Chapter 810: [Overdrive · Ye Qiyan's Divine Mechanism Gear (Level 12)]

Pulling open the train window, the wind outside gently brushed across his face.

Monsters after monsters emerged from beyond the horizon, swiftly chasing after his train.

Eve gleefully unfolded all her weapon slots as well, unleashing ferocious attacks with reckless abandon.

After more than two months of time, Ye Qiyan had finally completed his first Level 10 platform.

Listening to the familiar roar of gunfire beside his ears.

Ye Qiyan's gaze fell upon the two halves of the gear in front of him.

"This should count as the item that took the longest span of time to obtain, right?"

From only being able to enter Level 8 platforms, to now reaching Level 10.

Taking a deep breath, without hesitation.

Ye Qiyan combined the two pieces together.

The two halves of the gear touched each other.

Brilliant radiance accompanied by the pleasant sound of gears meshing flowed out from within.

The memories the gear possessed, or rather the traces left behind by the years it had experienced, unfolded before his eyes.

It had existed within the bodies of countless mechanical lifeforms.

Fought over, searched for, discarded...

Until, a young girl's hand pulled it out from the body of a Mechanical Emperor.

That girl.

Was Emilie.

It was Emilie, before Eris had stolen her soul and turned her into a Guide.

Emilie was actually a driver of mechanical lifeforms as well.

But in a Solar Corona Level arena, she had lost to a mass of black monsters.

Ye Qiyan could tell what those monsters were.

Evil Seeds.

She had lost to the Evil Seeds.

At the moment of her death, the only thing she left behind was a single half of the Divine Mechanism Gear.

Emilie was taken away by Eris from the Evil Seeds' slaughter.

Her soul, memories, and name were stripped away, and she was made into a Guide.

Then, what followed after that was what happened later.

After countless years of waiting.

This Divine Mechanism Gear had finally welcomed the day of reunion with its other half.

But... it was still missing something.

The place where the gear had been cut apart looked perfectly seamless.

Yet it was like two magnets that repelled each other, completely unable to make full contact.

Some kind of power was influencing it.

No...

Ye Qiyan could sense it.

Of these two halves of the gear, the half that Emilie had brought back.

Was already dead.

That was it.

Having been left in that asteroid belt where Emilie had failed for countless years, even possessing a Level 12 rating, it ultimately could not withstand the corrosion of evil nature.

Could it be... that he had failed just like this?

The trade he had made spanning such a long time had ended up yielding nothing more than a useless item?

Ye Qiyan frowned, gazing at the gear gradually losing its luster, lost in thought.

"Even though it's Level 12, a proper Sublimation is out of the question, but if it's just slightly influencing it, along with manipulation and repair..."

He raised his left hand.

Strands of azure light flowed into the [Overdrive Command].

[Overdrive Command (Level 10)]

[Passive Ability: Machine Manipulation]

This was the most basic ability of the Overdrive Command.

The Divine Mechanism Gear was indeed dead.

But it wasn't completely dead.

Only half of it had fallen into death.

The remaining half had been preserved very well by Emilie until it reached Ye Qiyan's hands.

So, as long as it hadn't completely died.

Even as a gear, even as an item, it still possessed its own memories, its own past.

In other words...

There was still hope.

In this endless Wasteland.

Just as Shaya's Healing Lollipops were described.

As long as it wasn't completely dead, as long as it could keep moving forward, there would always be a path to survival.

Even if it was dead, resurrection wasn't entirely out of the question.

The Divine Mechanism Gear.

It had waited through countless years.

Because of the well-preserved half that Emilie had kept, it had gained the chance to [live].

Several Card Sequences floated beside Ye Qiyan simultaneously, each unleashing their own power.

[Demon Card · Bewitchment]

With a smile on his face, he spoke:

"You're quite lucky to have run into me, so, how will you answer me?"

"You, do you long to live?"

A gear cannot speak, a gear has no consciousness, a gear has no self.

It was merely a high-level item.

So, it had no need to answer.

So~ Ye Qiyan would help it answer.

[Calamity Card · Intelligence Machine Crisis]

[First Ability, Crisis: Mechanical Enlightenment!]

A faint will, one that could vanish at any moment, was born.

It did not understand life or death.

But because Bewitchment compelled its instinct as a will, it established the sole meaning of its forced existence.

[Answer]

[Want to live]

It wanted to live.

The brief meaning of its existence had thus been fulfilled.

[Demon Card · Salvation]

Pale, holy demonic light shone upon the gear.

At the same time, Ye Qiyan used the manipulation ability of the [Overdrive Command] to forcefully bring the two repelling halves of the gear into contact.

[Salvation + Mechanical Enlightenment + Overdrive Command + Bewitchment]

Three Card Sequences and items, at this very moment, finally constructed a bridge for Ye Qiyan.

Azure light flowed through his fingertips into the gear.

[Spirit: 125→124]

A single point of Spirit, injected within~

BOOM!!!

Thunder roared across the sky of the Wasteland!

The Divine Mechanism Gear suddenly shot out of Ye Qiyan's train and flew into the sky.

Ye Qiyan didn't hesitate, flying out of the train as well.

He had the Hunt wrapped around his arm transform into the Overdrive Dragon's form to chase after that gear.

He stood atop the Hunt's head.

Violent bolts of lightning continuously hammered the Divine Mechanism Gear that Ye Qiyan's multiple powers had saved.

But it still wasn't enough.

Ye Qiyan had a very familiar feeling.

This feeling was just like when he had created Lisette.

This gear needed [Train Coins].

Or rather...

It needed everything!!

Train Coins?

Ye Qiyan did have them, but they clearly weren't enough.

If this were a Station World, he might not have had any good solution.

But this was the Wasteland~

[Special Module · Major Consumption Reduction!] Activated

Countless dark golden specks surged from all corners of the Wasteland toward that gear.

Unlike the time with Lisette, this influx lasted less than a second before the gear could no longer withstand it.

When the seventy-seventh pillar of thunder pierced through heaven and earth.

A lofty yet silent hymn resounded through this space.

A pure white stream of light flew before Ye Qiyan, revealing its true form.

He reached out his hand to touch it.

The System's appraisal Light Screen, at this moment, presented its true power to the world.

[Overdrive · Ye Qiyan's Divine Mechanism Gear (Level 12)]

[Fated: Only Ye Qiyan can use it]

[Core Purpose: The enhancement item Ye Qiyan chose for the Hunt-Patrol Mech-Dragon]

[Normally can only enhance mechanical lifeforms above Level 11, but if used on [Ye Qiyan]'s [Hunt-Patrol Mech-Dragon], there are no restrictions whatsoever]

[Effect: Upon use, grants the [Hunt-Patrol Mech-Dragon] one [Overdrive Ascension]]

[Note: Why?]

[Miatira's Special Note: Incomprehensible. Even with such power, is it still not enough to achieve your second [Absolute Supreme]?]