Soul of Burning Steel

The void is vaster and vaster than the universe.

so.

The war in the void will be even bigger.

In the 109th year of the third era, at the beginning of the rejuvenation year, the mother planet of the hometown followed the orbit of the father of the sky, and entered the severe winter period away from the orbit of the star. Our fleet, like the past hundreds of years, is not suitable for this Season of Survival has left this tiny galaxy world to roam the void.

The father of the sky is the name of the gas giant planet surrounded by the parent star. In the daytime of the native tundra, its light blue figure can occupy the entire sky, so it is honored as the father of the sky, and the livable planet that also surrounds the father of the sky There are two planets, which we affectionately call 'mother' and 'brother'.

In the past thousands of years when civilization was young, countless stories unfolded around these stars, our mother star 'cradle' revolved safely in the circle of father, mother, and satellite 'sister', and our race was in the cradle grow quietly.

The ups and downs of history are full of vigor and vigor, and time flies quietly like in a narrative poem. Our civilization grows stronger, our horizons are broadened, we launch spaceships into the stars, explore the interstellar, we explore the boundaries of the world, then enter the void, and come to the world Of course, for thousands of years, we naturally have civil wars and disputes, but after all we are one race, one as a whole, all contradictions dissipate with time, and we move forward hand in hand.

——We used to think that this was the new beginning of our civilization, and the vast galaxy and future in the void were waiting for our exploration.

But reality tells us that this is our limit.

The galaxy of the world is not empty, in fact, it is full of all kinds of civilizations - because of the existence of extraordinary power and souls, there are more intelligent civilizations than we imagined, and every shining star is a prosperous The world of life, and in these worlds, are there races that have explored the mysteries of entering and leaving the void, and there are also existences like us that have just started their journey. Of course, powerful, void civilizations that are much stronger than us must also exist.

And always with malice.

They are coming, from the stars not far away, their warships are larger and more advanced than ours, and have experienced more baptisms of war, they found us, so they launched an attack, fierce artillery fire and can span The Void Special Forces attack caused us heavy losses. We retreated steadily, retreating step by step, we were oppressed back to the mother world, and were oppressed back to the mother galaxy. We were angry, but our fleet was a piece of scrap copper. Iron, even the "sister" was crushed by the powerful main gun fire, and the debris drifted scattered in orbit, forming a scattered asteroid ring-so we can only surrender, bow our heads and accept their control.

The Koshiya people, this is their name, they are a huge empire that occupies more than 40 worlds and governs five dependent countries. Our country must regard them as the suzerain, and our people must hand over a quarter of their own production One handed over, our scientists and extraordinary people were called by them at will. Although our fleet was not disbanded, we had to obey the other party's rule and engage in various dangerous battles.

We don't allow colonization, we don't allow expansion, we don't allow exploration, we don't allow research that they don't allow, they destroy our culture, try to transform our people, make us their exclusive miner race, but for various reasons, this The last step is always not successfully achieved.

This is our luck, but it is also a kind of sorrow - isn't it the saddest sorrow that intelligent life can feel when all fate is placed in the hands of luck?

And just as our fleet was preparing for routine work, patrolling the surrounding void to see if we could pick up some rare void resources, their orders came again: they detected a huge change in the nearby galaxy, and a war was about to begin. According to them, there are many civilizations, and even several extremely powerful civilizations are ready to see the situation. There may be conflicts between these existences, which will turn into melee, and they may be able to gain some benefits from it.

Of course, the danger is always up to us, and they get the benefits. This is the fate of losers and vassals. But even so, if we can pick up some advanced civilization warship wrecks, maybe we can slightly improve our technology and national strength... This is a hard-won opportunity for progress, and we have no choice.

So the mighty fleet sailed in the void, and we were the first to bear the brunt. The superhumans of the Koshiyas wore battle armor and moved together with the battleships, bringing dazzling magic light. We have also mastered this kind of brilliance, but our powerful supernatural The survivors will always be forcibly taken away by them, and will never return to our group, so our inheritance has become more and more scarce, and until now, it has been difficult to improve.

We galloped and leaped numbly, we shuttled through the void, and came to the empty void between galaxies and galaxies. The fluctuations of time and space were gentle, but we didn’t feel regret and fear until we came here—because in this vast and empty area Inside, it has already been occupied by countless civilized scout ships and fleets, and a huge fleet that is so huge that it can distort the galaxy is also advancing.

Those are the knowledge takers, one of the most powerful civilizations in this multi-dimensional galaxy. They silently cruise between the stars, passing through all the civilizations they are interested in, and taking over all the knowledge they are interested in. We should be grateful for our weakness and ignorance , because then they will not attack us, and the takeover will not waste their energy on a civilization that has already been confirmed as 'worthless'.

"We should retreat."

Soon, we sensed a brand new wave of energy, which is a wave of fear that makes people tremble even if countless stars are separated. There is no doubt that the existence coming here must be extremely powerful, and the other end of the galaxy also suddenly lights up A series of terrifying auras, the Knowledge Receiver and these two auras are three-legged. These incredibly powerful civilizations are confronting each other across the void between the galaxy and the galaxy. There is no doubt that this is no longer an area for weak beings like us to watch.

"keep going!"

But the orders of the Koshia people are still so outrageous... They are blinded by interests, but we know what they think. They speculate that the confrontation between these three powerful civilizations is because the civilization that put up a defensive array at the other end of the galaxy discovered What kind of secret treasure or extremely important ancient relic——they want to know what treasure and relic are guarding behind them, and try to get a little benefit from it.

The greed of the Koshiya people is actually not strange, nor crazy, because in this galaxy, because of the discovery of secret treasures and ancient ruins, there are many rapidly growing civilizations, and even we know a little about their legends and stories. It is no wonder that the Koshians who know better are mad about it, not to mention that it is we, not them, who take the risk, and they are naturally willing to be generous to others.

So we and other vassals were forced to move forward—we didn’t confront each other head-on, but detoured from another direction in the void. After all, the area connected between the galaxy and the galaxy is so vast that there is no need to take the shortest and most convenient straight line to reach it. ...and at this moment, the war broke out.

We can't describe the grand flames——the first to attack were the fleets that set up defenses at the other end of the galaxy. They were rare in number but had strange shapes. Eight giant void beasts as large as a small world became their barriers. Void The world on the back of the giant beast also began to slowly lift the shield, revealing the ferocious fortress group of biomass behind it, from which countless small ships like plants took off, densely packed like a swarm of bees.

Then, there is the massacre.

Most of the fleets that were watching, watching, or trying to bypass their direction like ours were destroyed in an instant, and it was not a simple explosion. We can see that the carapace spaceship in the distance was hit by a mass of distorted space, Then it turned into a plane like a painting in an instant, and finally turned into the finest dust under the correction of the void; we can see that most of the Lankemoi fleet was destroyed in the rapid attack that could not be seen with observation instruments The annihilated elements make them bright fireworks in the void; we can see that the shadows are spreading in the void, and all the warships that cannot dodge can only slowly sink in the darkness in vain after firing their main guns once or twice , and then swallowed into nothingness.

One after another, bright energy light particles like the sun rose from the flagships of those fleets. They formed a circular magic circle in the void, tearing apart time and space, as if they were summoning some huge machinery. Behind the crack, I saw the ferocious and beautiful scaled claws, and an extremely dangerous aura leaked out of it.

The fleet of knowledge takeovers is solid and powerful, their shields are connected as one, and they have received all the attacks, and they also started to fight back. The energy light particles flying at sub-light speed and the energy arc tearing time and space filled half of the void, we just He was able to evade hastily, and even rejected the furious command of the Koshia for the first time, turning directly to escape.

And those who turned and fled with us, there were countless other onlookers who were watching. They fled in embarrassment, their flags were drooping, and the neat array was full of holes. They seemed to be facing a nightmare. I can't understand, even if the wreckage is picked up, it may be a disaster rather than a blessing.

Battleships that were originally powerful in our eyes fell and turned into smoke and dust. The flagship of the Tatars lost its brilliance. Their huge ring-shaped battleships are now like donuts that have been eaten, and they are falling apart in the void. The void civilization fleet that was fighting against the Koshia in this star field was fleeing with howls, leaving behind a large number of incomplete warship wreckage, and we were able to receive their panicked hyperspace transmissions, which were full of panicked screams.

No matter what secret treasures or ruins, we are not able to get them. The Koshiya people are too arrogant. We are just ants in the starry sky, how can we get involved in the gladiator fights of giant beasts? A civilization without self-knowledge will eventually be destroyed.

Just like the Koshia people.

Most of the onlooker civilizations have been cleaned up. The knowledge takeover and the unknown civilization on the opposite side have done this at the same time. They have cleared the battlefield, and now they are confronting each other again, launching tentative attacks and defenses. The metal galaxy that is constantly advancing Also temporarily stopped, and began to build a magnificent void fortress-but just as the fish that slipped through the net will always exist, those Koshiya people and their families who did not turn their heads and flee with us actually passed through the dense firepower of both sides Net, survived from the frontline of the narrow escape.

They also seem to know their luck, so they sailed quickly without stopping at all, preparing to go to the depths of the galaxy to avoid the attacks of these two terrifying civilization fleets. , I can hear gibberish prayers... But the excitement is only temporary. They think they have escaped the attack range of both sides, but we can clearly know that this is not the case.

Like falling into an ice cave. When the huge circular magic circle tore through time and space and summoned the extremely huge steel creation into the void, our hearts were frozen. Although we don't know what it is used for at all, there is no doubt that It is a weapon that a super civilization needs to be treated with caution, and it is the crystallization of the highest technology.

Soon, we knew - it was a flower, a flower forged of steel, it was not yet in bloom, it looked like an oval seed, countless ducts made of flexible living metal like roots or Structures like blood vessels cover it, like veins made of metal, and these veins divide the entire seed into sixteen sectors, and each sector is divided by a transparent crystal layer.

But now, under the infusion of incomparable energy, this seed began to 'bloom', and the metal sector that was several thousand meters long began to stretch, turning into a petal-like shape. It is a huge, constantly rotating, expanding and contracting etheric light cluster. After breaking away from the shackles of the metal petals, this light cluster began to project light blue light bands like ribbons towards the surroundings. Like a silver-blue flower showing its flower core.

It was suspended in the void like this, covered by a bright and soft light blue light band, and the thick etheric radiance rolled and coiled around it, like a corona.

At the moment when the petals were in full bloom, we felt the extremely dangerous sight sweeping across the entire starry sky, he swept over us, and then ignored us who are weak, but even so, the feeling that even the inside of the skeleton has been seen through is still immersed in our souls In the middle, he stared at everything in the void indifferently, and then silently focused his gaze on the Koshia fleet.

The light bloomed from the metal flower, and the pale blue etheric brilliance passed through the dark void and shone on the proud fleet of the Koshia.

And then they were gone—for a split second, completely.

The Koshian fleet is lost—

The number exceeds 5,000 ships, and there are many vassal fleets. This fleet has a history of more than thousands of years. It has conquered double-digit void civilizations, has multiple vassals, and won countless honors. This fleet has been recorded and praised by thousands of history books , leaving behind many brilliant military achievements and legendary fleets, just like dust in the sun, tears in the rain, quietly disappear into nothingness, and whether it is them or us, or others who are quietly in the distance The civilization that peeked at this scene could not understand all of this.

How did they do that?

But now is not the time to wonder.

We are running fast.

Thousands of warships were destroyed, and the main fleet of the Koshia tribe was destroyed. It is not surprising that these existences that rely on force to suppress, conquer, and enslave other civilizations have such an ending, but we are heartbroken, because the fleet There are also our compatriots, who were recruited by the Koshia people, reluctantly left the tundra homeland of their home planet, and became the minions of the Koshia people. They have not returned to us for decades or hundreds of years , but they are still our compatriots, and their deaths grieve our hearts.

But now we can only flee in fear.

This is no longer a road that can be passed by 'lucky', no longer an arena that can be watched by 'cautious', but a battlefield for decisive battles between advanced civilizations. Again—but this is the doomed end of a weak civilization. We don't hate, we just feel angry. If we fall behind, we will be beaten and exploited. Only this truth has always been engraved in our hearts.

but.

The main fleet of the Koshia people has been completely destroyed, but we are intact... and the Koshia people's squadron has to suppress other vassals and guard their huge territory and territory... The war of super civilization may be ours Opportunity.

—Farewell, enslaved past.

We looked back and saw once more where our countrymen and the fleet of the Koshians had disappeared.

The trail left by the pale blue light in the void still shines brightly.

The silver, gold, and black fleets are behind the huge Void Behemoth, guarding the huge Steel Flower—it is spinning in the void, and the petals around the sixteen crystals have a strange and dangerous light.

What we long for, envy, curiosity and excitement, look at that powerful, 'light'.

Named 'civilization', 'light'.

——In this year, called the Year of Rejuvenation, the flag of the metal flower representing 'freedom' fluttered over the parent star. We, the Obuzels, finally broke free from the shackles and were able to look at the starry sky with a free body.

Not counting as water, let me describe the civilization status and battlefield of the multi-dimensional galaxy from the side. Today there are 2 updates, and the second update has been written halfway.