Soul of Burning Steel

In the first world, on the mountainside of the unnamed Alien Mountain Range, Priest carefully and cautiously put it back into the carrying compartment behind the armor after finishing his routine report to the transmitter.

"There's no need to be so nervous, Captain."

On the side, the alchemist who had been watching Priest's report saw the serious look of the other party carefully, as if holding an egg, and couldn't help laughing easily: "Didn't we test the sturdiness of the transmitter? It won’t break if it can block the knight’s full blow.”

"Idiot, let's not say that there are many existences stronger than knights. The transmitter is the only channel we can communicate with the mother world!"

Priest expressed his heartbreak over the unscrupulous attitude of his team members: "If this thing breaks down, we won't even be able to ask for help if we encounter an accident—not to mention this, is the acid resistance potion ready?"

Speaking, Priest greeted the mage and others who were still using various means to detect the surrounding environment not far away, indicating that he had finished reporting and was ready to gather for the next step, and the alchemist was also skilled He took out five light green potions in crystal vials, and handed one to Priest.

"Fortunately, I exchanged the Heart of Hydra some time ago. Not only is it resistant to this acidic environment, but the speed of configuring potions with similar properties is also nearly doubled."

"It's better to use less of this kind of monster organ modification."

Priest nodded irrefutably. He took the light green potion, and then a pure white flame lit up in his hand—it was the light of battle energy—and the battle energy burned along the outer wall of the magic armor, filling the air The heavy metals and acid were swept away, and a pure environment was created on Priest's arm.

And the next moment, as a piece of armor bounced, a groove with a needle appeared on the arm of the magic armor. Priest inserted the crystal vial into the groove without changing his face, and he could see the light green liquid It descended at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a fluorescent green light flooded his whole body, forming a repulsive force that drove away all the acid around him.

The magic potions in the original Mycroft world were all oral, using the digestive organs to react with magic power. Not to mention the low efficiency of this absorption method, the effect is also relatively slow. With the development of technology, all members of the Foreign Exploration Department are now Injection-type medicines have been used. In addition to their fast onset of action and high utilization rate, they can also be used in environments that are so harsh that they cannot even open their mouths.

Of course, if the world you live in is too harsh, for example, the medicine will boil as soon as you take it out, or it will be frozen, even if you inject it, there is no way to recover, and you can only admit it.

And the No. 1 world where Priest and the others are now is a different world that is barely too bad, but it is by no means pleasant.

Priest watched his teammates assemble, then took the potions from the alchemist one by one, and injected himself. He raised his head, looked at the gray-white metal snow and misty acid mist floating in the sky, and shook his head in a low voice. Dao: "It's almost like being cast an acid cloud spell covering the world, and also being attacked by dozens of extreme-level magic 'Earth Flame Burst' at any time."

Because the geothermal heat is directly transmitted to the ground, the surface temperature of World No. 1 exceeds 400 degrees, and the heat of the high-strength inorganic acid mixed with heavy metal mist evaporates to the sky—but also because there is no sun, at an altitude of more than a thousand meters, The high-heat metal acid mist will cool down into snow and fall to the ground, with a temperature difference of nearly 500 degrees.

"So, it's amazing, a different world."

On the side, the mage who had injected the resistance potion said with emotion: "That's why I decided not to study in the White Tower of Guantian, but to study in the Exploration Department. The world environment in such an extreme environment, as long as I see it once, I will not lose it." !"

"You may not lose money, but the empire will definitely make money—well, get in the car."

Before the mage could continue to sigh with emotion, on a fairly flat platform on the mountainside, the knight had already deployed his equipment—a four-wheel off-road vehicle with a simple and seemingly fragile structure, but in fact the key structure was made of fine gold. He beckoned Priest, the mage and others to come over, and everyone boarded this special vehicle for aliens.

There are three rows in the car, the first row is for driving, the mage sits in the middle and props up the shield, the clergyman sits in the front row and uses the holy light to illuminate, Priest and the alchemist sit in the back row and use the detection The instrument observes the surrounding environment.

"let's go!"

After confirming that everyone was in their positions, the tall knight suddenly showed a smile of "I've wanted to do this for a long time", and he stepped hard on the magic door—suddenly, the four vertical wheels of the off-road vehicle immediately Rotating and deforming, it turned into a wheel facing down, like a rotor-like structure!

Buzz! There was a rapid but slight buzzing sound, and with the strong wind mixed with the magic jet, this 'off-road vehicle' flew up like this!

"A driver who doesn't want to drive a speeding car is not a good knight!" A knight who had never touched a horse in his life laughed, and then he drove the speeding car that had been suspended for nearly ten meters and galloped forward. If you look at it, you can see an oval light spot with a magic shield flying towards the edge of the alien mountain in a straight line.

"Don't forget our mission! The goal of this operation is to find the existence of the integrated large information base—!"

Priest, who was in the back row, was afraid that the knight would start to drive in a different world, and hurriedly reminded: "Let's go to the area with relatively peaceful geological changes to collect magic radiation. Don't drive indiscriminately!"

"Don't worry, it's just a rare practice, and I'm a little excited."

This is indeed the case. Although the knight's car was driving very fast, it was indeed following the instructions of Priest and others, driving towards an area with fewer volcanoes and ground fissures. Soon, after about an hour and a half of driving at high speed , when the speeding car's energy reserves were about to run out, a group of people who had left the Alien Mountains for nearly 200 kilometers came to a gentle metal plain.

Because there is no surrounding volcanic eruption, there is no metal cloud covering the sky here. After confirming that there is no danger in the surrounding area, everyone got out of the car skillfully, and then began to set up some relatively important exploration equipment on the plain, and began to collect everything in the surrounding area on a large scale. Magic fluctuations.

The process of collecting and screening valuable information was boring and boring, and several hours passed in a blink of an eye, but the elite team had already tempered it countless times, and they didn't feel that it was hard work. Soon, the surrounding magic radiation information was collected The mage brought a group of magic powers containing a large amount of data, and came to Priest's side frowning: "Captain, no abnormal magic radiation has been found on the surface...except for the high-energy reactions brought about by volcanic eruptions and underground lava. In addition, this world only has a little terroir element fluctuation contained in the cycle of heavy metal acid mist clouds."

"Is there any on the surface? Does it mean that there are high altitudes?"

As soon as Priest heard it, he knew that his teammates had something to say, and the mage also nodded, his brows were tightly frowned, and his expression was serious: "That's true... There is no sun or stars in this world, so there are no noisy magic fluctuations. So the anomalous radiation at high altitude is particularly obvious."

Speaking of this, without the mage continuing to speak, everyone else would understand. The five members of the elite team all looked up at the 'Dark Rainbow' that had been rising and falling in the sky for a week, and then fell silent.

"I said, could it be that the rainbow in the sky is the 'information bank' that the Earl and the others are looking for?"

The knight was straightforward, and he directly expressed everyone's suspicions. Priest could only nod his head, "It's very likely...use high-altitude detection."

Since the target is not on the surface, this is also the only way. After choosing for a while, everyone selected a flat metal ground, and then began to take out various parts from the package, and began to assemble a magical machine with a strange shape.

Although it is said to have a strange shape, if anyone on earth sees this scene, they can easily find that what Priest and others assembled is a pocket-sized rocket! However, this rocket is not manufactured using technology. Its appearance is engraved with all kinds of sacred runes of holy light. In other words, this is a rocket of holy light.

Using Holy Light as the power source for miniature high-altitude detection rockets is the best choice Joshua confirmed after many experiments. , the holy light is more durable. Compared with magic power, the holy light is more stable. In different worlds with different situations, only the holy light is more universal, but because of this, it does not have any special effects.

Ten minutes later, accompanied by a burst of dazzling holy light, the holy light rocket carrying the high-altitude detection magic weapon rose into the sky in a blazing beam of light. sent into the sky.

After the estimated time was about the same, Priest, who was in control, decisively connected the signal, and a scene with snowflakes appeared on the control light curtain on the surface, while the other four members of the exploration team stood together. Behind Priest, holding his breath, waiting for the result sent back by the detection instrument.

However, the result left them puzzled,

"What's going on, why is it still dark?"

The alchemist looked at the flickering snowflake screen in the light curtain, and the pitch-black scene behind the snowflake screen, and couldn't help but wondered: "This is already 10,000 meters above the sky—it's even rising, but it still can't touch the dark rainbow. ?”

"Yeah, and the size of that dark rainbow hasn't changed at all."

The mage couldn't believe it, he said softly: "The high-altitude detector has risen to an altitude of 20,000 meters - the gravity here is relatively low, and the propulsion speed is faster than we imagined - but the size still hasn't changed, which means."

Having said that, he couldn't help shaking his head: "It means that the distance of the target is much farther than we imagined."

Priest did not join the increasingly heated discussions among the team members on the sidelines. He just stared at the various data fed back from the light curtain—at this time, the high-altitude detection instrument had already risen to an altitude of nearly 30,000 meters. It is impossible, because according to the standard power of Mycroft, the magic weapon will be captured by gravity when it rises to an altitude of about 10,000 meters due to lack of power, and then fall back to the ground again.

But now... because the rainbow in the dark is above their heads at this time, the detection magic weapon located in the high altitude unexpectedly got rid of the gravity of the earth in an instant, entered a state of weightlessness, and then directly moved towards the rainbow shining with colorful brilliance fly!

"...I can't pull it back."

Priest entered several return commands in a row, but the distance was too far, and the external adder was completely in a state of weightlessness, so it had no effect at all. He could only helplessly watch the camera gradually become Blurred, he and his teammates looked at each other, he could only sigh, and laughed at himself: "At least the magic weapon is still working—maybe it will be able to get close to that rainbow in a few days?"

In the final analysis, this small setback is not a big deal, it is just the loss of a high-altitude detection instrument, Priest and others have long been mentally prepared, after all, this is a different world, no matter what happens, it is not unusual.

But just when the elite team and others started to prepare to set up camp on the metal plain, and prepared to conduct a more in-depth exploration and collect data on World No. A strange change appeared in the lens of the detection array.

In the lightless shadow without the sun, in the darkness in the darkness, there is a misty dream-like illusory 'black mist' passing in front of the camera... It seems to want to approach the dark rainbow in the distance, But it seemed that he was worrying about something, and he never dared to approach.

And this scene, no one noticed.

On the other side, the world of Carliss.

Joshua and Carliss, who had been watching the light curtain for a whole night, were still watching even though the entire group of silver elves fell asleep, and they were still very interested.

"A barren world is a barren world, and there is indeed no gain."

At this time, Joshua held a light curtain in his hand, which recorded all the detection results of the worlds where the eight exploration teams were located. On the top, worlds No. 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 were completely There is nothing of value in this barren world, and there is a red cross on the back of them. Only the worlds No. 1, No. 3 and No. 7 are circled by red strokes.

Joshua looked at the information of these three worlds, and pondered: "Except for the No. 1 and No. 3 worlds that may have information database clues, only the water-rich world No. 7 is worth mentioning... This place is almost entirely composed of oceans. It seems that there is no core of metal and rock at all, and it is a real super water world."

This is completely opposite to the world of Kronos, where the ocean has been completely evaporated, which is also the hometown of the dragon girl Lisa. Joshua feels that there is a lot of room for manipulation in it, and maybe he can consider opening a temporary period in the future. The portal allows the resources of the two worlds to be exchanged.

Needless to say, the metal-rich world can be used as a mineral base, but I don’t know how many valuable ore veins there are, and whether it is worth opening a permanent portal to connect. The other barren worlds are really too barren, but the ice world is worth mentioning ——After all, it can be made into an eternal air-conditioning store. The whole world has been plunged into absolute freezing cold, and such a large refrigerator is very difficult to find.

"This ocean world is very similar to the 'Abyss Realm' connected to your Mycroft world back then. It is the mother world of those Abyss Dragons."

On the side, the Steel Python looked at the information of the water world, nodded slightly and said: "However, the Abyss Realm has been determined to be destroyed, but this world is obviously recovering itself, and even gave birth to basic life, which should be due to the impact it received back then. It's not big, so it's slowed down."

"Yeah, Hei should like it very much. It's a world full of water, and even giant dragons can move freely."

Joshua didn't really care about it at first, but after thinking about it, he suddenly nodded and said, "Next time I have a chance, I can go there and play - this world is really interesting."

After all, even he cannot create all kinds of substances and raw materials out of thin air. If Joshua wants to ignite the core fusion furnace, he will naturally need a large amount of raw material elements. It is not good for the local environment if he grows old and absorbs water. Okay, but if it's a water world made entirely of seas, then getting a little water shouldn't be a problem.

The taste of those rich ore worlds should be good, and it is relatively easy to replenish the intake of metal elements... Just as Joshua was thinking about the future resource replenishment, among the eight light curtains floating in front of him, suddenly another There was a change, which immediately interrupted the soldier's train of thought, causing him to raise his head and look at the changed screen.

"It's World No. 3."

After seeing the world number, Joshua couldn't help lifting his spirits, and carefully looked at the records transmitted from the light curtain—after all, this might be the world where the big information base is located, and it must be carefully reviewed.

But what he saw was a detailed analysis report on the local special metal particles sent back by the No. 3 world exploration team.

This may be more valuable to the empire or the world of Mycroft, but it is meaningless to Joshua who only needs raw materials, but out of a basic sense of responsibility, Joshua still earnestly puts this A report was read, and then... he froze.

"What's the matter, Joshua?"

Karlis, who was observing the hapless exploration team in No. 5's icy world struggling to survive in the sub-zero temperature, noticed that Joshua suddenly stopped chatting with him. Regarding this, it turned its head to look at the soldier in doubt, and at this moment, Joshua stood up abruptly from his seat. He picked up the report with his left hand, stretched out his right hand, and in the palm of the soldier's right hand, a steel The power is surging, and he is carrying out microscopic material restoration according to the data sent back by the No. 3 world exploration team.

"Too similar!"

Joshua stared at the report in front of him, and he murmured in a low voice: "It's almost exactly the same—but we can't be sure, these data are not detailed enough!"

The substance located in the palm of Joshua's right hand has roughly condensed into shape. It is a group of loose particles like dust, but Karlis can't see what it is at all. The only thing that the steel python can be sure of is that the It is definitely not a substance that can be formed by the normal evolution of the world.

At this moment, Joshua closed his eyes, and a gray-silver light began to flow on his body surface. He began to mobilize the power of steel with all his strength, across the almost infinite distance of the multiverse, and directly contacted World No. 3 in the dark field. , to resonate with the beam of repair light in the exploration team package!

Dark Domain, the third world.

At this time, the third team was driving an off-road vehicle and running on the desert plain composed entirely of metal particles. They were collecting data on the surrounding environment, and planned to find a relatively solid flat rocky ground for camping and repairing.

However, accompanied by a flash of silver brilliance, the captain of the third team let out an exclamation—because the armor compartment behind his magic armor suddenly exploded, and a silver beam of light leaped out with himself, falling heavily on the ground. On the ground, all of a sudden, the off-road vehicle driving at full speed turned back immediately, preparing to recover the accidentally dropped exploration team supplies and its own captain.

Then everyone discovered that what was left outside was actually the restoration beam of light that they had complained about being "very heavy" before, and this restoration beam of light had already opened by itself, and it was standing directly on the metal desert.

"What's going on? How could this restoration light beam open by itself?"

The captain of the third team was supported by the mage, and he stood up from the metal gravel in a daze. He raised his head, looked at the beam of repair light, and complained inexplicably: "Could it be possible, did we get inferior products? I was shocked , I thought I was attacked by something."

"It was originally a test product, isn't it normal for something unexpected to happen?"

On the side, the mage of the third team comforted: "The goblin alchemists over there will explode every time they make new inventions. As long as you have experienced it, you will know that it is 100% accidental for experimental products, and you will get used to it sooner or later."

"Goblin made, shocking - of course I know that, but it's made in Moldavia . . . that's all."

At this time, the captain saw that other teammates had got off the car and approached the spot where the beam of light was being repaired. He couldn't help sighing and said, "This place is almost the same—I guess we are still far away from the edge of this metal desert." It’s quite a distance, let’s camp here.”

To be honest, when their third team conducted the second high-altitude reconnaissance, everyone discovered that this metal desert was probably not a remnant of some high-level magical creation after it was broken... because it is really too big— —The vast area with a radius of 20,000 square kilometers is full of such metal deserts. The reserves are so large that everyone almost thinks that the equipment is broken.

But the equipment was not broken, what they saw was real, and the metal desert is just this big. If this desert is really the remains of some magical creation, then this magical creation is at least tens of thousands of meters high, and the size of an entire empire province.

Soon, the third team started camping around the automatically activated repair light beam, and they also began to check what was wrong with the light beam... Naturally, no one could check whether it was good or bad, and they could only lament their bad luck. Encountered an accident that may not happen in one ten thousandth.

And another time in the world, Carlisle world.

Joshua activated the restoration light beam and used it to directly swallow a small piece of metal particles into the body for analysis. Joshua opened his eyes wide, and he replied in a low voice through the distance of endless void: "No, this is indeed the wreckage of a high-level magic creation— —but it wasn't broken down from some gigantic mass!"

"On the contrary, these particles are large waste particles formed by the condensation of the remains of countless smaller creations!"

When he said this, the soldier's tone was extremely convincing. He raised his right hand and stared at the foreign matter in the palm of his right hand, which was rapidly perfected according to the analysis data. It could be seen that large flakes of dust-like metal particles were incomparably intense. Soaring into the sky under the electromagnetic force, it turned into a large misty black mist, suspended beside Joshua's side, and turned into a hazy layer of gaseous armor!

"This is the 'corpse' of Black Mist!"

After finishing speaking, the soldier clenched his right fist, and immediately the layer of black mist returned to his palm, and then condensed into thousands of tiny dust particles. Its shape changed with the passage of time after Joshua accelerated , It completely turned into the appearance of those metal particles in World No. 3!

Yes, those deserts of metal particles occupying at least tens of thousands of square kilometers, the real body is the abandoned black mist wreckage!

On the other side, Karliss had no idea why the warrior was so serious, but it could also see that Joshua was thinking about some extremely important issues at this time, so the steel python coiled around, watching the opponent's attack again. Carefully read the reports sent back from the third world.

"The high-altitude observation results of more than 10,000 meters show that a vast area of ​​more than 20,000 square kilometers is covered with such a metal desert, and they can't even detect the thickness of the metal desert, which means that it is at least 800 meters deep."

At least, 20,000 square kilometers, 800 meters deep metal particles... This is a mass of hundreds of billions of tons! Even if his current body descends, it is nothing more than that, and the corpses piled up here by the black mist have at least this weight, there can only be more, absolutely no less!

Joshua's eyes were serious, he raised his head, looked at the light curtain of the third world, and murmured: "In this case, the high magic power eleven times higher than the normal world can also be explained - the black mist itself carries a large amount of magic power. Magic power, if there are a few black mist clusters that have absorbed full energy in the void vortex and crashed into this world, it is not surprising that it is dozens of times!"

"But the question is, why is the black mist damaged?" Joshua was puzzled by this problem. It was in the world of Kronos back then, but it teamed up with Gu Long, Barnir and William, and the four legends besieged it. , Only then did the cloud of black fog be wiped out neatly. Although he could fight it alone, he couldn't stop the opponent from destroying the world environment.

It is so powerful that it can even protect Alpha Sanctuary from evil gods. As the most advanced creation of the sanctuary civilization, how could the black mist fall in large swathes of this inconspicuous dark domain world? High-level magical weapons comparable to legends can be cut down like grass, how dangerous is that world?

At this moment, Joshua immediately decided to call back the exploration team in World No. 3—he did it as soon as he thought of it. He gathered his energy and created a communication magic weapon in his hand to contact Gransafa in the void. No., ready to ask the Empire officials to end the mission of the third team.

And at this moment.

In World One, the high-altitude detection camera released by the elite team is rapidly flying towards the dark high-altitude depths.

It can be seen that the rainbow surrounding the darkness is flashing light in the depths of the lightless high sky. It wraps the entity that cannot be seen clearly, and the darkness that has eliminated all light. It spins and jumps rapidly, and it releases circles of Spectacular waves that are completely invisible to the human naked eye, as if they are dancing in the void

This is, even the sky, the earth, and even the stars will tremble for it, the 'dance'.

Stomach problems have been particularly serious recently...but there are actually many updates, it's just that the two-day updates have been merged into one