Wall-E's workplace was not far from its residence.
The entire Steel Ruins was where Wall-E normally lived and worked. It led Saine and the others to the nearest garbage disposal site.
It was an enormous stretch of flat ground.
Carving out such a level clearing amidst this steel jungle littered with metallic ruins had truly not been easy.
In one corner of the clearing, rows upon rows of compressed cubic metal blocks had been stacked in neat order.
Twisted and deformed by immense pressure, these metal blocks no longer bore any resemblance to what they had originally been.
Wall-E was not a combat-type robot. Saine had known that long ago.
But just how strong Wall-E was... Saine had never measured it in detail.
Unable to resist, Saine walked up to a stack of metal blocks and picked up the metal cube in front of him, examining it for a long while.
Level-4 Magician Gilbert also came to Saine's side. Frail with age, he laboriously lifted a cubic metal block and said, "This can be considered Essence of Metal too, though its composition is quite mixed."
"A metal ingot like this could fetch around ten Magic Coins in the City of Steel."
"Considering that these metals are alloys from the top-tier technological civilization, the Ai Youlan Butterfly Civilization, they may be worth even more," Gilbert analyzed.
Just how many metal blocks were scattered across this immeasurably vast clearing?
The eye could not see its end!
At Wall-E's rate of compressing at most two hundred metal cubes a day, the wealth it had created over the years was likewise an astonishing figure.
But unfortunately, Saine and the others had no intention of loading up on this metal scrap.
Although Saine still had plenty of room in his Space Equipment, he was not