Chapter 45: The Mecha Dynasty, Section 3

Time passed slowly, and before long, Hei Fa had been back on Death Star for over three months. Yet he still didn’t get a moment’s rest. There was simply too much for him to handle on Death Star.
His last trip to the Moor Empire had lasted nearly half a year away from Death Star. Although Sulei and Koko had been taking care of the household, that was limited to internal affairs. Matters related to military strategy and equipment upgrades still required his decision as the head of the household.
Half a year—neither long nor short. Under normal circumstances, it might not be enough to accomplish much. But with a crazy group like the Black Prisoners on Death Star, the only thing that mattered to these madmen seemed to be constantly creating things to satisfy their insane fantasies. So when Hei Fa returned this time, he was faced with a mountain of tasks.
Snake Fang was just one of them.
After the previous test flight, Hei Fa already had a preliminary understanding of the performance of this mecha and was impressed by the creativity of the Black Prisoners. After a series of adjustments and enhancements, this giant mecha was naturally included in Death Star’s new generation of weapons. It became the strongest supplement to Blood Moon and Sunset; every ten units of Blood Moon or Sunset came equipped with a set of Snake Fang components, allowing them to be mounted on these giant mechas when needed, turning them into invincible giants that terrified everyone.
Of course, new warships were also being developed as platforms for these giant mechas.
The Black Prisoners truly lived up to being a group of madmen. After Hei Fa provided them with the physical model of the Leech Warship, these madmen analyzed it thoroughly in just half a month. Of course, Hei Fa also contributed significantly by using his mechanical skills to extract detailed structural diagrams of the Leech Warship. Even so, their work efficiency was still astonishing.
Once they fully understood the capabilities of the Leech Warship, they quickly presented Hei Fa with the design plans for the new warships he urgently needed—in less than a month.
The new warship was named “Virtual Puppet.” In line with the Black Prisoners’ usual design style, it was also a high-speed warship. It was long and narrow, resembling a long needle, with a total length of about five kilometers—nearly half that of Li Feng. Its diameter was only a little over 500 meters, giving it a very slender appearance.

But it would be a huge mistake to judge the strength of this warship based solely on its appearance. This slender-looking warship is actually the most resilient among all those produced on Death Star. In some aspects, it even surpasses the Tempest-class ships!!
That’s because, just like the Leech-class ships, it possesses that amazing energy absorption capability! In other words, ordinary energy weapons are completely ineffective against it!!
Actually, this is thanks to Black Hair. If he hadn’t brought back the Leech-class ships to Death Star, the members of Black Prison would never have imagined such a terrifying power existed in this universe—energy absorption, which is the nemesis of all energy weapons. And the mirror armor they had painstakingly developed could only achieve partial reflection and attenuation!!
However, the price Black Hair paid to create such a thing was truly high. Damn it, the secret behind the Leech-class ships’ ability to absorb energy wasn’t some technology at all—it was that special armor on their surface!
Stone Essence Armor!!
Pay attention: it’s not the armor that matters, but the Stone Essence!!
Black Hair had twins under his command, as well as the vast Thirty-One Star Systems. He was originally very wealthy. But after coming to this conclusion, he found himself suddenly poor. Stone Essence—after all these years of human societal development, no one has ever succeeded in creating it. Only the Moor Empire possesses such a rare substance, and only they have the ability to extract Stone Essence from ordinary minerals.
If it were just ordinary Stone Essence, it would be easy. With Black Hair’s influence in the Moor Empire, obtaining such extraction equipment would be a matter of a single word. But the problem is—could the Emperor of Moor’s personal guard use ordinary Stone Essence armor?
Absolutely not.
It can be seen from the characteristic of the Leech-class ships’ ability to absorb energy attacks. Their Stone Essence armor must be the Emperor’s secret weapon. Not to mention a human like Black Hair, even among the true Moors, those who can access this secret are extremely rare!!
So, Black Hair simply can’t get it.
If he can’t get it, then he can’t. Even if Madaro, the leader of the Black Prison people, cried, begged, or pretended to be crazy in front of Black Hair, he still wouldn’t be able to obtain it. But to satisfy these madmen, Black Hair gritted his teeth and made a decision that Suley would scold him for being wasteful—to dismantle it!!
Dismantle it from the Leech-class ships!!
You tried to make things special so that I couldn’t get your secret, right? Fine. I won’t try to get it—I’ll just dismantle it right from you!!

Fortunately, Kurokami brought quite a number of Leech Warships this time—nearly a thousand at least. The Stone Essence armor taken apart was also sufficient. At a single command, the Black Prisoners immediately got to work. These madmen didn’t care if Kurokami was distressed or not. The engineering mechs scurried around like ants, stripping each Leech Warship down to its skeleton. Kurokami’s eyes twitched at the sight, while the monkey beside him grinned broadly.

Yet this dismantling actually yielded results. Soon, when an analysis report on the Stone Essence armor was placed on Kurokami’s desk, he realized that not only was it related to the secret of energy absorption, but it was also the key factor behind the combined capabilities of those Leech Warships.

These special stones could actually fuse when necessary! Stones of the same type attracted each other, and upon contact, they could easily merge into one entity!

No wonder those Leech Warships combined so perfectly, with not even a single gap visible. The real reason lay here. For a moment, Kurokami was truly proud of his foresight for making such a brilliant decision.

With this, the conditions for combining a “Virtual Puppet” were met. As long as it was equipped with this armor, it could achieve seamless integration just like the Leech Warships.

Of course, its target for integration wasn’t warships but the massive Snake Fang Zero models.

A five-kilometer-long “Virtual Puppet” could connect to twenty Snake Fangs. These Snake Fangs resembled beetles, attached to the puppet’s round hull, making it look like a plump fat man from afar, with an uneven surface. To accommodate its bulky shape, the Black Prisoners installed seventy-two high-thrust main engines on its rear, arranged densely like the tail feathers of an arrow.

As a result, the Virtual Puppet had no offensive capabilities. In fact, it didn’t even have a single gun. Aside from a hundred Phalanx self-defense systems at the bow and stern, it had no weapons at all. And those combined 200 Phalanx systems could only fire missiles to ward off mosquitoes or clear paths while navigating through dense meteor showers.

But so what? With twenty Snake Fangs for protection, the Virtual Puppet could be considered the most formidable warship in the universe. Even Moore-class giants, several times its size, would likely flee in terror upon encountering it. Twenty heavily armed Snake Fangs could turn it into scrap in an instant.

From this perspective, virtual puppets can hardly be considered warships at all—they are rather motherships. Space aircraft carriers! He was very satisfied to see the first pure space aircraft carrier in the universe born under his own hands. Blackhair was somewhat excited. To achieve this goal, he had mobilized almost all the resources under the Blood Wolves over these three months to fully support this unprecedented transformation. The mining planets in the Twin Stars and the 31st Star System sent astronomical amounts of resources to the designated production planets every day, where they were turned into brand-new Snake Teeth mechs. Meanwhile, all Blood Wolf warriors fought over ownership of these Snake Teeth mechs. That’s right, they fought among themselves. After all, Blackhair’s Blood Wolves always settled disputes with fists—whether it was former royal guards, noble viscounts, or interstellar pirates. Once you entered their ranks, you had only one identity: a warrior under the Blood Wolves. All equipment was assigned based on your capabilities; the stronger you were, the better equipment you received, along with more components for the Blood Moon and Sunset. Even Blackhair wasn’t an exception. If anyone thought they could be stronger than Blackhair, they could challenge him at any time. The winner would receive generous rewards and a new mech assignment along with a new position. Of course, the competitions weren’t limited to mech combat—they also included squad command and fleet operation. Everything fell within this scope. In the human world, Blackhair’s Blood Wolves were the most bloodthirsty, largely due to this brutal competition system. In a sense, it even resembled the Moorish martial contests, with the only difference being the timing of the competitions. The martial contests took place once every hundred years, while among the Blood Wolves, battles could happen at any time. Thus, over the next two months, the competition among Blood Wolf warriors could only be described as fierce. In the end, after intense battles, the former captains proved superior. Most of them were Blackhair’s old subordinates—pirates or sand raiders—who proudly swaggered around, constantly lecturing the defeated newcomers while hanging around together. That very night, the bars on Death Star were emptied by them. Three months passed. The first batch of 600 Snake Tooth Zero models and their carrier ships finally appeared before everyone. That day, Death Star was in an uproar. Looking at those enormous mechs, everyone’s eyes were filled with fanaticism. Amidst the cheers, a term suddenly began to circulate among the people… Mech Dynasty!