The voice that suddenly rang out put both of them on edge.
Mu You hurriedly jumped up and looked warily at the pile of broken parts on the sand.
If this damn thing could still come back to life, he really was going to start swearing...
Fortunately, this time it did not seem to be reviving. It simply broadcast a message, then fell silent.
After waiting a while and confirming that the mechanical body showed no signs of restoring itself again, Mu You walked over, found the thin plate that had made the sound, and picked it up to examine it.
The plate was bronze-colored throughout and quite simple in structure, with some alchemy runes inscribed on it.
Mu You did not understand alchemy, but his prolonged exposure to the Mecha Skin's various components allowed him to guess the meanings of some simple runes.
Judging by the runes, this should just be a simple Sound Device. That sentence should have been broadcast just before the robot died, but because Mu You had forcibly destroyed its vocal apparatus, it had skipped like a disc for a while before finally playing the last syllables stored within.
After confirming that the thing was harmless, Mu You breathed a sigh of relief and finally had time to think back on the message.
"Reset elimination mission... initiate backup unit production?"
Mu You murmured, frowning despite himself. The words "backup unit" made him think of a somewhat frightening possibility: could this thing actually be a mass-produced assembly-line product?
Speaking of which, why had only the Herbalist encountered something like this?
The difference between the Herbalist and the locals was that he was a Fool, but there were plenty of Fools. Why had there never been any information about robots like this before?
Or was the problem