Ever since the Empire Shadow had shattered and the Imperial Capital of the Empire had become a battlefield of Divine Beings, the entire Empire had immediately withered away.
In contrast, under Nio's leadership, the Mechanoids had continuously grown stronger. Coupled with the Fate's Favor they possessed, they had thoroughly allowed the Mechanoids to occupy the world.
As for humanity, most had died in the war, while a small portion had been converted into Mechanoids. Yet these people did not live particularly well among the Mechanoids either; instead, they were treated as expendable resources and used in the war against humans.
Now the wheel of fortune had turned. The Mechanoid Empire had smoothly replaced the Human Empire and become the most powerful intelligent lifeform.
Humanity had not yet gone extinct. A small remnant still clung to life, and was currently being purged. Completely exterminating them would take time.
Yet before humanity could be wiped out, Nio, the Machina King, had gone mad first.
He had become obsessed with attaining power equal to that of a Divine Being and had frantically collected information related to the Landon Grand Duke.
But he had found nothing. Records of the Landon Grand Duke were indeed extremely limited. From a mere wandering knight to a Divine Being, there were vast blanks in between.
He had even explored the area that had once been the Dragon Mountain Range, now long since flattened into plains, only to find nothing.
Even the recorded accounts concerning the Landon Grand Duke were mostly poetic hymns of praise, with little concrete information.
A hundred thousand years ago and the present were not the same era; they were not even the same Civilization.
Even their races were different, so the line of inheritance had long since been severed.
This only made Nio appear