But to her, none of this was the highest technology. The armor and instruments she had excavated from the ruins were all more advanced than the metal sphere Fu Hua had given him. That was why Otto continued searching Shenzhou for more metal spheres!
A century or two ago, Otto would not have been in such a hurry. Back then, Schicksal possessed an absolute technological advantage and utterly crushed the rest of the world. Aside from Shenzhou, which had the Immortal Chiyuan, Schicksal had practically ruled every region outside Shenzhou!
However, with the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of freakish geniuses like Einstein, Schicksal's technology was no longer absolutely unrivaled. It still led the way, but the gap was no longer insurmountable. At the time, Schicksal had recruited and accepted them in an attempt to retain control of cutting-edge technology, but...
Later, a large number of scientists followed Welt in defecting from Schicksal and established Anti-Entropy at the North American Branch. Though Tesla had not joined Anti-Entropy at the time, she later went to Shenzhou with Theresa and established the Far East Branch. Moreover, over the past decade or so, Anti-Entropy's technological level had grown far too quickly and was nearly catching up to Schicksal.
Within Schicksal, all the renowned scientists had gone to Anti-Entropy, so Schicksal's technological capabilities remained roughly at the level of the metal spheres. Advancing further was extraordinarily difficult. Anti-Entropy, meanwhile, had many famous figures, and since they had also come into contact with advanced technology while in Schicksal, their development had been incredibly rapid.
Gradually, Anti-Entropy had transformed from a tiny branch Otto had once ignored into a world-class organization with influence nearly equal to Schicksal's, though its armed forces were far inferior to Schicksal's...
And in the end, Otto had always had only one