Soul of Burning Steel

——It’s really interesting.

That's what Joshua thought in his mind when he walked through the sloping downward passage of the pyramid and came to a huge steel hall.

A real world is so vast, and the fun of exploring in it is more exciting and exciting than in games. Exploring and discovering in this barren world is extra exciting. Joshua felt that he His heartbeat is involuntarily accelerating, just like in battle.

For him, this is the highest compliment.

With the footsteps of everyone crossing the aisle, under the dim light, the sound of low footsteps echoed in the closed corridor. It was extremely clear, and one could not help but feel a little nervous and excited. Agitated by the actions of these visitors from other worlds, they danced in the atmosphere again.

The footsteps of Joshua and others stopped due to a certain damage in the hall. On the side of this hall, the wall seemed to be cracked due to an internal explosion, revealing the scene behind the steel - countless complicated gears , pistons, steel bearings and magic circles are densely combined to form a complex structure like life. Even with Joshua's not advanced alchemy level, it can be seen that the technology contained in this pyramid is profound and far-reaching. beyond his imagination.

"At least a legendary alchemist is required to reverse analyze the technology."

After watching it carefully for a while, Joshua couldn't help but feel a little dizzy, which reminded him of the time when he was studying advanced mathematics: "It's still too weak at my level."

"Still down there."

On the side, Claire said, she seemed to be in a better mood: "The force of nature is stronger."

After observing the damage, Joshua turned his head to look at a sign hanging above the hall. There were complicated words on it, but under the system's translation, he naturally understood the meaning.

[The layer of the sky, the center of pneumatic circulation. 】

"What does it mean……"

Joshua didn't quite understand what the translation given by the system meant, and he could only attribute it to the differences in the understanding of certain things between the two races and the habit of using words: "Probably the air circulation management center? As for the sky layer , the current position I am in is probably indeed the position where the 'sky' is embossed on the outside."

"It always feels a little reckless for us to come in like this."

On the side of the damaged place, when Moria said this, he didn't mean to regret or fear at all. The old dwarf carefully looked at the structure inside the steel pyramid, and said with a smile: "However, this is more exciting. What is there ahead? What, it's completely unknown."

"It's not completely unknown, at least I can guess some."

Joshua followed with a smile. At this time, they had already crossed the hall and walked towards another downward passage. There were some doors that blocked the way, all of which were 'opened' by the old dwarf and Joshua. Walking in the direction of the natural breath given by Clare, and observing the situation inside this huge pyramid by the way.

"It feels a bit too smooth, and there is no defensive ability."

Talking to himself, Joshua swung his fist, bringing out the swelling wind, and blasted open a steel door. He frowned and closed his fist, and lowered his head in some doubts, thinking: "But we have all passed through the crystal sun. Purification is a complete order creature, maybe it is because of this reason that they did not respond?"

On the other hand, Rin tugged on his master's sleeve, motioning Joshua to look ahead.

Joshua looked up.

The passages in the pyramid are extremely wide enough to allow all kinds of huge alchemy equipment to move freely. There are obvious energy patterns on the walls along the way. From time to time, various magical lights flash across the patterns. It is obviously a magical world , but it gave Joshua a feeling of science fiction, but at this moment, the scene in front of him behind the door made him feel a sense of magic that he had not seen for a long time.

This is a huge hall with a dome. Its shape is roughly similar to the mass hall in a cathedral. Countless seats are divided into areas one after another and placed on the ground. The surrounding walls are full of exquisite murals, depicting strange There are flying vehicles, ships that can move in the starry sky, and cities that can move, and the most important thing is the white stone platform at the front of the hall.

A crystal sun statue shining with golden magic power is located on the big platform, suspended in mid-air, slowly rotating, and around it are some creature statues that look similar to humans and have wings of various colors , their appearance is slightly slender and feminine from the perspective of human aesthetics, a pair of huge wings protruding from their waists, which is the same as the corpses found outside the pyramid by Moria before, in line with Joshua's speculate.

On the dome of this hall, there is a mural representing the starry sky. The darkness is mixed with countless lights, and only the sun shines with great light, illuminating the world.

[Praise the sun, light and heat, and all life is born by its hand, may it live forever in the holy Yaohui sky, let our world surround it, time and time again, never stop. 】

The long words of praise were written under the crystal sun statue, and the strong magic power flowed to maintain the light on the crystal. Joshua could tell at a glance that it was just a statue here, and the top of the pyramid outside contained true meaning. The one of the power of the sun order is completely different.

Moria and Claire were also shocked by the exquisite and gorgeous murals and statues, but after all, they have lived for more than a hundred years and have experienced many things. Although the scenery in front of them is shocking, they cannot really forget it. His original purpose - after a few seconds, the old dwarf and the elf began to look for valuable clues.

In the hall, there are many corpses scattered all over. They all have clothes on their bodies, but if they are touched a little, they will all be scattered into ashes. Just the breeze brought by everyone walking by can destroy all these corpses into pieces. The sky is full of ashes.

"Time passes, everything is so fragile, life is like this, and equipment is no exception."

Moria shook his head, he said casually, and brushed a seat casually, not surprisingly, this exquisite seat that was not made of steel turned into ashes under the touch of the dwarves. The dwarf just sighed, shook his head, and turned his head to look at other things.

Claire frowned and observed the statue of the Karlisians suspended next to the crystal sun statue—it has to be said that in terms of appearance, the Karlisians do have similarities with the elves, and the looks of both sides are softer , The difference is that the Karlisians seem to be more slender because they have two wings, which seem to be for more convenient flying. The average height of their statues is only about 1.6 meters by visual inspection, but the wingspan exceeds two meters.

And statues are just artistic creations, which are always slightly more perfect than reality, so it is conceivable that the height of the Karlisians should be shorter than what they see.

"It really looks like the Yarongyi people... Are they really the same race? According to the time, it is very likely that the Karlisians accidentally traveled through time and space and came to our world."

Claire was still thinking, but Joshua, who had already roughly explored the hall, didn't give her time to continue to meditate. The soldier said loudly to the people behind him: "Keep going, we still have a long way to go. Walk."

What he said is indeed correct. The base of this pyramid alone is as big as a city. Although its upper space is a little smaller, it is also vast and seems to have no boundaries. It is impossible for the four of them to explore it for decades. After exploring one by one, what everyone needs most at present is to find the "nature" in Claire's mouth and get supplies. The second is to find the central part of this mobile fortress and see if they can get some information to improve them. known situation.

"However, it seems that all the people inside this fortress have died... Otherwise, there would be no one in such an important religious hall who did not pick up the corpses."

Thinking so in the soldier's mind, everyone left the hall full of religious connotations. Headed by Joshua, they continued to walk down the passage. They passed through countless rooms with various strange products on the way. After recording things one by one, they still firmly walked towards the center of the pyramid.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the downward path finally came to an end, and they came to a high platform.

In front of Joshua was a huge circular vertical crater. With his eyesight, he couldn't even see the scenery on the opposite side. He could only see the same silver-white steel wall. The flickering stream of magic power is a dull golden color, and looking down, it is a surging mist.

The fog is dissipating rapidly. The vertical giant pit is different from other halls of the pyramids. It has wind, and the wind flowing up and down blows away the fog bit by bit. Finally, the bottom of the giant pit is exposed in Joshua et al. In front of people's eyes is a city made of iron and steel, which is incomparably magnificent.

At the bottom of this vast and indescribably huge crater, there are countless high-rise buildings made of steel, which gave Joshua an inexplicable sense of familiarity—but it was not limited to this, in the city, There are countless towering steel towers, and the tops of these towers are shining with powerful magic energy, which flickers back and forth like lightning, and the golden magic power turns into jumping electric lights, filling the entire space.

And on the side of this huge city, there is a huge billboard displayed on the front, with a small sentence written on it.

【Central dogma area】

[Important areas, irrelevant personnel, please do not fly at will, stay away from here, accidental death is at your own risk. 】

After the fog cleared, Clare and Rin who were standing aside both showed puzzled expressions. They blinked, looked at the huge city at the bottom, and said to Joshua solemnly at the same time:

"Master, the magical aura I feel is in this city!"

"Joshua, the force of nature is just below."

They didn't need to say much, the soldiers themselves felt something was wrong.

"Under here... the breath is very similar to the feeling that the Azure Orb gives me!"