How did you bunch of silly group members also time travel?

"I can't take it anymore, let me catch my breath..."

Pressing his throbbing temples, Maishere had to clear his head before he could think again.

First, before the investigation into the unexpected discovery of Bakal's legacy could even begin, a group of people unearthed Bakal's legacy and even handcrafted a dimensional spaceship capable of utilizing it within an hour. Then, they encountered Miss Fox.

Life seems to have been accelerated, skipping many steps to reach the later stages.

Something's not right; I feel completely out of sorts.

"It doesn't matter, take your time, you will also come to this era to meet your ancestors."

"My ancestor?" Maishere thought of the figure in the textbook, "Kurio, one of the Seven Mechanical Gods..."

The allure of traveling through history to meet one's ancestors is undeniably strong for Maishere.

"Is it possible to change history?"

"It's not Kurio, it's Taneba. Your ancestor was Taneba."

"Hey?"

"what?!"

Taneba, who was eavesdropping nearby, was startled and suddenly felt someone step on his foot, making a sound unintentionally.

This is suspicious.

But Maisie, her mind in disarray, couldn't care less about anything else; she stared at Miss Fox, demanding an explanation—

"History cannot be changed, but it is not entirely unchangeable."

As if on purpose, Miss Fox answered Maisiell's question about changing history without intending to continue talking about Maisiell's ancestors.

He then brought Tanebala over and introduced him with great ceremony:

"This is Taneba, one of the Seven Mechanical Gods."

"This is Maicher, who once served as one of the Seven Gods' elytra."

"Say hello to them."

No, no, no, I'm not in the mood to say hello right now!

And how did you know he was Taneba!?

Maishere paused for a moment, then suddenly realized a key point!

"How do you know my ancestor wasn't Kurio, and how do you know he was Taneba!?"

"Aren't you from the celestial realm or the world beneath the sea?!"

But Miss Fox had no intention of paying attention to Maisiere.

She wasn't there before the main storyline; she wanted to speedrun it.

“Let’s go, Mr. Taneba. Take us to your Mechanical War God Laboratory. We need to get history back on track.”

Taneba: ......

He wanted to refuse, because he couldn't just believe everything you said; he had to be allowed to test the waters first.

However, Miss Fox was too strong, and Taneba had no chance to resist, being dragged away by her.

Maishere hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly caught up with the two.

Despite having many questions, she couldn't split up to act in an unfamiliar place.

She doesn't have the ability to open a time tunnel and travel back to the future.

"I said...you know where the lab is, right!"

As Taneba was being dragged along, he soon realized that Miss Fox's steps never faltered; she was heading straight for the laboratory.

There was absolutely no need for him to lead the way.

"There are many traces and remains of lizard-like creatures near the town, as well as various kinds of mechanical debris..."

"The location of the Mechanical War God Laboratory has been discovered by the dragons? No... There are many traces of dragons in the early part of the forest, but they become less numerous later on. It means they know the general location but haven't found the exact location yet."

"Has the Mechanical War God reached its final stage of development?"

Maishere followed along, constantly observing and analyzing the roadside conditions.

They have a keen sense of perception and are very intelligent.

From the simple and fragmented traces, Maisher deduced a roughly similar situation.

You calmed down so quickly?

Miss Fox rubbed her chin, thought for a moment, and tilted her head to avoid the incoming bullets.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

Seeing that they had missed, the soldiers hiding in the woods emerged and quickly formed an encirclement, trapping everyone inside.

The dark muzzles of the guns were all pointed at Miss Fox's head.

"The gun barrel avoided Taneba... so it was a member of Eternal Light?"

“It seems you know us.” Captain Stark, whose demeanor was completely different from the other soldiers, fixed his gaze on Maishire. “So, what are you planning to do?”

"Let's take down Giselle, fleece Hayid, and incidentally thwart Gaeboga's plan—whoosh!"

Miss Fox turned her head to the side, dodging Stark's gunshot once again, still smiling, which infuriated the captain of Eternal Light.

During this period, the members of Eternal Light all regarded Geppetto as their hope, so Miss Fox's attitude and remarks could be described as provocative.

Moreover, it is a provocation by a traitor.

"You beast, have you sided with the dragons?!"

Enraged, Stark, unable to hit her with his gun, decided to engage in hand-to-hand combat, wanting to give Miss Fox a taste of the Celestials' iron knee.

However, Stark didn't know how to knee strike, so he was disarmed in a few blows and pushed back.

"No, she's just from the future, like Giselle."

A concise explanation, like someone bragging.

Especially that smiling expression, it's basically unbelievable.

"The course of history cannot be changed. The Gaiboga Project must fail, or the world will be destroyed."

Must the plan fail...?

Taneba seemed to have found some excuse, which relieved some of his suppressed emotions.

"If Giselle is also from the future, then everything becomes clear."

"I believe you are from the future."

Before the conflict between Miss Fox and the Eternal Light escalated, Taneba stepped in and stopped this unpleasant encounter.

“Stark, let’s go back to Base. This isn’t the place to talk.”

—


Chapter 1437 You're watching me, aren't you!?

"Some people at your base aren't too happy about your return."

Just as Taneba and Stark were barely reaching an agreement, a large number of drones suddenly appeared throughout the woods, surrounding everyone.

Even someone completely unfamiliar with mechanics would understand what was going on when they saw the appearance of these drones.

The guy behind these drones wants to kill them!

Why is Giselle here?

The more Maisheel insisted, the more perplexing news she received.

It's like playing a game and suddenly being transported from the early days of the game to a version more than ten years in the future, with information everywhere that leaves her unable to think clearly.

"He was sent here by the future Herder, who is also known as Hyid."

Miss Fox shrugged.

She wasn't entirely sure why her second sister did this.

However, she probably wanted to use this to create distortions to find the dimensional library, since Mar was the biggest obstacle to her plan.

"But Mr. Stark, what are you secretly thinking?"

He casually summoned vines to destroy all the drones.

Without even needing to use her spiritual sense, based on the superficial information just now, Miss Fox knew exactly where Stark would go with the wrong thoughts.

In the original storyline, Stark would be hostile to the adventurers because his superiors were always spouting riddles, saying they were doing it for Celestials while never explaining why.

There wasn't even a clash of ideologies; it was just that due to information asymmetry, Stark did what he thought he should do, and thus found himself on the opposite side of the adventurers.

"You're thinking that Hayd sent people back from the future to help you defeat Bakal, right?"

Stark's heart skipped a beat when he met Miss Fox's gaze.

He was thinking about much more than that.

Miss Fox also knew that he was thinking about more than just that.

But some things are better left unsaid for everyone.

"I don't think either the Eternal Light or any of you who research Gaebogar know who Hyid is, right?"

Miss Fox winked at Maisiell.

"...According to the records of the Celestial Realm, after Hyid joined the Seven Mechanical Gods, the Geborg Project made great progress. If he hadn't suddenly disappeared later, the scholars of the Celestial Realm believed that Geborg could have been completed even faster."

Maishere glanced at Taneba, his eyes filled with conflict.

From the moment she heard that Giselle was sent by the future Hyde, she suspected that there was more to the story behind Taneba's betrayal of the Mechanical Seven.

However, the long-standing resentment towards Taneba as a historical figure cannot be easily eliminated.

After all, that's something that's written into the Heavenly Realm's textbooks.

"At the end of the historical Geboga Project, the Dragon Clan seemed to have sensed something in advance and had been searching for the Seven Mechanical War Gods. Therefore, the Celestial Scholars believed that Hyid's disappearance was due to his unfortunate encounter with the Dragon Clan."

After Maisiex finished speaking, everyone looked at Miss Fox.

Miss Fox shrugged.

"Hyid's real name is Hilder, the strongest magician in the Demon Realm. Even Bakal couldn't do much against her. Do you think her sudden disappearance is because she unfortunately encountered the dragons?"

Everyone except Taneba, who already knew the answer, was shocked by the question.

Especially for Maishere, even though he was mentally prepared, he still felt his head start to hurt.

I've learned too much information about versions that are ahead of their time, and I can't quite keep up.

"Then why did Hayd do this?"

"In order to utilize the Celestial Realm while maintaining control over it."

The core plot of Rise of the Machines is a reflection of reality.

Starting from this point of view, the answer is obvious.

"Using the celestial realm while simultaneously controlling it?"

Stark was somewhat puzzled, after all, he was just a combatant.

"...Since Hayd joined, she has brought many advanced ideas and technologies, which has enabled the Gaborga Project to develop rapidly."

Taneba knew exactly why.

After speaking with Bakal, Hayid was able to make up his mind because of his status as an outsider.

"Those ideas and technologies far surpassed those of me and my companions. Rather than saying that Gaboga was a joint research project of seven people, it was more like Hayid's one-man building block game. The technology was so advanced that it was impossible for anyone to learn the knowledge behind it."

“If Hyid is a Celestial, then this kind of thing doesn’t matter.”

"But Hyde isn't from the Celestial Realm... tempted by her direct offering of interim results, no one will spend time overcoming a single challenge. In the long run, the Celestial Realm will only get used to acquiring new technologies from Hyde instead of mastering them themselves. And then..."

There's no need to say anything more at this point; Stark is well aware of the dangers involved.

Using Hyid's power to defeat Bakal will not make the Celestial Realm any different from when it was under Bakal's rule.