire wouldn’t likely state that the man died by Lei’s hand; issuing a wanted order for Azure Dragon also seemed impractical.

A wanted order must entail actions; if they couldn’t capture this mechanic who dared defy the Empire’s majesty swiftly, what authority would that order have?

The problem was, the Star Abyss Empire wasn’t sure it could do this; they might not even find the person in a short time.

Azure Dragon, who traveled alone without a base, was hardest to find.

Since there was no concrete evidence that the deceased was Gabriel, they might as well pin the crime on the already-destroyed Land of Stars.

Next was the clarification of high-level life forms interfering in regional civilization disputes, claiming that Albert and Lei were only chasing Dark Night and got involved by coincidence.

This explanation naturally couldn’t fool anyone; by the time Li Ming saw these news, many analytical videos had already speculated the thoughts of the Star Abyss Empire.

"Tsk tsk, it’s really chaos..."

Afterwards, he contacted Feder, keen to learn about the real actions of the Star Abyss Empire under these news.

"Asimara is preparing to ambush the Judgement Fleet, war is about to begin." Feder spoke with a serious expression, looking around before whispering:

"Also, I’ve heard that both Duke Bloodthorn and Guya submitted a secret investigation and arrest warrant for Azure Dragon to the Empire Royal Council."

"The upper echelons of the Star Abyss Empire are also quite interested in your master and have already started to take action."

Li Ming nodded thoughtfully; both Blackbeard and he had speculated similarly; while the Empire would publicly deny this matter, Duke Bloodthorn would attribute this incident to Lei, seizing advantages.