These miniature mechanical beings are so small that they are almost invisible to the naked eye, and their energy is at an extremely low point. Su Yu initially thought that, before reaching a sufficient number, they wouldn’t be able to form a significant force.
But now it seems, once they are activated, they are quite powerful.
The metal ingot Su Yu took out was a high-grade material obtained from the Giant God Soldier Camp, exceptionally hard.
Su Yu specifically brought out these materials to test these miniature mechanical beings.
In principle, these creatures at the strongest only reach one-star level and should not be able to affect such advanced materials.
Yet in a short time, they have begun cutting, reforging, and replicating themselves using the metal ingot with unbelievable efficiency.
That’s why the phenomenon of the metal ingot being corroded appeared; it’s actually the miniature mechanical race at work.
This surprised Su Yu a bit. How are they doing this?
Su Yu carefully observed the working process of these mechanical beings, lost in thought.
The structure of these miniature mechanical beings seems to have a secret. It’s not just about being miniaturized; they possess some powerful functionalities.
They can exert very strong destructive power with limited energy, especially in destroying large objects.
Under normal circumstances, quickly destroying those metal ingots requires at least a six-star energy level, preferably seven-star.
However, these miniature mechanical beings achieve quick destruction of a metal ingot using just one-star level energy.
The secret lies in their body structure, which is worth studying.
Su Yu concentrated his spirit, closely observing how these mechanical beings were destroying that material.
Under Su Yu’s powerful spiritual power, the scene before him magnified rapidly, revealing the clear flow of energy.
After observing for a while, Su Yu discovered that these miniature mechanical beings could extremely concentrate energy.
These mechanical beings are already tiny, and the energy they mobilize is in a relatively concentrated state.
But they can concentrate it thousandfold further, refining each unit of energy to a truly micro scale.
This extremely concentrated energy acts like fine needles, deeply piercing the metal ingot, destroying its crystalline structure and disassembling it.
"Ah, so that’s how it is..."
Su Yu watched for a while, inwardly admiring.
This mechanical race’s techniques are indeed ingenious. Despite their weakened energy, they rely on powerful control to extremely concentrate energy, breaking through by focusing on a point to penetrate a surface, thereby achieving strong destructive power.
Though the area of destruction is small, it’s sufficient for their needs.
The means these mechanical beings use, Su Yu could achieve as well.
However, Su Yu is a powerful Fourth Rank Transcendent with strong control, whereas these miniature mechanical beings only have a maximum strength of one-star. For them to achieve such feats is very difficult.
When Su Yu was at one-star, he certainly didn’t have their abilities.
While Su Yu was researching, those miniature mechanical beings quickly used the metal ingots as materials to replicate themselves, producing a large quantity of machinery.
These machines are clones of their bodies, yet without self-awareness, merely tools controlled by them.
Once these clones were produced, they immediately followed a preset program, continuing to use the metal ingots as raw material to replicate themselves again.
Soon, the number of these miniature machines began to multiply exponentially!
Tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold...
In a short time, their numbers multiplied by thousands and even tens of thousands, continuing to grow explosively!
The material from the metal ingots was swiftly consumed.
And where the metal ingot disappeared, a mass of dark mist-like substance remained, aggregations of numerous miniature machines.
"What is this..."
Seeing this scene, Su Yu’s expression turned solemn.
"You all stop!"
"How did you acquire the technology to replicate yourselves? And how did you gain the ability to cut and refine materials?"
Su Yu hurriedly halted the miniature mechanical race and interrogated them.
These mechanical beings, when initially manufacturing their clones, were extremely adept and efficient.
They would quickly adjust the details of the clones based on the different materials of the metal ingots.
The entire replication process took no more than a minute.
Although their bodies are miniature, with simple structures and weak strength, making replication substantially easier, such replication speed is indeed astonishing.
It seems they are very skilled at replicating themselves, as if having done it countless times.
And the energy concentration technique is also highly advanced.
Yet, Su Yu had previously rounded up the mechanical race in the Manifestation Space, even capturing the "King" alive, but had never encountered any clones of the mechanical race.
Where did these guys get such rich replication experience?
During the previous battle, they hadn’t used that energy concentration technique either.
Moreover, Su Yu had just used the Mechanic’s ability to invade the consciousness of these mechanical beings but found no related data.
It seems these mechanical beings’ self-replication and energy concentration techniques don’t rely on consciousness control at all, but are purely instinctual, much like humans breathing, something they’re innately capable of without needing to learn.
This is somewhat peculiar.
"We... we don’t know either..."
Faced with Su Yu’s questioning, these mechanical beings looked at each other, bewildered.