I, the Lord of the Fifth Throne, am the source of all things!

"Although they are all dolls, their systems are different. This doll was created by Gear Technology."

"Gear Technology?"

"Do you know how many gears were originally inside this doll? Four trillion two hundred and seventy-six billion and eight hundred and forty-three."

"Cough...how much!?"

Mebius, who was carefully examining the doll in front of him, looked up at Duanmu Lian with disbelief after hearing her words.

You're telling me that this one little girl doll has so many gears inside her?!

"Are you crazy? To use so many gears to make a puppet? Mebius couldn't fathom how this puppet could possibly function."

"That's the original number of gears. The imaginary space still contains 73,678,696,477,298..."

This mechanical doll was originally gathering dust in the warehouse of the interior space. I, who was far away in the world of God's Throne, sent this doll and the clock technology over together.

The reason it was placed in the interior space and never used was because the performance of this doll did not satisfy a certain generation of Duanmu Lian.

Why are you not satisfied?

Because he has better and more powerful mechanical humanoids to use, such as artificial angels, ghost gods, and so on.

Incidentally, within his spatial realm, there is also a Demon Machine God: Freedom and Law, a gift from Daishiku Kuro.

If he were to unexpectedly encounter a powerful evil god in another world, he could pilot that Ghost Machine God to reason with the evil god.

If the idea is really difficult, just call on Daishiku Kuro to cut down the evil god.

Getting back to the main point, since all the mechanical dolls I own are more powerful than this clockwork doll, I haven't used it much.

"...That's an outrageous number."

Considering Duanmu Lian's background and experiences, Mebius did not question the authenticity of the story.

After all, she had just learned valuable knowledge far exceeding that of her entire era and civilization from the learning machine.

The world is vast and complex, and there are always things that Möbius doesn't understand.

"Installation complete — Startup".

After the core mechanism was installed and prepared, the doll's "heart" began to operate.

The opened chest and abdomen began to automatically retract, the intricate parts concealed by the girl's graceful and delicate body.

The doll-like girl slowly raised her eyelids, revealing her holy golden eyes.

"Well......."

The girl slowly sat up from the lab table, looked at her body with a puzzled expression, then glanced at Mebius before looking at Duanmu Lian.

The moment the doll-like girl saw Duanmu Lian, a hint of dissatisfaction and indifference flashed in her eyes.

"Why modify and activate me? Didn't you say I wasn't of much use to you? And that you'd fallen so low that you'd resort to using an outdated mechanical puppet like me?"

The girl's light, melodious voice echoed in the room, but her tone clearly carried a hint of temper and unfriendliness.

Upon hearing this, Duanmu Lian frowned slightly, her expression puzzled for a moment, before she immediately realized what was going on.

"It seems you've seen the previous [me] before."

"The me from before? Has your atrophied brain deteriorated again? Or am I not worthy of your memory? And what about the girl with pink wings beside you?"

"...That's enough, I'm not the person you remember."

Upon hearing the name of the girl with pink wings, Duanmu Lian felt a sharp pain in her head, and even her soul seemed to react slightly.

To prevent the girl from saying anything more that might provoke him, Duanmu Lian raised her hand and pointed, using her mental power to inform the other party of everything.

"......"

This immediately silenced the other party. After processing all the information, the doll girl's gaze towards Duanmu Lian became complicated.

She knew she had made a mistake; the Duanmu Lian in her memory was someone else, not the one in front of her.

The doll girl always remembered what Duanmu Lian had said to her.

[The clock technology is indeed unique, but I don't have time to delve into it further. You can't help me... Please put it on hold and sleep for now. Perhaps when you open your eyes again, a different me might need you.]

Combining the information given to her by Duanmu Lian, the doll girl finally understood what those words meant.

Mebius, standing to the side, raised an eyebrow. As clever as she was, she had deduced something from the few words the two exchanged, but she remained silent.

"Excuse me, I'm sorry to project the image of someone who has passed away onto you."

The doll-like girl apologized to Duanmu Lian. She stepped down from the experimental table, then lifted her skirt and struck a simple yet elegant pose, bowing slightly as she said:

"Nice to meet you. I am Initial-Y01, Ryuu. May I ask... do you need me?"

The stark contrast between her previous sharp tongue and her current elegance, along with the aristocratic demeanor and manners of this doll-like girl, is very pleasing to the eye.

However, when the doll girl who called herself Ryuu-shi asked, "Do you... need me?" there was a very slight hesitation and nervousness in her voice.

“I don’t like being taken care of, nor do I like relying on others, but I need an assistant. If you can’t handle the job, I’ll send you back,” Duanmu Lian said calmly and indifferently.

"That's quite an aloof and tactless remark. If I didn't know your personality a little, I would probably think you were being arrogant."

"I have many better androids than you. Utilizing you was a casual decision. Please don't let my casual decision end in disappointment."

"The stench of scum on you is starting to get stronger."

Liu Zi protested rather unhappily, her eyes showing a hint of resentment and melancholy.

Because she knew that Duanmu Lian was not joking at all.

Even though he has become very different from the man she remembers, the most basic foundation remains unchanged.

That is, this man is extremely cold-blooded, lacking any compassion or pity whatsoever!

Useful things are useful, and useless things are useless.

"So, in order not to be thrown into a corner by me again, please do your best, Ryuu."

Duanmu Lian didn't care about Liu Zi's sharp tongue, and he wasn't retaliating with sharp words, but simply stating a fact.

Even when the other party called him a scumbag, he didn't show the slightest emotional fluctuation.

“I will serve you with the goal of caring for you until you become a cripple.”

In response to Duanmu Lian's harsh words, Liu Zi stepped forward, looked directly into her eyes, and said calmly, "Please begin the registration process."

Duanmu Lian raised her right hand, then channeled her soul power into her fingers, forcing out a drop of blood imbued with her rich soul aura.

Originally, Liu Zi's registration and login ceremony was not like this.

Without any modifications, Liu Zi only needs to put her finger in the other person's mouth for DNA and fingerprint authentication.

However, the generation of Duanmu Lian who obtained and modified Liu Zi was not satisfied with this certification method.

To put it simply, it is not absolutely safe.

After all, in Duanmu Lian's eyes, fingerprints and DNA can be forged and imitated.

The unique information possessed by the soul can never be forged.

Therefore, the key is not the blood, but the soul information that Duanmu Lian concentrated in the blood droplet through the Nine Revolutions Life and Death Tribulation Heavenly Technique.

"Mmmm..."

Liu Zi slightly opened her mouth, gently bit Duanmu Lian's index finger, and then licked away the drop of blood from the fingertip with her moist tongue.

After absorbing the soul information contained in the blood, its purplish-gold eyes suddenly shone with an intense light, becoming as bright as if they were cast in gold.

The faint, unusual sounds of countless gears turning began to emanate from Liu Zi's body; at this moment, she and Duanmu Lian had successfully established a consciousness link.

"Um......"

The ceremony concluded successfully, and the golden light in Liu Zi's eyes slowly faded. She held Duanmu Lian's right hand in both, and softly said:

"Soul information has been entered. Initial Y series No. 1 - [Attendant Liu Zi], swears to serve Duanmu Lian from now on, offering absolute obedience and loyalty, until the moment when every gear in her body is destroyed and stops turning."

Hearing such a vow, Duanmu Lian's eyes remained calm and deep.

He didn't know how far this doll girl could go with him on this endless road of eternal torment.

He couldn't bring himself to say anything like "forever".

He didn't expect anyone to walk alongside him; he only hoped that the process of having Liu Zi accompany him would be more interesting.

Let's walk together... to make him different, to dispel the preconceived notions in his soul.

..........

A week later, after dealing with Mebius's matter, Duanmu Lian was invited to the city of the Sun God Cult.

Mebius and Ryuko also came along.

To ensure Mebius's safety, Ryuu will act as her bodyguard during this period.

At this moment, the three of them arrived in a city full of science fiction style, as if it were from the future.

Mebius and Ryuu were quite curious about the surrounding buildings, since they had never seen such sci-fi style architecture in their original memories.

Liu Zi was originally born in Earth, but it was Earth after her death.

In that doomed world, a mysterious figure named Y appeared who used gears to recreate all the functions of the Earth.

No one knows his real name. Y was the original clockmaker who used gears to reproduce the functions of the Earth through massive data calculations.

Therefore, the planet where Liu Zi originally lived was also called the Clockwork Planet.

Literally, it means a giant planet reconstructed from gears of all sizes.

"This world also has a pre-civilization, right? The technology of the Sun God Cult is too far removed from the current era."

Based on the information Duanmu Lian gave her, Mebius immediately guessed that the Sun God Cult was likely to have inherited the technology of the previous era.

When Duanmu Lian was cultivating in the Americas, she saw many dilapidated buildings of civilizations.