Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire-Chapter 830 462: God of Steel, Mechanical Church

"Mother, Father won't just build one Floating City; he'll build many more. By then, I'll also receive a Floating City assigned by him."
Ilya understood his mother's concerns; too many similar things have happened in history. But he believed these things couldn't happen to them.
"Are you waiting for your father to assign you a Floating City?"
"Everything follows Father's arrangement."
"You're truly Noah's good son!"
Ophelia heard her son's answer and scolded him with frustration.
"I trust my father!"
"I trust him too, but he values emotions too much, sometimes to the point of losing himself."
Ophelia snorted coldly.
It's not that she disapproved of Noah treating his human brother well, as that was after all the only heir of his adoptive parents. Still, the treatment Noah gave this brother seemed a bit too excessive.
From the arrangement of the battle sequences, even his several children, including Ilya, had to follow the command of this human Warlord, which was rather out of the question.
"Mother, since you also trust Father, what's there to worry about?"
Fairness and justice are extremely important both for the nation and the family, directly relating to internal harmony and affecting future development.
To truly balance everything is immensely difficult, nearly impossible most of the time. No matter how things are divided, there will always be opinions. Therefore, the best way is for those being distributed to feel they have been treated fairly.
"Since the design plans of the Floating City have been fully verified, let's simultaneously start the construction of phases two to six of the Floating City!"
Facing the difficulty of distributing just one Floating City, Noah chose to build five Floating Cities at once. It would indeed put a tremendous strain on finances, but these construction costs and economic pressures could be transferred to the vassal states.
The real challenge lay in the shortage of related technical workers on the construction and production lines, and the lack of operators after the completion of the Floating City.
To make a complete Floating City have strong combat power, it's not just about putting a Legendary Great Arcanist inside. You also need thousands of Spellcasters, and an even larger number of Alchemy Constructs to maintain the operation of the whole Floating City.
Otherwise, why would a Floating City be able to shake the Divine Realm? The Divine aren't soft, touchable things.
But these could all be solved because, during the technology verification process, a small Floating City capable of housing 200,000 people had already been built in Noah's territory.
It's more than enough for training purposes. The real issue remains the shortage of technical workers. While economic resource problems can be solved, the lack of workers cannot be resolved in a short time.
Thus, Noah decided to step up himself, because in the Transcendent world dominated by individual strength, powerful Transcendents are the primary productivity.
Even though the World Will does not support the construction of Floating Cities that can play a decisive role in colonial wars in the Otherworld, current Noah can independently solve the production problem.
"Your Majesty, in the sixteenth batch of materials brought back by the fleet, there are 1.9 billion tons of refined iron and 967 million tons of refined copper, with pure aluminum..."
Noah listened to the from the Fairy Queen in front of him, casually waved a Dragon Claw to dismiss her, and looked at the mountain of refined metals piled up before him. These were the basic resources looted from the Otherworld; they seemed unimportant but were in extraordinarily large quantities.
Word Spirit·Elemental Magnet Furnace
As soon as Noah used the Word Spirit suitable for production, a massive domain unfolded and expanded from him, immediately revealing an invisible, colossal furnace.
In this Elemental Magnet Furnace, even the rare and precious Transcendent metals like Pure Gold, Mithril, and Mountain Bronze didn't last much longer than ordinary steel or aluminum, all turning into liquid form.
Subsequently, hundreds to thousands of streams of liquid metal intermingled under Noah's will, according to metal recipes he had memorized, gradually extending or morphing as per the design to form the components needed for constructing the Floating City.
With the Dragon King personally involved, the issue of insufficient productivity was quickly resolved, and although the first Floating City took nearly forty years to initially complete,
even with five projects started simultaneously, the timeline was reduced to less than seven years, shortening the construction time by nearly six times.
Such rapid speed was mind-blowing for the Goblin Engineers who witnessed all this, completely reshaping their worldview.
What Noah did seemed miraculous to Goblin Engineers—easily extracting impurity-free metals from deep earth veins, then transforming ordinary metals into alchemical alloys with Transcendent properties, finally extending them into desired shapes.
God of Steel and Machinery!
This was the private title given to Noah by the goblin community, who had essentially achieved elite education across the board after the completion of five Floating Cities simultaneously.
They formed a secret society in this regard, worshiping Noah as the God of Steel and Machinery in their unique goblin way.
"Let them be!"
Upon hearing the fairies the private activities of the goblins, knowing they were worshiping him, Noah decided to let it be.
Although their language reconstruction of his image was peculiar, it wasn't unacceptable to regard him as the God of Steel and Machinery.
Despite the deity's name suggesting an encroachment on the domain of forged and alchemical crafts, Noah didn't mind. In his current status, no deity viewed him as a threat, and since this belief was developed by goblins, those deities wouldn't think much of it either.
"Those goblins under Your Majesty's influence are so devout in their faith towards you; it's reached fanaticism. If unguided, it's hard to tell what they might do."
"Have they done anything extreme yet?"
"Your dislike for the appearance of goblins is known to most of them, and now they believe you are the God of Steel and Machinery.
So, a considerable number of goblins advocate for mechanical transformation to alter their form of life, to gain your favor and affection."
"How are they transforming?"
Noah showed interest, as goblins' inherent talents in pursuing the path of Transcendence were not worth mentioning.
Even within the goblin race, with special branches like Earth Goblins and Bear Goblins, they were too weak as monsters, and had no right to survive and perpetuate in the world.
Yet through their intelligence, the most ordinary goblins secured a place in Noah's Order. Their small, active green-skinned forms could be seen in every Battle Group, responsible for maintaining damaged engineering devices and Magic-guided Kinetic Armor.
It could be said that the development of Noah's territory to its current state and the construction of a Floating City all owed a undeniable contribution to goblins, so Noah was quite tolerant of them, as long as they didn't parade around him; he really disliked that greasy green skin.
"Currently, the most radical Goblin Engineer has modified themselves to the extent of having only one intact brain and heart left.
According to the goblin's internal research plan, this engineer is said to plan on creating an everlasting energy core to replace their fragile flesh heart, achieving immortality through machinery."
"The transformation is quite decent!"
Based on the information provided by a fairy, Noah glances at the current form of that Goblin Engineer—simply put, it's a mechanical T-Rex!
The goblins' aesthetics had totally been distorted by his influence.