"God of Holy Light, this is madness!" Kael was stunned too, and murmured the words.
He had seen Terra's tallest magic tower, the magnificent Holy City, and the splendor of the Elves' World Tree.
But however magnificent those wonders were, they ultimately existed to protect a city, a stretch of land, or a race.
Yet the machine before him was meant to propel a planet!
That was no longer on the scale of a city, a nation, or even a continent.
That was the scale of a civilization!
This was madness!
As the vehicle approached the engineering zone, it slowed down.
The outer checkpoint verified their identities, and the heavy isolation gate slowly opened.
The moment they entered the construction zone, everyone immediately felt an atmosphere utterly different from that of a residential city.
Roaring mechanical arms, flashing warning lights, constantly moving rail-mounted lifting platforms, and steel components stretching as far as the eye could see.
Heavy Engineering Robots ranging from six to over ten meters tall were stationed throughout the different areas.
Some welded enormous frames, some laid energy conduits, and others used mechanical arms to lift components weighing hundreds of tons before fitting them precisely into their designated positions.
In the distance, several tracked drilling rigs worked around the perimeter of the engine's base, driving anchoring structures deeper into the ground.
Human engineers in protective suits imbued with Purification hurried back and forth between control consoles.
There were not many of them, but they maintained firm control over the pace of the entire construction site.
The Universal Factory could manufacture, and robots could build, but humans still ultimately determined the project's direction and quality.
Otherwise, if an accident happened because a robot held a blueprint upside down, it really would be a catastrophe.
No matter how intelligent AI