Soul of Burning Steel

Starfall 837, June 11th, Northern Empire, Lord's Mansion in the inner city of Moldavia.

In the kitchen of the mansion, a silver-haired girl was humming a slightly out-of-key light tune, sorting out the ingredients that had just been delivered.

The girl squinted her eyes happily, a pair of eyes were like fluorescent green crystals, and there was a magical light shining like a flame inside - just from this point alone, one could know that her master's strength had surpassed the gap between silver and gold. Barrier, became a member of the superior superhumans, and at this time, this young gold-ranked girl tied her long silver hair into a ponytail, and then happily stood in front of the sink, washing a string of full-grained purple hair. red grapes.

The attractive fruity aroma mixed with the clearly sensed vitality fluctuations came from this seemingly ordinary bunch of grapes. After cleaning, it was placed in the crystal fruit plate beside it. A lot of fruit, all the way to the study on the second floor of the Lord's Mansion.

Along the way, in the corridor by the window, you can see the black dragon girl floating on the water in human form in the courtyard outside the window. Hei took advantage of someone not to interrupt training on his own, but instead ran to the North Confused Sea to swim. Now, the black dragon girl who has doubled her training is actually grounded in Moldavia because of her physical exhaustion. Taking a dip in the pool is a rare time for her to rest.

Passing the hall, you can hear the calm conversation. Rin is instructing the maids in the mansion to replace all kinds of decorations inside the lord's mansion, because the master's loot is too much, and a small castle can't be displayed at all, so it is similar to the dragon head. Decorations such as magic horns and devil specimens are changed every season. For ordinary people, this matter should be horrifying. Whether it is the keel or the horn of the monster, they all carry part of their coercion in life, not to mention the malicious fluctuations brought by the demon specimens. The expression, but it seems to be very used to it.

Walking up to the second floor and passing by the secret room, Ying heard No. 3 talking to herself. Naturally, she couldn't understand the words of "server load 45%" and "hey, why is there a bug again here". Ever since information terminals began to be officially popularized, artificial intelligence girls seem to talk to themselves like this from time to time. Fortunately, No. 3 has many clones. Now the one in the Lord's Mansion is only used for work. According to Yingying Knowing that the other party has at least two clones in the city, one is responsible for reading and walking, and the other is responsible for monitoring and eating.

Walking slowly, Ying opened the door of the study, she entered with a fruit plate, and then placed it in front of a man who was sitting on the sofa and was meditating with his eyes closed.

"Master, this is a special grape recently developed by the elves. According to them, it can speed up wound healing and provide a certain amount of vitality—of course, the most important thing is that it is delicious."

Said softly, the silver-haired girl knew that although the man in front of him was meditating with his eyes closed, if he wanted to, he could scan the entire Northland with his eyes closed, even the relics and monsters thousands of meters deep underground.

"Well, thank you very much."

Opening his eyes, Joshua nodded slightly. He casually picked up half a bunch of grapes from the crystal fruit plate on the table in front of him, and then threw it into his mouth. He nodded: "It tastes good. The ability to speed up wound healing is similar to No. 14 holy water in a short period of time. The extra vitality can also slightly strengthen the physique... The elves have cultivated something good."

"Hey——" Yingying, who had already sat beside Joshua and was about to serve the soldiers, blinked her big green eyes. She looked at the grapes that had lost half, and complained in disappointment: "This—at least let me finish peeling..."

What's there to peel a grape.

Although he thought so in his heart, Joshua didn't say it out—if he had to say it, he didn't need to eat at all now, whether it was peeling grapes or eating, it was just a human habit for him And rituals... life is what it is, no need to take it too seriously.

On the side of the study room, the newly purchased large LCD screen is playing the rebroadcast of the morning news of the Royal Channel. Amid the melodious music, two hosts, a man and a woman, preached about the general trend of foreign countries from the purge actions within the empire. , Specially invited speakers from Mage Weekly also spoke frequently, explaining the inside story in detail. Generally speaking, it is probably that foreign countries are in dire straits and domestic reforms are active.

In less than two months, the world has changed very differently. Not to mention other things, the LCD screen and its extended "news reports" and "current events analysis" can be called revolutionary develop.

Through the joint research and promotion of the Academy of Wintercastle and the White Tower of Guantian, LCD screens have become popular across half the continent, and almost all rich people with a little money will have an LCD screen in their homes. This kind of special crystal, which comes from the derivative of the ancient dragon, can adjust the color and brightness through special electromagnetic waves and magic power. It is a natural magic material, and it can even be said to be a naturally formed magic creation itself. Tianbai Pagoda has been able to produce liquid crystals on a large scale and sell them as supplies.

"There are so many novel things recently."

Sitting beside Joshua, Ying carefully peeled a grape and put it into Joshua's mouth. She glanced at the LCD screen and said with emotion: "I feel that the changes in the past seven or eight years are not the same as in the last half a year." big."

"Of course."

Joshua was eating grapes, he looked at the LCD screen, and replied casually: "After all, this is a new era."

Since the end of the legendary war that started due to the will of the world and spread to several worlds, the entire Mycroft world has changed with each passing day. It seems that it feels that the restraint and oppression are gone. Basically, all major forces have begun to comprehensively improve. For innovation, they all took out a little of what they had kept in the bottom box and showed it to the world.

In the Northern Empire, the third batch of information terminals is being manufactured at the industrial base on the East Banerte Plateau. Most of them have been packaged and can be activated immediately. Most of the information terminals with a quantity of more than 100,000 will be distributed to the army. A small part of the remaining will enter the market for sale, so that ordinary people can gradually adapt to this novelty.

In addition to information terminals and LCD screens, the Void Battleship is also an important publicity point of the empire, and it has entered the eyes of many citizens. It's just a faster and stronger floating battleship, and the response it caused was unexpectedly small, even far behind the transmission network optimized by Nostradamus - the originally expensive transmission fee, after the improvement of the legendary powerhouse , has dropped to one-third of the original price, which is great news for most people.

In addition, in the past two months, the restless nobles in the empire have become more honest. Under the guidance of Israel, who lives on the throne of the watchtower, all parts of the originally free and undisciplined empire have taken the initiative, Or they were forced to unite. Even the most rebellious local nobles trembled under the blow of the Skyfire system. It's not that they don't want to resist, but everyone understands that when a legendary strongman is unreasonable, Then he is right.

In Xishan, apart from being actively preparing for war and preparing to annex the surrounding duchies to become the king, it is worth mentioning that a special kind of spiritual communication circle is spreading among the local psionic magicians and mages. Linked spells, the participants can share thinking speed and inspiration, and can strengthen the toughness of the soul and will, it can greatly increase the work efficiency of the caster, but because the two parties in the joint link will lose due to the spiritual intercommunication Privacy, so it is difficult to use even among the closest people.

In the world of spellcasters in Xishan, this special spell caused an uproar. Many people criticized it morally and ethically, accusing it of destroying the independence of human soul and will, while a small number of casters who supported it believed that , This is the direction of human cooperation and progress in the future. The debates and struggles between the two have caused large-scale academic disputes, and the struggle in reality is completely predictable.

Compared with the Western Mountains, there are too many novel magical creations emerging in the Eastern Plains, and it is very difficult to choose a few typical ones—artificial soil elements for plowing fields driven by elements, artificial water for automatic watering and fertilization Elements, rune machine tools that can mass-produce simple magic items, automated construction alchemy puppets that can turn mud into rocks, and rocks into mud... Once years of academic accumulation exploded, all the magic societies in the entire eastern plain would be destroyed. More or less thrown out a few bottom-pressing box technologies, and competed with each other. At this time, the eastern plain was almost on the eve of magic transformation.

These are all things that were brought out by the major forces in the abyss war in the previous life when they had no choice but to do so. Seeing the scene on the LCD screen and the host showing all kinds of novel technologies from all over the world one by one, Joshua couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I didn't expect them to have it now, I thought it was just a temporary idea at that time. "

These technologies are no strangers to Joshua, and can even be said to be very familiar.

It's like the teleportation network and Xishan's joint spiritual spells. These two technologies only appeared when fighting against the invasion of the abyss in the previous life. In order to fight against the almost ubiquitous demon army, the empire had to spend a lot of money to strengthen the original teleportation network. , so that the transmission cost is greatly reduced, and it can prevent the interference of various special conditions and keep the transmission stable.

Psions who are too sensitive and easily corroded by the power of the abyss used a three-person joint magic circle to prevent spiritual pollution, which became their standard equipment for fighting at that time. , when you encounter two psionic warlocks, you need to be careful, and three psionic warlocks will run away directly, because of its existence. As for morality and ethics, let's discuss it after defeating the demon.

And the automated building puppets in the Eastern Plains, whose full name in the previous life was 'Fully Intelligent Automatic Building Template', the spellcasters in the Eastern Plains who lost a large number of people due to the tsunami had to use alchemy puppets to farm, build and fight. Of course, that Time is not change, but the helplessness of being forced into a desperate situation.

These technologies that used to be used as fighting trump cards, or helpless substitutes, are now just immature ideas and conjectures. They were top-secret technologies used in wars in the previous life, but now everyone takes them out as civilian technologies. Improvement and use make the world a better place.

Of course, these are the progress of human beings themselves. Regarding this world, there is another aspect that needs special attention.

That is the descended gods, and the boundless heavens.

In the midst of Yingying's protest, Joshua picked up a grape from the plate on his own. He swallowed the modified magic plant from the elves, then raised his head casually, his eyes pierced the wall, and looked at the sky.

In the western part of the world, there is a clearly visible circle of twisted space, surrounded by holy light, like a gentle white moon.

The Boundless Heaven has been completely integrated into the world of Mycroft, and the engravings of the inheritance of the gods have fallen into the mortal world. The mist of God and Evil is looking for its own inheritors in the human world, passing down ancient knowledge. These inheritances from the Glorious Era may be in the world. Some places are outdated or even outdated, but their subtleties are enough to make today's legendary powerhouses nod in admiration.

Like some time ago, at the beginning of the Great Demon Tide, there was also a lot of mist of gods and disasters in the empire, but compared to the initial mystery and unknown, they already had the experience given by Joshua. Now, after a period of land reclamation, these fogs of God's Evil have become places of trials in various places, and many organizations, including the Academy of Wintercastle, use them as trials to sharpen the next generation—due to the divine power Some lucky ones can occasionally bring out various precious materials and relics from the last era.

Except for the mist of God and Evil, the current Seven Gods and the gods of other races have recovered from exhaustion, but their recovery is silent, like a drop of water melting into a river—in the East Sea, countless murlocs cheered , because the god who protects the deep sea and the mermaid descended into the mortal world, a huge jellyfish floated into the sea and entered the temple lair prepared by the murlocs for him. any waves.

A week ago, the gods joined forces to perform miracles. They swept the Mycroft continent with divine power, clearing away the haze and death that had accumulated on it due to years of war, and countless undead were redeemed. The souls of the Jedi who died in wars, conspiracies, selfish desires and betrayals were freed from resentment. In the all-inclusive holy light, all souls were returned to the boundless heaven—the distorted space at the top of the western mountains .

Other than that, the gods never acted again and showed no miracles.

Is this not normal? For many ordinary people, this is indeed difficult to understand, but in fact, it is quite normal - gods are not monkeys, gods do not need to show their power to people, they only need to perform their duties, and someone will boast their names. The gods came to the world in the form of saints, not to order the wind and rain in the world, but to prevent the world from being disturbed by the tide of magic.

But this is not to say that the gods do nothing, just like Yuannan, one of the seven gods, the god of love and death descended to the location of his largest temple, which is the forest of the elves. The gods met and had an in-depth exchange that lasted for many days.

So far, there has been no news from within the elves, and they are tight-lipped about the content of the communication.

This kind of thing actually happens all over the world. Although the gods have no intention of making big news, their every move has attracted everyone's attention. Meet the God of Choice, and the Church of the Seven Gods, the Holy Mountain Fortress rises high into the void, it docks with the Eye of the Holy One, and becomes the largest man-made facility outside the Mycroft world. It is rumored that all the incarnations of the seven gods of the human race once talked with Pope Igor here, but no one knows what they talked about, and everything is surging in secret.

There are more and more differences between this life and the previous life. The world that was originally hopeless, chaotic, and full of malice and disputes has become so peaceful and positive. The previous life developed rapidly due to war. Although there is a system, it is actually quite The flawed technologies are now appearing in an incomplete form, but Mrs. Mikrow no longer needs to drink poison to quench their thirst. They have plenty of time to modify the flaws in these technologies so that they can reappear in the world as civilian technologies without side effects.

Northland, Moldavia, in the lord's mansion, Joshua stretched out a finger and turned off the LCD screen in front of him.

seven days.

He touched Yingying's head beside him, her smooth long hair brushed against the warrior's palm, the girl let out a comfortable hum, Joshua closed her eyes and continued her meditation.

Seven days, seven days later, the incarnation of the god of power and justice will come to the East Banerte Plateau. He wants to meet the three legends of the empire. No one knows about it, only Joshua, Israel and Nocha Damas and the three of them knew about it.

What is the purpose of the gods wanting to talk to them?

The unknown is always curious, and the warrior is no exception. He has been resting for a long time and he can't wait any longer. Therefore, Joshua closed his eyes, and he felt the power in his body gradually start to pulsate and boil.

[Fusion degree of the power of steel, 91%. 】

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