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Chapter 493: Mechanical Ascension! The God of Ten Thousand Machines

At this moment, Lynn finally experienced the power of the massive flag he had raised himself.

Although he vaguely felt things absolutely wouldn't end normally, and had considered the possibility of the Mechanical Cult launching a large-scale attack at the last moment.

He still hadn't expected.

That his actions this time would directly pull two Root-level projections and avatars into the fray!

And the Mechanical Cult, once it moved, truly moved with world-destroying, earth-shattering killing blows!

[Ding! You are currently using the teleportation ability to "Happy Home". Proceed immediately?]

"Yes!"

In an instant.

The moment Lynn confirmed, the surrounding space instantly began to distort. His body, entangled by the Desire Mother Tree, also immediately began to turn ethereal under that twisted curse resentment.

His consciousness instantly established a link with that cursed ancient castle far away on Soul-Severance Street.And simultaneously.

In the distant Happy Home, within the empty courtyard, a little girl in a white dress stood quietly in the garden.

Just like in distant memories of what she once did, she meticulously cared for and trimmed those brilliant flower buds in her own garden.

Very lush, very robust.

Holding scissors.

Gently trimming the long nails and hair of those flower buds.

When the breeze lightly brushed past her skirt, one could vaguely see, on her pale skin, the fine, precisely healed suture marks.

Alice.

Had also been alone for a long time.

She gently closed her eyes, sitting on the long swing woven from flesh and blood and vines, like a little angel fallen into hell, utterly out of place amidst all the surrounding distortions.

Because Brother hadn't come to see her for a long time either.

Sometimes, there was even that feeling of being abandoned again, though she knew Brother was very busy, with endless things to do every day. She definitely couldn't expect Brother to stay in Happy Home with her all the time.

It was just... she couldn't help but yearn for that feeling of being cared for...

She gently shook her head, brushing her hair behind her ear.

Jumping down from the swing.

Walking barefoot on the ground full of thorns, alone as before, heading towards the empty castle hall.

But right at that moment, suddenly, she jolted.

As if she had suddenly sensed something.

She sharply turned around, her gaze instantly falling upon the high sky of Happy Home shrouded in black fog.

Crack—

As if a bolt of lightning flashed.

The black fog in the sky suddenly began to churn without any warning. The curses spread throughout Happy Home were almost simultaneously affected, as if something was returning through the distant void.

And the very next moment, Alice suddenly sensed that long-yearned-for, extremely familiar aura.

She stared blankly.

Instantly, that familiar face and that gentle smile that had always been soothing the wounds in her heart surfaced in her mind.

"Brother?!"

She hurriedly ran barefoot into the courtyard, her long dress dancing in the wind, making her look like a butterfly.

Yes.

That's right.

That was indeed Brother's aura!

Brother was returning to Happy Home, so he triggered Happy Home's curses. Brother... was he coming to see Alice?!

At the same time, beneath the Cursed City.

Almost the moment the link was established, Lynn's body, along with the distorted space, abruptly vanished from the spot. But the sense of crisis still hadn't dissipated.

Because almost at the moment he teleported, he could still sense that icy gaze fixed upon him.

That torrent of information!

That projection of the God of All Machines!

In an instant, the scene distorted.

When Lynn opened his eyes again, his surroundings were a kaleidoscope of bizarre lights and colors. Surging spatial turbulence continuously receded on both sides of his body. He was like speeding through a kaleidoscope.

He knew he had successfully activated the teleportation mechanism!

Now he was in the spatial tunnel of an ultra-long-distance jump. And at the vague far end of that tunnel, he could already clearly see that familiar ancient castle.

See that petite white figure standing in the castle's courtyard.

Alice's Happy Home!

But Lynn still didn't feel any sign of the crisis being resolved. It was as if, even after entering the spatial tunnel, he was still locked onto by something from afar.

In the underground cavern.

Pale silver currents crackled and exploded around that humanoid silhouette. It still hadn't moved, still stood there coldly. Amidst the symphony of gear meshing and mechanical humming, its mere existence caused the surrounding ground and soil to begin transforming into metal.

It didn't glance at the Desire Mother Tree's avatar. Its gaze shifted slightly, as if capable of piercing through the soil layer, through the boundless space, seeing Lynn speeding through the spatial tunnel.

Then it extended a hand.

Slowly clenched.

Crack—

Instantly, Lynn, who was traversing the boundless distance within the spatial tunnel, immediately sensed a massive, unstable fluctuation coming from behind.

He sharply turned his head, his entire body immediately feeling as if plunged into an icy pool.

At the far, far end, space began to shatter. Like the scene of a Prince Rupert's Drop fracturing, countless cracks in an instant surpassed his distance, spreading from the distant horizon in his vision to the boundless boundary ahead in a flash!

Then he saw those torrents of data.

Saw the shackles spreading towards him from the distant rear.

Heard the meshing of gears.

Heard the echoes of machinery.

Like the first roar of a machine in a factory at the dawn of the First Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, heralding the ensuing journey of tens of thousands of years of technological development.

Whoosh—

At the moment when Happy Home was almost within reach, his body was also entangled and frozen by the boundless chains of information.

As the information chains tightened.

His gaze hollowly receded backward, his outstretched hand also frozen at that hair's breadth distance from Happy Home.

And within those countless surging streams of information, he seemed to see the entirety of history.

Like the bell ringing at the start of the First Industrial Revolution, raising the curtain on the age of great machinery. From the sonata of steam, to the thick smoke of coal fires. From the industrial prelude of great machines, to the surge of spark plugs.

Cars, trains, airplanes, ships, skyscrapers rising from the ground, industrial smoke blotting out the sky.

The development of technological civilization was pulled to its extreme. The land was conquered, the seas were conquered, the skies were conquered. The arrival of information technology continuously accelerated the pace of the era. From the first breakthrough of gravity's shackles, to the rumbling ascent of rockets. From the ambition of space colonization, to the frenzied chapters of interstellar warfare!

Vast stars, boundless universe!

Like a newborn child opening its eyes once more. The Space Age, the Age of Great Navigation, the Interstellar Colonization Age, the Super-Intelligence Age, the Uploading Age. Genetics, flesh and blood, psionics, consciousness. Technology was developed to its extreme!

Then they discarded genetics, abandoned flesh and blood, renounced psionics, comprehended consciousness, and ultimately brought about that final...

Mechanical Ascension!

Dong—

A bell tolled.

Lynn's body was violently yanked back from the spatial tunnel by that force.

He saw that icy torrent of data once more.

Saw what represented the development and history of an entire era. It was the convergence of a civilization, what was born after the Mechanical Ascension of an entire civilization...

The God of All Machines.