PS: Tonight was our twentieth-anniversary class reunion. I'm a little tipsy and feeling sentimental. I hope you all cherish your youth~
The former was a genuine weapon of war, much like a Kindling Warship, unique to the Mechanical Human Civilization.
The latter, on the other hand, was a symbol of faith in the Mechanical God Cult. So far, there was no evidence proving whether it was a real Deity Creature or merely a symbol of faith.
Neither Wang Dong nor Xu Zhenzhi showed any intention of stopping Shi Zunhou from asking.
They hadn't asked Gatsby about the Mechanical God Cult before because they wanted to show him respect.
Now that Gatsby had brought it up himself, the situation was naturally different. If they still pretended not to hear, it would only make them seem distant from him.
Sure enough, Gatsby didn't dodge Shi Zunhou's follow-up question.
"Just as Kindling Warships have different ranks, Mechanical Deities also vary in rank and strength.
"But unlike Kindling Warships, which can be mastered through a system that starts with the basics, the threshold for becoming a Mechanical Deity is much higher.
"Mechanical Deities are the transcendent culmination of every 'mechanic' in the Mechanical Human Civilization who reaches the peak of their profession and breaks through the 'absolute bottleneck.'
"The mechanic profession itself requires a 'talent' that only one person in a hundred million is born with.
"And even among hundreds of millions of mechanics, there might not be a single one who can break through the 'absolute bottleneck.'
"The difficulty of becoming a Mechanical Deity speaks for itself.
"But in return, once they break through the 'absolute bottleneck' and become Mechanical Deities, humans who were once mere mortals undergo an evolution at the most fundamental level!
"Even the weakest Mechanical Deity, newly ascended, is