Father

Light Rain walked with Mayfly deeper into the Dead Mech Jungle in search of other Mech Hives, asking him about this place along the way.

With sufficient Elemental Fuel and a lower mechanical body, Mayfly's self-awareness had become relatively complete, allowing him to clearly answer Light Rain's questions.

Thus, important information about Gergada, the circumstances of the Dead Mech Jungle, and Mayfly's origins gradually unfolded before Light Rain.

Gergada.

This was a region devoted to incantations and mechanical technology. Most people believed they could find another form of life within them, continuously perfect themselves, and ultimately uncover life's greatest mysteries.

However, as it developed, all kinds of ideological differences emerged within Gergada.

Ordinarily, mere differences in ideology would not have affected anything.

But after an organization called the "Cross Bell" rose to prominence in Gergada, the entire region took a completely different path.

Because of the Cross Bell, Gergada's political climate underwent violent upheaval, causing a great many Gergadan scholars to flee.

Some traveled far away and vanished without a trace, while others could not completely sever their ties with Gergada. They used incantation-based mechanical technology to create "Roving Soil," a kind of movable land.

The residents of the Roving Soil where the Dead Mech Jungle stood believed that human emotions could give Mech Lifeforms a sense of self, granting them the creativity of intelligent life and making them an entirely new species.

Mayfly had been born upon such a stretch of Roving Soil, created by his creator—the one he called "Father."

As a resident of that Roving Soil and a leading scholar who believed in this ideal, Mayfly's father had been gifted from birth. At a young age, he had already developed numerous new technologies and was highly valued by the Roving Soil.

He believed he could create a