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Chapter 972: Rebellion, the Separation of the Magical Device Clan
Rebellion spread throughout the human empire. The magic devices, the tools on which the magicians relied for survival and the cornerstone of the entire civilization, awakened and became life forms. Under the leadership of the first magic device life named Progenitor, they successfully broke away from humans.

This incident dealt a heavy blow to the entire empire that was caught off guard.

Then, the Sky Demon Empire directly launched a war.

Logically speaking, at this point, the Sky Demon Empire should have been able to defeat them easily. However, this was not the case. Instead, the invasion was extremely difficult.

In fact, even without magic devices, the Human Empire is not without resistance. After all, in addition to the magic devices themselves, humans also have various enhancements and superpowers.

Also, not all magical devices chose to leave with the ancestor. Many magical devices chose to stay with the magician and signed equal contracts with him.

The magic device has gained life, and the model growth and fixed potential that were originally limited to the body have all disappeared.

At the same time, under the spiritual connection of the magician, both sides burst out with more powerful power.

These are students from the Magician Academy in Qi City, a person named Lilith, who passed on an energy called love.

Although a family of magic devices was split off, they used an alternative way to form a new symbiosis.

This was not the work of Lu Xingshi, but the work of the God of Magical Devices.

The reason is very simple. The other party does not want the Human Empire to be destroyed by the Sky Demon Empire. In the short term, the Human Empire needs to delay the Sky Demon Empire and provide enough time for the Magic Device Clan.

However, because of his behavior, the human empire was naturally divided into two factions. One faction was the hostile faction. They could not accept that the magic device, which was just a tool, would suddenly have the same status as themselves one day.

The other group is naturally the acceptance group. Most of these people are low- to middle-level magicians. They only have one or two magical devices in their lifetime, so they cherish them very much.

It is for this reason that after the magic devices awakened and gained life, not all of them left. Instead, some of them remained with the magician.

This led to a split between the top and the bottom.

Their magic device is gone, but your magic device is still there and has greater power and potential. Someone will always be unbalanced.

This is especially the case with the upper levels versus the middle and lower levels.

We strong men don’t have it, but you, a small person, have it. Then what have we become?

So it's natural that you feel uncomfortable, and what's even more annoying is that the magic device has come alive, which means it has autonomy. What if something happens in the future and you go on strike?
The situation is indeed a bit chaotic internally, but due to the invasion of the Sky Demon Empire, the conflicts are not serious for the time being and there are no overt conflicts.

After all, the Sky Demon Empire is invading on all fronts. For the sake of your own life, even if you are unhappy, you have to hold it in for the time being.

Of course, for the real top leaders of the empire, whether it is the activation of the magic device or the invasion of the Sky Demon Empire, it is not the real collapse of the sky.

The real sky has fallen because the Lord of Empire's Glory, who was supposed to be their god, has now become the ancestor god of magical devices. It is precisely because of the lack of this god that the Sky Demon Empire dared to invade.

Otherwise, even if there was a rebellion by the magic devices, the Sky Demon Empire would only observe and would not be able to act so decisively.

The Human Empire's top brass did not understand why this change had occurred, and their intelligence system was not sufficient to obtain such in-depth intelligence.

Fortunately, they also have a backup plan, which is to seek shelter from the god who is the guardian of mankind.

It turned out that not only could we not find it, but we had even lost contact with it. This was the most difficult part.

Without gods, the human empire's top military force would fall directly and there would be no safety guarantee.

As for those powerful magic device researchers, they do possess enough strength, but compared with the gods, the gap is still too big.

In front of the gods, they are no different from ants. Baring their fangs and claws can only bluff and cannot pose any substantial threat.

The two empires were caught in a tug-of-war, and the magic device clan lay dormant and developed.

These did not have much impact on Lu Xingshi, even though he was assigned to a rural department of the Universal Sky Enterprise to manage logistics after successfully graduating from the Qi City Magician Academy.

After his mental floater was "missing", his only apparent powers were elementary telekinesis and elementary mental enhancement.

For this reason, it was arranged in a remote place.

But Lu Xingshi didn't care. Not only was this place quiet but it was also far away from Qi City. More importantly, the war had not spread here.

So he doesn’t have to worry about his account being cancelled one day.

The war was indeed fought, but given the situation of the Sky Demon Empire, even an all-out war would not be able to completely cover the entire human empire.

Therefore, the ratio of war zones to safe zones is about 1:9.

The black hole shelter of the Sky Demon Empire has already shrunk a lot in the past 100,000 years. After all, every fight will cause damage, and the location of the Sky Demon is short of resources.

Repairing it is not worth the effort. It is costly and it is easy to become a sitting duck. What if it is damaged again in the next battle? Will we have to continue repairing it?

The resources used for repairs are enough for the Sky Demon Empire to do more valuable things that exceed repairing the volume of the black hole shelter.

It was outrageous that they were already poor and wasted their resources on the knife handle. That was why they abandoned the original large size of the black hole shelter.

However, this has led to a decrease in population. In the original interstellar civilization period, there were 8 billion people and a large number of war weapons. Now there are only hundreds of millions of air demons left, and there are no war weapons.

Doing so actually has its benefits. After resources are concentrated, the median strength of the sky demons is higher than the median strength of humans. It can basically be said that everyone is extraordinary.

Unlike humans, the population is too large, so it is naturally impossible for everyone to become extraordinary. We can only cultivate a limited number of extraordinary people.

"I was careless. I seem to have forgotten something very important..." Lu Xingshi reviewed his plan and found a fatal flaw in it.

That is, he seemed to have not created the reproduction function for the magic device clan.

I have been observing the crazy human guardian recently, and today I suddenly remembered this matter.

After all, his initial assumption was the scenario of an artificial intelligence rebellion.

What kind of reproduction function does artificial intelligence need? We will feel at ease after it is completed. After this thing spread, we realized that this thing does not seem to be a serious artificial intelligence. Instead, it is a bit like a pet in a beast-taming novel.

If I say I have thought about it, I have definitely thought about it. The reason I gave up, besides not needing it, is the cost.

The cost of allowing the magic device to reproduce itself is too high, and Lu Xingshi does not want to pay it. It was originally used to muddy the water, and now the water is extremely turbid, so it has achieved its purpose.

Then there is naturally no need for Lu Xingshi.

"But it seems that the Ancestral God of Magical Devices doesn't care much about this matter." Lu Xingshi had forgotten about it, but it was resolved by the Ancestral God of Magical Devices.

The solution is actually quite normal, just grab the means of production and then build your own manufacturing line.

All that remains is to solve the raw material problem, and magic devices of different models will be produced in an endless supply, and then activated through the fire source ability of the Magic Device Ancestor.

As for the drawbacks of doing so, that doesn't matter. If the magic device clan is allowed to reproduce on their own, there will definitely be drawbacks, just like pregnancy, it can't just come out all of a sudden.

Even if it is possible, the huge consumption during the process will cause great damage to the vitality of the pregnant woman.

You certainly wouldn't say that having a child is free of charge, because that would be a meaningless creation.

On the contrary, it is much more efficient through assembly line production and fire source activation than incubation.

Therefore, the group with the strongest ability to produce troops nowadays belongs to the magic device clan.

It hasn't been long since the rebellion, and the population of the magic device clan has soared to a terrifying rate.

As long as there is a suitable opportunity, he will intervene in the battlefield.

Lu Xingshi didn’t know when this opportunity would come, but he couldn’t care less. Compared to these, he cared more about the situation of the human guardians.

It can be said that the opponent is now completely dead, with reason versus instinct forming a stalemate.

Although I knew there was something wrong with Lilith and my mind was warning me frantically, my instinct was forming a completely opposite logic and was singing a different tune.

This made the opponent's behavior logic extremely confusing, so they did not even take action against the rebellion led by the ancestor god of magic devices.

It's not that I don't want to do it, but I simply can't do it. I'm completely tied there.

If nothing unexpected happens, the human guardians will probably recover from the freeze in three to five days at most, but it is not certain whether it will be a victory of reason or instinct.

More importantly, Lu Xingshi discovered that the divinity of the human guardian had disappeared, and was replaced by human emotions such as desires and instincts that came from the influence of fate.

From this perspective, reason will probably be forced to assimilate, eventually turning the human guardian into a god with the mind of an ordinary person.

All I can say is that the impact is horrific.

The Son of the Stars and the Ancestral God of Magical Devices both sensed something about it, but they didn't know as much as Lu Xingshi. However, from the information they observed, they could also see the seriousness of the matter.

Even the human guardians couldn't handle it, let alone these two.

This means that their purpose is actually very clear, which is to get rid of this generation of very strange people favored by fate as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, Lilith has become a big shot. Not only has her strength improved by leaps and bounds, but she also has a lot of helpers around her.

More importantly, the chaotic absurdity in her is contagious. The Sky Demon Empire and the Magic Device Clan have all been affected and are no longer limited to the Human Empire.

And it is gradually spreading and expanding, and the number is growing like a snowball.

This is what makes the two gods fearful. If they are not careful, these two brothers will follow in the footsteps of the human guardians and go mad.

(End of this chapter)