"It wasn't Wang Chuan."
After Mo Ling asked that question, Wang Chuan directly answered his doubt by his ear.
"It was a Relic carrying my memories."
Hearing Wang Chuan's explanation, Mo Ling froze for a moment, unable to process it.
Mo Ling suddenly remembered that Wang Chuan seemed to have mentioned this before. He had let Sky Soldiers swallow his Relics to split the Sky Soldier Swarm.
"This was the first Relic of mine to be swallowed by the Sky Soldiers." Wang Chuan continued explaining to Mo Ling. Seemingly worried that Mo Ling might misunderstand him, he quickly described his Relic's abilities.
"Every flying sword can become a conscious duplicate. The duplicates cannot continue splitting, but they still retain the ability to control flying swords."
"I fed these conscious duplicates to the Sky Soldiers. Once they had eaten enough, I could use the duplicates' consciousness to interfere with the Sky Soldiers' behavior and split them through the Relic's influence."
"This sword was the first sword I lost after coming to this city..."
When Wang Chuan first arrived in this city, he did not know much about it. Out of caution, he had not used his main body to explore the city. Instead, he hid himself and created a duplicate carrying part of his memories.
This duplicate did not know how it had gotten here. It only knew that it had to explore the city, heading toward the city center with the "mission" lurking in its subconscious...
That duplicate was this flying sword.
It happened to find the entrance to the hangar and entered. Then, driven by its programming, it took all kinds of reckless actions, eventually triggering the hangar's alarm and drawing the Sky Soldiers' pursuit.
Even when it was swallowed by the Sky Soldiers, the duplicate believed those