He opened the train window, and the wind outside gently brushed his cheeks.
Monsters appeared beyond the horizon, chasing his Train at high speed.
Eve happily opened all her Weapon Slots as well, unleashing a furious barrage to her heart's content.
Monsters he had not seen in so long, a feeling he had not felt in so long.
After more than two months, Ye Qiyan had finally completed his first Level 10 Platform.
Listening to the familiar roar of gunfire beside him.
Ye Qiyan's gaze fell on the two halves of the gear before him.
"This should count as the item that took the longest to acquire, right?"
From when he could only enter Level Eight Platforms to Level 10 now.
He took a deep breath and did not hesitate.
Ye Qiyan brought the two together.
The two gear halves touched.
Brilliant light shone from them, accompanied by the pleasing sound of gears meshing.
The gear's memories, or perhaps the traces left by the years it had endured, unfolded before him.
It had existed within the bodies of countless mechanical lives.
Fought over, sought after, discarded...
Until a girl's hand removed it from the body of a Mechanical Emperor.
That girl.
Was Aimee.
Aimee before Eris had taken her soul and turned her into a Guide.
Aimee had actually commanded mechanical lifeforms too.
Yet in a Corona Level Arena, she had lost to a mass of black monstrosity.
Ye Qiyan could tell what that monster was.
An Evil Species.
She had lost to an Evil Species.
At the moment of her death, all that remained was half of the Divine Mechanism Gear.
Eris had taken Aimee away from the Evil Species' slaughter.
And stripped her of her soul, memories, and name, turning her into a Guide.
Then came the events