The defense of the lord’s position had entered its second day, and the players from the other world had also been chattering away into the second day.

Ever since the Three-Day Miracle event started, the brothers who went offline en masse right after blowing up the Wolf People’s big gunpowder depot with a one-wave push had been told to rest up and conserve energy—but honestly, joke’s on you, they just couldn’t sit still at all, couldn’t "conserve" even a little, you know?

Some people gathered on the Transia Tavern app, which could play videos, to follow the movements of the God Slayers, but after Lord Paryen mustered his forces, they’d been moving covertly towards Moss Valley, sticking to concealment and rapid advance the whole way with very few battles. To be frank, at this stage, the full recording of that march really wasn’t that interesting to watch.

Mainly because even if Lord Paryen rushed over, it wasn’t much use. The first stage of the attack on Moss Valley had to be launched by the Broken Tooth Clan and the Whip-tail Clan. These elites were tasked with the hardest part, so exposing themselves too early would only add unnecessary risks to the plan.

So most of the players quickly switched back to the forums, shooting the breeze in several massive group chats, and soon a short clip titled "Shocking! Our side suspected of deploying a Juste Milieu to attack the Wolf People" was shared into several groups by some Dasaen who wished to remain anonymous.

Curious players clicked it and found it was combat footage from last night recorded by a fixed-position recording Treasure Bead.

Although the fixed camera made the video quality really blurry, they could still make out that amid the night-time barrage of artillery, there really were what looked like large mechanical constructs charging the enemy lines. A bunch of newbies who’d never seen the world shrieked that Transylvania tech was number one under heaven.

But veteran players recognized at a glance that those were Half-body Man steam walkers, just with modified models.

Loyal Brother, who had just returned to his job after visiting Old Qin, brewed himself a cup of tea and opened that video. After watching it, he looked confused, immediately turned on his computer, logged onto the forum, and was about to ask in the group "Mechanic’s Tea House", only to see the entire group already in a frenzy arguing about the walker models.

Any player who double-classed as a mechanic in-game, or was simply into steam machinery, was throwing out their own opinions. Still, these "pseudo experts" all picked up on a shared feature of the walkers in the video:

[Medieval Gospel Warrior]: "I replayed this several times and even checked it frame by frame. I’m sure these walkers don’t have cockpits! So who the hell is piloting them? Don’t tell me it’s really some kind of Half-body Man auto-driving black tech?"

[Legendary Hero]: "Bullshit! If the Half-body Men had that kind of tech they’d have taken over the Continent ages ago. The intelligence level of their automatic Calculating Pearls is still a long way from full autopilot. I’m more inclined to think Old Flywheel did some weird mods to those walkers.

Maybe they’re single-use?"

[Our Nuke Failed to Scratch Their Armor]: "Don’t just talk about how they look. Did you guys notice those walkers’ weird movements? They still wobble when they move, but their advancing and attacking motions are clearly smoother than when someone’s driving them.

Look at the shot at three minutes seventeen—didn’t one of the walkers jump straight up to dodge a self-destructing Dogheaded Engineer?"

[A Pink Pear]: "Holy crap, it really did! It used all four legs to launch itself and even spun in midair? This damn thing weighs over six tons on average and it can move like that? How powerful is that energy furnace output?

What kind of steam-engineering black tech is this?

Did the dev team finally snap under coding pressure and start introducing fantasy physics?"

[What Color Is Loyalty]: "You guys are only looking at the surface. Try carefully looking for what those fifteen walkers all have in common, okay? They don’t have cockpits, but in the original cockpit position there’s something like an antenna, see it?

If I’m not mistaken, that thing is a device for strengthening Spiritual Energy Factors signals.

I’ve seen something similar a few times at Old Flywheel’s place, so I’m basically certain these are his work. As for how they pull off automatic driving—remember how, a while ago, those Demon Eight Elites were discussing something about the Church of the Machine God on the forum?

Maybe think about it from a mystical angle, or go ask them." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

[Medieval Gospel Warrior]: "I already asked, and checked the chat logs. Those guys were all mysterious about it, saying it’s top-secret Moon Cult tech and that without Little Mummy Nefertili’s permission they can’t say anything. Looks like this really is related to Undead magic; when the walkers appeared last night, there really were Little Mummies summoning the Army of the Undead.

But I did get the model name out of them. They call it ’Dragon Cavalry’."

[A Pink Pear]: "Wait what what what? Dragon Cavalry, as in that thing the Protoss use? Huh, why do I suddenly really want to tell two Archbishop jokes?"

[Nightmare Bat Puppet]: "Ptui, ptui, anyone mocking the Lord gets dragged out to feed the Tadalin!

But if that’s the name, I can kind of guess what those walkers are. Maybe they’re not on the same black-tech level as a Juste Milieu, but if they can cobble together this kind of ’Dreadnought’-tier thing, shouting ’Transylvania tech supremacy’ really isn’t an exaggeration."

[What Color Is Loyalty]: "Mm, looks like the steam engineering profession tree is about to get a wave of black-tech updates too. I think those two student-bodyguards by Old Flywheel’s side are probably the key to this kind of black tech. Their race info is tagged as ’Puppet’, which already sounds super esoteric."