Gear Sage Syndrome?

"This is one of the Mechanical Cathedral's greatest holy relics, the Gear Sage. It remains forever within this Gear Sanctuary, teaching day and night without rest. It's just that what it teaches is far too profound and extremely obscure to listen to."

After Hela finished her introduction, she frowned and pondered for a moment before continuing.

"The Mechanical Cathedral's believers attend lectures here. Occasionally, some people do gain insight from those obscure sermons, but unfortunately, such cases have become increasingly rare."

Castel's group stood within the Gear Sanctuary without saying a word, staring fixedly at the machine "man" lecturing above them.

Castel could use steam engines to drive massive locomotives, send enormous airships into the sky, and make fully laden cargo ships sail across the sea, but it could not create such an intricate humanoid machine.

Richard's research team had spent a long time studying the relevant technology. Let alone completing it, they could not even come up with a complete plan or framework.

The electronic control systems were constrained, servo motors were extraordinarily difficult to manufacture, and brain-computer interfaces were even further out of reach. Blue Star before Theus's transmigration had been unable to develop them, so naturally, he could offer no help.

With no other choice, they lowered their standards again and again. In the end, they only intended to build Nora a body that could barely move. Fine control was unnecessary; it only needed to be able to drag her head around. Yet even that was beyond them.

In other words, the machine before them, capable of writing and drawing on a blackboard, had already surpassed Castel's most cutting-edge technology.

Erwin and Zoe had only heard about it, while Gaia had truly spent every day immersed in the frontier research institute. She understood even more clearly just