Soul of Burning Steel

When Joshua easily saw through the vision with the power of steel that the dragon girl in front of him was essentially a group of plastic slimes, he fell into a brief shock.

Syndicate...isn't it a Balrog? No, no one said that the Balrog must be male, this is a misunderstanding... It's also not true, the Balrog has no gender at all! But even so, why did Syndicate choose Lisa's image? This is completely inconsistent with the usual cognition!

What happened afterward is difficult to describe in words. In short, a few minutes later, when Joshua arrived at the gate of the Lord's Mansion with the dejected Hei in one hand and the loveless Syndicate in the other, a large group of people in the Manor's Mansion suddenly burst into chaos. Hurrah gathered together, asking this and that with surprise—there was even a genuine Lisa, a dragon girl who had just returned from the factory area with Hotaru, and seemed to have bought some furniture for the new house.

Some time ago, Lisa suddenly expressed that she didn’t want to live in the school’s dormitory, and wanted to find a house to live alone. Naturally, no one would refuse this normal request. As for the money, if the credits in Lisa’s hands were converted into precious metals, it would even be enough to buy The single-family villas around the lord's mansion, but the dragon girl just bought a small building in the Nancheng factory area, and then moved in immediately.

The environment in the factory area is actually not very good, but the high magic radiation is not a problem for Lisa. There is even a pair of enthusiastic siblings next door to help. I heard that the elder brother seems to be a member of the Academy of Winterhold.

At the end of the hearing, Rin summed it up best: "So, because the Syndicate has become like you, in order to avoid misunderstanding, I really don't know how to explain it, so I just moved out first?"

"Actually, I want to move out too."

Scratching her head, Lisa smiled shyly: "But mainly I want a home of my own, so it will be more practical."

On the other side, Syndicate is confessing.

"My lord, when you sculpted me last time, you said that you can shape a new body as you wish."

At this time, the Balrog sat on the chair honestly, talking about the specifics of the incident: "But I am a Balrog in the final analysis, and after thinking about it for a long time, I can't think of how to make a human body...I went to bed after I got home. Once I woke up, I woke up in a daze and became like this."

"Instinct... In Lisa's body, staying too long as a part of the opponent's body caused not only the blood to communicate, but even the essence of life began to affect each other."

Joshua wasn't trying to torture him—he was mainly curious about the shape change of the Balrog, but after thinking about it, it was quite normal. The high-level slime and the abyss ooze did indeed acquire other creatures by devouring them. The transformation ability of the form, the body of the Syndicate is naturally the same, even more advanced, it can change according to the surrounding environment, and even strengthen the form.

But unlike others of the same kind, they devour other creatures to obtain a tangible body, and Syndicate, in a sense, was swallowed by Lisa for more than half a year, which reversely affected the essence of their own blood... It's shameful, no , Balrog.

To be honest, the name Balrog is a bit inappropriate now. At this time, the Syndicate is better at using the electromagnetic power inherited from the ancient thunder dragon. As the power of Balrog, it only retains the point of "heat". Use it as a hot water bottle for Lisa.

"Think about it, at least Lisa's image is very beautiful, much better than you turning ugly."

Firefly patted Syndicate on the shoulder carelessly: "And if you change into a man, it is impossible to continue living with Lisa—living with an underage girl, you are going to be arrested in the Moldavian University. Prison."

Syndicate: "Um, ah, oh..."

"That's right!"

Hei with a little light on his head also added fuel and jealousy: "It's too much for you to rely on Lisa's cute image to lure me out to play cards!" "Dingling, dingling! (It's too much!)"

syndicate:"……"

In the final analysis, it was a small episode, not a big deal. According to No. 3, it was thinking about someone day and night, which led to him becoming someone. It was rare for everyone to get together and have a meal in the lord's mansion. A small team was on a mission in the Ural Mountains at this time, otherwise Joshua's student team would have been assembled if they called together, but even so, Joshua encouraged the other party through the information terminal.

At this time, in the first team, the first four people are about to graduate, and their strength is also about to reach the golden level after six or seven years of excellent training and high-intensity combat. When exploring the underground world, he touched the golden barrier, and recently stepped into the golden realm. But after all, normal people are not like Joshua. After entering, he will be stable immediately. He still needs a period of precipitation to fully stabilize his power level leap.

Except for Ivan, his younger sister Amira has changed her job to become a dragon master—to put it bluntly, she is a dragon master. This former hunter girl has an extremely terrifying talent for elemental affinity. She can quickly unleash a large amount of high-power magic, and directly wipe out a small forest. It is a real fort. Now the first team protects her, but in the future, as long as the white dragon grows up, she will be able to fight independently.

Karin, who is not ostentatious, even very low-key, is actually close to breaking through the golden realm. She has built a solid element melting furnace in her body, and can quickly recover magic power by consuming the magic power stored in her body, releasing magic far beyond her level. And the structure of this element melting furnace is actually the front of the fusion core in Joshua's body. As long as Karin moves forward step by step, she will one day become an existence that can control the power of the sun.

The strength of the seventh prince, Alva, is progressing normally, and his fighting spirit is rising steadily. It is not worrying, but there is no unexpected progress. As for magic, it is the same, but I heard that he has recently learned to cook good dishes, which makes everyone in the team Sighing to himself, he even learned to assemble magic puppets, showing an incredible talent in magic engineering.

Dwarf Nick is the most distinctive one... At this time, he is retreating in a secret place, and has not participated in the mission with the first team. It is said that he is using strengthening magic and magic elements to transform his body and sublimate his body. The essence of life, and gradually become an extraordinary existence beyond ordinary human beings. To be honest, this is actually the path leading directly to the legend, similar to the path of the legendary rune mage (Extreme Strength) Barnir. If Joshua were to say, who is most likely to be the first among all his students? To reach the ultimate intention, it must be Nick, no doubt, even Lisa, who is currently the most powerful.

After the meal, Lisa happily held Syndicate's hand, bid farewell to Joshua and the others, and then returned to her house in Nancheng District, while everyone in the Lord's Mansion watched the other party leave, and then cleaned up as usual stand up.

Joshua returned to the study - he hadn't been back here for a long time. The soldier stretched out his hand and touched the world map hanging on the wall of the study room. It was dotted with many small red and black dots, and there were a few lines of small characters under some dots.

Those were all kinds of major events recorded on the map at the beginning of his journey, such as the target of the mad dragon raid, the civil war in the empire, the base camps of various princes and queens, and the gathering places of some cultists... all kinds of things. Most of the things he remembered were clicked on above, reminding him how dangerous the world he was in was.

But now... Joshua chuckled lightly, and with a wave of his hand, the silver light flickered, and the old map of the old continent that had turned yellow was replaced and placed in a drawer, and a brand new 3D light curtain appeared on the on the wall - that is the world galaxy model where the entire Mycroft world is located! It can be seen that thousands of stars are shining with light, and a conspicuous red star is shining at the edge, which is where the Mycroft world is located.

But Joshua still seemed dissatisfied. He shook his head and shrunk down the huge model of the world galaxy to an insignificant size——then, he lit up an extremely bright, gigantic star at a place far away from the world galaxy. A sphere of light that cannot be matched by a collection of billions of worlds... that is the virtual model of the primordial fire, because there is no word in the world that can describe it, or anything that can imitate it. And save for that little cluster of world galaxies and the primordial fire, the multiverse is pitch black, shrouded in a dark mist.

Joshua nodded.

This is the multiverse in his mind.

Afterwards, the soldier stood in front of the model, fell into long-term contemplation, opened the door, and Rin, who was about to clean up the study, saw Joshua like this, and quietly closed the door and left, while No. 3 and Yingying also secretly watched In the future, I will not continue to disturb.

In the early morning of the second day, Joshua sighed, stopped staring at the multiverse model, turned his head and left, and continued to carry out experiments on 'restoring the beam of light' and honing his own strength. The busy and fulfilling days passed by quickly , the time soon came to March 3, 838, Starfall.

And on this day, Joshua, who was in the dust-free underground laboratory of Cold Winter Castle and was still optimizing the system for repairing the light beam, was notified by an unknown technician.

"Sir, there is a communication from the Church of the Seven Gods, please access it."

The nameless mechanic woke up the next day after coma. Knowing that the civilization he was looking forward to did not exist, and the original desperate world had been reshaped by the steel python, he sighed and gave up returning to the world of Siberia. thought.

"Things that don't make sense, even if my people rebuild their civilization, it's completely different from what I expected... Besides, this world is more interesting, isn't it?"

Wuming's words were straightforward, without any hidden thoughts: "We have already come to the new world, so we can live in the new world. People always have to move forward and look forward."

As for Wuming’s name, it’s called Wuming. This is something he decides on his own. According to the other party’s words, some people are called “shrubs”, some are called “wild boars”, and some people’s names directly mean “the son of so-and-so.” ’, then it doesn’t matter if he’s called ‘No Name’. All in all, Wuming is currently receiving teacher training as a specially hired lecturer of Soul and Puppetology at Winter Castle College, and is preparing to open a new subject of "intelligent constructs" under the Department of Magic Constructs in the future.

And before he officially took office, he would occasionally serve as Joshua's experimental assistant, helping him deal with matters related to the repair of the beam of light in the experiment.

After hearing Wuming's words, Joshua stopped working. He strode out of the laboratory and asked with a frown, "The Church of the Seven Gods? Why is the old Pope looking for me? It doesn't feel like good news. .”

But it turned out that Joshua's premonition was wrong this time.

"Joshua, unprecedented good news!"

In the communication room, on the other side of the light curtain, Joshua seldom saw Pope Igor showing such a happy expression. In his memory, this old man who had worked so hard for the people of the world of Mycroft basically always had a sad expression on his face. Rarely have I laughed from the heart and laughed out loud.

But now, the other party is smiling and stroking his white beard, even accidentally pulling one out, making the beard dissipate into holy light and dissipating: "A few days ago, the Holy Mountain battleship received An unexpected message has arrived—we have once again received a distress signal from the unified information base!"

"real?!"

This time, even Joshua couldn't help amplifying his voice: "Can you determine the location? You have already prepared this time. Even if you can't determine the coordinates, you can at least narrow down the possible range, right?"

"Indeed, we have confirmed the area where the signal is located!"

On the other side of the light curtain, the old pope's expression was quite emotional: "It's completely different from what we guessed at the beginning. The source of the signal is located in a dark void in the void maelstrom, where the stars are dim, and most of them are The dead world, so it was not the focus of the investigation at the beginning, and the possible range we selected at the beginning is too far away from this area, if we search blindly, we may not find any clues yet!"

At the beginning, Igor and Joshua both planned to give up saving the guardians in the unified database, because they were really powerless. The void is too big, but there are too few people. Without accurate signal coordinates, searching the void is a big operation with ten years as the calculation unit. In order to save some people who are actually doomed to die, it is one of the few wastes in a world. Void-level power is too emotional and completely inconsistent with the interests of civilization. Of course, absolute rationality is not what they want, but they are at a loss, and they don’t know where to start if they want to save them. Moreover, considering the difficulty of transmitting information in the void, the target may have died long ago, and there is no way to save them. .

But this time, with a rough area lock, it is not difficult to search the world. As long as the target is clear and the target is confirmed to be alive, then a rescue operation can be attempted.

"The content of the signal this time is similar to that of the previous one. They all say that the inner circulation circle has been damaged, and they are just lingering - but recently, a large number of tiny material clouds have appeared in the empty darkness where they are. , By collecting these substances, they have supported until now, and sent a second signal for help."

Eagle said so, and he passed the collected original planets to Joshua, and Joshua nodded solemnly after sensing it for a moment: "It seems that they can last for a while, and they can start to act."

"I couldn't save it at first, so I planned to give up, but now that I know the scope, it would be too much not to try."

The old pope nodded in relief. He has always been worried about the fact that he could not save the guardian of the big information base, and lamented his powerlessness, but now that things have turned around, he will of course be sincerely happy: "Indeed, after all , they are also our compatriots."

"Then next, I will inform Israel, Nostradamus. I will go to the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Site later."

After a short thought, Joshua immediately made a decision: "It's almost time for the Empire's External Exploration Department to conduct the first practical exploration... and my creation."

As he said that, the soldier turned his head, looked through the wall, and looked at the restoration light beam in the dust-free laboratory in the distance. He showed an intriguing smile: "You can also really try the effect."

The active side has always been Lisa.

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