Chapter 178, This is the Reward of the Divine Emperor

He was actually a bit conflicted; he wanted to produce some impressive elite-level technology, but he worried that even if he lucked out in the lottery draw, the current industrial level of his territory wouldn't be capable of assimilating it.

Let's not even talk about elite-level tech— even the advanced-level technologies they drew before, the bomb guns and the controllable reactors, could currently only be produced in small scales using finished Black Boxes, and could not be mass-produced. While a mother Black Box could indeed spit out a production line, a production line wasn't a Black Box; you couldn't simply input basic raw elements and expect a finished product to come out. Both of these items required alloy ceramic steel as an industrial material, a higher-grade alloy that they currently couldn't produce.

But even if they couldn't establish a production line, just having a Black Box to create some impressive stuff—that would still be incredibly valuable.