Deciding to coat the ship with Atomic God Metal.
Maximus quickly assessed the structure and situation of the vessel.
"A bit of medium quality," Maximus muttered after his inspection.
Even though he hadn't studied ships building extensively.
He had mastered some ship blueprint knowledge to transcendence.
Looking at the ships before him, Maximus noticed that it was mid-quality mass-produced ships.
Maximus began to contemplate how to strategically place the Atomic God Metal in the most hidden locations.
After all, he couldn't simply apply the material to the ship.
Even though it would be effective, it would reveal that something was amiss with him.
Maximus even had the idea of using Atomic God Metal on his people, but that was a matter for the future.
After careful consideration, he finally determined how to incorporate the Atomic God Metal.
Employing microprocessing, he subtly altered the ship's structure using the Atomic God Metal.
The ship's barrier was the most crucial aspect.
So Maximus used the Atomic God Metal as a buffer to enhance the energy efficiency of the barrier.
Maximus also added emergency structures to ensure that the ship would never sink.
With Atomic God Metal the size of an atom, he completed all of these modifications discreetly.
Others would only notice that something had changed within the ship.
Which he already planned to attribute to the Tier 6 puppet performing maintenance on the vessel.
In reality, the Tier 6 puppet was only conducting basic repairs, nothing more.
"Done!" Maximus muttered, observing tens of thousands of ships with reinforced enhancements.
"Now there are still hundreds of thousands more ships on other island bases," Maximus thought.
While Maximus was busy preparing and reinforcing ships on different island bases.
The other empire was having a hard time.
In the Eryndor Empire:
Due to Maximus paying the people of the Eryndor Empire to live in the Moonlight Empire.
The financial strain on the Eryndor family was successfully overcome.
Their business within the arcane continent also stabilized.
At this point, the Eryndor Empire had returned to the prosperity expected of a top empire.
However, sitting on the throne was Emperor Akash, who was frowning as he listened to the messenger before him.
"The first sea-side defense was destroyed?"
"Your Majesty, the number of Tier 5 and 6 sea beasts is overwhelming, we cannot compete with them." The messenger reasoned
"Your Majesty We should quickly shrink our defenses to prevent further losses," advised an official.
The intensity of the beast tide varied depending on the Amalgamation of Will in each territory.
The Moonlight Empire only experienced occasional Tier 5 and 6 sea beast attacks.
In contrast, these top empires were facing an overwhelming number of such tiers of sea beasts.
Furthermore, they had anticipated that the first natural disaster of the era of Imperial Domination would occur only a hundred to a thousand years later.
Now most empires were just beginning their preparations or hadn't even started yet.
Like the Eryndor Empire, they had only recently achieved financial stability.
How could they prepare for something that would happen centuries later?
"Then shrink our defenses; we must stop these losses immediately," Emperor Akash ordered.
The people of the Eryndor Empire were both his power and wealth.
His Cooperation with Maximus was already one of the main businesses of the Eryndor Family.
How can Akash let something happen to his people, at this juncture?
As for competing to become the one and only Divine Emperor of the Curse Continent?
That ambition was not in Akash's mind.
Typically, top empires didn't vie for this position but rather sought to profit from it and ensure the stability of their family.
If they couldn't become vassals of the victorious Divine Emperor, they would remain in the Arcane continent.
After all, no matter how formidable a Divine Emperor might be, they couldn't act recklessly in the Etherium Realm.
Furthermore, without reaching Tier 9, their lifespan was limited.
They couldn't risk their family's future for a brief reign and prosperity.
After discussing further actions with his ministers, Akash dismissed them.
Taking out his identity token from the arcane continent, he contacted his family for support.
"I hope nothing more happens..." Akash muttered.
Maximus had finished coating all the ships and was resting in the castle with his wives.
"Husband, will the Moonlight Empire be all right?" His wives asked with concern.
"There should be no problem,"
"Furthermore, with me here, how can there be a problem?" Maximus reassured them.
"That's good!" His wives sighed in relief.
"What about the children? I heard that their tenth exam is six months away," Maximus changed the subject.
Once his children passed this exam, they would officially become students at the Origin Arcana Institute.
"They said there was no problem,"
"They even felt that it was just another ordinary day,"
"Max even said that there was no challenge at all,"
"There were two nerds, Sam and Luke, who said it was a waste of time."
"With that time, they could have designed a world-destroying mechanical robot,"
"Fortunately, the girls are quite docile; they are just a bit indifferent to the exam,"
"The kids are becoming more and more arrogant,"
"And Skye has been teaching the children wrongly,"
With unlimited resources and top-notch training skills, Maximus's children could be considered prodigies.
Passing the exam was indeed as simple as eating and drinking for them.
They had also been influenced by the training fanatic, Skye, which had made them a bit aggressive.
"Don't worry; I will straighten the kids out when I get back," Maximus replied with an evil smile.
Since they found the exam easy and boring, he thought that making it harder would make it more exciting for them.
His children were already grown, so Maximus wasn't as gentle with them as before.
Except for the girls, who would always be his little babies.
Maximus thought about using his influence to increase the exam's difficulty.
With his connections, asking the Lumina Crystalis Guild should be easy.
"Then we will leave them to you," his wives nodded in relief.
They couldn't be with their children all the time, they had their own training too.
They could only guide them so far, after all, they had already grown up.
Fortunately, even though their children were arrogant, they didn't harm anyone.
They were polite just excessively confident and proud, not taking anyone in their eyes.
Perhaps this was also the influence of their father, Maximus, as he also didn't hold others in high regard.
Unless someone was known to him or connected to him, they could go back wherever they came from.
It could be said that Like father, like son.
After relaxing with his wives, Maximus proceeded with his next plan.
Possessing such a large amount of Earth of Life and Water of Life, he couldn't allow it to go to waste by sitting in his storage space.
Although he couldn't openly show it, he could gradually replace the land and the Moonlight Empire to accelerate its development.
He also planned to use Atomic God Metal to reinforce the entire Sunburnt Plateau.
By now, Atomic God Metal had already reached its potential and was no longer expanding.
[Atomic God Metal: Expanded to a diameter of 10 million light years.
Note: Has reached its potential limit.]
Although there was less Atomic God Metal.
It couldn't be said that its potential was lower than that of the Earth of Life and Water of Life, which extended for billions in diameter.
This was simply because their utility and functions were different.
Furthermore, 10 million light years was already a massive size.
Though it was not bigger than the Etherium Realm, it was already quite extensive.
Yes, the Etherium Realm was measured more than some million light-years in diameter.
Chaotic Sea is similar to the boundless space in his previous life.
Making the difference in the proportion of Sea and land too big that couldn't be compared.
This was why only a Tier 9 ship could navigate from one continent to another.
Even then, with the unique space-wrapping array of a Tier 9 ship and pre-existing route.
It could take over a month to travel from one continent to another.
This pre-existing route was naturally generated space wormhole, or void array created by apex sovereigns.
Otherwise, relying solely on the Tier 9 ship's space-wrapping array would take years just to traverse between continents.
After examining the land, he made a suitable course of action.
With his powerful consciousness, taking out the underground land and replacing it was easy.
The same went for the water; Maximus simply removed the water as he added Water of Life.
Over the course of a few days, Maximus diligently replaced the land and water in the Sunburnt Plateau.
"Huh~" Maximus breathed a sigh of relief as he carefully sensed what changed.
Though it wasn't immediately noticeable, Maximus could feel the nourishment of the Earth of Life and Water of Life spread.
It began to slowly turn the Sunburnt Plateau into a blessed land.
"Now, it's time to reinforce the empire..."