Soul of Burning Steel

There is a connection between life and life.

Relatives, friends, opponents, enemies... The relationships between people are diverse and deep, but there is no doubt that the essence of each life is independent, and countless "connections" make these independent The islands are connected.

Of course, in general, this kind of connection usually occurs between people of the same race, such as people and people, dragons and dragons, horses and horses... but I don’t know why, there are always some strange guys who will be with many different races. Life creates a deep "connection".

Star Fall 849, January 1, 5:43 pm, North Nissi Snow Mountain, Winterhold College.

Hei opened his eyes in a daze, woke up from the bottom of the palm print lake in front of Winterhold Academy, and exhaled a sigh of breath in his body.

The hot geonuclear heat mixed with dragon flames stimulated the rich magic crystals at the bottom of the lake. When it made it emit a strange rainbow light, it also heated up half of the lake, emitting surging bubbles from bottom to top.

At this time, it was the time to end classes in Winter Fort. Many students who were walking at the foot of the mountain, relaxing, and even quietly holding hands with their favorite people saw this scene-the milky white water vapor mixed with the rainbow-like light, Rising slowly into the sky, like a huge pillar supporting the sky and the earth.

However, not many people were surprised. For reasons of familiarity, some students even laughed and ridiculed the friends beside them while they were being blown by the hot and humid wind: "Miss Hei is a bit late to get up today-this is all over for ten. A few minutes."

"Isn't it? It's really rare, haha."

As a half-gulong who stays in the north all the year round and lives in the water around the Winter Fort, Hei naturally knows how she wakes up after a nap every day, and has been equated with the get out of class bell by the students. She has never cared about this little thing. .

"It's so boring... Well, there are no offenders or criminals, why is this world so peaceful?"

He yawned and wanted to go out of the lake, but after thinking about it, Hei realized that she had nothing to do today, so after getting up halfway, she took a roll and turned into a human form. She continued to lie on the warm bottom of the lake. Squinted half his eyes and opened his mental terminal: "Look at what news is there today."

Thinking of this, a blockbuster of information appeared in front of the black eyes.

——This is the best era.

In recent decades, the glorious technology that has been recovered one after another, and the blowout of extraordinary people brought by the Great Demon Tide, today's Winterhold College not only does not need to worry about students, but even needs to open more than a dozen branch schools, so as not to have talent Gao’s genius cannot be cultivated, and it is almost completely open, and the practice materials that can be obtained without any cost not only make the old group of strong men who are stuck in the bottleneck stronger, but also give birth to countless new inheritance and materials. , Hastened the frequency of times change.

In the era of ‘rapid and peaceful development’ brought about by some powerful fighting, the Mykrov civilization took almost two generations to complete the leap from the ‘pre-industrial era’ to the ‘empty era’. This is certainly the reason for the glorious heritage, but also the superiority of the extraordinary civilization... After all, for ordinary civilians who regard teleporting magic as common sense and often see the strong entering and leaving the world, and even fighting outside the world, the so-called void , It is just a bigger sea, and other worlds are just other continents floating in the sea.

Because of this kind of gross tolerance, no matter what novel creation, weird species, or even all kinds of other civilizations, Mrs. Mike Luo can easily accept it and turn it into common sense.

And the mental terminal may be the one that integrates the fastest.

"Oh oh oh! Today's "Dispute Continent" and "Grand Arena" have been updated!"

Suddenly, the black who was browsing the mental terminal gave out a pleasant cheer. She hurriedly pulled the web page to let the latest update information appear before her eyes.

[Grand Arena Version 6.64]

——Added a streak system. In the 1VS1 battle, consecutive victories will get temporary titles, experience bonuses and cool appearances. Currently supports up to ten consecutive victories.

——The new competitive maps ‘Aether Abyss’, ‘Broken World’ and ‘Void Maelstrom’ have been added. It is not recommended for players below the Extreme Level to choose the new map.

——Single player mode has been added. From now on, players will be able to challenge ten levels of AI enemies. Every time they defeat a level of AI opponents, they will get a brand new title. The title can provide experience bonuses and purchase permissions for new jewelry boxes.

——The first Multi-Star River Civilization Invitational Tournament is about to open. The single-player and multi-player teams of the Civilization Invitational Tournament will be open for audition at the same time. You can go alone or find teammates to fight together. In the end, thirty-two teams will enter the Civilization Invitational Tournament. , Enjoy high bonuses and rich rewards.

Reminder: The standard number of people in a multiplayer group is five. Starting from the Gold level, the Invitational Tournament will be divided into three groups according to their strengths. They will be divided into three groups: ‘Golden Glory’, ‘Ultimate Soul’ and ‘Legend of Destiny’, each with its own independent invitation team and champion. You can't select players with a level higher than yours as teammates.

——The first "Silver Invitation Letter" tickets for the First Multi-Galactic Civilization Invitational Tournament are now open for purchase. You can purchase levels for your invitations, get brand new jewelry boxes, exclusive time-limited maps and other related rewards.

[Dispute Mainland Version 7.22]

—— Added a late natural disaster ‘Chaos Cthulhu’ to the game flow. Added new wandering crises, ‘darkness to cover the sky’, ‘destroying frenzy’ and ‘internal evil spirit’. From now on, ‘crazy cultists’, ‘chaos callers’ and other hidden professions will randomly appear among civilized individuals. These individuals will accelerate their spread when the stability is low and destroy your construction.

-Added the ‘Pioneer Inheritance’ system, which has a new chain of events and a chain of exploration. VIP users at the Extreme Yi level and above can choose the ‘Pioneer Start’. Currently, only ‘Founding Spirit’, ‘Glory of Radiance’ and ‘Shadow of Lonely’ are supported for the time being.

Friendly reminder, the pioneers have an extremely difficult start, and each has its own independent challenge level.

——The bee-like civilization will now randomly appear ‘mutants’. Mutants do not obey the call of the brood, but they can link to the brood. The mutants have random aptitudes, but they will definitely have ‘higher mental abilities’.

——Adjusted the weight of AI's plan and improved AI's intelligence.

caveat! Now in the dispute continent, in the ‘Abyss Level Difficulty’, all hostile civilization AIs have at least the seventh-level strong artificial intelligence. Please don’t underestimate your opponents, make perfect use of your ingenuity and find a way to break through hell.

"Uuuuu, so touched!"

There are still many updates, but just after watching the beginning of each, Hei was so moved that she was about to cry. She was rolling at the bottom of the lake, venting her joy: "So many updates are completely new games-and this multiple galaxy Civilization Invitational, it seems that as long as you buy tickets, you can participate in the audition?"

"Then I will invite Hotaru and Rin, and Miss No. 3... Oh, Miss No. 3 seems to be participating in the'Destiny Legend Group'... Then call No. 1, Lisa and Syndicate? Exactly five people. !"

He thought about it beautifully, but Hei hadn't thought about it that everyone except her might be very busy--but anyway, she was originally drowsy, she was about to be unable to suppress her blood instinct, and wanted to fall into it. She was so excited for the first time in her long sleep, Hei felt her blood burning.

"I'm a master who has won 27 consecutive victories in a random challenge at the Super Italian level. Even if I can't win the championship, wouldn't it be easy to get into the race?"

With this kind of self-confident thought, Hei opened the forum of the big arena, ready to feel the joy of other people and the bragging of the forum brothers. Compared with the boring real world, the people in the spiritual terminal forum are all different. Talent, good-sounding, she really likes it here!

However, Hei did not see what she wanted in the forum, ‘buy, buy, buy, is such a conscientious invitation letter a person? "Or "Live broadcast out of the box, roll an immortal jewelry if it is extremely rare" and other popular content.

Instead, there was an overwhelming wailing.

[Free discussion]: No, what is going on with this AI? !

[Game System]: How can high-level AI attack from start to finish? There is no breathing time, this design is simply unreasonable!

[BUG Recruitment]: I was second at the same level. I can clearly see the AI ​​making moves but I can't hide it at all. Is this a BUG?

You can also see the high praise replies under each post.

"No, why are you saying no?" "No, what's the matter with you?!"

"I think it's okay, it feels like being killed by a passerby in peacetime (small and sense)." "Hello, this update fixes the BUG that you can defeat AI."

"I got up, I was second, what can I say." "Hello, it's not a bug, dear, it's just that you are too weak."

Almost all of the content is madly complaining about the AI ​​strength of this big arena update. On the contrary, it is a huge matter of the Multi-Civilization Invitational. There are not many people talking about it. I am suspicious and confused, and black mutters, "What's the matter?" ? At the same time, I clicked on a super long sticker that was manually placed on the top.

This is a post published by a very well-known team ‘New Lab’ in the Big Arena Forum. This team usually analyzes the impact of the various maps of the big arena on the various professional races, their advantages and disadvantages, and proposes some interesting map combat methods and strategies to deal with specific strong tactics, so every time they appear, there will be many people high. Call the great god, go and leave a name.

And this time the emergence of the new AI seems to be no exception-just at a glance, he saw that there are many more familiar IDs in this post. I want to be the same as myself. When I see the other party’s post, I quickly check it out. Look, there are any strategies or other tips to learn.

But this time, Xinrui Lab did not give relevant corresponding strategies as it did in the past, but a complaint that clearly showed a sense of collapse.

[What kind of AI is this? It's all cheating, right? After testing all the maps, all of them can be perfectly adapted and a perfect start. I think this kind of creature does not exist in the multiverse. No, is it a creature? 】

"Unexpectedly... the professional strategy team was also defeated."-New captain.

"Ah, has the Xinrui Lab also collapsed."-The ID cannot be made public due to relevant laws.

"They are also very hard. How about the captain, next time we go to find them and try a joint strategy?"-I love Tentacle, replying ‘this ID must not be made public due to relevant laws’.

"I said it doesn't make sense that they can live it, I can't live it... Sure enough, everyone can't live it."-House Devil.

Thousands of pages are densely packed, all of which are complaints about related discussions. Some people even shared that they were killed by a high-level AI or a video that resisted being crushed for a while. Those that can resist for more than 20 seconds are already multi-galaxy. There are elite players in the forum. Among them, the one with the best performance record is the strange ID that has been blasted against the ninth level AI for five minutes, and he has lost a trick, "carry the stars to graze", it seems to be an extremely large body The Void-level powerhouse, even in the multi-devil forum, this level of powerhouse is extremely rare, and many players came in for the video of this powerhouse.

It can be seen that the white behemoth of the void and the vaguely ninth-level AI fought in the void for five minutes. At the beginning, it became white-hot. The chaos in the video was surging, and the avenue was wiped out. Many spectators were due to their lack of strength. , Was stunned by the endless information contained in the video, leading to direct disconnection.

"Fortunately." At the end of the video, the ID holder commented on his performance: "At least better than my last performance."

Ten levels, namely Mortal, Dark Iron, Silver, Gold, Beginning of Extreme, Extreme High, Elementary, Legendary, Legendary High, and Legendary Limit. The so-called ninth-level AI is the legendary high strength, black Although her strength is not legendary, she will not be stunned by watching Legend Gao's battle, but even she can't see the specific battle process.

"Legendary Gao who will be defeated by AI? This is too weak, I think it was made by time, not a real combatist."

The battered videos shared by the players were stunned, but Hei didn’t hold back much in his heart. Instead, he was a little eager to try: “It’s so difficult to hear them, but I feel that’s the way it is. These people are all unprepared. If you are defeated, you will concentrate at the beginning and fight with the strongest strength!"

"Maybe, I am the first dragon that can defeat an AI of the same level!"

Thinking about this, Hei went off the forum enthusiastically, and then clicked on the icon of the big arena. She smiled, and then confidently chose ‘Single Player Mode’, and then ‘Sixth Level AI’ to make relevant settings.

map! Ether Abyss! Scene destruction! allow! Random disasters! Turn it on!

The game starts now!

Three seconds later.

Hei raised her head blankly and looked around at the blisters rising from the bottom of the palm print lake, her neck still vaguely cut off the phantom pain: "What's the matter?"

Why am I being seconded?

"No! I was not focused enough just now!"

After gritting his teeth, he clicked ‘challenge again’: "I don’t believe it anymore—"

Five seconds later.

Feeling that my head was crushed, the black eyebrows that were also a little painful in my heart frowned: "It's not right, it must be something wrong... I should have activated the Sun Flame Shield from the beginning."

Click again!

Ten seconds later: "No, why can't I see him?! How did I get killed?!"

Click again!

One second: "It's not right, you can't force it to find the target, the flaw is too big!"

Click again!

Fourteen seconds: "Wow ah ah ah!!! Why can he kill me like a chicken! It's all utmost, I don't accept it!!!"

Click again!

...

"Who am I? Where am I? Why should I abuse myself?"

"How many times have I died?"

Four hours later, the bewildered black dragon spread its wings and lay on the bottom of the lake in the shape of a rice character. The tail at the bottom of the rice character swayed gently, stirring the water flow at the bottom of the lake: "Forget it, now, I can't count it."

In the course of a long battle, Hei involuntarily disarmed the human transformation and returned to a prototype battle-but even so, he could not hold on for more than one and a half minutes.

"But wait a minute, how come I feel a bit familiar with this AI combat method..."

After waking up from the hot-headed challenge, Hei thought for a while, and reacted a little bit-she seems to be no stranger to this AI combat method, but she really has a sense of familiarity in her bones!

Quickly find out your previous battle video, use the observer's perspective, slow down, observe in detail frame by frame, and then...

"Wait, this, isn't this how the master used to fight when he was in Jiyi?! Back then when we were fighting the black dragon Mandagar of Jiyi in the Blood Moon Abyss!"

"Slightly changed... But this AI is just playing me as Mandagal! I said how he killed the dragon so smoothly, it turned out to be based on the master?!"

"That's not right, wait a minute, then, can it be said that the newly added AI is all based on the master?! No wonder, this is a ball!"

At this moment, Hei turned around to read those complaining posts on the forum. He suddenly felt no contempt in his heart, but full of admiration: "Oh my God, that'going to herd with the stars on his back' can actually be the master of the legend. After five minutes of holding it in his hand, it was only a loss and no serious injury...really terrible!"

Her best record is nearly two minutes. The black dragon girl who has not experienced too much super-intensity combat is indeed very uncomfortable with this combat method. It will always expose countless flaws and be found by the AI. Hit the spike.

"But, so to speak, that tenth-level AI... can it be said that it is..."

It is not shameful to be defeated by the host’s metamorphosis AI. Hei was completely aroused, ready to strengthen her strength in related battles, and began to take a planned challenge and exercise-but she suddenly thought that even that

‘Going to graze with the stars on your back’, the challenge is only the ‘ninth level AI’, and the ‘tenth level AI’...

"Damn it!"

Beyond the distant galaxy, in the abyss of a certain world galaxy, an irritated will fluctuates in the void, and the emperor's suppressed anger and doubts echoed: "This tenth-level AI is simply Radcliffe's own end, right? !"

"Or, in such a short period of time, he has improved a step further. Only simulated AI can defeat us?"

Doubts arose and wailing endlessly. While this update of the big arena brought countless joys, it also allowed all those who had cut off contact with that person to know that the other person's condition is still very good, and there is still room to update, even He has spare time to shoot, to prove his strength to everyone.

And'strong outrageous AI','I respect you as a 3 minute expert', the words used to tease each other among arena players, have also turned into propaganda points, attracting more other civilizations and other galaxies. Life joins the magic net and the big arena.

Of course, these are the things after, now the black, after thinking that the AI ​​may be the owner of his own model, he silently exited the forum and returned to the homepage of the mental terminal.

"Master... is all this strong already?"

The black dragon girl's expression was a little lonely: "I have worked so hard, and I can't catch up with him a little bit..."

Thinking about this, she raised her head and looked at the icon of the game "Grand Arena".

Hei is not a smart and hardworking dragon. She has patience, but she rarely inspires. She has talent, but when fully activated, she will fall into the sleep of the ancient dragon. She wants to become stronger and can work tirelessly for this, but that Just walking on the edge of a swaying cliff, if you are not careful, you will be dragged down by the overly powerful bloodline force, and a dream is thousands of years.

Does she really like to play "games"? Constant fighting, virtual battles, even to pass the time is too boring, right? After all, not everyone is that soldier, even if he is bathed in blood and fighting forever, he can laugh indifferently.

But Hei can still play and keep playing. In this world where not many people can accompany her to fight to become stronger, this is the only place where she gets actual combat experience.

"Because this is what the master expects of me."

It can be seen that the icon of the big arena is the head of a slightly strange black dragon-the black dragon is roaring, and a circle of burning arena walls surrounds the dragon head, releasing gold, like the sun. Light.

"Black, I will use your image as the icon of the'big arena'."

Vaguely and can be heard, the host's voice with a smile came from the past: "How is it, I think it's pretty handsome."

"Okay, okay! The master treats me best!"

I could faintly hear the excitement of cheering at the beginning.

"That's it, it's up to you, black, you will be the guardian totem, haha."

It is rare, the master laughs happily because of the outside of the battle. And that was the first time I vowed to make up my mind, that I must not let down the master's ‘expectations’, and I must do my best to catch up with the opponent’s pace.

"Dinkling?"

Suddenly, a crisp wind bell rang, and accompanied by a flash of light, a small ball of light suddenly appeared in the lake, stuck between a pair of black dragon horns.

"Huh, Xiaoguang, why are you here?"

Hei asked in surprise—she turned into a human form, so that the light ball that was looking for a position could be stuck smoothly between the black dragon girl's horns, and she jingled with satisfaction.

Since the formation of the sanctuary world, Xiaoguang has rarely accompanied her. After all, things are very busy there. Sometimes, Xiaoguang is needed as a rare, self-conscious world will split to help the Seven Gods build something. An extremely secret control center. All in all, it is really rare to see it today.

"Dingling, Dingling, Dingding."

The ball of light screamed happily, while Hei smiled and shook his head: "Oh, the master hasn't come back so soon. Listen to him, he will be away for a long time this time...that's just his AI, not him."

"jingle?"

"Well, don't be depressed, he will come back eventually. And before we come back, we have to work hard to give him a big surprise, right?"

"Dinkling!"

...Very warm feeling.

......I feel regretful.

As the one who has been with Joshua for the longest time, he has been with him since the war horse form without wisdom until now, it is difficult to explain how he feels in his heart.

"Do I really know the master?"

She always feels that she actually doesn’t understand anything, but she also feels that she understands each other very well. The man who walked around for seven days and nights just to rush home to avenge him has now become the greatness that Duan Xinghe also respects. Existence, all this sounds ridiculous, but only those who really come along with it know it, and all this is justified.

Hei can still recall that not long ago, in the mansion of the Lord of Moldavia, several legendary powerhouses and even several deities said something when they discussed some extremely confidential matters with Miss 3.

"He... is almost the same as the sage back then."

"No, it's still a bit different from the sages. The people back then thanked the sages and respected the sages, but no one would be afraid of him, just ‘love’ from the heart."

"And Joshua, it's not the sage's ‘mutual love’, but ‘awe’."

It can be heard that the voice of the old pope and the voice of the guardian **** are not hidden, but the voice of the evaluation is very clear: "I walked with the sages of the past to witness his preaching, I can follow People’s attitude towards him, the influence of the intangible information, guessed which way they were going."

With that said, the guardian **** smoked a cigarette, and there was no smoke in it. This behavior did not make sense to the god, but that was his only memory related to interest. He calmly said: "That guy, what he wants is to restore everything to its original state. The Holy Light is born because of this. Therefore, the more severely damaged, the more willing to get close to him. The abyss is one of them. It is said, 'Shadow' is also born from this."

"But Joshua, I don’t know what he wants...'eternal battle'? No, although he is simply the incarnation of battle and the manifestation of destruction, if you say, what he pursues is only That's it. I'm afraid we were destroyed by the evil gods who battled everything. It is precisely because he is the current Joshua, so'eternal battle' is actually not what he is after."

"Fighting is due to his interest, but that is not his way-no one has ever said that a person can only do what he likes to do. He must have a more fundamental purpose hidden under the fight."

"And that is the'Tao' he chose."

Hei agrees with the judgment of the guardian god.

Hei did not agree with the judgment of the guardian god.

Because the master is neither the ‘incarnation of battle’ nor the ‘fundamental purpose’ hidden. The master is the master, Joshua Van Radcliffe, a warrior.

"Xiaoguang... Master, he actually neither expects others nor wants others to expect himself."

Lying on the bottom of the lake with Xiao Guang, looking up at the lake above the lake that has become very dim as the sun sets, Hei shining on her own, illuminating everything around her, she whispered to herself: "He regained his territory in the first place. At that time, he did not believe in the power of the territory knights or the support of the imperial military, and just moved forward alone, walking alone in the heavy snow."

"Everyone says that he has weapons, but he doesn't use them. He has mounts, but he doesn't ride... Nor can it be said that he uses them only when necessary, and only when he can only use weapons."

"The one he insisted on is one person, and it doesn't affect anyone else's battle. Even the weapon is also the mount. He doesn't want the weapon to be broken by himself and the mount to die by himself."

One-to-one, one-to-many, one-to-a-group, or even one-to-infinity, everything doesn't matter.

Is he looking forward to fighting? Rather, it is a challenge. But in the end, whether it is a challenge or a battle, it seems to be confirming something.

"The master knows his own'abnormality', and knows that other people don't necessarily like fighting, or bathing in blood and death. He knows that other people don't necessarily like to run around in the air all day long, like to travel through other worlds to save sentient beings, and like to fall into close The danger of mortal."

"So, he will not take anyone, but on the road alone, lonely forward-he does not have expectations of anyone, nor does he hope that others will change their minds because of their expectations of themselves, and they should not be on the road. It’s their way."

This kind of'gentle' that even'harm' is unwilling to impose on others, this kind of'arrogance' that is unwilling to even'responsibility' to other people, this complex mixture, how can my master use it Can you describe the light and fluttering label of'incarnation of battle'?

Raising his hand~www.novelmtl.com~ He touched Xiaoguang, and listened to the other party's ‘jingle jingle’ sound, showing a faint smile.

"So, I want to catch up with him. After all, I am Gulong. If there is no accident, it is not surprising to live forever. In this case, if the'road' has an end, I might be able to live in eternal time. At the end, I caught up with the master."

"But if it's the owner, even if this multiverse really has an end, it will be forcibly shattered and forced to walk out of the way."

Star Fall 849, January 1, 11:32 pm, North Nissi Snow Mountain, Winter Castle College, the bottom of Palm Seal Lake.

Hei and Xiaoguang look up at the twin moons above the sky across the thick lake.

"This year is the first year that the owner left the world of Mycroft and went to the Maelstrom of Creation."

This year is the first year that Joshua Van Radcliffe entered the Maelstrom of Creation.

When I left, I was approaching.