Chapter 1375: Chapter 1375

Above the firmament, the distant sun is already visible, below it still lies the unsettled cloud cover, concealing the mechanical dragonflies shuttling back and forth.

Celestia flew with Tilan, and then began to speak of the history recorded by the Silver Wings species.

"Our war with the Mechanical Council has lasted over 1200 years since the catastrophe on this planet, during which our tribe has undergone many changes, and the Mechanical Council has also experienced several upheavals."

"Initially, those who first descended upon this planet were indeed powerful and fierce. To resist the swarming Autonomous Units, many of the Silver Wings died in battle, and numerous cities and structures were destroyed."

"However, as this planet was cut off from the outside world, they could no longer connect to the Aijieka Sea or the former connection with the Mechanical Sun·Soft, the number of Artificial Angels ceased to grow and was instead continually depleted, allowing us to gradually fight for survival space."

"Afterward, about 300 years of prolonged struggle ensued. Today, you can still see many huge craters caused by meteorite impacts, broken mountain ranges, and radiation-filled desert wastelands on the ground—these are the marks left by our battles." Celestia turned around, hovering in the air in the twilight of dawn.

"As the number of Artificial Angels dwindled, they gradually lost the ability to control a large number of mechanical bodies flexibly, and began granting more autonomy to those Low Rank mechanical bodies. In the subsequent period of time, we began to take the initiative, and the tide of war gradually turned."

"At this point, about 200 years later, their numbers became fewer, and we gained more strength, seemingly able to see the dawn of recovery, and we were on the verge of rebuilding this planet."

"At that time, an unusual event occurred. The remaining members of the Mechanical Council started infighting. We couldn't know the specific reasons, but it was guessed that they roughly split into two factions, one faction trying to leave this planet and return to the Star Sea, while the other clearly didn't want to do so. They were determined to destroy this planet and regarded the escape faction as traitors."

"A war broke out between the two sides, with a large number of mechanical bodies fighting each other, leaving wreckage everywhere."

"We were delighted to see such a scenario, thus carefully avoided it, until finally, one side emerged victorious."

"The victorious destructive faction's patrolling mechanical bodies shot down the ships attempting to fly to the firmament, and reformatted the remaining mechanical bodies on the ground. Afterward, whenever a superluminal engine was about to start, the emitted waves and frequencies would attract their patrolling machines."

"Additionally, after this great war, we have never seen living Artificial Angels again, as though they completely vanished. In the time that followed, only those Low Rank nomadic mechanical bodies existed on the ground, whereas a small number of powerful Mechanical Clans would form fleets that patrolled above the cloud sea, eliminating targets they deemed highly threatening."

"You asked where the Silver Wings currently live. The answer is, of course, also in the sky. Even though these Mechanical Clans above the cloud sea are powerful, the ground is already polluted, so we can only build a new home in the sky and restore civilization."

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"The number of the Mechanical Clans' fleets is limited; over these several hundred years, we have fully mastered their flight paths and logic. As long as we avoid them according to the rules, these mechanical units devoid of the Artificial Angels' command will not come into contact with us."

"Now we have formed a subtle balance with them. As long as we do not deliberately engage with them, we can almost always avoid these Mechanical Clusters." Celestia openly revealed many truths of the world to Tilan.

"You must be wondering why I'm suddenly saying so much."

"Though the Silver Wings no longer worry about war with the Mechanical Clusters, our development has also hit a kind of stagnation bottleneck."

"Our technology indeed has restored to the peak of past ages, but taking further steps has proven to be extremely difficult. Moreover, we have never been able to break through the invisible barriers binding us to this planet."

"Tilan, you are quite special, many of your ideas and actions bring me a sense of novelty."

"I very much hope you can become one of us Silver Wings; that way you would gain a longer lifespan and can fully exhibit your talents."

"Given your current capability, you should also have noticed that the resources this planet can provide are very limited, everything is rather barren. If we cannot break through this barrier, we will always remain trapped on this planet, unable to reach the great and infinite Star Sea."

Looking at Celestia on the opposite side inviting her so sincerely, a slight ripple arose in Tilan's heart.

She truly trusts me, whether this is due to her belief in my character and humanity, or because of the unseen impact of my Songstress Talent.

If it were an ordinary person, perhaps they would be looking for benefits at this moment. After all, agreeing to such a matter offhand wouldn't harm; once back in the Federation, it would be easy to decide how to deal with the Silver Wings.

However, she could never do such a thing.

"Suddenly asking me to change species identity or something like that, I can't do it." Tilan shook her head.

"But just as you said, if you hope to collaborate on escaping the predicament and finding a helping hand, I would be very willing to assist." If the Silver Wings are all like Celestia, then once she returns to the Federation, she will plead for them, preserving a place for them to live, avoiding the outright destruction like at the beginning of the Sixth Era.

As for the continued proliferation of the Silver Wings offspring, that might not be possible for now. Based on the Federation's early measures against those ally races that assisted in the late Fifth Epoch wars, their approach was to issue special amnesty identities, allowing them to operate within designated areas, but their descendants must revert to genetically normal humans, guided and educated by official Federal institutions.