Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Machine Workshop

Magic roared, knights charged, and there was no shouting of killing on the vast ruins battlefield, and both sides of the battle fought in an almost eerie silence.

But it is the brutality of this silence that makes this war all the more moving.

Rhodes stood in the ruins in the distance, looking at the insignificant part of the battlefield, and he carefully surveyed both sides of the battle.

It took him a long time before he was sure that this was not an ancient phantom, and that both sides were entities that could be seen and touched.

"That's ...... Angel? ”

Rhodes stared at the flying creatures in the sky not far away, muttering to himself with some uncertainty.

Hordes of humanoid creatures in the sky unleashed sweeping blows against enemies on the ground, and countless beams of light rained down with great momentum.

On the ground, a swarm of mechanical scorpions, with a rough structure and a large number, continued to fight back, and the tail of the scorpion swarm fired one laser after another.

A creature suspected of being an angel in the sky attacked and directly cleared an area into white ground.

Not to be outdone, the scorpion swarm on the ground and many strange mechanical spiders were not to be outdone, and after the counterattack, the sky warriors who covered the sky and the sun also fell like dumplings.

"Hell!"

While Rhodes was watching the battle, a creature in the sky was knocked down by a dozen broken machines in the distance.

And the direction in which the creature fell was where Rhodes was.

Rhodes didn't hesitate, his body immediately retreated, there were many ruins and wrecks behind him, these opposing sides of the battle did not seem to have any intention of shifting the battlefield, he jumped a few dodges, and soon found another suitable cover.

But this time.

He finally had a chance to get a closer look at what was on both sides of the battle.

"Huh...... Not a celestial creature, this is ...... Humanoid weapons of war? Rod speculated as he stared at the humanoid creature that landed on the ground in the distance.

Far on the ground.

A humanoid creature of about two meters or so was struggling to stand up, it did look like an angel, no wonder Rhodes was mistaken.

It is about two meters in size, but it does not have the perfect face and holy aura of an angel, this creature is more like a war weapon born for war.

It has wings on its back, blue magical elemental wings, which look very similar to angels' wings from a distance, and many parts of its body are covered with some mysterious crystals.

The crystals are embedded in its body, making it appear to have no trace of life, and the near-elemental head gives it an efficient magical affinity, and the swirling runes in the crystals make it easier to mobilize magical power.

They are natural weapons of war.

When the fallen humanoid weapon stood up, a large number of strange, even tattered mechanical bodies swarmed in.

These mechs look shabby from afar.

Some of the mechanical bodies that rushed to the front were like carrying a toy car like a radar cauldron, and the parts were still dropping all the way, and Rhodes even suspected that they could play scrap themselves without the enemy to fight.

"Wow! Multiply! Multiply! ”

Something happened to Rode's surprise.

It was such a group of tattered beggar mechs that unleashed a powerful attack.

For example, the radar car carrying a cauldron on its back, bumping its broken wheels, and while it dropped parts, a very hot ray gathered on the radar cauldron and blasted towards the humanoid weapon.

"Boom!"

The humanoid weapon must have been hit hard at its core, and the elemental wings behind it appeared and disappeared from time to time, as if the old black-and-white television was running out of power, facing the rushing machine.

It raised its right arm, a crystal spun, and a dozen arcane missile-like attacks blasted out.

Rod, who was hiding on the sidelines, saw it clearly.

The combat effectiveness of the humanoid weapon was very strong, and the half-crippled weapon, in the face of the dense mechanical body, worked for half an hour, and finally destroyed the broken mechanical body in the ground, and then was covered and buried by the broken mechanical body that pounced on it later.

"This battle loss ratio ......" Rod was speechless.

Looking at the mechanical wreckage in the distance, the humanoid weapon was estimated to be about the third order, but it destroyed hundreds of mechanical creations.

If you really fight like this.

No amount of resources in this space can afford to consume.

Really.

At the end of the local area battle, a bunch of mechanical insects with a fairly fine structure, at least no patchwork of rags, emerged from the ground.

These mechanical insects are similar to the beetles found in nature.

It's just that these mechanical insects don't have the hind limbs of natural bugs, they all use chariot tracks instead of hind limbs, and they have a huge front horn, and these mechanical insects quickly collect the mechanical debris on the ground.

Soon.

After the swarms of mechanical insects have collected the wreckage, they are like excavators carrying a pile of parts, heading in one direction.

It looks like they're recyclers on the mechanical side.

But sometimes accidents are just as easy as they can be.

Rhodes, who had been hiding behind a broken wall, suddenly found that behind him, one or two dirt bags were quietly arching, and two mechanical beetles about the size of two ha were emerging from the ground.

Time.

Rhodes was caught off guard by the two mechanical beetles.

And the two mechanical beetles also seemed to be stunned, as if the computer had crashed, and their eyes were constantly scanning Rhodes back and forth with two infrared rays.

The two sides stared at each other like this, and there was a stalemate for a while.

The two mechanical beetles scanned for a long time and didn't do anything, and it seemed that there were no attack instructions for a creature like Rhodes in their attack system.

Half a day later.

Rhodes held the greatsword and tentatively shifted his body, his eyes fixed on the two beetles, if they moved, they would definitely turn into a pile of scrap metal in the next moment.

However, Rhodes is well aware of the urine nature of these mechanical systems, once he kills two mechanical beetles, those mechanical cores will determine Rhodes as enemies, and at that time, the mechanical creations on the entire battlefield will instantly change from monsters of the middle camp to monsters of the opposing camp.

After a long day of probing, Rhodes found that the two beetles did not seem to have any intention of attacking him.

It is estimated that Rhodes is a neutral force in their mechanical judgment.

After discovering that Rhodes had no intention of attacking, the two mechanical beetles ignored Rhodes and slowly began to collect the mechanical wreckage nearby.

…………

After discovering that these mechanical creations had no intention of attacking him, Rhodes was also a master of the arts, and even followed these beetles in the direction of the battlefield.

The main thing is that he found a problem.

It seems to be limited by Ash's rules, and although the battlefield is tragic and abnormal, so far there has not been a single legendary-level existence.

According to Rhodes' fluctuating perception, the most dangerous thing in this is only close to the legend.

For example, those huge figures soaring in the sky, those figures are like little giants, and they also look like weapons of war.

And the mechanical side and those ancient knights, their leaders are almost the same level of existence.

"There are no legends...... And I should be similar to the existence of the neutral camp, I feel that I can go and investigate a wave," Rhodes thought of dying, not that he wanted to die, but mainly because this ruin was too weird, and there were not many clues in front of him, so he could only try.

He cautiously shuttled across the battlefield.

Following the mechanical beetles, Rhodes gradually came to a strange place on the edge of the battlefield.

- Mechanical Workshop!

It was a roaring mechanical workshop, piles of discarded debris being loaded onto a conveyor belt by the beetles, and then the mechanical arms began to select useful parts, and finally piles of useless debris were reforged.

"It's ...... A mechanical workshop from the time of Nether? Rod looked at the mechanical workshop with some confusion.

He had seen this kind of mechanical workshop before.

- Silent City: Magic Machine Workshop!

It was created by a group of mad mages in the Silent City in a Nether-era ruin, and there were multiple assembly lines throughout the workshop, as long as the raw materials and energy were provided, the assembly line would be activated.

The workshop will automatically cast the material into parts, then enter the assembly process, and then go through a series of complex processes such as the enchantment process, the debugging process, and the command input process, and a qualified magic combat machine will be built.

Rod's vision was similar to what he had seen in Silent City.

Piles of parts and wreckage were thrown up, and after a while, on several exit lines of the workshop, a patchwork of cheap rags appeared again.

On the other side, of course, there are a lot of new and lethal mechanical spiders, mechanical scorpions, and mechanical dogs...... It has also been manufactured.

"There's a more advanced mechanical workshop in there......"

Rhodes took a closer look, and the mechanical workshops on the edge of the battlefield should be of the lowest level, because he had seen many different models of incomparably sophisticated combat machines on the battlefield, and none of them had ever been built here.

After looking at the mechanical workshop, Rod thought for a moment, since they had all come here, they should also go and see what was inside.

“…… Multiply...... Ulysses-Class War Workshop Smart Administrator No. 3721 Activated! ”

"Nourish...... Multiply...... Updating the System Database ......

"Not enough energy! Turn off 63.7% of secondary features! Strategic Order No. 244, Reserve Combat Plan Launched! ”

"Visitor detected, database search target identity ......"

"Retrieval failed!"

"Strange visitors, please show the appropriate order or identification!"

…………

As Rhodes was about to step into the area, a mechanical voice sounded in the workshop in front of him, and several invisible fluctuations were scanning Rhodes back and forth.

Rhodes was startled by the War Workshop, which seemed to have been activated, and he stopped as he was about to step into it.

The workshop still has a basic identification system.

It's impossible to break in, and from that mechanical language alone, you can know that there are at least more than 3,000 "Ulysses-class" war workshops here, and who knows how many higher-level war workshops there are elsewhere.