Soul of Burning Steel

Loranda limped away from the dead world.

There is really no way, even if the holy light has the power to heal the body, but it has a limit. The holy light of ordinary priests can only heal external injuries, and the internal injuries must be dealt with by necromancers, while the holy light of high priests Although light can heal internal injuries, it cannot guarantee a 100% recovery.

Loranda is currently the most powerful extreme-level paladin in the Mycroft world. His holy light is enough to kill human flesh and bones, but even so, after being beaten seven or eight times by Joshua, the paladin Now I have to walk with a cane.

However, even so, Lolanda was still very happy—not even because he caught the tail of the legendary way after being beaten up, but because he finally figured out one thing now.

That is, some questions do not need answers.

——Why is the multiverse like this? This has nothing to do with human beings. Before thinking about this problem, the most important thing is to change it.

Why is the mountain at the door of the house? Why is there a river when I go out? Why are there beasts wandering around my house? Blindly thinking about "why" can't solve the actual problem. The first thing to do is to open a road in the mountains, build a bridge over the river, catch or kill the wild animals around the house, and then have spare power. While eating the meat of the beast, thinking 'why'.

Humans are a race that transforms the world for their own use, from beginning to end, even the multiverse is no exception.

And Joshua watched Lolanda climb from the center of the earth to the surface of the earth's crust, and was sent away by the positioning teleportation of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Ground, and then nodded slightly.

Joshua is naturally very happy that his friend's strength has improved. Both Lolanda and Brandon are very good opponents. They have full potential, and the fighters are optimistic that they will become legends in the next few years.

After all, not everyone is like him. When he advanced to the legend, he happened to have the power of the entire Grandia world and the status of the king of burning souls. The advancement of ordinary superpowers to the legend is not something that can be solved by an epiphany, but It is a long process of continuous thinking, intensive research and mastery, similar to learning.

Although Lolanda's legendary way is a bit complicated, in general, he can use his special holy light to change the nature of matter - heat-resistant becomes heat-resistant, conductive becomes insulating , The originally extremely strong armor will become as fragile as a biscuit under the action of this force.

For example, for example, a certain material is an ordinary conductor at room temperature, but it will become a superconductor when it is close to two hundred degrees below zero, and it will become an insulator when it exceeds two hundred degrees. Acting on this material will randomly catalyze it into special properties that require various 'states' to transform into.

According to the short-term fighting information, Joshua can confirm that Lolanda can't control this power very well, but it is not difficult. According to the opponent, he can easily transform the holy light into a giant hammer that is almost physical. Judging from the shield, Lolanda already has a deep understanding of nature and form transformation, and he will soon be able to master his own power.

"In this way, even without fighting, Lolanda can become a very good material science expert."

The teleportation light from the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Field disappeared, and Joshua slightly nodded with emotion: "The power of the legendary powerhouse can be used not to fight, but to develop technology, or carry out some infrastructure construction beyond the age... Maybe this is the most important thing. It is the most orthodox way of technological advancement of Extraordinary Civilization."

Having communicated with many legendary powerhouses, and obtained a lot of information from the unified information base and the Metal Dragon God, Joshua is now very familiar with the Era of Glory and the development of civilizations before the Era of Glory. In his opinion, a similar The extraordinary civilization in the Mycroft world will go through the following three steps.

1. In the primitive and barbaric era, due to mutations, the high-energy environment bred the soul, or gradually evolved and obtained the wisdom of thinking ability gathered in groups. Like ordinary wisdom, it went through a series of basic steps such as making tools and creating language. . During this period, there may be some different changes due to different races. For example, if some races are born with fire-breathing, or if they control extraordinary powers such as flowing water, then they will be able to obtain fire and cross rivers and lakes. There are clear advantages.

In this period, extraordinary power is just a tool, similar to an invisible third hand. Except for the monsters with the same extraordinary power among the surrounding beasts, the way of survival and technology accumulation is similar to that of ordinary civilization. The Stone Age Tribal Age begins and will continue until the intelligent individuals gathered by the tribes are enough to become the embryonic form of a country.

But in the second age, the early days of civilization, everything was very different.

At this time, most extraordinary civilizations will put their wisdom into the aspect of "individual strength", and the person with the strongest individual strength will become the leader of civilization and race, whether it is fighting with wild beasts or other intelligent life , or to transform nature, individual strength is the focus of this period, and the initial social class will also be born because of this. People with strong power are naturally higher-level existences. There is no situation where people are strong but have low social status— —And this simple and crude way of division is completely different from the system in which ordinary intelligent life divides rights and classes by various methods such as "rituals", "customs", "bloodlines", and "destiny".

This period, for an extraordinary civilization, will be very, very long, because the system of class division by strength, the rule is too stable, for the king who has stabilized his own rule and possesses super extraordinary power In other words, any reforms and improvements that do not meet his wishes can be eliminated at will, and if technology advances, he can also learn and improve himself immediately. After all, if he can become a king, his talent must be top-notch. Willing, and there are basically no geniuses who can challenge his position.

Even if it is a coup d'etat, he also has a resistance far superior to that of ordinary civilization leaders. If the king is strong enough, even if the whole world regards him as a devil, there is no way to affect his continued rule of the world, and ordinary wisdom civilization. For the first time in hundreds of years, there will be a big reshuffle due to the system, technology or various other reasons. Unlike progress, even if the extraordinary civilization dies because of the ruler's death and the subversion of the dynasty, it is unlikely to bring too much system and change. Technology changes, let alone progress, because the new ruler must also be a powerful superpower.

It is impossible for ordinary people to become leaders of an extraordinary world.

Thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years are the feudal era, the medieval era, or the Warring States era-the second long era of extraordinary civilization is able to last for such a long time, condensing all wisdom in To improve the civilization in terms of individual strength, it is easy to fall into the extreme situation of 'the most powerful have ruled stably for thousands of years' or 'different strong men have challenged and fought each other for thousands of years'. The stronger the individual strength, the more It is easy to cause the stagnation of the development of technology and social system, and when many extraordinary civilizations reach this point, they will self-destruct.

If you want to break this repeated cycle, you can only rely on a long time to accumulate. For example, tens of thousands of years have passed, and a large number of extraordinary classics scattered among the people have unknowingly popularized the entire civilization. Extraordinary power has even led to the optimization of racial talents. Everyone has a certain amount of extraordinary power, and even farmers can use spells to water and fertilize.

In this way, supernatural civilizations can finally embark on the path of overall progress like normal wisdom civilizations, because at this time, the wisdom concentrated on "individual strength" is finally liberated by the popularization of superhuman powers, and can be used in daily life All aspects of the system, and then bring about major reforms in terms of systems and ethics—of course, this is also the most dangerous moment. During the reform process, many extraordinary civilizations broke out or accumulated a large number of contradictions, leading to the self-destruction of civilization.

Of course, in addition to this, there is another relatively rare possibility-a super strong man who far exceeded the upper limit of the era suddenly appeared in a certain extraordinary civilization, and after coercing the world, this strong man took the initiative to Willing to lead the progress of civilization, take the initiative to reform the social system, and even take the initiative to popularize extraordinary power, relying on one's own strength to forcibly bring the entire civilization into the third era in a short period of time.

Childhood separated from civilization, the late period of the civilization era, that is, the era of the original Glory Era and the current Starfall Era.

Joshua knew that the previous Starfall Era was still in the second period, but because of the legacy of the Glorious Era, the vague guidance among the gods, and the blockade and cutting of various civilization gathering areas by the Central Black Forest, In the Starfall Era, there was not an extremely powerful "ruler of all civilizations", but blossomed in all directions, and many different types of social forms were born. They learn from each other and communicate with each other, which can make both sides make rapid progress.

But not long ago, after Joshua solved the fire problem in Mycroft's world, the Starfall Era slowly entered the third era.

And the important sign of this era is that "the superpowers at the top level actively use their own power to help other civilization members improve their technology." Both parties win-win and accelerate growth.

In the previous era, although the strong were strong, it was only their own strength. It was impossible for the king to go to the mountains to dig mines, and the court wizard would not rain for the peasants. Even if they did it occasionally, it was only a special case. In order to ensure the stability of their own rule, they will deliberately block the exchange of knowledge, solidify the class, and make it difficult for civilization to progress.

But in the third era, the strong who have basically reached the limit of their individual strengths realized that only the progress of the entire civilization, exchanges, and the convergence of countless ideas, conflicts, and sparks can make themselves who are trapped in cognitive barriers be able to start from another world. See the world from a different angle, and then break through your previous limits. At this time, they will deliberately cultivate civilization, and even cultivate powerhouses of the same level.

At this point, extraordinary civilizations have obvious advantages - just like Joshua, with his power, it doesn't even take two weeks to build a Void Babel Tower, and if it has just finished industrialization and entered the near The current ordinary civilization... No, even the earth civilization in the interstellar era needs decades of preparation and construction to build a super space elevator of the same scale.

Because as early as in the second era, the powerhouses of extraordinary civilizations had honed their technology and power to a level far superior to that of the third era of ordinary civilizations. It would take one or two hundred years for ordinary civilizations to industrialize. It is only possible to touch the edge of the technology of stepping out of the mother world, but as early as the second, or even the first era, the powerhouses of extraordinary civilizations have been able to enter and exit the void.

In fact, the Mycroft civilization has just finished the industrialization of magic energy, that is, the period when ordinary civilization has just finished industrialization. Its total population is almost similar to the industrialized civilization of the same period. Only in less than ten years can a creation of mana technology at the level of a void battleship be directly built.

And because of the advancement of civilization and the popularity of extraordinary power, the number of extraordinary powerhouses will increase, and there will naturally be more and more legendary powerhouses, and every time a legendary powerhouse appears, it will bring a large-scale technological breakthrough. Innovation—just like Loranda, if he officially becomes a legend, then the Mycroft civilization will undoubtedly usher in a major earthquake and innovation in terms of materials science, and possess the power to change the nature of matter and even energy. The mere existence of a paladin can directly improve a civilization's technical level in the field of related materials.

This is a mutual acceleration and a win-win situation for both sides. The superpowers are no longer the superior ruling class in the eyes of ordinary people, and ordinary people are no longer a waste of food in the eyes of the superpowers. They are just toys for raising and playing. The gap between the two gradually disappears, and this final era may be the one conceived by the Glory Era and Sanctuary Civilization, 'everyone is a god' or 'artificial gods'.

However, the problem is still old.

"Population..."

Thinking of this most important question, Joshua couldn't help but sigh: "No matter how fast technology advances, population is needed to maintain it... Without population, no matter how powerful a battleship is, it will be unmanned, and the low-cost automatic AI The efficiency of intelligence is not high, and high-level artificial soul intelligence, such as No. 3, is hard to come by."

After all, it is the creation of an extraordinary civilization. If a purely intelligent program wants to run perfectly, it is always a bit meaningless.

Today's Starfall Mycroft civilization, the problem is not 'technology', it has a large integrated information base and many legendary powerhouses, some of their technologies have returned to the level of the glorious era, but those who have technology and those who don't use technology People, no matter how advanced the technology is, it is useless.

With a population of two billion, it is absolutely impossible to afford a civilization of the Void Age—you know, even the Shalt civilization has a population of tens of billions. Only such a huge and complete civilization system can support it. A complete void fleet!

"It's a pity. If it wasn't for the high energy consumption of teleportation in the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrificial Ground, and it is not worthwhile to simply teleport the population, I really want to go to the Xinghai World to find the Zhongting people."

Thinking that he still bears the title of "New God of the Atrium", Joshua can't help recalling those intelligent plants that use psionic power in the Star Sea World - the Atrium people have entered the interstellar era thousands of years ago, whether they Both experience and ability are perfectly in line with the needs of today's Mycroft civilization. If possible, Joshua really wants to go there and hire a group of experienced crew members to come here.

But Star Sea World is now engaged in a decisive battle against the family of evil gods—according to the legend who also went to Star Sea World, Canghai Sage Faina said that Star Sea World has now launched a full-scale counterattack against chaos, and the people of Zhongting have also joined An alliance of civilizations in the surrounding galaxies was established to clean up the family members of the evil plague god. They are engaged in a holy war between order and chaos, and there is no extra force to send out.

Located at the other end of the multiverse, the extremely huge star sea world is the hardest hit area for the invasion of evil gods. If the Mycroft civilization will usher in a large number of evil gods in the next few decades, then it has already been invaded. It's just because the body is too big, and now there is still room to fight back.

Excluding all races that do not meet the requirements, Joshua and other legendary powerhouses agreed that the population of alien civilizations that can be employed by the Mycroft civilization, or controlled, is only the eight-legged "shepherd" The three races are fungi, Shalts, and some abyssal demons.

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