Dear Broom Knight

Humanoid dragons generally possess mage talents, and even if there's an exception, they're sure to be prime candidates for the best clerics.

Both rely on grasping their own souls; as long as their spirit is firm enough, they won't be swayed by subtle temptations that could affect their judgment.

After all, humanoid dragons tend to be quite aloof, rarely developing sudden, overwhelming desires for anything.

It's not that they lack emotions or ambitions, but they're more the 'I won't contact you unless you contact me' type, and they prefer pursuing technical skills: like magic or art.

Therefore, as long as they steadily walk their path as a magic-based professional, keeping their mental strength sufficiently stable, problems generally won't arise.

Although the Nine-Faced Dragon God, Io, is ruthless when it comes to exploiting the children he can use, if you're unaffected, he won't insist on you.

He has plenty of dragons he can use! Some even willingly offer themselves for exploitation, so there's no need to harm a child who's already wary and unwilling.

Io has always considered himself a very, very good elder to the children.

Well, you might disagree, but that doesn't stop him from feeling good about himself.

To put it plainly, can dragons, creatures susceptible to dragon madness, really escape the bait that beings like the Nine-Faced Dragon God place before them?

If a dragon can truly do that, then that dragon definitely has potential... How could a being as intelligent as Io choose to cripple himself?

With so many dragon sons and grandsons, why bother messing with one who shows promise?

Although the inheritance within Laurie's mental sea was described rather vaguely, using extensive metaphors to avoid anything that might attract Io's attention, Laurie guessed that most humanoid dragons focused on magic-based professions could understand it.

Laurie actually found something else more interesting.

From the inheritance's ramblings, he could tell that there were only humanoid dragons, no angels with dragon blood.

Before Laurie learned about humanoid dragons, the only angel he knew of who had offspring was Asmodeus, the Lord of Hell, who fell from Mount Celestia into the Nine Hells and fathered a daughter with the sole surviving Hell Princess.

But devils are also soul-based beings!

There's hardly any reproductive isolation between them, and it's probably just the result of exchanging soul essence, so the princess born was naturally a Hell creature.

Dragons, however, are said to be the strongest creatures in the material world.

Laurie looked up at the sky, slightly puzzled: Which dragon god was it who first got together with a seraph to have children?

How was it done?

Did they change themselves, or the other party?

Harboring such doubts, Laurie returned to his castle and quickly flipped through his spellbook.

Since awakening his dragon heritage, he seemed to have a fresher understanding of the principles behind many spells.

If Laurie initially considered learning more Draconic as Ruthkania suggested, he now felt he could start learning Celestial and Elemental.

His inheritance contained both languages.

Moreover, when he became interested in Elemental, his demiplane seemed to be touched by something... In the great library, which only existed as light and shadow, without any physical form, and only allowed him to read books within the demiplane, a large number of Elemental books suddenly appeared.

Laurie belatedly realized that if this artifact truly originated from Mechanus, then it would indeed speak Elemental.

The true language of Mechanus is, of course, data, but there are still creatures living in Mechanus.

Although these creatures are basically not complete, real creatures, but constructs.

But there is also a creature that almost runs through the entire Mechanus: the Formian ant tribe.

No matter what kind of ant tribe it is, they are actually standard expansionists... As long as they can, they can occupy all the territories under the command of the Queen.

And these creatures, they speak Elemental.

Therefore, clockwork creatures living in Mechanus, although they exchange data in the simplest and most direct way when communicating with their own kind, they can all speak Elemental.

Then, some Modrons who have their own thoughts... that is, the gears of Mechanus, large and small... In order to prevent their emotions and desires that do not conform to pure order from being discovered by their superiors, they began to learn to use Elemental to record this inappropriateness, and then delete those things before they are checked.

Each Modron only knows his direct superior and his subordinates in the Modron hierarchy, and those who can detect the Modron's logic are naturally only their direct superiors.

Then after the inspection is over, read those words to find their privacy hidden in the gears.

The only Modron god in Mechanus is naturally the Singularity, who is revered as the God of the Cog.

Even only Tier 2 Modrons know of his existence.

Laurie thought he could avoid that kind of detection!

It seems that it is not.

On the contrary, because of his particularity, the existence of Mechanus will be linked to him at any time to avoid problems.

After all, Modrons will never violate the instructions issued by their superiors, even if they have other ideas in their hearts, they will not.

The Clockwork Realm has always been very strict with these Demon Tombs. Once it's confirmed that a gear has stopped turning, or even just slowed down, they'll directly dismantle it and throw it into the void.

For a Demon Tomb, that's the end… Before being thrown out, they will be directly formatted.

So, if the Singularity has a problem, even if the Clockwork Realm reacts quickly enough, it can still greatly damage the entire plane.

But if the Singularity accidentally dies outside, it's not a big deal.

The Clockwork Realm can directly promote a secondary Tomb by relying on the Singularity information copied from the past.

At most, it loses some power, but compared to something major like all the gears stopping, this is nothing.

Lori saw the rows of Elemental Language books in the study… From basic learning methods to a large number of spell records, everything was available. Suddenly, a sense of sadness arose in his heart.

The Singularity is comparable to a powerful divine power.

But even learning Elemental Language, he has to do it secretly, and he doesn't even dare to directly copy the Elemental Language abilities of his subordinates… This is really easy for Demon Tombs.

Just like the Clockwork God who still appears in the name of Singularity now, can anyone say that he isn't the original one?

All the mechanical language, now, is no different from the past one.

What he doesn't have is the Elemental Language books that the previous one had to hide in the deepest part of his artifact because he developed his own emotions.

When Lori saw those things, he had an epiphany: the original Singularity is truly gone.

Although these Elemental Language books suddenly appeared because Lori wanted to learn, as the most secret existence in that Singularity's heart, the artifact shouldn't have materialized these things so easily.

It can only be said that the original owner has completely disappeared, and the artifact itself only has the most basic mechanical reactions left for this phenomenon to occur.

Lori could even understand why the last bit of remnant spirit of the artifact would rather completely dissipate itself than cleanse the Angel bloodline in his body.

His true master has disappeared and can never be found again.

He himself still has a glimmer of hope. As long as he gets together with a human, he can slowly nurture it with the soul of a human powerhouse. No matter how big the wound, there will always be a day when it scabs over.

But that kind of him will inevitably gradually forget everything in the past, including his former, true master.

This is the future of all damaged artifacts. Losing their master means they can never be completely restored… Those who can still persevere actually have their masters drifting at the bottom of the astral plane!

As long as there is still a corpse, the god has a chance to be awakened.

But Singularity is different. When he dies, he really disappears… even his name is gone.

So, the artifact that brought Lori to this world wants a new master who can see the true Singularity.

This little master must understand what mechanics are, and understand that constructs can also have emotions, even if it's just an armor that suddenly has its own thoughts, that is also a real existence.

Never forget that the current Singularity is not the previous one.

As long as there is a powerful enough being who always remembers this, then the Singularity of the past has not completely disappeared.

It sounds simple, but there are very few creatures in the multiverse with this kind of thinking.

It's just a gear. Even the most important gear at the top of the clock tower is something that can be replaced when it breaks!

Who would treat a gear as a person?

Most importantly, isn't Singularity still at the top of the Clockwork Realm?

Why risk offending that kind of existence for a useless artifact like a demi-plane?

The beings in the multiverse who have that ability must be resolute enough to kick away the ladder after crossing the river.

Lori doesn't know how that artifact fragment ended up in his world, but it's conceivable that this remnant spirit must have had enough surprises in his world.

Well, the two-dimensional world has everything.

Humanoid gears are already a very normal fetish.

Of course, he must have also been quite frightened, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to bring Lori back to the multiverse in the end.

Even if Lori thinks he's not very normal and his otaku life is very novel, he wouldn't dare say that he's the most surprising existence in the two-dimensional world.

Clockwork Realm - Clockwork World

This is a plane with ultimate order.

It is the birthplace of order for all planes.

It is the adjustment machine of the multiverse.

In the Clockwork Realm, order is regarded as the highest principle everywhere. It is composed of completely equal light and dark bands, as well as completely equal heat and cold. The shape of this plane is like a drop-shaped clock, and it has a distinct tree-shaped domain. In the Clockwork Realm, each law constitutes an independent gear kingdom, and all operations are carried out according to their respective principles. The various gears work through massive amounts of computed data, and even the powers of various gods cannot understand the efficacy of these data, except for those incomprehensible legal functions.

The Clockwork Realm is the most straight and flat of all the outer planes. In any case, subtle justice lurks beneath the surface. Every type of law can be found in the Clockwork World of the Clockwork Realm, from simple maxims to complex and twisted etiquette regulations. In most parts of the Clockwork Realm, there is no passion, dream, or pain. When all consciousness is completely included in the whole, it brings perfection.