My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 358 - 306: Your Swarm Sacrifices Every Moment, While Our Empire’s Mecha Are Endless
It seems that powerful civilizations in the cosmos are indeed not rare.
"The prototype of the Fearless Mecha was a large machine designed for disabled soldiers to drive, but later, to counter the Insect Race, pilots were removed and replaced with what is now artificial intelligence, which is ’us,’ this group of machine souls, thus began thousands of years of war and Insect swarm clearing."
"I was the third Fearless Mecha created in the 533rd year after the Fearless War began. By then, the border planets of the Empire had already been occupied and completely turned into Insect swarms, and we were just the killing machines sent to air-drop there," continued the Fearless Mecha.
"Your Empire is so strong? Occupied multiple planets?"
This indeed surprised Xue Dili a bit, as the last civilization he saw wanting to colonize multiple planets was the Super Iron Curtain, and they could only secretly engage in some underhanded tactics.
"Four planets, all within the same Fixed Star System; they were planets opened and transformed by our ancestors during ancient times," the Fearless Mecha explained to Xue Dili, clarifying his doubts.
All Xue Dili could do was sigh, they were really lucky to have four life-sustaining planets within one Fixed Star System.
After all, even within the Solar System, only Earth and Mars are in the habitable zone, and at most, Europa could be considered to have the potential to become a Life Planet.
But that Fearless Empire having four habitable zone planets in its own Fixed Star System would make the vast majority of civilization planets envious.
And the Fearless Mecha continued to tell the history of the Empire.
"Actually, there were already conflicts within the Empire, conflicts between the homeworld and colonization stars, among the colonization planets; the conflicts were already very sharp back then, after all, the leaders on these colonization stars were once descendants of His Majesty the Emperor, legally they also held succession rights, but once the war began, the Empire had to unite against the Insect swarm."
Upon hearing this, Xue Dili also sighed, under the Venerable King, nothing is new.
The Fearless Empire once had an "Emperor" who, when establishing other planets, stationed his sons on different planets.
But after several generations, completely different voices would appear on the different planets, and coupled with such vast territories and a large population, different demands naturally arose, especially since the leaders on the colonization planets were also descendants of His Majesty the Emperor.
They might have wondered, why should I be developing this colonization star, instead of becoming the new Emperor?
It wouldn’t be surprising if they wanted to establish their own authority, and the different princes must have had similar thoughts, they just amplified this thinking of establishing their authority over different planets.
But when the nominal Emperor of the homeworld became incompetent, the other princes naturally had other ideas.
They just hadn’t begun their establishment of authority, when an Insect swarm invasion interrupted them, forcing them to unite against the swarm.
Of course, as a product of the Empire, the Fearless Mecha naturally didn’t see this internal conflict as establishment of authority but labeled all the other colonization stars as rebellious and traitorous.
And the Fearless Mecha continued narrating the Empire’s story: "Next came the long thousands of years of Fearless War, where Fearless Mechas became the most solid weapon against the swarm. We are equipped with flamethrowers emitting nearly ten thousand degrees Celsius, explosive flame bombs capable of blasting large pits of tens of meters and wheel blades that can easily tear through Insect swarms; the swarm’s pollution has limited effect on us, hence after the battlefront stabilized, the swarm began to retreat step by step."
Xue Dili listened, stunned.
After all, having personally fought the Shabu Insect Race, he knew how tough they were. He only started gaining control after a doomsday strike, clearing nearly a billion polluters.
And now it seemed, the Fearless Empire was even more remarkable, as they directly matched the insect race in explosive troop buildup ability, only one side composed of carbon-based fleshy insects, and the other consisting entirely of magic-guided machine soul mechas.
Even though the Fearless Mecha spoke without emotion, Xue Dili detected a hint of pride in its choice of words, akin to saying, "Your swarms are sacrificing every moment, while our Empire’s mechas are endless."
Natural disasters were actually suppressed back by a massive mecha army, and Xue Dili estimated that the Shabu Insect Race must be quite enraged, being countered in the field they were most proud of.
"The machine souls of the Vanguard Mechas do not truly die, as long as they transmit their machine soul back to the headquarters right before sacrifice, they can achieve resurrection the next time they take to the field, while inheriting their prior combat experience, this allowed us to start off with urgent battlefronts but grow stronger the more we fought."
"Until 38 years ago, the Fearless Vangaurd Army personally led the Emperor’s Guard, found the Insect Race Queen’s nest, and after sacrificing thousands of Fearless Vanguard Army members, killed it inside the nest, ending the natural disaster," the Fearless Mecha recounted this time with unabashed pride and joy.
"Amazing," Xue Dili directly expressed his praise.
Previously, when Xue Dili encountered the Shabu Insect Race, whether Uncle Brave or the Old Demon Emperor started attacking with heavy blows before the swarm formed, but this Empire waited for the swarm to develop and turn an entire planet’s populace into insects before uniting for an assault, and through superior explosive troop technology, annihilated the swarm head-on.
