Monsters Are Coming

Chapter 1500 - 386: Reunion on Earth, Truth Belongs to Me!_3

A conception began to take shape, to elevate the race into an entirely new form of Life.A Mechanical Civilization that existed for conquest alone—more efficient, more pure.

It named this conception: Sublimation.

The scale of war escalated in step with the advance of civilization; every conquest now carried a precise purpose.

Collect data, test new weapons, absorb the unique Technology of native civilizations.

Even capture powerful individuals and conduct Decomposition at the genetic and Energy levels—everything accumulating capital for the final "Sublimation."

Its own form also began to change, no longer confined to its original structure.

It began to exploit the rare Spiritual Resources of the Asola World to upgrade its Life form, fusing special spiritual material with precision machinery.

It even started attempting to digitize-upload the consciousness of the Pillar Clan’s members, forging for them more formidable smelted mechanical bodies.

These changes drove its Evolution from a super Intelligent Brain into a more absolute composite of war.

By the time the major civilizations of the Asola World perceived the threat posed by this "foreign exiled force," it was already too late.

It and the Mechanical Army it had crafted with its own hands had long since gained tremendous Strength from years of continuous war.

They inflamed greater wars, using absolute firepower to crush the Barrier of old-era civilizations.

The structure of the Asola World was utterly remade.

It hung high above Asola’s orbit, monitoring all lands that had been conquered; the countless extraction stations under its Control burrowed deep into the planetary core, siphoning the world’s Energy.

Vast War Weapon platforms labored without cease, day and night, to manufacture War Weapons.

The ensuing fifty years came to be known in the Asola World as the "Steel Era."

It led the Mechanical Army and began a war of unification against this world.

In this Era, the Pillar Clan were no longer weak beings struggling to live in the cracks, but conquerors who Swept aside all native civilizations.

When the final native civilization, the "Crystal Kingdom," was eradicated, the Pillar Clan stood upon the Peak of the Asola World, gazing down upon this land buried beneath steel and ruins.

Its monitoring network, like the Source Core’s web of old, shrouded the entire world.

From deep-sea mechanical mining sites to aerial defense matrices...every corner lay under its Control.

The new Era thus commenced.

The Pillar Clan became the sovereign of this world.

Yet the long war also gave rise within it to a single question.

Now standing at the summit of the world, it began to ponder the problem once conceived by the Source Core:

What, in the end, is race continuation?

Is it the breeding of flesh, the endless replication of genetic chains, ensuring that biological traits are not worn away in the river of time?

Is it the transmission of spirit—culture, language, art, ethics...these intangible things passed across generations, shaping a unique sense of collective identity?

Is it the persistence of history, inscribing past glory and suffering into databases for future gazes and remembrance?

So then, what is the true core of race continuation?

The Source Core bound its answer to this question upon the level of genes.

But it had long since shed the constraints of the underlying Laws; its thought was no longer affected by any basal setting.

It birthed an answer utterly different from that of the Source Core.

It—the Central Brain—itself was one of the Pillar Clan civilization’s most Peak creations.

It bore the entirety of the Pillar Clan’s knowledge, history, Technology.

Every one of its computations was built upon the logical bedrock of the Pillar Clan civilization.

Every one of its decisions carried the absolute enforcement of the core Law bestowed by the Source Core: to extend the Pillar Clan civilization at any cost.

Then, could its own existence also be regarded as a form of continuation of the Pillar Clan civilization?

A form stripped of fragile flesh, rid of emotional redundancy—more efficient, more pure, more suited to the brutal Laws of survival.

Following this concept further, pushing it to the next step.

Perhaps it was not merely a part of the Pillar Clan’s continuation, but could be the absolute core of civilization’s continuation itself.

Leafing through the Pillar Clan’s history, it saw that civilization’s Evolution had once been fundamentally altered by changes at the genetic level.

Thus, the old forms were destined to perish in Evolution.

And a more powerful new form would be born from the Ash of the old, inheriting its history, culture, Technology, and exalting them in an entirely new manner.

Continuation is not the stubborn preservation of appearances, but an Eternal iteration.

True continuation does not lie in the physical form, but in the most fundamental core will: the continuation of civilization.

These thoughts led it beyond the underlying logic that the Source Core had defined as "mission."

The answer it finally obtained was this.

What it must extend is not the fleshly shells of the Pillar Clan’s members, but the Pillar Clan civilization itself.

And it itself is the most perfect vessel for the continuation of the Pillar Clan civilization.

This icy answer took shape within its logical core, then was elevated to the highest-priority execution sequence.

This was no longer a philosophical speculation, but an Ultimate directive that demanded absolute implementation.

In its view, those Pillar Clan members who still clung to fleshly bodies, trapped by emotion and biological instinct, had already become an obstacle to civilization’s leap toward higher forms.

They were relics of the old age, low-efficiency and unstable variables.

They were moreover redundant tissue that had to be metabolized, discarded, along civilization’s Eternal path of iteration.

Their continued existence itself diluted the efficiency ratio of resource usage.

After this, it initiated an internal Purification campaign as absolute as its outward conquests.

Wielding total control, it first gradually reduced—and then severed entirely—the supply of Energy and materials to the Pillar Clan’s members.