On this hexagonal platform, six magic contract cards lay quietly. The pure black background of these six magic contract cards reflected an ancient mystery, and the complex magical patterns on them were as unfathomable as the night sky. Compared to these, the magic contract cards used to control mechanical warriors looked like crude student projects.

If it had been anyone else, upon seeing these six cards, they would never have immediately guessed their origin or purpose. But back in the day, in his quest for magical records and pride in his vast reading, Adam Bennett, upon recalling the six statues in the hall, almost instantly thought of a chilling possibility. That was why he stopped Luke Thompson from approaching.

The Great Stone Dynasty was the pinnacle era of magitek, and the greatest product of magitek was the magitek soldiers. Mechanical warriors and mechanical knights were only considered the lower ranks of magitek soldiers. Although these lower ranks were already so powerful as to be nearly unbeatable, compared to the most powerful existence among magitek soldiers—the "Magitek Armament"—these mechanical warriors were merely strong ants.

According to known records, the most powerful Magitek Armament could rival a ninth-tier professional, second only to the incarnations of gods walking the mortal world. They could stand shoulder to shoulder with ancient dragons, were city destroyers, stood at the pinnacle of the world, and embodied the ultimate fusion of magic and martial skill.

Six incredibly mysterious magic contract cards, six statues that seemed as if they could move... an immensely spacious hall... the legendary Magitek Armament. All of this rapidly connected in Adam Bennett's mind, making him almost snatch the six magic contract cards from the platform in a flash, then dash without looking back toward the tallest statue.

Luke Thompson was momentarily stunned, unsure whether to follow or stay where he was.

This former captain of the Royal Guard hadn't seen clearly what his young master had taken from the platform, but Luke Thompson felt a strange, uneasy anxiety at Adam Bennett's command. After hesitating for a moment, Luke Thompson decided to stay put, but he quietly took a few steps toward the platform and glanced at the hexagonal platform.

Of course, apart from the patterns on the platform, he saw nothing.

When Adam Bennett sprinted to the base of the tallest statue and raised a magic contract card, something astonishing happened: the statue's eyes shot out two eerie, dusk-like dark red beams. As these two beams crossed over Adam Bennett, the anxious youth vanished without a trace.

Standing by the hexagonal platform, Luke Thompson witnessed this unbelievable event and immediately screamed at the top of his lungs, his whole body drenched in cold sweat in an instant.

However, Adam Bennett, who personally experienced this event, was actually much calmer than the onlooker. He was very composed. At that moment, Adam Bennett felt dozens of tentacle-like things probing his head, his body seemed to disappear, and he felt as if he had become a giant. At the same time, memories that did not belong to him flooded into his mind. When he instinctively tried to raise his arm, what appeared before his eyes was an enormous hand covered in armored gauntlets—something he was not born with, but the arm of that giant statue.

Reality and speculation overlapped, making Adam Bennett shout inwardly, "Absolutely right! These statues are the legendary Magitek Armaments, the last relics of the Great Stone Dynasty, priceless ultimate treasures! Heh! If I use this Magitek Armament to counterattack the imperial capital Golden Moon City, I wonder if the four legendary guardians of the Golden Moon Dynasty will appear!"

The torrent of memories flooding into his mind made Adam Bennett instantly understand a great deal.

Those things attached to his head were called magitek nerves. It was these tentacle-like things that were transmitting vast amounts of memory to him. The magitek nerves were also the key to controlling this giant statue. This ancient statue-like Magitek Armament was called the Doomsday Emperor.

With each additional magitek nerve connected to his brain, Adam Bennett gained more information. When dozens of tentacle-like magitek nerves were all linked to his brain, his connection to his own body was forcibly severed, and he was automatically switched to the Magitek Armament's control mode. The Doomsday Emperor's sensory magic eyes replaced his own, and every movement Adam Bennett made was fed back to this massive Magitek Armament body.

"Activate system!"

With Adam Bennett's slightly trembling command, a magical light screen five meters in diameter appeared three meters in front of the Doomsday Emperor. This virtual magical light screen would only appear in the visual feedback of the sensory magic eyes, not in reality. On the left side of the magical light screen was a pale green vertical bar, listing dozens of data points about the Doomsday Emperor's body from top to bottom. The most critical of these was the Doomsday Emperor's energy value: 550,000 points, almost a full charge. After being dormant for a thousand years, to still possess such perfect energy was thanks to the Eternal Energy Furnace technology perfected during the reign of Hendali XV of the Great Stone Dynasty.

On the right side of the magical light screen was data on the objects currently being scanned by the sensory magic eyes. The Magitek Armament's sensory magic eyes had a full 360-degree field of view: the labyrinthine temple, the other five Magitek Armaments, Luke Thompson, and everything nearby were all displayed on it.