Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire-Chapter 831 463: A Hasty Century, the Cross-Plane Empire

The massive steel gears slowly turned on the wall, exuding a kind of rugged mechanical and primitive beauty. In this brightly lit operating room, a tall and burly steel Dragon Horn Giant used auxiliary mechanical arms to take out a brilliantly glowing energy core from a sealed lead box,
"Rejoice, be jubilant, be grateful! This is the divine blessing bestowed by the supreme and holy God of Steel and Machinery, the great Holy Dragon Emperor!"
The eyes of the Dragon Horn Steel Giant, shining with a strange luster, looked at his kin lying on the operating table, their body mostly covered in steel, but still showing patches of oily green skin. His voice was filled with fervor, as if he were preaching.
However, facing his more or less mentally unstable mentor, the Goblin Engineer lying on the operating table, with most of his flesh and blood replaced by steel mechanisms, looked at the energy core clamped in the mentor's mechanical arm with a fervent gaze in his eyes.
Replacing the frail flesh heart with an energy core possessing nearly inexhaustible energy is the most critical step in full-body mechanical transformation.
Once this step is completed, he can increase his body's mechanization from the original 47% to over 70%, and perhaps even raise it to 90% before graduation.
If he can achieve this, he could easily join the logistics maintenance department of any Empire Battle Group and become a glorious Battle Group Mechanic.
He might even go further, with the enormous energy provided by the energy core, he could attempt to install combat components on himself.
If he could transform himself into a Mechanical Dragon Beast, he would be able to enter the Battle Group not as a logistics support but as a combat unit. He would earn a higher status and become a pride for both his family and his birth city.
Yet it is easier said than done. Until now, mechanical transformation carries considerable risks. Many Goblins have unfortunately died due to the pain of surgery and post-operation rejection complications.
Even so, Goblins continue to relentless pursue the path of mechanical transformation because ordinary Goblin life is worthless.
Even receiving a complete twelve-year compulsory education and achieving top grades in all exams means nothing, and holds no significance.
Because there are too many Goblins, even if the number of those achieving top grades is low, it is still an exaggerated figure given the immense base population.
Even though the exam difficulty increases yearly, they can't keep up with the growing Goblin population. Without survival worries and with ample resource supply, a normal Goblin couple can produce at least ten offspring.
Notably, to ensure the continuation of the Goblin race's bloodline and a constant supply of fresh blood, the Steel Committee has issued clear orders that any mechanical transformation involving the reproductive system must be applied for, and any actions that destroy one's reproductive system are illegal.
Only Goblins who have married and have had over eight children with a partner are eligible to replace their reproductive system with steel components.
Presently, the young-looking Goblin on the operating table is actually the father of eleven children. Without this, he wouldn't have been able to apply for an energy core with his mentor personally performing the surgery.
"Praise the God of Steel and Machinery, may the Holy Dragon Emperor be eternally immortal!"
Facing his mentor's frenzied expression, the Goblin on the operating table responded in kind, and then. The Giant with an iron-cold face implanted the energy core into the already opened chest of the Goblin before him.
This was a special cavity environment with both flesh and mechanics mingled together, which would make any human doctor, even seasoned Magicians in biology, faint upon seeing the operating environment and the condition inside the patient.
This is absolutely a hellish nightmare level surgery, as the subject's modifications were purely arbitrary, essentially improvisational.
But the Steel Goblin hosting this surgery, faced with such random and unknown procedures, apart from chanting holy words and extolling the Holy Dragon, remained surprisingly calm during the operation.
They say practice makes perfect. He couldn't recall the many times he had performed similar surgeries, and although the internal condition of this student varied from the 47 previous surgeries, it all lay within his capacity to resolve.
Thus, this Steel Giant, who no longer resembled a Goblin with green skin, deftly handled all the problems arising during this operation.
In the end, the energy core he implanted in the student's chest burst forth with an even brighter glow, transforming from its initial eerie blue to a more brilliant incandescent light.
"Ah! Hoo——"
During the surgical process, the Goblin Engineer Apprentice, whose eyes gradually closed and breath weakened, suddenly opened his eyes at the moment the energy core emanated its glowing color transformation, gasping for breath.
His originally somewhat unsightly yellow-green pupils were now gradually overtaken by the incandescent energy light, transforming into brilliantly luminous white pupils.