Soul of Burning Steel

When Arzeira turned eight hundred and seventy-fifth birthday, he did two things. He went to visit his wife's grave. After that, he joined the army.

Going to the grave for his wife is not a big deal, after all, even with the long life of Zhongting people, death is inevitable, and for them, in the long cycle of life, death is only a necessary step, and everyone is at the end. Will eventually return to the mother tree and become a part of eternity. The old Alzara felt that even he could be inspired by the saints at any time and leave this material world, not to mention his wife was a little older than him, but This time is different.

very different.

The death of that kind old woman, wife of Arzaira, was not an ordinary one. The natural lifespan of people in Zhongting is more than a thousand years. Even if they die, most of them will slowly wither. This painless time will last for one to two years before the spiritual energy of the person involved will be exhausted peacefully and die. But Arzilla knew very well that his wife's departure was not peaceful. It died from an abnormal gravitational change in the space station and a man-made meteorite attack. As a result, the old lady died without a whole body. Even the spiritual energy did not belong to the mother tree, but dissipated in the boundless sea of ​​stars.

It's just too bad. Alzara thought so. Alone in the sky, will she feel lonely? The starry sky is so vast, can she find her way home? Her soul may still be wandering in the sea of ​​stars, waiting for the day when he will pick her up. But this is just a beautiful fantasy. The disappearance of spiritual energy means the disappearance of the soul. She can't wait until the day when he picks her up. The old man silently stared at the inscription on the tombstone: loving wife and loving mother. This is the annotation of the other party's life, pale and powerless, and he knows that his wife, the respectable woman who accompanied him through the six hundred and ninety-two years of the mother star's rotation year, the mother of their four children, has completely died Even if he returned to the mother tree after death, his soul also dissipated in the star sea, and he would never see each other again. This is eternal parting.

And the reason for everything is those void monsters.

That damned mother beast.

Arzaira did not stay long in the cemetery. He knew that standing alone in front of the wooden tombstone was no different from a damned idiot. It should have more important things to do, which was far more worth paying attention to than paying homage to the dead. His wife was already dead, and what was in front of him was just a tomb of clothes. It was useless to spend time here, and it was a waste of time for an old man in the atrium whose life span was limited.

So in the afternoon of that day, the old man opened the conscription office in the 51st District of the Garden of Flowers. After persuading his three sons and one daughter, and angrily berating the office staff as an elder, Arzaira, a former Omega-level psyker, returned to the army he had left for 350 years , The next day, he returned to the universe, and the next day, he had already served in the Third Squadron of the Flower Garden Colonial Star, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and the position of deputy leader of the first special operations team.

He returned to the army where he swore he would never go back again. He broke his promise, which was not a breach of faith, because the once young and energetic Arzella was dead. Man, it's that simple, that's all.

The addition of a former Omega psyker is an exciting addition to any fleet. Although their abilities are insignificant in the universe, with the help of the special facilities of the battleship, they can easily release thunderstorms that crush meteorite groups, and they can also detect enemy situations thousands of miles away. Use psychic energy to scan the planet to know if there is life on it. Although the name of the special operations group sounds strange, it is actually easy to understand by changing the name: space fighter pilot.

The biological battleship of the people in the courtyard is so huge, and the weapons are so scarce, so when faced with some special situations, they will be helpless to some creatures and things close to the battleship, and this is the time for the special operations team to take action , these highly capable psykers will drive specially designed cosmic fighters to protect the safety of the battleship with psychic light beams. If the pilot is an Omega-level psyker, he can even attack the enemy's battleship-level warship with a single machine. The target poses a threat. Arzera is exactly that kind of person, his power can easily penetrate the armor of the battleship under the boost of the fighter plane, although using this level of psionic power at his age will damage the lifespan, but since the pilot himself doesn't care, So who else cares?

The old man didn't care, he just wanted revenge, even if it cost his life.

"The Third Squadron issued an emergency notification, warning, the Third Squadron issued an emergency notification."

Hearing the ear-piercing siren, Arzella opened his silver-blue eyes, and the burning materialized psionic energy flowed in his pupils. Now the old man was wearing a full set of white cosmic combat uniform, just Staying in the locker room of the special operations team, although his body is old, his ears are still good, and he can hear the content of the alarm.

"It has been detected that a large number of spiritual responses are coming from the direction of the Tumen star field. There is a super-massive target that is warping the space—it is completely certain that the warping space is the first sequence of targets, a super life form code-named Void Mother Beast. , All staff level one combat readiness!"

"Compatriots, we must fight with all our strength! Behind us is the Garden of Flowers, the last colonial planet of our Zhongting people. We have no way to retreat. If we fall, the enemy will be able to directly attack the mother planet!"

Arzella listened silently to the impassioned battle speech on the radio, his heart was at peace, but it didn't mean that the old man didn't want to go into battle to kill the enemy, on the contrary, he wanted to, more than everyone else. But what a psyker needs most is peace of mind. Only with a peaceful heart can he guide endless power from the light in his heart. As a former Omega-level psyker who is unable to exert his full strength simply because of old age, Arzella knows that , the more he wants to kill those void monsters, the more he needs to be calm, so calm as to be dead, in order to bring death to the enemy.

"coming."

Arzeira heard the sound of neat footsteps, it was the footsteps of other members of the special operations team coming to the locker room to change their combat uniforms. He stood up from the chair in the locker room and took a deep breath. The old man could feel the spiritual energy of this battleship. The burning spiritual energy was suppressed by countless hearts, and it was calm without any fluctuations, just like Like the fire burning in the abyss, even the flicker of light cannot be seen. Most of the third squadron is composed of the remaining colonists and exiled fleet members of the Root Garden. Their hometowns were swallowed up by the mother beasts, and the organic resources turned into fluid by the family members were sucked by the monsters. The spiritual energy became the nutrient of the beasts. Planets were reduced to ashes in the raging flames. The Holy One bears witness, this is a pack of Avengers, and now they take up arms.

so……

"It's time for revenge, lads."

The old man stood up and stared at a group of atrium people who opened the door of the locker room. They had all kinds of strange tattoos on their bare skin outside the military uniform. 'Avengers', 'For the Children', 'Farewell to Mother'. And so on, although they are just simple words in a few words, people can't help being silent. The survivors of the Garden of Roots lost everything but their lives.

The silver-blue eyes that contained psionic power looked at each other, and they silently nodded to each other, leading the middle-aged atrium man. The leader of the special operations team, another Omega-level psyker, said in a dry and low voice: "It's about to start."

It did start.

The Atrium Star Colony, the Flower Garden Star in the Far Light Star Field, and three fleets slowly sailed out of the seven large space stations. The first fleet is well-equipped, whether it is the external armor or the looming spiritual shield. The second fleet looks a little old, and it should be the main battleship of the previous generation that has been sealed up for a long time, while the third fleet is mostly dilapidated. Even if it has been repaired, you can still see their previous scars. The total number of the three fleets has exceeded 2,000. This is the last fleet that the people of Zhongting abandoned the economic system and focused on all military industries. Among them, there are young people who joined the army to protect their hometown, elite soldiers who have served for more than two hundred years, and retired veterans who have given up their stable lives and returned to the army without hesitation for revenge.

But now, no matter who they are, what past and hatred they have, now, with the silent vibration of the spiritual engine in the cosmic space, making the silver-blue ripples echo in the black background and white starlight, everyone There was only one last thought left in the hearts of the atrium soldiers.

fight.

Then, die here.

——hum!!——

A few hours later, countless dense ripples suddenly appeared on the edge of the far-beam galaxy. These ripples were like rain falling on the surface of a lake. Countless large or small concentric circles appeared on the surface of the space almost at the same time. Vertical and horizontal in these vortexes, the 'storm' produced by energy even blows away the thin nebula material at the edge of the galaxy, just like the most violent giant sweeping across the earth with his hand, sweeping away all the existence above it.

"The enemy's vanguard has arrived in the Far Light Star Field!"

The Atrium Fleet, which already knew the enemy's approaching direction, had long been waiting here. The urgent battlefield alarm was repeated in the psionic network of all warships, and all captains and soldiers confirmed this, and they clearly saw it through optical lenses. The scene at the edge of the galaxy that I don't want: countless grotesque, not hideous, but instinctively fearful void monsters, just like ants, swarming out of space, their sizes are different, and the big ones are several kilometers long It is as long as a battleship, and the smaller one is only a few meters in size, ten times smaller than a space fighter.

The three types of void monsters named "detection level", "main force level" and "giant species" have begun to end their transition and jumped out of the subspace.

Without exception, these terrifying monsters all released the light of spiritual energy, which was the power they took from the dead of the Forby people and the people in the courtyard. As soon as they appeared in the space, they began to spontaneously move towards the surroundings. Diffusion, like a virus, can see the spread of dark green energy fluctuations, faintly confronting the silver-blue light of the people in the atrium.

"Don't let them leave the battlefield! Even if one is left behind, it may cause huge losses to the rear!"

Sitting on the seat of his exclusive fighter plane, Arzeira was wearing an auxiliary breathing mask. He heard the command from his captain, and with the command issued, the old man sensed that the battleship he was on was fully activated, and he He could sense that the psionic engine was running at full capacity, and he could sense that endless energy was converging, converging into a huge spear of light.

The next moment, the light spear was launched.

And he also got an order: the special operations team was dispatched immediately to clean up possible monster residues. The old man couldn't help laughing, and the pipe with the assisted breathing mask trembled.

The final war—at least for him, for an Avenger who had no intention of living.

here we go.

In just a split second, thousands of rays of light converged into spears and shot towards the monster clusters in the distance. The long space distance makes it take a few seconds for the light to arrive, but these are all predicted based on each transition track Volley, so there is no doubt that those void monsters who have just signed from the psionic vacuum have taken a real blow-and the result is indeed devastating. Wandu can vaporize all matter in the mortal world, and after penetrating the target, the subsequent explosion of the spiritual energy light spear will bring another wave of million-degree fragment impact, and each particle of spiritual energy light can Kill any life with ease, burning them into torches in the universe.

Void monsters can't resist this kind of power. These virus-like appearances, the first wave of the plague evil god's family members were shot down by successive light spears without exception. The high temperature ignited their bodies and turned them into stars. The dust in the space, these monsters have just escaped from the transition, and it is too late to release their power, they can only leave clusters of ashes under the fierce attack of the people in the courtyard, and now the edge of the distant light star field has completely become a sea of ​​energy surges , it even affected the transition, and many void monsters were lost in the void because of the time-space changes caused by huge energy before they even escaped.

Even if someone is caught, they will be hunted down by clusters of cosmic fighter planes like bee swarms on the periphery. These fighter planes, which are generally driven by high-level psykers, have a certain short-distance jump ability. They are extremely flexible and can easily hunt Killing the void monsters below the kilometer level, many monsters rolled their tentacles and limbs painfully in the universe, let out a silent roar, and then died under the salvo of thousands of beam cannons.

Undoubtedly, the results of the first wave of the Atrium people were outstanding. In just a few minutes, they killed tens of thousands of giant void monsters, and there were countless small ones, most of which were under the aftermath of the light spears. It turned into ashes, but it has been like this for hundreds of years, but the commander-in-chief of the three fleets did not show any excitement. On the contrary, their expressions changed almost at the same time: Miscalculation!

It's not a miscalculation in terms of strategy. Void monsters have no wisdom, and even female beasts don't have the will to control all monsters like in the story. They are actually clusters of physical plagues that rely on instinct to multiply and multiply. They are gigantic Chaos virus, what the people in the atrium miscalculated was the quantity.

"Two hundred, ten thousand?!"

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