Sunlight shines through the crystal glass and onto the carpet in the room, brightening up this luxuriously furnished room.

Ivan was wearing a set of white pajamas, sitting on the edge of a small gray hardwood round table, his head slightly bowed, holding a watch in his hand, looking at the three-dimensional patterns floating on the watch screen, motionless, his dark eyes reflecting the ever-changing patterns—as if he was fascinated.

At the top of the watch screen, a three-dimensional display of the star Gudar is suspended, about 30 centimeters in diameter, and the surface is marked with longitude and latitude lines in a grid shape.

The blue part represents the sea surface and occupies 100 percent of the earth's surface, and the yellow part with irregular edges refers to the clouds and fog, which covers almost the entire planet.

The only 'land' is the space city that Ivan is in at this time, which is piercing the surface like some kind of weapon, and seems to be demonstrating against unknown creatures in the depths of the universe. Its beauty and the desolation of the planet present a strong visual conflict, as if you are seeing a realistic fantasy, full of fantasy.

Ivan moved his fingers slowly and steadily over the 'Space City' above, and finally stopped at the 2,000-kilometer-long torso of the building, where rows of scarlet subtitles ejected to mark the words "Military Restricted Zone".

After a whole night of research, he had almost figured out the background information about Space City and the planet Gudal.

Unlike Blue and Hyperion, there are no continents or traces of life on this planet, and it is covered with a dense atmosphere and clouds, and the entire surface is wrapped in highly corrosive seawater.

With an average surface temperature of 60 degrees Celsius and an atmospheric pressure about 20 times that of Hyperion, and cruel natural conditions such as severe oxygen deficiency, it can be said that this planet is completely unsuitable for human habitation. However, in order to meet the strategic needs of defending the home planet and enriching the border defense, the Federation spent a lot of money and forcibly built a military fortress here - this is the origin of the silver morning star.

The topmost disc city is just an illusion, and the essence of this huge complex is the trunk that supports the entire city and holds it out of the range of harmful gases. Not only is it equipped with the Federation's advanced light energy defense system, but it is also equipped with a large number of sentry robots and a whole team of mechanics to garrison.

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After figuring out the history and role of the Silver Morning Star, Evan turned off the terrain navigation map, opened the media channel with his voice, and tuned it to news autoplay mode.

"Today, the Federation Space Fleet's Dreadnought, Journey, and Courage starships arrived in the Occupation Zone of Taltan near the Metrosent asteroid belt. About 200,000 troops and hundreds of frigates, gunboats, and destroyers will be mobilized for the exercise. During this period, air defense, space surveillance, interstellar replenishment, and coordinated operations of the Fleet Strike Group in the Taltan space are planned. ”

Ivan watched the news flashing across the screen, and in the gorgeous golden spaceship hall, several senior officers in black space armor and a group of mechanics were approaching each other, and the two sides turned sideways and posed in a dignified posture for the reporter to take pictures.

"I've heard that the Taltans are a long-lived race with little to no concept of aging, and their bodies are made of a hard substance called the Magic Stone. Not only is it extremely strong, but it is also immune to the damage of energy, and its individual combat power is extremely strong. ”

Evan's mind flashed through the relevant information he had learned before.

According to the data, the Tartans are a cosmic nomadic people who make a living by plundering energy, and are able to drain a planet's energy in a matter of months, and transform the planet into a spaceship that travels across the universe. The current invasion of the Federation's Northern Energy Center, causing the collapse of the defense line of the entire Northern Star Field, the federal government is furious and is ready to take military action.

"Cosmic Nomad...... I'm afraid I'm going to be hammered by the settled mechanical civilization......"

After Evan complained, he decisively changed the station.

On the screen, there is a local channel in Space City, on which an opera evening is playing, and then a different channel, it is an advertising channel. Selling all sorts of divine mechanical organs, including arms, legs, internal organs, skin, and ...... There is also a third leg. Regardless of the shape or appearance, it looks like a real organ, but the price seems to be super expensive.

The so-called Divine Source Machinery is a semi-organic metal cultivated with Divine Origin Metal, which can be fused with human flesh and blood without rejection, giving it a hundred times more durability than ordinary flesh and blood.

"There are so many zeros, I, the emperor, are terrified when I see it. ”

Ivan tuned back to the Military Channel.

In response to the provocation of the Taltans, the federal government said that it would take a zero-tolerance attitude this time, during which the Mars and federal diplomats had in-depth exchanges and discussions on the strategic threats of the Taltans. With a number of consensuses reached and a technology exchange deal signed across multiple domains, it remains to be seen whether or not a military strike will be carried out on the Taltan space. ”

While watching the news, Evan gradually gained a clearer and clearer understanding of the environment he was in.

The Federation is currently strong, in the midst of a period of rapid expansion and conquest, with the ability to fight and win on multiple fronts. The vast power apparatus dominates multiple star fields and exercises autocratic rule, but there are independent states similar to vassal states between domains, which are responsible for assisting the Federation in military defense and offensive strategy.

Compared to the huge control areas, ignoring the vassal states and servant armies, the real federal citizens are only in the early tens of billions, which is also the biggest headache for the entire ruling class. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that if the population problem is not solved, then no matter how brilliant the military achievements are, it will be a flash in the pan.

In its huge military system, the most important combat power is occupied by starships, followed by the Shenyuan battle mechs piloted by mechanics.

It's worth noting that mechanics and mechanics who can handle battle mechs are not the same concept.

According to the concept of Blue Star, the former is equivalent to special forces, while the latter is almost an astronaut - the former cannot replace the latter, and the latter can be transformed into the most elite part of the former at any time.

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After watching the news for a long time, Evan was about to get his curiosity to explode for the second time, and then began to search for the mechanic's information. After a series of in-depth understanding, he found that the strength of a pinnacle-level mechanic was far beyond his imagination.

Every person who wants to become a mechanic must go through the basic test, that is, to activate the nerves and stimulate the mental power that can perceive the body in a subtle way.

This threshold separates the vast majority of people from the door and creates an absolute gap in talent.

The degree of refinement of the mental power that is first stimulated is basically equivalent to the future potential of the mechanic, if the mental power is not refined enough, even if the acquired training is enough to move mountains and reclaim the sea, it is useless. After crossing this threshold, an enlightenment-level mechanic is born, and the tests that await him are several times or even dozens of times more difficult than before.

Level 1, metal synesthesia.

The mechanic fuses flesh and blood with inorganic metal to semi-metalize his body, and the material is divine metal, but it is not the finished product in the previous advertisement, how to integrate it into the body, improve the body function, or form a certain organ, all depend on the mechanic's own mental power to shape.

Secondary, phase magnetic field.

The mechanic must resonate with the divine metal that is fused into his body through hard training, and use telekinesis to generate a constant special magnetic field. In this way, even if the body tissue fused with the Divine Metal is structurally damaged, it can be restored as quickly as a liquid metal robot.

Level 3, closed colonization.

At this stage, it can be said that the sublimation of the phase magnetic field, the mechanic can convert the body into divine source metal in an instant, and generate mechanical bodies with different abilities according to the knowledge reserve of the brain and the body's endurance.

At this level, it is enough to be called an elite mechanic, and even in ordinary form, he has strong combat power. All organs other than the brain can recover quickly unless they are damaged by strong acids, strong alkalis, high temperature dissolution, etc., which destroy the phase magnetic field.

Level 4, Soul Tinder.

If you want to advance to this level, you must have the mental power that goes deep into the cellular level, and you must reach the state of mind that one is all and all is one. On the basis of the transformation of the physical body into an inorganic body, the soul can be condensed into a burning fire, and the transformation of the essence of life can be obtained.

Once the Tinder energy is generated, the mechanic is fundamentally free from aging and disease, while the body has a near-infinite endurance. And its own survivability has also improved again, unless the fire energy is destroyed, even if the body is broken, it can be healed again, and it can be called immortal.

Only fourth-level mechanics have the qualifications to drive the Shenyuan mecha.

Level 5, Absolute Domain.

The fifth-level mechanic can be said to be a semi-immortal existence, with all-round improvements in all aspects of performance, and once entered, it is almost free from the shackles of the human body.

They are able to amplify their telekinesis to the extent of influencing space by providing energy, thus creating an energy space around the body that 'rejects everything that is not self'. Through the control of consciousness, the mechanic can easily manipulate 'space' to form an absolute realm on the outside of the body – this process of forming an absolute realm outside the body is called "expanding the absolute realm".

Mechanics with absolute domain are no longer limited to simulating weapons, and they can easily unleash the opposition-level light cannon. One person against an interstellar battleship, this is the absolute domain-level strength.

A mechanic of this level can turn on the man-machine integration combat state at any time, and the mecha becomes a second body, which can be operated as you like, and can exert the strength of the mecha to an extremely strong level. Through continuous battles, the Shenyuan mecha still has a chance to evolve again, so it is called a inheritance-level mechanic.

Level 6, World Impact.

Life-level evolution is equivalent to a mechanic with an absolute domain, but in fact, it has a force far beyond the absolute domain. A mechanic who is powerful enough to raise his hands and feet can use the absolute realm to put heavy pressure, and he is so powerful that he can naturally affect the environment.

Unleash your energy with all your might, and the unfolded absolute realm can cover a terrestrial planet, assimilate the planet itself, and change the climate and environment, topography, and even the form of life at will.

There is no doubt that the mechanic who unleashed the impact of the world was infinitely close to the Almighty God in that brief burst period.

Therefore, the sixth-level mechanic is also called the primordial level, or the apostle level, which means the end of the human race, the propagator of civilization.

Level 7, perpetual pronucleus.

The Tinder energy is transformed into a star-like energy body, and the mechanical body and the mecha are fused and grow to the size of a planet, which can infinitely attract the energy of antimatter and directly create Void energy, so it is durable and never exhausted.

A mechanic with a perpetual protocore is powerful enough to jump out of the limitations of time and space under certain special circumstances, directly overlooking the torrent of time, and has the magical power to peep into the future and interfere with cause and effect. The physical power alone is enough to move the stars and the moon, and if you have enough time to accumulate energy, you can turn the solar system into cosmic dust in one blow.

This stage is the ultimate concept of the mechanic, which does not exist in itself and is the focus of theory, so the Federation is called the king or concept level.

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When Evan fully understood the level of the mechanic, his mood could not be calmed for a long time, and the huge stimulation eventually evolved into fear, and even his pants were almost wet.

Don't say it's an apostle-level monster, even if you come to a random inheritance-level mechanic, it's not something Menes can resist.

Thankfully, the Tier 7 Mechanic is only a theoretical concept, only existing in the legends of the Golden Age of the previous era.

Not to mention the king level, even the apostle-level mechanics are very few, and they can be counted with a slap. Moreover, he frequently haunts the major interstellar battlefields, and is unable to take care of the political operation of the Federation.

Through an in-depth understanding of the mechanic's rank, he also figured out the concept of the Divine Source Mecha.

Shenyuan mecha is a kind of "general-purpose humanoid decisive battle weapon" directly controlled by the mechanic's nerve at a huge cost of research by the Federation, this high-tech product makes a fine fit between the mechanic and the machine, and controls the body through the reflection of the will and body.

To some extent, the Shenyuan mecha is not a mechanical weapon.

It is a cyborg-biological weapon that has evolved over hundreds of millions of years after the Shenyuan metal fused with the genes of the mechanic, simulated the extreme environment in the laboratory, and evolved over hundreds of millions of years from the process of continuous repair and damage, and finally completed the transformation. To some extent, it can be understood as the strongest self of the mechanic, in other words, it is an apostle-level mechanical body, and the explanation of the middle two disease patients is an artificial god.

The direction of evolution itself is pure combat, so it does not generate intelligence, and is completely under the control of the mechanic as if it were a single body.

Due to the limitations of the mechanic's thinking and telekinesis, even if a mechanic at the inheritance level controls the Divine Source Mecha, it is impossible to exert the power of the apostle-level, at best, it is only five or six percent of the level.

Regardless of the consumption of materials, design, and engineering, this type of mecha is extremely precious, and the value of each one is equivalent to a complete aerospace industry chain on Blue Star. However, due to their almost indestructible nature, they almost build one more plane, so in the hundred years of the Federation's history of owning the Divine Source Mecha, they have also accumulated a considerable number of mechs.