In the end, every destroyer who took up arms died. Many of them had suspected that the machines had rebelled and were carrying out a plan to eradicate life, so they had picked up weapons of their own accord and joined the fighting.
The massacre left a rupture in their civilization. The surviving lifeforms escaped the Intelligent Network Entity's supervision and no longer trusted it or dared approach it.
When individuals stole food, the Intelligent Network System classified them as destroyers because they carried weapons. Yet every one of them firmly believed that only the weapons in their hands could protect them.
The war between the two sides continued, and food shortages led to the emergence of genetic technology.
Among them, however, there were also organizations and individuals who discovered that they could avoid attacks by the Enforcers and live quite well as long as they carried no weapons.
But the emergence of genetic technology forcibly changed the way the entire population lived.
Its first-generation vessel was a pathogenic cell capable of surviving in the air. It took over and altered an individual's genes, and infected vessels became new carriers that spread the pathogen.
Once all the lifeforms were infected, each individual underwent a dramatic transformation. They became more agile and moved faster, almost as though they had become an entirely different species.
But this caused the Intelligent Network Entity to detect anomalies among the populace. It concluded that strange, unknown new lifeforms had invaded the lower levels, and it could no longer detect any Authorized Persons!
The Enforcers launched a terrifying purge, "sweeping away" all the new individuals once again. Their civilization suffered another rupture, and the remaining survivors hid even deeper.
They themselves were the products of genetic modification technology, with lifespans of up to 150 years. When