Star Spirit World, Clockwork City.
Countless combat mechs stood ready for battle, surrounding the building ahead, which had just been bombed into ruins.
Just a minute earlier, Clockwork City had declared an emergency wartime footing.
Under wartime conditions, all production in the city automatically stopped, while all combat-type robots remained on standby at maximum power, ready to receive combat orders at any moment.
"Seal it off! Seal off everything! Don't let so much as a bug escape! And activate every spatial blocking device in the city. We absolutely cannot let this bastard get away!"
Barney Wade, who had just rushed out of the Goblin Laboratory, stood atop a piloted robot, jumping up and down in fury. The fire in his eyes left every goblin around him silent with fear.
Just then, a Biological Detector rolled over on its wheels and reported its scan results to the goblins. "No biological energy detected in the ruins ahead!"
The goblins exchanged looks. One goblin combat commander turned to Barney. "Elder Barney, should we keep firing?"
In truth, they still had no idea what the enemy actually was. They had only heard that Elder Barney had been attacked in the laboratory, and had instinctively assumed that the intruder must be a Wisdom-bearing creature of some race.
Now that the biological scan had found nothing, there were only two possibilities: either the intruder had escaped, or they were already dead.
"Keep firing, my ass! What if you damage my Doom? Three legendary devices! Do you know how much they're worth?" Barney swore furiously.
The goblin commander looked aggrieved but dared not say anything more.
Elder Barney seemed particularly irritable today, but that was understandable. After all, the work he had poured half his life into researching had been taken in one fell swoop. An ordinary