The Ex Machina Join the Fray

"I am Veleslava, a Steel God who has yet to fully mature." So said the youth, who intended to seize the War God's divine essence before completely unleashing the Steel Attribute stored within his composite Authority and transforming his race.

"You are Veleslava, the Steel God. Then... who am I?"

Having been hanged upon the three great philosophical questions, the God of Doubt began questioning herself after learning the name of the person before her.

"You are the God of Doubt, the creator of the Machine God Race." Her divine essence answered her.

"Then what is a god?" Ignoring that being who seemed like her kin yet did not seem like her kin, the girl wrote alone and asked her question as she always had.

She did not ask that person, who could be considered half her fellow countryman, because during the early days of the Great War, she had questioned nearly all her kin. Every answer she received had been, "A god is a god."

It would have been strange if, after such experiences, she still had faith in her kin. Compared to asking her own kind, she chose to question her divine essence as she had when she was first born.

It was only a divine essence. Please do not torment it with philosophical propositions.

The youth thought this as he roughly understood whom the creator of the Machine God Race was questioning.

"If you are asking what the Divine Spirit Race is, I probably know a little." The youth who had awakened the suicidal God of Doubt from her slumber smiled faintly, interrupting her thoughts and prompting her to raise her head toward someone who could, for the moment, be considered her kin.

With Essence Burst, the Sword of Wisdom, and the Ring of Usurpation, he already