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"Doesn't this world have God? Then what is impossible?" Blaze was very relaxed and didn't feel any pressure at all.

When the One-Eye appeared in front of him, the first thing Blaze felt was endless oppression.

But he had learned a spirit from the strangers: optimism. When an enemy beyond his imagination appeared, it also meant that his horizons were broadened and the heights he could climb were raised.

While the one-eyed god brings a sense of suffocation, it also presents the moment when the world unfolds its possibilities. Can the power of light, which can bend the rules by its mere presence, change the vertical hell? If one god is not enough, will adding a few more gods be enough?

"I'm full of hope that I can change hell."

"You are too optimistic. Let's start by defeating the enemy in front of us!" The chicken smiled helplessly, spread its wings and flew up. While they were talking, a giant strange Gram emerged from the ground.

[Engineering Spider Prototype LV75]

[An engineering robot created for the purpose of repairing buildings or other combat equipment. It can withstand any harsh natural environment and carries no combat equipment, only repair equipment.]

"Not carrying any combat weapons?" Blaze was stunned and breathed a sigh of relief, but out of the corner of his eye he saw the spider Graham open his mouth to him, and then his [Danger Sense] jumped wildly.

Blaze instinctively rolled over, avoiding the spider Gram's mouth. The next second, a stream of iron-gray liquid spurted out and hit the crack in the metal wall behind him.

The huge crack was instantly repaired by the iron-gray liquid, and this repair was accompanied by a scorching high-temperature air wave.

"How can this be considered unarmed?"

[Engineering Spider Prototype], a very funny spider-like robot.

Although it's a repair robot and has a protocol that prohibits endangering life, the designers thoughtfully added an emergency clause. If there are no combat-type God Age weapons nearby and there are enemies, the Engineering Spider can attack the repaired object.

The designer spoke so eloquently, but if you insist on blocking the repair route of other people's engineering machinery, that's your own problem.

The spider's oval body is similar to a cement mixer, constantly stirring a special high-temperature molten metal. This molten metal is used to repair the Age of Gods machinery and can also convert other impurities into metal.

In a sense, this is an attack that can kill instantly if it hits the torso or head.

On the first day of the opening of [The Falling Place of Dreams of the Age of Gods], many players were tricked and either turned into metal statues or cut off the metal parts of themselves.

Chapter 303 The Prototype Lost its Dream

The engineering spider is a terrifying enemy. The strange metal solution it sprays can assimilate all substances. Blaze can only keep dodging.

He used a weapon he had forged to resist the metal solution. Although the weapon was not destroyed, its material changed and the attached entries on it disappeared.

Fortunately, the Engineering Spider will only launch a solution attack when the enemy and the surrounding damaged buildings are in the same straight line. At other times, it will choose to collide and trample.

Blaze quickly became familiar with the engineering spider's simple attacks, and found the right opportunity to hit the connection between the engineering spider's body and head, where there was a part similar to the core.

The engineering spider was killed in one blow and collapsed due to loss of power.

Here we have to mention the special nature of monsters like the Grimm. They are driven by a core, have no soul, and no life, and only carry out the orders of their creators. So even if their limbs are cut off or their bodies are destroyed, as long as the core is still there, the Grimm will continue to function and continue to carry out orders.

However, because he has no soul and life, he cannot be upgraded even if he is defeated. But on the other hand, Graeme will not disappear because his core is destroyed. Every part of his body is a drop item and can all be put into the warehouse.

Blaze deliberately destroyed only the core so that he could take it back and study it carefully.

After putting the engineering spider into the warehouse, Blazer started walking again, but he was quite curious about where the engineering spider came from.

When he was fighting Theresa, all the combat Grems that appeared were scanned by a strange beam of light. Now that Theresa is gone, how did these engineering spiders appear?

In a hidden corner, he found the answer.

It was a massive pedestal, and several metal arms were gathering metal from the surroundings, melting and splicing it together to create something. Judging by its shape, it looked like an engineering spider.

Blaze subconsciously wanted to destroy the pedestal.

"Leave people under the knife!"

A stranger suddenly appeared and stood in front of the pedestal. The hideous twisted sword blade stopped a few millimeters away from his neck.

He is an unknown stranger.

"You can't destroy this thing!" The stranger muttered as he looked at the twisted sword that reflected his face, and slowly took a few steps back.

"But this thing is creating dangerous monsters like engineered spiders." Blaze was a little surprised, but considering that strangers generally think differently from ordinary people, he decided to put away his weapons first and listen to the other party's thoughts.

"Actually, we've discovered a special use for the Engineering Spider." The Stranger breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Blaze put away his weapon, then said seriously, "The Engineering Spider can reset the enhancements on equipment!"

Blazer didn't understand the stranger's words for a moment, but after a moment's reflection, he understood. While helping out at the Fire Rabbit Forge, he had forged many of the stranger's weapons and learned a great deal.

The Stranger has many weapons to enhance, but their materials and gold are limited, and the number of times their equipment can be enhanced is even more limited. The liquid sprayed by the Engineering Spider will reset the equipment, even washing away the enhanced attributes.

In addition, the liquid sprayed by the engineering spider is a [metal repair liquid], so even the number of enhancements is reset.

"In fact, engineering spiders are relatively rare monsters. This manufacturing station can only produce one a day, but we have a lot of them..." The stranger spoke very tactfully, as if he was worried that his words were too direct and would create a bad impression.

Simply put, this engineering spider has become a strategic resource in the eyes of foreigners, and foresighted foreigners have begun to occupy it in advance.

"I can understand." Although Blaze felt sorry for the fight between foreigners, he also understood it.

"I destroyed an engineering spider prototype outside before, so it shouldn't be a problem."

When Blazer mentioned the prototype, his first reaction was that it was something truly impressive. After all, it was a prototype, right? It must have some special features that the mass-produced or finished product didn't have.

Blaze was half expecting the stranger to say something about the prototype's impressive features.

"Well, never mind, it's garbage."

The word "garbage" shattered Blaze's expectations for the prototype, but Blaze still wanted to struggle.

"The prototype is not ordinary, it is always a little special..."

"Not special at all. The so-called prototype is actually just a failed product before the real finished product is made. Perhaps the prototype has capabilities that the finished product does not have, but it has not achieved the original intention of making it." The stranger shrugged and said it very bluntly.

"In the final analysis, the prototype winning the mass production model only exists in the plot of "this is the development that was planned from the beginning", although this plot is quite good."

Blaze said goodbye to the stranger in a daze, while Chicken pretended to be an experienced person.

"So-called growth is to gradually lose your dreams and mature in the words of others."

"So, were those prototypes also eliminated and lost those "redundant functions" during the growth process before becoming mass-produced machines?"

"I don't know." Chicken paused and looked back at Blaze, "But I think it's good to have extra dreams. It's meaningless to become a mass-produced, identical adult."

"That's true." Blaze shrugged.

The road became much quieter after that. Blaze arrived late, and most of the God Age Grems were destroyed by outsiders.

Along the way, Blaze also saw many battles between foreigners. How to put it, foreigners were like some kind of locusts that feed on metal, leaving everything clean wherever they went.

Blaze also noticed a number of giant pedestals for manufacturing the God-era Graem. It seemed as if the foreigners had agreed not to touch the giant pedestals, ensuring that the metal Graem could be manufactured continuously.

This is also the peculiar ecology of strangers. Unless necessary, they will ensure that monsters will not become extinct.

At that time, strangers will change from praising [truth] and [freedom] to cursing [truth] and [freedom].

The Chase Land of the Age of Gods' Dream was incredibly complex, filled not only with Age of Gods Grems but also with numerous traps and mechanisms. The Stranger, blasted by these traps and enemies, fled in all directions, while Blaze pondered the sheer intensity of Theresa's battle with the One-Eye, to the point where even traps and Engineer Spiders were being deployed.

"Blazer, this way." The chicken pointed to a door with its wing. "Open that door and that's where I saw the dropped item."

Blaze didn't doubt it, walked straight up and pushed open the door.

Outside the door is a vast sky and a vibrant meadow, which is completely different from the scenery of the doomsday city behind.

Blaze took a step back and looked up at the words on the door frame.

Behind God

Chapter 304: The Forerunner's Gift to Apprentice Piliwen

If God is an obstacle that must be overcome and an enemy that must be defeated, and coming behind God is a metaphor for victory, then this "behind God" is truly an infinitely beautiful scenery.

It is not so magnificent, but it brings peace to people like every peaceful day.

Blaze opened his palms and let the soft green grass pass through his fingers. It was the vitality that could be felt even through the armor.

"This place should be the so-called hidden room. Not only was I the first to arrive in this area, but I was also the first to find the hidden room and take away the most valuable things inside." The chicken wiped its beak with its wings proudly.

"Has your relationship with Herbie become so close that you can memorize their movements?" Blaze wiped his nose, a little gesture Herbie would make when he was proud.

"It's okay, it's okay. I can't compare to you and Herbie."

Chicken pretended to be modest and winked at Blaze, as if hinting at something, but Blaze didn't understand at all and just shook his head seriously.

"If there's a so-called priority between friends, then they're not friends anymore, they're just people being exploited."

The chicken turned its head, exhaled with a gloomy look, and then walked in front to lead the way.

Blaze shrugged and followed. The chicken led him to the place where he picked up the dropped items.

The chicken swept the grass in front of it with its wings, then turned sideways to let Blazer see the scene with his own eyes.

That is the price of transcending God.

What Blaze saw was a battered metal female statue, leaning on something and looking into the distance. It was Theresa. Even though the female statue's face was blurred, Blaze was absolutely sure that it was Theresa.

"Is this the result of the assimilation of the engineering spider's metal repair fluid?" Blaze took a deep breath, without too much sentimentality, and searched for clues around Theresa's statue.

This era's understanding of Age of Gods technology was limited to "Age of Gods' magical creations," but Age of Gods technology was clearly much more than that. Therefore, Blaze didn't expect to extract any useful intelligence from the Age of Gods' Grem, so he could only look for it from the creator of all things.

Blazer took out the badge and the Ark engine. Leaving aside the badge, in addition to the piercing wound from the One-Eyed Spear on the chest of Theresa's statue, there was also a very subtle gap, as if for embedding the Ark engine.

It's like a lock that tempts whoever holds the key.

"I say, is there a possibility that after I put this thing in, Theresa will move in this form and become an enemy to attack me?"

The moment Blaze was about to put the Ark engine in, he stopped and curbed his desire.

This is a hidden room, and a hidden room can't just be a place with a beautiful view. It should have hidden monsters and hidden treasures, and everything in between.

"Why don't we destroy the statue's limbs first? This guy is an enemy who wants to destroy the world anyway, right?" suggested the chicken.

"Well... she's not that bad, never mind." Blaze couldn't explain Teresa's situation to the chicken in just a few words, so he first embedded the Ark engine into Teresa's chest.

【Charging...】

The Ark Engine suddenly emitted a sound, and Blaze immediately stepped back, drawing his weapon and waiting for the Theresa Statue to attack. However, the Theresa Statue remained incomparably calm, only rays of light emerged from its body and connected to the Ark Engine.

"It looks like the Ark Engine is absorbing the remaining energy in the statue?"

Blaze approached with caution, his eyes catching the light connected to the Ark's engine. He recalled the current intelligence on the Age of Gods technology, one of which was what Chicken had said.

[The spreading light pattern can transform ordinary metal blocks into God-era Graem]

Perhaps the light pattern is some kind of energy channel that allows the energy in the core to be transmitted out.

Blaze picked up the badge and placed it on the light pattern of Theresa's statue. The originally smooth badge trembled, and the center opened, sweeping out a beam of light.

"Attack!?" Blaze immediately dodged the beam, but the beam continued to track him.

"I think that might be some way of transmitting information. You don't need to be so nervous." Ji was speechless.

"But this thing is coming towards my forehead!"

Blaze saw the area where the beam had passed, and only stopped when he realized the grass was unaffected. Seeing the beam slowly creeping up his body toward his forehead, Blaze genuinely felt uncomfortable.

When the beam of light finally landed on his forehead, the badge trembled and broke into pieces.

[LV73+1-LV74+1]

[Night Watcher LV2-LV3]

[Gain special status: Piliwen's apprentice]

"Is this the power of the constellation?" Blaze looked at his blessing. The last time he used star fragments to obtain Leo, [Night Watcher] was upgraded.

If [Night Watcher] relies on the power of the constellation to upgrade, then this special state [Piliwen's Apprentice] should be some manifestation of [Sagittarius].

"Ah... after all, there's no way to possess Sagittarius."

Blaze muttered softly, and then he immediately felt the gaze coming from the side. It was the chicken, and she was torturing him with her expressionless face for the greed he accidentally exposed.

"Ahem, I just feel a little bit sorry." Blaze spread his hands and immediately changed the subject. "Think about it carefully. If Chiron hadn't ascended to the sky, wouldn't there be no one born under the constellation Sagittarius in this world?"

"Doesn't that mean anyone can own a Sagittarius?"

Although Blaze was talking nonsense, the chicken was stunned and had a thoughtful expression.

"Well, it might be the opposite. Apart from Chiron, the creator of Sagittarius, no one can claim Sagittarius. Even if Sagittarius hasn't ascended to the sky, its place has already been occupied. So, for the creatures on Earth, Sagittarius both exists and doesn't exist."

"The only person who can become the next master of Sagittarius is someone who was born under Sagittarius, someone who exists and doesn't exist at the same time. Only in this way can they match the state of Sagittarius."

"What exists and what doesn't exist? It's so complicated. Anyway, I have already obtained some of the protection of Sagittarius through the Night Watch, so let's not think about it." Blaze simply put this complicated problem behind his mind and focused his attention on Pilwen's Apprentice.

Considering that the name of the item that grants this special status contains the word "graduation certificate", it is likely that he needs to do something to transform from an apprentice to something else.

"Just an exam? I hope it's not some IQ test."