Doomsday Roulette

Watching the great master leave with a look of confusion, Ye Zhongming squatted down at the spot where the battle had just taken place and did not leave.

He had fought against that great master because, after his promotion, he had only experienced this realm for a day before hurriedly coming here. He was eager to understand the extent of his current strength. This great master happened to provide Ye Zhongming with such an opportunity, and he did not want to miss it.

Although Ye Zhongming had not used his full strength, there was another reason he let the great master go: the safest way for him to escape was for the team of mechanical legion warriors who knew him to be completely wiped out. This would be much safer than escaping alone and would eliminate any future repercussions.

Otherwise, the disappearance of a pilot with over eighty percent compatibility along with their mechanical battle armor could trigger a large-scale investigation by the mechanical legion. For Ye Zhongming, who was currently in Divine Artisan City, this was not good news.

Naturally, there was another matter at hand: Ye Zhongming intended to see what was stored in the warehouse that prompted the dwarves to act on such a large scale. From prior information, this was unlikely to be the only attack site.

Ye Zhongming took his weapon and quietly opened a nearby metal box. Then, a mechanical hand reached inside to widen the gap, allowing him to peek inside.

“Zhen Iron Rod?”

Ye Zhongming was slightly taken aback. This item was made from purified Zhen Iron and was a standard specification, considered one of the basic materials widely used in various types of equipment armor and mechanical body manufacturing. Due to the special properties of this metal, processing it into its current form improved stability and reduced the activity decay period of certain substances within.

When Ye Zhongming was acquiring various materials before stocking, this type of Zhen Iron Rod was included, and there were quite a few—he had ordered a total of one hundred thousand, costing him over twenty million Moon Age Gold just for this item back then.

Ye Zhongming then cut open another box nearby and found that it also contained Zhen Iron Rods. He randomly cut open several more boxes in the pile, all containing the same items.

Estimating roughly, there were at least over a hundred boxes, and if calculating based on a hundred rods in each, that would amount to a total of ten thousand rods, valued at over two hundred million Moon Age Gold.

And this pile of boxes was just a small portion of the warehouse; there were at least dozens of similarly categorized metal boxes stacked together. How much would all this cost?!

No wonder a great master was dispatched as a guard.

Seeing these materials, Ye Zhongming felt no need for hesitation. Fearing that many boxes might suddenly disappear and attract attention, he cut open every box, took out the Zhen Iron Rods inside, and placed them into his already somewhat empty spatial equipment.

After doing this, he peered through the gaps between the boxes to observe the battle situation. With the addition of a great master and the disappearance of someone with over eighty percent compatibility like Ye Zhongming, the mechanical legion's situation was not looking optimistic.

The opponent's strength was one aspect, and they believed Ye Zhongming’s disappearance was a death blow to morale—this made the mechanical legion squad, which shouldn’t have been here to begin with, go from having an initial advantage to being completely on the defensive.

Mechanical battle armor could indeed enhance the pilot's combat power, but one must not forget that once inside, they couldn’t wear other equipment. What level of combat power could an inscription ape level mechanical battle armor reach? This naturally related to compatibility. Based on Ye Zhongming's estimates, even with one hundred percent compatibility, if the pilot was Fuleira at a level below eleven thousand (taking himself as an example), the ceiling for this second-tier battle armor's effectiveness would be equivalent to that of an ordinary crimson condensation level.