"Intelligent mechanical life? So they must have mistaken the Mithril Knight for an artificial intelligence lifeform like Codename, triggering a hidden friend-or-foe identification directive?
"And noble titles, too? Looks like artificial intelligence lifeforms hold fairly high status in the Machine Race..." Nie Yun rubbed his chin as he considered the information he had just obtained.
The Destroyer's value had somewhat exceeded Nie Yun's expectations.
Aside from its mechanical construction and compact energy technology, its internal combat intelligence software was also quite advanced.
Although it had been written in a different programming language, that did not stop Nie Yun from learning from its strengths and improving his own automated combat intelligence by a notch.
What interested Nie Yun even more, however, was some rather intriguing information extracted from its basic instruction set...
Using "Machine Race" as his search term, Nie Yun searched the base's database and eventually found some basic information about the Machine Race in an Imperial Encyclopedia.
A little over a thousand years ago, the Wulf Empire encountered the most powerful external civilization in its history... the Machine Race!
The Machine Race's leader, Gaia, was an extremely mysterious artificial intelligence lifeform who had single-handedly created a powerful mechanical empire and was said to possess the extraordinary ability to create mechanical life.
Although the Machine Race commanded enormous power, its ruling class consisted only of its shared leader, Gaia, and barely a hundred artificial intelligence lifeforms who had attained sentience.
Thus, despite having billions of robots under its command, it was a "species" with extraordinarily few members in terms of actual population.
How the two sides first made contact could no longer be verified, but ultimately, the arrogant Wulf emperor of that era chose conquest and war, just as his ancestors had, and an unprecedented large-scale war erupted between them.