Chapter 404

Adam did not hide his killing from the rest of the protesting mortals. They all clearly saw the horrifying scene of the resisters evaporating mysteriously in the magic circle, their souls scattering.

Sometimes, violence was the most effective way to achieve a goal. The threat of death was more effective than any persuasion. A powerful fist was necessary for a new system that touched on class interests and challenged millions of years of living habits to be implemented.

Only by breaking the old could a new one be built.

After the death of an ordinary person, nothing was left behind, including their corpses. After the death of a mage, their personal space would shatter, and all sorts of items would float in the air. Adam waved his hand and collected them all. Then, he asked the rest of the protesting group kindly, "Now, do you have any other questions?"

No one dared to make a sound, not even a nod. They only stared at the 'young man' in front of them who had killed thousands of people and acted as if nothing had happened. They were afraid that the slightest movement would lead to a fatal disaster. They wished they were not here at all.

Adam looked around. Seeing that no one was making a sound, he nodded in satisfaction and said, "Since there are no other questions, you may leave. The law enforcement robots and teacher robots will arrive at your city later.

Remember, don't do anything unnecessary. Your life and death and will are not as important as you think. "

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After the first wave of confrontation ended, both sides were waiting for the next opportunity to strike. Although the small-scale resistance never stopped, they did not organize a group action like before.

Adam's tough approach had finally achieved its intended effect. The Freedom Faction knew that the hand they stretched out now would be cut off for nothing.

And so, the Academy Continent returned to peace on the surface. It was a peace that had never been seen before.

The higher-ups of both sides knew that this peace was only on the surface. They were both secretly operating or accumulating power. Adam, on the other hand, was taking advantage of this period of rapid development, striving to make his plan a reality.

Although the current Academic City looked bright and beautiful on the surface, it was actually still barren. Apart from the administrative mages sent by the Parliament and Adam, there were only a few factories built by Adam.

Some mortal factions that did not have close ties with the corporations had tried to send representatives to the Academy City to report daily affairs as well as listen to and carry out the mage's instructions so that they could better manage the civilians under their rule. However, Adam turned them down. Their goal was obvious — they hoped to use gentler methods to get closer to power and become the spokesperson of power, so that they would at least be treated no worse than before. But these people did not know that Adam did not even need their mouths to speak. Adam felt that mortals now only needed to be passive and obedient, and did not have the right to negotiate with him.

Apart from these trivial matters, Adam focused all his attention on the few factories in the peaceful month.

The ordinary communicator factory was one of them. It was the one with the largest daily output, but it was not the largest. It was the robot factory and the rune factory that were.

Robots were different from the alchemy puppets that were widely used in the mage world. Their functions and strength could not be compared to the alchemy puppets equipped with artificial souls and all kinds of advanced elemental activated metals or even biological metals. However, they had an important advantage, and that was that they were easy to manufacture and cheap.

The core of the personal chip was the Origin Flame. It could be seen as a more advanced form of the real chip. It was alive and could be upgraded and evolved. On the other hand, the chip that Adam used in the robot's body was dead, stylized and standardized.

Thanks to the establishment and development of quantum mechanics, as well as Adam's promotion of electricity, semiconductor technology and integrated circuit technology were developed from nothing almost overnight. With Adam's participation, the various equipment needed to manufacture semiconductors and integrated circuits were rapidly formed through many alchemy experiments. After the relevant mages in the personal chip research institute understood quantum theory, they quickly created the simplest integrated circuit using silicon as the material.

But that was it, mainly because the mages were not optimistic about the prospects of this technology. The difference between a dead chip and the Origin Flame was too great. To the mages, it was almost useless. After they succeeded in creating it, they just casually put it aside and no longer paid attention to it.

However, this technology was crucial to Adam's plan of laying out the Academy's mainland. With the integrated circuit as the core, simplified robots with electromagnetic robots as the template were quickly created.

They were divided into two models, the teaching type and the law enforcement type. As the name suggested, the law enforcement type robots had simple runes added to the surface of their bodies, allowing them to exert the strength of a Level 6 mage in terms of energy level.

Among them, the teaching type robots would be permanent, and the subsequent replacements would be to better complete the basic teaching tasks. The law enforcement type robots would gradually leave the stage after the Academy's mainland matured, leaving only the runes, which would be distributed to apprentices who had no hope of promotion after graduating from the academy, as well as the elite commoners.

Adam had no intention of holding the authority of the Academy's mainland. To the commoners, this was a vast world that they might not be able to explore in their lifetime. But to him or other mages who had aspirations of the entire Void, it was just a corner of the world, as insignificant as dust.

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The combat test was carried out on an Anti-Mage island.

The law enforcement robot carried out the combat mission perfectly. After the runes were fully powered, its combat strength was comparable to a Level 6 Anti-Mage. The apprentices on the other hand were not a match for them.

"Its combat strength is not bad. It's enough to manage the apprentices." Adam and his assistants said after watching the entire process.

The guardians and the Nightwatchers thought so too. They were the embodiment of good and evil, the two ends of light and darkness. Although their functions were different, they all represented and maintained the order of the mage world, and that was what they valued the most.

When the Academy's mainland was on the right track, the number of apprentices would definitely increase exponentially. When that time came, how to deal with the relationship between the apprentices and the commoners would be a difficult problem. The law enforcement robot's appearance solved this problem well, and could buy a lot of time to find a balance between the two.

Garfield looked at these stiff robots, and then at his own nanomachines body, and expressed his satisfaction. Although they were all robots, Garfield was obviously of a much higher level than these 'kindred'. Of course, what he was most satisfied with was his current position as a law enforcement officer. Although his sequence was relatively low in the system, and he acted more as the main control panel, he already considered himself a big shot.

This reminded him of the 'glorious years' back in the Dragon Plane.

"I think there are some problems with the basic academy's teaching materials you guys wrote." Adam raised his doubts after flipping through the few paper teaching materials in front of him.