Chapter 392: This could be huge
"Project Ascendant Metal Golem?"
"Yeah..." Eldrin nodded, a flicker of fanatic excitement lighting up his eyes. "My Lord, you probably already know that the Tower faction’s standard military units are mostly based around Arcane Constructs, right?"
"But within that overarching category of Arcane Constructs, there are actually three major branches: Arcane Beings, Metal Golems, and Arcane Engines."
"Arcane Beings include units like Genies, Master Genies, Arcane Eagles, Simurgh Eagles, and so on. Metal Golems cover things like Gold Golems, Iron Golems, Diamond Golems. And Arcane Engines? Those are your Stone Gargoyles, Colossi, Arcane Colossi, Titans, and the like."
"Now here’s the thing—both Arcane Beings and Arcane Engines have their own full progression trees, all the way up to 13th-tier Legendary Units, and even 14th-tier Mythic Units. But Metal Golems? They’ve got nothing at that level."
"And that’s exactly why the ’Project Ascendant Metal Golem’ was launched."
"Archmages—some even Supreme Mages—who were obsessed with and specialized in the Metal Golem lineage, they weren’t satisfied with that gap. So they started this massive, centuries-spanning initiative to create their own Legendary and Mythic-tier Metal Golems."
"This all happened way back, before the era of the Seven Cities Alliance. I only found out about it because I stumbled across some ancient historical records that mentioned it..."
"So... did it work?" Ethan asked instinctively.
But the moment the words left his mouth, he froze—then gave himself a light smack on the forehead.
Seriously? Just look at the current state of the Tower faction. If the project had succeeded—if they’d actually managed to create new 13th-tier Legendary Units or, hell, 14th-tier Mythic Units—there’s no way that would’ve stayed under wraps. Legendary Units might be rare, but Mythic Units? You can’t just hide something like that. Like people always say: if it ever existed, there’d be traces of it somewhere.