The scene Gatam I had imagined did not come to pass.
Ye Qiyan did not stop him while he prepared the Ascension Ritual.
Over the next several months, he kept driving the Train, dispatching the Endless Knights and calamity beasts to various locations to clear out the armies on different continents that had not yet managed to retreat to the main continent.
Apart from the three central landmasses that had already fully joined together, forming the continent where the Gatam Empire stood.
All the other regions had been freed from enslavement.
Then.
He disappeared.
Only the Mechs walking the earth remained.
The Gatam Empire's scouts did not dare search openly.
Under Gatam I's orders, they built a super defensive line that encircled the entire Empire.
They firmly believed that, with this defensive line in place.
The owner of that Train would have no chance of breaking in.
Time passed, bit by bit.
Preparations for the Ascension Ritual were finally complete.
"Seriously, they're taking far too long to upgrade this world. Those False Gods were much more straightforward about it."
Deep within the Gatam Empire.
Using Simulated Outfit to take on the appearance of a young noble of the Gatam Empire, Ye Qiyan sat in a residence, watching the Block Robot tumble into his arms and reaching out to stroke its iron head.
WALL-E had long since returned to his side.
Just a few days after the war on the snowfield ended, Ye Qiyan had brought WALL-E back to his side.
The treasure it had located lay deep within the Gatam Empire. More precisely, it lay deep within the Imperial Palace.
Even the coordinates had already been delivered to Ye Qiyan in full.
But besides wanting to complete this stop's mission, the reason he had not gone straight to the