Crack, crack, crack, crack...
The Hope Coffin was heavy and clumsy in its workmanship.
It lacked the many delicate and exquisite crafts. What it possessed was only the most primitive balancing craft of the material world: using absolutely precious materials to contend in war, taking the harshest environments and most arduous conditions as its baseline for response, emphasizing practicality and stability rather than becoming a work of war art like the Metal Destroyer Civilization.
Two Ant Queen-level mechanical puppets stood in the empty hall.
Both had been designed in the likeness of humans, but their energy had clearly long since run dry, leaving them unable to fight. As the years flowed by, they had actually petrified, standing like statues.
"Sure enough, it was an Ancient Wizard design."
Green murmured as he bent slightly and fed magic power into the concealed magic array beneath his feet.
With a hum, the magic array across the entire hall blazed to life. Layers upon layers of magic runes packed tightly together, and with Green as the central point, a massive six-pointed-star magic array formed in an instant.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep...
Within the magic array, a radish-shaped sprite of light gradually materialized. White and plump, it stared at Green with a pair of wide eyes, seemingly verifying his identity.
"Authentication successful. Welcome to Hope Castle Sky City, esteemed new master. I am Yaoyao. How would you like Yaoyao to address you?"
The white radish spread its wings. It was merely a materialized projection of light, circling around Green as it flew.
"Young Master Green."
Through his tricolored light eyes, Green could already see through Yaoyao's essence as a Tricolor Sprite. It was the city heart of this Ancient Sky City. It did not truly exist; it was merely a projection of light materialized