"Do you mean that you have known all along that the main base is a city of machines?" I asked.

"I've never been here before. I've only heard and read about it. On Black King, there is a city of machines. After the machines were built, the minds of other life forms would be inserted into these machines, turning them into a weird sort of life," said Temo.

"Producing a machine before inserting a mind into it? Where did the minds come from?" I asked.

"From their bodies," said Temo as he pointed at the corpse of a nearby variance sensor beast.

"You mean the emperor has extracted the minds of different beasts and inserted them into bodies of steel, increasing their offensive weapons by granting them independent thoughts?" asked Dodo.

"From my understanding, this would extract the minds from the brains of different beasts before overwriting them into a programming language and inserting them into the bots' control systems. Nevertheless, the minds from organic life forms will grow by themselves, forming different sets of codes. Thus, each of these robots might look the same, but they all...