Soul of Burning Steel

Just when Joshua and Nostradamus launched a long chase with the Void Mother Beast in the distant light galaxy, a small group of Atrium soldiers dressed in military uniforms appeared in the orbit of the gas giant Poseidon, in the cosmic fortress of the Atrium people. The front face is in a hurry, walking on the passage leading to the interior of the battleship, looking extremely worried.

"There were at least six ultra-high-energy reactions around the asteroid belt in just 30 minutes. It is obvious that the battle of void creatures is rapidly approaching the Neptune star fortress."

The commander of the First Fleet said to the technical officer beside him in an anxious and impatient tone: "Although there are other fortresses behind us——but how many seconds can a fortress without a fleet block the female beast? What is the technical department doing?" What are you doing, that thing hasn't been made yet!"

"Not yet, sir."

Hearing the commander of the First Fleet asking about the progress of the project so seriously, the officer of the technical department immediately replied cautiously: "The general structure has been assembled, but the energy pressure is not enough to launch it... There is no such thing as that on the Seagod Fortress." A powerful engine."

When he said this, the officer had a distressed expression on his face: As the people in the courtyard themselves, except for summoning void life, the production of that was already on the agenda at the Sea God Fortress, but no one would have thought that its energy consumption It was so terrifying that the energy supply of the entire fortress was far from enough.

"Then connect the engine on the spaceship to the fortress."

Without any thought, the commander of the First Fleet has already arrived at the short-distance teleportation entrance leading to his flagship, and he said in a rather depressed tone: "I will inform Barney and Xila later, the Second Fleet and the Third Fleet will agree."

"Not enough." But the officer of the Technical Department shook his head and said, "Sir, we have already calculated that even if the engines of the three fleets are all put on, the energy intensity will be a bit short when the basic power is guaranteed."

"What?!"

This news immediately made the fleet commander who was about to board the flagship unsteady, and almost fell. He turned his head, and his angry expression seemed to want to curse, but after all, he was the commander of a fleet. Controlling the irritable mood, he gritted his teeth and said, "It can't even be started, what's the difference between it and scrap iron!"

Is it really going to be planted here? Void monsters can't even be defeated, and after encountering a female beast, they are crushed to death like ants? !

The officer of the technical department seemed to want to open his mouth to explain, but before he really started to explain, a huge leap precursor with an obvious quality far exceeding the previous one suddenly appeared in the Seagod Fortress, in the jump guidance field, and in an instant, Whether it's the commander or the officers, the soldiers or the logistics, they all looked into the distance at the same time. They all held their breath, guessing whether it was the terrifying Void Mother Beast or something else.

Fortunately, the transition channel is silver-blue, which is the color of the psionic energy of the people in the courtyard, and those who are sensitive to psionic energy are delighted to know that the other party is not a short-distance person inside the galaxy. Teleportation, but from the direction of the mother star!

In the next moment, thousands of cutting-edge warships with shiny outer armor appeared in the eyes of all the soldiers of the Sea God Star Fortress as thousands of circular transition passages unfolded, and cheers like a mountain and a tsunami sounded.

And next to the port, when the commander of the First Fleet watched the reinforcements from the home planet in the distance—the Central Fleet of the Atrium—slowly approaching the port of the Sea God Star Fortress, he was not as excited as others. The officer seemed to have thought of something, then immediately grabbed the officer of the technical department beside him, and said in a low voice: "You said, if you add the engines of these warships, is it enough to start?"

The officer was stunned for a while, as if he was calculating in his mind, then he grinned and said, "That's enough, sir."

But before the two of them finished their conversation, a group of extremely dazzling rays of light suddenly appeared in a star field not far from the Neptune Star Fortress. This light lit up like a supernova, releasing a strong light that no one could look directly at. , it can be seen that a light golden circular energy fluctuation visible to the naked eye spreads from a distance of 360 degrees, sweeping all the facilities of the people in the courtyard, and the departments in charge of investigation and information collection in the fortress immediately fell into panic , because the powerful energy radiation even burned down the detectors and radars of the fortress, covering up the sharp psionic probes, making the entire fortress blind.

But there is no need for detection facilities. At this moment, whether it is the three fleets that were originally in the Neptune Star Fortress, or the Central Fleet that just jumped from the Atrium home planet, they all understood one thing by coincidence.

That is, whether it is victory or defeat, the battlefield between the mother beast and those two void beings has already arrived at the orbit of Seagod, they must prepare early, and even... take the initiative to attack.

At the same time, the far-beam galaxy, the orbit of Neptune.

A gigantic monster with a body length of nearly one million meters and a thousand kilometers is rolling and spinning in the cosmic vacuum at high speed and pain. The dark green spiritual energy is accompanied by the waving of tentacles and joint limbs, bringing up waves of vacuum energy tides, Several asteroids pulled out of the asteroid belt by it were hit by the aftermath, and they were shattered into flying debris in the sky.

At this moment, tens of thousands of huge holes appeared all over the body of the Void Mother Beast, in which a dark green high-temperature slurry spewed out, and then condensed into balls of almost black ice in the cold vacuum. That is the result of its high-speed metabolism and regeneration in order to expel foreign bodies in its body—but even with such a violent rejection reaction, the female beast can't do anything about the foreign bodies in its body. It is ironic to be invaded by other creatures into the core area of ​​the body.

Not long after, the Void Mother Beast suddenly stopped advancing rapidly and rolling, but stopped in the cosmic space blankly as if dead. The shield began to dissipate, but the next moment, it suddenly began to struggle violently. Layers of carapace, flesh and energy veins were all twisted together, forming countless wrinkles, and countless originally curved tentacles were even more on the surface of the body. Stretched straight, it really looks like a huge cosmic sea urchin at this moment.

Then, countless light golden rays of light began to erupt from the tens of thousands of huge holes all over the body of the female beast, like thousands of sharp swords composed of rays of light. It also opened countless wounds, and more intense hot light and energy impact erupted from it, lighting up a new star in the cosmic vacuum, and the extremely hot high temperature even ignited the body of the female beast within one tenth of a second. The carapace and flesh and blood of the watch completely turned it into a huge ball of fire, making it look like a small sun.

At the same time, a small silver dot seemed to be ejected by the violent energy impact, and flew out from the deepest part of the female beast's body along an extremely bright energy beam, and he flew hundreds of kilometers rapidly in space Finally, a little life reaction was revealed after a while, a light silver halo so weak that it seemed to be shattered at any time appeared around this small silver dot, making him stop flying with the aftermath of the explosion.

"...cough cough."

Expelling the exhaust gas from his throat, the tattered Joshua, who was bombarded by the explosion he made, opened his eyes weakly, and looked at the Void Mother Beast that had completely turned into a fireball in the distance. At this moment, he had no intention of caring about himself No matter what the result of the attack was, he raised his four arms tremblingly, and then faced each other, lighting a silver light above his empty chest.

Having lost the Furnace of the Fusion Core, Joshua can only use the little energy left to keep his body alive and moving, but that little energy can revitalize a legendary powerhouse, even if it can make a warrior Drifting in the universe can't last long. The only thing that the warrior is thankful for now is that he didn't go into a coma in the horrible explosion, wasting a small amount of energy, but maintained a trace of sobriety, allowing him to leave the body of the female beast. There is still a part of the energy reserve inside, so that I have the capital to turn over.

With his eyes closed and his four arms facing each other, Joshua mobilized a sliver of steel power with his last energy, and began to shape something in the void rapidly. Although he couldn't see the objects in the silver light clearly at first, but soon, You can see that it is a primitive circular energy core. This kind of structure can only be seen in the body of Warcraft in Mycroft Continent. The utilization efficiency of free energy in nature is extremely low. Let alone the body of a legendary strong man, even Ordinary small airships cannot support it.

But this is the limit that Joshua can use now - with his current energy reserves, it is completely impossible to manipulate the power of steel to directly shape a furnace of the level of the fusion core. He can only proceed step by step, from nowhere To have a little upgrade.

The full use of energy is a sign of the progress of civilization. In the early primitive times, intelligent creatures used the energy in burning trees and grass clippings. Then as civilization progressed, they learned how to place firewood to make it burn more fully. They also learned to use the power of the river to operate machinery, use various tools to save energy, and later, steam, electricity, and nuclear energy. Every time the energy is fully utilized, it is a leap forward for civilization. From primitive combustion to fusion reaction, the wisdom contained in it is the same.

The same is true for extraordinary individuals. At this time, Joshua, because he used his heart furnace as a weapon to attack the energy core and thought center of the Void Mother Beast, had no other energy sources in his body except for some reserves, so he could only start from the most primitive and simple way. , the least energy-intensive imitation monster core began to imitate——I could see immediately, accompanied by a flash of silver light, a translucent and impurity-free primitive magic core with a radius of more than ten meters appeared in the chest of the soldier , it connected the various organs in the warrior's body, and then began to rapidly absorb the surrounding free energy, initially recovering the energy supply of several most important parts.

Originally, with Joshua's organs consuming energy, one primitive magic core would supply enough energy, not to mention a few, but because of the previous explosion in the Void Mother Beast, the majestic energy fluctuations were heading towards As it spread in all directions, the over-enriched energy overloaded Joshua's magic core, satisfying part of his needs.

The warrior who got the energy source did not stop his movements. With the silver light flashing again, countless runes and energy circuits appeared on the original magic core, one after another like circuit boards. A regular texture appears on top of it and adjusts its shape. Not long after, a circle of energy-sweeping wings similar to solar panels appeared on the outer layer of the original spherical magic core. Driven by the runes, it collected the surrounding energy more efficiently. In just a moment, Joshua's surroundings Within a few thousand meters, it turned into an energy vacuum, and the endless energy began to restore the supply of more organs, allowing the soldiers to initially recover their mobility and gold-level energy.

From the original magic core to the energy centers used by various magic workshops and magic puppets, all that is needed are a few simple runes and energy circuits, but what is contained in them is the research and development of dozens of generations in the Mycroft world. Diligent optimization. But this energy center didn't exist for too long, and it was transformed and upgraded again by Joshua using the power of steel—only seven colors of light suddenly lit up in the originally translucent energy center, which were the colors of elements. It is also the color of energy. Countless energies that generate and inhibit each other begin to circulate in the core. It does not need to plunder the free energy from the outside on a large scale, but starts to produce energy by consuming some high-energy substances provided by Joshua.

This is combustion, but it is tens of millions of times more advanced than combustion. The heat produced by a piece of wood cannot be the same as that produced by rocket fuel, and the same is true in terms of energy. After upgrading the energy source in his body to the level of many high-level mage towers and giant war puppets in one breath, Joshua finally breathed a sigh of relief—at this moment, he could already see a trace of energy radiance flashing in the center of his originally empty chest. Although the moving colors are not comparable to the sun-like heart at the beginning, it is a huge improvement compared to before, which is almost equivalent to the energy that can only be produced by several extreme intentions.

At this point, Joshua didn't bother to continue to upgrade step by step. With much more abundant energy than before, he simply and neatly used the power of steel, and began to rapidly transform the energy furnace in his body - from being able to self-recover energy reserves From the core of the elements, to the resonant furnace core that uses energy to resonate with the surrounding great sources, to the star pulse furnace that directly connects the time-space fluctuations in the outer void to obtain the power of the stars, the energy furnace core in the warrior's body is updated to a new generation in almost a few seconds, almost Re-engraved the history of the energy furnace in the Mycroft continent until the end.

A gray steel ball rotates rapidly in a ring like a star ring. It flashes with countless shining blue arcs all the time, and is then received by the star ring. The magnetic energy core that resonates with the electromagnetic field of the stars can provide Joshua with an endless stream of energy that is almost equivalent to legends in a universe like the world of stars, but this is not the end of the warrior's pursuit. With the power of silver steel Flashing, the gray steel ball began to shrink. Under the pressure from Joshua, the magnetic energy core, which almost represented an endless source of energy, was endlessly compressed and condensed in the distorted gravitational field, and then...

Boom, accompanied by an undetectable roar, a fireball like the sun exploded suddenly, as if it wanted to jump out of the soldier's chest, but under the restraint of the powerful electromagnetic and gravitational field, it was incorporated into the center of the chest, In the depths of the hearth that had been prepared for it long ago, as the miniature sun returned to his body, Joshua opened his eyes, and a golden light shot out from it.

It took forty-five minutes for Joshua to reshape the furnace of the Fusion Core and return to the legendary state.

Only then did he have the strength to sense the dilapidated female beast that had flown half a light second away.

"It's still not dead?"

Sensing the void female beast that had been blasted from a round shape into a crescent moon, but could barely move, Joshua couldn't help frowning. He moved his arms, trying to restore the pitted shell as much as possible, Let the furnace core, which has just started to burn and is still very weak for the time being, give priority to restoring the energy supply of the combat parts as much as possible: "I remember that the chain reaction blew up at least six energy cores and severely damaged the thinking center—"

Even so, since Joshua was able to regenerate the fusion core furnace in less than an hour, it is not surprising that the female beast with two energy cores is still alive. In this way, the female beast whose core exploded changed from a round full moon form to a crescent moon missing one side by Joshua. This injury is not insignificant. Then again, even if the Void Mother Beast has two energy cores left, it can drag such a huge body to move. This energy utilization efficiency is no less than that of the fusion core furnace, and in some cases, it is even more stable. Joshua decided that if he had the chance, he must figure out the structure of the energy core. It might be the design structure of the first level of the plague god.

But why didn't the void mother beast take this opportunity to kill me? Although it will definitely not succeed, the other party should at least try. Thinking of this, Joshua once again sensed the direction of the mother beast, and then his face changed slightly: "The fleet of the people in the courtyard?! No, it's the Sea God Star Fortress!"

The long and fast pursuit actually allowed Joshua and the Void Mother Beast to go all the way from the edge of the distant light star field to the periphery of the orbit of Neptune, which is located in the outer layer of the galaxy.

And at this moment, from the direction where the Atrium People's Fleet was located in the distance, there was an extremely powerful wave of psychic energy that even shocked Joshua! This made the warrior immediately gallop towards the direction of the female beast and the Zhongtingren fleet regardless of the fact that he was still in a weak stage.

He had a hunch that those people in the atrium who seemed to have been defeated repeatedly were not as fragile as everyone imagined.

Tomorrow's last chapter, the fight is almost over... Although it's a bit procrastinated, I still want to write the whole battle according to the plan...