Soul of Burning Steel

Vol 7 Chapter 16: Plague Cthulhu

"There is not much time, let me first take a look at the corpses of the void-derived beasts and the body fragments of the mother beasts."

The corpse of the Void Transient Beast was brought by the survivors of the Root Garden through the emergency conveyor belt, while the body fragments of the mother beast were the special combat troops of the Root Garden, risking almost dying from the surrounding of countless generation beasts. Picked up from the space, after hearing Joshua’s request, the mother tree silently integrated the disassembled psionic engine into its body, and then raised a wooden experimental platform again, experimenting On the stage, there is a layer of psychic shield and the corpse of the void derived beast.

"Good guy...what the **** is this..."

When seeing the body of the Void Derivative Beast with his own eyes, even Joshua could not help but frown. In the memory passed by the mother tree at that time, it was not obvious because the space war was separated by tens of thousands of miles. But now the other person is right in front of him, and the contrast is very strong.

Of course, this is not to say that the Void Derived Beast is ugly, weird, and indescribable. In fact, Joshua was surprised because its appearance was too simple.

"Isn't this just a ball with a few tentacles?"

On the side, Hotaru couldn't help but spit out: "And even the tentacles don't feel slippery and sticky. It feels like a steel whip."

"It's a bit different from what I imagined..." Rin also nodded. He looked closer with some doubts, but he didn't find anything special about the opponent's body: "There are really only tentacles and the ball body. ...What exactly does it rely on to fight?"

The corpse of a derivative beast, which is nearly 20 meters long and 15 meters high, is placed on the experimental platform. According to the mother tree, it is only the weakest juvenile body, while the mature derivative beast is hundreds of meters in size, covering its entire body. It will also be covered with black-red crystalline ore like bone spurs, which can eject a stream of high-heat energy, strong enough to cut the armor of a battleship. There are many types of this larva, similar to a cylinder, with many sturdy limbs on the lower end, and a roughly structure similar to a crown. In general, it can be divided into five categories: ball, spiral symmetry, bullet shape, Icosahedron, cylinder and finally tadpole shape.

The appearance of these derivative beasts is simple, and even has a slightly smooth beauty. It is completely different from many twisted and weird chaotic monsters that Joshua has seen in the past, but he feels the rich and extremely chaotic aura from it, and for some reason. , He always has a strange sense of familiarity.

"By the way, it's a virus!"

For Joshua, who has been able to search the database, it didn’t take long for Joshua to review his own memory, and easily found the source of the familiar feeling. Is it a million times virus? !

Although only the appearance is similar, it is completely chaotic monster in essence, but in the final analysis, it is the shape of the virus!

After realizing this, Joshua walked forward without hesitation and reached out to touch the body of the orb monster, and just as the mother tree’s loud warning, he immediately noticed that he was breaking through the psychic energy set by the mother tree. The moment the shield directly touched the corpse, there were countless extremely tiny'life', or in other words, the'chaotic force' was trying to invade his body in the most direct and brutal way. These extremely tiny microscopic forces attempt to decompose the warrior's body, then assimilate and break through from the inside, and then infect Joshua into a chaotic monster like them. Everything is the same as the microscopic virus invading the cell, but it is so fast that it is not known how many times.

"Sure enough, it's the plague evil god. A familiar routine."

Throwing his hand, the flowing silver brilliance wiped out all the invisible chaotic power. The power of steel was originally the foundation of all things. When it comes to assimilation power, it is more virus than a virus. When the two meet, the warrior will win the battle. At this moment, Joshua couldn't help but recall the scene where Robzek had to kill a dozen of his own paladin students in the Plaguelands. The chaotic power in Mykrov Continent is severely suppressed, so it needs body fluid touch to infect them, and those Paladins who suddenly become crazy must have been assimilated by this chaotic virus invasion, right? Robzek was right to kill all of them decisively, because those people were no longer humans, but chaotic containers of human form.

This is the terrible beginning of the plague. Its frontal combat ability may not be as good as the famine, natural disasters, crystal insects and stone demons, but it is far superior in the strange aspect.

"...I'm overwhelmed, thinking about it, your level of existence will not be afraid of this strange corrosive force."

Seeing that Joshua did not have any abnormalities, the mother tree's voice became calm. It whispered in a tone that was almost nonchalant without the slightest emotion: "On the Root Garden Star, the survivors are almost waiting. In cold storage, around volcanoes, or in strange places such as sterile laboratories, people in other areas will transform into the prototype of the monster in front of you in just three days, and then follow the Void Mother Beast to the next A colonial star... even plants are no exception. This kind of weird power can assimilate and erode as long as it is life."

"The other party is the natural enemy of organic life. Although you are known as psychic civilization, in the final analysis, you are not beyond the exorcism, so it is normal to be restrained by the plague evil god."

After scanning the carcass of the Derivative Beast or the active Chaos Virus Aggregate that had lost the ability to act actively, Qiao Xiuya murmured: "So, the so-called Void Mother Beast is the source of the plague. Invasion is to infect one world after another... It's not the same as the insect swarm I think. But this is a good thing."

Because his body is emitting thousands of degrees or even tens of thousands of degrees of high temperature, the steel giant who uses the Pyxistar as the energy source in his body will never be able to infect him, even if it is a chaotic virus. No way, anyway, even if there is no Azure Orb, Qiao Xiuya still holds a part of the power of order.

The plague evil **** is hard to say, but its dependents are naturally restrained by him! If the other party is a virus, then he is a white blood cell.

Thinking of this, my mood suddenly improved a lot. But Joshua suddenly frowned. He remembered the source of the plague at that time, that is, the Void Mother Beast destroyed the colonial star fleet in the atrium in an instant. The endless dark green mask spread three hundred and sixty, along the way. All asteroids and battleships were completely wiped out in an instant. This trick fighter has not yet seen what principle is antimatter annihilation? Or material disintegration? In other words, is the extremely special chaotic virus eroding all the material?

In any case, it is a very difficult trick. Qiao Xiuya is not sure whether the other party can decompose his body. After all, he has not completed 100% assimilation, and his own mass is far from the white dwarf star material. It can temporarily condense during the battle, making part of the body temporarily white dwarf.

"Joshua, do you still want to see the fragments of the body of the Void Mother Beast?"

While Joshua was still thinking, he heard the mother tree's will say aside, and nodded, "Let me see."

Soon, the body of the void derived beast was immediately enveloped by the psychic light, and then submerged into the mother tree. As a super life, the mother tree can naturally understand the horror of the Chaos Virus, but it has survived for thousands of years. It is the will of the atrium psionicist. It will naturally not be afraid of this level of erosion. It can even be the same as Joshua. Reverse analysis of the other party, but the speed is very slow.

At the next moment, another high platform shrouded in a psionic shield emerged from the wooden chamber, and Joshua strode forward and looked at the debris in the beam of light.

"Isn't it inactive yet?"

What appeared in front of Joshua's eyes was a black sphere that was squirming and splitting, and spontaneously suspended in mid-air. This sphere has a diameter of five meters, and from time to time, smaller black spheres are ejected to hit the psychic barrier set by the mother tree. The impact is very strong, even if the mother tree’s energy is far above the extreme level in Mycroft. The shield also made a noticeable vibration. After the smaller sphere failed to collide, it shattered into a thick dark green fog. This thick fog has a strong corrosive and assimilation power, trying to erode the mother tree’s psychic shield bit by bit. It can be clearly seen that layers of mold are growing out of thin air on the inside of the psychic shield, and dark green pus is constantly flowing out of it.

"The body fragment of the mother beast has an extremely terrifying assimilation ability. Whether it is material, energy or spiritual power, it can swallow and strengthen itself...Before capturing it, we have been wondering why the Forbi people Will let the chaos monster that I summon grow so big, and why did it flee so embarrassedly? Now that I think about it, it is probably because of this."

The mother tree’s words flowed through Joshua’s ears, and of course he could understand what it meant. Obviously, when the so-called Forbi people opened the door of the void and summoned the plague evil **** family, the mother beast must not be that big, maybe very small, which made the group of interstellar races who have not met to relax their vigilance. . When the plague swept the world and the mother beasts showed their full strength and began to rapidly assimilate and become bigger, the Forbi people must have long lost the ability to resist...maybe, some of the mother beasts lurked in their migrating spacecraft. The body, just like the mother beast, was like a virus, deliberately letting go of the Falby people who fled in the wild, and then using them as hosts to infect other races in the universe.

Except for reconfirming that this was indeed the family of the plague god, Joshua did not find anything special. He also stretched out his hand and allowed the mother beast fragments to erode his body, but the result was unsuccessful. The mother beast’s erosive power is indeed much greater than that of the Chaos Virus, but it still can’t break the warrior’s defenses. The power of steel is too powerful to resist this erosion. It can even reverse assimilate the mother beast, just like Assimilate part of the body of the opponent into its own use like a rock, but it is too slow and too labor-intensive, otherwise Joshua wants to let the atrium people use herself as a cannonball and hit the body of the Void Mother Beast. My own'white blood cells' go to wipe out those viruses.

"All things really have mutual generation and mutual restraint. I didn't expect you to completely ignore this kind of corrosive force that is simply a natural enemy for us in the atrium... Summoning you is our luck and the sanctuary of the saint."

After seeing that Joshua could even assimilate the mother beast in turn, the voice of the mother tree in the atrium suddenly became a lot lower. From this sound, there was no luck or joy at all.

There is no doubt that even the mother tree, which is a gathering of wills, has begun to fear Joshua’s power. If it had not been able to feel the breath of a sage from the warrior, it might have long listed this guy as terrifying than the Cthulhu family. Strictly guard against the inaccessible, and even said to transfer to alien colonies as much as possible, away from the main body.

What a joke, what is the difference between a white blood cell that can swallow and assimilate infinitely and that group of chaotic viruses! Although I don't know about leukemia, the mother tree's instinct is still vigilant.

Joshua didn't care about the other side's guard. To be honest, he himself is a little afraid of his own power. This is not a joke, but the reality. If one day, after a warrior has completely lost control of the power of steel and becomes a puppet of the power of steel after a 100% call with the power of steel, then his ending will either be self-destruct. Either with the extremely small possibility of becoming a living white dwarf like leukemia, constantly devouring the world of assimilation order, even incarnation of a small black hole is not impossible.

But beware, Joshua has confidence in his control. Even if he is divine, he can suppress it, not to mention the strength of steel that he originally condensed with one hand? The warrior couldn't even think of how far he would fall before he would fall to that point.

"Okay... I almost understand what the enemy body is."

Having obtained the means to fight in the universe and understands the nature of the enemy, Joshua has completed most of his goals in the Atrium Star at this time. He turned his head and said toward the top of his head, where the mother tree's will is located: "Thank you very much. Also, can you provide me with a spacious and quiet place? I'm going to start trying to build a leap engine in my body."

"Don't worry, Mother Tree, I won't stay with you for a long time. After all, I'm just an outsider in this world."

"When the construction of the Qianyue engine is completed, it is time for me and my companions to set off."

The mother tree satisfies all Joshua's requirements.

Whether it is the most advanced leap engine of the Atrium people, the corpse of the Void Derivative Beast, or even the part of the Void Mother Beast that has been crushed and remains in the universe, as long as the warrior thinks, no matter how precious the material or the top secret technology, The mother tree will satisfy him without hesitation. At first glance, this seems like a broken pot, a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Since the atrium people can't defeat the enemy by themselves, they can simply let Joshua, who also exists outside the curtain, act recklessly, look. See what waves the other party can make in this pool of stagnant water.

"Your requests are all reasonable. I have no reason to refuse you."

But in fact, the mother tree explained his actions like this: "First try to learn the method of high-speed movement, master the initiative in combat, and then understand the enemy's army and the enemy itself. This is a very organized and normal requirement. But the body remains of the mother beast must stay in our body to suppress it. Its corrosive power is too strong for you to take it out."

"Of course, I understand the characteristics of chaotic monsters, especially this one."

Deep in the earth's crust, in the huge wooden chamber temporarily constructed in the mother tree's body, Joshua didn't respond too much to the mother tree's words, because he was now fully concentrating on analyzing the strange, extremely complex, semi-crystalline, semi-plant creation in front of him.

The huge wooden chamber is 120 meters in length, width and height. The six walls are all dark brown and tough biological substances deliberately made by the mother tree. Such a huge space, let alone a separate part, can fit even a smaller unmanned battleship here, but at this time, it is occupied by a blue spherical behemoth. Joshua was floating in mid-air now, and he used the power of steel in the air to peel off the outer layer of the huge sphere little by little.

Undoubtedly, this huge blue sphere is an important technology for the atrium people to rely on for transportation, the'psychic transition engine'. It is precisely because of the research of this technology that the atrium civilization of the year can span a light-year calculation. Distance to colonize other galaxies. Now, soldiers are using their own methods to understand the meaning behind this technology.

Using the power of steel as his arm, Joshua carefully peeled off the exquisite semi-biological engine shell, and tried not to damage its internal energy circuit and psychic structure, but even he had already obtained the mother tree. With the full set of engine design drawings given, Joshua couldn't guarantee that he could completely remove the protective armor and components outside it. He could only remove a part of it, and then record and store the information of that part.

This process lasted for nearly eight hours. During this time, the old mage was invited by Mir Habs to go to the library of the atrium people located in the center of the eastern continent, to browse through the "constant" of this world. Information on the so-called laws of the world. Legendary powerhouses are super life forms that have evolved to the limit, but they are not able to show their power in all worlds. For example, if an extraordinary powerhouse goes to a world where there is almost no extraordinary power, it is easy to become weak due to exhaustion, even Die. Although the world of stars has psychic powers, and because of the big magic wave, the energy concentration is sufficient to supply the needs of legendary powerhouses, but overall it is still very different from the world of Mycroft.

Nostradamus is not Joshua. He uses the power of steel as his foundation, so he must refer to the local energy situation and basic constants before fine-tuning himself so that he can exert his full strength.

In addition, Hotaru and Rin are battling with Joshua’s side. Hotaru is responsible for helping Joshua remove part of the armor of the migratory engine, and Rin is helping the fighters find the most dense psionic structure. The most obvious area of ​​time and space fluctuations. The ball of light stayed in Joshua's pocket and seemed to be resting. After almost half a day of intensive analysis work, the soldier finally understood the working principle of the atrium man's psychic migration engine.

"Using flesh and blood to stimulate psychic energy, and then using crystal machinery to increase and expand, the powerful psychic energy will separate the gaps in the material world, creating a void-like'psychic vacuum'. In this psychic vacuum, specially designed warships It can accelerate indefinitely, moving forward at the speed of thinking, until the end of psychic energy can be extended."

There was silver light in his eyes, and Joshua, who had roughly analyzed it, pondered for a while. Atrium people’s engines are indeed exquisite. They create artificial psionic plants that release far more powerful psychic energy than ordinary atrium people. Then use the crystal mechanical structure to maintain the activity of the psionic plant, and enlarge its psychic energy hundreds to thousands of times, and finally use this powerful psychic energy to tear the space-time transition. It seems to be a perfect self-consistent, self-healing, perfect design that can last infinitely as long as the psionic plant culture fluid is enough, but in fact it has a big flaw.

First of all, the first one is the jump distance. Although the speed of the atrium people’s warships is said to be the same as thinking~www.novelmtl.com~ they arrive at thought, just like teleportation, but in fact, their psionic strength can’t extend very long, even through the atrium. People’s special crystal craft design can’t exceed three trillion kilometers. This means that if they want to cross a light-year distance, they need to jump twenty or thirty times, or even more. Each time they end, they need to jump. Pause for a long time to cool down. The more the number of transitions, the easier it is to make mistakes. This is why the atrium people colonized three planets within a thousand years. This is because their transition technology is stuck at the level of psionic strength.

However, this intensity is not so easy to increase like crystal crafts or biotechnology. Even if the atrium people are determined to transform their own race collectively, it will take one or two generations of them, that is, one or two hundred years. There are results.

"My strength of steel can simulate psionic energy... According to them, the strength of my psionic energy far exceeds that of the Omega-class psionicist in the atrium, and its full strength is even several times that of the flagship Forerunner. If I were in the Iron Giant Reconstructing this engine in the body of the body, then my leap distance should be farther than the warship of the atrium people. After all, my body strength is far stronger than the materials that the atrium people can find, and the material foundation is very solid."

In theory, this is indeed the case. But the reason why Joshua would indulge is precisely because of this, although he has already used the engine design drawing given by the mother tree and his own hand disassembly and analysis, he has roughly understood the operating principle of this engine, and is sure that he can reproduce it, but he has moved Jumping this kind of thing can't tolerate sloppy, this is a necessary thing for cosmic scale battle. He always felt that there was something else he was not sure about. However, the warrior is not a person who always struggles with such trivial matters. He immediately changed his mind and began the next paragraph of research. ) Download the free reader!!

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