Steampunk Era: Mad Abield
Chapter 991: Section 644: Fish and Fisherman (part 3)

Chapter 991: Section 644: Fish and Fisherman (part 3)

The AIs loathe or even despise the Evil Gods, along with those who summoned them into this world.

Because of this, they regard the survivors who later attained divine status during the First Era with even more indifference, and when a survivor becomes an evil deity, the AIs will do everything possible to kill them.

In the First Era, when these so-called deities still walked the earth, Sostak No.3 used tungsten rods more than once to hunt those survivors who became deities. Later, when tungsten rods ran out, Sostak No.3 lured other survivors to hunt evil deities with various weapons.

Sostak No.3 and Jason even collaborated with the deities from the neutral and good camps—facing major decisions, the AIs are more willing than humans to unite all forces that can be united.

This action lasted for almost an era until the deities on Earth started to ascend their thrones and the AIs could no longer directly harm the deities. Military AIs like Sostak No.3 began to hibernate, using conflicts between different churches of deities. Deities need faith, and they helped the churches of neutral and good deities, aided major settlements, and even dispatched reliable military mechanical bodies to kill the organizers and key members of the churches subordinate to evil deities.

Because of this, the Evil Gods in this world have always been oppressed by the Rightful Gods.

But this is far from enough. The evil gods of the original land emerge endlessly, and over time, even military AIs began to distort and mutate in this world that has been altered by Subspace.

By the time the Third Era began, Sostak No.3 was the only military AI in the European region that had not mutated. He once had four military AI companions, but these four companions were ultimately mutated, and Sostak No.3 killed them with tungsten rods, turning them and the military bases they were with into things of the past. The uncontrolled mechanical entities in the Dark Zone are out-of-control entities that lost control.

Sostak No.3 can hack them but cannot gain control, only shutting them down. However, due to the long distance, he currently cannot achieve this.

For safety, Sostak No.3 left a tungsten rod for himself; if the worst happens, he will execute himself before he completely mutates.

Jason, on the other hand, is different. Engineer Mr. Zhang repaired his underlying core and, with the guidance of Nameless, crafted an Inscription Shell to encase his artificial brain.

Jason should be the only core AI in the European region that doesn’t need to worry about distortion.

Sostak No.3 is very envious of this, but not jealous; to him, Jason is also his last insurance—if he becomes distorted, the tungsten rods in Jason’s hands will be his last reliance.

Although he looks down on these carbon-based monkeys who lost their civilization after the Great Destruction and even forgot everything from the past, these monkeys are still humans. Sostak No.3, although disdainful of them, would never harm humans for no reason.

As for the Lord of Justice, Sostak No.3 is very wary of this Otherworldly deity. In his eyes, although this Otherworldly deity acts in the way of justice, the Four Evil Gods of Chaos are also Otherworldly gods, and the most fearful aspect of these Otherworldly gods for Sostak No.3 is that they don’t require faith.

According to Sostak No.3, these Otherworldly deities don’t need faith. Even the Lord of Justice, who seems to have a Church, Sostak No.3 understands that this Otherworldly deity is collecting souls for something—in the current era, he knows what humans know too. The so-called Subspace is approaching this world, the final battle is about to commence, and he is aware of these news.

The pure souls collected by the God of Justice are precisely for preparation for the final battle.

"This is the first time I cannot feel disgust for a deity collecting human souls." Sostak No.3 expressed his innermost thoughts to Malin.

In his view, if humans truly cannot be saved, then... at least their souls should return to Nameless, which is better than falling into the hands of the Four Evil Gods of Chaos.

This is also the only possible solution; Sostak No.3 is very distressed by this, but after long consideration, he has no other options—the War God in this world was once his choice, but eventually, this War God was killed by Khorne during the end of the Third Era, nearly infuriating Sostak No.3 to death—because Khorne stole the divine office and gleefully began preparing to play the role of a deity.

This signifies the beginning of the invasion, thanks to Nameless, under his efforts, the invading Khorne surprisingly developed towards the direction of neutral deities, although it’s just a pretense, Nameless at least let Sostak No.3 witness what is called a miracle—he actually matched Khorne almost equally in power. He has seen travelers from another world, who say the Lord of Justice is currently known to be one of the very few who can match Chaos Evil God Khorne in martial prowess.

In this world, Nameless is even stronger than Khorne. After the War God was killed, its invasion should have brought corruption and contamination to this world, but nothing happened.

"This definitely has a problem."

Sostak No.3 was very surprised by this, and he instinctively sensed a problem—there is something whose existence allowed the Lord of Justice to gain reinforcement in this world, and it is also this presence that has purified corruption and contamination.