Aside from their eyes, each larger than a fist and an excellent Alchemy material, these Evil-Eye Monsters had little value.
The battle yielded more than twenty thousand of those enormous eyeballs!
Green hadn't thought of it at first, but Black Claw immediately saw the potential in so many Evil-Eye Monster eyes. He revised the Mecha design, and the result was this Prototype.
Black Claw hadn't gone to all that trouble to show off or make work for himself. There was an important reason: it could help Green vastly expand the size of his direct forces!
Besides granting extraordinary vision and the ability to pierce low-level illusions, Evil-Eye Monster eyes had another, more important trait: Soul Link.
Evil-Eye Monsters had evolved their eyesight to its limit, while their ears, noses, and mouths had severely atrophied.
They had almost no hearing and could neither speak nor cry out, making communication difficult. To overcome that obstacle, their eyes had evolved further, developing the ability to form Soul Links at close range.
Ordinarily, two or more Evil-Eye Monsters within a hundred meters of one another could use a particular frequency of soul fluctuations to establish a Soul Network for communication.
Green's eyes lit up at Black Claw's proposal. He took the idea further: by installing Evil-Eye Monster eyes in Alchemy Mecha, he could form a vast Soul Link network among his Marine Skeleton Soldiers.
Once the Alchemy Computer was running properly, solving the problem of long-range Soul Links would let him use it as a server for an even larger network.
Claire, the Tower Spirit serving as the Alchemy Computer's Operating System, could then use its immense computing power to direct large numbers of Marine Skeleton Soldiers on the battlefield, right down to each individual.
The eyes could also be used to control more