Soul of Burning Steel

Starfall 837, October 1st, outside the world of Mycroft, the Battleship of the Holy Mountain, Fortress of Glory, and the central control area of ​​the 'Eye of the Holy One' Observatory.

As always, a dozen or so elite priests are working with the most serious attitude in the 360-degree fully transparent light curtain observation cabin.

As a giant void battleship with the entire holy mountain in the far sea as its body, the observation center of the holy mountain fortress controls more than 2,500 various observation arrays and cameras, most of which are operated by automatic arrays, and only a few Hundreds are more important. Advanced lenses that can perform remote void observation require professionals to work in three shifts and operate around the clock.

In the main control room, one after another information feedback and reports were sent and received, the priests worked in an orderly manner, and the void around the entire Mycroft world was not abnormal at all.

until that moment.

"A large-scale space-time change occurred in Interval 171!"

In a certain light curtain observation cabin in the main control room of the observatory, a sharp red warning was issued suddenly. The clergyman who controlled the observation point stared in horror at the rapidly expanding shadow in front of him in the virtual light curtain—he did not hesitate. It sent out a large-scale crisis warning signal representing the 'void disaster', and then forwarded the shadow in front of it to the central observation platform.

Immediately, all the observers saw that in a void not far from the world of Mycroft, a huge space-time vortex was rapidly forming. It collapsed the turbulent flow of space-time and turned it into a funnel. The terrifying gravitational force Pulling everything around, let countless foreign substances drifting in the void gather towards it.

In just a few tens of seconds, the gravitational strength at its core reached 90 billion times the standard gravity value, and this unbelievable value is still increasing at a crazy speed. The problem is, I looked at a few more zeros, but no matter how many times I counted, the number that has exceeded 100 billion has not changed.

"The structure of the void is distorted... I can't see clearly."

The leader of the main control room of the observatory, a high priest of extreme level frowned. He was originally the high priest of the "God of Wisdom and Choice" in the Eastern Plains, but for the establishment of the Holy Mountain Fortress, he abandoned the The comfortable and peaceful life in the Eastern Plains came to serve in the Void. Now, he is manipulating dozens of void observation points to observe the gravitational vortex in the distance, but he can't really see the real scene there.

The gravitational force that is too terrifying can even distort light violently, and the magic circle that observes through magic power and various radiation fluctuations is naturally no exception. In this regard, the high priest could only order helplessly: "Perhaps it is some ancient void behemoth—send a message to inform other observatories and Ida Gray Island that we need further instructions."

"Does the route of the fortress need to be changed?"

"That's not our job."

The void is not a peaceful and safe place. In the seven hundred years since Mrs. Micro has been in contact with the void, they have observed countless large and small space-time turbulence storms. They may be natural void phenomena, or some void phenomena. The aftermath of the giant beast's activities, in the not-so-long history of the Eye of the Saint Observatory, the Church of the Seven Gods even observed two distant worlds colliding with each other in an extremely violent void storm and merging into one.

Compared with the frantic storm that was so huge that it caused a tsunami to surge in the entire space-time domain, the sudden appearance of the space-time vortex this time is not surprising, but it is different from the storm that happened in the distance. It was too close. For the safety of the world, the holy mountain fortress whose original duty was to tour the surrounding time and space needed to make an immediate choice.

Should we continue to make safe but vague observations in the distance, or take the risk to investigate the truth of the space-time vortex at close range?

Choices are made quickly. Accompanied by a holy and brilliant light flashing, a white-haired old man appeared in the center of the observation room. He frowned slightly and looked at the uneasy vortex that no longer expanded, but still stirred up the surrounding void. Then nodded.

"Good job, continue to observe."

"Let's take a closer look," he said.

With the arrival of the real leader, the entire huge holy mountain fortress began to turn, flying towards the space-time vortex, and many priests present were not disturbed, because Pope Igor had come personally.

Soon, the holy mountain fortress advancing at full speed came to the edge of the space-time boundary, outside the gravitational range of the vortex.

The so-called space-time boundary was a concept proposed by a certain Xishan court master when he was watching the stars two hundred and seventy years ago. He believes that in order to better observe the many star worlds in the void, the scope and scale of observation should be standardized. The limit that can be reached is used as the boundary, which defines the concept of 'space-time boundary'.

Each space-time domain is an area drawn around a conspicuous star world, and the time-space vortex is located at the edge of the time-space domain of Mycroft. After the Holy Mountain Fortress came here, it slowed down. Speed, so as not to be involved in the gravitational influence of the vortex. In contrast, the huge mountain battleship released many prism-like magic energy observers, and began to investigate the truth of the vortex at close range.

They immediately discovered the 'silver cocoon' at the center of the space-time vortex.

"Should it be an egg?" Some people raised doubts, but the difference in wording is not important. All in all, when everyone saw the perfect sphere that was about 50 meters high, but it seemed to be gradually collapsing and shrinking, everyone felt nervous. I can't help but feel a sense of shock, that is a kind of pure power and beauty of order, mere existence can change the surrounding time and space.

Pope Eagle couldn't help but nodded, even with his strength, he couldn't find any weaknesses or flaws from this silver sphere. But soon, the old Pope vaguely noticed that the silver mist around the giant cocoon seemed familiar to him... This huge gravitational fluctuation seemed to have indeed been seen on an acquaintance.

"Could it be..."

A possibility popped up in his mind - adding that that person did go to the void some time ago, and there has been no news recently, Iger suddenly understood in his heart that he was no longer looking at the giant cocoon in the space-time vortex with guarded eyes, but Is full of helplessness.

— always make some big news. The old pope thought so, then shook his head, and said to the high priest who identified the huge cocoon as the egg of a giant void monster, "It's almost time to cancel the highest alert. All in all, this thing is not a threat... ready to start Recycling work."

"Yes, Your Majesty. But... how should this thing be recovered?"

The high priest bowed respectfully, expressing his obedience to the order, but he was confused about how to carry out the recovery work. After all, everyone saw that the quality of this giant cocoon was extremely terrifying, and the surrounding gravitational changes could even tear apart the most solid world debris meteorite—— That is one of the raw materials that can forge a holy sword.

As long as this kind of thing gets a little closer, the entire holy mountain fortress will probably be severely damaged, let alone stored.

"What else can I do?"

Regarding this, Eagle sighed, moved his hands and feet, shook his head and said, "Of course I did it myself."

Immediately, one could see an inconspicuous glow flying out of the glorious holy mountain fortress. It flew straight out, ignoring any changes in time and space around it, and flew 'straight' towards the center of the space-time vortex. .

And the center of the space-time vortex.

The steel python Karliss also saw the radiant figure that was approaching rapidly, and the pure white scepter in the opponent's hand.

"It's the breath of a sage."

It is quite exciting: "It should be an existence that can communicate."

The existence form of the steel python is far beyond that of ordinary creatures. They are completely composed of pure steel and fire power, and they are the highest level of life. Ordinary creatures, no matter how powerful they are, as long as they don't possess the power of steel, or their souls have been sublimated to the highest level, they can't even see the steel python, let alone communicate.

Karlis knows this, but because Joshua once told it that there are people in Mycroft's world who also hold the inheritance of sages and can communicate with the steel python, so it will wait where it is, otherwise Otherwise, it would have returned to its own world long ago.

As for Joshua's safety... Carliss thinks that it's really hard to say who is the one that needs attention. As long as ordinary intelligent life has brains, it will not easily shoot at a silver unknown object that can distort the surrounding void. Instead of caring about the safety of that soldier, it is better to warn those unknown surrounding civilizations and let them not approach this dangerous zone casually. Lest you lose your life in vain.

When Pope Eagle broke through the gravitational blockage and came to the surrounding of the silver cocoon, he was surprised to find that there was a great will hovering around the cocoon that should be the incarnation of Joshua.

——It is the will of the world!

Some time ago, he had just teamed up with many legends and gods to completely seal Mycroft's will to the world. Naturally, Igor was no stranger to the great will of the steel python, but before he figured it out, why Joe When Xiuya was accompanied by the will of the world, the hazy steel python who seemed to have only will spoke first.

"He who holds the authority of the sages."

It said: "You should be the strong man Joshua once said, his friend. As you can see, this silver cocoon is the incarnation of Joshua. Some time ago, he went with me In the depths of the void, he completed the entrustment of another world's will, but when he returned, his strength should have reached a certain limit, and there was such a sudden change."

Karliss could actually guess what Joshua was thinking at that time.

After the battle with Fatrolvi, the one who usurped authority, although the soldier was extremely exhausted, he obviously gained a lot. At that time, Joshua's breath was a little unstable, but he I suppressed myself. For this reason, he chose to leave the world of Siberia immediately without staying in the slightest, but at the moment of leaving, they happened to encounter a shocking change in the void maelstrom, and the original steel power from the beginning of countless creations surged in, forcing them to Joshua injected a large amount of energy, filling up the last vacancy for him.

At that time, Joshua already knew that his transformation was coming soon, so he returned to the world of Mycroft at full speed without stopping, but unfortunately, he was still delayed for too long by the vision of the maelstrom Time, so that the soldiers have not yet returned to a safe place, the transformation will come irresistibly. In this regard, he can only mutter "the time is wrong".

But in fact, this is not the worst case, because if Joshua really begins to transform around the world of Mycroft and expands the terrifying gravitational field, it is likely to affect the entire world, and the too strong gravitational fluctuations may cause Penetrate the barriers of the world, causing various anomalies to appear inside the world.

Karlis didn't care whether the radiant figure in front of him could understand or not, so he simply expressed his conjectures and opinions. As for what happened in the world of Siberia, Steel Python didn't bother to open his mouth, so he gave a general account. Then leave everything to Joshua after he wakes up.

After almost explaining the situation, Carliss left so simply and neatly, and flew towards his own world. Before Duliu could speak, Pope Igor, who was full of doubts, stayed where he was, staring at him blankly. silver cocoon.

"……what's the situation?"

He could see that the will of the world that left before seemed to recognize the pure white scepter in his hand, so he had a good attitude. It should be the steel python who had a connection with the sage in the past, but before he could ask about the situation, the other party walked away Without the slightest scruples or nostalgia, it seemed that he was very assured of Joshua's safety.

You should really rest assured.

Igor turned his gaze back. He looked at the giant silver cocoon in front of him. He felt that it was indeed extremely tricky. He felt that even an extremely violent void giant could only go around and leave. But in the final analysis, Igor is the pinnacle of legend, the god of the world in the Mycroft world, and the core of the huge steel power that can make most powerful people helpless is not incomprehensible to him.

A series of ring-shaped runes swarmed out from the hard-to-see figure of light. In just a few seconds, millions of golden 'isolation runes' formed a circle on the outside of the giant silver cocoon. The huge rune sphere, supported by the power of the old Pope, this almost weightless rune sphere was not torn apart by the gravity of the silver giant cocoon, but instead layered and resonated, a nearly "different space" was constructed Immediately, it can be seen that the constantly rotating space-time vortex in the surrounding void began to shrink slowly, and finally almost disappeared, and the sunken funnel-shaped space-time gradually returned to its original shape, no longer distorted.

After doing all this, Igor took a breath. He couldn't help feeling a little thankful that Joshua should still be immersed in the transformation and didn't take the initiative to resist. Otherwise, he would have spent several times the effort, and even called Only with the assistance of the Holy Mountain Fortress can this seal be completed.

This series of actions is actually a sealing technique passed down by the Church of the Seven Gods to seal the remnants of the evil gods in the various sealed places. It can construct an absolutely closed different space, and seal the source of chaos with endless poison in it. in. Even the large-scale sealing technique that sealed the will of Mycroft's world was born out of it.

However, in order to rekindle the flames, all kinds of remnants of evil gods and the source of chaos in the sealed land were not sealed at the beginning. Since the beginning of this seal, only the steel python of the Mycroft world has been sealed... now , there is another Joshua.

After doing all this, Eagle dragged the golden sealed ball of light and flew towards the Holy Mountain Fortress, but when he was about to put the ball of light into the cabin of the fortress, the old pope couldn't help hesitating again.

"This guy...if he breaks free from the seal suddenly, won't the entire Holy Mountain Fortress be completely destroyed?"

After thinking for a long time, Eagle finally thought of a way to get the best of both worlds.

As a result, one can see that a brilliant mountain-like giant ship is driving through the void, and it is speeding towards the direction of the Mycroft world, causing the void to turbulently flow.

And behind this huge ship, there is a long rune light belt dragging. One end of this light belt hangs at the tail of the Holy Mountain Fortress, and the other end is connected to an inconspicuous golden light ball... The fortress is running at full capacity, but The speed is still nearly a third slower than before. Many members of the fortress are a little surprised why it takes a long time to return today, but only a few people know the reason.

Starfall 837, October 15th, Mycroft World, Northern Empire, East Banlt Plateau, Void Battleship Production Base.

Nostradamus looked at the huge silver cocoon in the translucent isolation cabin with a headache, while Israel's holographic projection also looked up at the giant cocoon with a diameter of nearly 40 meters. Look, the face is full of helplessness.

This is a huge temporarily built warehouse on the edge of the Northern Empire's mana factory. It is located on the westernmost side of the East Banerte Plateau. There are no production bases around it, but it is here that the leaders of the two empires The visitor looked sadly at the center of the warehouse, a giant silver cocoon suspended in mid-air in a translucent sealed cabin full of 'isolation runes'.

"What should I do? I can't detect anything inside the cocoon."

Nostradamus held his grimoire in his hand, and the legendary mage was scratching his head—he had been scratching his head for a whole week—ever since the Church of the Seven incarnated the 'suspected' legendary powerhouse Joshua After the giant cocoon was handed over to them, the old mage spent almost all day in this warehouse, thinking about how to communicate with Joshua in it.

Even if there is no way to communicate, you should understand the current status of the soldiers.

"According to the Church of the Seven Gods, no known magic can understand the situation inside the giant cocoon, and now it seems that magic is the same. We can't even penetrate the steel power shield on the surface of the cocoon."

"It's similar to what Barnier and William said." Israel's holographic projection nodded. At this time, His Majesty the Emperor was still on the high-altitude monitoring throne, and he did not come here in his own body, mainly because it was useless for him to come. As a dragon knight with a wrong profession, Israel could only repeat the previous conclusions of others : "Some time ago, the sage and Barbarossa from the eastern plain came here, you should have met them, right? What's the conclusion?"

"They can't help it either."

Nostradamus rubbed his temples wearily, he frowned and said: "Any direct contact is not acceptable, as long as you penetrate this layer of gravitational blockade, no matter what kind of matter it is, it will be sucked in, and then it will completely collapse into the foundation. The mist of the power of steel was absorbed by him... Barbarossa's usual staff disappeared, and Barnir almost lost a hand."

"So there's nothing we can do about him?"

Israel shook his head, turned his head to look at the silver sphere that was slowly rotating, and was still shrinking and collapsing, and sighed: "Mr. Radcliffe, you have given us another big problem. ah."

After finishing speaking, the projection of His Majesty turned his head and looked at Nostradamus. He looked worried and said, "And then? Since we can't wake him up, we can only put this egg here? "

"It's a cocoon." The old mage corrected: "It's almost the only way. After all, Joshua is a legendary powerhouse in our empire, and he can't be kept in the Church of the Seven Gods... To be honest, the expressions of those priests look terrified Level, I suspect that if they continue to stay with this giant cocoon, there will be a large-scale panic."

"Hey... don't blame them, the workers in the base have also started to stir up trouble recently."

For this, Israel could not feel any contempt, and he even felt a little sympathy. But soon, this little sympathy quickly dissipated. His Majesty the Emperor looked at the giant egg and said with great concern: "After all, this thing is a bomb that can destroy the entire East Bant Plateau in an instant... I'm a little scared, after all, this is our industrial base, if he suddenly loses control... It's really not an option to keep Sir Radcliffe's avatar eggs here."

It's a cocoon. Nostradamus thought. As for Israel's worries, the old mage had almost the same thought in his heart. Although the silver cocoon is currently performing very stably, who knows what kind of changes Joshua will cause when he wakes up? If there is another change on the scale of the void time-space vortex, the entire western plateau of the empire may become a basin.

Since there is no way to contact Joshua in the cocoon, they can't keep him here. They need to find a safe and spacious place, put each other there, and wait for the soldier to wake up... But where is this kind of situation? place? There is no such a spacious uninhabited land on the entire continent, not even the far sea, because if a tsunami is generated due to changes in gravity, the damage will be even greater.

The void is also not good, if it is placed far away, it will be difficult for them to observe, and to ensure Joshua's safety, if it is placed close, it will affect the void observation stations of the major forces, which is really troublesome.

"Wait, there is a place, it seems spacious enough!"

Nostradamus, who was thinking hard, suddenly thought of a wonderful location. He lifted his spirits, and immediately whispered to Israel beside him.

Starfall 837, November 3rd, outside the Mycroft world, the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Ground.

The ancient artificial plane, which has not been completely purified from the abyssal toxins, ushered in a group of strange visitors.

"I heard that the master is here?"

It was a rather strange team, led by a tens of meters tall metal structure holding the banner of 'College of Winterhold', followed by a black dragon of almost the same height, on their shoulders, on their backs The seats were full of young people who were supposed to be students of the College of Winterhold, and among them a silver-haired girl standing on the shoulder of a giant metal construct was excitedly raising her binoculars, looking around angrily, as if she was looking for the rumored where the master is.

Soon, she sensed a familiar aura coming from the center of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field.

Today's Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Ground is almost open to all major, medium and small forces on the Mycroft continent. Although some people objected, thinking that such an important place should not open its doors to everyone, their opinions could not affect many legends, or even the will of the Myriad Realms Sacrifice Field itself. Most of the powerhouses agreed that since the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field was a miracle built by the entire Mycroft civilization in the Glorious Era from the very beginning, they could not arbitrarily deny any existence's right to use it.

Everyone should know that the Glorious Era was advanced and powerful, and as successors, they will undoubtedly be able to achieve the same great cause.

What's more, as a completely independent and vast demiplane, if the major forces can't join forces, it will take decades just to clean it up, and all the high-level people know that after decades, the evil gods may be coming , the entire Mycroft world is at stake, so why bother with the right to use a public facility?

The visit organized by Winterhold Academy to the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Site is an official action directed by the royal family of the Northern Empire and planned by the Imperial Royal Mage Academy. They will go to the center of the plane, the empire that has been roughly sorted out The royal base is repaired, and then under the guidance of a high-ranking mage, visit the many giant magic buildings built during the Era of Glory.

While broadening their horizons, this kind of sightseeing can also cultivate the spirit of a new generation of extraordinary people, so that their eyes are no longer limited to a single place or country, but to understand the vastness of the void and the multiverse.

Of course, for some people who are not members of the academy, but just looking for their master who has been missing for almost half a year, this is not a very important matter... After all, they have been here many times.

Not to mention the entrance at the edge of the plane, and the many college students who were still shocked by the time they traveled through the void, in the center of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice, the main body that governs the will is located directly below the 'Glory of the Silver Sky'.

A giant silver cocoon is floating above the ground, surrounded by countless translucent runes. These runes gather and disperse invisible, occasionally forming structures like star rings, and occasionally turning into misty nebulae, but whether it is No matter what form, they completely cut off the gravitational force of the giant cocoon, making this body of ultimate mass, which has exceeded the standard gravitational force 150 billion times, floating quietly in midair like a harmless metal ball .

The governing will of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field quietly watched this giant cocoon, watched the most orthodox sage successor in its heart, and watched his transformation.

This is the only place around the entire world of Mycroft. Only under its control, this giant cocoon will not cause any hidden dangers and damage. The gravitational vortex, the ruling will also thinks that it is enough to suppress the destruction to a minimum.

What's more, it believed that Joshua van Radcliffe was enough to control his own power.

But in this giant cocoon.

Everyone thinks that the soldiers who are sleeping have never stopped thinking.

He was awake, and he had always been extremely awake, because Joshua had been fighting against a terrifying force that could shatter his bones.

And the source of this power is himself.

Yingying: "...is it an egg?"

Number 3: "It's a cocoon."