Optimus Prime and his party's efforts to help the Mechanical Civilization make initial contact with the Qihuang Castle Civilization went far more smoothly than expected.
They had come this time with the Mechanical Civilization's clear intention to cooperate.
Especially when Optimus Prime and the other High-Level Intelligent Robots proactively presented some precious resources they had just seized from the rear battlefields of Evil Swamp Time-Space, the many Gear Beings of the Qihuang Castle Civilization who witnessed the scene were all deeply moved.
The Qihuang Castle Civilization had struggled to continue to exist through tens of thousands of years of Dimension War, with the flames of war running through nearly its entire modern history.
Although during this time, they had received direct support and protection from the Gear Time-Space Origin Rules Will, and had also invoked the greater cause of the Dimension War—using slogans such as jointly resisting invasions from Different Dimensional Planes—to absorb quite a few Weak Civilizations within their own time-space,
Compared to the immense losses they had suffered on the Dimensional Battlefield—troop casualties, shrinking territory, resource depletion, and one problem after another—the Qihuang Castle Civilization's situation in recent years had remained exceedingly strained.
The portion of war resources that Optimus Prime had brought on behalf of the Mechanical Civilization was undoubtedly a timely gift in the snow to the Gear Beings of the many Qihuang Castles, greatly easing their urgent plight.
The counteroffensives of recent years in particular had consumed vast reserves of the Qihuang Castle Civilization's resources.
What moved the Gear Beings even more was that a considerable portion of these spoils of war sent by the Mechanical Civilization had originally been resources seized by Invaders from Evil Swamp Time-Space from the Qihuang Castle Star Sector.
These resources were highly compatible in nature with the Gear Beings