Li Chen also sensed an aura closing in from behind. He looked back and saw a Combat Puppet roughly ten feet tall, shaped like a giant nocturnal owl. Its entire body was dark gold, cast from a refined gold alloy.
Before he could give it any thought, the Auxiliary Brain automatically searched the information he had entered during his spare time over the past several days and displayed its details.
Name: Red Owl. Type: Mecha. Minimum star rating: Three. Typical cost: Three million Talisman Coins.
These were followed by extensive illustrated records and accounts of related battles taken from books.
"Oh? It's the 'Red Owl,' a mecha commonly used at the Foundation Establishment realm?"
The mecha Li Chen had known before were formally called "powered mechanical exoskeleton armor," whereas those in this cultivation world were "mechanism combat armor."
But from what Li Chen had seen, the two were much the same.
Their greatest difference from vehicles was that the latter generally served as transportation and mobile residences, with combat being incidental. Mecha, however, were born purely for battle.
For a mecha, the first and foremost requirement was armor.
Only something capable of providing essential protection to the Puppeteer sheltered inside could be called a mecha. Thus, as combat tools for this cultivation world's Puppet Masters, they were called "combat armor" and shared the same lineage as the individually worn "War Armor."
Just as other Mechanism Puppets had operators, another essential component of a mecha was the Puppeteer piloting it. Puppeteers of this type often required specialized training, and even a lifetime of effort would only familiarize them with a handful of models.
That was because operating such a machine essentially meant compensating for the deficiencies in the Artificial Intelligence's spiritual awareness and intellect, supplying decisions that better aligned