Monsters Are Coming

Bang!

The Power Barbarian Axe with Liu Guang struck the broken metal pillar blocking the road.

Sparks flew, and the thick metal pillar crumbled like decayed wood, stirring up a cloud of dust.

With obstacles crossed, Ah Lan entered the center area of the Mechanical City.

The scene before him shocked him immensely; it was like a city forgotten by time.

The broken mechanical skyscrapers resembled giant skeletal remains, and the rusty metal walls were covered in glowing mechanical vines forming a neural network, still faintly pulsing with energy, as if the city’s bloodline still beat.

The ground was strewn with countless mechanical wrecks.

Giant gears, shattered drones, mechanical guardians... these mechanical devices were covered in a thick layer of dust.

He looked up.

On the dome, a huge tear had gruesomely ripped open the city’s original complete structure, with jagged edges and twisted metal frameworks, as if torn apart by some irresistible force.

Fragments of broken metal, relying on a mechanical network, hung on the edges of the gap, swaying in the wind.

Through the dome’s hole, the sky was visible; the dark sky was shrouded in clouds, with occasional lightning streaking across the sky, illuminating the area below the dome.

Seeing this scene, Ah Lan could imagine what the Mechanical Guardian Clan had encountered.

This potential race, ambitious to conquer the world, faced an extermination crisis it couldn’t fend off before developing.

Destroyed either by other invading forces or the native tribes of Monster World.

Only this nearly paralyzed city remained, struggling to function.

Having potential and growing are two different matters.

It’s certain that there are many forces with such potential in Monster World, but most fell on the path of rising, failing to become a truly strong clan.

Luck is also a crucial part of a race’s growth process.

No matter how high the potential, if the starting point is wrong, it’s destined to be hard to reach the end.

Unless they’re like players, possessing an infinite margin for error, able to rise from failure infinitely to continue the unfinished path.

His gaze shifted forward.

At the center of this area, a towering mechanical tower pierced through the dome.

The tower body consisted of numerous stacked metal rings, each layer still glowing with faint blue light, as if some kind of energy was flowing within.

The top of the tower had been sheared off by external forces; occasionally, lightning attracted by the energy flowing inside the tower struck down through the torn dome, hitting the tower and causing a dazzling arc.

Feeling both shock and awe, Ah Lan stepped toward the tower.

Upon getting closer, he activated his Analysis Ability to scan:

[Eternal Tower (Incomplete, Damaged)]:

Analysis Introduction: A supreme miracle created by the Mechanical Guardian Clan in pursuit of mechanical eternal life, standing in the center of the Mechanical City, symbolizing the peak of the Mechanical Guardian Clan’s technology, the tower connects to the core energy used by the Mechanical Guardian Clan and is the ultimate carrier of the clan leader’s consciousness (not uploaded).

Inside the tower, a vast consciousness network is constructed, using mechanical neural technology, allowing the clan leader to enter an immortal state after merging.

Capable of controlling all things within the Mechanical City through the mechanical neural network connection.

Note: The Mechanical Guardian Clan believes that as long as the Eternal Tower stands uncollapsed, their civilization shall continue forever.

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"There is indeed an Eternal Tower!"

Though it’s only a semi-finished product, the appearance of the Eternal Tower made Ah Lan extremely excited.

This means the conceived plan can continue.

Incomplete isn’t an issue; once player qualifications are gradually issued, more members of the Moon Eclipse Clan will come to Monster World.

On the foundation created by the Mechanical Guardian Clan, they can entirely complete the unfinished parts of the Eternal Tower.

As players, they have plenty of time.

Approaching close, the towering Eternal Tower looked like a sky-piercing stone pillar.

At the base of the tower, a circle of huge energy pipelines surrounded it, but the pipelines had no flowing energy liquid, only a thin mist occasionally drifting within.

A vacant plaza surrounded the tower, with complex mechanical neural networks etched into the ground.

Twelve giant mechanical statues stood around the plaza, all of them broken, some even severed at the waist.

Ah Lan was familiar with these twelve statues.

During tunnel exploration, he found many future concept blueprints left by the Mechanical Guardian Clan.

According to the records on the blueprints, these twelve statues were called: Eternal Guardian by the clan.

The initial purpose was to guard the Eternal Tower.

Any unauthorized target approaching would automatically activate the guardian, initiating a destructive attack on intruders.

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Each statue was paired with the most advanced weaponry of the Mechanical Guardian Clan, and the mechanical neural network beneath real-time protected the function.

Similar to wireless charging mode in reality.

But judging from the damage of the statues, they had already lost combat capability.

Heading straight to the front of the tower, there were eight bridges leading to the tower, below was an abyss without visible bottom.

The bridge was cast from heavy alloy, the surface covered with complex mechanical patterns, wide enough to accommodate several mechanical vehicles simultaneously.

Tall metal railings flanked the bridge, with the clan’s emblem—a clenched mechanical fist—etched onto them.

Out of caution, Ah Lan took a piece of metal scrap from his Space Bag and tossed it onto the metal bridge.

Clang!

The metal scrap bounced on the ground before falling into the abyss below.

Realizing no hidden mechanisms were triggered, Ah Lan didn’t let his guard down.