"This is the source code that can grant unified control over all of Belobog's mechanical units!"
Waving the small mechanical device in her hand, Topaz explained to Su Mo, Artoria, and the others.
"For the past seven hundred years, all the automatons manufactured in Belobog have used the underlying system left behind by the Corporation. Therefore, with this backdoor, I can control all of Belobog's automatons, both on the surface and underground."
"I originally thought the civilization on this planet had already perished and just wanted to collect the stored memories inside the machines to analyze the intelligence. I didn't expect it to come in handy here."
As she spoke, Topaz's tone was quite cheerful.
As an envoy of the Corporation, she, like Artoria, was worried that outsiders would try to harm Su Mo.
It wasn't that she was worried about Su Mo's safety, but that she was worried she would have to resolve the conflict with the most efficient means.
Fortunately, she had brought many props with her, successfully avoiding a conflict and not having to destroy the robots before her, or even all of Belobog's automatons.
"Thank you." Su Mo nodded slightly.
"You're welcome. Protecting your safety is my duty," Topaz immediately bowed her head. "If even small troubles like these require you to act personally, Lord Su Mo, then it would make me seem too incompetent."
Hearing their pleasantries, Clara once again confirmed that Su Mo was the one in charge and immediately looked up at him.
"Big brother, Mr. Svarog has no hostile intentions..."
This wasn't just a plea. With her understanding of Svarog, his previous actions were just to bring Clara back; he had no intention of starting a fight.
As an automaton, Svarog's combat logic wasn't so easily triggered when facing strangers.
Hearing this, Topaz shrugged helplessly.
"Of course I know that. Otherwise, I wouldn't have let it live."
After speaking, she looked at Su Mo, clearly leaving the decision to him. Clara also looked over pleadingly.
To this, Su Mo just thought for a moment and then said, "Svarog has secondary control over the automatons. Let him and the other automatons be responsible for distributing food and maintaining order!"
Since he could control these robots, there was no reason not to use them.
"Thank you, big brother!"
Clara, sensing that Su Mo had no intention of destroying Svarog, immediately bowed her head in thanks.
"I will help too! I'll help everyone with big brother!"
Clara didn't have a negative impression of Su Mo's group due to the vagrants' instigation.
On the contrary, with her keen observation skills, she could tell at a glance that Su Mo's side were the good guys. Even when Topaz counter-attacked Svarog, she understood it was a misunderstanding and the two sides were not hostile.
Therefore, she quickly accepted Su Mo's request. In fact, with her personality, she would have offered to help even if Su Mo hadn't asked.
Hearing this, Topaz immediately nodded and input the command to Svarog.
Seele, however, sensed something.
"You're letting Svarog and the others handle the food distribution. What about you?" she asked, slightly nervous.
"It's about time. I plan to leave this place."
Looking up, Su Mo said.
"Leave?"
A look of disappointment instantly appeared on Seele's face.
Su Mo and his group had forcefully inserted themselves into her life like a dazzling sun. Artoria's kingly way had attracted her like a moth to a flame.
She had yet to gain a deep understanding of Su Mo's identity and Artoria's kingly way, and now they were already leaving.
"Where... are you going?"
Biting her lip, Seele mustered her courage and asked.
"I still owe you five million Winter City Shields, and the kindness of saving my life. Where can I find you?"
Like a drowning person seeing the last straw, Seele was unwilling to give up just like that.
"Right now, we're going to the Overworld. Saber is a little interested in the leader of this planet, and I'm more interested in the Stellaron that caused all the disasters," Su Mo said bluntly.
Just now, he had seen the planet's largest ore, Geomarrow, and had also witnessed the Fragmentum phenomenon caused by the Stellaron. He already had a certain understanding of this planet's specialties.
Right now, Stelle and March 7th had, as always, become wanted criminals and were currently being pursued by the Silvermane Guards, about to arrive in the Underworld.
After this little skirmish of the trailblazers, Cocolia would inevitably beg the Stellaron for inner peace.
Next, there was no need to waste any more time. He could just go straight for the head.
"The Overworld? To see our Supreme Guardian? The Stellaron that caused all the disasters?"
Hearing the familiar and unfamiliar words from Su Mo's mouth, even though she hadn't read many books, Seele instinctively realized that everything Su Mo mentioned was related to the fate of this world.
Recalling the almost bottomless strength the group had shown before, Seele vaguely realized that the history of the entire world might be changed because of them.
At this moment of changing history, what should she do?
After a moment of thought, Seele, guided by her intuition, mustered her courage and said, "Mr. Su... no! Lord Su Mo, could you please take me with you... Although I don't know if I can be of any help, and I don't know how to repay your kindness, if you're trying to change the fate of the entire world, please let me be a witness."
As someone from the Underworld, she didn't want to be absent at this crucial moment, just like she was abandoned by the Overworld decades ago.
Hearing Seele's request, Su Mo and Artoria exchanged a look.
"It seems my Saber is still very popular in other worlds... If you can behave, I can take you with me for now."
"Thank you, Lord Su Mo!"
A look of pleasant surprise immediately appeared on Seele's face.
Seeing Seele's excitement, Clara also showed a look of interest.
But after thinking about it, she didn't make a request. Instead, she said softly, "Then I'll stay here with Mr. Svarog to maintain order. Good luck, big brother and big sister Seele!"
Under Svarog's silent gaze, Su Mo's group of four disappeared from the square.
A few minutes later, in a nearby mine tunnel, two girls dressed as outsiders and a girl dressed as a Silvermane Guard fell out of the passage one after another, rolling messily on the ground.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch! What kind of shortcut did Sampo find? My butt is all swollen! If only Father were here, he could rub it for me."
The gray-haired girl complained without a care in the world.
"Stelle, you're a grown-up now. It's not right to ask Lord Su Mo for such things, is it?" the pink-haired girl retorted speechlessly, then also complained, "Damn it, if I hadn't seen that they were ordinary soldiers and Dan Heng wouldn't let me really fight, with the blessing Lord Su Mo gave me, I could have turned them all into ice sculptures!"
"Then you wouldn't just be misunderstood, you'd really be a wanted criminal, right?" the gray-haired girl retorted back.
Hearing the two girls bickering, from underneath them came a rather stern but slightly strained girlish voice.
"A direct order from Supreme Guardian Cocolia could never be a misunderstanding! And how could you possibly have the power to freeze everyone? Finally... can you two get off me before you talk?"
Bronya, who had accidentally fallen into the Underworld with the two girls during the chase, complained with all her might to stay calm.
Although the two girls weren't heavy, they couldn't just lie on top of someone like that, could they?
"...Ah, sorry, sorry!" March 7th immediately scratched her head and stood up.
"Oh, a human chair is so comfortable."
Stelle looked down at Bronya, stood up, and let out a strange laugh.
"Hehehe, Bronya, now that you've fallen into our hands, I'm going to have my way with you and make you a gift for Father."
Hearing her words, Bronya frowned, feeling that something was not right.
March 7th, however, nudged her abstract companion with her elbow.
"Hey! Snap out of it! Look around."
"Around?"
Only then did Stelle look up and survey her surroundings.
And then she discovered that over a thousand pairs of eyes, both human and automaton, were staring at her performance just now.
"If I say I was just pretending to be a pervert, would anyone believe me?"
Stelle scratched her head, her smile a little awkward.
"Are you sure you were just pretending?" March 7th retorted.
Just then, Svarog and Clara, who had been watching the three of them carefully, took the initiative to walk over.
Clara's question was so surprising that they subconsciously ignored Dan Heng and Sampo, who had subsequently fallen in a heap, and immersed themselves in the name she had mentioned.
The white-haired, red-eyed loli had asked, "Big sisters, you seemed to have mentioned Lord Su Mo just now. Do you know this big brother?"
Hearing this, Stelle and March 7th exchanged a look and were stunned.
"Huh?!" x2.
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While Stelle and March 7th were asking about Su Mo's whereabouts...
In the depths of Belobog's palace, the planet's supreme leader, Supreme Guardian Cocolia, had locked herself in a secret room that only she could enter, not even her adopted daughter Bronya.
"The trailblazers from the Astral Express actually came to this world! Why now? Why not earlier!"
After venting, Cocolia's eyes grew cold.
"No, pinning my hopes on others is still too weak. Even the legendary trailblazers can't solve the Great Freeze. The power of the Stellaron is invincible! To solve the disaster brought by the Stellaron, I must use the Stellaron itself!"
As she said this, Cocolia heard the whispers of the Stellaron.
She tremblingly opened the curtains before her, wanting to continue communicating with the Stellaron to strengthen her resolve.
However…
Behind the curtain, there was nothing.
Cocolia's eyes widened, and she stood frozen in place as if she had seen a ghost.
Just then, a strange man's voice came from behind her.
"To respond to wishes in a twisted form... the driving mechanism of this thing seems no different from a Holy Grail."