I Can Program My Body?

Chapter 681: Building Relay Station

Three days later, with all preparations complete, Nash brought over a million professionals and scientists into his advanced storage ring.

Reaching out to the Altier Arcane Tower through his thoughts, he requested a transfer.

Materializing inside the tower, he wasted no time and projected the coordinates he had selected beforehand.

Each individual who had attended the Altier Convention had been given a basic navigational map, meaning anyone using the domain-level teleportation array could select their assigned coordinates.

The difference was that Nash carried a far more detailed map in his mind, one he had acquired from the Mechanical Race.

Soon, after paying the required fee, Nash felt the void wrap around him, taking him to an entirely new location.

Without even scanning the surrounding void, Nash ordered Atom to expand the Void Pulse from its body-wrapping suit into a full-scale battleship.

"Quick, get us to a safe location!"

Coming to his senses, Nash felt his skin crawl at the sight of dark beasts surrounding them.

Like thousands of serpents writhing in a pit, they were so densely packed that some were coiled around each other.

"This place is no place for the living!"

Because Nash had chosen a coordinate rich in resources and close to a forbidden zone, the level of danger was naturally just as extreme.

Had it not been for Atom’s quick reaction and the speed and durability of the Void Pulse, Nash might have been swallowed by the swarm then and there.

Watching the battleship cut through the horizon at full speed, Nash finally let out a long breath of relief.

Due to storage constraints, the Void Pulse was their only significant offensive asset at the moment.

While his storage ring could technically hold a few tier 8 battleships, they had chosen to prioritize more critical cargo, the large-scale defensive weapon.

Besides, the space inside the ring was too unstable to safely store a Tier 8 battleship.

"I need to acquire more higher-tier storage treasures in the future," Nash noted to himself.

After flying for a while, as the density of dark beasts began to thin, Nash ordered Atom to begin the sweep.

They were currently in unclaimed territory, meaning dark beasts lurked in every direction.

Rather than wandering aimlessly, it was better to choose a suitable spot and begin clearing the surrounding area.

With the Void Pulse’s firepower, eliminating all tier 7 and tier 8 dark beasts in the vicinity should be manageable.

---

Several days later, after non-stop engagement, the space within a radius of a few million kilometers had been cleared. Although some dark beasts still lingered, none exceeded tier 6.

After, Nash called out the millions of individuals he had brought with him, and they materialized in the now-open space.

"Time to work. Guardians, spread along the outer perimeter and eliminate any dark beasts that approach."

"Scientists and professionals, assemble the Neon Defensive System as quickly as possible. If you detect any danger, call out immediately, and we will support you."

With those two orders, everyone moved without hesitation, not wasting a single second.

They had already run simulations before departing, so every person knew their role.

The thousands of tier 8 war gods fanned out to continue clearing the remaining dark beasts, while the rest focused on setting up the large-scale defensive weaponry.

This was not an ordinary defensive weapon; it was something Nash had procured from the Mechanical Race. Given sufficient modules, it could protect an enormous area without strain.

To support the assembly, they had even brought three tier 7 mother-core ships.

Although this would slow production of the dark energy purification machines, their safety took precedence.

With everyone in motion, Nash asked Atom to maintain a watchful eye while he retrieved the breathing earth loom from the storage container.

Since he had purchased it, the loom had been expanding continuously without pause.

Supplied with an abundance of void source crystals, Nash had set it to expand one thousand cubic kilometers every second, consuming void source crystals per kilometer.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t increase the expansion rate, but testing had confirmed that this was the most cost-effective speed.

Doubling the expansion rate would not merely double or triple the crystal consumption; it would spike it to five times the amount.

Since there was no urgent need for such a vast landmass in the short term, Nash saw no reason to be wasteful.

Soon, the breathing earth loom, which had been expanding for over fifteen days, was finally brought out.

Staring at the cube stretching over a thousand kilometers in every direction, Nash couldn’t help but feel a sense of awe.

To better manage land distribution, he had shaped its expansion into a cube rather than a flat surface.

The land itself, however, could not yet be used as a space platform; it was still too fragile. It needed to be compressed, refined, reinforced, and inscribed with arrays before it would be suitable.

That massive undertaking would require considerable time and manpower.

For now, Nash could only shape the land into a temporary surface upon which the Neon Defensive System could be assembled and calibrated.

Manipulating the core of the breathing earth loom, he flattened the terrain as the others unloaded every component onto the ground.

With a stable surface beneath their feet, the pace of assembly quickened noticeably.

Meanwhile, on the outer perimeter, the war gods fought without rest.

Although the Void Pulse had already eliminated all tier 8 dark beasts and most of the tier 7 ones, swarms of lower-tier beasts remained.

Worse still, drawn by the vitality and energy radiating from the group, dark beasts from further reaches of the void began converging on their position.

The air was thick with tension as everyone worked in total focus, as though their lives depended on it.

Nash was not idle either. After laying out the breathing earth loom, he joined the tier 6 scientists in calibrating the Neon Defensive System.

To reduce the concentration of dark energy miasma in the area, he also deployed hundreds of thousands of the first batch of dark energy purification devices.

As the dark energy miasma was gradually siphoned away, everyone seemed to unconsciously relax, their hands moving with greater precision and efficiency.

Steadily, with everything progressing as planned, time moved forward.