The beautiful boy who was reborn in the dark world of women

When the mechanical girl asked the question, many chaotic thoughts flashed through Lor's mind. He actually had a lot of questions, about the Aslan Empire, about their shelter in the abyss, and about the mechanical girl in front of him and the beautiful and prosperous scene around him.

"I want to go to the garden of the god of love, and I hope you can show me the way."

But in the end, that's all Lore said.

"Is it already this time..."

The mechanical girl chuckled when she heard this, and her half silver-gray metal face broke into a bright smile, but it looked a little weird under the rendering of the metal color.

Lor frowned: "What do you mean?"

The mechanical girl did not answer. The indicator lights in her mechanical pupils kept flashing like a holiday. She slowly took a few steps forward. The sound of rapidly turning gears could be heard inside her body, and white mist was rising.

She seemed to want to stretch, but parts of her body were crackling as if they could break at any time.

"Although it's fake, it feels really good to be alive again."

The mechanical girl lowered her head slightly, looking at her hands wrapped in silver-gray metal, her slender fingers rising and falling stiffly.

Then she seemed to have thought of something, and the cables on both sides of the robotic arms suddenly lit up, like some kind of spreading lines, finally converging on the abdomen.

In the dim blue light, a high-tech metal belt suddenly appeared around the mechanical girl's waist, with a strip groove in the center.

The mechanical girl laughed immediately. The mechanically synthesized electronic sound seemed quite strange. She looked very happy, as if she had thought of something interesting and couldn't wait to share it with her new friend.

"Probably a long, long time ago, when the shelter hadn't completely fallen into ruin, I hadn't been optimized to that state yet and could still function normally. For security reasons, the palace pilots designed an interesting function for me."

"It's probably something like this—"

The mechanical girl had a metal card or some kind of hard drive in her hand. She made a movement that was meaningless and even quite embarrassing because of the lag of the mechanical arm.

Then he handsomely inserted the disk in his hand into the groove on the belt. The silver-gray metal began to grow, instantly wrapping the mechanical girl into a tall mecha.

As the mecha took shape, all its mechanical mechanisms tightened and exerted force, hot steam overflowed from the gaps, making a heavy whimper.

"Om-"

Under the hideous steel mask, the indicator light flickered, casting a scarlet vision.

"Cool!"

When the belt appeared, Lor's pupils widened a little. Although his expression seemed a little bit overwhelmed, when the transformation was completed and the mechanical girl turned into a mecha knight, he couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

"Hey, I knew boys couldn't resist a woman in a mecha."

The girl's voice came out from under the dense and solid metal, and the monotonous mechanical synthesized sound seemed to sound a little playful and lively.

The electronic eyes under the mask were rolling around, and she looked quite excited. She also patted her abdomen and burst into laughter.

"How about that? Do you want to touch my abs? I guarantee they're as hard as iron."

Hey, this is harassment, right? This is definitely harassment, right?

The corners of Lor's lips twitched slightly. This mechanical girl, the last one left in the Yaslan Empire, didn't seem to be a serious person...

"Why? You look a little surprised?"

The mecha dismantled itself and hid again in the silver-gray metal of the mechanical girl. She looked directly at Lor, and the boy nodded.

"I just didn't expect that you would have such a personality. Your humanity and emotions are much more abundant than I expected..."

The brain tissue stored in the container flashed before Lor's eyes, and the smile that unconsciously appeared on his face suddenly froze.

He fell silent, quietly watching the mechanical girl entertaining herself in front of him, and suddenly felt a little sad.

In Lore's imagination, if someone had all the extra parts removed and only a brain left to survive, that person would probably find it difficult to even maintain self-awareness.

This kind of muddled and endless suffering is enough to make any human with a strong mind collapse, let alone such optimism...

"After all, we have lived for too long. If we can't have some fun, we will have psychological problems."

The mechanical girl said with a smile, then turned around, looked at the city behind her, and said, "It's beautiful, isn't it, that city."

Lor followed her gaze and saw the steel city shining in the morning light. Countless pipes and passages spread out from the city, with steam-powered trains running on them, crossing mountains and wilderness, connecting distant cities.

Judging from the appearance alone, the steel city is not very "beautiful", or it looks a bit bloated due to continuous expansion and construction of undesigned structures.

But it has another kind of beauty.

That is... the center of the world.

Countless people came from afar, transited here, and then went elsewhere. The light of technology illuminated the era that should have been dark, connecting distant lands, making the vast world smaller, and human footprints were spread across every corner of the wilderness.

This is a kind of vitality that is difficult to describe in words. Human civilization is prosperous like never before. Strong countries stand tall on the earth, and even disasters in the shadows are afraid of the fire of civilization.

"Yeah, it's really beautiful."

Lor said softly, with golden light flowing in his eyes.

"What stage has the civilization of today developed to? Has it surpassed our exploration back then?"

"No, there are only a few countries on the ground. Most areas are not suitable for living. People gather together based on religious beliefs, wielding bows and swords to fight against disasters."

"It's already this bad...but you don't seem surprised?"

The robot girl looked at the boy's quiet expression. The emotion that emerged on her beautiful face was not shock at this technology that far surpassed the current world, but another kind of emotion...

Very complicated emotions.

"Perhaps I have dreamed of something similar before."

Lor replied, and the mechanical girl understood.

"It seems that we all have a wonderful hometown, which is great..."

She propped up her cable-made spine, came to Lor's side, and looked out with him at the vast fields and rivers below the hillside.

"Our empire was established after the fall of the Third Lord. We inherited the relics and craftsmanship left over from the Third Lord. At the same time, this is also the first reincarnation after the Fourth Lord ascended the throne."

"The fourth god is Ouroboros? Then who is the third god?"

Lor listened carefully to the other party's story and asked.

“It’s been so long. Even if I try my best to preserve and store these memories, they are slowly decaying like faded paper, becoming something I don’t understand.”

The mechanical girl shook her head and said, "I can no longer remember their names. Even if I hear you mention the name of the Fourth Lord, I cannot remember it."

"I have lost a large part of my memory. I can only tell you what I know as best as possible and answer all your questions, but I'm sorry, I can't guarantee that it's true or correct."

"……I see."

Lor nodded, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little solemn. The mechanical girl paused for a moment, but a stiff and strange smile appeared on her face again.

"Don't be so serious. You are still young and pretty. You should smile more. There is an old saying in our place: Even machines will love beautiful boys."

"What does it mean?"

Lor asked in confusion.

"We believe that machines have souls and they also love beautiful things, so whenever the equipment breaks down or gets stuck, we will arrange for beautiful young people to repair or clean it."

The mechanical girl explained. Although it sounded a bit absurd, Lor thought of that silver-gray divinity and asked.

"What kind of divinity is that? It's the kind of divinity that combines flesh and blood with machinery."

"That is the divinity of the Third Heaven Lord. We call it the Ash Divinity. It is the most precious thing we have found among the Third Heaven's heritage."

The mechanical girl explained: "It is not just a simple combination of flesh and metal, but a transformation of life form. From then on, humans will be freed from the shackles of flesh and blood and can exist longer, but the price is."

"Losing human emotions and desires."

"You should know that this world is in a constant cycle of reincarnation. This is the axiom that the Lord of the Fourth Heaven has established for all things. In the endless cycle of reincarnation, the world continues, but this does not include the living beings in the world."

"With every reincarnation, some tribes will sink into the abyss, and some tribes will rise in the world. This largely depends on which gods can obtain the twelve seats..."

"We didn't know this at the time. We only knew that even gods would have difficulty maintaining themselves in the cycle of reincarnation."

Lor's eyes flickered as he heard the mechanical girl continue, "At the end of the empire, we were able to understand all the divinities of the time and foresaw the end of the first reincarnation. We began to look for ways to keep the empire alive in the reincarnation."

The mechanical girl was very close to Lor, and her dim electronic eye was right in front of him. The scarlet light seemed to pierce into Lor's eyes.

"We believe that only the Lord of Heaven can contend with another Lord of Heaven. Nothing in this world can escape the fate of reincarnation, but the power left by the third Lord of Heaven is different. Strictly speaking, it is not the power of this world, but... the power of the previous life."

"According to our calculations, as long as we can harness this power, there is a chance that we will not be bound by the law of reincarnation. So, under the witness of the gods, we made a bold attempt."

Flesh and blood are weak, we are machines that ascend.

Lor understood that the attempt the mechanical girl was talking about was probably that grand ceremony.

"Unfortunately, we are unable to control the Grey Divinity. After the ceremony, most of the people who participated in the ceremony quickly lost their emotions and desires. Moreover, the first group of people who participated in the ceremony were mostly the empire's confidential officials and dignitaries."

"At first, no one paid attention to this minor side effect. Without the need to eat, sleep, and precise calculations, and without the will being disturbed by external things, work efficiency increased significantly in a short period of time."

"But gradually, the people who have sublimated begin to lose their recognition of their human identity, and without exception, they develop strong self-destructive tendencies."

"At that time, there was an invasion from outside and many disasters were awakened at the end of the reincarnation cycle. The empire soon fell into unprecedented chaos."

The mechanical girl spoke, and as her words fell, the sky was covered with a bloody sunset, the flames of war rose on the earth, and the disaster in the shadow walked out of its lair.

The archons and commanders of the city-states who were supposed to command the guards and lead the people to resist fell into self-destructive impulses.

No wonder Geniat was able to defeat the Aslan Empire. It was not defeated by external attacks, but collapsed from within the fortress.

The magnificent steel city was shrouded in shadow. Under Lor's gaze, the Dragon Blood King, bathed in God's grace, led his Iron Pagoda Legion clad in winged armor to the city.

A girl bathed in light walked out of the city gate, her face hidden in the mist, and one could only guess her appearance from her graceful figure.

Then the cavalry slowly retreated, and a brief peace descended on the earth, which also foreshadowed the complete decline of the Aslan Empire.

Although the girl's face was blurry, Luo Er always felt that the figure was familiar, very similar to...

He looked at the mechanical girl in front of him with a probing look in his eyes.

But the other party's expression remained unchanged, as if he was looking at a scene that had nothing to do with him.

"After one mistake, they tried to cover it up with another. In order to reverse the trend of decline, the Empire started more radical experiments, including war machines, consciousness uploading, and cluster life. In the end, one of the experiments went wrong."

"Finally, the God of Love descended upon us and calmed the aftermath of the destruction, sinking most of the capital and the remaining sanctuary into the abyss."

"So," Lor frowned, "it wasn't your sublimation ritual that angered Amor and caused destruction, but it was He who calmed the disaster for you?"

"How could a god who controls emotions and desires be angered by the transgression of a mere mortal?"

The mechanical girl asked back.

"Will He be so kind as to help you clean up the mess?"

"Your Majesty the God of Love has some kind of connection with the Third Heaven. The Third Heaven's power is out of control and can only be calmed by Him."

Lor narrowed his eyes, he remembered the hint given to him by the God of Mist - Amor was the backup plan left by the Third Lord of Heaven.

What kind of god is the Third Lord?

(For details, please refer to Chapter 47 and Chapter 54 of Volume 5, hey)

But all knowledge about Him has long been lost in the passage of time. Even in the library of the Church of Mother Earth, which claims to contain everything, there is no way that there would be a single word about Him.

Because that can't even be considered the god of this world, but... the god of the previous world.