Soul of Burning Steel

When Nostradamus found Joshua, the warrior was drinking with the avatar of the natural teacher in the underground dome of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice.

"Elves are a race whose bloodlines are easily changed. In the long past, our ancestors were influenced by the father of nature to become elves, and then adapted to the environment of the forest. Perhaps because of this, when the elves left the forest and went to other areas, It will always be easy to evolve a physique suitable for the local environment."

Galan Nord was wearing a dark blue petal dress at this time. Although she was holding a wine glass in her hand, there was honey water in it. She seemed to be talking to Joshua about bloodline transformation, and now she was feeling: "The forest The elves, the plain elves, the northern elves, the far sea elves... and the dark elves who just returned some time ago, each is the result of the elves' bloodline due to the rapid changes in the local environment."

"If the cause of this mutation can be found, it will be a blessing for all races." Joshua listened silently at the side, and after the teacher of nature finished speaking, he nodded in response and said, "Elves' adaptation Its ability is indeed the best in the Mycroft world, and it is no wonder that it is the first race preparing to colonize the multiverse.”

"That's all in the past. Now we can only hide in the corner of the far south." Smiling and shaking his head, Galannord turned his head, looked at Nostradamus standing aside, and then lightly Laughed: "Ah, the master is here too."

"Of course I'm coming."

Forced to smile at the teacher of nature, Nostradamus turned his head, forcibly changed his expression, and then said to Joshua with a straight face: "Earl Radcliffe, do you know that you just..."

"I solved the downtime problem of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field."

Putting down the wine glass in his hand, Joshua replied plainly: "I also have the world coordinates where the elite team is now."

"Cough--ok... let's go." Immediately, Nostradamus let out his arrogance: "I knew that although you seem to have no brains, you still do things in an orderly manner... Where are they now? ?”

Try not to care as much as possible. Naturally, the instructor covered his mouth with a chuckle and Joshua's questioning expression. The old mage walked to the table where the two were, and used magic to build a chair to sit down. Nostradamus didn't know Is it to get the topic off the topic, or is it really urgent, so he asked hastily: "Now is not the time to hesitate, who can be sure if they are still alive now! Where are the world coordinates, to save them, hurry up!"

"It's still alive... There is not much danger for the time being. Although my power of steel can't communicate, at least I can confirm that the repair beam of light has not been destroyed."

Joshua nodded, then shook his head: "The problem is, the coordinates I know are the coordinates of 1,200 years ago. Now that the world's galaxy is in turmoil, God knows if that world is still in its original position. It's a waste of time to look for it rashly. Finding a needle in a haystack.”

What's more, because of the time dilation effect, the 1,200 years in Mycroft's world may be equal to the thousands of years at the edge of the world's galaxy—a few thousand years is enough time for a group of primitive people who use stone tools to drink blood and become able to Flying out of the atmosphere, a polite and cultural person.

"Then look for it, it's better than not look for it at all."

Hearing this, Nostradamus knew what the problem was, so he just sighed: "After all, it's the return beacon I made that has a problem. If something bad happens to these little guys... I'm really upset."

Joshua understood this feeling.

Most of the legends in the Mycroft world don't match up with "good guys" in the usual sense, but without exception, everyone has a sense of responsibility. Although most of this sense of responsibility is only for one's own clan and the power one belongs to, it is enough.

"I came here mainly to ask the natural teacher, can I borrow the star map stored in the 'Seed of the World Tree'... Now, it is probably the seedling of the World Tree."

Joshua calmly explained to Nostradamus: "Most of the star maps stored in the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Field have errors, and there is a time gap of thousands of years. Although teleportation can be teleported, it is useless to find people .On the contrary, it is the star map sent by the Father of Nature some time ago. Although there are also errors, it is generally the star map of the recent period and has been corrected."

"Comparing the two star maps, we can find out the trajectory of the galaxy's movement, and then find the world coordinates we need—as long as Your Excellency the Natural Teacher is willing..."

"Is there anything to refuse, the seed of the world tree was originally brought back by you." In this regard, Galannod took a sip of honey water helplessly, shook his head and smiled: "It's just such a small matter, it's easy to do. What's more, with your relationship, Earl Radcliffe, if you are willing, I will agree to more extreme things."

Having said that, the teacher naturally smiled inexplicably, and raised the wine glass in his hand to Joshua.

"Really?" However, in the shocked expression of Nostradamus, Joshua suddenly frowned. He raised his wine glass and clinked with the natural teacher, and said with a smile: "In this case, there are three legends going to find that A group of lost little guys, they will definitely be flattered."

Galannord: "...Huh?"

Just when the three legendary powerhouses at the other end of time and space were about to set off.

On the edge of the world, among the Watcher Elf tribe, in a bright underground cave.

"This is my home!"

Accompanied by the energetic voice, which was not at all like a girl's straightforward voice, echoing in the cave, Priest followed Sur's footsteps and entered the other's house.

Although it is said to be a home, in fact, it is just a relatively large ventilation cave located around the roots of the mother tree of life.

After walking through the not-so-long corridor, Priest discovered that the cave located around the roots of the mother tree does have a lot of mild magic power, which can promote the development and growth of various creatures, and even make them gain Extraordinary affinity for the forces of nature—just like most elves.

Perhaps this is the truth of the elves' affinity with the power of nature, not because of blood inheritance, but because of the influence of living environment.

But it's pointless to think so much, because the research on the customs of otherworldly elves can be postponed a little bit. When I came here today, it was Sur who invited him to be a guest at home.

Speaking of this, I have to talk about what happened not long ago after Priest talked with the stag crown elf.

After knowing that the alien elves resisted the erosion of chaos, they used the primitive living sacrifice method of concentrating most of the erosion of chaos on a few people, killing them and eradicating them completely, Priest understood why the past After such a long time, these elves still have little improvement in technology.

Think about it.

A tribe has no worries about food and clothing, a good environment, a comfortable living place, no natural enemies around, no internal conflicts because of the spiritual network, and also because of the sharing of knowledge and experiences, so there is no curiosity about the unknown and unseen things. enough.

It sounds too good to be true, but is this really the perfect start for the development of civilization?

The answer is of course no.

An environment that is too perfect will stop civilization, especially this perfect environment is still an isolated island.

On the small islands in the far south and far seas, there are many indigenous islanders. These aborigines living in the tropics are also survivors who came out of the shelter a thousand years ago. The fruit spends the year comfortably.

But also the remnants who came out of the shelter, the civilization on the Mycroft continent has developed to the void multiverse, the islanders are still the islanders, and they still live comfortably, like monkeys, even The wheel was never invented.

And these elves in a different world not only have no motivation to develop, they don't even have internal conflicts, because their spirits are connected together, they can perceive each other's sadness and anger, and everyone is united, so that the millennium The tribe has not been divided within a period of time - until here, it is actually okay, it is not impossible to develop, but the development is a bit slow, but the most frightening thing is that the way for the elves to get rid of the alien disease is actually to use the powerhouse of the tribe Voluntary sacrifice as price.

Yes, everyone's spirits are connected, so the strong are willing to sacrifice, and the weak feel sorrow and reverence from the bottom of their hearts, but when the word 'powerful' itself means 'sacrifice', really Does anyone want to become stronger? Although everyone doesn't mind sacrifices, they will naturally not go against their natural instincts, become stronger voluntarily, and then go to die, right?

The last path for the development of elves was also blocked by themselves. In such a world, even if thousands of years pass, the society of elves will never change.

Unless, there are outsiders who break this fixed cycle.

"Priest, what are you thinking?"

Priest, who was sighing silently in his heart, suddenly felt a burst of heat coming from his ears, he quickly stepped back and turned his head, only to see Sur looking at him suspiciously: "You said you wanted to come to my house to see Look, how did you get there, but you are in a daze?"

"Ahem... thinking about something."

Priest couldn't help being a little embarrassed, and then looked around pretending to be natural.

This time, it was indeed Priest who offered to go to Sur's house to take a look. The main purpose was to confirm the daily living habits and technical level of the alien elves. The elf would not easily let an outsider like Priest into the house, but a familiar person like Sur, even if Priest didn't mention it, she would invite him to come and sit for a while.

After a few days of communication and contact, Sur was already very familiar with Priest, so facing the other party's request of "wanting to see the elf cave", the elf girl agreed without hesitation.

Taking advantage of the girl's kindness, Priest couldn't help feeling a little ashamed, but because of this, he took it more seriously.

The hall of the entire underground cave is about 150 square meters, with an average height of 340 centimeters. It is very wide and does not feel cramped at all.

There are several rooms on both sides of the hall. According to Sur's enthusiastic explanation, Priest knows that they are warehouses, clothing and equipment storage rooms, and various tools, such as fishing nets and agricultural shovel storage rooms. The rooms are also separate, and there is a magic circle to adjust the temperature and air inside, relying on the magic power of the mother tree of life to operate.

The life of the elves is more comfortable than imagined. You can see that there are some primitive tool tables and utensils in the wide hall. I think it should be Sur's father. The antler elf usually mixes potions and makes staffs In the place of the arrow, even on the right side of the hall, you can see a huge fish box, which contains many colorful and very beautiful looking fish and shells.

The fish box is made of relatively rough glass, and it should be an unrepeatable handicraft that was forcibly shaped by some strong people with their own strength.

The only strange thing is that the fish in the fish box are sickly, not only rarely move, some even have their eyes turned upside down, and their belly is turned upside down.

"Huh? Do you like fish?"

Noticing Priest's expression, Sur, who was putting the fishing net on his body into the storage room, smiled proudly: "Haha, I caught all the fish in this fish tank! Isn't it beautiful? Unfortunately, Dad doesn't like them, even if Dad made me a fish tank, he still doesn't think these fish are beautiful."

Speaking of this, Su Er stepped forward, and the elf girl bent down, put one hand on the fish tank, and said with some regret: "The color is so gorgeous, and it looks so good... But why don't daddy and the others understand?"

"The flowers are so beautiful, the deer are so lively, the trees are tall, and the grass is delicate... just this forest is so colorful and colorful, it's hard to get tired of seeing it... But after turning over a mountain, there is a brand new, The same beautiful scenery, but why does my father always say that this is a meaningless behavior?"

When he said this, Su Er's eyes were a little dim, and there was a layer of mist in his beautiful big eyes.

Priest looked into Sur's eyes. That's what most pure-blooded elves have. The golden-green eyes are like a grassland under the sun, very beautiful... For a while, Priest, whose education level was originally limited to supernatural power, couldn't find anything. Adjectives, subconsciously stared blankly for several seconds.

"wrong."

But soon, Priest realized that now is not the time to think about these things... Gathering his mind, he secretly took out a black, inconspicuous metal bead from his bosom, and then pretended not to notice, let it fall on the On the ground, and when this little bead touched the ground, it immediately stretched out many mechanical tentacles, like bugs, quickly made a hole, and penetrated into the soil.

In the distance, the four members of the elite exploration team who were patiently waiting for their captain to start to act in the cave cheered: "Success! Captain succeeded!"

"The energy stored by the micro-reconnaissance puppet can dig a distance of more than 500 meters. We are too far away from the mother tree of life, and 500 meters is not enough."

"But the residence of the elves is different. The roots of the Mother Tree of Life are the pillars of their caves. We will soon be able to collect information about the Mother Tree of another world, and then determine how serious the chaos infection is in this land! By the way, You can collect special information about the mother tree of life in another world, and you can sell elves for a large amount of exchange points!"

"It seems that the captain still hasn't forgotten his business." Wiping off his sweat, the mage touched the staff in his hand and joked: "I thought he would be so addicted to chatting with the beautiful elf girl that he would forget his mission."

"It's said to be a beautiful girl, but in fact the other party's age may be older than our grandma." The priest said objectively.

But the knight said unhappily, "What are you talking about—the age of an elf, can that be called age?"

Just when the clergyman and the knight began to argue about the topic of 'how old is an elf to be considered a girl', Sur, who was a little sad, completely recovered at this time.

"Hey, these fish are beautiful, but unfortunately they always die faster."

Patting the fish tank, Sur sighed deeply, then shook his head in dissatisfaction: "It took me a long time to catch them all, but none of them gave me face, and they would die in seven or eight days at most— —I can’t help it, although it’s so beautiful, it can only be made into braised fish, grilled fish…”

As she spoke, the elf girl swallowed, showing a 'sad' expression.

After confirming that he had completed the task, Priest breathed a sigh of relief, and then turned his attention to the fish tank, looking at the sick fish.

Just by sniffing and smelling the water, the experienced Priest immediately understood why the fish would die.

——Nonsense, sea fish are raised in fresh water, and they can live for seven or eight days, which is considered to be the tenacious vitality of fish in the high magic world!

Looking at the sea fish of various colors struggling to survive and spitting bubbles in the fish tank, Priest looked at them with sympathy in his eyes—at the same time, he also thought of his sister.

It's also shameless, one treats saplings as grass, and the other raises sea fish as freshwater fish, which is really... a little cute.

Speaking of which, before I left, did I tell Britney that what she was holding was actually a sapling instead of grass?

However, it also reveals that the Watcher tribe doesn't care about this aspect of knowledge—they seem to have never raised sea fish, and they never care about similar things. Others discuss that doubts like "why sea fish can't survive in fresh water" can only slowly become simple and have no causal relationship to "don't give face".

This sad mode of thinking is the foundation of ignorance.

"Sur, didn't you realize that sea water is salty, but the water you raise these fish in is not salty water..."

"Ah, so it is!"

Priest tried his best to explain the reason to Sur in simple words, but he underestimated the IQ of the elf girl. When he just said that the sea water is salty, Sur's expression suddenly changed, so that Priest didn't need to continue explaining about fresh water. difference from seawater.

Looking at Su Er who suddenly realized, then turned his head and touched the fish tank distressedly, apologizing to the various fish in it, Priest couldn't help but wanted to laugh, but he couldn't.

In fact, this kind of thinking is nothing more than a hurdle, even if one more person thinks about it, he can quickly figure out why. But in this elf tribe, no one else discussed with Suer about "what to do for a living". Everyone just followed the steps and worked like ants, never thinking about the reasons and truth behind everything.

"That, I'm sorry."

Suddenly, Priest saw the elf girl turn her head, Su Er touched the fish tank with one hand, and said with a hint of apology: "I originally wanted to bring you to the house to have a look, so that you can see the wonder of the mother tree... But now, I want to go to the beach as soon as possible to change the water for these fish."

"Ah, no problem."

Priest was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head with a smile. The magic of the mother tree can be seen with the help of the miniature scouting puppet. His purpose of coming here has been achieved, and no matter what he does next, it is free time. "If you want to go, I will accompany you."

Both Sur and Priest are the kind of people who do things vigorously and swiftly. Soon, the two walked out of the elf tribe with the fish tank in the evening when the sun was still shining.

Back and forth, there were many elves who had finished hunting and picking, and returned to the tribe from all directions. Sur and Priest, who came out retrograde, were very conspicuous, but except for the head elf who looked up, the others did not change their expressions. , seemed to pass by indifferently, Priest even saw Sur's father, a gold-ranked druid stag-crowned elf, pass by with a blank expression, even if his daughter was with a strange man Leaving the tribe, he didn't have the slightest curiosity.

Under the calm and natural appearance, there is a dead water like a deep well and a green pool.

The orange sun in the other world is slowly setting, and the rusty nine-wheeled behemoth moon is rising. Under the strange or eerie red light, Priest and Sur walked silently on the road leading to the sea .

Priest is holding the fish tank, while Sur is holding the tool for changing the water. This is what he requested on his own initiative. After all, for a golden warrior, there is not much difference between a mere fish tank and a piece of paper. Priest Carry it on your shoulders and try not to make any waves in the water in the tank.

Soon, the two came to the beach.

The tide was rising violently.

This is a completely different scene from the daytime—under the nine rounds of crimson blood-rust moons, the rough sea tides are churning like blood waves, and the strange fluorescence is churning in the sea water, bringing waves of magic power. Although the fishing pier was built very high, it was also submerged for a small part at this time, and the rock-cast bottom was beaten by waves, shining like sparks.

It's weird, but it's not scary, and even has a unique sense of beauty.

"Just put it here."

Sur took the lead to walk to a beach that was not completely submerged, and Priest followed closely. He placed the fish tank on the edge of the tide and waited for Sur's next move.

But at this time, the elf girl was staring blankly at the horizon, looking at the clouds and stars looming in the distance.

"You said—Priest." Sur suddenly asked, "What is on the other side of the sea?"

"...Probably another continent."

The young soldier narrowed his eyes, and said with some uncertainty: "I don't know if it's the planetary world or the continental world, it's hard to judge."

But Su Er didn't seem to care about the answer. She seemed to like the fact that someone answered her question. The elf girl sat on the beach with her hands on her knees, and said in a daze: "I like to look into the distance... the sea, the mountains, the woods ... I like them all, every time I just think about it, I get so excited that I can't contain it, and I even want to get on a small boat and float to the other side of the sea to have a look."

"If you think about it, the ancestors must also like to look out - otherwise, why is the name of the tribe called the Overlookers? What do they want to see, so they use the Overlook as their tribe name?"

Maybe it's the sky. Priest didn't answer aloud, he just raised his head subconsciously, and looked at the world barrier in the other world, which was so strong that even the Void Behemoth couldn't break it. You can't get out, you can't get in, it's a barrier that separates the inner and outer worlds.

Even the elves who went out to colonize... I am afraid they will miss their hometown.

"But father and the others, uncles, uncles, and aunts...all of them don't like to look out. Even though their name is called the Overlooker, they always look down at the earth and never want to go out."

Speaking of this, Su Er fell into a deep silence, until Priest felt something was wrong and wanted to comfort him, Su Er snorted, then stood up abruptly, almost hitting Priest With a special nose, the elf girl pointed to the sky with one hand and the ground with the other, and said loudly: "I'm going to die anyway—it's decided, I may not be able to cross the sea, but before I die, I must go to the opposite side of the sacred mountain to see Look, see what's over there!"

After finishing speaking, Sur simply lifted up the fish tank on the ground, opened it, and poured the fish and water into the sea forcefully.

"Hey——Sur, didn't you say you want to change the water?"

Seeing this, he was still immersed in the matter of 'Sur is dying'. Priest, who was in a daze, had no time to react or stop him. He just walked to Suer's side and took down the empty fish tank. He said with some regret: "You said that you spent a lot of effort to catch these beautiful fish, why did you let them all go?"

"Forget it, it's hard for me to feed them anyway."

After releasing all the fish, Su Er seemed much happier. She tidied up her messy hair due to the sea breeze, narrowed her eyes, and said with a natural smile: "After all, a fish is not a life in a tank, it is a life It belongs to the sea - it's one thing for us to catch it and eat it, it's another thing to keep it in a tank."

"After all... I don't like being locked up either, and I want to go out too. Just thinking about it like this makes me never want to raise fish again."

Hearing this, for some reason, Priest suddenly lowered his tone: "...you can go out."

He raised his head and looked at the somewhat surprised elf girl. Priest said in a deep voice, "You should go out—this is everyone's right."

"Haha, don't tell me, if you are willing to take me to the other side of the mountain to have a look, maybe I will die on the way? It's very cumbersome."

Su Er said with a hearty smile, just like a middle-aged uncle who had drunk alcohol, both his tone and attitude were completely different from his delicate and delicate appearance, but soon, the elf girl seemed hearty, but in fact It was just self-deprecating laughter, but was interrupted by Priest's serious tone.

"Yes, and not just over the hill."

Priest raised his head and looked at the pitch-black void above his head except for September. He whispered, "You will have a lot more things to see in the future—definitely more than this little bit, such a small world."

"I promise—I promise it."

I was going to write the 2nd update yesterday, but I slept for 13 hours, and I woke up the next day... 7000 words, let’s count it as the 2nd update