Soul of Burning Steel

The star fell in 838, January 20, at the core of the Central Black Forest. Although it was winter, there was no snow.

The center of the Mykrov Continent is a virgin forest that occupies nearly a quarter of the continent. The ancient magic mixed with chaotic atmosphere infects this land, making it fertile beyond common sense. Because of this, all kinds of here The vegetation grows so fast that it makes the scalp numb, and countless beasts and dragon heads also shelter in this black forest, where they can multiply leisurely.

The area of ​​the former Central Black Forest was much larger than it is now. Thousands ago, when the civilization of the Starfall Era began, four-fifths of the entire Mykrov continent was covered by it, and only a few areas had shelters. Maintaining a normal and orderly environment, and now, because of the continuous development, logging, and the reverse erosion of chaos magic by the order fire over the years, the Black Forest has not only no longer been able to divide the four major human gathering areas, but has begun to appear. The obvious shrinking phenomenon.

But even so, the face base of the Central Black Forest is more than any single human force, even the entire northern Helgamos Empire is incomparable.

It is so vast, primitive, and full of warcrafts. There are forests with relics of the Last Era everywhere. Since ancient times, it has been the main stage of various legends and adventure stories. Countless adventurers have come here for trials when they were young. It is also famous here. Here, mercenaries once found the ancient alchemy magic map in the depths of the forest, and then became rich overnight, and adventurers discovered the temple of the ancient gods and ascended to heaven in one step. Achievement is extremely intended.

There are even legends that the founder of the Far South Business Alliance discovered the first pot of gold from the Black Forest, so he has the wealth of an enemy country and a power comparable to a country.

And now, there is a team of exploration team members from the Northern Empire’s "Empire’s Foreign Exploration Department" who are conducting arduous training deep in this ancient Black Forest.

"Priest, I don't think there is any use in training in this ghost place."

In the depths of the central black forest, far away from the ground, among the trees covered by the shadows of giant branches and leaves, five young men in camouflage uniforms covered with dirt and sweat are lying quietly on the high hanging. On the branch, he looked into the distance nervously.

They wear short knives around their waists and helmets with goggles on their heads. There is a layer of matt magic charms on their clothes that are stirring, weakening the sense of existence of everyone, and everyone has an inconspicuous one on their wrist. The bleak spar is an information terminal that has been popularized among the empire’s senior leaders in the past year or so.

Just now, it was someone in the team who complained to teammates on the same team through the information terminal: "The seven gods are here. Our mission of the External Exploration Department is to explore the alien world, rather than fighting a group of brainless beasts in the virgin forest. And pretend to be a bird on the branch! Oh my God, do we look like birds!"

"Does it look like a bird?"

"Does it look like a bird? Ah, with this smell, I feel like I'm rotting."

"It's rotten all over, vomit!"

"Okay, as long as you have mouths, the monsters here may not have lower intelligence than yours. They may be able to detect the mental fluctuations of the terminal!"

In the center of the team, the young man who should have been the captain of the team impatiently replied: "Continue lurking, and not far away should be the last target, the'Boros Pythons' lair. Just confirm their specific residence. Earth, even if this training is a perfect success, we can return to the Empire as soon as possible!"

The Boros python, whose name is derived from the legendary behemoth "Urobolos" in ancient times, their ancestors surpassed the life essence of mortal things and mastered the ability to transform basic substances, so they have a huge size comparable to a mountain and almost Indestructible super-fast regenerative power, and as the descendants of legendary creatures, they naturally have corresponding characteristics-every Boros python has a strength close to the gold level when it grows up. If it is a little stronger, it can have several A hundred meters long, a dozen meters wide body and extremely destructive power, they can convert a solid rock wall into mud, and then easily overturn a city.

Wandering in the forests, the legendary behemoth Uropoulos hit the human gathering place for unknown reasons and died at the hands of the second generation of the holy sword of Xishan. The snake bone became the skeleton of the wall of the Trenton Fortress in the west. The offspring are still multiplying in the depths of the central black forest, and they are extremely moisturized. These mysterious behemoths usually have a huge range of activities, and it is difficult for even scholars who specialize in the study of warcraft to determine where they live.

But now, after the exploratory team is not afraid of danger, and after two consecutive months of tracking and exploration, they finally found the specific nest of the Boros pythons-a low hill in the middle of the Black Forest. They only need to observe the pythons entering and leaving the hill. The hidden cave below, then their mission can be said to be a complete success.

"To be honest...I still don't understand. Those high-level officials above want us to determine the location and ecological habits of the Titan Dragonfly, the Platinum Devil's Vine, and the Boros Python."

Although I was reprimanded by Priest as the captain, but because the observation process was too tense, some people could not suppress it, and they could only vent the pressure through mental complaints: "These golds are even extremely intended. Why do the descendants of legendary monsters of the first class need our exploration teams that have not been to the gold class to observe? This is the Black Forest! If it were not for luck, we would have died many times, right?"

"Otherwise, it's called training instead of outing."

In this regard, from the Northland Moldavia Championship Academy, Priest, who had experienced **** training designed by a legendary powerhouse, couldn’t help being a little speechless: “Moreover, it is precisely because the Black Forest is very dangerous that it is here. The value of training-otherwise, what should we do when we get to another world where the environment may be more sinister?"

The five people lurking in the tree, waiting for the opportunity to observe the activities of the Boros pythons on the distant hills, are the youngest elite team in the Empire’s Foreign Exploration Department. Although the dialogue in the mental terminal seems to be serious, but in the long-distance During the three-and-a-half months of training in the Black Forest, five people successfully completed every scheduled task. They successfully survived and successfully found the central area of ​​the Black Forest with their superb survival skills. The location of the mission target Titan Dragonfly and Platinum Devil Vine.

In response to the complaints of his teammates, Priest was quite unconcerned. The environment of the alien world is mostly unknown, although the Imperial Foreign Exploration Department will try its best to select a living alien world as its target. But it is precisely because there are lives that are in danger, and no one knows what is going on in another world.

And in Mycroft’s world, the most similar place to the other world is infested by the magic of chaos. So far, 40% of the area belongs to the unknown central black forest, followed by the deep sea in the far south. The Bottomless Sea Abyss, where it is said that it really connected with another world hundreds of years ago, has many strange alien creatures, and the Sea Abyss Demon Dragon is one of them.

What's more, Priest, as the captain, clearly knew the true purpose of his group of people exploring the gathering places of powerful monsters in the Black Forest.

Why didn't the major forces in the Mycroft world find a way to eradicate this virgin forest? There are many reasons for this. According to the explanation that Priest heard in Moldavia, it is actually very simple, that is, the benefits of the Black Forest are greater than the losses it brings.

If it is said that the legendary powerhouses of the world all join hands, then they can definitely uproot the Black Forest and completely eradicate 80% of the Black Forest within a year or even a few months. How much damage the continent has caused, and how much elemental depletion will the magic power mobilized by the legendary powerhouses cause. Those monsters that live in the Black Forest in hundreds of millions and have more than human populations will undoubtedly riot and riot because their homes are destroyed. , Even if only one tenth hits the surrounding human towns, it will cause extremely terrifying losses.

The existence of the Demon Tide has indeed made all countries extremely distressed, but it can also bring extremely huge economic benefits. Countless furs, flesh of Warcraft and magic materials are almost delivered to the door, and there is no need for various forces to form their own hunting teams to capture them. , The exploration of each adventure team on weekdays can also stably produce the treasured resources in the forest, not to mention the various relics in the Black Forest. Once there are adventurers in it, there will be extraordinary benefits, not to mention their exploration. The team, isn't it just because of the special environment of the Black Forest that they are sent here for training?

Compared with this huge benefit, building fortresses and sending soldiers to guard each year is just a trivial matter.

But the laissez-faire of the Black Forest is a thing of the past.

Since Starfall 722, Mycroft’s world has no longer undergone large-scale power changes, although there will be various small frictions between various countries and forces, such as the sacred mountain in the distant sea and the Guantian White Pagoda. The conflict between the murlocs, the conflict between the Seven Lunar Councils and the Guantian White Pagoda, the war between the northern empire and the orcs, and the infighting of countless kingdoms in Xishan, but these frictions and wars did not affect the overall situation, and did not cause the country to overthrow and destroy such a serious situation. as a result of.

The stability of power represents the gradual acceleration of development, war and friction, and it is also an accelerator of technology research and development. With the investment and practice year after year, the extraordinary power of the Mycroft civilization has become more advanced and powerful, and even the same The level of Warcraft was crushed, and by Starfall 810, it would be difficult for Warcraft to break even a fortress unless it was an unexpected big wave.

The benefits of primitive fur and magical materials have gradually been unable to meet the needs of civilization. In the exploration of the Black Forest, various forces have collected enough data. Now, when the Mykrov civilization is about to explore the void, the leaders of the various forces It was a tacit decision that it was time to repair the wound left by this ancient chaos and turn it into a civilized backyard.

And Priest and the others are the advance team to find out the situation further.

"According to the news sent from the terminal, I heard that Lord Dean will even take action personally to deal with the Black Forest area of ​​hundreds of thousands of square kilometers and expand the territory of the empire!

Recalling the vague hints in many news in the information terminal, Priest couldn't help feeling a little agitated: "After the mission is over, maybe you can see the scene where the dean personally takes action!"

And at this moment, with the surrounding earth and mountains shaking slightly, a dark shadow suddenly bulged in the hidden cave under the hill that the expedition team observed, causing Priest and others to subconsciously hold their breath. After that, in the winter sun Under the irradiation of, the huge black shadow revealed its true shape. It was a black-red giant python with sharp raised head like a drill, covered with metal scales, two pairs as big as houses, arranged vertically. The snake eyes emit golden light, and the energy fluctuations visible to the naked eye are scattered around the snake eyes, like ripples in the water.

That is the goal of everyone, Boros Anaconda! An extraordinary monster that lives underground all year round and grows by devouring metal rocks! It seems that they are tracking right. This hill is the entrance and exit of the pythons above and below the ground. In an instant, the squad members who were still complaining before entered a state of high alert. They collectively turned on the function of the special information terminal on the wrist. , Take a remote video, and then send it back to the headquarters of the Imperial Foreign Exploration Department in the north.

And in the headquarters of the Imperial Foreign Exploration Department located in the imperial capital, the dean of Priest's mouth, Joshua Van Radcliffe, was in the living room and had a meeting with Nostradamus. Ordinary talks.

"A few days ago, the Fairy Township issued an important diplomatic notice to the empire. They complained that your body often passes through the most popular observation port in Fairy Township, affecting them to look at the void in a daze."

The old mage held an information terminal in his left hand, and a light screen appeared on the terminal. He swiped it at random, and then found out the announcement at the time. He smiled and shook his head and said, "There are also complaints from the researchers in the observatory. , They said that recently there were always warnings of'massive void objects hurriedly approaching Mycroft's world', but after the final investigation, they discovered that it was just a passing silver cocoon-summoning wandering ice elements."

With that said, the other hand of the old mage clicked on the goblin card table in front of him, summoning a whole body of ice crystal, and the upper body showed a humanoid elemental life.

[Wandering ice element, 3 mana, 5 attack, 5 life]

[Arrival: Frozen yourself for a round]

[Chain: You cannot summon creatures outside the elemental system]

"It can only be explained that there are a lot of particles of steel in the periphery of Fairy Township. My body will automatically find the way. On weekdays, I will spontaneously find the places with the highest particle concentration to cruise."

In response, Qiao Xiu shook his head. He glanced at the goblin card table in front of him, and then played a card: "Take it as a natural phenomenon. They will get used to... Summon pirate assault soldiers and attack the player directly. Use a curved blade scimitar to attack you directly."

[Pirate assault soldier, 3 mana, 2 attack and 3 life]

[Chain: If you have a pirate card on the field, get +1+0 and charge]

[Curved blade scimitar, 2 mana, 2 attacks and 1 durability]

[Chain: For every pirate card you play, you get 1 durability]

The pirate assault soldiers directly attacked the health mark of Nostradamus, causing it to appear red -3.

At this time, on the card table, beside Joshua, there are already three creatures. Each creature has the ability to directly attack the player during the turn or cause some direct injuries. Nostradamus has only A self-frozen ice element has only 17 health points left.

But Nostradamus didn't seem to care about this. He watched Joshua happily at the end of the round, and then said: "Recently, you have been too low-key, and there are even rumors that you are exploring I was seriously injured when I was in the void, and I am hiding in the territory now, and I will be killed if I am not careful."

"It's just a rumor. They also rumored that the natural teacher and the elf queen have a leg, and that Pope Eagle has seventeen illegitimate children."

In response, the warrior shrugged and did not intend to waste too much energy on such boring rumors: "Apart from talking about the relationship between Garanoud and Hernvalo IX, Igel has worked hard all his life. Where is the time to make so many illegitimate children."

There are many strange rumors among the people, and there are all kinds of messy news, but the only thing that is really true is that he has been very low-key recently.

Since Joshua returned from the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Field and returned to Moldavia, he has stayed in the main city and has never left the Northland. On weekdays, he is nothing more than walking around the dragon, looking at the sea, and bringing a group of people at home. Go shopping for a picnic, go to the Winterhold Academy for inspections, occasionally go to the abyss to see the scenery, catch one or two demons and ask about the current situation of the sixth abyss, the days are leisurely.

Among them, it is true that nothing has happened recently. Neither Carlis nor deep-space observations have received any further news, and the vision on the Void Maelstrom will not change much in one or two months, so recently this For a period of time, Joshua basically stayed in his own territory, calmly pondering the authority of his latest practice-the ability to create a new kind of material in his own body.

If the power of steel represents the origin of all matter and the nature of the authority of all known phenomena in the material world, then the power of fire is the ability to change the world with its own will.

The power of steel held by Joshua can simulate materials in various extreme situations, such as degenerate armor, quasi-absolutely smooth materials with infinitely close to zero friction, mirrors that can reflect nearly 100% of radiant light, and so on... These special substances provide a great boost to the warrior's daily battles, and can help him adapt to various battles and environments.

The flame power from the power of the Soul Burning King can directly reverse the reality of destruction by using the burning soul as the source, so that a extinguished world can rekindle the flames. With the creation power of the ancient dragon, it can even bring a person close to the end. The chaotic world returns to order.

These two powers complement each other, combined with the Soul Abyss that Joshua owns, they are even more powerful, giving the fighters great confidence in countless battles, but now they also have all kinds of strange privilege handles and even He is a legendary strong man who doesn’t talk about the power of the laws of physics at all. Joshua felt a little strenuous at first, so he took a small world that was being born in his body as the source, and developed the ability to create something that does not conform to the usual theorems .

A world itself should be orderly, self-consistent, stable and durable, and the various common sense theorems in each world are actually slightly different, just like the organs and circulatory systems in each different organism. It's not the same, the world doesn't seek perfection, as long as it can exist normally, it is enough.

In a newly born world, how should its common sense theorems be determined? According to Joshua’s experiments and speculations, it should be through the “order resonance” method of collectively initiating the creation phenomenon in the Void Maelstrom between the worlds. These worlds born around the Siboyan world should have the same relationship as Siboya. The world is similar to the theorem of common sense, and for the same reason, the world of Karlis around Mycroft also has a similar environment, and races in the two worlds can even immigrate to each other.

If Joshua doesn’t care about the small world in his body, then its internal theorems should become very similar to Mycroft’s world, but if that’s the case, it’s meaningless, so Joshua’s nascent world is With the advantage of its own body itself, it is strong to add a special substance to the new world, a kind of basic particle that only has the quantum entanglement ability in the world in Joshua's body, and can transmit superluminal information.

But just by adding such a substance, the prototype of the world was on the verge of collapse, allowing Joshua to rest for a long time-he also understood that it is extremely difficult to create such a substance that is completely beyond the common sense theorems of the ordinary world. Yes, every attempt is a subversion and challenge to the existing order.

But everything is worth it, because for Joshua, having such a superluminal information communication medium is enough to make him many times stronger than before!

Humans, or all living things, have an upper limit on their thinking speed, because the transmission of information is not instantaneous, whether it is neural microcurrent or optical fiber, or multi-core joint thinking, the information is transmitted, received, stored, and extracted. The process requires corresponding time. Even for the soul, the linkage between countless basic soul particles also takes time, but the upper limit of the thinking speed of the soul of ordinary creatures is higher than that of the material brain.

Even the old pope who is transformed into light, his speed of thinking and information storage and extraction speed are nothing more than the speed of light. The amount of information that can be stored in a certain band of light waves is also limited, so even if it is a legendary powerhouse, in an extremely small amount of time In the paragraph, there will also be errors such as "unable to react", "unpredictable", "unexpected" and "not noticed", but the possibility of such errors is extremely small.

It is precisely because of this upper limit that the response of too large creatures will become slow. If it is like the ultimate void giant, it is comparable to the size of a super red giant, even if it is attacking the other party, it can at most It only caused the opponent's instinctive counterattack in the relevant area. Because of the overly bloated thinking system, its core thinking center could not even accept and process the information that it was attacked.

But if Joshua’s thinking communication and information transmission medium become superluminal, then it can be said that his thinking speed and reaction speed can be increased without limit! Even if his body is huge enough to be comparable to a galaxy, as long as the superluminal medium is enough, he can instantly respond to any information on the outermost periphery of his body! The bigger his thinking organ, the faster his thinking speed. Joshua can even divide his thinking center into hundreds of pieces and place them in every corner of the multiverse, while he can still guarantee his thinking ability. !

This is the horror of the superluminal thinking medium. The speed of thinking that can be increased without a limit will make Joshua gradually become an existence beyond the ordinary material world. For the legendary powerhouse, it is also an instantaneous phenomenon of microscopic particle impact and splitting. For him, it is just slow motion...Of course, this is the most perfect situation, in fact, this is impossible to complete in a short period of time.

Because this special tachyon particle exists only in Joshua's body, and the world in Joshua's body has not yet been opened up. The quality of his body is limited. Only when the world is opened up and the world continues to expand can he have mass production. This kind of extraordinary particle, and then rapidly improve the ability of thinking speed.

But now, Joshua can already use this super-light-speed information transmission ability to ensure that he can communicate in real time with the family members of the Mycroft world and transmit information in the void or even at the other side of the multiverse. This way, , Unless the enemy also has a quantum entanglement-level attack method, otherwise no one can destroy the soldier in an instant.

As long as there are enough such superluminal media, he can even maintain information transmission all the time, even if an avatar is eliminated, his body can receive information just like other avatars.

At this time, Joshua and Nostradamus were still chatting while playing cards. The two began to talk about the plan to clear the Black Forest. This was the biggest move of the major forces in the recent period.

"Israel means that if you want the Black Forest to become an empire farm that can safely produce all kinds of Warcraft resources, and everyone else wants to make the Black Forest a back garden, and if you want to accomplish this goal, you must Suppress and eliminate all the dangerous beasts in the Black Forest."

The old mage’s current health is only 3 points, and the creatures on the field are also emptied. It can be said that it is a candle in the wind, which is in danger. On the other hand, Joshua still has 20 health points. There are as many as five on the field. The creatures can directly defeat the old mage in the next round.

But Noxa Danes seemed to be totally indifferent. He smiled and said, "If you take action, we can rest assured, but Joshua, I must remind you, don’t kill too much. What we want is a safe black forest. , Not a piece of white ground!"

"...Do I look so cruel?"

Qiao Xiuya was quite speechless about this: "I always thought that I was a particularly kind-hearted person with a sense of justice. How could it be possible to do a lot of damage."

In this regard, Nostradamus only said one word: "Ural Plain." Suddenly, Joshua could only sigh and ensure that he would not go too far, and accidentally washed the black forest on the edge of the empire. Baidi——After all, in order to search for the Earth Mother God Temple, the toppled Ural Plain that was stirred by warriors has not yet restored its ecological balance.

At this moment, there was a trace of information from the two information terminals. Joshua and Nostradamus were taken aback for a moment, and then both learned the corresponding information through the information terminals.

"Has the gathering place of Boros's giant pythons also been found? Yes, this way, I will be able to suppress them for the first time, lest they perceive the legendary aura scattered and run away and cause great damage in vain."

The warrior's mouth curled up, and he seemed very satisfied with the efficiency of Priest and the others: "The cooperation of the exploration team is very tacit. I think they can try to explore the real void and other world."

"Well, it is true."

Regarding this, Nostradamus also clapped his hands with satisfaction. Compared to Joshua, he was more happy with the growth of the younger generation: "These young people are only a little short of accumulation, and they can reach the golden realm. Starting from our generation, it's fast going up a lot."

"After all, the resources now are much richer than a few decades ago. The average height of the new generation of imperial residents is a full 8 centimeters higher than that of fifty years ago."

Joshua gave out a number casually, and he reminded: "My round is over, hurry up or give up."

"No hurry, no hurry."

Now the cost of both parties has reached 10 mana, and Nostradamus has only three cards left in his hand, there are no creatures in the field, and there are only 3 health points left-no matter how you look at it, it looks like a loss. Looks like, but the old mage still unhurriedly drew a card from the library, and then said with a smile: "The victory and defeat has just begun now-my turn, the cards are played."

Afterwards, he played the card on the far right side of his hand!

Om————The low magic roar sounded, and at the moment this card was played, the half-time that belonged to Nostradamus turned into a blue magic field, and there were countless water patterns in it. In the turbulent blue realm, a white-haired and white-bearded mage phantom appeared on the field like this. It was the human form of the elderly version of Nostradamus!

On the goblin card table, the old version of Nostradamus opened the magic book in his hand, and immediately three cards flew out of it and entered the old mage's hand.

[Shadow of Time and Space·Nostradamus (Legend of the Wizard)]

[10 charges, 4 attacks, 4 lives]

[Arrival: Put three "Spacetime Distortion" into your hero's hand]

[Curtain Call: Eliminate all "space-time distortion", no matter where it is]

[——Hidden behind the endless ripples of time and space, a wise and mysterious shadow]

The white-haired mage stood in front of the crack in time and space, blending into the void, behind which was the looming void observatory. He is looking into the distance.

[Time and Space Distortion, Legendary Spell, 8 Mana]

[In this game, every time you use a spell card, the cost of the card is reduced by 1]

[After use, before the next turn of your side, you will gain the ‘space-time distortion’ status, the spell damage you and all your units receive is 1 point, and the summoned creatures and weapon attacks are 0 points. This effect cannot be superimposed. 】

【——Your attack is infinitely close to me, but you can never reach it. 】

After seeing Nostradamus playing this card, Joshua's eyes widened suddenly: "Wait, your own legendary card?! When did it come out? No new expansion packs have been released recently!"

"Some time ago, those little fairies invited me to do it."

Nostradamus smiled and stroked his beard, and then calmly played a "space-time distortion" that had been reduced to 0 cost: "I can see it, you have a spell card that destroys the effect and direct I didn't bring any damage spells, and for the next three rounds, I was invincible."

Qiao Xiu glanced at the full weapon and assault creature's quick attack deck of his casual group, nodded slightly, and admitted the other party's statement.

And in the next two rounds, Nostradamus used two consecutive "Effective Burst Magic?" and two "Time Distortion", inflicting 10+10 points of damage to Joshua’s hero, successfully completing the Jedi Anti-kill.

[Extremely effective bursting magic?, 10 mana, Mage Bai Jing epic]

[Cause 10 points of damage]

【--boom! 】

"Well, the pastime game is over."

After clicking on the voice of the game hero, ‘I’m convinced that I lost to you’, Qiao Xiu stood up: "Since the intelligence has been collected, it’s time for me to go back and make preparations to clean up the Black Forest."

"Well, I actually cheated this time. After all, my legend card hasn't been officially released yet."

In response, Nostradamus shook his head. He said strangely, "Didn't those fairies look for you? It's obvious that the main manufacturers of fairies card tables are in Moldavia. I thought your cards were done. , This time I intend to see what effect your card has."

"Of course I'm looking for ~www.novelmtl.com~ As for my legend card."

When talking about this, Joshua, who had already got up, couldn't help but smile: "That little fairy must follow me personally, saying that it depends on my process of sweeping the Black Forest, determining my strength, and then being able to use it in several designs. Finalized."

"That's really looking forward to it."

After the words, Nostradamus sitting in the chair waved to Joshua who turned and left: "See you when you act... By the way, Joshua, I'll say it again, don't concentrate too much on cleaning the Black Forest. Those monsters, they are not our real goal."

"Of course I will not forget."

Hearing these words, Joshua, who had reached the entrance of the meeting room, stopped. He turned his head and said with a smile: "Recover the last remaining limbs of the evil god'Four' in the world, purify the remaining power of the chaos, and completely remove it. Cthulhu's beacon for staying in this world."

"This is the real purpose of this time the major forces have joined forces to clean up the Central Black Forest."