Leo looked at the dismembered Cyborg on the ground; from its limbs and internal organs to its brain, all the metal parts were made of solid metal.
Even on a completely solid metal skull, one can still find the physical characteristics of the Diro People, except that the nasal cavity lacks the complex filtration structure of the Diro People.
At the same time, no blood vessels, meridians, or even bones were found connecting the flesh and metal; there was nothing connecting the two.
If you took these two items out of context, no one would imagine that they belonged to the same corpse just a minute ago.
Leo waved his hand, smashing all the metal parts to pieces, wanting to examine the internal situation more closely.
As expected, even after he pulverized the metal even more, he couldn't find any human tissue.
This is a solid lump of iron!
How did they survive?
Yaoyao fiddled with the broken metal with his little paws, but he couldn't see any structure that conformed to the basic biological movement mechanism.
So-called Cyborg are solid metal with a little bit of flesh attached. Some Cyborg retain half a fleshy head, some retain a fleshy arm, and some retain a thigh, while the rest are all replaced with solid metal.
It's really strange. If over 70% of the body tissue has already been replaced with metal, and the remaining flesh and blood tissue doesn't provide the body with the ability to function, why not replace it all?
Why bother leaving behind such a small piece of flesh and blood?
This existence left Leo scratching his head; he couldn't find any basis for the existence of such a creature.
A solid piece of metal, or a small, fragmented piece of flesh and blood, would hardly be able to live like a normal life form; even its bending and walking would be illogical.
Leo tried to move the joint of a dead Cyborg, but couldn't budge it at all. After all, it was made of solid metal; how could it move as freely as a biological joint?
Leo's gaze fell upon the captured Cyborg. Their joints were also made of solid metal, but they could clearly move freely, just like normal living beings.
On their bodies, the metal joints looked as if they had been completely molded from clay.
Can we talk?
"We are peace-loving wizards, here to bring happiness to your world."
Leo attempted to communicate with these Cyborg using his mental power to see if he could obtain some information through their interaction.
As a result, these Cyborg, whose faces were mostly made of solid metal, seemed not to sense Leo's mental power and did not show any intention of communicating with him.
As for their gazes, they were nothing but two iron beads; they had no gaze at all!
Two of the Cyborg still retained one normal eye, but when Leo transmitted information using his mental power, he couldn't see any fluctuation in their gazes.
"Don't they have souls? Or is it that their evolutionary path didn't involve developing spiritual power?"
Leo tried to communicate again, but still to no avail.
When a living being advances in rank, it will inevitably lead to an increase in soul power, and spiritual power will also increase accordingly.
In simple terms, mental power is a kind of brainwave. After advancing to the next level, people of different races can communicate using brainwaves without having to deal with communication barriers caused by different languages and cultures.
These Cyborg, all possessing strength at level one or higher, were surprisingly unable to sense Leo's mental power.
Either they hid it very well, or their mental strength hadn't improved!
If these Cyborg don't move on their own, anyone who sees them will mistake them for man-made artifacts and would never imagine that these solid metal objects are alive.
After several attempts, Leo could only helplessly admit that communication was indeed impossible.
With a vertical palm forming a blade, Li Xi severed the arm of a still-living Cyborg in one stroke. Before Leo cut it off, the arm could still bend and move freely, just like a normal human arm.
But the moment Leo chopped down, the entire arm, like refined metal, slammed into the ground with a thud, the heavy arm creating a dent in the ground.
Leo knew without even looking that the arm was definitely immobile, just like those dead Cyborg.
"A miraculous life, a miraculous cultivation method."
Leo picked up the Cyborg arm he had just cut off from the ground and left a handprint on the solid arm with a little force.
"The metals on their bodies have clearly undergone high-temperature tempering, resulting in high hardness; they are alloys composed of multiple metals."
"Originally an ordinary metal, but after years of energy absorption, it has acquired the characteristics of an energy metal."
"Ignoring other benefits, even if we just killed all these Cyborg and sold the energy metals they carried, we could get a very high price for them."
Leo casually grabbed a few Cyborg corpses and threw them into the Shadow Space. Such peculiar life forms deserved to be carefully preserved; perhaps something might happen to them.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that Leo wanted to secretly earn some extra money.
Energy metals are equivalent to energy crystals, and they form the basis for pricing in any world.
The metal on these Cyborg is practically money!
A single Cyborg corpse isn't worth much, but Leo's Shadow Space is 600 meters long, wide, and high, enough to hold hundreds of thousands of Cyborg corpses, which is no small sum.
Seemingly sensing Leo's thoughts, Yaoyao secretly observed that no wizards were paying attention to them. With a flick of her little paw, she stuffed two more Cyborg corpses inside.
After studying the physical structure of these Cyborg, Leo understood why the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard had issued those two hidden quests: the greatest treasure in this world lay in the secrets of these Cyborg.
If they could obtain the secret of how they control solid metal to become living metal, it would be an immense boon for Body Refinement Wizard.
The Cyborg in the Rota World are made of ordinary metal, which has become energy metal only after years of energy infiltration. Even so, their strength is still above level one or two.
If they were given better metals, metals with more abundant energy, their strength would likely not be limited to level one or two; reaching even higher levels is not impossible.
Such an ability can be fully integrated into the cultivation system of Body Refinement Wizard, greatly enhancing Body Refinement Wizard defense.
Given the foundation of wizarding civilization, they will definitely maximize this ability.
While certainly not as perfect as the Indestructible Body fused with the Stone of Indestructibility, this method of incorporating only metal is clearly more universal and controllable, and can be easily performed by Wizard Apprentice.
The advanced cultivation method of Indestructible Body is not suitable for every Body Refinement Wizard.
"Let's go, let's find a metal fortress to check out."
After seeing these Cyborg, Leo developed a strong interest in their metal fortresses.
Given these Cyborg ' ability to activate metal, their massive metal castle shouldn't only have so few means of attack.
Hundreds of cannons, although firing energy metal projectiles, were a complete waste of their capabilities.
If I could acquire the ability to activate metal, even if I couldn't reach Magneto's level of complete control over metal, I could at least make my attack methods more varied and diverse, instead of what they are now.
While Leo was studying these Cyborg, almost every wizard also received one or two Cyborg corpses and began studying them as well.
After they finished their study, they looked at the metal fortresses on the ground with greedy eyes.
If Leo could see the value of the Cyborg's abilities, then other wizards naturally could as well.
Even if they can't find the deeper secrets of their abilities, the mere fact that they can activate metals is enough to make these wizards rich.
Even if you follow Leo's example and secretly hide a few Cyborg corpses, you can still make a small profit.
This is nothing like other expeditions with little reward; these Cyborg are practically walking energy crystals!
As long as the amount of the stolen goods isn't too outrageous, the Stigmata Wizard won't pursue the matter.
Instantly, the entire sky echoed with the wizards' eerie laughter. They wished they could drag all these Cyborg out of the thick metal fortress, put them one by one on the operating table for study, until they found the secrets they wanted.
The Rota World is a medium-sized world, vast in area. If the area of Earth is used as a standard, it is at least ten thousand times the size of Earth.
It's unknown when these Cyborg came into existence, or when Cyborg began building metal fortresses.
Anyway, the number of metal fortresses on the Starship has not yet been tallied, but there are many, more than the number of wizards.
Fifty million slaves may seem like a lot, but they couldn't possibly attack a metal fortress collectively. Under the command of the warships, they quickly split into large groups, which were then divided into medium groups, and the medium groups into squads.
The task was broken down layer by layer, with each squad responsible for one metal fortress.
The current strength displayed by these Cyborg is insufficient to pose a threat to the slave army.
The wizard's slave squad easily knocked open the gates of one metal castle after another, dragging out the Cyborg inside.
Leo only glanced at the army of slaves and didn't pay much attention to them. It was clear that the wizards in the command center were also experienced veterans, and they were much more experienced than Leo in how to conquer the entire Rota World as quickly as possible.
Leo focused more of his attention on his Gulu Beast.
More than 30,000 Gulu Beast were divided into 300 squads, with each squad containing only a little over 100 Gulu Beast. Led by ten level-two Gulu Beast, they were launching a hard attack on more than 300 metal fortresses.