Soul of Burning Steel

The initial fire gives energy to the embers of steel, and the embers of steel nurture all living things. Although this is not always the case, in the simple world view of the ‘atrium people’, they see the sun above their heads and the earth under their feet in this way.

When the red moon rises and falls in the sky for three cycles, and when the stars in the galaxy reach the correct position, a ritual calling for a great existence in the distant void begins in the atrium star.

The Supreme Archon Mir Habs stood on the highest peak of the planet, on the solemn and ancient temple platform. This was a huge temple built by the ancestors of the Atrium people 1,700 years ago. At that time, he had not left the planet and went to The ancestors of the vacuum of the universe, relying on their physical bodies and insignificant spiritual power, built a magnificent building that can be called a miracle on the peak of the 8,400-meter-high mountain of the star of the atrium, which is used to enshrine it. The place came, bringing the entire atrium civilization to the heyday of the "Void Saint".

This belief allowed the atrium people who were still divided at the time to end the struggle for power in many countries in the chaotic era. A united theocracy unified the whole world. After that, the atrium people stepped towards the stars without hesitation, following the disappearance in the void. The footsteps of the saints.

The high platform of the temple is a high hexagonal tower with a base of nearly two hundred meters in diameter. It is like a hill. The pale silver, polished and extremely smooth rock constitutes its main structure. It is the apex of the man-made world. Standing here, you can trample the clouds and mountains, the ground and the sea on your feet, juxtaposed with the stars and the sky. Mil Habs stood on it, but there was no sense of superiority above everything else in his heart, but he felt deep awe.

It is precisely because it knows that there are stars and other worlds in the sky, and because they have entered the universe and set up colonies on other planets, it understands that the temples of 1700 years ago How incredible it was for the atrium people at that time, let alone other things, the immaculate, smooth and friction coefficient of the high tower exterior wall is a miracle that cannot be explained by the current technology, and it is also the belief of all atrium people. origin of.

If it were not for the change of the Supreme Archon, or the discovery of a new wisdom and civilization in the stars, the atrium people would never use this magnificent temple, but Mir Habs is here, not only that, it also carries rumors. The treasure left by the Void Saints that year was enshrined in the Great Temple of the Capital in the Atrium, [Water Drop].

Thinking of this, Mir Habs couldn't help but look down. In front of its body, which is like a plant, composed of roots, among the hands covered with gray plant fibers, there is a beautifully decorated and gorgeous, inscribed with countless representatives. A transparent cylindrical vessel with words of praise and admiration. This vessel represents the highest technical creation and spiritual sustenance of the atrium people. In the middle of it, there is a jewel-like object the size of an ordinary person's fist in the shape of a blue water drop.

Because it is fixed by psychic energy and a strong electromagnetic stand, time is stopped in the vessel called the "Amber Pillar", where the temperature is close to absolute zero, and the matter will not move at all. There is only this way. In order to store the water droplets that the atrium people don’t know how to make until now, it is extremely smooth but indestructible. This is another powerful evidence of the faith of the saints, even the atrium people who have entered the starry sky now use the most advanced tunnels. Scanning the water droplets with a scanning microscope can only see material particles that are tightly arranged without the slightest gap.

With the treasures left by the saints, came to the most solemn and sacred high platform of the Supreme Temple. It is naturally impossible for Mir Habs, the highest consul in the atrium, to be out of personal desire. In fact, at this time, its every move is spread all over the world. The atrium people use psionic communication to broadcast and watch in real time, and millions of psionic users, that is, the priests of the temple, have also gathered at the foot of the mountain, in the outer space, the flagship of the Atrium People’s Central Star Fleet, the “Forerunner” The US' is carrying its own frigate suspended above the atmosphere, and the collective officers and soldiers, including the commander of the fleet, are also watching this scene through the observation lens of the battleship.

Because what Mir Habs will hold is the most dangerous and sacred ceremony that has not been held in a thousand years, [Void Gate Door].

A thousand years ago, the Atrium people’s exploratory fleet finally found a planet suitable for their survival in the nearby galaxy, and they were delighted that they immediately launched a colonization plan that had been prepared for many years, and immigrant ships full of Atrium people and seeds. Through the huge psionic warping time and space, I came to the beautiful green planet, and perhaps because it meant that the atrium people truly became a starry civilization. The moment the immigrant spacecraft landed on the new planet, all the atrium people felt themselves. The soul is trembling—the psychic potential has broken through the original limit, and at this moment it has blessed all the people in the atrium. After that, the psychic power that can only be understood by the priests and other high-levels has completely become the standard of all members of the atrium civilization. At best, there is a difference between different individual qualities.

However, the priests and the highest archons who were already powerful at the time—the strongest psionicists on the planet, did not benefit from this transcendental ascension, but their realm was temporarily improved at that time. Without knowing something, the psychopaths of these powerful psionics have broken through the limits of the planet and even the universe itself, and have come into contact with the existence beyond the "Void Veil". They perceive that there is still a vast and endless space outside the universe, and that space Among them, some high-level existence is whispering in their ears.

Is the saint!

Whether it’s the priest or the supreme archon, the head of the Ministry of Technology or the top of the Ministry of Defense, the powerful psionicists who can feel the whispering in the entire atrium civilization firmly believe this without any doubt. They are rewarded for progress, so they kindly let them hear His voice. These high-level atriums can even sense that that voice is telling them a secret method, which is to use powerful psychic energy to tear the void and make those high-levels. The method of descending order exists, this is the source of [Solemn Ceremony·Void Gate Door].

Taking advantage of the enthusiasm of emigrating to the new planet and the awakening of all psychic powers, the entire atrium civilization has burst out of unprecedented cohesion. Within a few months, they have built a spiritual cohesion device that can gather the power of all psionics, an imitating star ring , The huge steel creation revolving around the mountain peak, the priests and psionicists of the entire planet gathered their own psychic energy in this star ring, and then let the supreme consul lead this power to perform rituals, tear the void, and let the sacred Those' come.

The power of millions of psychics converged, forming a mighty stream of light that pierced the void of the universe. It penetrated the atmosphere in one breath and spread 400,000 kilometers toward the depths of the vacuum, even surpassing that of the stars and moons in the atrium. The orbit can be clearly seen even in the universe. This extremely powerful force has undoubtedly tore apart the void, causing a high-level existence to come.

Next... is the tragic tragedy.

The existence that descended is not the Void Saint whom the atrium people believe in, but a huge insect-shaped super life covered with crystals. At the beginning, due to the influence of psychic energy, this super life is very subject to the control of the atrium people, and because It was not the saint who had descended, but the disappointed Atrium people began to happily study the powerful void life after a while. By studying the opponent’s carapace and energy core, the Atrium people’s material science and energy dynamics have advanced by leaps and bounds. , And the combat power of this void life is even stronger than that of their interstellar fleet-it has even learned to use the psionic warp space to be able to act with the fleet, which is equivalent to directly doubling the military strength of the atrium.

It can be said that this crystal insect is too careless. When the psychic energy of the millions of people gradually dissipated and finally disappeared completely, the meek and obedient crystal insect suddenly showed violent eyes. , That is destroying everything, swallowing everything, the will to turn everything into nothingness. The powerful super life attacked the unsuspecting atrium fleet, and after the complete destruction of dozens of the most advanced frigates in the periphery, the crystal insects moved towards The colony star, which had been named the "Ting of Leaves", flew away. It slaughtered the colonists of the entire planet, and then drained their psychic energy and vitality.

As a result, life on a planet perishes.

The shocked atrium government immediately understood their fault—they understood from the abnormal reaction of the sacred water droplets. The crystal insects are not the subordinates of the saints. In fact, the two are deadly enemies among the deadly enemies. They summoned the families of the evil gods. , I naively thought that it was their own beliefs, and they almost made their own world impossible to recover. Therefore, the revengeful atrium fleet took all the powerful psionics, including the Supreme Archon, across the starry sky to hunt down the chaotic and crazy crystal insects. The two sides fought fiercely in Yezhiting, and finally ended in the victory of the atrium, but at a price. It is the fact that most of the originally beautiful and vibrant colonial stars have been turned into wasteland and become a famine place, and most of the advanced psionics and their inheritance have been lost.

Since then, the [Void Gate Door] ritual has been completely sealed, and it was not until a thousand years later that the badly hurt Atrium people regained their second and third extraterrestrial colonies. They should have been in a thousand years. What they did, but now, the atrium people have once again built the star ring around the holy mountain, once again gathered millions of powerful psionicists, they want to restart the solemn ritual again, tear the door of the void, and call outside the world The existence of coming.

Because at this time, the atrium people are already at a critical juncture of life and death.

In the starry sky calendar of 1623, when the Atrium people’s exploration fleet was exploring the unknown star field, they encountered a huge exile fleet, which was the main fleet of the "Folby" they had communicated with. Thousands of immigrant spaceships, the Forbys and the Atrium people are also psychic idealistic civilizations that believe in the existence of gods. Because the two sides are far apart and there is no border conflict, the relationship is barely good, but in the last 100 years or so , Forbi people rarely have merchants and communications, and because of the Void Gate incident, they are more exclusive. At the same time, the atrium people who are dedicated to colonization have no time to communicate with others.

Therefore, when the atrium exploratory fleet encountered the Forbi exiled fleet, they were extremely shocked. They asked the other party why they had to devote all their efforts to civilization to leave the home planet, but they only got a weird answer.

"Dark...the darkness is coming...they are catching up!"

Leaving this clueless sentence left, the Fleet of the Forbys disappeared into the distance of the universe. No one knows their fate, but they lost their home planet, which means they lost the foundation and pillars of civilization. There is no recovery in a thousand years. The vitality will always be just the dog of the mourning family.

The atrium people at the time did not understand this answer, but decades later, they did.

The creeping beasts covering the sky with plagues, poisons and calamities attacked the third colony closest to the Forby’s star field, the "Root Garden". These cosmic lives that can wander in the void carry pureness. The destruction and killing of the people came, and the people in the atrium turned their binoculars in grief. Then, they saw a super life form at least several hundred thousand meters in diameter in the distance.

It is a weird spherical behemoth like a meat ball. There are countless twisted and heterogeneous vortices on the body, like eyes, and a huge gap spans the entire body, like a grinning face, with countless tentacles all around it. Out, dragging behind, each tentacle is at least tens of thousands of meters long, and the dark green light circulates endlessly on it, releasing a huge force that is diametrically opposed to psychic energy, but can also distort time and space.

The endless herd of beasts takes this giant beast as its mother body, shuttles through the starry sky, and attacks one world after another. This swept across the stars and obscured the darkness of the stars. The huge chaotic thing like a satellite warps the space and shuttles through the galaxy. The chaos summoned by the Forbi people is just like what the Atrium people did a thousand years ago, but unlike that, the existence summoned by the Forbi people is stronger, and they did not defeat the opponent, but were embarrassed. Escaped his home galaxy.

And now, it is coming towards the home planet of the atrium people, and the colony subsidiary fleet is going to stop it, but no one has hope for their decisive charge.

"The sacred mountain is here, our civilization is here, the people in the atrium are not Verbi people, we will never abandon our home planet, we are the people of the saint, and we will never escape the battle with the evil god."

"However, the only thing that can fight against the existence outside the void is the existence outside the void."

"Even if it is the Cthulhu's family, at least we can control one or two. Before it turns back, that's our strength."

Standing on the high platform of the temple, the Supreme Archon Mir Habs recalled the conclusion reached on the psionic council, and it closed its three eyes. The eye on the forehead is a testament to the highly developed psychic awakening of the atrium people. It is holding an amber pillar and water droplets, standing in the center of the high platform, and a series of silver-blue psychic beams spilling from its body. A bright beam of light was formed, surrounded by thin dust and mist from high altitude. A few seconds later, accompanied by the release of more powerful psychic energy, within a radius of several thousand meters centered on Mill Habs, including air. Everything was repelled, and a vacuum bubble formed above the high platform of the entire temple.

In the next moment, the endless psychic energy gathered by the star ring followed the pale silver hexagonal tower and gathered on the body of Mir Habs in a vacuum, and then formed a huge halo, this silver blue The halo emptied hundreds of kilometers of clouds around the holy mountain, and then gradually condensed in the center of the halo a psychic beam of light that was constantly spreading toward the sky, the atmosphere, and even the universe!

[Void Gate Door] The ceremony officially opened, and after that, the atrium people had no way of turning back.

And at the very center of the beam of light, the energy that is so large that it feels to burst all over is concentrated on Mil Habs. It feels like it is bathed in magma, but the highest consul, the strongest psionic energy of the atrium star The person did not waver, enduring the pain of being roasted by high-energy radiation. It silently lifted the amber pillar in its hand, and then allowed this huge energy to converge on the sacred object'water droplets'.

-If it is said that the Cthulhu's family members were summoned from the void last time, it was because the people in the atrium listened to the whispers of the existence in the void.

—Then this time, I will use the holy relic as the coordinates to summon the existence beside him!

The fibrous cortex on the surface of Mil Habs’ body began to burn off layer by layer, revealing its internal body like a plant root system. Atrium people are originally a kind of psionic plant born of wisdom. The reason why they are The human form simply imitates the'sage' who descended on the top of the sacred mountain in the past to guide the atrium people to develop civilization.

"I, using the ancient contract as a proof, summon a great existence from beyond the Void Veil!"

"Bringer of flames, bearer of steel, descendants of the saints roaming in the void, please listen to the call of our people, take the solemn platform as a contract, and the holy water drop as a covenant—"

"From the other side of the void, watch me and wait, and then..."

"Come here!"

And at the end of the prayer, the psychic beam was in the center, and the amber pillar, above the water droplets that should have been completely suspended for time, suddenly lit up with a tiny light, which blended into the mighty spirit that pierced the atmosphere. In the light of energy, it spreads towards the endless void.

A corner of the multiverse, a huge and bleak world, suddenly lit up with a faint light. This light is so small that it is completely overshadowed by the brilliance of the Great Demon Tide. Whether it is an ancient existence wandering in the turbulent time and space, or the God of Chaos, who is walking forward with endless resentment, they don’t care about this little Little glory, UU reading www.uukanshu. However, there is a strange wave in this light. This wave has crossed a long distance that cannot be measured by words and numbers, and has reached a point of space-time distortion that surrounds the outer orbit of a certain world.

The huge space-time distortion point shook abruptly, making all the members of the major forces on the edge of the fairy township and still dealing with the internal information of the camp jumped in shock. They stared at the scene in shock, and then hurriedly contacted half of them. The answer that the legendary powerhouses in front of you can get is "no abnormal situation".

In the Plains of Death, Joshua still frowned, thinking about where the inexplicable call came from, but after Nostradamus called him, the warrior came back to his senses. He called Ying Ying and Rin and The ball of light, which seemed to be very comfortable, followed in the footsteps of the old mage and went to the center of the semiplane to explore.

But at this moment, in the demiplane, an ancient will that has been dormant for a long time slowly awakens from a thousand-year dormancy. Its soul was severely damaged in the war long ago, and even now it has not been completely repaired. It's even getting worse, but even so, it feels the arrival of its own mission, it is still awakening without hesitation.

"The Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Field's dominance will restart, soul self-check... 89% is damaged, 17% can be repaired, the dominance will is on the verge of destruction... the void distress signal is detected, self-repair is suspended, and it is set as the first priority goal."

"Looking for the first priority task handler: the code-named saint. Looking for failure, there is no related fluctuation. Looking for the second priority task handler: the code-named first saint. Looking for failure, the related existence fluctuation has died. Looking for the third..."

The long self-re-examination and the corresponding process cycle back and forth, and finally, this ancient will paused slightly and went through its fourteen cycles. Free reader!!