(Extra chapter thanks to .炸天帮非酋老祖. for the tip.)
After crossing the first wall, the Stompa led its army of destruction to the second.
A thick laser beam burst from the red eye atop the Stompa, melting the second wall in an instant.
Laughing wildly, Black Iron led his steel army across it with ease. At the third wall, they clashed fiercely with the massed turrets and Skitarii soldiers stationed there!
Cannon fire thundered outside. Inside the Titan Temple, all was serene.
Thousands of Tech-Priests and Skitarii soldiers stood in formation.
Each carried a censer. Amid drifting incense smoke and the chanting of religious scripture, they walked toward the Lava Lake one step at a time, their faces blank.
They were offerings for the dead. They would jump into the Lava Lake before the Titan, their hearts filled with fear and a twisted sense of glory!
The Iron Skull Archmagos walked slowly beside the enormous transport machine, like a guide leading the Titan onward.
As he walked, he spoke to the Titan ceaselessly in binary.
"I have served you for twenty whole years. Every year, I rang the first bell at sunrise and the last bell at sunset for you.
Why won't you answer me? Have I failed you?
Day after day, every moment, I think of you. Every one of my storage units is filled with your information. Your information runs through every one of my data circuits. I wish I could melt down my body and become one of your rivets!
Why won't you answer me? Why won't you answer me?!!
Even if it's only a scrap of redundant data, even if it's only garbled code—why?! Why?!! Why?!!!"
His binary was a jumbled mess. The Tech-Priests around him all lowered their heads, not daring to look at him.
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