Soul of Burning Steel

"disappeared?"

One morning half a month after communicating with Karlis, Joshua, who was walking in the stratosphere, heard a piece of news that surprised him.

The violent wind raged high in the sky, and the cold air current with ice crystals reflected the sun’s rays, shining at the feet of the soldier. At this time, he walked with his hands on the sky, patrolling his territory, and the magic of a winged girl was projected. Levitating in front of him, he was reporting the news with a helpless expression.

"Yes, Joshua, but to be precise, it wasn't missing, but it was out of my detection range."

Compared to before, a golden star mark appeared on No. 3’s forehead at this time, with translucent wings surrounding the star. This is the result of her completely accepting the mark of the **** of the sky, Ge's mark. Fusion with the soul of No. 3. At this time, the artificial intelligence girl looked very headache. She hugged her knees and floated beside Qiao Xiuya and complained: "You said you want to give those elite students more freedom, so I didn't pay much attention to them... The meeting has disappeared, and it's almost a week now."

"You talk about who is missing first."

Joshua was not too nervous, he just muttered a few words in a low voice, really uneasy, and then calmly said: "Let's say, is it Lisa or Ivan? I think other people should not have the confidence to play missing."

"It's Lisa, your Dragonoid apprentice."

Speaking of this, a smirking smile appeared on No. 3's small face: "It seems that Joshua, you are quite self-aware, knowing that your apprentice likes to run around just like yourself... By the way, I forgot to tell. You, the number one who disappeared with her."

Under the gaze of Joshua, who turned his head, No.3 added another sentence: "According to my guess, she and No.1 should go to the underground passage dug by No.1 to play. Otherwise, they won't even be connected to the signal of the information terminal. They are all shielded, no directions can be found."

After a few months, the tunnels excavated by No.1 under the snow-capped Nissi Mountains have been incredibly large. Those huge caves are deep and long, and they are even wider than the range of dwarves. From a certain point of view, In the words of the dwarf engineer who visited the tunnel, Hao Ha almost excavated a small underground world on his own. It is "very suitable for underground life to multiply".

Because it is too deep, the instructors of Winterhold don't know where the tunnel leads, and because the server load is not enough, the information terminal can't be used in too deep underground. In general, it is a blind spot.

"Joshua, do you think they are in any danger?"

Although I was a little gloating before, it was just a grievance against Old Joshua going out alone. No. 3 still cares about Lisa and No.1. She asked with some worry: "Do you need to send the Knights to find them? One week said that it is not long, but it is enough to encounter any danger."

"The danger is not enough. I have killed all the slightly dangerous beasts in the sky and the ground in Moldavia. Even if there are fish that slip through the net, according to the strength of these two guys, it is not impossible to deal with... I am surprised that these two people How can they get mixed together, and there are syndicates, how can they let them run around casually."

Qiao Xiuya frowned slightly, but after a while he stretched his brows: "It doesn't matter. It's normal for children to be a little more active anyway, let them play by themselves."

It's really not possible. He can still communicate directly with the Syndicate through the resonance of the power of steel. Now that the other party has not contacted himself, it proves that he has not encountered any danger. This channel, even in another world, he can communicate with the Balrog, which is much more stable than the information terminal.

On the other side, No. 3 raised his eyes and began to count the activities of Lisa and No.1 before their disappearance: "I think... they first met the moon in the middle of the night and took a walk in the middle of the night, and then because Lisa can listen. I had to understand the electromagnetic signal of the first issue, so I chatted in the middle of the night..."

All the rest came to be logical. It’s rare to meet someone who can chat in their native language. The first issue naturally has a good impression of Lisa. In the next few days, they have been making appointments to meet and chat, and even go to the dwarf After walking around the gathering place for a few times, Lisa was treated with respect because she was a friend brought back by the first issue, and the girl also showed interest in the mysterious underground world.

"Then we went to dig the ground together... think about it, it's a good experience, unknown, mysterious and unpredictable danger."

Qiao Xiuya thought for a while, and felt that it was actually not dangerous. He always put all the students under his own observation, and they would not make any unexpected progress. After thinking about it, the soldier made a decision. : "Let the Academy of Winterhold assign an academy task."

"Explore the underground world, draw a map of the underground world excavated by No.1, a complete tunnel with two thousand credits, no ceiling, let me see how much they learned in the academy...Look at how much the guy who No.1 dug Deep, it can actually shield information terminals."

Today, the credit exchange system in Winterhold Academy is very complete, and even a complete market has been formed, from gold, silver and gemstones to special mechas. If the points are sufficient, even small warships can be exchanged for it-if If you have the special contributions of the college, you can even accept various special enhancements in the cooperative research between Winter Fort and major research parties!

An ordinary task is about 50-100 credits depending on the level of completion, and 100 credits can be exchanged for precious metals that can meet the cost of a family of three ordinary people for a year, and 500 credits can be exchanged for live metal forging. It is currently in the experimental stage. The magical power wand can condense the magic power ten times faster than ordinary wands. It can spray all kinds of spells like a machine gun without self-destruction due to overheating. Similarly, there are various bracers forged with special alloys. Armor and helmet, this is a set.

1000 credits can even be exchanged for some extraordinary substances for research or personal use, such as three leaves of life, a small bottle of No. 1 holy water, fifty grams of high-purity mithril, etc., such as Pyxistar, fine gold , Meteor Iron and Heart Crystal are also in the redemption list. Many big powers, such as the Elf Royal Court and the Church of the Seven Gods, are very strange. Why do they have their unique treasures in the credit redemption list of Winterhold Academy? I remember that there have been foreign transactions about this, and a certain lord who is experimenting with creation does not express any opinions.

And some special requirements are also within the scope of exchange, such as appointing a certain tutor for individual tutoring, the specific price depends on the tutor’s own pricing, assistance in advancement or experimentation is also included, and the price is slightly more expensive than tutoring.

The above are just ordinary things that can be bought with money, but if it is more than two thousand credits, it is not only these-starting from the 2000 credit exchange list, some things that cannot be measured by money gradually began to appear. For example, the latest generation of experimental magic mechas are worth 2500 credits. If you need to make special transformations for individuals, the credits need to be doubled, and there are various strange magic equipment exchanges, such as Say the value of 7,500 points for the “portable supersonic electromagnetic gun” 8,000 points for the “portable space-time gate” (experimental arbitrary gate), the 3500 points for the “anti-gravity flying device”, the 9,000 points for the “golden element puppet contract”, 5500 points of'hypnotic brainwashing glasses' and so on.

The providers of these things are legendary powerhouses who don’t want to tell their names. Most of them are some gadgets they figured out. However, although these things contain extremely powerful power, the conditions of use are particularly harsh, such as from a certain The arbitrary door of an imperial space-time mage, although it is indeed a portable space-time door that can lead to almost any place in the continent, but the user's strength must reach the golden high-level, or be extremely proficient in space-time spells to meet the conditions-there is this With strength and knowledge reserves, he can perform fixed-point teleportation.

And the hypnotic brainwashing glasses from a certain Mr. William who did not want to be named, although it sounds evil, it is actually evil, but it is basically ineffective against creatures with a wisdom index of more than 70, which means that, except for the beasts with no brains. , No human being will be recruited, all who will be recruited are mentally retarded, and if the Warcraft is smarter, it can get rid of its control.

But even so, the value of these items is always questioned. Even if it is not for the value of the item itself, but just wants to explore the power nature of the legendary powerhouse, they are worthy of their price.

This series of redemption has been 20,000 credits that no one has ever reached so far. It is a small floating battleship with a total length of 85 meters, equipped with a full set of war equipment, and even a small magic crystal on it. The dust production line can be used to make ammunition for beam cannons. This thing is mainly placed there because it looks good, and no one thinks that someone will exchange it.

The special contribution is more mysterious. Except for a few people who have completed some particularly difficult tasks, such as the students who completely wiped out the maddening monsters on the Ural Plain when the magic tide came, almost no one could get this. Some special exchanges can only be exchanged with special contributions and credits.

Special contributions are divided into five levels: D, C, B, A, and S. Starting from the lowest level of D, there will be a special exchange of "Activate Hidden Blood Vessel". The college will conduct one time based on the concentration of hidden blood in the exchanger's body. Reactivation makes the hidden bloodline ability appear, whether it is the bloodline of the psionicist, or the bloodline of the dragon family, or various other strange bloodline abilities can be activated. A student from Xishan is a good example. She is the three emperors of the palace of a certain psionic kingdom. Because she has no awakening psionic energy, she cannot compete for the throne. She was supposed to be married to another nearby kingdom by political marriage, but she was sent to Moldavia because of the interference of her mother.

In Winterhold Academy, she worked hard to become a mage, and then fortunately obtained a special contribution in a certain mission, and chose to activate the bloodline, and after the ceremony, the bloodline was activated, she successfully became a genuine Silver-level psionicists have the capital to return to the country.

So far, the special exchanges that the academy has given out are only D-level, and more advanced exchanges, such as the'curing spell ability and the special transcendent inheritance' are just placed there for others to see. There is no plan to release it for the time being, and there are even more Some exchanges only exist in the database and are not displayed to the outside world... After all, whether it is'living mechanized transformation' or'experimental power to give'extraordinary organ transplantation', it is still a taboo technique that is still in the experiment, let alone similar. In the'race conversion ceremony', the'man-made auxiliary soul body' involves the technology of ethics.

Among them, some of the exchanges were researched by Joshua based on his own system. For example, the value of an A-level special contribution, 8000 credits of "artificial auxiliary soul body", has auxiliary calculations, auxiliary training, and optimized energy operation system. , Collect information and analyze, collect spilled energy, absorb the vitality of dead enemies and other special functions, which can quickly strengthen an ordinary person without the power of a chicken into a high-level silver, reaching the level of gold threshold , This is not its limit.

The only problem with this auxiliary soul body is that when the strength of the later experimenter reaches the golden limit, it will become unstable. The artificial soul body cannot fit well with the original soul of the experimenter, which will cause rejection and endanger life. During the experiment, if Joshua and Nostradamus were not watching, the experimenter's life might be in danger.

The reason why the internal exchange system of this college is so perfect is that Joshua used it as an experiment in the reward system of the development department. When the empire officially began to expand abroad, the credits can be changed to a name, called contribution points, and special contributions are not required. Renamed, they are used as performance rewards in addition to the original benefits and wages, so that they can not only stimulate the passion of many explorers, but also reasonably enhance their strength.

"At about the time, the Development Department will be officially launched, and the exchange system will be on the agenda...Most of the experimental techniques used as rewards are also time to improve."

Thinking of this, Joshua stood high in the stratosphere and looked to the south. He nodded slightly: "The imperial family’s technical reserves are far from enough... This trip to the Far South is also a good opportunity to find a partner, the elves. The way of Druids can be arbitrarily transformed into a tree of life or even a dragon body. Their biological bloodline technology is much more advanced than our race conversion rituals. If they can cooperate, they can quickly convert certain experimental techniques. Practical."

"But Joshua...you are not specializing in steel, why do you study so many weird things?"

On the side, No.3 asked in a puzzled way. As the creator of the server and database of Winterhold Academy, she is also the storage copy of the entire Moldavian database. Of course, she knows Joshua and Nostradan in normal times. Mars and others are studying what things are, some of which are acceptable to Miss Artificial Intelligence, and some, such as the artificial soul body, make No. 3 feel a little creepy and feel self-defeating.

After all, she is also an artificial soul, but the degree of completion is much higher than this, even if she knows that Joshua is not a madman, she still feels a little scared.

"If you specialize together, of course you can be brave and diligent, but if you don't open your eyes to see the world and understand the vastness of the world, you will only plunge yourself into a vortex of ignorance."

Reaching out his hand, Joshua originally wanted to pat No. 3's head, but the aggrieved No. 3 turned around and let the warrior's hand pat her wings. Joshua didn't care about it. He knew about No. 3. Tangled mentality, but when he felt an unusual touch in his hand, Joshua was shocked: "Wait, in such a short period of time, you have actually completed the initial soul materialization?"

The smooth feather touch in the warrior's hand just now was a bit illusory, but it had vaguely felt like water... Joshua didn't care about it at first, but when he reacted, he was shocked: Since the last time the sage of the East Sea came to Moldavia and exchanged qualitative spirit conversion runes with him, he had no time because he wanted to help Israel, Barnier and others improve the production line of the void battleship and the information terminal server. Studying, so he handed the rune text body to No. 3, and let this girl who is also only a soul explore the mystery of the transformation of quality and spirit... But how long has it been? Actually already have achievements?

"Huh... after all, I have been given the rune of Majesty Geer for so long, and this qualitative-spirit conversion rune is indeed in line with my current state. It's only a small success, it's nothing."

Seeing Qiao Xiuya surprised herself, No. 3 couldn't help but shake the little wings behind her face with complacency. She has been in this state since she has achieved something, but the soldier has never noticed it, making her very discouraged. , But now, to be able to shock him, No. 3 is satisfied.

"Not bad, not bad, really good..."

Qiao Xiuya was full of joy, as if he was happier than his advancement. He reached out and touched No. 3's head again, and this time, No. 3 did not evade.

Artificial intelligence ~www.novelmtl.com~, knows the man in front of him better than most people—compared to his leaps and bounds in strength, leaving everyone behind him, he hopes that the people around him can follow him. Follow in his footsteps and move forward with him.

"go home."

After being relieved, Joshua looked at the direction of the sun, and then said: "The time is almost coming, and the time-space gate should be adjusted."

"Ok."

No. 3 nodded, she knew the soldier's plan.

Today is February 15, 837, Star Pendant. It is also the day he plans to go to the far south forest elves gathering place, around the Lake of Eternity, to meet the nature teacher and contemporary elven queen.

So, in the next second, the two fell from the sky, through the clouds and wind, and came to the sky above Moldavia. From here, they can look down on every corner of this megacity that has become a million-person city. Right in the center of this city, at the top of a building that resembles a castle, there is a faint blue light of time and space gleaming.

Going to go.