(Thank you very much to Xu Jing Ji for the reward!)
"Master!"
Having just recovered from their dizziness, Hotaru, Kamakiri, Tamamushi, and Tonbo—the four Automatons of the Battle Team—saw Magnus being dragged into the spatial ripples by the Chains of Discipline and cried out in unison.
"I wouldn't object to Automatons being made too human-like, but for Natsuki, that truly is a rare weakness..." Wu Yan shook his head in apparent regret, his gaze sweeping over the Battle Team's Automatons.
"And then? Do you intend to fight me without an Automaton Master?..."
"—!" All of the Battle Team's Automatons immediately took a step back, staring at Wu Yan with guarded expressions.
Magnus's entire Battle Team consisted of Taboo Automatons!
Therefore, the Battle Team's Automatons could all generate a certain amount of magical energy on their own to sustain themselves in battle.
However, the magical energy they could generate was incomparable to that of humans. They could not even match an Automaton Master, the weakest kind of magician. Not to mention that without an Automaton Master controlling them, an Automaton's power would be drastically reduced.
Therefore, if the Battle Team's Automatons fought Wu Yan after losing Magnus, they would absolutely all be killed in a short time!
Of course, being killed would still be preferable. Being captured alive would be the real trouble.
After all, among Automatons, nearly every one of the Battle Team's Automatons was worth as much as a warship, and their construction and Magic Circuits would certainly interest many factions.
When that time came, it was not hard for the Battle Team's Automatons to imagine it. They would either become the Automatons of their master's enemies, or become merchandise.
Worse still, they might become experimental specimens, dissected for the study of their construction and Magic Circuits, then mass-produced.