The special individual Saine ultimately chose to empower with the Magic Cube had originally been nothing more than a numbered unit among the first batch of destruction mech soldiers.
According to Skynet's earliest records, its designation had been Destruction Mech Soldier No. 071.
It had been born in a medium-sized mechanical fortress that had been eroded by the Destruction Crystal Tide.
That mechanical fortress had suffered severe damage on the outer battlefield of the Destruction Heart Core, and more than seventy percent of its autonomous systems had been contaminated by Destruction Factors.
Under the Mechanical Civilization's standard disposal procedures, it should have been placed on the high-risk destruction list.
Yet during the final purification inspection, the fortress's core operating unit had not completely collapsed.
It had retained the most basic connection to Skynet.
More unusually, it had not gone mad and attacked its own side like other out-of-control Mechanical Units.
It had merely silently shut down most of its ineffective circuits and concentrated all remaining computing power on battlefield assessment and self-repair.
That almost instinctive self-rescue made Saine take a second look at it.
Afterward, it was dismantled, reshaped, and ultimately transformed into one of the first batch of destruction mech soldiers.
During the first few rounds of battle, No. 071 performed exceptionally well.
It was not the one with the strongest firepower.
Nor was it the one with the highest degree of Destruction Form.
But it possessed the greatest stability.
After entering high-concentration Destruction Crystal Tide regions seventeen times in succession, its connection to Skynet had not been severed even once.
It had even taken the initiative to drag comrades on the battlefield who were about to lose control back to the rear calibration zone.
Such behavior was not uncommon among ordinary Mechanical Units.
But among destruction mech soldiers,