Soul of Burning Steel

What is life?

Life is an open system. It eats, absorbs, and absorbs other negative entropy bodies, and expels high entropy through metabolism to maintain its own low entropy state and maintain the order of its own system.

From this point of view, the definition of life is really very broad. Humans are undoubtedly life, and so are monsters. Elements, fairies, and even constructs can all be considered life. Even legendary powerhouses are just generals. My original life system has been completely transformed into a more efficient and powerful existence.

Can the world, then, be seen as life?

Every time when Joshua thinks about the path he should take next, he will think about such a question - if the world in his body is really born in the future, then the "Joshua" as the main body is wrapped in a body The ultra life form of the world, or is he equal to that world? This situation cannot be confirmed at present, and we can only take one step at a time, but as to whether the world itself can be regarded as life, Joshua believes that the answer is yes.

At least, under the large multiverse system in which the world of Mycroft is located, the 'world' that can absorb energy from the void, maintain its own order, and continuously grow, change, and evolve is essentially a world beyond the imagination of ordinary people It is a giant life form, and it can even obtain self-will through the complex system in the body, that is, the various information, energy and soul circulation produced by the civilized race society, that is, the steel python.

But there is a problem in this way—since the world is life, the world will eventually die, and its specific manifestations should be the end of the soul cycle, the destruction of civilization in the body, the demise of intelligent individuals, the stop of the material cycle, and the complex material and The energy structure collapses into simple, disordered elementary particles and elements, until finally, the outer wall of the world will collapse, and the whole world will turn into countless steel particles and heat seas that slowly disappear in the void.

That being the case, why was the 'evil god' born?

Located in countless packages of 'chaotic magic power', Joshua felt that he saw many, many lights and shadows flickering, which were preserved in the wreckage of the evil god, and contained information about the past tens of millions of years or even several years. In the past years, the evil god of abundance has destroyed countless worlds. In the world galaxy, the long world void area, and even the void vortex, may be just traces of its "passing by".

But why was it born? It doesn't make sense at all! There will be undead after death, that is because the soul itself is actually a living organization that can be independent of the body. It can also absorb free elements in the atmosphere and expel the abandoned soul structure in the body through energy exchange. The lifespan is even longer than that of a human body - the undead is not dead at all in essence, it is a strange, living life!

But what about evil gods? If the evil god is the undead soul of the world, then it should be converted from the steel python, but the existence of the steel python is based on the wisdom civilization. If the wisdom civilization is destroyed, there will be no information flow and information in the world that can maintain the existence of the steel python. The reincarnation of the soul, the steel python is different from the human soul. When the world dies, it also dies. Order will turn into disorder, and everything will dissipate. It is absolutely impossible to become an evil god. It can tour the multiverse and destroy other worlds , Infecting the normal order is more like the product of a 'virus' than the undead.

Joshua has studied Chaos for a long time, because the evil god is the real enemy in his heart, far more terrifying than the abyss and demons, but for various reasons, Joshua has never directly contacted the so-called 'chaos'. Chaos', he is all the result of indirect contact with the evil god's projection, family and erosion-but now, he is around the evil god's body.

So, in the darkness like the depths of a ten thousand meter ocean, Joshua stretched out his hand and touched the materialized, as if nothingness, 'darkness' around him.

If the universe is an independent closed system, the entropy will inevitably increase due to the mutual conversion and transfer of energy within the system.

To put it simply, if the universe is a system with extremely uneven energy distribution at the beginning, then high-temperature objects will always transfer energy to low-temperature objects, and finally achieve a complete energy balance. The result is that the macroscopic world is completely static, and any Orderly movement is impossible, and everything turns into a sea of ​​heat that is still and constant, colder than death.

If we say that the nothingness before the birth of the multiverse means that there is nothing and nothing, the "balance" created by the "eternal stillness" is like the eternal, disordered but balanced sea of ​​heat after the death of heat. Then the so-called initial fire is to forcefully stuff the information of 'existence' into nothingness.

It disrupts the original balance, distinguishes high temperature from low temperature, light from darkness, and naturally, life from death.

High energy will transfer energy to low energy, this is the beginning of movement, and it is also the source of the breaking of "eternal stillness" and the birth of everything in the world.

But now, what Joshua is doing is similar to the deeds of the primordial fire illuminating the void and creating multiverses.

He ignited his own 'fire' so that all the chaos around him was no longer dark and disorderly, but became orderly.

In the central Black Forest, in the deepest part of the Fountain of Chaos, Joshua stood indifferently in the center of the bottomless chaotic magic power. Now, a silver flame was burning in his palm, and this flame was constantly emitting streams of essence. The stream of transformed light illuminates the surrounding darkness.

No, perhaps, it shouldn't be said'shine', but 'corrosion'!

It can be seen that the flame in the center of Joshua's palm emits an incomparably bright light, and as soon as this light comes into contact with the magic power of chaos, it will quickly dissolve into nothingness—but if you observe carefully, you will find that the essence of this light is actually It is a series of extremely tiny aggregates of steel power! Because of their high energy, these aggregates emit light that can be detected by the naked eye, which is the essence of optical flow.

These aggregates of steel power, which can only be observed through a nanoscale microscope, are constantly eroding the surrounding chaotic magic power, converting it into the energy they need, and then performing rapid self-replication. This process is completely It was an exponential growth, and soon, all the deep chaotic magic power around Joshua was devoured by these self-replicating and self-increasing steel particles, and completely disappeared!

If it is someone else who has been exposed to the magic power of chaos, they will definitely be dumbfounded when they see this scene-you know, in the past, only the magic power of chaos erodes the matter of order, how can there be the power of order to swallow chaos in turn?

But Joshua knew that there was nothing surprising about this. Since chaos and nothingness can be transformed into order, then order must also be able to swallow nothingness and chaos—otherwise where did the first world come from? At that time, there were no naturally occurring steel crystals and void behemoths that could give birth to the embryonic form of the world. The so-called erosion is just because the power of Chaos magic is too great, which suppresses the order.

As long as you are strong enough, you don't have to worry about erosion.

In the silver giant cocoon, Joshua rebuilt his own thinking organs. He used the power of steel to construct calculation matrices, control devices and storage facilities in his body. He used the divine soul network and super-light speed Particles are used as a medium for information transmission and input and output. This is a thinking system that completely surpasses humans and supercomputers in the usual sense and can provide incredible computing power.

And through this thinking system, the current Joshua can easily control a large number of nanometer or even atomic-sized microscopic particles, and manipulate them to perform different actions. Relying on the fine-to-micro-level processing ability, the warrior designed for himself a steel particle cluster that is completely under his control and can reproduce itself, which is the magical version of the 'Von Neumann Machine'.

It can use the program that Joshua designed for it as an action template, continuously absorb the high-energy magic power and matter around it, and then replicate itself. In the design, it can even be thrown into a world completely infested by the magic power of chaos, and then Devouring all the forces of Chaos in a frenzied self-replication process, converting it into an ordinary, inanimate world... If Joshua also added normal matter to its self-replication program, it would count as swallowing a The world is just a matter of spending a little more time.

The flame in Joshua's palm is actually the factory that manufactures the 'Steel Cluster', and the light is the trajectory and passage of the 'Steel Cluster'. If the light shines through the darkness, it means that the surrounding chaotic magic power is completely swallowed. Everything is under the control of Joshua, swallowed and eroded by his steel power! Occupied by complete order!

This is the weapon that Joshua made after much thought and meditation against the world-class chaos, and it belongs entirely to his 'Light of Symmetra'!

"The concentration of the magic power of chaos has dropped significantly, and the overflow information flow of the evil god of abundance has disappeared within the observable range, but the main body of the spring of chaos is intact, and the underlying structure is still covered up."

The endless stream of information was fed back to Joshua's thought network from the cluster of steel. In the next moment, he ordered in a deep voice in his mind: "Remove the first restriction, and continue to cast Symmetra!"

Immediately, the bottom layer of the dark fountain of chaos was filled with silver light, and the infinite chaos boiled.

In the center of the Black Forest, around the Fountain of Chaos, countless misty dark mist surged, eroding the surrounding space and everything. Here, the mud rocks, together with the Black Forest, were transformed into an extremely strange and strange substance. It is extremely inert and hardly reacts with any energy.

At the high altitude in the middle of the black forest, more than a dozen cracks were cracked in the space, and a white-gold rattan emerged from each crack, and many bulging translucent crystals were exposed on the rattan. The observation organ of the legendary Warcraft Platinum Vine Mother, at this moment, is monitoring every move of the Fountain of Chaos, and is waiting for the arrival of other human legends.

The human legend of the Northern Empire, the fact that Joshua van Radcliffe has entered the Fountain of Chaos alone, has been told by it to other legendary powerhouses, whether it is the Prison Void Dragon who is controlling the rioting monsters or still The human legends who were cleaning the Black Forest were all stunned by this. They didn't complain about the recklessness of the soldiers. They seemed to be used to it, or thought it was normal. But even so, two legendary experts temporarily stopped Instead of cleaning up, he rushed over to assist Joshua in suppressing the magic power of chaos.

But now that they have arrived, the platinum vines in the south and east trembled, and it sensed that two high-energy beings were flying from the sky at dozens of times the speed of sound. In order to avoid too much impact on the environment of Mycroft's world, this is considered haste.

Soon, two streams of light fell from the sky and came to the center of the black forest. You could see that they were two women, one of whom had long green hair and long elf ears, and the other had special hair quality of crystal plates. But I can't see the face clearly.

The two are the natural mentor Galan Nord and the East China Sea sage Faina. As legendary powerhouses, the two have known each other for a long time. After simply nodding to each other, they looked at the vines protruding from the cracks in the space together. Feeling the gazes of the two legends, Mother Platinum Vine shook her limbs slightly, and said softly in a distorted voice: "The Lord of Fire Prison has entered the fountain of chaos for a long time. Although these chaotic magic powers are thick, they can't help him, but I I am afraid that he will come into contact with the evil god's body, and lose himself because of the impact of the evil god's information flow."

Joshua's well-known battles in Mycroft are suppressing the beast tide, smashing the time and space gate of the Northland, slaughtering the White Dragon of the Northland, being in the Blood Moon Abyss, fighting with the Church of the Seven Gods, and fighting against the Holy Mountain. Dragonbane battle. And in these battles, Joshua showed powerful high-heat power and pure destructive power. The venue after his battle was like hell, and according to intelligence, Joshua has the power to create the 'sun', and even his legendary The real body is driven by a miniature sun as a power source.

Coupled with the daily joking titles uploaded from the lord's mansion, the title of 'Fire Prison Lord' has gradually become the current synonym for Joshua, which can not only express Joshua's strength and majesty, but also refer to him as The lord of the Moldavian realm, the warrior himself does not seem to reject it.

"I believe in the power of Lord Yan Prison."

In this regard, Faina nodded lightly. She returned from the Star Sea World, and even had some communication with the Atrium Civilization. Naturally, she knew the source of the other party's name "Jewel of the Fire Prison", so she simply called it that way. The sage looked around and said in a deep voice, "But the situation around here seems to have worsened compared to thirty years ago—couldn't you, Ms. Fuji, not limit these chaotic forces recently?"

In this regard, Mother Fuji also expressed her helplessness appropriately: "Originally, I blocked it with the Platinum Ancient Dragon, but in recent years, it has split into countless fragments and repeated the cycle of life. Before it returns, I, Yivine, It's really unbearable."

This is indeed a helpless thing, and Faina didn't say much, but just as she lowered her head, ready to take a closer look at the current situation of the Chaos Fountain, and then consider how to help Joshua, the other side of nature The instructor snorted lightly.

"Wait, something is wrong."

Galan Nord frowned——this time, she still came in a clone, but this clone contained 45% of the power of the natural teacher's body, which was enough in most cases, but just now, Galan Nord felt a terrifying force that could threaten the safety of her avatar: "There are changes in the Fountain of Chaos, we need to be prepared—"

Just when the teacher of nature was about to remind Faina and Mother Fuji to be careful, suddenly, in the fountain of chaos, which was originally deep and dark like a bottomless abyss, a few scattered silver light spots suddenly lit up, In the rolling chaotic darkness, it seems that something more terrifying is expanding, as if it wants to tear this layer of skin.

"This is!"

On the side, Faina, who had discussed the mutual power with Joshua at close range, narrowed her pupils. She had already sensed the essence of those silver light spots. The sage was standing in the air, and she propped up a spiritual shield, and then He said in a very serious voice, "This is Radcliffe's power of steel!"

And in the next moment, following Faina's voice, an incomparably dazzling stream of light broke through the dark outer layer of the Primal Chaos Fountain, and shot directly at the high altitude of the central Black Forest!

Rumbling——suddenly, the black clouds rolled, and the sound of thunder continued to explode. Accompanied by the sound of thunder, the fountain of chaos that was originally like a lake surging quietly on the ground suddenly seemed like a fountain. A stream of black chaotic magic power spewed out, whether it was Platinum Vine Mother, Garan Nord or Faina quickly retreated to avoid it, but this black chaotic magic power flowed from the inside to the outside as soon as it flew halfway. Be 'transformed' into a sparkling silver radiance!

Crash la la la——The silver brilliance disintegrated in mid-air, turning into 'heavy rain' composed of fine crystals. This rain fell from the sky and fell on the earth that had been corroded by the magic power of chaos for hundreds of years. I don't know what it has become. Immediately, with a faint hissing sound, streaks of black smoke rose crazily, and the originally hardened, black ground immediately turned into large expanses of white and yellow gravel, with silvery white light shining on the gravel. The inner layer of the body surges like a pulsating blood vessel.

In just a few tens of seconds, almost 60% of the eroded land was purified by the silver light. Two legendary powerhouses and a legendary monster stared at this scene with wide eyes—at this time, the originally dark The Fountain of Chaos has turned into a piece of silver amber that is beautiful, but extremely dangerous and terrifying! It wasn't a lake, but condensed amber. Countless clusters of steel converged into a translucent solid structure, allowing the three legends to clearly see Joshua standing at the bottom of the fountain of chaos.

And Joshua also saw them, the soldier raised his head, and nodded at the natural teacher and others who were located at a high altitude, where normal people can't even see small dots, from a distance of several thousand meters, as a greeting. Finally, when Joshua confirmed that the surrounding chaotic environment had been almost purified, he raised the 'flame' in his right hand.

And following the warrior's movements, all the pulsating clusters of condensed steel turned into misty mist, and then gathered together, like silver tornadoes of light, being sucked into the inconspicuous silver cloud. In the flames, and this recovery process only took a short ten seconds.

From the beginning to the end, it took less than a minute from the change in the fountain of chaos to the burst of silver light, purifying the surrounding environment. The source of chaos that originally caused everyone in the world of Mycroft to be extremely distressed, but they didn't know how to deal with it, was easily swept away by Joshua. In the eyes of two mothers and one beast.

"this……"

Faina, who thought she was calm and rational, resisted the urge to exclaim. She blinked her eyes and said in a low voice, "Is this the specialization in the arts? Is the successor of the sages so powerful in purifying chaos?"

But why doesn't the Church of the Seven Gods have such means?

"It's almost like a natural enemy."

On the other side, the teacher of nature patted her chest, and she narrowed her eyes, trying to suppress her frightened thoughts as much as possible: "Moreover, this light...is alive!"

Galan Nord is indeed right. The Symmetra of Joshua and the cluster of steel he created are just like the black mist created by Sanctuary civilization. The incarnation of the silver light is not only alive, but also a part of Joshua's current thinking and life.

But Joshua, who was located deep in the original Chaos Spring, didn't care about the sky above. The careful thoughts of his friends, the soldiers at this time, have noticed that there is a twisted mass in the depths of the ground not far from him. It is completely impossible to observe the chaotic aperture inside it with the naked eye.

Its radius is about 40 meters, which is not very large compared to the area originally occupied by the Fountain of Chaos. On the periphery of this aperture, there is a majestic dark and chaotic atmosphere that is being generated, and the surrounding area was purified with great difficulty. The fallen land and rocks were eroded rapidly again, and the darkness of the bottomless abyss was rapidly recovering.

There is no doubt that it is the last remnant of the Cthulhu God of Abundance.

So Joshua stepped forward without any hesitation, and approached the mass of chaotic magic power that was constantly spreading. He ignored the advice and stop of Gala Nord, Faina and others above the sky, and strode to the front of the distorted aperture.

Joshua raised his hand, as if he wanted to touch the circle of light. On his hand, there was a silver light flowing.

He hit the aperture.

The Moldavian Lord's Mansion officially guarantees that we will never be the first to use Symmetra for the existence of non-chaos.

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