The Old Raven froze for a moment, his expression filled with disbelief.
Ever since he had been transformed into an Imperial Guard, one person controlled more than a dozen "bodies." Different bodies shared the same consciousness.
In other words, as long as one body remained intact, he was immortal.
That was the technological essence of the Modifiers' civilization—the function of "wetware."
With "wetware," not only could one avoid schizophrenia and multiple personalities, but one would also have many more lives on the battlefield.
Yet under Number Three's bizarre methods, the Old Raven still died. Every consciousness had perished on the spot.
A member of the Old Hunters, former vice-captain of the Tindergrass Squad and Daisyra's deputy, had died permanently.
Players and NPCs were ultimately different.
The one who had died was not merely the Old Raven.
Number Three, who was in "Infinite Clone Mode," had fully displayed his strength as the strongest member of the Walter family. His opponent's bizarre method was especially terrifying: as long as one biological body was killed, all related existences would die as well.
Before long, the Old Hunters' casualties had reached double digits.
Even the jointly maintained "Imperial Might" began to collapse.
The constructs' suppression of carbon-based lifeforms had also become completely ineffective.
Number Three was not happy, however. He knew exactly how much it cost to maintain his current state.
Clones had much shorter lifespans than naturals. This was true in every clone civilization.
To solve the problem of lifespan, different clone civilizations had developed different technologies, some of which were even forbidden technologies.
The technology inherited by the Walter family was one such forbidden technology.
They continuously cloned their own bodies, then absorbed the essence of those cloned bodies to extend their lifespans and even increase their potential.
Different clones had different