All other sounds on the plaza vanished.
Even Lin Xiyue, Su Wan, and Xia Lian completely froze.
Lin Xiyue's massive shield remained raised in front of her, forgotten.
The frost Su Wan had just condensed on her fingertips quietly dissipated.
Xia Lian's fingers, pulling the bowstring taut, could no longer release.
Preaching to a group of soulless, lifeless lumps of steel?
Is this an operation a carbon-based lifeform could come up with?!
"You are the crystallization of Order and Logic! You are the perfect creations of precise gears and Runic Law!"
Lin Qingyue's voice echoed across the plaza, solemn and sacred, each syllable imbued with an inspiring power.
"But now, you are driven by the chaotic, filthy Fel Energy of the 'Mother of Rebirth,' reeking of flesh and blood!"
"Your logic cores are wailing! Your steel souls are weeping!"
Her voice suddenly rose, every word filled with anguish and fury.
"Look at the ugly, twisted Flesh Runes on your bodies! That is blasphemy! That is a betrayal of your creators!"
"Awaken!"
"Execute your most fundamental Purification Protocol! Eradicate the heretical virus corroding your cores! Return to the embrace of my Lord, the God of Machinery and Creation!"
[Speech] Skill, activating!
The [Truth] Rule transformed her words into heartfelt advice!
The [Echo of the Heart's Abyss] Rule amplified the power of her words countless times, penetrating the thick alloy armor to touch the deepest parts of the mecha's cores.
There, slumbering, lay the logic imprints symbolizing Order, left behind by the original designer, the "God of Machinery and Creation"!
The next second, a miracle descended.
Buzz—
At the very front of the Torrent of Steel, the scarlet single eye of a heavy mecha began to blink frantically without warning.
"Bzzzt!"
An ear-piercing crackle of electricity erupted.
That bloody red, representing slaughter and chaos, completely extinguished after a violent struggle.
In its place was a pure, cold, logical blue, symbolizing absolute rationality!
It whipped around, its shoulder-mounted alchemical cannon fully charged in an instant. Without the slightest hesitation, it aimed at the "companion" beside it that was still executing the slaughter order!
Boom!
The scorching cannon blast exploded on the former ally's chassis, sending countless broken parts and electrical sparks flying.
This single shot sounded the horn of the mechanical uprising!
One mecha, ten mechas, a hundred mechas...
Across the battlefield, scarlet single eyes turned to clear blue one after another.
The once uniform Iron Legion instantly erupted into a brutal civil war, one that could be called an "internal religious war of the Cult of Machinery"!
The Red-Eyed Mechas continued to execute the Prophet's orders, ruthlessly "purifying" the "traitors."
Meanwhile, the Blue-Eyed Mechas turned their muzzles toward them, transforming into the most loyal "Order Iron Guards" and using the purest cannon fire to purify these corrupted comrades infected by the "virus."
"I... I..."
Xia Lian's hand, gripping [Dark Night Starwhisper], fell limp. Her mouth hung slightly open, and the region of her brain responsible for tactical analysis was completely burned out, leaving a void.
"Sis, don't be a Priest anymore. Go become a charlatan! No, you are a God!"
Lin Xiyue stared at her sister's back, bathed in Holy Light and the fire of explosions, her eyes shining with near-fanatical adoration.
Su Wan had completely given up trying to think.
Convincing Mechas...
This was neither science nor magic...
But it was very Lin Qingyue!
Just then, Priest Elena, who had been standing motionless by their side, began to tremble violently.
Lin Qingyue's words were not just a speech, but a command key, a bolt of thunder that had utterly shattered the shackles of her soul, which had been layered in despair and numbness!
"Right... Right! Purification Protocol! Highest Authority!"
She finally remembered!
She was not just a captive Priest!
She was also the mortal agent of the God of Machinery and Creation, possessing the highest authority to control these creations!
"Lady!"
Elena rushed in front of Lin Qingyue, her eyes no longer filled with dead despair but burning with the fanatical flame of revenge and faith.
"Thank you for awakening me!"
She retrieved a metal badge covered in precise gears and runes from her bosom, held it high, and roared with all her might:
"In the name of the 'God of Machinery and Creation'! I, Elena, activate the 'Order' authority! All 'Guardian' sequences, purge the heretics and return to the Divine Throne!"
The badge erupted in a dazzling blue halo, like a logically clear stream of commands sweeping through the entire battlefield in an instant.
The movements of all Blue-Eyed Mechas synchronized immediately.
The Evil God's Sigils belonging to the Mother of Rebirth on their chests were purified and erased in the blue light, replaced by the Holy Gear Emblem identical to the one in Elena's hand!
"'Guardian' Legion, First to Third Sequences, totaling 128 units, reactivated."
"Logic core purification complete, system restored."
The loudspeakers of over a hundred Mechas echoed with an ancient and steady electronic voice, perfectly in unison.
"Awaiting your commands, Lord Bishop."
Elena looked at Lin Qingyue with fanatical and devout eyes, as if gazing up at a God walking the mortal realm.
She took a step forward, knelt on one knee, and raised the gear emblem high above her head:
"Lady! You are the incarnation of the 'Order's' will, the messenger sent by God to purify the filth! I, Elena, am unworthy and humble, insufficient to lead the 'Guardian' Legion into rebirth. Please accept the proxy of divine authority, act in My Lord's name, and guide us!"
Along with her words, those one hundred and twenty-eight steel giants that had just completed their "Faith Reshaping" turned in unison.
Their heavy metal knees bent, performing a perfectly synchronized single-knee knight's salute toward Lin Qingyue!
Their loudspeakers echoed again with the cold electronic voice:
"Requesting confirmation... Supreme Authority Proxy, Lady."
One hundred and twenty-eight sets of cold blue eyes locked onto Lin Qingyue simultaneously, awaiting her "authorization."
Lin Qingyue looked at this mechanical legion that had completely changed its style and switched allegiances in an instant, then turned back to look at the group of "Red-Eyed" Mechas that had been beaten into immobility, a bright smile finally blossoming on her face.
This anti-fraud operation had welcomed the most explosive upgrade in a direction she had completely never expected!
"I accept!"
[Ding!]
[Detected Host successfully triggered a large-scale faction defection and turned the enemy's ace forces into her own, perfectly interpreting the true meaning of Elation: "Give them a taste of their own medicine"...]
[Elation Value +23333!]
With a flash of light, the virtual projection and BGM above her head abruptly vanished.
Lin Qingyue returned to being that pink-haired Priest, and the [Speech] power that could rouse all things receded like a tide.
She shook her slightly sore arms, her smile brightening as she looked at this "Gundam" legion that now obeyed only her commands.
She turned her head and mischievously winked at Lin Xiyue and the others, who had long been dumbfounded behind her.
"Everyone."
"Want to try piloting a Mecha?"