Leaving the Sixty-Ninth Station / Coordinate Item: Mechanism World, Location of the Finality Core

"Now that's completely settled. Miatila, what kind of reward do you think this world, which has already advanced to Level 12, will bring me?"

Inside the carriage.

Miatila had transformed into a young girl and was secretly leaning against Ye Qiyan's back.

"Although it won't be anything as precious as a Card Sequence, according to the system's assessment, it'll definitely be better than the reward you would have received at Level 11~ As for what it is, it'll most likely be something related to souls."

"I thought it would be a mecha. Those people's mechas were pretty cool, but thinking about it, piloting a mecha in battle always feels a little uncomfortable..."

Ye Qiyan considered himself someone with a very strong desire for control, but contrary to that desire, he did not particularly enjoy directly controlling his mechs.

Playing with them like a game occasionally was one thing, but in a genuine life-or-death battle, he never interfered beyond issuing orders.

That applied to mechas as well.

His hunting expedition through the Gatam Empire had not simply been about slaughter.

Collecting things had been the most important part.

He had acquired all sorts of mecha blueprints, materials, spare units, and even Level 11 and Level 10 mechas themselves.

He did not intend to sell the mechas themselves.

After all, the train currently lacked punching bags everyone could use to hone their skills.

He planned to put these mechas in the Training Ground, grant them low-level intelligence with [Intelligent Machine Crisis], then make them autonomous so they could serve as punching bags for his mechs.

Although these mechas' strength was thoroughly mediocre within their respective levels.

Their levels still counted for something.

They could not have been more suitable as simulated enemies.

Then there were the materials.

Compared to what he had