Sublimation Lineage: Fire Thief - Prometheus - The Meaning of Inevitable Sacrifice

Even if—

Just to try!

That was right. Only now had the truth begun to unfold:

The Fifth Builder, an ocean-going vessel, had been specially established by the Great Library to construct lighthouses along the coast of the Lost Sea.

Thus, after deep discussions, they had also chosen to build lighthouses as a means of suppressing the darkness and the abyss.

But—

The darkness of the Eternal Night Kingdom was simply too profound!

And it was far too suitable as a breeding ground for the abyss!

However, Toros-Vick was only a mechanic. He had not participated in the lighthouse construction, instead remaining in his small workshop at Mist Veil Port.

After the thought of fulfilling his master's wish arose within him, he turned and walked deeper into the room.

There, within his dim, retro-styled steampunk workshop—

An overhead lamp woven from ancient gears and copper pipes flickered to life, casting mottled shadows and draping the space in a mysterious yet warm veil.

The room's walls were covered with all kinds of Design Drawings:

From complex mechanical structures to diagrams of strange energy flows, every one of them revealed the designer's extraordinary imagination and yearning for the unknown world.

And at the very center of the workshop—

A mysterious machine, its sharp edge not yet fully concealed, stood silently there. It resembled some colossal beast about to awaken, gathering strength for its charge.

The core of this device was an incomparably precise main structure, almost like an Energy Core.

Yet on closer inspection, its complexity far surpassed that of any conventional steam-powered structure.

The machine's main frame had been forged from refined steel, its surface covered in delicate copper patterns. It possessed an ancient simplicity while exuding an exceptional sense of technology.

Dozens of exquisite gears and pulleys were arranged across