Soul of Burning Steel

Priest felt that he had fallen into a huge and unimaginable dream.

When the information of more than 6,000 years in the Acrafa hub turned into an endless flow of information, rushing in at a speed that ordinary gold powerhouses could never bear, Priest, who seemed to be in a panic, had already prepared Prepare.

In the final analysis, it was nothing more than a mental shock. As the captain of the foreign world exploration team, how could Priest not prepare countermeasures in this regard when exploring a relic of a voice with a heart? It's just that even if he had prepared in advance, he never thought that the news would come so quickly, so suddenly, and so huge.

The time enough for a civilization to be destroyed and reborn flies by in the interlacing of light and shadow. The alternating lights of light and dark are mixed with endless pictures and videos flowing like a river. Priest is alone in the torrent of historical information that can wash people into idiots. struggling to support.

"It's not even... stronger than the teacher's coercion!"

It can be seen that countless blood spots erupted inside Priest's brain in reality, a large number of capillaries were broken, and brain tissue was almost substantially damaged by mental shock, but because of the existence of the repairing light beam, no matter how serious the injury he suffered , He can fully recover in the next second.

A miraculous thing capable of bringing the dead back to life is so unreasonable.

Vaguely, Priest could see that it was gradually played backwards, from the recent time to the memory of the ancient past.

The sun above the head rises from west to east and sets in the east, dragging out an orange arc trajectory. The time is scrolled upwards in units of hundreds of years, surging like a raging river, but Priest's soul, which is far tougher than ordinary gold, can swim against the current. up, going back in time.

He saw the sunset and the moon rising, he saw the clouds disperse and the wind surged, he saw a speeding car speeding across the sky suddenly, activating the long-sleeping automatic orientation protocol of the hub, he saw hundreds of years speeding up in the environment like stagnant water Passed away, and the original thick rock shell of the hub gradually became thinner, the forest outside gradually thinned out, and the moon in the sky became smaller and farther away. Priest was even surprised to find that the Acrafa hub was hundreds of Years ago, it was not even the mountain like it is today. Its silver shell was not covered by rocks, and it still released a bright and bright light.

Until that moment... the rocks bulged like life, covering one huge hub after another on the earth, making this originally flat world more mountains.

Priest saw who sealed the hubs and turned them into majestic mountains—he saw that in this last unknown world, perhaps they could be regarded as the last batch of ancient civilizations.

Civilization is not human beings. As a collection of intelligent life, civilization is far longer than a single individual. Most of the time, it will always maintain a young and vigorous form, constantly moving forward, as bright and brilliant as the morning sun in the sky .

But can civilization really live forever and never change, can it always maintain that hopeful, vibrant form like the dawn?

The answer is of course no. Civilizations will also age and decay, and will gradually change from strong to weak, just like the sun will go out, and the morning light will eventually turn into the sunset. The environment becomes depraved and lifeless, and individuals who were once full of desire to explore will also indulge in enjoyment and waste, gnawing at the foundation of civilization like moths.

The most important thing is that in the final analysis, civilization needs people to maintain it. If even the most basic number of people cannot be satisfied, no matter how nice the words are, regression and weakness are absolutely inevitable.

Just like now, what Priest saw in the vision thousands of years ago.

In front of the Akrafa hub, under the bright glow of magic power, a small group of barely covered humans and another small group of elves stood at the foot of this silver man-made mountain, staring at the huge building in front of them with complicated eyes.

"We have already lost 80% of our inheritance memories... The decay of books and the invasion of the bloodline roots by the erosion of chaos, there is no ultimate-level inheritance in our living place."

The clothes can be regarded as having a taste of modern people, and the leader human said in a hoarse voice: "I am probably the last human being in this world——and I have forgotten how I broke through back then."

"Books will decay, and memories will be confused. Even if a stone tablet is used on a mountain, it will not be able to engrave one percent of our inheritance. We use the mother tree to store knowledge and barely maintain the existence of the collective, but this is just drinking poison to quench thirst... If one day, the mother tree If it is also eroded, then our elves will be doomed."

On the other side, a leader elf familiar to Priest, similar to Sur and the stag crown elf nodded slightly, and replied heavily: "But our survival is irrelevant—the life stored in the Acrafa hub The Seed and the 'Rebirth Plan' are things that never allow the slightest mistake!"

"Mycroft cannot be observed... Maybe our hometown has been destroyed long ago, and we may be the last glorious survivors in this galaxy. That's why."

Speaking of which, all the remaining human beings raised their heads together, and they all stared at the huge Aklafa hub in front of them, and the leader of the ultimate level said in a deep voice: "We must not continue to take shelter of Aklafa! And other space-time hubs."

The elves were silent, but the humans still murmured to themselves.

"If it weren't for the hub's position of order to delay the invasion of chaos, we might have been eroded by the remaining chaotic forces in this land long ago, but this would consume too much energy of the hub... The conversion process of 'that existence' takes thousands of years According to calculations, if the suppression module of the hub shuts down due to lack of energy in the middle of the conversion, then 'that existence' may be reactivated at any time."

"If it is resurrected, then everything is over. The sacrifice of the nine leaders, the reason we persist until now will become a joke, and the future of all races of Mycroft will sink into darkness... But if the rebirth plan succeeds,' That existence' will be converted into a perfect and flawless world like heaven... At that time, the life blood backup of the hub reserve will be continuously copied and put into this world. They are our successors, and the hub will We will shelter them, teach them, let them inherit everything from us, and become a new 'Glorious Civilization'!"

"……so what."

the elf asked in a low voice.

"We should destroy ourselves as soon as possible, and then turn off the active defense system of the hub, and only let the suppression module, detection system and information collection module work."

Humans said frankly: "Don't look at me with that kind of gaze. I am not corroded by weakness. This is the most rational idea. Now our existence is just a waste of the precious energy of the hub. We are no longer a civilization—— We are just a group of poor worms isolated at the end of the world's star river by the anomaly of time and space, our death is irrelevant, the most important thing is the 'future'!"

"Dead, let alone the future, even the present no longer exists."

The elf retorted, but after a moment of silence, he still shook his head helplessly: "... Well, I admit that you are right. But I don't think the only option is self-destruction."

Priest tried his best to remember the whole process of this discussion in his mind—but he couldn't do it. The 6,000-year historical torrent has only passed one-third of the time, even if he burst into blood with his brain , and couldn't write down more.

Time flies by again.

Afterwards, there was no longer any detailed record of the incident, but all of them were superficial fragments.

Priest saw that with the powerful magic power shaking the world, the rock formations of the continent rose up amidst the roar of thunder, sealing and covering one huge silver building after another. He saw the bright and bright lights disappearing one after another. , but this is not self-destruction, but a sacrifice made for a more distant future.

Time goes back like a dream, and the elves, who have been weakened to the point where they can only cover themselves with grass leaves, begin to appear armored and even magically equipped individuals. Not only that, but the ruins are reversed one after another, turning into solid towns like video rewinding and houses.

Priest saw that thousands of years ago, in this disgustingly peaceful world, there were still infinite dangers. One after another, towns of humans, elves, and even dwarves resisted the chaos that fell from the sky. Fighting among the primeval forests and chasing on the desolate grasslands, the clans that had not lost much inheritance at that time fought with many monsters in the sky, underground, and on the ground, purifying them into harmless fly ash.

Everything is extremely weird—as history continues to go backwards, the times become older and older, but the equipment and civilization of humans, elves, and other races are getting more and more advanced, and the monsters that appear in the sky and the earth are becoming more and more powerful—— —The gigantic core-eating worm that is as big as a mountain and can go deep into the center of the earth, the chaotic star butterfly that can travel through the void of the atmosphere, and the chaotic star butterfly that can whip up typhoons with its wings, all kinds of terrifying existences that make Priest gasp It appears like a revolving lantern.

And these monsters all died under the suppression of the void warships and the major hubs.

Until the end—the end of history, six thousand seven hundred years ago.

Time seems to freeze here.

For a moment, Priest felt like he didn't see anything.

It was pitch black all around, without the sun, without stars, without any light source, the chaotic darkness rolled in the void, like a fog that would never dissipate... At this moment, Priest's brain suddenly went blank, and he I can't remember anything, as if I didn't remember anything in the first place, and I was so ignorant in the first place.

At this moment, Priest suddenly felt very familiar.

This feeling of forgetting seems to be very familiar with the feeling that he seemed to remember something after dreaming in the past few days, but he forgot all of it.

"Something... is eroding my memory..." It was hard to gather a little bit of consciousness in this dark mist, but before Priest had time to think about what he had forgotten, his eyes suddenly widened. Dazed: "Strange, who am I?"

And just when Priest seemed to be completely swallowed by the fog in the historical data of the Acrafa hub.

In the darkness, a little silver star suddenly lit up.

And in the next moment, the silver star skyrocketed, turning into a fiery beam that pierced the sky, tearing through the darkness like a sharp sword and wiping away the fog.

At this moment, Priest's thinking immediately returned to normal, and his scattered and dazed eyes suddenly refocused, obviously recalling his own memory—but before the young warrior became afraid of the strange black mist before. Suddenly, he suddenly found that he was in the void, and behind him was a silver mixed with black, hazy, indescribable, and indescribable chaotic star.

Silver and black rays of light flickered at the same time, and the holy and terrifying stars kept releasing twisted and weird mist. It could be seen that it suddenly burst out thousands of distorted time and space, and energy arcs like tentacles lashed the void. Arc tentacles are comparable to mountains, enough to land and sink the mainland.

But nine fiery silver light beams interweave into a huge net, completely suppressing the stars, and the terrifying light arc tentacles are easily torn and cut off, turning into silver light spots and dissipating.

Priest looked at this scene in shock. This was a scene that he, a young Jin, had never seen before. Even in World No. 1, the battle between Black Mist and the teacher seemed to be nothing like this weird war. shock.

Swallowing, Priest turned his head, looked at the source of the light beam, and then stared blankly on the spot——

What he saw were nine huge void warships made of silver metal.

In fact, this kind of scene alone will not surprise Priest. Unlike the chaotic stars that he has never seen before, he has seen civilization creations that are more shocking than this void battleship, or the body of a strong man. The appearance... What really stunned Priest on the spot was the shape of the bow of one of the nine warships.

Those are three U-shaped protrusions...they are exactly the same shape as the Acrafa Hub.

"Finally got you."

In the void, there came a familiar yet unfamiliar voice from the heart, her voice was cold and severe, like a high-ranking queen. Priest can easily hear that this is the prototype of the heart voice of the Aklafa hub.

And this voice, with a tone that was almost gnashing teeth, said word by word: "Weakness evil god!"

...

In reality.

Around Priest's brain, a large stream of black air suddenly appeared--in fact, it can be described as air, which is a bit imprecise. Compared with pure fog, it is more like a mass of distorted light, weakening and dimming the spectrum. Strange power.

As soon as this power appeared, it seemed that it wanted to center on Priest's brain and spread to other places... But the movement of the strange power fell into a rather embarrassing situation from the very beginning.

Because it is surrounded by pure steel power from Joshua.

It seemed to be a little overwhelmed by the sudden appearance of the black air, the restoration light beam flickered for a while, but soon, it began to operate at full capacity, carrying out the most complete 'treatment'.

Clap——Zizizizi——! ! !

Following a series of strange sounds, the distorted strange power immediately dissipated into nothing. Even, this ferocious, violent, full of desire to devour, extremely uncontrollable and extremely dangerous steel power, even along the source of this strange power, reversed To erode the past!

boom!

The earth shook.

The five people who were still waiting for Priest to come out around the Acrafa hub suddenly felt the ground shake violently.

The rocks were cracked, the sea of ​​trees was undulating, and the originally flat soil suddenly raised countless hills. The precarious layer of rock that was originally just covering the outside of the Aklafa hub completely fell off.

"What, what's going on?!"

The knight who was about to climb up the tree to look at the surrounding situation was thrown from the treetop by the shock. He lay on the ground and said inexplicably, "Why is there a sudden earthquake here? Could it be that the captain caused some big trouble in the hub?" No?"

The others didn't speak, obviously agreeing.

But this time, it is true that everyone wrongly blamed Priest—if they were in the sky now, they would be able to see that it was not just a sudden vibration at the Acrafa hub, but the entire surface of the world began to tremble. The field fluctuates, and the super shocks stretch for thousands of miles. In those areas where there is no life mother tree and hub suppression, the surface of the earth keeps rising and retracting, as if... as if there is something wriggling in the depths of the earth like that.

At the same time, an invisible ripple, an indescribable torrent of information that can only be perceived by extreme intentions, or even legends, is moving towards Outside this closed world, the other side of the entire world galaxy spread away.

One side of the world galaxy.

The world fleet of wandering Shepherds suddenly stopped moving.

Countless void behemoths that were absorbing matter and feeding in various worlds stopped their instinctive swallowing, and stood there in a daze, motionless.

Some of these worlds are dead and lifeless worlds, some are primitive worlds with primitive life but no civilization, and one or two are life worlds with intelligent creatures, but they are not enlightened to give birth to civilization... Void behemoths are not picky or selective, they just pry open worlds at will, devouring the quality of the worlds... At the same time, they release their offspring into the worlds, leaving behind their own seeds.

It's like a beetle opening a small opening in an egg, sucking up the white, and laying its own egg in the uneaten shell.

As for whether there is life in the devoured world, whether these lives will be destroyed by their own actions, or whether they will be swallowed up by the juvenile void giants...that is not their business.

They don't care.

The eight-legged fungus doesn't care either.

In the Royal Court of the Shepherd, the King of the Sky Realm hurriedly bowed his knees in front of the twisted spiritual void again—it didn’t need to ask questions, because the fact that all the void giants stopped moving was too huge and benevolent The Great Khan will take the initiative to explain all this to these shepherds.

Sure enough, in the spiritual void, there was an incomparably obvious voice.

"Kumosinda..."

This time, the Great Khan's voice was no longer as dull, slow, and sleepy as before. Its voice became serious and serious, extremely solemn: "I sensed the fluctuations of the World Eater."

As the king who replaces the Great Khan to shepherd the flora and giant beasts, Kumoshinda has seen countless horrible void disasters. He has witnessed the collision between worlds, and witnessed the void storm sweeping half of the world's galaxy. It originally He thought he had long forgotten what it meant to be dazed, but the moment he heard the word 'World Eater', the King of the Sky Realm's mind was still blank for a moment.

"Here...there are World Eaters too?!"

Kumosinda originally wanted to say something more, but the words of the Great Khan interrupted its self-talk: "Of course - there is no pure land in the multiverse, not to mention, this is a lost galaxy."

"This is the 'Great Battlefield' where the ancient ancestral civilizations fought decisive battles with countless World Eaters... It is outside the normal multiverse, blocked by countless vacuum areas of matter that have been swallowed up, and only the distorted starlight can prove it The presence."

The Great Khan's voice was full of echoes. It seemed to be saying hundreds of completely different words at the same time. The countless echoes were intertwined and turned into a mental shock that made Kumosinda also look painful. And in the brief echoing hand, the Great Khan's slightly cold voice could be heard.

"Turn back, Kumosinda, pass on my order, the fleet turns back, let's go to the place where the wave of the World Eater came out."

In the shock of the King of the Sky, the Great Khan said: "That is a weak World Eater, a wreck that has just escaped from the seal of the ancestor civilization - we must destroy it, if it cannot be destroyed .”

Speaking of this, Kumosinda felt that there seemed to be a cold existence looking at his cap: "Even if the shepherd escapes to the end of the multiverse and lingers until the end of all things, he will never return." The possibility of hometown."

...

"I sensed chaotic fluctuations."

Joshua who just teleported to the edge of the world's galaxy said so.

"I sensed it too."

On the side, Galan Nord and Nostradamus, who was a little sluggish, both nodded, because the obviously incomparable chaotic fluctuations were coming from not far away.

Of course, this is not far, but compared to the legendary powerhouse, the distance between the world and the world, it is not surprising that ordinary void battleships take several decades to shuttle, even if it is the high-speed void battleship of Mycroft, if you want to It also takes seven or eight days to go back and forth between several worlds that are very close to each other. If the distance is slightly larger, years are needed to calculate the travel time.

On the cocoon of the silver planet, Joshua shook his head: "I'm not talking about this wave, it's the wave from my steel power... the wave from the repairing light beam."

Not to mention, even Joshua couldn't figure out in a short while whether it was the chaotic fluctuations he and the restoration beam of light sensed, or whether it was the first one.

"Joshua, this level of chaotic fluctuations is several times stronger than the Void Mother Beast we killed before... even far more!"

Because of all the effort, he cooperates with the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field to transmit Joshua's body, which is comparable to a world. Even if Nostradamus is a legendary powerhouse, he looks like he is about to collapse at this time, but even so, he Still keeping up his spirits, he reminded the soldiers: "Either they are the legendary families of the evil gods, or... a real evil god!"

However, is the evil god so weak? Nostradamus himself was actually a little puzzled, because although the chaotic fluctuations from afar were strong, they were slightly inferior to the black mist matrix. All in all, they were not as strong as everyone imagined.

On the other side, the teacher of nature frowned. She sensed the fluctuations in the distance, and then reminded in a deep voice: "It's getting stronger...don't waste time, it's recovering quickly at a perceivable speed!"

"Fortunately, I brought the main body with me this time... Interesting, this feeling is really strange."

Slightly frowning, and then stretched out, Joshua, who was involved in an accident for the first time instead of causing an accident himself, didn't say much, while the other two legendary powerhouses were preparing to send a quick notification to other legends to deal with the incident Sudden chaotic fluctuations.

But soon, Nostradamus and the natural teacher discovered that the news couldn't get out at all.

"Very weird fluctuations - this chaotic fluctuation will decay the energy wave, and even reduce the energy transition energy level of the elements. Our communication was divided into meaningless low-energy waves the moment it was transmitted."

Nostradamus's eyes flashed with a faint blue light, and he couldn't help but feel a little headache when he analyzed the phenomenon of microscopic space-time: "I can build a stable space-time bridge and send the information back directly—but it may take a long time, I haven't recovered yet..."

"Then Galannord and I will go and see the situation first."

Joshua also felt that this chaotic wave was unusual, and this was the first time he had encountered such a chaotic wave with special and abnormal effects.

Is this... what is special about the evil god? There is such a vision before it appears.

For some reason, Joshua felt as if he had forgotten something. Sensing something was wrong, the warrior who was about to control the cocoon of the planet and go to the source of chaotic fluctuations frowned suspiciously, and then nodded thoughtfully: "I see."

"The battle has begun."

...In the unknown world, the Acrafa hub...

"Ah------!!!!!! It hurts! It hurts!!!"

Waking up from the endless information shock, Priest immediately felt endless pain.

From the nerve endings to every component at the root of the soul, the endless infusion of information directly messed up Priest's brain and the nervous system of the soul shock, and the soul was on the verge of collapse—even the restoration of the beam of light has always been working normally , Restoring Priest, who felt that he was about to explode, into a complete appearance, the extreme pain will still not change in the slightest.

It can even be said that Priest, who is constantly being repaired by the repairing beam of light, keeps waking up, can't go into a coma, and endures 100% pain, can't even escape, and has to endure pain that is ten times stronger than normal people .

But thanks to this, Priest did not forget those things that must not be forgotten.

"Absolutely... tell them, tell the teacher, tell the Mycroft headquarters..."

Holding on to his rationality, Priest straightened up his left index finger and inserted it directly into his left ear. The thick vindictiveness was released neatly, and the precise destruction was located in the center of the left and right brains that perceive pain. Temporarily It shielded him from the physical pain that made his hands and feet tremble and he couldn't walk normally. In addition, Priest's whole body was swept by his own fighting spirit, and the end of the magic machine was completely necrotic, and all actions were completely controlled by fighting spirit.

Anyway, there are such things as repairing light beams, brains and nerves, and it's not that they can't be repaired if they are broken. Priest thought of it as a bachelor, and just like that, he strode up and walked towards the door of Akrafa's central control room.

"This is not a world at all...the moon in the sky is not a moon..."

"This is the sealed place, the biggest sealed place, the testing ground for sages and gods, and the most terrifying prison in the world!"

Standing on the energy stand of the automatic navigation system, Priest half-kneeled on the ground. He stared at the ground. He didn't know whether it was fear or self-control. His gaze seemed to be able to penetrate metal, and he could see the existence deep in the earth and under the crust. .

"Under our feet... a chaotic evil spirit is imprisoned!"

Calvin is serious...