"What, the entire army was annihilated? Even the accompanying Envoy, none survived?"
At this mont, the Third Apostle listened to the report from his subordinates, drenched in sweat.
"What exactly happened? Report in detail."
"But..."
"What ti is it now, and you’re still hesitating? Speak quickly!"
The two Gods responsible for observation exchanged a glance, one of them opened his mouth with a troubled expression to explain.
"We, we did not detect anything happening."
"What did you say?"
The Third Apostle’s voice suddenly raised an octave, and he stood up from his chair.
The two detecting Gods trembled all over in fear but still tried to defend themselves as much as possible.
"Calm your anger, Lord, we did not neglect our duties, nor did we betray for survival.
Initially, we monitored very well, there were no issues.
But when our army and the enemy’s army began direct contact, suddenly our spiritual power probe was forcibly blocked outside the battlefield.
We were extrely shocked but still did our best to maneuver with the opponent.
Although the progress was sowhat slow, we were gradually regaining the initiative bit by bit.
According to our calculations then, it would take only half a prayer ti to break through the opponent’s spiritual power barrier and acquire the latest battlefield news.
But when we were halfway through the attack, this resistance suddenly disappeared.
Imdiately after, we saw... we saw..."
The Third Apostle walked in front of them and said viciously, "Speak up! What happened?"
"We saw a land full of broken limbs and ruins, mostly from our war machines.
We saw a towering chanical Giant God standing on the earth, like an insurmountable mountain!
And at the feet of that chanical Giant God were the corpses of all our mbers.
We checked, and the entire crew was killed."
The other God hurriedly added, "According to the analysis we did afterward.
We actually didn’t have the ability to break through the enemy’s spiritual power blockade. When they made concessions, it was actually to lure and trap us.
Each ti when we wanted to give up, they gave us a little hope, making us see the possibility of breaking the barrier.
In this repeated tug-of-war, we gradually lost ourselves, obsessed with breaking the enemy’s spiritual blockade, forgetting the main task.
We should have sought help imdiately, best to call all the remaining Gods here for everyone to break through the opponent’s spiritual power defense together!
But unfortunately, we didn’t anticipate that the opponent would be so cunning!
He was like an experienced angler, and we were the Fish that took the bait."
The Third Apostle kept taking deep breaths, finally gritting his teeth and said, "It seems you two aren’t completely stupid yet.
Now we know, for so reason, the enemy possesses strength enough to confront us head-on.
Additionally, given our huge loss this ti, intelligence has probably been leaked, this place is not safe anymore.
Both of you notify all mbers that we need to evacuate to the second factory by the sea as soon as possible.
There, we still have a chance to turn the tables!"
"Yes!"
The two Gods responsible for monitoring the enemy’s movents were overjoyed, thinking they would end up on the chopping block.
Unexpectedly, the Third Apostle didn’t even scold them much, let alone punish them.
Watching the two Gods’ distant backs, the Third Apostle slumped tiredly into his command chair.
He was not a magnanimous person, if they were outside the deadly Chessboard World, he would definitely make these two know what cruelty is.
Such a simple matter, and the result is like this.
Death wouldn’t even extinguish everyone’s anger.
But now, it’s impossible.
They just lost half of their forces, if he removes two more, it would certainly please the enemies more than the allies.
Better to be a bit stupid than to have nothing.
The Third Apostle had no choice but to comfort himself, then he too began to pack his things.
As he said, once defeated, their intelligence would be leaked.
Then either wait here for Lette to co encircle them and fight to the death.
Deciding winner or loser, life and death.
But as of now, the success rate isn’t high.
By then, it would just be a replay of what happened on the battlefield.
At least there’s one benefit, that everyone finally knows how their colleagues and companions were lost in the last encounter.
Bad news is, they’d lose themselves too.
Fortunately, they have other plans.
"As long as we develop the second factory at the port, everything will turn for the better!"
The Third Apostle was full of confidence: "Fortunately, when creating this Chessboard World, we left a backup plan!
The ocean is the true stage of this world!
Only by taking the initiative in the ocean era can we truly hold the main script!
Heh, Lette, you’d never guess.
The first factory on land is just our smokescreen!
The ocean is the ultimate grave I have prepared for you!"
After packing the necessary items, the Third Apostle hurriedly left the armant factory, following his companions in the cover of night, heading towards the second factory.
At this mont, Lette was sitting atop a mountain, listening to Optimus Pri report back on the results of the battlefield cleaning.
Lette wasn’t very concerned with the battle losses; what he really wanted to know was the enemy’s core intelligence.
"Optimus Pri."
"Yes, great chanical God."
Interrupted by Lette, Optimus Pri showed no dissatisfaction but looked at Lette seriously, eyes full of admiration.
"I need to know about the enemy’s intelligence."
"Yes! Regarding this, I want to introduce soone to you."
"Oh? Who?"
"A war prisoner!"
"War prisoner?"
Optimus Pri turned and ran out, quickly bringing back a gigantic war machine in front of Lette.
What surprised Lette was that within this war machine, there existed a chanical Soul just like Optimus Pri!
In rely a mont, Lette understood what had happened.
Ergence is random and cannot be determined.
Even Lette only knew Ergence would occur, but when, where, and on which individual, he couldn’t control.
Optimus Pri should be the first self-awakened chanical Soul in the world.
The civil chanical Species on our side are mostly unearthed by him through the infection function of the chanical Soul.
But the effect of Ergence has no distinction of area or group.
Thus, whether it’s the enemy’s war machines or our civil chanical Species, both are necessary soil for Ergence.
And this war machine before us should be another self-awakened chanical Soul, but it’s from the enemy’s camp, nothing more.
"Great chanical God, everything you want to know, it knows!"
"Very well."
Lette looked at the war machine with a kindly smile, "What is your na?"
"Number 217, combat chanical Species, reporting to you!"
"A number isn’t a na, though you probably don’t have one. Let give you one!
I’ll call you, gatron."
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