Above the firmant, the distant sun is already visible, below it still lies the unsettled cloud cover, concealing the chanical dragonflies shuttling back and forth.
Celestia flew with Tilan, and then began to speak of the history recorded by the Silver Wings species.
"Our war with the chanical Council has lasted over 1200 years since the catastrophe on this planet, during which our tribe has undergone many changes, and the chanical Council has also experienced several upheavals."
"Initially, those who first descended upon this planet were indeed powerful and fierce. To resist the swarming Autonomous Units, many of the Silver Wings died in battle, and nurous cities and structures were destroyed."
"However, as this planet was cut off from the outside world, they could no longer connect to the Aijieka Sea or the forr connection with the chanical Sun·Soft, the number of Artificial Angels ceased to grow and was instead continually depleted, allowing us to gradually fight for survival space."
"Afterward, about 300 years of prolonged struggle ensued. Today, you can still see many huge craters caused by teorite impacts, broken mountain ranges, and radiation-filled desert wastelands on the ground—these are the marks left by our battles." Celestia turned around, hovering in the air in the twilight of dawn.
"As the number of Artificial Angels dwindled, they gradually lost the ability to control a large number of chanical bodies flexibly, and began granting more autonomy to those Low Rank chanical bodies. In the subsequent period of ti, we began to take the initiative, and the tide of war gradually turned."
"At this point, about 200 years later, their numbers beca fewer, and we gained more strength, seemingly able to see the dawn of recovery, and we were on the verge of rebuilding this planet."
"At that ti, an unusual event occurred. The remaining mbers of the chanical Council started infighting. We couldn't know the specific reasons, but it was guessed that they roughly split into two factions, one faction trying to leave this planet and return to the Star Sea, while the other clearly didn't want to do so. They were determined to destroy this planet and regarded the escape faction as traitors."
"A war broke out between the two sides, with a large number of chanical bodies fighting each other, leaving wreckage everywhere."
"We were delighted to see such a scenario, thus carefully avoided it, until finally, one side erged victorious."
"The victorious destructive faction's patrolling chanical bodies shot down the ships attempting to fly to the firmant, and reformatted the remaining chanical bodies on the ground. Afterward, whenever a superluminal engine was about to start, the emitted waves and frequencies would attract their patrolling machines."
"Additionally, after this great war, we have never seen living Artificial Angels again, as though they completely vanished. In the ti that followed, only those Low Rank nomadic chanical bodies existed on the ground, whereas a small number of powerful chanical Clans would form fleets that patrolled above the cloud sea, eliminating targets they deed highly threatening."
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"You asked where the Silver Wings currently live. The answer is, of course, also in the sky. Even though these chanical Clans above the cloud sea are powerful, the ground is already polluted, so we can only build a new ho in the sky and restore civilization."
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"The number of the chanical Clans' fleets is limited; over these several hundred years, we have fully mastered their flight paths and logic. As long as we avoid them according to the rules, these chanical units devoid of the Artificial Angels' command will not co into contact with us."
"Now we have ford a subtle balance with them. As long as we do not deliberately engage with them, we can almost always avoid these chanical Clusters." Celestia openly revealed many truths of the world to Tilan.
"You must be wondering why I'm suddenly saying so much."
"Though the Silver Wings no longer worry about war with the chanical Clusters, our developnt has also hit a kind of stagnation bottleneck."
"Our technology indeed has restored to the peak of past ages, but taking further steps has proven to be extrely difficult. Moreover, we have never been able to break through the invisible barriers binding us to this planet."
"Tilan, you are quite special, many of your ideas and actions bring a sense of novelty."
"I very much hope you can beco one of us Silver Wings; that way you would gain a longer lifespan and can fully exhibit your talents."
"Given your current capability, you should also have noticed that the resources this planet can provide are very limited, everything is rather barren. If we cannot break through this barrier, we will always remain trapped on this planet, unable to reach the great and infinite Star Sea."
Looking at Celestia on the opposite side inviting her so sincerely, a slight ripple arose in Tilan's heart.
She truly trusts , whether this is due to her belief in my character and humanity, or because of the unseen impact of my Songstress Talent.
If it were an ordinary person, perhaps they would be looking for benefits at this mont. After all, agreeing to such a matter offhand wouldn't harm; once back in the Federation, it would be easy to decide how to deal with the Silver Wings.
However, she could never do such a thing.
"Suddenly asking to change species identity or sothing like that, I can't do it." Tilan shook her head.
"But just as you said, if you hope to collaborate on escaping the predicant and finding a helping hand, I would be very willing to assist." If the Silver Wings are all like Celestia, then once she returns to the Federation, she will plead for them, preserving a place for them to live, avoiding the outright destruction like at the beginning of the Sixth Era.
As for the continued proliferation of the Silver Wings offspring, that might not be possible for now. Based on the Federation's early asures against those ally races that assisted in the late Fifth Epoch wars, their approach was to issue special amnesty identities, allowing them to operate within designated areas, but their descendants must revert to genetically normal humans, guided and educated by official Federal institutions.
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