Chapter 318 318: Wake Up, Zero Part 1

Chapter 318 Chapter 318: Wake Up, Zero Part 1

The dark green seed floating in Renji's palm, after absorbing Zera's consciousness, began to rapidly take root and sprout. Read latest chapters at novelhall.com Only

In the real world, there can only ever be one World Tree, but in the consciousness world of the mechanical servants, when Renji knelt down and buried the seed in the area where Zera had just disappeared, a luminescent sapling broke through the soil in a few breaths.

Zera's consciousness was the initial sprout, and then, from within the Consciousness Cube, the consciousnesses of countless other mechanical servants, as if attracted by the sapling, started flocking towards Renji's location.

For the mechanical servants, consciousness is essentially a set of data, and as Renji watched these electronic data being absorbed one by one by the green sapling before him, he couldn't help feeling a sense of dissonance, since plants and technology seem to be two entirely unrelated entities.

However, the subsequent transformation of the World Tree sapling overturned Renji's imagination. As it continued to absorb and gather the consciousness data of the mechanical servants, not only did the sapling grow wildly, but its appearance and form also underwent drastic changes.

The most significant change was that elements representing the "plant" attribute began to be diluted and replaced.

Renji saw the color of the sapling's trunk change from the traditional brown of trees to a metallic, silver-gray luster. Correspondingly, what should have been the coarse wrinkles of tree bark now became smooth and rounded, without a single wrinkle.

At the same time, the once lush branches and leaves had now turned a sea blue.

The epidermis of the leaves peeled off and became transparent, with the flesh of the leaves turning ethereal and intangible. Eventually, the complex veins of the leaves, the "blood vessels" of the leaves, seemed to transform into circuits, with data flow's blue light continuously passing through them.

When Renji came back to his senses, the once verdant and slender sapling had transformed into a towering tree that required him to look up, standing in the consciousness cube of the mechanical servants, a silver-blue-gray celestial tree.

A tree that seemed like a cyberpunk version of the World Tree.

On the big bed, wearing a nightgown, a pink haired succubus is shaking her feet clad in Emperor brand socks, busily writing and drawing something on the bed.

Taking advantage of the moment when the pink-haired succubus takes a sip from a water cup printed with a cartoon logo of the person in a gray robe, Renji sees what seems to be a diary or a planner? The name at the beginning of the diary vaguely reads "Succubus's Big Victory."

Then, as if the succubus sensed the surveillance of a certain 'Maid', she waved her hand a bit annoyed, and the image ended completely. Renji, unfortunately, couldn't see what exactly was written in Lena's diary.

All of the above are clues related to the "Emperor" found by the Mechanical servants, observed silently, recorded, and collected for analysis. Unfortunately, every piece of information was useless in locating the real Emperor.

But they never gave up, continuing tirelessly, without rest, until they could successfully locate him.

Renji suddenly felt that perhaps the mechanical servants who have been "watching them" for five hundred years are the ones who understand the Ashen Emperor the most in this world, even more than he understands himself.

As for why there's no mention of the Forest Alliance, it's because in the elven lands, completely opposite to the Mechanical Alliance, born from nature, they never use any electronic devices, which is why the mechanical servants have no data from them.

The mechanical servants act as Zero's eyes. Zero creating such "Four Great Miasma Masters" in Zero's dream, turning "them" into villainous characters, is perhaps influenced by the negative emotions that enveloped them in reality after losing the Emperor.

And thus, the mechanical servants, embarked on an endless battle, fighting in the form of consciousness against the tainted old world and its monsters, created by Zero's negative emotions in the dreamscape.

The world tree within the consciousness cube has completed the integration of all the mechanical servants. The entire colossal tree is now a vast network of mechanical servants. Apart from Zero, only the World Tree could achieve the integration of so many mechanical servant consciousnesses.

In the end, Zera had transferred the authority of the World Tree to him, meaning he became the sole administrator of the mechanical servant network.