Soul of Burning Steel

——hum!

A sharp arrow pierced through the air in an instant, penetrated the skull of a monster lurking behind the bushes, and fixed it to death in place.

This monster is not small in size, you can see a rough outline of a monitor lizard, and there are obvious traces of alien disease on its back, and even if it was pierced by a sharp arrow, it still struggled crazily for dozens of seconds before Slowly dying, because of its struggle, the low growls of various other monsters came from other places in the forest, seeming to be intimidating and warning.

Not paying attention to these growls, Sur looked around cautiously. She held a simple elf hardwood bow in her hand, and neatly loaded another bone arrow.

The elf girl who is familiar with the movements of various monsters and beasts in the forest now understands that the forest is far more dangerous than usual, and many monsters that used to hide in the deep forest have all awakened, and they are wandering in the forest at this time, venting their bloodthirsty desires. desire.

Fortunately, as before, no matter how cruel these wild beasts are, they dare not approach the sacred mountain... It's just that the deterrence of the holy mountain is not easy to use. Frenzied submersion, let alone a sacred mountain, even if there is an abyss in front of them, they will jump without hesitation.

But—why?

Sur was confused.

The gathering of beasts into a tide is a major event that has not happened a few times in the long family history recorded by the Watcher Elves, and every time the beast tide starts, there are very obvious signs: blood rain falls in September, and the coast is set off. Tsunamis, earthquakes and thunderstorms everywhere.

After these visions ended, it would take another seven or eight days before the herds of beasts gathered together due to various mutations would turn into beast hordes, destroying everything around them in constant cannibalism.

However, did any abnormalities appear just now? earthquake? Indeed, but the reaction speed of the beast cannot be so fast.

"Miss Suer, based on your experience, when will these beasts start to attack us?"

The alchemist's voice came from the side of the thinking elf girl, and Sur turned his head slightly to look at Priest's teammate.

At this time, the four members of the elite team are rapidly building a position.

The spellcaster flexibly casts fossils into mud and mud into stones, and builds a rudimentary fortress at the foot of the mountain, while the clergyman is calmly inserting small crystal pillars into the foundation of the fortress, using holy light It turned into a whole, and the knight was assembling various strange parts in the rear. In just ten minutes, a simple inverted trapezoidal fortress with a height of about eight meters was roughly formed.

"Unclear, we have never encountered a similar vision before."

Su Er shook her head, and jumped onto the arrow rest of the fort neatly. After she shot another monster to death with one arrow from a distance, she slowly said: "But if I have to guess, there is probably a buffer period of one or two hours— —The powerful monsters will eat the weak monsters first, and they will have the strength to go crazy after eating and drinking enough."

The alchemist nodded slightly. After telling his companion behind him the approximate preparation time, he glanced at Sur, who shot an arrow and nailed a monster that wanted to approach, and then glanced at Accra, who was still silent. law hub.

"The captain's vision is quite good." He thought silently.

Most of the elves are slender and thin. With their handsome faces, anyone will have the idea of ​​"weakness" from the bottom of their hearts, but this is a complete illusion. The elves who live in the forest and shuttle between the trees, Whether it is strength, agility or endurance, it is better than humans.

And Sur is undoubtedly a standard elf. The usually cheerful girl's face now has a hint of the ferocity of a hunter. Her long green hair is tied into a ponytail and floats behind her, and her golden-green eyes are slightly narrowed. , to accurately find the location of every prey in the forest - the elf's slender figure did not make Sur look weak and quiet, but because of the longbow in her hand, her vigorous movements, and her smooth figure wrapped in a hunting suit, it made people Can not help but think of the dangerous and graceful cheetah.

If it wasn't for the fact that the alchemist liked the organs of a real monster cheetah more than a beautiful girl like a cheetah, maybe he would try to pursue it.

And at this moment, abruptly, the transparent barrier that refused all outsiders to enter the entire Acrafa hub disappeared in an instant, and at the same time, the door that was closed immediately after Priest entered was also reopened. , a figure who was shrouded in the restoration light beam and seemed to be about to fall appeared at the gate.

"Priest!"

Sur was the first to react, and she subconsciously ran towards the figure, and because the barrier of the Acrafa hub disappeared, there was no power to deny her entry, so soon, the elf girl came to the In front of the unconscious Priest, he quickly reached out, as if wanting to help him up.

"team leader!"

The rest of the team followed Sur, and they seemed to want to help Priest up with Sur, but they were rejected by the other party.

"Don't get too close...the restoration beam of light is full of all kinds of turbulent information flow, it's very dangerous!"

Presumably because of the presence of his companions, Priest had a lot of energy. He leaned against the gate of the hub and stood up, then said weakly: "Don't stay outside, come in quickly, I have the authority of the hub!"

After speaking, Priest turned his head and walked towards the interior of the hub, and the five of them looked at each other for a while, then quickly followed Priest's pace.

"Clark, Wayne, Constantine, Seid, and Sur, now is not the time to joke, what I will say next is the truth."

While entering the hub, Priest said in a hoarse voice: "It's different from what we guessed before... It's not that the relics of the glorious civilization are built on this world, but the whole world is the relics of the glorious civilization! "

"They created an entire world—then sealed an evil god in it!"

Sur didn't understand what Priest said, but the remaining four people were stunned for a moment, and their hair stood on end.

"Wh... what? You're not..." The caster subconsciously wanted to shake his head and question, but thinking of what Priest had emphasized at the beginning, he immediately suppressed the three jokers. On the other side, The expressions of the priest, knight and alchemist are also very wonderful.

At this time, Priest has called up the automatic navigation system, and let the energy shield that is automatically galloping lead everyone towards the center of the hub. In the past, nine legendary strong men from the Era of Glory captured a severely wounded and weakened evil god, and among the nine legends there was a sage saint who used the power of sages and gods to create a world to bind him. "

"Wait, six thousand seven hundred years ago?!"

Hearing this, the most knowledgeable spellcaster among the crowd couldn't help but speak again: "But wasn't that war more than a thousand years ago? Also, since it can be severely damaged, why not just completely wipe out this evil god?" wipe out?"

"Time is not absolute, it is relative."

Priest glanced back at the caster, his tone was tired, he got a lot of knowledge about the Age of Glory from the database of the hub, he knew it was not impossible, and he patiently explained another question from his companion Dao: "As for why this evil god is not eliminated, it is very simple, because it is alive and can bring greater benefits to the Era of Glory."

"This evil god can transform chaos and order."

Outside the Acrafa hub, in the dark night sky, the nine scarlet moons shone with strange light, and it could be seen that the corpse of the giant beast that had already died began to squirm slowly and strangely, with a large amount of flesh and blood Pieces fell from their wounds, falling into the shaking world.

The flesh and blood of September contained an extremely thick chaotic atmosphere, and the blood that fell from them even turned into a rain of blood that invaded most of the world, covering every land evenly and in balance. , also rises a series of chaotic ripples, and the decay of the ripples reduces the energy level. The moment the two chaotic forces that seem to be the same but are actually completely different touch the ground, they start to rapidly weaken and cancel each other out. In the end, it turned into countless muddy streams, sweeping across the earth.

And the flesh and blood of September, which was much bigger than before, fell from the sky like mountain peaks, suppressing on the veins of the earth's crust that were already wriggling, suppressing the unknown things that seemed to be wriggling underground bit by bit Go back—and these seemingly hideous and terrifying tentacles and jointed limbs filled with hazy black mist gradually turned into the rudiments of pure steel power after the two chaotic forces weakened and canceled each other out, and then weakened again. into ordinary particles of matter.

The rain of blood and the flesh and blood of giant beasts continued to fall, setting off terrifying earthquakes on the ground. For a while, except for the place sheltered by the Mother Tree of Life, almost all areas were invaded. However, the terrifying chaos of both sides invaded. But it didn't cause any harm.

The soil became fertile, the mountains increased one after another, and the rock crust of the earth became thicker and stronger. After the power of chaos was weakened by chaos, it actually transformed into the original order, the rudiment of the power of steel.

"This evil god named 'Weakness' is not recorded in any classics. Only the database in the Acrafa hub has some of its information."

Outside the control room, Priest opened the three spar gates. He whispered, "Its power is weakness—the weakness of all things."

"Uranium will decay into lead-uranium, and lead-uranium will decay into iron stone. The high-energy magic power will gradually degrade and turn into more basic elements and ether. This process would have lasted for billions of years, but the weakened evil god Can accelerate it to just a split second.

There is no shield that can block the attack of this evil god, and no attack can harm the body of this evil god, because in front of it, no matter how strong the defense is, no matter how powerful the attack is, it will only become weak with the passage of time It can even reverse the growth of life, temporarily turning a powerful legendary strongman into a young child. \

,"Speaking of this, the three spar gates opened, and Priest glanced sideways at Sur, who listened carefully even though he didn't understand, and then said softly: "Wisdom, civilization and thinking ability are naturally no exception. …The debilitating evil god can affect the carrier of memory, causing knowledge to be lost, civilization to degenerate, and even the motivation to think will gradually fade, and finally turn into a mass of dead flesh that only has instinct, or even no instinct.”

"This point, even in the Era of Glory, was only discovered after more than a thousand years... and that was already too late."

"Hey, isn't this invincible?!"

Following Priest into the control room, the knight couldn't help but said in shock: "How can there be such a rogue power, how did such a strong evil god be captured and sealed?!"

"Actually, the Weakness Cthulhu is not strong."

Priest sat back on the control chair again, closed his eyes, and gave instructions to the Acrafa hub, and then slowly said: "It can even be said to be very weak-it can be forced back by less than ten legends, It is estimated that only the evil god of atmosphere is weaker than it. Strong ability does not mean that he is strong, and the foundation of the weak evil god is not strong, and he cannot perfectly display his uniqueness."

"What's more, the ability to weaken the evil god also has an effect on itself."

When he said this, Priest sighed, and then shook his head: "The power of chaos has eroded chaos itself, causing chaos to decay——becoming a strange force between order and chaos. This kind of power can Transformed into the power of steel of creation."

Fire burns chaos, forges into steel, steel produces all things, life and death begin, life and death rust, ashes disperse in the void, chaos recondenses, fire is born from ashes, and the cycle returns endlessly.

Immediately, everyone in the elite team recalled the inscription engraved on the core building of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrificial Ground.

The primordial fire burns the void of chaos, transforming it into the original power of steel, and the power of steel condenses and turns into the world and all things.

But since it exists, there is destruction. All things naturally have life and death, even the world is the same... and the wreckage after the destruction of the world will recondense in the chaos, and the flame will also be rekindled in the ashes to recreate the world , this is the cycle of the multiverse, the endless cycle.

The Weakening Cthulhu weakened himself, and accelerated the speed at which the ashes condensed by an unknown number of times.

No one can figure out how to transform chaos into order, because no one can observe the nirvana at the end of the multiverse's life, at least for this extremely young multiverse with an estimated age of about 1.6 billion years.

But the Enfeeble God did it.

This gave the Glorious Era the opportunity to see through the mystery of the transformation of order and chaos.

"I actually never understood."

Hearing this, the cleric, who was not much to talk about, couldn't help but open his mouth. He lowered his head, looked at the metal floor, and said in a puzzled tone: "Since the ancestors of the Glorious Era believed that order and chaos If the rotation of the gods is so natural...then why are there evil gods?"

"After the world was destroyed, everything fell into chaos, and the extinguished flame was rekindled in the embers... This is a perfect cycle, but the evil god is not... It controls the power of chaos, but it has the rules of action for orderly life, They wiped out countless civilizations and worlds, like a reaper...or, as if they wanted to speed up the process of order rotation."

"... who knows, don't guess about Chaos."

Priest was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said: "We are just an ordinary gold-level exploration team. Thinking about this kind of thing is just self-defeating-compared with this, we have more important things to do."

Having said that, Priest controlled the Acrafa hub and issued the last order: "The anti-chaos order stand is ready... to start the purification of the entire area!"

Immediately, with his order, the entire Acrafa hub began to rumble—with the silver metal mountain as the center, the endless free energy was stripped, gathered, and then transformed into a colorless ball at the top of the mountain. The existence of the transparent light streaks caused all the violent monsters within a few miles to stop attacking each other, and an incomparable coercion gathered above the entire Acrafa hub.

In the next instant, the light streaks shattered.

An illusory ripple like a tsunami covered an area dozens or even hundreds of miles away.

"Ahhhh—"

Suddenly, Sur, who was originally standing beside Priest, let out a scream of pain. She half-kneeled on the ground, and even dropped the bow in her hand. After realizing this, Priest quickly planned to get up But when he thought that he was still surrounded by the restoration beam of light, and there were still countless surging information flows echoing inside the restoration beam of light, he subconsciously stopped.

Can't touch her.

But soon, as streaks of black air escaped from the chaotic eroded wound on Sur's back, Suer's screams gradually weakened——the elf girl fainted.

It can be seen that although the chaotic erosion behind the girl has not completely disappeared, it has obviously faded a lot.

"It's okay, it's just that the chaotic erosion in the spine stimulated the nerves, and I just fell into a coma."

The clergyman on the side did not forcibly lift Sur up, but only checked his physical condition with holy light, and then took out a roll of bedding to let the unconscious elf girl lie down. He was a little puzzled: "It's strange, since the hub With the standpoint of purification, why do those elves want to perform some sacrificial rituals?"

"Because the energy consumption is too high, it is much more cost-effective to kill a few people than to open the anti-chaos position."

"Then why are you suddenly using it now..."

"Because there's no future—how long do you want to stay here?"

Asked the cleric, looking at the situation of the elf girl, Priest no longer intends to wake her up, he just turned his head silently, and looked at the elf camp in the distance with the observation circle of the Acrafa hub—purification The position easily pacified the beast tide that was about to erupt, and enveloped the camp in it.

"Sul, not only you, but also the entire Watcher tribe."

He whispered to himself, his eyes full of firmness.

You should not stay in this world, in this prison... You have been jailers for 6,700 years, and you should not gradually become prisoners under guard.

I will take you to see a wider world, and I will also bring these elves, as well as the bones of countless victims, back home, back to their hometown.

Subsequently, he issued a second order to the Acrafa hub.

"Turn on the hyperspace communication system—start full-frequency wide-area information transmission!"

……distance……

Both the World Fleet and Joshua were shocked at the same time.

"...coordinates...chaos warning...emergency...come quickly..."

After silently listening to the information that space-time fluctuations are the carrier, and it is extremely difficult to be decayed by the forces of chaos, Joshua couldn't help laughing out: "These little guys are interesting."

It seems that even if they wait for someone to come to them, they can send the message back to Mycroft and get out of trouble.

On the other side, the natural teacher who was looking for the source of chaotic fluctuations in the void with Joshua asked curiously: "What? Is this the information of the missing expedition team?"

"That's right, it's theirs."

After collecting all the information spread across the wide area, Joshua analyzed it for a moment, then nodded slightly, his expression became serious: "But the situation is not as good as I imagined—to be precise, it is very bad."

"They are in the same place as the source of chaotic fluctuations—they are right beside the evil god!"

I haven't had a cold or gastroenteritis recently. The main reason is that I sleep for too long. I often lose my energy when I close my eyes. I sleep directly in front of the computer desk...

But now the spirit has recovered a little, and it can be updated normally.