Talent Card: Manufacturer Luke
1. Mechanical Affinity: A-??? {An empty mechanical throne, you are its sole monarch} Growth potential
2. Manufacturing Mastery: C-??? {You possess an innate talent for manufacturing, turning decay into wonder} Growth potential
3. Transformation Endowment: ??? {You possess the ability to transform one attribute into its opposite, and can bestow this upon your creations} Unlocked
4. Concept Extraction: ??? {You can extract certain conceptual rules, transforming them into Technology to be manifested in your mechanical creations} Unlocked
Passive: Silent Groundskeeper {You possess an incredibly powerful and unreasonable hands-on manufacturing ability}
Description: Manufacturer Luke is dead, but Heberon Technology lives on forever.
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Undoubtedly, this was an extremely powerful golden finger, and every talent within it was something most people could only dream of but never attain! The only thing Luke Field found imperfect was its initial sealed state! After five years, Luke Field had exhausted all his efforts, yet he had only managed to unseal two talents, and Manufacturing Mastery had only just been unlocked less than a year ago.
Over the past five years, to test his first system golden finger, he had used various methods to familiarize himself with his golden finger cheat and determine his upgrade path.
Tinkering with machines and manufacturing items.
These were essential on his upgrade path.
With Manufacturer Luke's talents bestowed upon him, he always felt an irresistible urge to create something. Driven by this urge, he successfully created the first mechanical dog crafted by his own hands and endowed it with AI. The first talent, [Mechanical Affinity], was then officially unlocked. The first stage of this talent allowed him to determine the properties of a mechanical creation and its materials simply by touch and feel.
What is Mechanical Affinity?
Without the need for complex data calculations and verifications, he could instinctively perceive the limits of materials and the maximum potential of mechanical creations. He also knew how to improve and enhance their limits. This often led to upgrades in materials, energy, and other aspects.
What can it do? What are its limits? Is there still room for upgrade?
If there's a mistake, where did it go wrong? How can it be corrected? What are the possible ways and methods for correction?
Like an instinct, through touch, sight, and feel, Luke Field could easily obtain an accurate answer.
What is Manufacturing Mastery?
Manufacturing Mastery means that as long as he sees something and knows a little about its principles, he can manufacture it. The only difference is the time it takes. The more information he has about a mechanical creation, the fewer problems he needs to solve during manufacturing. The less information he has, the more problems he needs to solve. But throughout this process, his inspiration would never run dry until he had manufactured it. This is Manufacturing Mastery!
For example, if he glanced at Iron Man Tony Stark's armor, without more information, he could spend time replicating it, and even upgrade it into his own creation! And the higher the talent level of Manufacturing Mastery, the less time it would take him to replicate it.
As for the passive Silent Groundskeeper, simply put, anything that couldn't be manufactured in a laboratory, he could handcraft with just a hammer and a few other tools, using only the materials at hand. The precision and stability of these handcrafted items were astonishing!
After all, in this Marvel World, if you don't have the unreasonable hands-on ability of Iron Man Tony Stark or Ivan Vanko, then you can't be considered a top-tier technological genius.
And each time a talent was unlocked or grew, the system would arrange ten to fifty card-flipping rewards. One out of eight cards would be chosen, and each contained many things related to his talents. The lowest reward from card-flipping was a Bronze Card, which mostly contained Gold Coins. These Gold Coins could be accumulated to purchase items in the system. Sometimes, he would also flip to equipment with a Heberon Technology or Celestial Technology style.
Every ten card flips would guarantee one Silver Card. Silver Cards would contain more Gold Coins, as well as better items. For example, a portion of knowledge from Celestial or Heberon Technology.
If he was lucky, he might even flip a Gold Card, which would yield even more excellent and complete items and knowledge.
If one had to describe it, the Heberon Technology mechanical creations drawn from Bronze Cards were equivalent in value to common monsters in a white map. Those from Silver Cards were equivalent to elite monsters in a white map. And those from Gold Cards were equivalent to BOSS-level lord monsters.
As for whether there were better medals above Gold Cards, Luke Field did not yet know.
Over these five years, Luke Field had flipped cards at least close to two hundred times. Bronze Cards accounted for over one hundred and fifty of those, and nearly half were empty cards with only Gold Coins. Of the remaining flips, there was only one Gold Card, and all the others were Silver Cards. The items obtained were a mixed bag, including some Heberon and Celestial-style technological creations, as well as some unique materials.
Knowledge-type cards were the rarest; the only Gold Card he received was a knowledge-type card. Compared to the fragmented, and sometimes severely incomplete, knowledge systems obtained from Bronze and Silver Cards, the knowledge acquired from the Gold Card was vast and complete. So vast and complete that Luke Field dared not absorb it all at once, but had to receive it in batches, from shallow to deep.
Artificial Intelligence - Mind Upload, Creation, Change - Consciousness Immortality.
Although it wasn't knowledge of Heberon Technology's most renowned Mechanical Throne industrial system or the full energy system, this didn't mean Heberon Technology was weak in intelligent mind Technology; it had its own unique style and development direction.
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"Is the matter resolved?" Luke Field asked, looking at the approaching blonde woman.
The woman was undoubtedly an extremely capable assistant. In terms of family background, intelligence, education, ability, and appearance, she could be called a favored daughter of heaven. If not for his parents being old family friends with her family, and their mutual understanding, he alone would not have been able to recruit such an excellent talent as a secretary at the start.
Her importance to him was equivalent to Pepper Potts's importance to Tony Stark. Without her, just managing the company would be enough to drive him and Stark to distraction.
Ina Sandra sighed helplessly at his words, "Seven commercial spies. Director George Stacy has them under control. They'll definitely be spending a long time in prison."
"Cheer up, this is an inevitable side effect of rapid expansion." Luke Field shrugged, comforting her, "Think about it, if we weren't thriving and achieving remarkable results, why would those commercial spies flock to us? Right? Honestly, I'm very satisfied with the abilities of these seven people. It's a pity."
Ina Sandra was puzzled, "I don't understand why you're in such a hurry to expand?"
"Because if I don't expand rapidly, it won't be able to carry my excellent brain, which is overflowing with inspiration." Luke Field joked, standing up, a smile appearing on his youthful, handsome face with its defined features: "Let's go, Director George Stacy is an old acquaintance and friend of ours, let's not keep him waiting."
Luke Field certainly didn't want to expand so rapidly. If he could, he even wanted to lay low a bit and avoid too much attention. Unfortunately, things didn't go as he wished! Looking at the unlock and growth conditions for [Manufacturing Mastery], he sighed deeply, "It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't."
Manufacturing Mastery:
Unlock Condition: Possess a research team completely under your control and command, with a minimum of one hundred people!
Growth Condition: You need to increase your own prestige and strength, or that of your affiliated group.
Description: As the monarch of Heberon, you need to have influence that commands a hundred responses, and prestige revered by all.
This almost completely blocked Luke Field's path to developing steadily while laying low. Since fame and exposure were inevitable, it was natural to seize every second to enhance his own strength to cope with the coming storms from the outside World and the various crises about to arrive in this World.
As long as it doesn't collapse, expand as quickly as possible, and upgrade as quickly as possible.
Under this philosophy, Luke Field, whose mind needed to be fully focused on researching and thoroughly understanding the Heberon and Celestial Technology he possessed, naturally needed someone with sufficient ability to steer the rapidly advancing ship of Haibolun Technology, to prevent it from capsizing in the turbulent seas. So far, Ina Sandra has done surprisingly well in this regard!
The two walked out of the conference room and went directly to Luke's, or rather, Ina Sandra's office. Inside the office, a middle-aged man in a Police uniform saw Luke and Ina, and walked up to them with a warm smile, speaking in an exaggerated tone: "Oh, look who it is?"
Luke also smiled and exchanged a few pleasantries with the middle-aged man.
"How's Gwen doing?"
"Fine, except she keeps pestering me about interning here. But she's just a high school student, what could she do here? It'd be good if she didn't cause trouble."
"Don't say that, Gwen is very talented."
"Let's not talk about her for now. Did you poke a commercial spy's nest here? This is the third time this month! If this keeps up, I think all the commercial spies in New York will be caught in one swoop by you." Director George Stacy said with a chuckle.
"I don't want this either, but there are always people who use these unsavory methods, right?" Luke Field spread his hands helplessly, "Thank you for your hard work, Uncle George. Next month, I'll sponsor your Police Department with another batch of weapons to help you upgrade. As Police protecting the safety of the people, you can't be too shabby with your equipment."
Upon hearing this, Director George Stacy's smile deepened by three points. He rubbed his hands and chuckled, "Honestly, the weapons produced by Haibolun Technology are indeed effective. At the very least, they've greatly reduced officer casualties and quelled many controversial incidents. If possible, when you sponsor us, it would be best to sponsor more of your Haibolun attribute bullets, especially the frost bullets. They've been a huge help in terms of public satisfaction!"
"No problem. I'll have Ina arrange for someone to coordinate with you then. Non-lethal crowd-control bullets, that equipment is indeed suitable for you."
Luke Field couldn't help but chuckle. The most striking sight in the New York Police Department recently was that after a warning, they would immediately open fire, completely disregarding the civilians around the criminals. As long as they hit the criminal, or even a civilian, they would directly pull the frozen statues into the car and throw them into the Police Department. For this reason, the Police cars of major New York Police Departments had all been replaced with pickup trucks.
While the major New York Police Departments were making a name for themselves, Haibolun Technology, which provided them with these new weapons, also became widely renowned. Especially within the Police Department, Haibolun Technology stood out. Recently, a congressman even proposed that the U.S. should procure these specialized weapons from Haibolun Technology and distribute them to Police Departments in various states.
"We cannot let New York be the sole beneficiary of such 'merciful' weapons that do not provoke criticism from certain good-hearted individuals. Compared to that small expenditure, it will help us avoid and reduce many unnecessary protests and troubles," the congressman said.