Soul of Burning Steel

The world of stars, the sea of ​​vacuum between the stars, is filled with extremely thin but mist-like dust.

In the frontier galaxy, the ancient Langma Nebula, located between star sectors 78 and 76, used to be an interstellar civilization called the Langma Federation. A while ago, an artificially induced supernova explosion—an extreme coincidence brought about by a wrong psychic energy ceremony caused the entire Langma Federation to use solar energy to operate incorrectly. The twenty-three stars under the sun destroyed all the core territories and colonies of the Federation within eight minutes.

I don’t know if it’s stupid or unlucky. The theoretically impossible thing killed 87 billion Langma people in an instant, and the star dust of their union became a compound nebula that is still spreading. And the souls and spiritual energy of all the Langma people diffused and condensed in the nebula, and gathered into a small spiritual star: because the death was too sudden and without warning, the Langma people back then had no time to give birth. The two emotions of 'ridiculous' and 'anger' were wiped out, so this psychic star is still pure, and can even be used as the coordinates of the ship, guiding the fleet of latecomers to pass through this sad nebula.

After 300,000 years, the psychic stars are gradually extinguished, and the ancient Luangma Nebula also ushered in a brand new uninvited guest—the Chaos Familia descended from outside the void, destroying and using everything it can perceive, and the nebula did not Exceptions have become their lairs.

The Ancient Langma Nebula contains a lot of psychic clutter, and the Chaos Families are not worried about this kind of interference, but it is difficult for ordinary fleets to sail in it. Without the guidance of the psychic stars, the Ancient Langma Nebula has completely become a hiding place for chaos demons , has become a forbidden zone for the surrounding civilizations.

However, now, a huge and strange fleet is shuttling through the ancient Langma Nebula, and in the center of the fleet, a giant battleship with a three-dimensional image similar to a G shape and a frontal height of more than 25 kilometers is ejecting phantom-like jets. The flow of psionic energy is advancing in a vacuum, and its side depicts a bright red pattern of a raging fire.

'Agni' urgently cleared the fleet.

It can be seen that in the nebula in the distance, a small reconnaissance ship jumped out. After receiving the signal, it quickly approached the fleet, and then was collected into the giant battleship. With the connection of the database, a large amount of information was sent.

"Really? The psychic star has been completely extinguished, but the Chaos Familia has also disappeared without a trace."

In the command room of the bridge, an old Tan Ya who looked like a cicada shook his tentacles. He calmly read the exploration information in the database, and pondered: "So, there are no enemies in the entire ancient Langma nebula. .The twenty-seven reconnaissance ships obtained the same results from all directions, unless the Chaos Familia has evolved some new abilities, otherwise this is the fact."

After thinking for a while, the mechanical icy voice came from the chest of Tan Yaren, translating the mechanical humming: "The whole ship is accelerating, we leave the inner layer of the nebula, and jump to the next target."

"yes!"

A uniform answer came, and as the order was conveyed layer by layer, the number of the entire ship exceeded 2,900. The Agni emergency fleet with the giant star destroyer turned slightly like this, and then all speeded up, and flew towards the periphery of the nebula.

Since there is no target here, then the next task will be carried out. The emergency cleaning fleet is equivalent to the white blood cells in the "Galaxy Guardian Alliance". The goal is to clean up all the germs related to chaos in the alliance territory.

For this order, no one on the entire ship has any opinion. Every crew member in the cleaning fleet is an elite who has been carefully selected, with the best quality and combat awareness, and the captain who leads this group of elites , the powerful psyker who controls the 'Armageddon-class Star Destroyer', and the commander of the five-star fleet, Kedar, is even more elite among the elite. For this man who has fought for more than forty-five years in his life, he has commanded three fleets to fight against chaos. One hundred and two holders of the 'Alliance First Class Guardian Medal', no one would question his orders meaninglessly.

Even Fa Ya, the deputy captain and crew chief of the maintenance department of the Star Destroyer, will unconditionally trust this experienced old commander most of the time.

Today, however, is an exception.

Falla is an atrium man with a lot of carotene in his body, so the leaves on his head will be orange-yellow. He pretended not to care, and glanced at Commander Kedar who looked calm and normal, and his heart was filled with worried.

The worry didn't start today. To be precise, Falla has been a little worried about Kedar's mental state since the Agni Fleet's mission not long ago.

After all, not everyone can remain normal after witnessing the bombing of the home planet of their own race, and what is even more frightening is that the person who gave this order was himself—even, on that star. On the planet eroded by chaos, there is the only descendant of that person, the tomb of his dead wife, and the last remnants of all relatives and friends.

Literally the worst day a person can have.

After enduring such pain, it is the greatest abnormality to be able to maintain normality. After that mission, Falla applied to Tikdal for a recuperation course and a special psychological team for psychological treatment from the high-level of the Alliance Military Department, but he did not know Could it be that the recent battle situation is too anxious, and the rest order that should have been issued long ago has not arrived, so that Kedar still leads the Agni Fleet to clean up and fight.

In fact, it’s nothing. Faya thinks that if he has been fighting with the Chaos Familia, it would be a good thing for Kedar to vent his pain and anger a little bit. At least this is a normal channel, but I don’t know if it’s a big detour. The reason for being too successful is that after the destruction of the "Eternal Void Anchor Point", the entire camp of the evil god family experienced a huge change-the Great Eastern Star District suffered continuous onslaught, and the Great Southern Star District, that is, the location of the Agni Fleet In the large star area, the family of the evil gods all retreated, leaving only empty lairs and exhausted star galaxies.

"Oops, the Chaos Familia in the Ancient Langma Nebula have also retreated... We haven't even fought a single battle in the past few weeks!"

Falla groaned secretly in his heart. Of course he knew that the sadness and anger in Captain Kedar's heart had not completely calmed down. He had seen Kedar take out the photos of his family members before in a daze several times in his spare time, and the psionic waves would occasionally Passing out the words 'Eternal Void Anchor Point' and 'Star Breaker Fleet' completely explained the abnormality of the other party.

Needless to say, the 'Eternal Void Anchor Point' is essentially a void gate connected to the void and lasts for eternity. It is the largest source of reinforcements for the Chaos Familia. During the time it existed, every time unit gushed out of it. The number of Chaos Families even exceeds the number of Chaos Families wiped out on hundreds of battlefields at the same time. The life preservation program has confirmed through calculations that if the Eternal Void Anchor is not destroyed, the war will never be victorious, and the big roundabout battle is the guardian alliance. In order to divert the tiger away from the mountain, they put all their efforts to contain the main force of the Chaos Familia on the frontal battlefield, and the elite troops used long-distance leaps to destroy the Void Anchor with suicide attacks.

The Starbreaker Fleet is one of the fleets that launched a suicide attack on the Eternal Void anchor in the Great Detour Battle. Most of the members are lonely and widowed, without any relatives or friends, or all relatives and friends died in the hands of chaos. Of the 18 fleets that committed the suicide attack back then, only one of its fleets had a small fleet of warships that survived and kept their serial numbers, and all the others were dismantled with honor.

In Faya's view, Commander Kedar undoubtedly has no plans to live. He wants to serve in the Starbreaker Fleet, continue to perform various most dangerous and difficult missions, and then die in a certain mission—— It is for this reason that the indeterminate rest order did not come. Kedar should have applied for this order a long time ago. The high-level military department welcomes this kind of veteran captain who is determined to die and has rich experience to serve in the Star Splitter fleet. Deal the biggest blow to Chaos.

It's just that there hasn't been a small encounter for several weeks in a row. Falla is very worried about Captain Kedar's mental state-if anger is not vented, it will really gradually destroy the sanity of psykers, and Kedar is still An Omega-level great psyker, if he really went crazy, he might destroy the Star Destroyer by himself.

"Don't worry, Falla, after all, I am also a veteran soldier who has fought for more than forty years."

Suddenly, Falla, who thought he was hiding well, heard the mechanical sound from the translation machine. He raised his head in astonishment, and found that Captain Kedar had turned his head, and his tentacles trembled: "I'm really fine. , you don’t have to worry too much about my mental problems.”

"You, can you see through my thoughts?"

Faya first felt a burst of embarrassment at being discovered, and then a burst of surprise, and even shock: "Although it's not long ago, I'm also an Omega-level psyker... Wait, could it be!"

Thinking of a possibility, the leaves above Faya's head began to curl up in shock: "Have you broken through the realm of the immortal?!"

The so-called realm of the immortal is an Omega-level psyker who has surpassed the 'capable of fighting an interstellar fleet with a single body', and a truly strong person who can determine the direction of a battle by himself. A psyker of this level , Even if the entire Guardian Alliance is rare, there are more than 8,000 interstellar civilizations combined, and there are no more than forty people. Most of them are leaders of many civilizations and cannot easily go to the battlefield.

If the other party really breaks through the realm of the immortal, then he must be able to control his emotions and not fall into madness... If that is the case, it will be a good thing.

"Probably, it just broke through that layer of paper."

But Kedar responded flatly: "I have been pondering at the peak for decades. Stimulated by extreme emotions some time ago, I reviewed my life and figured out many problems that troubled me before. Observed every thread of my psychic energy with the calmest state of mind... I have indeed made progress, but whether I am immortal or not is still hard to say."

This was originally a happy event. The commander of the fleet broke through the realm of immortals, which is also the top of the entire alliance. This should be a great joy to convey to the entire alliance, but for some reason, Falla suddenly felt a sincere sense of desolation.

If it is said that the price of becoming an immortal is to personally order the destruction of one's hometown, one's home planet, and everything one once cherished—then certainly not many people would be willing to do this, because people do it for the purpose To gain power, and to destroy purpose and reason for the sake of power, is the most ridiculous folly.

It's hard for Falla to imagine how much anger and hatred has accumulated under Kedar's calm tone and those compound eyes that can't see emotion, and what kind of surging emotions are driving this man to concentrate on commanding and fighting. In ten years, the commander and captain, who had never seriously thought about the way to break through the realm, forcibly broke through that barrier in just a few weeks and found his own way?

Kedar himself didn't know.

In front of the bridge, the fleet commander who turned his head stared at the vacuum in front of him, stared at the hazy stars in the distance, his tone was calm and rational, but that was already the limit—the Tanya people don’t dare to speak at all, it doesn’t He knew when he would suddenly roar or howl in pain, pouring out all the spiritual energy in his body, destroying everything around him.

Break through the realm of the immortal? maybe. Kedar knew very well that the short-term increase in his strength was probably just a flashback—the huge psionic energy that was stimulated by emotions had gradually exceeded his control, and reached the realm he had never expected. When the day comes when he breaks through the limit, he may indeed advance, but he is more likely to become a terrifying and weird immortal-level spiritual monster.

——I have to leave, if I want to lose control, at least I must lose control among the Chaos Familia.

The voice of reason told him that the anger of anger should be poured on the enemy. This is the best revenge, and it is also the only meaning of survival for the lingering self.

——What the hell, as long as I can kill the Chaos Familia, I don't care what kind of monster I become!

This is the roar of hatred for the owner of nothing. He has lost all his relatives, all his friends, and even his home planet—the Tanya people are no longer a civilization without a home. Perhaps the Tanya people who are scattered in the entire alliance can continue to The form of interstellar civilization exists, but the newborn Tanya people will never know the beauty of their home planet again.

There is nothing left. Apart from hatred and revenge, Kedar no longer has any reason to fight against chaos and suppress anger. Every day when he wakes up from a dream, he will be confused and laugh at himself why he still has to stay rational.

Anyway, he did have nothing left, so why did he suppress himself, pretend to be rational, even pretend to be calm and calm, and give orders that made him feel like vomiting?

Emotions were tearing and tearing in his mind, but Kedar was still able to maintain his rationality. As he said, he was indeed fine. As a great psyker, he could indeed control his emotions, even if it was just walking on the ground. Thin ice... At least, during his time in the Agni Fleet, he could control it.

As for the transfer to the Starbreaker fleet... that's another matter.

"come quickly."

Staring at the distant hazy stars, the spiritual energy around him was filled with red luster, Kedar whispered nervously to himself: "I can't wait..."

And at this moment.

In the vacuum, a giant net of psionic energy that cannot be seen at the level of infinite light began to vibrate, and accompanied by an undetectable hum, four completely different rays of light began to leap and spread across the entire star world.

The pure and blazing light swept across tens of thousands of star fields, billions of stars, they searched, echoed those who could resonate with themselves, and looked for their own apostles.

Then, a blood-red light just broke away from the trembling giant net, galloped out, and landed in Kedar's mind without anyone noticing.

Nobody noticed this, neither Falla, who was right next to Kedar, nor the rest of the fleet staff on the bridge.

Only Kedar himself was shocked.

He felt that his heart was heating up—an extremely pure, extremely clear emotion poured into his spiritual sea, making the old Tan Yaren's chaotic spirit mixed with hatred, anger, sadness and bewilderment The world suddenly became clear.

At that moment, Kedar suddenly had many things in his heart.

——He wants to kill the Chaos Familia, the more the better, he wants to control the fucking fleet and responsibilities, and directly drives the Star Destroyer towards the nearest Chaos lair Once he died in the war with Chaos, he wanted to pour out his endless hatred, pour out his endless anger and madness, no longer caring about reason—and there was no one he needed to treat rationally—and then In this way, become a powerful psionic monster, and go to Chaos to kill and kill.

The purest 'hatred' induced countless dark thoughts, just like a stone falling from a quagmire, causing countless lurking poisonous snakes, insects and ants to swarm out. Kedar stared at these dark thoughts in his mind in shock, which could even Saying it was an unbearable thought, he couldn't help but clenched his joint limbs, and his tentacles curled up.

But at the same time, at this moment, many thoughts also surged in his heart.

——He wants to protect other races and other civilizations, so that they will not repeat the mistakes of his hometown. He wants to lead his own fleet and his crew to fight against the invasion of Chaos, so that a sad individual like himself will not be here. Appearing, his heart is filled with endless courage, just because he has nothing and no one to love uniquely, so he has everything.

Since he has nothing, he has no fear.

— Kedar recalled his oath to join the Guardian Fleet in the past.

"We will guard all life and order among the satellites, and shine on all civilizations and races like stars. We are the vanguard against chaos and the guard against aggression."

"We are the guardian fleet, we will sweep away chaos and disaster until the end of life."

Two emotions that seemed to be diametrically opposed but had the same origin collided in Kedar's heart.

The old Tan Yaren raised his head speechlessly, his tentacles suddenly started to vibrate, and then in his own spiritual world, he suddenly 'cryed'.

"Ah, it turns out that there is still such a huge cowardice in my heart."

He asked himself silently: "So I didn't control myself at all, did I just suppress myself?"

——If it is said that losing a loved one will allow hatred to ferment wantonly, and then spread to other people, and even destroy oneself.

That is really cowardly and a joke.

If Chaos had thoughts and could speak, he would surely laugh at such a boring self.

"I……"

In reality, the blood-red spiritual energy permeating Kedar's body suddenly shook, and then dissipated suddenly. He whispered: "I was wrong."

The falling of hatred can neither defeat the enemy nor destroy chaos, it can only send oneself and the people around you into the abyss... What I need is never "hatred", nor is it in the name of "revenge" Escaping from reality, even self-destruction, but looking directly at the dripping blood, facing this bleak life, persevering in the future where everything has been lost, and still deciding to move forward's'courage'!

Admit your hatred, admit your mistakes, admit your cowardice, admit your self-denial—then turn your hatred on the enemy, correct your mistakes, hang your cowardice on the wall as a warning, and sweep your self-denial into the trash bucket.

Face all this, the dirty self, and the bleak reality. And at the same time, face the future without fear.

This is courage.

Spiritual energy, gathered again, and then transformed.

The brighter, brighter blood-red power gently pushed aside the eagerly approaching deputy captain Faya, who seemed to be in the wrong situation—this power is different from psionic power, it is not a phantom-like light, but something that seems to have Entities in general 'substance'.

"Hatred can also bring courage, just like a lighthouse guide to guide the ship's navigation."

Kedar let out a breath, and there was light shining in his compound eyes: "But you can't be overwhelmed by hatred, and mistake that lighthouse for your destination."

My fight... is not for revenge on Chaos. My battles are not so superficial.

What I want is to move forward, in this world full of chaos, towards a future without chaos!

And just when Kedar finally understood the concepts of 'courage' and 'hatred', 'anger' and 'madness', which are full of contradictions but can be integrated into one, the moment real 'courage' was born in his heart , the red light that flooded into his mind suddenly shone brightly.

[Guardians of the Galaxy Alliance, individual Kedar Monain, you have great courage in your heart, you belong to the Ring of Courage]

【Chiyongtian invites you】

It's not enough just to have courage, at most to obtain the approval of the Ring of Courage, to obtain a phantom of a rune, and to truly hold the materialized Ring of Courage.

To become a ring-bearer, one must be an individual who can control 'hatred', understand 'madness', manipulate 'anger', and realize 'courage', just like the ring as a vow, hold and discipline all these emotions .

It can be seen that a phantom ring with lightning-like runes appeared on Kedar's chest, hung on one of its limbs, and then began to materialize rapidly.

The blood-red flame ignited and enveloped the old Tan Yaren's whole body. All the carapace cracks, aging joints, and various torso parts that had lost their luster and roundness due to old age were all burned in this blood-colored flame. Then rejuvenate and rejuvenate!

At this moment, a substantive and majestic momentum spread throughout the entire Armageddon-class star destroyer in an instant, and even spread to the entire Agni Fleet.

"Si, Commander?"

On the side, Faya sat on the ground shocked by this too powerful aura, opened her eyes wide, and said in astonishment: "You, you broke through!"

There is no doubt that after seeing Kedar's brand new, completely rejuvenated immortal body, Falla's tone was extremely firm, and she cheered sincerely: "Great!"

"Oh! The captain broke through?"

"Commander, unexpectedly..."

"It's really possible to get out of such a big blow..."

"Congratulations, Commander, for becoming an Immortal!"

Immediately, the entire bridge was filled with cheers and praises of joy, even in the communication channel, all kinds of congratulations and blessings came one after another—as Claire has led the fleet for more than ten years, no matter the new The old members are very aware of how severe the blow their commander suffered before. Taking advantage of the good things happening now, they will naturally do their part to wash away the haze with blessings.

"Okay, let's stop."

The strong mental fluctuations resounded in the minds of everyone in the entire fleet in an instant. Kedar, who quickly controlled his new power, raised his head calmly. He seemed to want to say something to the crew members who have been silently supporting him and trusting him. , but an urgent text message from the military interrupted his thoughts.

"...Very good." Kedar Monain, the commander-in-chief of Agni's emergency cleaning fleet, read the text message several times. He turned his head and looked at Falla: "Change the crew settings, let's turn, full power toward Heading in the direction of 'Dark Galaxy'."

"Commander?" After being stunned for a moment, Falla quickly realized that his tone was filled with joy and a trembling—excited trembling: "Could it be?!"

"It has been proved that the gods of the Atrium people joined hands with our great mechanical leader to destroy more than 90,000 chaotic galaxies not long ago, and the chaotic family began to shrink in an all-round way. We don't need to guard the rear—the big counterattack is coming."

The cold and serious mechanical voice sounded again from the translation machine on the chest, and transmitted to the minds of all crew members of the entire fleet together with the message in the spirit: "The military department has ordered that all fleets not performing emergency missions of 'SS class' and above Suspend all existing operations and proceed to the sector front."

"We are going to end the cleaning mission and start fighting back!"

There was a moment of silence, and then cheers resounded through the entire fleet.

After listening to the sincerity, hatred and anger towards Chaos, and the call of courage without fear for a moment, Kedar raised his head and looked at the stars in front of him that began to rotate due to the turning of the battleship. Under Ya's instructions and scheduling, the settings and coordinates of the long-range jump engine unit were changed, the psionic core began to charge, the battleship was accelerating, and everything was in place.

It's time.

So he said calmly: "Coordinates, East Star Region, Tehran Star Region, First Star Base."

"The entire fleet is in place and in the best condition. Start the long-distance jump engine and dock with the anchor point of the Tehran star field. The code name of the operation is the Great Counterattack. Listen to my instructions."

Speaking of this, Ke Daer paused, he raised the jointed limb, touched the red ring on it, and then gave the final command.

"jump!"

It's a catch up to yesterday's update... Recently, the weather has turned from winter to spring, and I don't know if I have a fever or just a little bit of cold...

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