The last researcher exhausted every scrap of raw material left in the Secret Base and refined an Inhibitory Agent he named "Hope."
He then stored the agent inside his own body and, for the first time in his life, stepped through the gates of the Secret Base. Like his ancestors ten thousand years ago, he went to fight Original Mother to the death.
Unlike his ancestors, however, this time it was no empty show of bravado. He carried a truly lethal weapon.
Yet the researcher, who had tried to infiltrate the Hope and enter the Original Mother Laboratory through its lower passageways, soon discovered that the environment aboard the Hope was completely different from what his fathers had told him.
According to his fathers, the Hope was a cold tomb. Everyone except them had been killed by the shockwaves and radiation unleashed by the magical explosion three thousand years ago. Even Original Mother had fallen into a long slumber, her power weakened to its absolute limit.
But this researcher found abundant traces of biological activity aboard the Hope.
No, they were not living creatures...
The researcher discovered large quantities of "Spirit Magnetic Polymer" aboard the Hope. They had simulated the appearances of heroes and powerhouses from every era of Turan Civilization, moving freely like living people clad in Totem Armor as they patrolled and hunted.
They were the "Slaughter Statues" Meng Chao and the Wolf King had encountered.
The discovery left the researcher both shocked and furious.
Spirit Magnetic Material possessed the ability to transform in a thousand ways, shape itself at will, and independently carry out commands.
Yet in essence, it was still cold, lifeless matter—highly precise machinery that had to rely on the flesh and blood of Carbon-Based Intelligent Life to achieve maximum effectiveness.
Even if it truly