Soul of Burning Steel

The Dark Realm is an extremely large space. It is around the great vortex of the void, stretching at least a dozen long strips the size of the Mycroft world. Worlds No. 1 to No. There are many scattered absolute dead worlds.

In this field, all worlds are dim, and even if there is, it cannot be observed by other areas. Even the coordinates are difficult to determine, which is almost equivalent to non-existence, so it is called darkness.

But now, the External Exploration Department of the Northern Empire is using the most powerful signal to call the No. 3 world team located in this non-existent field to immediately stop exploring, stay where they are, and wait for the return transmission.

"Call the third team. According to the judgment of the official research team of the empire, you are in an extremely dangerous situation and there is a great risk to your life safety. Please stop all exploration operations immediately, start repairing the beam of light and stick to the spot, waiting for the return of the transmission beam of light. Yours All information has been recorded, please don’t worry about contributing. Repeat, please stop all exploration operations immediately, start repairing the beam of light and stick to it, please be careful.”

The correspondent of the Grand Saifa communicated to the distant place through the connection with the sacrificial field of the ten thousand worlds, relying on the power of this ancient spectacle, his expression was extremely serious, not only because this information was about the life and death of five members of an elite team, but also because now in his Behind him, there are four legendary powerhouses talking in low voices.

To be honest, his legs were paralyzed from the tension.

"What happened, why did you suddenly stop exploring?"

Behind the almost paralyzed correspondent, Nostradamus said, he just received the news from the soldiers and hurried over from the Sipanelt Plateau, and he is still not very clear about the situation. Barnier and William, who were doing the research, kindly explained: "Joshua found news about the enemy he fought against in World No. 3. He is indeed a tricky guy, so he should be more cautious."

"Yeah, when we joined forces to deal with it, we almost let it out of the siege."

Hearing this, Nostradamus squinted at Joshua: "Your former enemies? Strange, haven't they turned into ashes now? This is not in line with your character."

"It's ashes, the problem is that there are a group of such enemies, not just one."

Joshua shook his head at his friend's ridicule. Nostradamus was also aware of the existence of the Black Mist. After he roughly explained the current situation, the old mage said he knew: "You suspect that World No. 3 is the former lair of the Black Mist. , or a battlefield with evil gods? That is indeed very dangerous."

Black mist undoubtedly has a legendary level of combat power. As a microscopic cluster of magical rune creations, it has extremely strong erosion and energy-eating capabilities. In theory, it should also have wisdom beyond ordinary humans.

And the existence under the legend is basically impossible to defeat the legend, unless they have mastered the legendary technology... And the densely packed world of No. 3, even piled up into desert wreckage, proves that in this place, the black mist was once like rain Falling generally, thousands were destroyed. In the eyes of everyone, there are basically only evil gods, or even plural evil gods, who can do this kind of thing.

"I'm going to go and see for myself."

After the four legends roughly exchanged the current situation, Joshua made a decision: "Dangerous places naturally have their value. Maybe you can find some special information about the black mist and evil gods in the third world. They are all The more we know about our enemies, the better."

"Then I will monitor other worlds first, and if there is danger, I will come directly."

Nostradamus nodded slightly, and he walked to the monitoring room on the other side, while Barnier and William left at the same time.

Since the Grand Saifa is now located on the edge of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field, and the ruling will is nearby, under the contact of Joshua, soon, the power of teleportation belonging to the sacrificial field will directly light up on the soldiers. ——A black space unfolded in an instant, engulfing Joshua's figure.

At this time, the exploration team of World No. 3 is sticking to the spot according to the order, and has not carried out any exploration.

"Is there anything particularly dangerous about the information we sent back?"

At the front of the temporary position, the captain, who was looking around to see if there were any abnormalities around him, was quite depressed and puzzled. He murmured to himself in doubt: "From the tone of the correspondent, it seems that we may die at any time."

"It's also for our own good." The mage who was in charge of maintaining the shield at the side shrugged: "After all, this is a different world, and it's normal for there to be dangers that we don't notice."

"I'm just a pity, obviously there should be more discoveries..."

Immediately, the five members of the exploration team present sighed—indeed, because of the sudden emergency communication, they could only temporarily stop all follow-up exploration plans. Maybe there is some valuable information in the distance that can provide a lot of contributions? Although the captain knows that the harvest is already very rich, but for all members of the third team, this feeling is still extremely distressing: "I can't even sit in the carriage that has lost money, so I can only walk..."

Everyone's thoughts were not calm, and suddenly, beyond the endless metal desert, there was a huge roar.

Immediately, the five members of the exploration team, who were already on alert and extremely nervous, were alarmed immediately. When they heard a loud noise that was far superior to thunder, it was like the sky falling apart, and they immediately raised their heads with great vigilance, looking towards the horizon in the direction of the sound. , but what happened there left everyone stunned and at a loss——

It was an iron-red dust cloud that rose like a city wall, but reached high into the sky. Countless fine metal dust was lifted up into the sky by a majestic force, covering the sky and the sun... But this is not the reason for everyone's shock, they What shocked me was the collapsed land under the dust cloud, as if it had disappeared. The desert composed of countless metal dust seemed to be swallowed by an invisible giant mouth. Large areas disappeared on the horizon, and everyone could see it. There is no longer any land in the distance, only darkness remains.

"What should we do?! Our front can't stop natural disasters!"

The alchemist in the team was in a hurry. Although the combination of the restoration beam and the mage's protection shield was enough to withstand the attack of the ultimate level, if the whole fell into the abyss, it would definitely not be good.

"What else can I do?" After all, the exploration team is also an elite among the elites. Although they will be shocked when they encounter unexpected situations, they will recover quickly. The captain of the third team thought about it for a while, and immediately came up with a solution: "Knight, hurry up!" Click to expand the off-road vehicle, turn on the flight mode, and let's get in the car!"

"What if there are still instruments in the position?"

"Those things are not important to anyone, I don't want them!"

After the instruction, the well-trained third team all boarded the vehicle within ten seconds. With the whistling from the rotor and the magic nozzle, the off-road vehicle with the ability to fly rose to high altitude amidst the fluctuation of magic power. , the 'big avalanche' that was still appearing on the horizon had already arrived at the original camp of the third team, and everyone looked down in silence like this. Their original camp was swallowed by the huge dark gap and disappeared in the surging sand between.

If we didn't take precautions... the captain thought so in silence, and then shuddered.

"Flying form, even if the mage and the alchemist charge together, the energy can only last for two and a half hours."

The driving knight stared seriously at the various instruments in the front row of the off-road vehicle, and said in a low voice: "Our energy spar reserves are all in the camp, and now they are all gone."

"It's gone, it's gone. Ten seconds after we lifted off, the collapse has already reached us." Regarding this, the captain could only sigh: "I can only hope that the return teleportation will start sooner."

Because there are slight differences in all aspects between different worlds, when all members of the exploration team performed their mission for the first time, their strength was below the gold level, to avoid the extraordinary power conflicts that are unique to high-level extraordinary people, they follow the rules of the empire. According to the plan of the Exploration Department, all state advancements will be completed in the void, in order to achieve the most perfect adaptability in the future. However, because of this, all the people present except mages and clerics have a certain flying ability, and others do not have such strength now, and can only rely on the magical energy of flying off-road vehicles to make up for it.

"Wait, look!"

Just when everyone was still in complicated moods and rejoiced that they acted decisively, suddenly, the clergyman on the side pointed to a collapsed place and said, "There seems to be some building there?"

Immediately, everyone turned their heads and looked in the direction the clergyman was pointing. Then, they saw a large group of black buildings.

After a large-scale collapse suddenly occurred on the surface of World No. 3, causing countless metal deserts and lands to sink into the abyss, the entire ground was pitch black and misty, as if looking at the abyss from the edge of a cliff, but in such an environment During that time, all members of the third exploration team noticed that in the depths of the collapsed area, among countless dust surges, black buildings emerged from the rolling metal sand.

It can be seen that those black buildings are huge, magnificent, and magnificent, with a unique artistic beauty. Its dome alone is thousands of meters wide, and it is covered with all kinds of strange erosion scars, as if it has experienced countless attacks. But still stand upright. But the seemingly most serious injuries are actually those black surfaces, because there are extremely strong magic fluctuations released from them, it is easy to judge that these buildings have experienced continuous exposure to a huge amount of magic radiation, so the surface is only It's going to be so dark.

These black buildings were buried under the thick metal sand for thousands of years. They did not roll into the abyss with the sand and dust, but stood upright in place. The third team flew silently at high altitude, and they stared down. Looking through the surging dust and the metal cloud rising from the depths of the ground, everyone can see the rolling magma layer deep in the mantle, where huge geological changes are taking place, which is the cause of the large surface collapse of the third world.

What is going on in this world?

Doubts reverberated in everyone's hearts, and everyone thought about this question in horror. They had never witnessed the legendary power, nor experienced the natural disaster of world destruction. They couldn't even imagine what kind of disaster and war would cause it. Such a spectacle—the original world was buried under the metal desert, and the essence of the world was severely damaged, swallowing everything on the surface from time to time.

However, there is no need for them to imagine now, because with the spread of space-time fluctuations, a hand stretched out from nowhere, grabbed the flying off-road vehicle, and then threw it and all the people on it back to the other side of time and space. After finishing all this and ensuring the safety of the exploration team, Joshua walked out from the space-time channel created by the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field and looked down at everything that happened below him.

"Sure enough, it's weird."

He whispered: "The style of these buildings is very similar to the Sanctuary civilization I saw at the beginning... It should not be a civilization destroyed by the black mist, but a part of the Sanctuary civilization!"

But even knowing this is useless. Under Joshua's vision of steel power, he can directly see the interior of the building, and inside this building, all information and possible documents have long been radiated by high energy As fly ash, only the main building remained. In silence, after thinking for a moment, the soldier flew directly into the sky.

Soon, he penetrated the atmosphere and came to an extremely high place hundreds of thousands of meters above the surface. If this height was in the world of Mycroft, he would have reached the end of the world, but until now, Joshua has not felt it. Seeing any sign of being about to enter the void, it means that the limit of this world is far more than that. ,

Soon, the fighter flew directly out of the atmosphere at a speed of tens of kilometers per second—if the thin sea of ​​gas can still be called the atmosphere—and came into the dark starry sky.

Then, he confirmed his conjecture.

Joshua looked down at the dim and damaged sphere below him, nodded slightly, and finally confirmed that the so-called No. 3 world was not a continental world of a single person, but a spherical celestial world, and No. 3 world Itself is a broken planet.

This is a planet where a quarter of the star body has been shattered, and there is a huge gap in its northwest half, from which countless misty dust spills, forming a dust cloud area that is several stars long, and its surface layer Covered with a layer of iron-red metal sand, it buried all the buildings on the surface and at the same time suppressed the complete collapse of the planet.

Yes, the black mist did not destroy this world, in fact, it was protecting this world, preventing it from collapsing itself due to severe injuries, but this is meaningless, Joshua did not perceive any life from this planet His existence, even the soul has all disappeared in the millennium, and he can't perceive any information.

After confirming the surface information, Joshua turned his head and looked around the void. At this time, he was in the orbit of the planet No. 3. He could see that the sun of No. 3 World in the distance was dark red. It looked huge, but its light But it is very dim, and there are countless black areas surging on the surface... This is a red giant star that is close to extinction, and the area it once occupied is not here, but in the center of the galaxy far away.

Obviously, this world once directly encountered the evil god of abundance. This star was induced by the evil god to explode and turned into a red giant star. The black mist obviously wanted to protect this world, but it failed completely. The desert also failed to achieve its purpose, and because of this, the buildings on the broken planet were blackened by radiation, and everyone died in that spectacular explosion.

Joshua flew rapidly in the zero-gravity space. He increased his speed to two thousandths of the speed of light, and roamed the surrounding space. He did find many traces of battles—in the outer dark space, there were indeed many The drifting iron-red metal cloud was the wreckage left after the black mist was destroyed. In the darkness, Joshua also sensed some residual aura of chaos, which was the smell of evil gods, but there were no remnants of evil gods around here, only a little breath remained.

Joshua even found an asteroid about one-fifth the size of World No. 3 in the dark, but after more than ten minutes of his identification, the warrior confirmed that it was not an asteroid, but an asteroid from World No. 3. The moon, which was knocked out of its orbit by the battle of two powerful beings, drifted in the dark, and he could even see the huge impact marks on the far side of the moon.

In addition to these, Joshua also found a lot of huge rune circles and wreckages of crystal structures that were still floating in the orbit of the drifting moon. He flew forward and looked closely at the marks on these civilization creations. Joshua Ya confirmed that those are the signs of the world of Sanctuary.

【Omega Shelter belongs】

[Federal Central, Nock Research Institute]

These space stations and the wreckage of magical creations suspended in the orbit of the planet suffer from far greater stellar radiation than the buildings in the distant No. 3 world, but they are many times stronger than the buildings, so that until now, they can still be clearly seen The logo on it, and Joshua couldn't help but feel a little familiar after distinguishing the words on it... Although the name Noke is common, he seems to have heard it somewhere.

After a while, the soldier who searched from his database immediately opened his eyes wide, and he recalled where he had heard this name.

"It's what their leaders said when the sanctuary civilization was invaded by evil gods!"

Joshua turned his head and stared at the shattered planet behind him. He said in a deep voice, "Master Nok, the creator of the black mist, his team engraved the core magic circle of the black mist... If we say, this moon The building above is the research institute where the Nock team is located."

"Then this planet is undoubtedly the manufacturing plant of the black mist prototypes, where they were born!"

Just when Joshua was shocked by his discovery.

In World One, Priest and others are cautiously approaching the edge of a huge crack on the surface, preparing to closely investigate the unique heavy metal circulation system in this world.

Their investigation is in full swing, each of them performs their duties, manipulating various instruments, searching for the composition of the high-heat gas gushing from the cracks in the earth's crust, and analyzing the composition of the basic elements of this world. Just now, because the instruments show that this planet has a huge energy. When the gold reserves were accumulated, everyone hugged together excitedly, almost carried away.

"Hahaha! According to the existing information, the reserves of fine gold in the depths of this world are three hundred times that of Mycroft's world! Even more! We are developed!"

"Although mining is difficult, such things as large-scale adamantine veins are enough for legendary powerhouses to take action! We finally found valuable points (mineral veins)!"

Although Priest was also very excited, he said to reassure everyone: "Don't get too excited, our mission is to explore the world, and the points are just incidental—not to mention, our core goal, to find a large integrated information base, has not yet appeared. , if that thing is really found by us, it will be a real harvest!"

Hearing that, everyone calmed down a little bit, and now is indeed not the time to forget to cheer. It is true that the exploration is not over yet, and their missions have not been completed. The celebration and the like can be left after the return.

But when everyone started working again, none of them, including Priest, noticed.

Outside the world's atmosphere, in the endless darkness, streaks of black mist invaded the atmosphere, they merged into the metal clouds, and then turned into rain-like liquid drops, descending into the world like this, invading a world Another crack in the world...they descended silently, without any sound or vibration.

Coincidentally, there was such a black mist falling towards the surface crack where Priest's team was located. It turned into rain and fell into the abyss.

And everyone is still investigating the gas components spewing out from the depths of the earth, they are working hard, and they haven't found any clues.