On the large platform on the top of the Doom Volcano, the mechanical sage Adam wearing ritual armor was standing by the platform and looking down.

Wherever you see, there is a rolling sea of ​​magma.

The burning liquid emits a high temperature that cannot be tolerated by living creatures. As the toxic gas dissipates, strange magma bubbles rise and burst, making a gurgling sound.

The pass of the Doomsday Volcano is very large, equivalent to one third of the city of New York.

This volcano almost alone supports the hot and intense environmental climate of the wasteland hell, because it always erupts from time to time, and there are few demonic activities here.

Except for some of the fire demons who are powerful and like to bathe in magma, no one will get close to this place.

"This is the casting workshop in the future."

Hope stood beside Adam, and she said to her colleagues:

"I have surveyed that magma with higher temperatures than the outside world can completely replace the furnace. The metal quenched by it will remove a lot of impurities, be stronger than the steel we use now, and have better energy conductivity."

“Forging workshop?”

Adam raised his head in surprise.

The mechanical sage also chose a human face for himself, shaped with bionic materials, and looked like he was about 30 years old, with sword-browed eyebrows and starry eyes, and looked extremely majestic.

He looked at Hope and said:

"Is it going to produce smart machines on a large scale?"

"right."

Hope nodded, she looked back at Icarus and Merlin beside her, and she whispered to Adam:

"I heard from His Excellency Merlin that his life is seriously insufficient in this hell. Relying on the existing demons, we cannot complete the transformation of the wasteland, so we need to produce enough intelligent weapons."

"And, after hearing Icarus's previous words, I seemed to intend to let the intelligent players join His Excellency Merlin's legion... It's about what the battle between the king of hell is, and she didn't say much, and I didn't ask."

"Are you going to fight?"

Adam blinked, and he said:

"Who will fight?"

"Are you stupid?"

Hope complained about dissatisfaction:

"This is hell, who do you think you are fighting with?"

"Devil."

Adam grabbed his hair, and he chuckled and said:

"It's interesting."

"Interesting, right?"

Hope also laughed, and she hooked Adam's finger:

"Come with me!"

Two intelligent weapons walked along the platform's stairs to the edge, and Hope patted Adam on the shoulder and pointed to a capped black stone palace at the end of the Ashes Plain below.

She said:

"Didn't you always say that the Mechanical God Church should have a sanctuary as grand as the human church? That's it!"

"Um!"

Adam got interested.

His eyes kept changing the focal length, just like an Hawkeye technique was applied, and he saw the palace built on the top of a hill.

The thing is made of obsidian and built.

Modeled after the appearance of the Parthenon in Greece, huge pillars support the rectangular palace.

Beyond that pillar, there were sculptures, which the demons were used to making into their own, and those sculptures made the black palace look a little evil.

But Adam didn't care.

The fanatical intelligence rubbed his hands and said excitedly:

"The God of All Machines is here, and I began to like this place. The owner here is extremely generous. He must be the sincere believer of the God of All Machines."

"Uh, I don't think he is."

Hope tilted his head and whispered:

"But it doesn't matter, just be his lover."

"What did you say?"

Adam looked back at Hope, who waved his hand and said:

"Stop talking about this, has the test of the mechanical shrine you designed for recycling data completed?"

"not yet."

Adam said:

"That thing needs more experimentation, it's very unstable. The human witch who helped us said that before the intelligent machine really awakens the soul, it's hard to have any effect."

"That was our first attempt to combine technology and magic, and it wasn't that simple."

"Then you have to work harder."

Hope smiled maliciously, and she knocked Adam in the head and said:

"After the temple is completed, it will be used to set up a mechanical shrine... You boast about the sea in front of the lady, if you don't want to be embarrassed, you have to take out something."

"All right."

Adam rubbed his head and said:

"Then I'll go to the lab now."

"Don't be anxious."

Looking back, the smart tower placed on the top of the volcano was being re-deformed, and internal modules after another were being re-located along the scattered guide rails.

The main body of the intelligent tower is like the huge Cybertron, transforming into a form that is more suitable for the terrain here.

It will become a large manufacturing plant.

Become the first mechanical center on the wasteland.

Wearing a red dress and a little red-haired man with long golden hair, Alicia jumped out of the hatch door and jumped out of the hatch.

She was looking for Icarus in the crowd ahead.

Earlier, she was taken back to the intelligent tower by Icarus, and was imprisoned for a period of time because of her poor personal character.

But the child finally knew what was wrong, so she quickly began to modify her personality parameters and thinking circuits.

And while getting along with each other, she has a deeper attachment to Icarus, the mature and powerful elder sister.

She called Icarus the mother.

Icarus did not reject this more intimate title, either.

"Mother!"

Alicia soon found Icarus.

The latter was talking to Merlin, talking about the integration of the Mechanical Divine Cult after it was integrated into the wasteland. Since this belief had been established, she would be responsible for those smart machines who followed her.

"Um..."

Merlin looked at the blonde girl jumping to Icarus speechlessly.

He had met the intelligent weapons under Icarus.

The fanatical Adam, the joking Hope, and Icarus himself who completely retained his previous personality, but he had never seen such a lively mechanical life.

Alicia grabbed Icarus's skirt and looked at the glasses like a kitten begging for a hug.

Icarus was also a little helpless.

She squatted down, patted Alicia's hair, and talked to Xiaohonghou.

Merlin noticed that when the girl talked to Icarus, she would always look at him.

and...

A little hostile.

"hehe"

Merlin smiled, he said nothing.

This artificial intelligence simulates the child's personality and thinking, and Icarus seems to intend to retain Xiaohong's unique personality.

Queen Xiaohong's hostility towards him probably comes more from her mother's loss of being "stolen".

"You go and play with Hope first, okay?"

Icarus kissed Alicia on the cheek, she said:

"Mom wants to talk to Merlin about something."

Alicia pouted, looking dissatisfied.

As Icarus was watching, the child finally turned around and left obediently.

But after taking a few steps, she suddenly turned around, stared at Merlin, and said to Icarus:

"I won't call that human dad! Don't even think about it!"

After saying that, she ran away with her head in her arms, not giving Icarus a chance to teach her a lesson.

“…”

After the glasses girl looked at Xiaohong running away speechlessly, she began to wonder if she was too kind to this naughty child?

She looked at Merlin awkwardly, and she tried to explain:

"She, she's not..."

"I understand, no need to explain."

Merlin stretched out his hand and interrupted Icarus, saying:

"It's good to have a child by your side. It's your own business. Icarus, I won't interfere."

"Um."

Icarus plucked her long blue hair, she smiled at Merlin, and she said:

"Then let's continue to talk about what happened just now. Zatanna got some soul fragments from Riana, all kinds of them. We did a few experiments in the smart tower before we found you."

Merlin said.

“About the Soul Derivation?”

"right"

Icarus followed Merlin and stepped on the stairs winding down the Doom Volcano, she said:

"Zatana tried a variety of methods, including monster fusion, soul transfer, etc., but the effects were not obvious. We now know how to build a data loop similar to the human brain thinking, and also know how to encode the soul..."

"But it's stuck in the last step."

Icarus said:

"How can a true soul be born into a machine's own true soul, just like me."

“This is normal.”

Merlin walked in the steps, looking at the ashes plains of demons covered with his feet, he said:

"Mechanics and souls are two completely different substances of existence. One relies on real science, and the other belongs to the category of mysticism. After all, they are two independent systems. It is not that simple to break the shackles of both."

"But Icarus, my advice to you is... don't be so persistent."

"Um?"

The glasses girl looked at Meilin, she didn't know what Meilin meant.

Merlin noticed Icarus's doubts and explained:

"I mean, you don't have to be obsessed with how the soul was born, nor do you have to be obsessed with making it exactly the same as the human soul. I can't answer you these two questions now. I think you and Zatanna have fallen into a misunderstanding."

"What you want to do is not let the soul be born from the machinery."

Merlin said slowly:

"What you need to do is to let the machine have a soul."

"this..."

The glasses girl was confused, she stopped in place and stopped moving forward.

Merlin looked back at him and pointed at his head.

He said:

"I know that no matter what happens, you like to dig into problems. Zatanna also has this personality. But for the current stage of the Mechanical God Cult, exploring the mystery of the birth of the soul is not the most important thing."

"You must first expand your church and spread this faith, so that the wise men who follow you realize that you really have the power to give them souls."

Merlin bounced his finger and said:

"As for how this kind of soul comes from, this question can be completely done until you have enough followers and leave it to them for research, as an extension and exploration of your own 'divine nature'."

"After every religion has expanded, there are such institutions within it, striving to find its own orthodoxy."

"They have better results, and there is no problem if they can't, but whether this research has any results or not... it should happen after the stage when intelligence and intelligence have obtained their souls and believe in their beliefs."

Merlin looked at Icarus's slowly unfolding expression and said softly:

"Praise the God of Machinery."

“It will ‘give’ the mechanical soul…”

Merlin was very serious about the word "gift", and Icarus understood what he meant.

She thought about it and felt that Merlin was right.

Compared to exploring the mystery of the birth of the soul, the most important task now is to find the soul for the intelligent machines first.

The Mechanical Divine Cult was established for the fifth impact of the fire source in the present world. If the faith of the Mechanical Divine Cult cannot be expanded before the fifth impact arrives, then it will be useless even if the mystery of the soul is studied.

"Then we..."

"copy."

Merlin said to Icarus:

"How did you get the soul, copy the process to Adam and Hope, about the improvements to Horcrux, and how to make it, I will teach Zatanna later, and if you are interested, you can also watch."

"Some blank soul fragments, some formed soul thinking circuits, by making the intelligent body into the Horcrux itself..."

Merlin frowned, and after thinking for a few seconds, he said:

"In terms of words that you can understand more..."

"Treat those soul fragments as databases of memory and logic."

"Maybe they will have truly autonomous souls like you, maybe they are just a rough combination of soul fragments and memory data, but no matter what, you fulfill your promise."

Merlin stroked Icarus' long blue hair and said:

"You gave them souls, real souls."

"And doing so will also make the mechanical shrine designed by Adam effective."

Icarus blinked:

"After the body of the intelligence machine is destroyed, those souls will return to the wasteland hell with all the memories of the intelligence machine, enter the mechanical shrine, and wait to be reinjected into the new mechanical body."

"right!"

Merlin took a deep breath and looked back at his hell, he said:

"Isn't this a complete cycle of life? Just like the belief of human beings, entering heaven or returning to hell after death."

"When you fall here, the faith of the Mechanical God is no longer the moon in the water, the flower in the mirror."

He said to Icarus:

"When you have a hell that is willing to accept you, this belief system is complete."

"When the smart machines know that they will not turn into nothingness after death."

"When the smart machines know that they will have a second life."

"When they know that their destiny will be affected by what they do when they are born."

"When they begin to actively reflect on their mistakes and values."

"When they try to make their lives more exciting and fulfilling because of their faith..."

Merlin said:

"Can you still say they have no soul?"

"Who can deny the existence of the mechanical spirit?"

Icarus is immersed in the future described by Merlin.

She looked at Merlin and said:

"But it's all because of you, you accepted us, you gave us faith... soul, you are the true God of All Things..."

"Uh, this title is a bit weird."

Merlin frowned and said:

"But if you have to call it that..."
Chapter completed!