That's All I Want To Hear

Shatug Empire, in a remote coniferous valley a few hundred kilometers south of Celestial City.

Over the past months and years, the landscape had changed beyond recognition. The once lush forest of giant pines had given way to a complex of futuristic factories constantly spewing clouds of unsettling black smoke.

The mountains surrounding the valley had been almost entirely mined, turning the former valley into a flat plain before evolving into a mile-deep pit that kept growing deeper every day.

Millions of androids were working like worker ants to run these factories, expand the base, build, reinforce the existing structures and defenses, deforest and mine... There were androids of all sizes, shapes and hues and most of them were over six meters tall and possessed energy levels incomparable to those that Lucia and the others had faced.