Soul of Burning Steel

The 'Pioneer' fortress is a group of void fortresses located on the edge of the world's galaxy, composed of a large number of temporary research institutes and large-scale observation equipment.

The colorful research facilities and their supporting observation equipment rotate around an inconspicuous silver world. These facilities were jointly built by the major forces on the mainland half a year ago. The information and experience provided in the sacrificial field, although most of these facilities are operating in the real void for the first time, they can perfectly exert their own effects.

On the outside of the fortress group, there is a trapezoidal large-scale void observatory used to observe the galaxies of other worlds in the distance, while on the inside of the fortress, there are prismatic research institutes that analyze the data of the observatory and analyze the information of other worlds. Buildings with completely different scales and shapes interlocked together like gears, giving the entire Void Fortress community a strange beauty.

And at the edge of the fortress community, in a special white void facility, a group of black and gray octopus fungi surrounded a white octopus fungus, waiting in the hall.

The white octopus fungus raised its sensory magic quality, 'looked' at the void scenery outside the window, and kept quiet.

The Shepherd Great Khan is thinking, thinking about the past and future of his own race.

Shepherds are a race with a rough fate.

Of course, this sentence doesn’t really make much sense—which race’s civilization doesn’t have a rough fate? But any civilization that can exist and whose civilization level reaches the level of entering and exiting the void must have experienced many sufferings and disasters. There is no civilization in this world that can progress without competitive wars. Whether it is a civil war or a war with other races, it can develop Growth means that disputes are absolutely impossible.

But even so, the shepherds are an excessive race with a rough fate.

Because before the civilization has fully developed the void technology, they are forced to lose their mother world.

Until now, the Great Khan can still recall that day.

With the unimaginable fluctuations of time and space tearing the world barrier, the perennially dark sky of the Shepherd's mother world was illuminated by sudden fire. The eye-catching jets drew bright blue jets on the gray-yellow sky of the planet, and at the next moment, the endless energy beams and shells like meteorites fell to the ground like rain, easily destroying the original Mu. All the defense systems of the stars.

And following the artillery fire from other civilizations, it was the invasion of Chaos—the countless families of the Devourers came to this world following the artillery fire from the sky, devouring everything and destroying everything.

The Shepherd civilization, which was accidentally involved in the war between a certain higher civilization and the World Eaters, completely collapsed in an instant. The aftermath and stray bullets of the battle between the two sides completely wiped out the future of a civilization.

At that time, the Great Khan, who was the most powerful group in the clan, happened to be communicating with a gentle void behemoth. The Shepherd Civilization hoped that the other party would leave some flesh and blood. In exchange, the Shepherd Civilization will provide the void behemoth's favorite high-energy minerals, and both parties will get what they need, a perfect win-win situation.

As a race specialized in souls, the shepherds are enough to appease the unpredictable and violent temperament of the void behemoths. They have already traded with many beings in the void, and this time is just a mediocre one-but it is different from the previous ones. The situation is different. When the Great Khan desperately discovered that his civilization might be wiped out in the mother world, he suddenly had a whim and keenly recalled that the body of the Void Behemoth was huge enough for ordinary creatures. cavity.

There was no time to think or plan, the continent was sinking, the mountains were burning, and while the aftermath of the battle between the advanced civilization and the World Eaters destroyed the entire world, the Great Khan made his only choice.

It devoured the soul of the void behemoth, stored a group of people in its own body as much as possible, and then fled from its hometown in a hurry.

Thousands of years passed.

The star shepherd who used to be like a refugee in the body of the giant void beast has become a real star shepherd.

They graze giant void beasts and forge worlds on their backs. They use planetary continents as pastures and crustal lava as pastures. They wander among the stars and rivers. Thousands of years of recuperation have made them extremely powerful. The Void Behemoth and the powerful kings made their strength even surpass the fleet that destroyed their parent planet.

They can even do everything they encountered back then—the shepherds don't mind extorting other civilizations on the condition of destroying the world, asking them to provide the knowledge and resources they need.

Not to mention, the strong man who truly mastered the souls of all the void behemoths and carried civilization forward on his own... Facing this man who dispersed his soul in all the void behemoths and restrained the recovery of their own souls The ancestor of the shepherd, all eight-legged fungi will sincerely sing the "Great Khan" with the campylobacter column, and its power is at the forefront even in the entire galaxy of the world, even the other side of the galaxy. End, are all its prestige spread.

Recalling his hard work over the past thousands of years, he finally brought civilization back from the mortal state, and even made it prosperous again. The cap of the white eight-legged fungus shone slightly, showing his excited heart, but in the end , the light of the cap turned dim, and it sighed deeply in the depths of its soul.

But what good is that?

In the final analysis, the shepherds are nothing more than homeless dogs... and not just once, they have escaped from the pasture countless times to avoid those terrifying existences wandering in the void.

In the vast as if endless world galaxy, there seems to be no pure land. No matter how deep you hide or how far you escape, there will always be darkness following you like a shadow.

"The peaceful veil has been broken by calamity, and our home galaxy has become a raging fire. Countless civilizations put aside the balance and order that they had struggled to maintain before, killing and trampling each other... I don't want the Shepherd to survive with great difficulty." Civilizations up to now have been destroyed like weeds in meaningless battles, so we searched for ancient classics, looking for clues of the lost galaxy from them, in an attempt to find a piece of pure land in this dark multiverse.”

Even this pure land is just the ruins of a more terrifying war in the long past.

Sighing deeply again, the mushroom cap on the big Khan's head showed a black-red color of a 'wry smile'.

Who would have imagined that this seemingly peaceful and desolate Lost Galaxy is actually more dangerous than the outside world!

How long did it take to cross the material vacuum region? They actually encountered the awakening of an ancient world eater! And what is even more frightening is that those strong men from the ancestral civilization—just two star-swallowing strong men can actually suppress a world eater!

Even if this World Eater is weak, has no family members, and has just awakened from the seal, it is a very terrifying thing. You know, to resist the invasion of a World Eater, even a high-level civilization that can traverse the void must be incomparably powerful. Treat it with caution, and even be prepared to flee like their shepherds. Those disasters wandering in the void can easily destroy all life in a world, no matter how fierce artillery fire and magic can do it. Complete destruction.

In fact, the reason why the Shepherds fled from the original world galaxy is precisely because the number of World Eaters is increasing day by day—originally, the number of World Eaters wandering in the void is very small, and it can even be said to be almost none. Only civilizations with extremely bad luck will encounter them, but just hundreds of years ago, the number of World Eaters increased day by day. Their appearance not only destroyed some weak civilizations, but also destroyed the fragile and balanced situation of the galaxy. The balance between several powerful civilizations was broken, and what followed was a war called chaos.

Civilizations of order conquer each other, and at the same time resist the erosion of chaos. Weak civilizations are like blades of grass in a typhoon, which will be blown away mercilessly and wiped out, while stronger civilizations like the Shepherds will also be destroyed. He could only flee in a hurry.

But now it seems that it has escaped to the mouth of a sleeping ancient beast.

Thinking of this, Great Khan turned his head and looked at the hall of the void fortress.

Since the powerful and brutal ancestor civilization killed the awakened World Eater, the entire Star Shepherd civilization was restrained by the ancestor civilization powerhouses around the dark star field and ordered not to leave.

Although it is said that the number of strong men revealed by the ancestor civilization is not very large, at least it is less than the cluster of void behemoths with a number of more than twenty, but the Great Khan knows that these young void behemoths under his command are absolutely unprecedented. Those who may be hostile to these powerful civilizations with wisdom and powerful skills, their own strength is at an absolute disadvantage, and they also need to recover, so naturally they can only follow the opponent's words and stay at the edge of the galaxy.

And in the process of communication, it also keenly discovered that the current situation of the ancestor civilization seems to be very strange.

This ancient ancestral civilization, which calls itself 'Mycroft', undoubtedly has unimaginably powerful technology. According to the information obtained through communication, the homeland of this civilization is located at the bottom of the lost galaxy, extremely far away from the edge of the galaxy, but their powerful time and space Magic allows them to cross this distance in an instant, seemingly without any cost.

Their Void Fortress technology is also very advanced. Although they don't seem to understand what technology they are using, the technology is indeed extremely advanced, far superior to those that the Shepherds have seen in the original galaxy. The fortress of civilization should be more cutting-edge and powerful.

Not to mention their strong men - each of these strong men of ancestral civilization possesses unimaginable strength, and with the blessing of the Great Demon Tide, they even have the power to destroy the world alone. Each of them is equivalent to an entire void fleet, and behind the leading man who controls the holy light, there seem to be seven stalwart existences they call 'holy spirits'.

Just for the strong man who controls the holy light, Great Khan believes that he has the power to obliterate the entire Shepherd civilization by himself. Even if he is himself, I am afraid that he can only run and have no way to resist.

This ancestral civilization seemed to be in a state of confusion and decadence not long ago. Through the communication of more than half a year, the Great Khan can confirm that decades ago, this ancestral civilization named Mycroft was just as they imagined. In that way, staying in one's own mother world, there is no desire to develop externally. This is also the reason why they have not found any abnormalities in the lost galaxy during these tens of thousands of years.

However, not long ago, this sleeping ancient civilization woke up.

They cleared Shen Ke inside the civilization and restored the broken world barrier. These ancients rekindled the flames of civilization and retrieved their long-lost time-space hub and information bank. They began to expand outward again with the intention of restoring the glory of the ancients. There is no doubt that they are cleaning up the galaxy of the world where they are, and suppressing all hidden dangers like the awakened World Eaters. Their eyes are not even limited to this lost land that was their territory, and they even turned to their own eight-legged The endless world where fungi once lived.

It can be seen that they are building a large void observatory and building fortresses on the edge of the world's galaxy. They are gathering fleets and gathering strength. The Great Khan doesn't feel that the void fortress groups that are being expanded are just for show,' Mycroft 'I really want to get out of this lost land and return to the big stage of the multiverse.

And they are just the first unlucky ones who just happened to hit the bad end, the first ones to be the car.

"How to fight against this awakened ancestor civilization?"

Wrong, stupid!

As the leader of civilization, the Great Khan, who has traversed the galaxy for thousands of years, would never have such an extremely stupid idea in his mind.

"How to embrace the thighs of the ancestor civilization and convince them that they are indeed willing to cooperate sincerely?"

Yes, correct!

This is the question that a serious civilized leader should think about.

Facing the existence that one's own civilization cannot resist, the best solution is definitely not to resist or run away, but to try his best to join it and make himself a strong one.

Great Khan has been thinking about this issue these days, thinking about how to achieve his goal.

But unfortunately, the attitude of Mycroft's side was extremely ambiguous. Although they did not show too obvious hostility towards the shepherds, they did regard them as untrustworthy outsiders and guarded them. If you want to communicate, you are testing and testing, but it makes the situation more confusing.

Therefore, when the Great Khan knew that the strong ancestor who fought with him at the beginning woke up from the coma that suppressed the evil god, he put forward the conditions for negotiating with the other party.

It is precisely because he has fought with him and bombarded each other to erode souls that the Great Khan can be 100% sure that he is a real strong man who will never say anything, absolutely keep his promises, and will not play any tricks.

The perception brought by the battle is far more real and reliable than verbal communication.

So it waits, waits for the other to come.

time flies.

The Great Khan, who was staring at the empty scenery outside the window, suddenly turned his head cap, and with his sensitive light-sensing magic organ, 'stared' at a blank spot in the hall.

At that position, there is a little silver light shining, just like the starlight far away.

But soon, this point was so weak that even the silver light that ordinary people couldn't get enough of turned into a vortex that distorted time and space, and the endless steel power turned into a raging wave, converging and solidifying from all directions.

Not far away, the core surrounded by all the fortresses and observation platforms, the miniature silver world, is shining generously.

All black and gray, the caps on the top of the eight-legged fungus as the guard began to change color violently. He raised his limbs, making the hall quiet.

In the next moment, it strode towards the silver vortex without any hesitation.

At the same time, an incarnation completely condensed by the power of pure steel emerged directly in the center of the energy vortex, and then stood on the floor of the hall.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Great Khan of the Shepherd."

"Fortunate to meet, kill the guardian of the galaxy of the evil god."

The black-haired man who came out nodded slightly to the white eight-legged fungus, and the white eight-legged fungus also changed the color of the cap to say hello.

And after such a brief exchange of pleasantries, Joshua, who was far more familiar with the other party than the others, knew the other party's thoughts and purpose, so he directly asked the Great Khan a question.

"Before we cooperate, Great Khan, please describe to us in detail what the situation in the world galaxy you once lived in was like."

There is no foreword, no foreshadowing, Joshua never talks nonsense, he stared at the body of the Great Khan, and said bluntly:

"You who are so powerful, why did you flee your hometown in such a panic and come to what you call the 'Lost Galaxy'?"