"So, what is this thing?"
In the Emperor's coalition camp, everyone was staring at the wreckage on the ground in a daze.
Half an hour ago, it was heard that the mortar position of the Knights Templar was flattened by the Azure Sword Mercenaries and the Richardnner Swordsmen. The excited Emperor waved his hand and announced that he would celebrate the victory for the entire army in Verona tonight.
As a result, the first knight troop that entered the city was completely wiped out, and only one soldier from the second troop survived. But this guy was smart and took away the remains of the things that attacked them.
This pile of wreckage... looks like a mechanical spider? But the torso is completely deformed, as if something exploded from inside, the metal cracks are extremely sharp, and there is a smell of gunpowder.
"This should be a spider booby trap." Seeing that everyone was looking at him, the person who "should be most familiar with the Holy See", Duke Wolfe said helplessly.
"Spider booby trap?" The emperor frowned.
"It's just a simple robot in the shape of a spider," said Duke Wolfe. "Someone is remotely controlling it. It will clatter to your feet very quickly and then explode."
"Can the Holy See build robots now?" the Duke of Bavaria asked sternly.
Robots have arrived, so how far will synthetic humans be? Have the angel troops already assembled a regiment
"Ah, no, no." Duke Wolfe said, "The inside of this spider mine is at best an advanced single-chip microcomputer. The mechanical structure does not have much technical content, but the control algorithm is powerful... But the algorithm is in the hands of the operator. We can't reverse engineer it with just this wreckage..."
The emperor automatically ignored his next words and asked, "Power armor knight, can you withstand the attack of this spider mine?"
"It depends on the charge." Duke Wolfe said, "From what the surviving soldier said, it should be possible. This spider mine seems to have adjusted the charge structure, and it will stick to the legs of the power armor and explode at close range. It can be said that it is specially designed for our knights. After all, for bulletproof purposes, the chest armor and helmet of the power armor are the thickest, followed by the arms, and finally the legs..."
"I have another question," the Duke of Bavaria asked, "Is this booby trap easy to produce?"
"Alas, the hardware is not a problem. I said the main technical difficulty is the algorithm." Duke Wolfe sighed.
"And the algorithm can be replicated on a large scale," said the Duke of Franconia, still with the old griffin's unique sarcastic tone, "which means that Verona has created a large number of spiders and used them to weave a large web of minced meat, waiting for us to fill it with soldiers... or demigods. I think it's time to send out the dragons."
The Emperor said nothing, but the Duke of Carinthia said:
"If there really are a large number of these spider booby traps in the city, then no matter if it is a soldier, a knight, a transcendent, or a demigod - as long as his feet must step on the ground, he will not be safe."
"We can either choose to attack at a terrible cost, or the Church will successfully delay us. No matter which result, I'm afraid none of you here would like to see it. Based on the existing evidence, your majesty's dragon may really be the best solution to the current problem."