In a forgotten corner of a desolate city, beneath layers of dust and time, there lay a bronze robot creature, its once-shiny surface now tarnished and worn. Known only as *Aegis*, it had been built long ago to protect the city’s inhabitants from an ancient threat — a calamity that never came. Over centuries, its creators vanished, and the city crumbled into ruin. But Aegis remained, its mechanical heart still pulsing with the flicker of long-lost purpose.