Soul of Burning Steel

After finishing speaking, Joshua stared at the creature in front of him who called himself the 'Central Man'.

This is a race that has a human form, but its appearance is very similar to that of the tree people. If you look at Mill Habs as an average point, they are generally tall, basically about two meters high, with two observation organs and an extremely developed psionic core on their heads, and mouths, but no ears. The facial features such as the nose look slightly permeable at first glance, this is because their essence is still caused by plants.

The body structure of the Atrium people is highly similar to that of humans, but after observing it, Joshua discovered that their internal organs are extremely special. Their thinking center is located at the spine, a long flexible and translucent strip similar to the core of a tree, on which there are many There are densely packed tiny tentacles, and all other organs and even the entire body grow out of this spine tentacles. In addition, the tree core also has the ability to vibrate the air with psychic energy and make a sound, which should be used to communicate with the same kind who have not developed psychic energy enough to communicate with each other.

In general, the appearance of the Zhongting people has a strange sense of disobedience. In Joshua's view, they definitely have a more suitable appearance, but for various reasons, they forcibly distorted themselves into their current appearance.

And the facts also proved this point - there was only a slight energy fluctuation, and the fibrous cortex all over the body of Mill Habs who was lifted up by him was rapidly regenerating under the urging of spiritual energy, and it was almost completely destroyed in just a few seconds. The regeneration is complete. This fibrous cortex is extremely tight, showing a slightly transparent off-white color. After being covered by this cortex, Mill Habs, who can only be said to be a human figure composed of countless roots, whiskers and leaves, suddenly turned into a humanoid figure. Mycroft's human appearance is extremely similar - a tall and steady middle-aged man. The only difference that can be seen is that the hair of the Atrium Man is made of thick green leaves, and there are also willow-like branches at the bottom. roots.

——This race, imitating the appearance of sages, has lost its own appearance by imitating.

Looking at this scene, Joshua couldn't help sighing in his heart. He didn't think that the human form must be the most perfect shape in this multiverse. Because of the difference in environment and ecology, each race will have a body that best suits their civilization. Obviously, the atrium people, who are essentially plant life, do not adapt to the human form, but with their superb spiritual power and self-transformation, they unexpectedly forcibly modified their race into this.

But this matter is not important. After sorting out his thoughts a little, Joshua asked: "I already know that you are about to face the attack of the void behemoth... But I don't know the specific situation yet, can you describe it in detail? .”

Through the link of the power of steel, he can now have a barrier-free conversation with the leader of the courtyard in front of him who calls himself Mir Habs, but this does not mean that Joshua has learned the language of the people of the courtyard. The psychic live broadcast and various video recording devices watched this scene. The scientific researchers and fleet commanders could only hear the pronunciation that was completely different from their civilization, but with cadences.

"Mr. Consul's psychic link is wrapped by a strange power—he can understand the language of that void life!"

"Analyze as soon as possible! A kind, communicable void life whose appearance is so similar to the void saint... He may be the existence of the real saint!"

During the analysis of the Void Life Event Handling Committee, referred to as the committee’s subordinates, dozens of the most knowledgeable linguists in the current atrium civilization, who had already prepared, began to feel nervous and joyful through the video recording of Joshua’s voice, expression, and intonation. The analysis started, and the psionic link from Mill Habs provided them with great convenience, and also made them understand more clearly the kindness expressed by this void life.

Since the spiritual awakening of all the people in the atrium thousands of years ago, more and more people have been able to resonate and link with each other, and finally formed a huge network of psychic power that almost covers the entire star of the atrium. Through this network, most people Some people with advanced psychic abilities can achieve zero-delay information exchange through this network. A linguist can figure out what the soldier just said.

"Why didn't Mill Habs do anything?!"

On the other side, above the sky, in the flagship of the Forerunner, Taquin watched the broadcast on the bridge, not only did not feel happy in his heart, but instead grabbed the crutch in his hand, the slightly old commander had wrinkles on his face. Stacked up layer by layer, it can be seen that it is extremely nervous: "The energy peak of the Psionic Pillar is about to fall! If you don't use the power of the entire planet's psionic power to control that guy now, you will never have another chance! "

Unlike other high-level atrium officials who viewed Joshua's actions optimistically, Taquin, who had personally experienced the war against crystal insects, was extremely wary of any void life. In its view, although Joshua did not immediately It started to destroy, but wasn't it the same for the crystal insects back then? During the few years when they were just summoned, the crystal insects not only made a great contribution to the material science of the entire Atrium civilization, but also excavated several asteroid mines that could not be excavated with the technology at that time, providing the Atrium people with a lot of H.

But in the end, it struck back, not only emptied all the benefits it brought, but also severely damaged the vitality of the people in the courtyard, and fell into a dark age of civil strife and division. It was not until more than a thousand years later that the courtyard went to the starry sky again.

Temporary goodwill is meaningless, who knows if this void life will be frightened and turn against it when it sees that asteroid-like void behemoth? When the entire civilization is alive and dead, in order to avoid all accidents, Tarquin believes that it is the best choice to use powerful psychic power to control each other than to communicate.

In fact, there are quite a few high-level military officials who think similarly to him. These atrium people who have more or less experienced that dark age are extremely vigilant against all outside life. In their cognition, Joshua is a powerful and uncontrollable extremely dangerous force, which is used by the atrium people The most dangerous double-edged sword, if they don't use strong means, they are likely to be slashed by this sword in reverse.

On the solemn stage, Mill Habs, who had recovered from the shock of a series of actions after Joshua's arrival, smiled awkwardly. What are the old friends thinking? They must be desperately shouting behind the screen to preside over the ceremony and control the void life in front of them who calls themselves [Joshua Van Radcliffe]. Let’s not talk about it In fact, it doesn't want to do this, even if it wants to, it can't do it!

From the very beginning, its control over the ceremony was taken away by a powerful will from the other side of the void veil. Although the mighty beam of spiritual energy seemed to be controlled by it, it had actually completely become What belongs to others, and when it comes to control...Through instinctive telepathy, Mirhabs can sense how terrifying this life in front of him is--around him, there are almost endless, countless There are hundreds of thousands of pure psionic fragments, which contain endless resentment and despair.

It was these fragments that eroded the psychic beam of light and released the halo of despair before, but now, the psychic fragments that almost caused chaos in the fleet formation in the center of the atrium stayed obediently around this existence without any change.

——To control a super life that can suppress hundreds of thousands of resentment fragments and still act as if nothing happened? Taquin, this is not a void creature like crystal insects with simple thinking and almost no intelligence... This is an existence far beyond your and my imagination.

An existence related to the Void Saint.

Thinking of this, Mill Habs, the supreme consul of the Holy Council, bowed cautiously and respectfully to Joshua. While shaking the atmosphere with psychic energy, it communicated with the spirit of the warrior in its mind: "Your response to our family's crisis Enthusiasm is really touching... However, the information related to the Void Behemoth is in the [Mother Tree Hall], which is closely guarded by several Omega-level psykers, so there is no way to display it immediately. But if you want, I will immediately take you there."

"The sooner the better, the invasion of Chaos never waits, they may launch an attack at any time."

Nodding slightly, Joshua's character has always been so straightforward. He came to this world to eradicate chaos and complete the task of controlling the will of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice. Nothing to do, paused for a while, the soldier said again: "Introduce your civilization."

"Yes."

Mill Habs led Joshua down the solemn platform on the top of the holy mountain. In Joshua's perception, this temple with strange shapes and materials contained an obvious sage atmosphere, and there was a host With the almost infinite spiritual sustenance of the Zhongting people, it is no wonder that the ceremony of gathering power to summon him is held here. If it is not here, it is absolutely impossible for the spiritual power gathered by millions of people to be able to tear the world apart to the point of the wall.

In Mill Habs' narration, Joshua also had a general understanding of the civilization of the people in the courtyard.

millions of years ago. The ancestor of the Zhongting people, a strange tree that reproduces by splitting the root system, suddenly possessed the ability to sense spiritual energy due to frequent thunderstorms and volcanic eruptions at that time. Because of the stimulation of spiritual energy, this spiritual plant gradually Possessing wisdom, began to understand the meaning of self, and although its split offspring lost the spiritual power, but inherited that wisdom, this was the beginning of the civilization of the people in the courtyard.

After millions of years of continuous honing and evolution, today's Atrium people have become a powerful interstellar race that can explore the starry sky and colonize the shape under the guidance of the [Void Saint] and their unremitting efforts. The characteristics of plant life, they actually don't like to migrate, but settle in their hometown. Although their lifespan is as long as thousands of years, their reproduction speed is unimaginably slow.

An Atrium man can exchange pollen with another Atrium man—that is, the reproductive information is used to produce daughter plants. The daughter plants are split from the core of their spines. This process takes 75 to 125 years. During this period, the child plants The psionic level of the people in the middle court will drop several levels, and it will not be restored until the division of the daughter plants is complete. If you really don't want to socialize with others, then the celibate Atrium people can also split themselves, and the time is the same.

Although the gestation time is long, but fortunately, the descendants of the Zhongting people have the knowledge of their parents when they are born. Those who are too advanced may be forgotten due to the imperfection of the thinking organs, but the basic knowledge can be passed down. Greatly saves time in education. An Atrium person will only give birth to offspring 2 to 3 times in a lifetime, 1 to 3 offspring each time. The slow population increase makes them not like to fight, because once they lose a large number of their own race, if the population cannot be replenished, the entire civilization may be destroyed. It will all collapse because of this, and it is precisely because of this that the massacre of the crystal insects on the Yezhiting star caused such and such a long aftermath.

The political structure of the Atrium is similar to that of a human republic, governed by the Holy Council, an arbitral body composed of a large number of elite psykers, and the Supreme Archon, who is the most powerful psyker on the planet. When he said this, Mill Habs showed a slightly tired wry smile. As the leader of a civilization, although it has great rights, it also bears huge responsibilities, just like being in charge of the Void Door Ceremony this time. However, if it wasn't Joshua who summoned some other terrifying void monster, it would definitely be the first to die in the line of duty as the summoner.

"Actually, I am not the supreme leader of the people in the courtyard."

After a wry smile, Mill Habs brought Joshua to the group of temples on the high platform, and said helplessly: "Although the supreme consul is said to be a lifelong officer, as long as someone's spiritual power exceeds me, I will It will be replaced within four years, and the same is true for the hundreds of members of the Holy Council, and both the Supreme Consul and the Holy Council serve the real supreme leader."

"Oh? So who is the supreme leader?"

Hearing this, Joshua asked curiously. Although he already had some guesses in his mind, he still wanted Mir Habs to speak out by himself.

"It's hard to explain in words... After you go to the Mother Tree Hall, you will probably understand."

Mill Habs seems to really not know how to describe it better, so he can only skip this paragraph, and in the temple, there are already many atrium priests in robes standing aside respectfully waiting for instructions, even if they are Joshua, who was a void life, walked in front of them. These priests with powerful psychic power and will did not even look up, but just after Mill Habs said the word Mother Tree Hall, a leader was clearly The priest stepped forward and said respectfully: "The spiritual energy transition gate is ready, Mr. Supreme Consul, it can be used at any time."

"okay, I get it."

After a brief response to the leading priest, Mill Habs immediately led Joshua towards the direction of the spiritual energy transition gate. While walking, he asked cautiously: "Mr. Radcliffe ...You seem to know the existence of the Void Saint? Excuse me, he..."

It seems to want to ask some information about the void saint, and wants to know the relationship between Joshua and the saint.

In fact, this question, whether it is for the warrior or it, is nonsense. Leaving aside Joshua's reaction to water droplets before, just his appearance can prove that he has a close relationship with the sages, let alone the warrior's whole body. He was pulled over by the distress message sent by the relics of the sages, but he knew that he knew that it was more important to admit a certain situation himself than to acquiesce, so Mill Habs still asked in a roundabout way.

"The sage is one of the civilization-builders of our world."

Joshua thought about the question of the Atrium Consul, and then replied in the simplest way: "He is not only the saint of your world, but of many worlds. The saint is greater than you imagined, You were able to summon me because of the foreshadowing left by the sages."

"And I am his inheritor after dozens of generations."

Joshua sincerely admired the sage's strength and generosity. Not to mention other things, the teleportation of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field, which is enough to span the multiverse scale, is far beyond the imagination of many people, not to mention the wonderful ability to control the will.

Of course, the warrior could sense that the moment he was summoned, that huge psychic beam of light wanted to invade his spirit and control him. This is actually a standard configuration for many summoning ceremonies. Many warlocks do this to summon demons. Otherwise, how can those summoned beings be able to command the spellcaster? Although Joshua thought he was not weak, he was still not as good as the combined power of a planetary psyker, but during the last period of transmission, the ruling will forcibly took over the control of the ceremony. He also couldn't rely on the psychic light beam to control him, which greatly increased his strength.

You must know that in the Sixth Abyss, Joshua's full-strength form was only about 100 meters long, and after more than half a year of training, he was only a little over 140 meters long, and under the boost of the spiritual beam of light, he easily It can condense a steel giant of 400 meters or even larger. You must know that Joshua at that time did not fully understand the power of steel in this strange world, so he could not exert his full strength, but he could use it when he was not at full strength. The power beyond the original limit, this kind of increase can only be described as horror.

Passing through the quaint rock corridor, and following Mill Habs around a corner, Joshua has already seen the spiritual energy transition gate not far away in the center of the temple on the top of the mountain—this is a kind of teleportation gate similar to the Mycroft Continent. There are some similar strange psychic creations, it seems that in terms of time and space, the difference between the two civilizations is not that big.

"It's almost time to lift the combat alert."

Thinking of this, the warrior took off the giant sword and giant ax behind his back, and the next moment was accompanied by a strong wave of magic power. Under the tense and guarded eyes of Mir Habs who turned his head suddenly, the curious Yingying and The calm Rin appeared in front of the Supreme Consul of the atrium.

"The magic power in this place is very thin, master." The silver-haired girl's psychic body was a little flickering, she first closed her eyes to sense the free energy around her, and then said with some worry: "To be precise, it's not thin, It’s a huge difference from Mycroft’s world, Rin and I may not be able to operate for a long time.”

"That's true...the magic power here feels like it's mixed with the natural power of the elves..." After speaking, Rin suddenly turned his head, looked in the direction of the solemn platform, and said something strange to himself: "Hey, master, look, that wave is a bit familiar..."

Without Rin's reminder, Joshua turned around a long time ago, frowned and looked at the majestic platform—that is, the high platform where Mirhabs held the Void Gate Ceremony. He also sensed an extremely familiar wave, and the soldier endured Can't help saying: "No way? How is it possible?!"

At this moment, Mir Habs and the surrounding temple priests were still in shock when they saw Hotaru and Rin suddenly appearing. The Supreme Consul blinked his three eyes, and said in disbelief: "I didn't realize...we Actually summoned three void existences at once?!"

Without waiting for its shock to continue fermenting, outside the temple, on the solemn platform on the top of the mountain, a huge mechanical will came again, accompanied by violent waves in time and space like the sea, a dark blue space-time The door suddenly appeared at the very center of the high platform——before Joshua could communicate with the ruling will of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Field that reappeared, a figure rushed out from the gate of time and space and came to the high platform. He staggered, Almost fell down, it can be seen that the process of teleportation was hasty.

Sensing the extremely familiar aura, Joshua appeared outside the temple in the blink of an eye. He flew up to the high platform and looked at the figure that suddenly appeared. Even though he was as calm as a soldier, he couldn't help exclaiming: "No Chardamus?! Why are you here?!"

And following Joshua's footsteps to the outside of the temple, Mill Habs, who looked at the place where the huge energy fluctuations were, was completely shocked to the point of being speechless——

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-atrium man-

-Racial Traits: Sedentary, Slow Growth, Venerable, Repulsive, Sociable-

-Title of Head of State: Supreme Consul-

-The highest level: mother tree-

- Mother star name: Atrium Star, Jungle Planet -

-Ideology: extreme idealism, xenophobia-

- Political system: Oligarchy. Political leaning: meritocracy, high priesthood -

This chapter is a bit difficult to write...