The Sherman Tank that came out was nothing like what the previous System had created. How the previous System made the Sherman Tank by buying an original tank from the black markets and later copying it into its database, subsequently using it for the dungeon instance.
As for the one that was created by the Automation Factory, the Sherman Tank looked even more simple than the one that the previous System had created. All it entailed was merely two seats, one for the driver and one for the shooter. There were no controls other than two holes for them to plug in a pair of crystal crafted hand controllers which would handle all the commands.
(Imagine driving or shooting a tank using two Nentendo controllers)
From the shooter's seat, one can use the crystal control handles to magically load the tank shells that were stored at their back while from the driver's seat, one can drive merely using those two sticks. It was a very simple concept that utilised the use of magic to control everything. After all, Jin did not have the knowledge nor the know how on how to build a tank.
But if he could get the tank to move with magic, that would be another whole ball game. And not to his surprise, he and Kraft happened to open up the insides of the tank to see what kind of components were in there. There were actually bones and muscles like features within the tank, indicating that it was not as mechanical as one thought it would be.
"Does this mean that I can actually cut the tank in half and maybe be able to regenerate the tank back again?" Kraft asked with curiosity.
"How would I know, I merely focused on the creation of this automation factory. If they are really semi living muscle fibres to create this tank, I definitely had no say in that." Jin said as he went to touch it, and it gave a slight feedback despite having no crystal control handles being inserted.
"I assumed that those crystal control handles are being created in this automation factory as well?" Kraft asked as he too had a touch on the muscles, this time, an entire palm being placed on it. The feedback could be felt initially and later there was nothing moving at all until Kraft inserted a little chi inside which caused it to vibrate a little to the energy given.
"Yea. Those crystal control handles would have to be manually crafted in this place. Not through automation. That's one of the jobs that I am going to offer.
Only through the crafting of the crystals, the robot arms will do a mass batch manufacturing to put the programming of the tank into the handles." Jin said as he already pulled out four well crafted crystals and he used his magic to levitate it to one of the giant arms, enabling it to start working on it.
It did not take more than 20 seconds that the crystal control handles to be done which Jin took via magic telekinesis and later threw two of those handles to Kraft. Since there was time, they were going to bring it for a spin outside the automation factory.
"RIGHT! RIGHT! RIGHT!" Jin yelled and Kraft turned just in time, barely scrapping the sides of him, leaving him to have a wind shear cut through his arm. The isolation barrier also opened up punctually for the Sherman Tank to get out of the kingdom before abruptly closing and Kraft finally allowed the vehicle to slow down and halt on its own.
Needless to say, it was a roller coaster of its own and all the soldiers that were stationed at the Northern Region immediately went to arms hiding behind the isolation barrier and reporting the unidentified object that went past them.
It was not until Jin slowly came out and told them to cease any actions that they finally put their weapons down. It was then he used his Maqi to create visible words from the barrier and told them that one of his inventions had gone out of control a little. (Visible words because the barrier was blocking sound from coming through too.)
Eventually, the Commando Mages also came and saw that their King was outside the barrier and subsequently understood the situation that was happening. They later also decided to station themselves with the soldiers in order to aid the King if necessary...because all that ruckus did bring some trouble of its own.
The Demons were coming out from their nested areas and all those things had begun to surround the tank that Jin and Kraft were riding. The only upside was that they were aware of the demons too.
"Hmm...can I destroy this tank? I really want to see if it regenerates." Kraft said as he stretched his fingers and they gave the popping sounds of the joints, indicating that the Devil itself was ready to rumble.
"Probably later? Since there are quite a bunch as our audience, we should at least show what this bad girl can do to further promote and spread rumours throughout the region." Jin said as he returned to his seat and started to use his magic to automatically arm the Sherman Tank.
"Oh please. There is no need for advertisement. Just one shot from this baby and they would be mesmerised by this, just as how they did with the Wand Rifles. Don't you know that people were dying to go into the military because of those weapons? They want to see how it truly works." Kraft said as he now poured some chi and magic into the tank which caused the battle weapon to shake a little.
"Oh...? Looks like this baby girl can still grow." Kraft smirked as he poured even more magic into it, further proving his theory.
"What are you doing to the Sherman Tank? The demons are coming close already!" Jin said as he aimed at one of the Giant Demon Spiders.
"You will see. Just take the shot."