The slaughter at the Iron Skeleton Grounds finally drew to a close.
When the last Mechanical Turret exploded under the combined assault of mechanical troops of the same type, the black particles swirling through the sky contracted, and the petrification patterns on their surfaces gradually faded.
This stronghold, slightly smaller than the previous mechanical city, had become a devastated ruin.
Mechanical wreckage and Energy Core fragments littered the ground, and a scorched smell still lingered in the air.
Under Star Network's control, a million freedom particles spread out, each serving as a node as they entered recovery mode.
They collected every valuable piece of mechanical wreckage, divine metal rule fragment, and Energy Core fragment on the ground into Bag Space.
Before long, the ruins of the Iron Skeleton Grounds had been swept clean.
With the comprehensive perception support provided by the Eagle-Headed Demon, not a single useful fragment remained.
Star Network summoned the bag interface again and rapidly sorted and classified everything.
He directed the resources into two processing channels: Sacrifice Emperor Zhao and A Lan.
The sacrifices and shipments were completed simultaneously.
Star Network's Bio-Brain automatically tallied the gains from this battle and reorganized the troop material database.
This battle had added thirteen mechanical unit templates to the database, covering every combat unit in the Iron Skeleton Grounds.
Each template included detailed annotations on the unit's weaknesses and the logic of its energy circulation.
To Star Network, collecting troop materials did not necessarily mean he would use them.
What he wanted more was a piece of the puzzle.
Every troop type currently in the database had various shortcomings.
None could cover every aspect, much less integrate different troop types into an interconnected, flawless combat system the way the Dark Tide did.
His choice was to use their strengths.
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