Soul of Burning Steel

Starfall 835, April 21st, early morning, Northland Moldavian Lord's Mansion, basement warehouse.

At the end of the underground dark corridor, dim pyroxene lamps flickered, and behind a heavy iron door was the underground warehouse of the Radcliffe family, but it was different from what many adventurers imagined. According to rumors, this warehouse is full of gold, gemstones, and all kinds of sparkling precious magic equipment. It is not as wide as the dragon's nest. In a sense, it is a bit narrow, only about 20 meters long and 15 meters long. The width and height are also the standard three meters and two feet. A dragon can only coil up in a lump here, which is not commensurate with the name of its master, Megatron Continent.

And in this warehouse, which is not really small, it is full of all kinds of sundries—metal boxes engraved with the holy emblem of the Church of the Seven Gods, and scrolls painted with the royal family coat of arms of the Far South King, which are obviously handicrafts of the elves. , and the small box with the seal of the royal court, and all kinds of gifts and rewards from various major forces. If you just look at these things, their value is barely worthy of a legendary warrior. But in fact, these seemingly expensive objects are mixed with wooden barrels, wooden boxes and many messy packages. Even the most skilled robbers come here, it is difficult to get out of this mess Pick out the target you want from the stuff.

But now, there is a petite silver-haired girl who is working hard to sort them all neatly in this pile of sundries, and arrange them one by one according to type.

This is not an easy job—whether it is a metal box that looks extremely heavy at first glance, or an alloy metal statue carved by a dwarf, which is more than two meters high, it seems that she cannot move it, even if it is five Even the six big and three thick men may not be able to make them move an inch.

But the facts are always unexpected. The girl easily lifted up these tons of gadgets with one hand, and then placed them where she wanted without breathing.

——Not as heavy as Miss No. 3, except for this statue.

Not long after, Hotaru, who was finally tidying up, wiped off the sweat that didn't exist on her head. After working for a long time, she had a satisfied smile on her lips. Looking at the well-organized basement, she couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction in her heart.

It's finally done, Hotaru thought so, after spending a whole night, she and No. 3 finally finished tidying up the basement and corridors that were messed up by the artificial intelligence girl controlling the metal body, and there might be the problem of Rin's random handling of goods. This matter is not easy to do even with the superhuman strength of the God Machine, and fortunately there is magic in this world, a simple 'restore as new' spell can fix the damaged floor, but this Spells are of no use to those gifts from various countries that themselves contain great magic power, and they can only be moved by physical methods.

Because of this, No. 3 ran away directly after sorting out the amethysts—she said she was going to perform her duties, patrolling and monitoring possible cultists and troublemakers at night, and then simply He neatly left Yingying alone in the messy basement.

Who are you kidding?

The silver-haired girl thought a little angrily at this moment. It's been 835 years since Starfall, how can an adventurer dare to make trouble in Moldavia, the territory of a legendary warrior after eating the dragon's heart? Not to mention cultists, according to reliable information, the entire Northland has become an absolute forbidden zone in the dark world of the Mycroft Continent. The 100% recognition rate has long made many demon believers and evil gods worship with lingering fears, even the Ural Mountains. Crossing over, where did they have the courage to run to the center of the restricted area to die?

Now, No. 3 must be in the magic circle center of the Lord's Mansion, holding the amethyst stone to add a plug-in magic circle to his body, right? Thinking of this, Yingying couldn't help but feel a little envious. You know, since her body was baptized by pure holy light in the holy mountain, the soldiers haven't oiled and maintained her for a long time.

Won't break and isn't always a good thing. Feeling neglected in this regard, the magical girl sighed slightly, she looked up again at the pile of neatly placed goods in front of her, and couldn't help expressing emotion subconsciously: "There are so many things to buy. .”

There are at least several tons of fine amethyst, which can be used by Miss No. 3 for several years. Two barrels of Gwell dwarf wine, which the owner bought for entertaining guests, and at least dozens of different types, were used Small things like jewelry and clothes for her, for Number 3, or even for Rin, kept in nice lockets and packages, even if they don't need them most of the time.

The owner has always been very generous, and can even be said to spend money lavishly.

Seeing these things, Yingying imitated a soldier and stroked her smooth and delicate chin. The girl silently added another sentence in her heart-he didn't even know how much money he had, nor did he know which chambers of commerce and property belonged to him.

Thanks to myself and Rin taking care of the master. Yingying thought with some complacency, the corners of her mouth slightly raised.

And maybe it was because of the tacit understanding between the siblings, just as the silver-haired girl was about to find out which gifts she was planning to give Rin, regular footsteps sounded from the corridor not far away.

"Hello, sister."

Hearing a familiar voice, Ying turned around and saw her younger brother opened the heavy iron door in the basement. The black-haired boy whose hair was a little messed up because he didn't tidy up didn't greet his sister politely, and said directly: "The master is not with you ?”

Although the young man used the grammar of interrogative sentences, his tone was indeed affirmative like declarative sentences.

"Of course, didn't you see it clearly at a glance?" Yingying thought it was something important, but it turned out to be such an insignificant little thing. I haven't come back since that magic book, we all have the ability to sense, and as for running over to ask me..."

"So, sister, have you noticed?" Interrupting the silver-haired girl's complaints, Rin said in a calm tone that made Hotaru feel familiar: "Did Kuroya suddenly disappear in the middle of the night last night?"

Blinking her eyes, Yingying shook her head in confusion. She helped Joshua go to the study room to get the Abyss Magic Book yesterday, and then came down to sort out the messy goods with No. 3. How could she have time to care about the black dragon? The girl's movements, not to mention that Hei didn't have a very high sense of existence.

"Ah... my sister."

Seeing that Yingying hadn't reacted yet, Rin couldn't help but shook his head in disappointment: "Even if the master doesn't need to sleep, it's not like he won't go back to the Lord's Mansion, right?" After a pause, he affirmed with a questioning tone. The sentence said: "So, is there such a possibility - the master has already left."

In this sentence, the tone used by the young man when he said the word 'gone' is very ingenious, and it contains affirmation, certainty and certainty, which cannot be refuted at all.

"Huh?" Yingying was still in a state of confusion, and she didn't react, but Rin continued: "Look, Hei suddenly left the city in the middle of the night, who can order her except the master? What's more..." The boy babbled again A lot of evidence, without exception, is to support the fact that the soldiers actually left for work in the middle of the night last night, but did not bring them with them.

"Impossible!" No matter how slow the reaction was, up to now, Yingying could understand the meaning of her brother's words-so the girl went crazy in an instant, and she came to the boy in an instant, and then grabbed the boy with all her strength. Shaking his shoulders: "We are the master's weapon—he will take us with him wherever he goes! How could he only take Hei but not us!"

"Didn't you take us with you when you went to the Abyss of Anos, and you only brought Hagiha and Hei?" The young man pointed out this point calmly, and the price was that he was shaken more violently. The frantic Yingying shook her head: "Speaking of which, sister, you are becoming more and more human."

"The same goes for Miss No. 3," he said.

After hearing this sentence, the silver-haired girl also stopped her movements, she snorted, and then said softly: "To be honest, brother, the fact that you can say this kind of emotion means that you are also the same."

At the same time, in Moldavia in the north, the underground gathering place of dwarves.

Here is a huge and long and narrow abyss rift, it is hard to tell how long and deep it is. It is located at a depth of nearly a thousand meters underground. The frequent stratum movement around the Great Ajax Volcano makes the crust rise and fall from time to time. Although the dwarves have the means to stabilize the crust around their gathering place, they have no way to control every corner of their long underground territory.

This huge abyssal rift with a lava-red glow at the bottom is located on the edge of the eastern dwarf mining area. It appeared during a small-scale earthquake two days ago, tearing a huge gap of nearly 200 meters in the ground. The moment it appeared, it devoured the lives of three dwarf miners and isolated nearly thirty dwarf miners at the other end of the abyss.

After the dwarves gathered in the settlement to deal with various matters after the earthquake, they were slow to remember that such a team of miners did not come back to report, and when the rescue team set off, those dwarf miners who were short of water and food had no energy to respond. rescued.

Dwarves don't have much water inside their bodies. Compared with ordinary creatures, they are indeed like rocks, but in any case, water is also the most important part of their body fluid circulation. There is no water and no food for two days, and they live in the hot and dull underground. Even a dwarf can't bear to stay in the mine for two days.

The 200-meter-long abyss is actually nothing to these master craftsmen. Usually they have ten thousand ways to cross this seemingly insurmountable barrier, but now it is probably due to the disturbance of underground magic caused by the earthquake. None of the spells can be used. If engineering technology is used, the fastest method will take almost a day. For them, what they need now is not a method, but time. If they don't hurry up to rescue the dwarf miners, most of whom have fallen into a coma, they may return to the embrace of the earth soon.

Logically speaking, these dwarves who are already irritable should be yelling anxiously now. After all, time is definitely not enough. Their keen ears can hear the weakening breath and heartbeat of their own people on the other side of the abyss. This is really a great torment.

But in fact, none of the dwarves were restless. They all stood there calmly, waiting for something to arrive.

And not long after.

Accompanied by the sound of violent and heavy footsteps, a huge and ferocious iron giant walked quickly from a distance, reaching the edge of the abyss.

It looks like a huge human-shaped armor, with a body nearly 30 meters high, making it look even bigger than a dragon. After all, dragons are huge because they have wings and tails, but steel giants are bigger than them. The 'slender' body is a whole circle bigger, and it is not a heavy class at a glance.

Every time the giant takes a step, it takes a second or two, which makes it look slow, but in fact it is very fast because of the extremely long distance taken by one step, and its fragile joints have been obviously strengthened It can be seen that it is a handicraft commonly used by dwarves.

"Number One! This time it's up to you!"

Before the Iron Giant came to the abyss, a dwarf engineer with a beard laughed loudly in his rough voice: "I can't wait to see that scene again!"

"Yes!" The other dwarf engineers and construction team members also shouted loudly: "Let's see and see!"

"Zizi, zizizi." On the head of the humanoid armor, the steel giant shrouded in a dragon-headed helmet made a dull metallic electric sound, as if it was promising something, and it didn't continue to talk , the steel giant stood directly on the side of the abyss rift, and then his whole body began to deform violently.

Next, an astonishing scene appeared—accompanied by the harsh sound of metal rubbing, the huge steel giant turned into an amorphous mass of silver metal like plasticine, like a living creature, just like that All the way to the other end of the abyss, and then formed a thin but strong steel bridge!

The dwarf rescue team and engineers were not idle either, they immediately began to reinforce the edge of the bridge, and dozens of rescuers also ran to the dwarf miners who were almost in shock and comatose, and quickly rescued them.

After a long time, all the miners were rescued, dozens of dwarves withdrew to the other side of the rift, and the steel bridge also changed back to the original huge steel giant amidst bursts of violent metal friction, it stood in place, Received praise and praise from many dwarves.

No. 1 listened to the noisy and sincere thanks in his ear, and he couldn't help passing a trace of excited current through the core of his metal-cast thinking, but for some reason, he didn't have the heart to care about these compliments, but raised his head subconsciously,' Look' to the far south side.

There is no reason, no evidence, but the Iron Giant can know that his creator, his 'father', is located in that place.

At this time, he was going to another abyss that was different from this abyss rift.

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