System: My Doomsday Train-Chapter 705 - 312: "Omen Soul Banner" (Requesting Monthly Tickets)_3

"My civilization is the same."

"Many years ago."

"The Mechanical Civilization had two major factions within."

"The Design Institute and the Military."

"These two forces were the largest in the Mechanical Civilization and were the ones the government allocated significant funds to each year. The former was responsible for developing various train accessories, both civilian and military, while the latter was responsible for expeditions and protecting the safety of the Mechanical Civilization."

"At the beginning, the former continuously developed various accessories each year, greatly enhancing the overall strength of the Mechanical Civilization."

"But... as time passed, everything changed."

"Conflicts began to arise between the two sides, often resulting in clashes."

"The first conflict was really minor, so small that everyone forgot, only I still remember. It was when the ’Design Institute’ developed a new accessory and showcased the final product at a meeting. The military personnel harshly critiqued it as extremely useless, wasting resources."

"I knew why that military person gave such an assessment; it was because the military had applied for funds but was rejected, while a funding application from the Design Institute was approved. In a fit of embarrassment and anger, some unkind words were said." 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

"I often search for the true cause of the Mechanical Civilization’s downfall, considering many reasons: the strength of the Insect Race Civilization, the sudden increase in power of the Insect Race Civilization, and so on. But now I feel the true reason for the Mechanical Civilization’s downfall is that it was destined to fall."

"Unity after long separation, separation after long unity—this is an objective law, no one can stop it."

"And the signs began at that time."

"The two factions, which once supported and cooperated with each other, gradually developed conflicts. The Design Institute wanted to experiment with Accessory Effects and could no longer mobilize the military when going on expeditions to harvest special resources or to hunt Stellar Giant Beasts."

"Likewise, the military could no longer obtain new accessories developed by the Design Institute."

"So—"

"The Design Institute invested a large amount of funds to start creating its own military."

"The military allocated significant funds to create its own design team."

"Countless attempts by leaders to mediate ended in failure. This feud did not originate from a few people but from both sides’ long-held belief that the other relied on them, yet dared to be so arrogant. Changing a few leaders from the Design Institute and the military wouldn’t make any difference."

"And so it continued for over a hundred years."

"The two groups were completely severed."

"At the peak of absurdity, the best design team in the entire Mechanical Civilization was with the ’military.’ This was because the military had spent vast resources poaching talent and nurturing them at any cost, while the strongest train in the entire Mechanical Civilization was with the ’Design Institute.’ The Design Institute invested nearly all recent years’ research resources into this one train to outshine the military at any cost."

"Extremely distorted."

"Although the military had the best design team, as the military, it couldn’t allocate many resources to research nor had the proper research environment. This team, the most brilliant in the Mechanical Civilization, hardly did any research work and served only to overshadow the Design Institute."

"And the Design Institute hardly had any combat tasks, resulting in this Mechanical Civilization’s strongest train mostly gathering dust, its sole role being to sit in the Design Institute."

"Both sides had the strongest entities in the Mechanical Civilization but couldn’t utilize their potential."

"Several other unbelievable conflicts erupted thereafter, by which time the war had already been raging for a while."

"For instance, a ’military’ train was surrounded by the Insect Race outside. Although narrowly escaping, the train was left with no resources, severely damaged, and at risk of breaking apart anytime. It needed to find the nearest resource point urgently. After requesting help from the Mechanical Civilization, they failed to reach the nearest military resource supply point in seven hours, leading to the collective death of tens of thousands in this convoy."

"Subsequent investigation revealed that there was a Design Institute resource supply point approximately two hours away from the accident site."

"But—"

"No one from the Design Institute spoke up about this matter, and they even secretly held a celebration banquet after the entire military convoy perished."

"They later claimed that these resource supply points were built for the Design Institute using its own resources and were not available to outsiders."

"Consequently, the conflict between the two deepened."

"They virtually viewed each other as mortal enemies."

"The Design Institute had no necessity for trains to go out, but it still invested vast resources yearly to maintain those resource supply points, just for the rare one or two outings per year."

"This is an extreme waste of resources."

"Even though I’m with the Design Institute, I still want to say that even without the Insect Race Civilization, the Mechanical Civilization would gradually head towards its demise."

"The war gradually approached its end."

"The advantages of the Mechanical Civilization grew smaller and smaller. Those people finally realized that continuing like this might not be right. For the first time, the Design Institute chose to concede and handed over the ’Robot Research Center’ and ’Armed Black Hole Robot’ accessory original images, developed over the years with vast resources."

"These accessories allowed for the defense against the Insect Race Civilization’s swarm attacks using very low-cost resources."