Chapter 181: Clockwork with Feelings

The vast universe has given birth to countless civilizations, and the once powerful civilization of Kamigawa is one of them, but the ancient and magical Valoran continent, although it is mainly based on martial arts cultivation and magic, but the high-tech city-state is also very powerful.

The first high-tech city-state in Valoran is Piltover, a city-state that is at the heart of Hextech and has given birth to a number of high-tech products that have been created to surround their homes.

But there are also many feelings that contain those ingenious makers, the clockwork spirit, Oriana, although she is a puppet clockwork robot with her own consciousness, but his father definitely does not see her as a puppet robot for a day.

Oriana, made entirely of clockwork and gears, is a technological spectacle in itself, but she wasn't born that way, she was once an ordinary girl with flesh and blood.

Oriana was born in Piltover, suffering from an incurable disease in which her failing internal organs were gradually replaced with sophisticated artificial organs, and finally completely transformed into a mechanical body.

Her closest companion is a spherical mechanical body of her own making, providing her with protection and companionship. Orianna is always thinking about her inner self, exploring the external world, looking for the ultimate destination and true meaning of her existence.

Growing up in the affluent neighborhood of Piltover, Orianna never experienced any social cruelty or injustice, and her meticulous father was the famous inventor Colin Brown. Levik.

The objects he designed were so meticulous and meticulously crafted that even those who were able-bodied would be fitted with the clockwork power-boosting devices he made.

Patrons all vowed that his work was incredibly authentic, as if he had incorporated magic into gears and parts.

Young Orianna wanted to learn her father's trade, so she became his apprentice, studying and training day and night. Her father, who was gifted and intelligent, was an introvert and quiet, relying on Orianna to communicate with customers. Listenable and affable, she soon became the face of the family's workshop.

Although Orianna rarely moves beyond her own neighborhood, she often sneaks into the theater to watch the dancers spin and jump to perform poetry and beyond.

There, she saw epic adventures: an old mage searching the desert for a centuries-old spell; A beautiful lady disguises herself as a stone in a magical jungle;

A devout pilgrim climbs a treacherous peak in search of rebirth... There are many more stories and legends, coming across the ocean, shocking her imagination.

The story and legend of the play fascinated Oriana fascinated her, and she dreamed of one day being able to visit those far-flung places in person. She would sit in the front row of the theater, carefully observe every detail of the dance, and then return to her father's workshop to make a humanoid doll and recreate the dance in the play.

It was an otherwise uneventful day, and Orianna fitted a mechanical prosthetic hand to an elderly woman who casually mentioned a recent tragic accident in Zaun.

Zaun, an underground city directly below Piltover, recently had an explosion that released a large amount of highly toxic gases that polluted the nearby streets.

If the inhalation of poisonous gas is not treated in time, the organs in the human body will be corroded, and finally die slowly and painfully. All those infected were sent to a medical camp in the center of Zaun.

Orianna believed that she and her father's skills could help those who had been poisoned, so she begged her father to come down to Zaun to help the victims. Colin knew it was too dangerous to be exposed to the poisonous fog, so he forbade his daughter to go.

But Orianna was not easily convinced, and before dawn, she secretly ran out of the house, brought as many respirators as she could, and wore a protective mask herself, and then took the Hex pressure lift to Zuan, deep underground.

Orianna was shocked by the devastation in front of her, the streets where the explosion took place were littered with rubble, and the pedestrians on the streets were shrouded in thick toxic smoke, and their faces were covered with a maximum of oil-stained rags.

She had never seen such a painful scene in her life. Orianna joins a group of volunteers caring for those most affected by the toxic fog.

She returned every night to help, repairing damaged respiratory equipment and fitting tracheal filters to patients so they could breathe normally in the toxic fog.

After Oriana had distributed all the respirators, she saw a toddler gasping for air in pain.

Without even thinking about it, Oriana immediately took off her filter mask and put it on the young child, covering her face with only a handkerchief.

Within a few days, Oriana fell ill, and even the clean air in her home made it difficult for her to breathe. Her lungs were already corroded, every breath was a torment, and she herself could not escape the fate of destruction.

Seeing his daughter terminally ill, Colin threw all his heart and soul into the greatest project of his life: replacing his daughter's decaying lungs with a mechanically automated replacement.

Colin uses state-of-the-art biomechanical filter materials, which are reserved for the highest bidders. After weeks and nights of development, a beautiful mechanical clockwork was born, which Colin placed in Oriana's chest.

In order to prevent Orianna from exposing herself to danger again, Colin fitted her lungs - a special drive device, for which only he could tighten the clockwork. The artificial mechanical lungs were functioning normally, and soon, Oriana would be able to return to the shop to continue to help.

Unfortunately, Oriana's good fortune didn't last long. After only a few months of healthy life, the withering and atrophy spread to other organs, and her body deteriorated.

Together with her father, Orianna worked day and night to develop mechanical clockwork substitutes for various human organs, replacing them with mechanical devices whenever a part of her body failed and withered.

Oriana's normal anatomy has been completely altered, and she begins to doubt her identity. The more time passes, the more gears and bearings there are in her.

She still retains most of her memories as a human, but her feelings are strangely distant from her remembered self.

Her father also noticed the change, and Oriana sometimes heard him sobbing in the middle of the night.