In the year 118 of the Star Dome Calendar, the portholes of the Forgefire Embryo Starship were shrouded by vast, silver-gray clouds of gears. These gears, suspended in the cosmos, spanned over a kilometer in diameter. A cyan-violet mist, unique to the Mist-Core civilization, flowed between their teeth, but as the starship approached, they suddenly locked together to form an impenetrable mechanical barrier.
"Gear matrix detected!" Su Yuhan’s fingers danced across the keyboard, sparks flying. "The gears are a symbiotic entity of solid metal and energy mist; they share a 0.3% genetic resonance with the sub-core of the Mist-Core civilization!"
Before Chen Feng could speak, the bridge’s holographic screen was forcibly overridden by an image of a humanoid figure constructed from interlocked gears. Mists spilling from its joints coalesced into a gear totem at its chest. "Outsiders, shut down all energy-fluctuation devices immediately. The Gear Federation does not permit the order of machines to be polluted by chaotic energy mist."
Chapter 175