Ten Void Warships descended over Kalimra Frontier Town and spiraled toward the town's airship docking area. Among these ten specially-made Cloud Marsh Cup Void Warships, their bodies resembled metal crescents, flying through the air like semicircular crescent wheels.

However, a massive Gundam suddenly descended from the sky, landing on the surface of the Void Warship where Locke was located. Using two rows of densely packed wheels on its feet, it slid across the surface while wielding a fully automatic machine gun adapted for a hundred-meter-tall body, rapidly attacking Locke's Void Warship.

But when these bullets struck the Void Warship's kinetic nullification shield on the surface, they all lost their effectiveness, as if punching cotton. When those kinetic weapons touched the kinetic nullification shield, they immediately experienced infinite energy loss, instantly terminating their momentum and could only fall powerlessly to the ground.

Nevertheless, Gundam after Gundam still landed on the Void Warship's surface, sliding while dodging the Evocation School's laser light energy magic that the golems fired at them from their eyes.

Locke saw one Gundam get hit by a golem's light energy magic, yet the Gundam, whose half body should have been destroyed by the First Circle magic Light Energy Impact, was completely unharmed. Its head's electronic lens eyes continuously flickered, releasing the cold malice unique to mechanical bodies.

Inside the Void Warship, the other breeders hadn't noticed anything unusual, but Locke was stunned for a moment. "Hm? A permanent defensive field?"

Montgomery looked at Locke strangely and said, "Boss, what permanent defensive field?"

Locke pointed outside the Void Warship at those Gundams that were treating the Void Warship's surface like an ice rink, rapidly sliding while firing their machine guns.

"Those Mekani people are the most standard basic Mekani people. The weapons they're holding are alchemist-upgraded Metal Vibration Energy Collection and Launch Devices that can absorb the vibration kinetic energy from each firing and use that energy to accelerate the next bullet fired. Therefore, this weapon increases in power and firing rate as the shooting duration increases."

"That is, after continuous firing for ten minutes, it forms an interlaced terrifying fire network that can even tear through defensive magic cast by a First Grade wizard apprentice."

"It's also called the S3 Machine Gun by the wizards of Cloud Marsh Wetland, using the weapon naming method commonly used by the mechanical civilization that was the Mekani people's predecessor."

"But there's a problem. These basic Mekani people shouldn't be completely unaffected after being hit by the First Circle magic Light Energy Impact, unless they possess a permanent defensive field."

Barbara let out a cry of surprise. "Permanent defensive field? Only wizards possess permanent defensive fields. Even the most advanced golems cannot possess permanent defensive fields without a wizard pilot. This is a conclusion that those alchemists reached after countless verifications."

Locke's eyes flickered. "That's right, alchemists did indeed reach this conclusion before, that in golem studies, golems cannot independently possess permanent defensive fields. This is an iron rule."

"But don't forget, this iron rule is also what countless alchemists want to break."

The faces of everyone in the pressurized cabin suddenly changed dramatically.

Montgomery looked at the battle outside the window and murmured, "So those crazy alchemists simply used these Mekani people as experiments to help them break through the current limitations of golem studies."

"To make use of waste, they conveniently invited us breeders to participate in the competition to improve Cloud Marsh Wetland's breeding studies. On top of that, they commercialized this competition and can even make money from it."

Montgomery said somewhat speechlessly, "How did the mastermind behind this take all the benefits?"

"But to accomplish all this, how high must the magical level of the mastermind be?"

Locke carefully observed those basic Mekani people and said, "These Mekani people indeed don't have permanent defensive fields. They don't even have magical pressure. To possess a permanent defensive field, one must first have a magical pressure structure, meaning become a First Grade wizard apprentice level life form, and there's also a prerequisite, which is possessing a soul."

"This is indeed a research direction with high complexity and cross-disciplinary scope. No wonder it has stumped alchemists for so many years."

"What those Mekani people are using isn't a permanent defensive field, but rather a quasi-permanent defensive field." Locke took out the Cloud Marsh Cup related materials from his astral ring. "Look, that Mekani person has many small mechanical robots on its body. These small mechanical sub-units are distributed all over its body."

"And they're in a state of movable components. As that Mekani person wants to move, wants to attack, and performs different actions, they form different components." 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"When it wants to jump, the layer of component sub-unit robots on its surface rapidly move along its body's surface tracks and run to its legs, forming an electromagnetic rocket propulsion system commonly used by technological civilizations. When it wants to attack, the layer of component sub-unit robots on its surface rapidly moves to assemble weapons like S3 machine guns on its arms."

"And when magic hits its body, it can sacrifice that outer layer of sub-unit component robots on its body surface, blocking attacks by losing a portion of its sub-unit component robots."

Everyone present followed Locke's words and carefully observed those Mekani people outside.

Many wizards didn't even have the ability to understand.

The first to react was Montgomery. "So that's how they simulate a permanent defensive field. The alchemist group behind the Mekani people must also believe that completely imitating a wizard's permanent defensive field is impossible and a waste of time as a technical route."

"So they used these sub-unit component robots to simulate permanent defensive fields. In essence, this approach sacrifices a portion of the body's components in exchange for keeping the overall body unharmed."

Montgomery thought aloud, "I'm afraid a Mekani person itself is composed of countless standard sub-unit component small robots."

Montgomery thought quickly. "Wait... Our human body is also composed of countless cells. Those Mekani people should be made by alchemists imitating human body structure. Those sub-unit component robots are like enlarged versions of human body cells."

Locke nodded. "Exactly so."

The wizards in the Void Warship were all shocked by the handiwork and ideas of the alchemist behind the Mekani people before them.

The other party was seriously trying to construct a true racial life through golem studies.

The other party was also seriously thinking about how to simulate the permanent defensive field unique to First Circle wizards through golem studies.

And according to the materials, the one who accomplished all this was the handiwork of that Second Circle alchemist, Wizard Raymond Griffin.

Locke had once seen two Second Circle wizards in the southeastern quadrant releasing Grand Magic in the sky. At that time, their magical pressure made all First Circle wizards recall the sense of vulnerability they had as infants.

Back then, what he witnessed was the martial prowess of Second Circle wizards using Grand Magic.

And now, what he was witnessing was the wisdom of a Second Circle wizard.

Creating racial beings approaching natural life, simulating the permanent defensive fields of First Circle wizards, each of these research projects was a high-quality research topic impossible in the southeastern quadrant or the Land of Six Towers, and something only Second Circle wizards dared to contemplate.

Locke became even more eager to reach the Second Circle.

Locke said, "In the last Cloud Marsh Cup, there were no similar structures. The Mekani people should also be automatically evolving in the Cloud Marsh Cup. The entire Cloud Marsh Cup is very likely an experimental field for that Second Circle alchemist. Those Mekani people are still continuously evolving."