Chapter 162: Holy Cow, Isn't That Just the Machine God Body of the Greek Gods!
Starship Velber 02 actually got knocked down by meteors?
And a meteor shower at that... Aside from a single piece of debris, every single meteor slammed into the Starship!?
They even thoughtfully reinforced the material of the meteors to increase their destructiveness...
If this were a normal event unrelated to tags, Noah could only say that this Starship was a lost cause; it was practically a meteor magnet in space!
If that were the case, Noah would have to wonder if giving the Starship his chosen Mythic-Grade Talent, [(Mythic) Fool's Luck]—which sacrificed IQ for luck—would be the only way to buff its luck to the level of a normal person.
But that probably wasn't it.
He felt this was likely the effect of that Mythic-Grade Talent—Noah originally thought that after choosing this talent, it would at most turn him into a version of Liu Xiu.
But he never expected that Liu Xiu wouldn't even be fit to hold a candle to this. If Liu Xiu had possessed this, it wouldn't have been a single meteor falling into Wang Mang's camp back then, but a meteor shower. And while Wang Mang was still alive, the meteor shower would have had to lock onto his head like an aimbot and pelt him relentlessly!
In short, Noah was thoroughly impressed by this talent.
As for the 2/3 possibility that it wasn't the talent's effect and Starship Velber 02 was just that unlucky... there was no point in guessing. He'd wait for the next simulation. He still had one simulation chance left today. He would see how things went this time, and be a bit more steady next time. At that point, he would see if the Starship still got hit by meteors without this talent.
...
If it was the talent's bonus, it was ridiculous; if it wasn't, it was even more ridiculous!
[Manaka Sajyou reported this matter back. Then, Morgan, refusing to believe in such streaks of bad luck, went to investigate. You also went along at Mary's request.]
[Later, just as Manaka Sajyou felt this matter definitely had something to do with you, not only Morgan, but even Mary—who had been hiding in your dreams—suspected whether you had secretly done something behind her back.]
[You couldn't be bothered to explain things that were impossible to explain. Morgan and the others directly began researching the Starship after discovering it had been knocked down.]
[Soon after, Morgan and the others discovered that although the Starship's structure was somewhat different from any Alchemical creation they currently knew, the structure itself was not difficult to dismantle. Thus, with the help of Manaka Sajyou and Mary, Morgan successfully analyzed the Starship's structure.]
[Then Morgan discovered that, as if someone had arranged everything, your group—which originally lacked any materials to attempt repairing or building a Starship—now happened to have two types of materials never seen before.]
[One was material from those Magical Beasts from underground, and the other was the meteors that had downed the Starship.]
Good grief...
This Conqueror's Haki-tier luck had truly set everything up perfectly for that Starship.
However, seeing this reminded Noah of something. He remembered that in the Type-Moon setting, it was said that Starships lacked space jump technology. So even if they really did replicate the Starship, its greatest use would likely be limited to activities within the solar system.
Without space jump technology, it was very difficult to break out of the solar system.
Noah's Alchemy knowledge, which was at the level of a top-tier God of Forging, made him clearly aware that there was a 'Plasma Barrier' around the solar system, formed between the solar wind and interstellar space.
Under normal circumstances, those outside cannot enter, and those inside cannot leave.
The Starship in the solar system was likely transmitted in by Umbral Star Velber, but under normal circumstances, trying to enter or exit the solar system was incredibly difficult.
Especially for large, manned ships. Trying to fly out slowly required extremely high standards for materials and resistance to equipment interference; the difficulty was beyond ordinary.
Trying to cross quickly was also an issue—the distance was too great.
If you started accelerating from outside the solar system and reached the speed of light by the time you hit Earth, you would only arrive at a solar system whose time was completely different from the present.
It was like one person living in normal time and another living at the speed of light; would their time be the same?
No.
And as long as the distance was given, that seemingly vast gap might actually be even further than imagined, because besides space, it also involved time.
This made the matter of entering and exiting the solar system quite difficult. Either you couldn't get out, or you couldn't come back... or you got out and couldn't return, or you got in and couldn't leave.
However, this didn't mean it was absolutely impossible to leave the solar system; it was just extremely difficult and the cost would be immense.
"So even if we really can build a Starship, it probably won't be able to fly out of the solar system while carrying passengers—unless, after manufacturing the Starship, we quickly make further breakthroughs and gain a deeper understanding of those so-called faster-than-light phenomena, such as cosmic expansion, warp drive, wormhole traversal, and quantum entanglement."
"These so-called superluminal speeds actually do not belong to the speed of material motion, because they do not involve the transfer of energy or information. Only in such a case, combined with the Starship's structural strength, which is claimed in the settings to be able to withstand superluminal speeds, might it work..."
This was Noah's judgment as an Alchemical master whose Alchemy had almost reached the known limits.
And in fact, it was very similar to what he had thought...
[Morgan, Manaka Sajyou, and Mary soon realized that even if they built another identical Starship, they wouldn't be able to achieve much.]
[First, the Starship lacks space jump capabilities, and you do not possess interstellar space jump technology. Therefore, it does not support the Starship breaking out of the solar system, nor does it even support the Starship performing ultra-high-speed interstellar travel.]
[Second, the Starship's energy supply seemed to come from its cockpit, which was empty after the crash. Although they had some deductions, they couldn't be certain about some things yet.]
[But at least they knew that something that should have been in the cockpit was now gone. There was a high probability that it had landed along with the falling Starship and then fled to Earth.]
[However, this matter would have to be investigated slowly.]
[On the contrary, regarding the construction of a Starship, Morgan had other ideas after seeing you.]
[That was to use the Starship's construction model to build a specialized 'Starship' for you, who possessed the Tree of Life and immense Divinity. This way, you could provide energy to the Starship, and such a Starship would also allow your power to be utilized better.]
Seeing this, Noah was reminded of the Greek gods.
The possibility Morgan mentioned... wasn't that just the Machine God Body of those Greek Machine Gods!
If they really could create something with multiple functions, it would indeed be useful to him—after all, it could be seen from those Greek gods that having a true body versus not having one, and having functional bonuses versus not having them, were simply not on the same level.
But...
Morgan...
The previous Fairy Knights plan wasn't something that could be finished in a short time, and now she planned to build a Machine God Body for his Mediterranean Pantheon assembly.
Both of these plans would require a massive amount of accumulated time to complete.
And...
Compared to these things that required time to accumulate, Noah was actually more concerned about another point.
That was that the Starship was empty, with no sign of Titan Altera.
In addition... the Black Mist that he had regarded as a great enemy in the last simulation, which had forced him to release the Excalibur twice, didn't seem to have appeared this time either.
Morgan and the others didn't know about the Black Mist, and his "brainless" self apparently hadn't noticed it either.
In that case...
Without the Starship, those black mists were still within the scope of the planet. This time, perhaps he could see what the essence of that thing really was.