Soul of Burning Steel

"Dispute Continent·Arrival", "Dispute Continent·Glory", "Dispute Continent·Dragon Calamity", "Dispute Continent·Far Border", "Dispute Continent·God Landing", "Dispute Continent·Embers".

The super-popular fantasy game of the Earth Federation, the [Dispute Continent] series has been one of the top ten in the game's popularity list since it was launched nine years ago in the whole galaxy, and has reached the top several times. With sophisticated production and perfect values , An interlocking story chain and a huge worldview. Since the third edition of [Dragon's Wrath], the Mainland of Strife has had 180 million registered users, 40 million resident players and nearly 9 million who log in at least every day A diehard player for four hours, and then as the version changed, some players left, and more players joined. This number has continued to expand to the point where it doubled before. There are millions of players at all times. Explore and adventure in this war-filled world.

In the era when Joshua used to live, the world was in harmony, and the material was extremely rich. Humans began to colonize space, and almost all low-difficulty manual labor was replaced by intelligent machines. Most humans worked four hours a day, which was superfluous. In this context, industries including games, live broadcasts, music, variety shows, religion, and novels have begun to flourish, and [Dispute Mainland] can be said to be one of the best.

In addition to the superb production, it is extremely meticulous, as if a real-world background is also part of its appeal. In the game, no plot and important items are isolated. They are interconnected and connected to each other, a nameless iron The sword may be the saber of a sword master hundreds of years ago, and it can lead to a huge task chain, and a seemingly ordinary murder case may involve the sacrificial cult behind it. The player plays a role in this world. Mid-adventure means continuous surprises. You can choose to travel to the mainland, witness the customs, and become a soldier. After fighting on the battlefield, anyone can find the way they want to play as long as they want.

Generally speaking, this kind of game with a huge worldview has hundreds of copywriters and professional designers to perfect the filling setting, and even this may not be enough. In fact, for most large-scale similar games , Every time the version is changed, when a new world plot unfolds, it means that part of the original setting is overturned, that is, what players commonly call eating books. This kind of thing is not uncommon in the industry, and even everyone is used to this. Because human abilities have their limits, it is almost impossible to weave a perfect and self-consistent worldview from start to finish. Even if they can, it will take a long time to scrutinize, and the gain is not worth the loss.

But the dispute on the mainland is not the same. The six versions of Advent, Glory, Dragon Calamity, Yuanjiang, Gods Fall, and Embers not only did not destroy the original setting, but expanded the worldview time and time again. The transitions were like moving clouds and flowing water, without any stagnation, as if it were a The real world.

In fact, if only this is the case, it is not surprising. After all, as long as it is willing to spend money and time, any first-class company can push the quality to this level, but what really shocks the industry and even the entire federation is that design All these plot settings and many vivid characters are actually just'one person'.

A person.

Is this possible? No one dares to believe this kind of thing, even no matter how arrogant people are, they dare not say that they can design and perfect all the worldview and background settings of a game like [Dispute Continent] alone, not to mention that the one who does not want to be named Mr.'s also arranged corresponding relationships, plots, and task chains for tens of thousands of characters and forces. This kind of workload alone is calculated by T. Even if a person accounts for all his life on it. It is impossible to complete, this is an'impossible task'. For this reason, the First Federal News Channel even made a special program to interview the designer who did not want to be named.

Regarding the content of the interview at the time, Joshua had forgotten a lot. After all, most of the time was boring saliva. The mysterious designer did not reveal any news about how he disputed the mainland game, but only He remembered a passage very clearly, that was a dialogue that appeared at the beginning of the interview.

"Structure, design? No... How dare I say that, not so much that I designed [Dispute Continent], it is better to say that "it" flooded into my mind -" Using avatars to receive interviews in the online world The mysterious designer of with a wry smile murmured: "Even if it is inspiration, it is too far-fetched. I feel that I am just a simple retelling. Yes, when a world is'retelled', it runs naturally, and then it happens naturally. That's it."

"He may not lie."

More than ten years later, the warrior who was not far away from his former hometown closed his eyes in the stargazing fortress in the void, and Joshua’s ears still echoed Israel’s words to him a few seconds ago. if.

The seal of the abyss, the ground under one step, the era of starfall, the refuge a thousand years ago-these news blocked by the Diamond Royal family and many legendary powerhouses have actually been caught by those interested party players in the previous life. If it weren't for the invasion of the abyss, they might have found out the truth behind it. Anyway, the two are so similar to one another that it is impossible to suppress curiosity.

As for the truth behind all of this, Joshua has long since guessed that he has lived in the current Mycroft continent for a long time, and he is completely certain that this is a real world. For the warrior, all this is not the same. To say that he has come to the world of the game, it is better to say that the information of the previous game comes from the previous Mykrov world.

There is a connection between the world and the world. The knowledge from the sages in the Azure Orb tells many mysteries about the initial fire, existence, and the world. In the multiverse, countless stars are releasing their own "ripples" toward the outside world. The endless ripples stir each other. A chaotic void turbulence was born, which blocked the connection between most of the worlds, but also made the connection between some worlds deeper.

Projection, link, twins, differentiation-and more common information transmission, for example, a sage in a certain world accidentally created magic, and in another world suddenly a certain sage also understood the mystery of magic, located in Australia Of raccoons learned to wash food with water, and other raccoon tribes on the other side of the world also learned the same skills. This connection cannot be explained by logic. It comes from a more original source, from the resonance of existence.

Qiao Xiuya usually doesn't deliberately think about these issues, because he has more important things to care about, but now, the soldier seems to understand the reason why he is here, but he continues to think, but finds the reason. And untenable. Soon, Joshua swept away the scattered thoughts in his mind. He knew that caring about what has happened in the past cannot change the present and the future. The only thing worthy of his attention now is Israel Diamond About to tell his secrets, those that have the deepest truth about this world.

"Go ahead, Your Majesty," he said, "I'm listening carefully."

"Here, in the void, you can't understand." Israel moved his gaze away from the Mycroft continent below him. He raised his head and looked at Joshua: "You seem to be at all Not surprised-but yes, it is you after all. What's more, you still have a heritage of sages."

"Don't worry. Although the Void Observatory is a fortress for the empire to observe the outside world, it is also an intermediary place that connects the Fairy Township and the place where you and I are going." Powerful energy fluctuations began to overflow from the walls of the secret meeting room in this stargazing station. The powerful energy made the emperor’s dark golden hair fly, and it also made Joshua’s clothes flutter. Glancing at each other, Israel nodded, then looked over his head: "Queen, start teleporting."

"Listen to you." A slightly cheerful female voice sounded from all around, and Joshua also felt a familiar aura-that was the aura he had felt in the Fairy Country not long ago, belonging to one of the Fairy Queens.

At the next moment, with the incomparably powerful traction force, a door glowing with dark ink and black light opened in the middle of the conference hall, and a series of dim lights that could not be stated clearly shone on Israel, making this legendary The strong figure disappeared in an instant, and Joshua allowed the same light to shine on his body, he felt an ancient aura of time and space power covering his body, as if to bring him to A distant and deep space, unlike previous teleportations, this time it seems that fighters do not need to actively enter, but only need to be passively guided.

But here, there is a problem.

"Crack—"

After completely covering Joshua’s whole body, the dim light that was about to teleport him away as if teleporting Israel suddenly flickered for a moment, and then turned into scattered light and sand in the sky and dissipated. Joshua was already closed. She closed her eyes, but opened her eyes suspiciously at this time, and the unknown fairy queen raised her voice in surprise: "Eh, eh—failed? How is it possible?! The world opened with my power. The domain magic circle can't even teleport you away?! Impossible, Israel and the old man mage not long ago can teleport together, and your energy level can't exceed the two of them!"

Shocked and muttered to herself for a long time, Joshua could even imagine that the fairy queen was spinning around in a hurry, but then, the queen seemed to have found the key, and she asked a little cautiously: "Excuse me... Isn't it Joshua? Excuse me, how heavy is it?"

"——Probably, more than 100,000 tons."

Since he fought against the demon lord Helm not long ago, Joshua was a little uncertain about how much quality he was evaporated by the opponent’s stunts, but in the recent days of rest and recovery, he has already relied on the Great Eas Mountain Range. Some of his resources have recovered, so there must be 100,000 tons. After all, his body is a solid steel body anyway.

"...You better go in by yourself..."

After a long silence, the Fairy Queen said in an inexplicable tone: "It's no wonder that the magic circle shows a giant void beast several hundred meters high... I can't send you there."

When Joshua took the initiative to touch the ink-colored space-time door and disappeared in the transmission, a faint voice came from nowhere: "It turns out to be a thinner type..."

Not knowing that he was given a weird evaluation by a certain fairy queen, when the teleportation ended, Joshua opened his eyes and looked around, he found that he had come to a strange space.

With the red light, the scorching high temperature, the rumbling and vibrating roar, and the magma rushing around in the surrounding space, it only took a few fractions of a second for Joshua to understand where he was. He raised a hand and smashed a large arc of energy that had just jumped from his side, then turned his head to look at Israel beside him: "Deep in the center of the earth?"

"Yes." Without paying attention to why Joshua would arrive later than himself, His Majesty nodded: "A special space opened around the center of the earth-to be precise, it is a node of the seal."

After a brief exchange with Israel, Joshua continued to observe the surrounding situation. There is no doubt that it is around the center of the earth. Under the action of high temperature and high pressure, the viscous lava at the bottom of the mantle is flowing at an unimaginable crazy speed, just like a river running down from a snow-capped mountain. Compressed into diamonds, fine gold will lose its shape. Except for the legendary strong, even the existence of Extremely Yi can hardly survive here, but in such a harsh environment, there is a huge spherical shape. Although there are energy arcs of thousands of meters in the blank space from time to time, it is enough to prove its magic.

Standing in the center of this space filled with crimson magma light, Israel raised his left hand. There was a quaint gray bracelet on his wrist that was shining brightly, and one after another runes containing infinite mysteries were shining. The arcs of the hand ring light up one by one. Just seeing these runes, Joshua subconsciously knows their pronunciation and meaning. The existence of this powerful ancient language is beyond logic and represents existence. It is the divine word that circulates among the gods.

All the runes light up, and Israel clenched his left fist. The gray bracelet came out of his wrist, and then automatically hovered in the air. The ancient lines on it were coming out one by one. As the space spreads in all directions, the chaotic energy arcs originally scattered throughout the space are guided by these runes and turned into straight lines. Within a few seconds, a huge three-dimensional matrix array filled the entire blank space. , The extremely powerful seal pressure spread from it, and even Qiao Xiu frowned vigilantly.

"What is this, Israel?"

"This is a legacy from the wild."

Facing the soldier's inquiry, His Majesty the Emperor lowered his head and stared at the center of the earth that was not far away, covered by countless golden-red magma. He said in a low, calm, and completely emotional tone: "Resonance begins."

As soon as the voice fell, it seemed to resonate. Suddenly there were three huge arrays lighted up in the distance. They also surround the periphery of the center of the earth, but the distance is so far, it seems that they are separated by half a continent. There are four in total. The huge sealing circle of occupies the four directions, as if it surrounds the entire center of the earth. Between them, there is a stream of magical light that spans tens of thousands of kilometers, connecting each other, and the huge runes are shining with sacred brilliance. Close the center of the earth.

"Four refuges, four seals, after three hundred years of loss, countless survivors walked out of the closed refuges. What they faced was the hometown that had been completely transformed into another world, and the impact of crazy monsters."

Watching the end of all changes, Israel said softly, not only talking to himself, but also narrating to Joshua: "After a hundred years of battle, the four great human gathering places have appeared on the earth one by one. The belief in the seven gods of the human race It also spread unconsciously. At that time, my ancestor, the ancestor of the Diamond family, who almost unified the entire northern gathering area, met the fairy queen and the **** of justice who came to the mortal world. He supported my ancestors to build the largest kingdom on the earth. But accordingly, my family has to take responsibility."

"This is the sealing circle in the heart of the earth?" Joshua naturally knew what Israel was talking about. He frowned and asked, "What is the seal? Wait..." Joe Xiuya suddenly remembered something: "Yes... the saints use the corpse of the fertile evil **** as the foundation to reshape the Mycroft continent, isn't it?!"

"It's not that, how could the saints leave behind such hidden dangers? But the difference is not far, and for humans, it is even worse."

With a light smile, Israel raised his head and looked around at this blank space that could still have a place in the heart of the earth and lasted for a thousand years without being destroyed. It seemed that he was finally able to confide this heavy secret to outsiders. Feeling relaxed: "Look, Joshua."

His Majesty the Emperor stretched out his hand and pointed to the solid earth center that was exuding high temperatures, and the countless ancient runes looming around it: "This is the seal left by the gods of the previous generation."

"It distinguishes us from the heavens and the earth, and it locks the will of the world firmly in the center of the earth. Since that day, many years ago, the star belonging to Mycroft has fallen, and it has disappeared in the multiverse. Until not long ago you lighted it up again."

Qiao Xiuya's pupils shrank slightly, and he finally understood what the doubt that had been lingering in his heart was! That is the will about Mycroft's world! He had communicated with Karlis and talked with Ilgna. Even in the extinct world of Grantia, the nascent world will prayed to him for redemption. He is the king of burning souls, the intermediary between the world and life, As long as he exists, it shouldn't be impossible to detect the steel python of Mykrov continent!

It’s not that Joshua hadn’t thought about similar issues before, but a series of things interrupted his thoughts every time. In addition, the Mycroft Continent was a dead world. The warrior felt that perhaps the will of this world might have been long ago. Dead-but Carliss proved by himself that the tenacity of the will of the world surpasses any life imagination, even its kind of steel python, which is almost exhausted for a thousand years, can be rejuvenated by the injection of new flames. Then the Mycroft world, which has received all the flames of the Grantia world, should never remain silent.

It is also very strange that all the gods of the previous generation were silent. The father of nature can survive such a difficult situation for so long. Why did the gods of the glory era disappear as the winner, leaving only the obvious new A generation of gods?

Until now, the answer has probably been revealed.

"The previous generation of gods sacrificed themselves... sealed the will of the world?" Joshua tried to digest this information, and he shook his head. This did not mean that he did not believe, but simply felt incredible: "Since it is not the evil gods corroding and corrupting, So what else would cause the gods and the clans to seal their mothers?"

The answer is simple. In fact, Israel did not need to answer, the warrior had already thought of the answer.

If it weren't for this mother to take the lead, then why bother with the gods and the tribes living on this earth to seal their will to live in the world?

"It is so, perhaps because he believes that all disasters originate from mankind, perhaps it believes that the existence of life itself is the source of destruction, or it knows that it has died, so it wants to fall into the abyss-there are a thousand reasons Tens of thousands, but there is only one result. The mother of all things wants to erase everything on the earth and restart the ecological cycle."

Israel’s tone returned to calm, and he said in an indifferent tone: “Compared to us, it loves the Black Forest and the beasts that we threw when we were still in the refuge, except for the goddess of the earth in the last era There is a line of survivors of the blood of gods, we have long been regarded as our own children...but I can't say anything, because the people can't accept it. The earth under their feet is actually their enemy."

"If one day, the seal is lifted, then we have only three choices, kill our mother, be killed by our mother, or leave this world."

"Abandoned race..." Listening to Israel's rather helpless voice, for some reason, Joshua suddenly thought of the Astral Dragon. Whether it is a five-color dragon or a metal dragon, they are powerful races from other worlds. Their world has encountered a catastrophe, so they have to escape. The soldier suddenly said: "They also know this, otherwise they It would not be so inexplicable to launch the dragon disaster and wantonly attack the stronger human elves alliance than them."

It seems that this is the case. The existence of the will of the world, the whereabouts of the gods, many ruins buried in the earth, and the origin of the starfall era, all seemingly complex mysteries actually begin with a simple thing. : The mother of creation no longer loves its former children, nothing more.

Although the lost 300-year history has not received any explanation, the remaining questions have all been answered unpleasantly.

"Yes, the five-color dragons knew this at some point. They want to compete with the abandoned us for the dominance of the world, and then try to become the leader of Mycroft's world and be completely accepted by it."

Israel showed a sarcastic expression: "Unfortunately, they failed, so they could only escape to the abyss. On the contrary, the metal dragon, which had been opposed to it, got the right to continue to multiply in this world, which is really funny."

After speaking, the emperor took a step towards the center of the earth. The high-temperature and high-pressure environment seemed completely non-existent for him, and the clothes on his body did not seem to be in the ground with thousands of degrees of high temperature, and there was no scorch mark. As he walked, Israel said, "So I dismissed those people who were battling dogs. They don't know anything. This land is not worth conquering at all."

Israel kept getting closer to the center of the earth, and Joshua walked side by side with him. Israel did not stop. There was a fire in his eyes, hotter than the surrounding magma: "This land It has cultivated our ancestors, and also cultivated you and me. This is our hometown, but in the final analysis, it is not the home of us and our descendants."

"Joshua, I look at you differently."

Turning his head abruptly, Israel and Joshua looked at each other. He bluntly said: "I am the emperor and need to manage this country. Before looking for the future, I need to be responsible for the present of my people. I am. Fettered in this land, you want to go to the starry sky, but you can't cut the bondage... But you are different. You have traveled through different worlds several times and completed your goal perfectly. You know how to find a world with life. , And also understand what the environment we humans need."

"I got you."

Qiao Xiuya squinted his eyes slightly. He couldn't help but remember the information Karlis had told him: There are many world wills that need his help to eradicate the chaotic seeds that parasitize them~www.novelmtl.com~Nothing Doubt, this is a job that needs to travel between different worlds. Apart from this, it is not difficult to find a future land for the many races of the Mycroft Continent. Thinking of this, the soldier couldn't help but shook his head. He felt as if everything was running in accordance with a certain trend, just as the mysterious designer interviewed by the government in the Earth Federation said, as if everything was running naturally, and then it was a matter of course. .

"I have to say, Israel, you are the least emperor I have ever seen." Having reached the top of the earth, feeling the scorching temperature, Joshua suddenly laughed for some reason, and he was calm. Said: "What you think and what you pursue is completely different from what I have known before. Perhaps this is the difference between reality and illusion-it really makes me admire."

"A person who is cold and timid, never knows what success or failure is." Above the center of the earth, Israel, who did not understand what Joshua was talking about, also laughed likewise. He closed his eyes, and then Open it again: "Those who dare not act will be ridiculed by the heavens."

"And I am a soldier after all, courage and victory are my creed."

"Even if the opponent is this world?"

"also the same."