Soul of Burning Steel

Unbeknownst to all the members of the exploration team, the restoration light beam (compressed form) they carry carries a complete information transmission module specially made by Joshua, which can collect the surrounding images, sounds and energy fluctuations at the same time. Automatically activates when the teleportation starts, and collects surrounding information.

This module itself does not have the ability to move, and the collection range is very narrow, only about five meters in radius, but through it, Joshua can check the current situation of the exploration team at any time, and roughly know the situation in the world they are in. Not only is it convenient for rescue, but it can also allow soldiers to actively activate the repair beam of light to expand the protection shield in times of crisis.

"You're a little too kind to these kids."

This is Karliss' opinion on this mod. It was quite surprised that Joshua had the ability to communicate information across the world, but after thinking about the characteristics of the power of steel, it is not surprising. After seeing Joshua unfold eight light curtains at the same time, and then enlarged them all, and placed them around his side, as if he was about to watch an eight-screen high-definition movie at the height of the Karlis world, the steel python couldn't help it: " Isn't that a bit overprotective?"

"Your way of thinking is unacceptable."

Joshua shook his head, showing obvious disapproval of Carliss' thoughts.

Overprotective? This kind of thinking is inexplicable - ensuring the safety of the explorers is the top priority. Thinking about the earth's landing on the moon, sending probes to the moon, Mars and other places, which time was not laborious, costing countless money and manpower. To ensure the safety of the explorer? In this multiverse, because of the extraordinary power, it is better to explore other worlds. After all, the explorers also have a certain ability to protect themselves, but on the other hand, the danger they encounter may also be extremely great.

Joshua relies on his own unique superluminal medium to realize the transmission of self-information without delay, so this thing cannot be used on the exploration team members, otherwise, all the exploration teams can get official information and opinions from the Imperial Exploration Department. up.

"This time, eight exploration teams are exploring the eight most likely worlds in the 'Dark Realm' at the same time."

Joshua was sitting on the chair, and Carliss was floating behind him like a spirit behind him. The two of them paid attention to the images transmitted from the eight light curtains at the same time. The basic situation, accumulating experience, and looking for clues to the integrated large information base... This is their task, except for the last one, which depends on luck, the others are very simple. If there are no accidents, it can almost be said to be 100% complete."

Even the last clue to find the big information bank is not difficult in most researchers' preset experiments, because according to speculation, the demiplane where the big information is located leaps through the void at an extremely high energy level. It hit a certain world in the dark realm, and then merged with it just like the 'Boundless Heaven' merged into the world of Mycroft.

Of course, this integration process is not very comfortable, it can even be said to be very painful. According to the calculation and speculation, according to the original speed and energy level of the large information base, if it hits a world, there is a high probability that it will be directly destroyed. It may be the end of the world, or even the entire continent or planet may be torn apart. Some people think that the reason why the initial flame of the world in the dark field will be extinguished is due to the impact of big information.

And such a terrifying end of the world will inevitably leave deep traces, and the aftermath may not disappear yet. As long as the eight exploration teams arrive at the world where the information base is located, they will definitely find it.

Joshua was staring at the light curtain at this time. He watched the eight teams wake up from the brief dizziness after the teleportation, and then began to quickly determine whether the surrounding conditions were safe, atmospheric conditions, geological conditions, and magic elements. According to previous training, the caster opened the atmospheric shield smoothly and familiarly, providing oxygen to the inside of the shield, and the cleric released a 'camp detection' toward the surroundings.

Faction detection is used in the world of Mycroft to confirm the degree of mental bias of each life. It is a divine spell based on the Holy Light Theorem of "A person who awakens the Holy Light must not be a villain". When used in another world, it is The simple and easy-to-use mental detection technique, as long as there is a certain amount of intelligent life, no matter it is an energy life, a construct or an ordinary creature, it will be detected by it, and then give back a camp result to the caster.

Because the judgment mechanism of faction detection is the mind, and there are no spell-casting environment conditions, except that the spell-casting level is relatively high, and it is much more reliable than the natural spell 'Life Detection' that blinds people without a natural environment.

"There is no life in the eight worlds, and the environment is fairly peaceful."

After roughly confirming the situation, Joshua, who was ready to make a move at any time, relaxed, because the most dangerous moment of foreign world exploration is the initial stage of exploration, that is, the period after the teleportation—for example, the exploration team teleported to a What about the magma world? What if they teleported to a deep sea world full of water, or even a corrosive world full of acid?

The carefully selected members of the exploration team may not be unable to swim in the lava, and their equipment may not be unable to move in the deep sea and acid, but during the initial trance period, as long as they accidentally fail to cast spells successfully, then no matter what The elite team will all be wiped out.

Joshua thought about this, so he originally planned to release a defensive shield for each team at the very beginning of the teleportation, so as to prevent them from being killed by the bad environment and sudden danger, but it is a pity because Due to technical reasons, this cannot be realized for the time being, so we can only retreat and watch them go through the initial stage of exploration with our own eyes.

"The flames of these worlds are about to go out... Worse than mine."

Joshua and Karlis shared their senses. The steel python sensed the land of the eight worlds. It couldn't help sighing, and said in a gloomy voice, "I didn't sense the power of chaos. It wasn't that the evil gods destroyed them...but at most it wasn't. Direct destruction, I guess, should be when the evil god of abundance passed by, causing the environment of all the surrounding worlds to become unbalanced, and these worlds are only left, but they are also on the verge of death."

This is similar to Joshua's opinion. He has personally come into contact with the remains of the Fertility Cthulhu, and knows the nature of the opponent's power.

It is a force that forcibly induces the target's full state, and then makes it flourish and decline-in a sense, it may be regarded as the ultimate unilateral time acceleration, but it is more terrifying than time acceleration, because after being During the period when it is suddenly promoted to its peak, all hidden dangers of the target will explode in an instant, and it is impossible to master such a powerful force, leading to more rapid self-destruction. In this, all the overflowing energy will be plundered by the evil god of abundance.

Even a star will be induced by a helium flash, expand into a red giant, then rapidly die and cool down, and turn into a black dwarf after being deprived of energy.

As for why such a powerful evil god of abundance was defeated by the sage... Joshua has an immature guess, that is, the evil god of abundance has indeed brought the sage to an unprecedented peak... After that, he couldn't come down.

After all, Joshua was able to deduce himself to a form with almost no weaknesses in the battle of Fartlorvi, so it is very likely that the sages will not have any weaknesses and hidden dangers that can be detonated by the evil god of abundance. Raise it to its strongest form, so that it cannot 'decay' the sage, and is immediately purified into nothingness.

True, but sad story.

After finishing thinking about the evil god of abundance, Joshua turned his head and continued to pay attention to the current situation of the exploration team.

The eight worlds are numbered No. 1 to No. 8. Among them, four of them are barren sandstone worlds. Two of them can detect the existence of water, and two of them are still being explored.

Among them, the six exploration teams that have roughly explored the surrounding area are reporting the situation to the headquarters.

Of course, the exploration team didn't know that Joshua could hear what they said directly. Their so-called report was to describe their exploration results to a transmitter. Void sent a signal, and the headquarters of the Alien Exploration Department, which had been prepared for a long time, was able to intercept this void message. Although the delay was high, it was still a means of communication, and it could also prevent the exploration team from encountering accidents and not gaining anything.

"No. 2 World Report, the world is temporarily judged as a 'Desolate World', with a brightness of 52, a gravity deviation of 1.13, and a magic power concentration of 0.31. No water, oxygen, or mental reactions have been detected. The surrounding ground is basically gravel. The soil and compacted rock formations, high-altitude observation and detection show that the surrounding environment is basically the same, all of which are barren deserts, and no valuable discoveries have been made yet.”

"World Report No. 7, the world is temporarily judged as a 'water-rich world', with an illumination brightness of 77 and a gravity deviation of 1.07. The magic power concentration is 0.83. We are currently located in the depths of a calm and windless ocean, without any land or mental reactions around us. , the caster condenses the ice layer as our temporary habitat, and the high-altitude observation detection shows that there is no trace of any continent in the surrounding diameter of 400 kilometers, and within an area of ​​about 16,000 square kilometers. The world is extremely rich in oxygen, about Mycroft's standard value is 1.92 times, and the alchemist's observations show that she found a special kind of algae in the water, which may be the source of the oxygen enrichment."

"No. 5 World Report, the world has almost no light source at all, the light intensity is 3, the gravity deviation is 0.92, the temperature is about minus 94 degrees, the magic power concentration is 1.21, it is extremely cold and dry, there is no snowfall or frost formation, we are located in a No mental reaction was found above the rock formation, and we are temporarily unable to carry out other detections, so we can only temporarily set up a camp to ensure life support."

"It's too damn cold here!" "Quick, add elemental resistance!" "Where's the alchemist? Where's the potion?" You can't drink it, unless you want to stick your mouth."

Such voices could be faintly heard from around the reporter.

"World No. 8..."

"Number Four..."

"sixth……"

After professional training, the words with a unique report format were uttered from the mouths of the captains of each team, and then entered into the letter-sending magic device. Joshua listened carefully to the other party's report—after all, his cross-world perception range was only five meters, And Karlis also listened with gusto. The steel python seldom goes to other worlds, but thanks to Joshua, it can always get a lot of information from other worlds.

but……

"It doesn't sound like you found anything, Joshua."

After listening to the reports of the six teams that had completed the detection, Karliss wrapped it around the shoulders of the soldiers, and asked with some doubts: "Three barren sandstone worlds, one is completely shrouded in darkness, and there is no light in the cold world." World, an oxygen-enriched ocean world, and one temporarily on top of a mountain, all you can see is ice and mountains all around."

"Not to mention the clues from the big information base, there isn't even a single one of value!"

What Karlis said was indeed correct, Joshua nodded, agreeing with the other party's words, none of the six different worlds is easy to develop, and the value is very low.

Leaving aside the three barren worlds, although the researchers conjecture that the lightless world exists, and have made corresponding precautionary preparations, it is not suitable for human habitation. Minus 90 degrees is not just a problem of freezing to death. Even metal will become extremely fragile.

The ocean world may have some value, but it is difficult to build a base. Unless the seventh exploration team can find the mainland, or send an extreme-level mage to freeze a glacier, follow-up development will not be possible. The same is true for the alpine world, unless you explore The team found a suitable environment, otherwise there would be no way to build on the top of the snow mountain. Both of these worlds belong to the kind with extremely high costs and no obvious rewards.

"However, it is possible that the dark world was caused by the impact of the large information base."

Joshua stared at the light curtain of the fifth world, he nodded thoughtfully, and then pointed out the possibility: "Maybe the smoke and dust caused by its impact obscured the sunlight, or in other words, the big information bank directly turned this world The little sun, that is, the collection of light elements formed by magic power, has been knocked out, so it is so cold."

But the environment is so bad that the exploration team can't start to explore at all. Even the 'heat shield' and 'ice element resistance' blessed by the caster are useless. The incoming light and heat can't even last more than 0.8 seconds in the surrounding environment, and it will be interrupted by backlash.

In the end, if it wasn't for the caster's sudden whim, he blessed everyone with an 'ice shield', covering everyone in the elemental ice layer that was only about minus 20 degrees, and let everyone breathe a sigh of relief, maybe they You will be forced to start the camp directly, and you can only settle down and explore slowly.

After all, there are times when it really is warmer in the refrigerator than in the house.

Then, the clue to where the big information base is located is probably in the remaining two undetected worlds, after confirmation. Joshua shifted his gaze to the light curtains of the No. 1 and No. 3 worlds.

It just so happened that the captain of the No. 3 World Exploration Team had just finished observing the different world where he was located. He excitedly turned on the transmitter and started a routine report.

"This is the third world in the dark field, and I will make a special report with the level of 'extremely important'!"

As soon as he opened his mouth, the captain of the third team said something that lifted the spirits of Joshua and Karlis. They looked at each other like a python, and they both felt that the omen was good. Immediately afterwards, the captain of the third team continued: "The The world is temporarily judged as an "extremely rich world", with an illumination of 39 and a gravity deviation of 1.54. The illumination is poor, and the gravity is heavy. The earth has no ups and downs and the surface is barren and flat. We have not detected any water and mental reactions. The atmosphere of the world There is a large amount of poisonous gas mixed in it, and it is completely impossible to breathe, and it is extremely unsuitable for survival.”

"But." After reporting a lot of bad news, the team leader said a but, and Joshua even saw his excited eyes through his magic armor and inner armor: "But, the world's The concentration of magic power is 11.21 times of the standard value! It is a super super magic world! Here, even a light spell can create an effect similar to 'Day Light Burst'! Because the elements are too active, we dare not even experiment Other spells."

Eleven times the magic power of Mycroft Continent? !

This sentence alone stunned the well-informed Joshua and Karliss. Unlike the deep-thinking warriors, the Steel Python grew its mouth and said in shock: "Ten days after the Great Demon Tide Double the magic power? What kind of concept is this? The magic power in this world can be liquefied, right? Oh my god...this kind of world..."

"This kind of world is still not suitable for human survival."

Joshua interrupted Carliss's emotion, he frowned slightly, stared at the light curtain of the third world, and sensed the situation on the opposite side through the repaired light beam - it was indeed not bad at all, the fluctuation of the magic power concentration was between 9 and 12 of the standard value Between times, no matter how you say it, it is very thick.

"However, if the concentration of magic power is too high, it will cause the magic energy equipment to be unusable. The radiation is too high to make people unable to survive. Many spells will automatically dissociate their structures, causing spellcasting errors... In addition, the environment of this world is also very bad. At most, it can be regarded as a world of experience for some people who want to break through, other than that, it is of no use."

I'm a little interested in why it has such a high magic power.

This is the real thinking of the warriors. After all, in a high-magic environment, you might be able to find it in a dead and barren world around the void vortex. That is, the world of Siberia is located in the eye of the storm. Otherwise, its magic concentration must exceed the standard value by at least a few. Hundreds of thousands of times—but the dark realm should be a world that is about to be extinguished. Why does it have such a high magic power?

However, the report of the No. 3 World Exploration Team was not over yet, and he still said excitedly: "In addition to the extreme abundance of magic power, we are sure that the seemingly barren desert we are in is actually entirely composed of some extremely special It is composed of rare metal particles, and these metal particles themselves seem to be the remains of some kind of super large advanced magic creation!"

"The wreckage of this advanced magic creation is so damaged that it completely disintegrates into pure alloy sand, but these materials have been confirmed by the alchemist and can be used again. The empire discovered a super-large alloy vein!"

When it comes to this, the team leader of the third world is even a little out of breath - there are reasons for being too excited, and also because the air in this world is too bad, the oxygen supply spell will not be able to provide so much oxygen for a while, but this is also Not surprising, after all, the results of the exploration will be converted into points and rewarded to the members of the exploration team, and whether it is the rich magic world or the alloy mine, if it is true, then all members of the third team can get 7500 plus 12,000 redemption points and three B-levels, that is, one A-level exchange authority! They can even get a share of the mine veins, which means they have a steady stream of points.

"Unfortunately, too much time has passed. This high-level magic creation is really irrecoverable and can only be recycled as raw materials."

After recovering from his breath, the team leader said regretfully: "What is the super-large magical creation that can form a metal desert? We really want to know. There is no doubt, although we don't know why it is here and damaged into this looks, but the civilization behind it must be very developed.”

It should indeed be a pity, because if they really found a super-large magical creation, such as the large mobile city where No. That is the technological crystallization of a civilization, and its value is immeasurable!

If it hadn't been for No. 3 who has been assisting the development of magic energy technology in Moldavia, each magic energy factory would never be popularized so quickly. This is just the data carried by artificial intelligence. If the entire mobile city can be recovered, Micro Husband's mana technology will have greater development.

The report of the third team is over, they will continue to explore this metal desert, trying to find the reason for the high concentration of magic power and the possible remains of the creation, Joshua still said to himself, "If I There is also so much wealth and magic power "It would be great if my world had such good conditions", he turned his head and looked at the No. 1 world.

That is, the elite team, the world where the Prest team is located.

Until now, the world where the Prest team lived was still full of noise. If Joshua hadn't been able to detect that everyone's heartbeats were stable and their vital signs were normal, he would have thought they were in danger.

After a while, probably a few hours later, when Joshua saw the first curious silver goblin touching the restoration light beam, he shouted in surprise and called his friends to come to the hot spring together Only then did Prest's tired voice come from the light curtain of the first world.

"No. 1 World Report, this world is in a special situation, and it is temporarily judged as a 'special world'. The world's illuminance is 25, gravity deviation is 0.33, magic power concentration is 1.78, and the world is hot. The average detected temperature is 85 degrees. Water, oxygen and mental responses."

"Another special world."

Karlis ended his envy and jealousy towards World No. 3. It turned its head and stared at the light curtain of World No. 1 with Joshua, and then it said strangely: "Hey, isn't it snowing here? How do you say it? No water detected? And how can it be snowing and hot?"

But soon, Prest's report answered his doubts: "After the initial teleportation, we were located in the center of a basin, and encountered a large-scale snowfall phenomenon unique to this world. Due to the temperature, we were very surprised, but very Quickly, the alchemists in the team discovered that what fell from the sky was not frost, but metal condensate."

"Yes, the snowfall in this world is actually 'metal snow'. We climbed out of the basin and found a relatively safe mountainside that would not be buried by metal snow for observation. We determined that the world is full of volcanoes and the surface is full of cracks. In the valley, a large amount of smoke and dust mixed with high-heat metal gas surged up into the sky, and then condensed and precipitated into metal snow and fell to the ground. Part of the metal will be evaporated by the high temperature on the surface, and this special cycle will continue, while the other part of the metal will be precipitated as The big chunks of rough metal deposits, the mountains we're on today, are actually covered with a layer of metal alloy."

There is no doubt that this is also a large mineral vein world. Hearing this, both Joshua and Karliss nodded. This is undoubtedly a good discovery. Naturally exposed mineral layers and a high-heat environment are the favorite types of dwarves. Well, they are not afraid of highly poisonous gas, and can move freely in such a world. Moreover, even the snow is made of metal. For the dwarves, this may be a paradise.

[They are lying on a bed inlaid with gemstones, and there is an eternal furnace burning beside them. Everyone is free to pick up the metal they want from the ground and forge what they want. No one can disturb the process. They can Swipe hard liquor at will without giving them a headache or intoxicating them. With adamantium and mithril everywhere, hot air everywhere, everyone can have a completely safe house next to the magma pool. 】

[——Dwarven Hadith, Kingdom of Heaven]

"But it's just that, it can't be called 'special'."

Joshua commented: "It's just a metal-rich world with low gravity and active geological activities, unless there is any special information."

By coincidence, Priest continued to report: "This world seems to have no sun, and the light source is completely cracked on the surface, and the lava light caused by the volcanic eruption... But strangely, there is a rainbow in the sky."

Speaking, Priest sent a series of special information to the transmitter, which was used to describe the codes of pictures and videos, and Joshua decoded it directly, and then got a magic video that was not particularly clear.

Over the completely dark world, there are large expanses of metal clouds, and after a particularly heavy snowfall, the clouds disappeared for a short period of time, and it can be seen that there is a perfect circle of darkness in the dark high sky. rainbow.

The rainbow is colorful and rotates frequently. It seems to surround a completely dim and non-luminous entity, passing through the sky of World No. 1 at a not-so-slow speed.

At the end of the video, Priest's weary voice with a hint of hesitation came: "This is the dark rainbow we discovered...Even the sun is extinguished, water does not exist, why is there a rainbow? And every time a rainbow appears At that time, the concentration of magic power will suddenly increase to more than 5 times the standard value, and the gravity deviation will also be strangely reduced, and even a short-term weightlessness phenomenon will occur. Countless volcanic earthquakes erupted at the same time, causing countless smoke and dust to be drawn into High in the sky, it's like..."

When he said this, Priest, who was always calm, swallowed, and said in a fearful voice: "It's as if we, together with this world, are being attracted to that dark existence!"

It’s all 7000 chapters recently, it’s really not that I update slowly...