Salt Island.
After Yang Yi returned to make preparations, the Gale appeared here several more times, even bringing several low-level common ships and Twisted Warships loaded with all kinds of monitoring instruments to watch the entire island's activity.
Some robots even went ashore without being attacked by the Salt Folk, but members of the Iron Brotherhood received different treatment, possibly because they had souls.
A relatively safe exploration strategy was thus proposed: use some Terminator robots as bait to venture deeper into the island and gather intelligence on the Four Kings, laying the groundwork for the coming battle.
"...This thing called the Tyrant is really something. It's practically an extension of my body."
Daishi spoke, now in the form of a robot nearly three meters tall. Its surface was covered in plates of honeycomb-patterned fiber armor, like skin clinging to muscle, revealing the dark, powerful-looking artificial muscles and skeleton beneath.
He tried a few simple movements, such as Golden Rooster Stands on One Leg, then a One-Finger Handstand, before throwing a punch at Salt Island from a distance, blasting a deep crater into it.
"...Even my qi flows freely. This high-tech stuff is freaking awesome."
Daishi remarked again, utterly taken with this mechanical body. After all, the Tyrant Type Terminator had been developed for this very purpose.
Soon, several more Terminator robots emerged, each with someone controlling it.
This was actually the Duchy Riot-Control Force's true configuration, rather than mere robots. Their operators were Su Na, Qin Ming, Balot, Wang Chong, Hu Hu, Haken, and Molly-all players skilled in martial arts or magic who could still wield considerable combat power even after switching to Terminators.
Since robots possessed a unique advantage on Salt Island, the Terminator cockpits originally at the Garbage Island base had also been brought out for this