Shadow of the Beautiful World

Doomsday Volcano, the uppermost part of the mechanical palace, is an extremely empty large platform made entirely of metal.

On weekdays, Merlin would conduct some dangerous magic experiments here, or the sages of the Mechanicus Cult, and occasionally develop some special weapons or omnimechanical bodies here.

Here, a very free shape transformation can be performed according to the requirements of the user.

After all, it is a part of the smart tower, and like this mechanical palace, it is a modular mechanical product.

Lord Raven walked into the large open platform with the steel frame. Before their eyes, the glasses girl and two assistants had completed the construction of the mother box altar.

It was a strange stone.

There are three staggered hollows on it, which were made according to the description of Ciri, a bystander of the war 5,000 years ago.

By placing the three mother boxes in different cavities in sequence, they can form a complete ultimate mother box.

In the form of mutual individual energy resonance, a mysterious physical phenomenon called sonic boom channel is opened.

That would bring forth a dreadful, said to be all-destroying legion, which claim to come from among the stars, to serve their evil masters.

The Maharaja floated to the side of the stone altar. He stretched out his hand, took the red mechanical mother box from the glasses girl, and put the heavy thing into the first hole on the big stone.

perfect fit.

Like a key being inserted into a door lock.

In the low humming sound, the peculiar energy oscillates back and forth, just like the sound made when a strong wind blows against the mountain wall. In the low whimpering, the energy of the red mother box is released, forming a strange resonance with the stone itself.

Between the energy shock and the tumbling, a phantom halo similar to flames appeared from under the stone.

Technology we don't understand.

Under the surprised gazes of Cyborg, Glasses Girl, Hope and Adam, the King of Vanity took the blue mother box, and he sighed:

It's the same as the manifestation of magic, but I can't feel any magic power. This is a simulation of energy, and it can't even be called a simulation. It works like this.

Maharaja spoke words that the other four robots could not understand, and put the blue wooden box into the second cavity in the rock.

Such as the second key is inserted into the door lock.

The frequency of resonance became stronger, and those energies that resembled magical illusions began to change form, changing into lights and shadows more similar to the flickering light of materialized fire.

Under Merlin's feet, those solidified energies formed a halo that flowed like magma.

Above his head, in the empty air, in the vibration of weird, high-frequency sounds that ordinary people's ears can't catch, the stable space is being shaken.

It's like countless small hammers hitting the invisible space, making the space as a material entity start to resonate with the energy below.

The channel is about to open.

Now it's just a matter of finding that particular vibrational frequency.

You come!

Lord Raven beckoned to Cyborg.

On the way here, the latter had already learned from Merlin the duties he had to perform.

This cyborg has a kind of fear in his heart. Anyone who sees this scene will be afraid, as if he wants to open the door to hell with his own hands and release the demon that will destroy the world.

But he didn't run away from the scene in front of him.

Anyway, I'm already in hell, aren't I?

Lord Raven is very frank. He analyzed the events in front of him and the situation he faced for Cyborg. The last silver-white mother box is in his body, which is the energy supply point of his special mechanical body.

This also means that if you don't take advantage of this opportunity to clear all the threats attached to the mother box at once.

Then in the future, no matter what life path Cyborg chooses to take, he will bear the threat brought by the secret of the mother box.

Perhaps one day in the future, he himself will become the springboard for those star invaders to jump into this world.

He, Victor Stone, will be the vanguard of the mysterious Dark Lord Darkseid's invasion of the world.

There was a voice in the steel bone telling him very calmly, instead of waiting to face this problem alone later, it is better to solve it now!

Right now, I have at least one Heavenly Father and the Lord of Hell who seem to be full of goodwill to help me.

click, click

Steel Bone stepped forward, and he watched the substantial flames and the jumping and flowing of magma brought about by the energy shock in front of him,

Like a real burning fire, it enveloped the entire stone altar in the tumbling scorching air, making the air a little distorted.

But that is just an illusion formed by the concentration of energy, it does not really exist.

Open it, kid.

With his hands behind his back, Merlin hovered behind the steel frame, and he whispered:

This is your destiny

Um.

Cyborg took a deep breath.

As a cyborg with human lungs, his movement was very natural. Maybe it was Merlin who gave him confidence, and the heart that had been assimilated by the machine beat a little more gently at this moment.

He stretched out his mechanical hands, passed through those phantoms of energy, and placed them on the stone altar.

Located inside the mechanical body on the chest of the steel bone, the silver-white mother box that has changed its shape is supported by several mechanical arms amidst the rattling sound of the mechanical tumbling.

In an impatient way, he was sent into the last cavity of the rock.

This mysterious mechanical creation itself also has the desire to complete its own mission.

It became part of the steel body, but it was still serving its former master.

click

There was a soft sound.

Insertion of the last key.

Let the energy of the sonic boom channel that has entered the activated state resonate, and finally find a suitable frequency. In the slightly violent changes of the white light curtain, a light similar to a colorful halo spreads in front of the eyes of the king of hell.

It was as if a door had been torn apart in space.

I can control it a little, Mr. Merlin.

Amidst the rumbling hum of energy, the exhilarating voice of Steel Bone came out of the light, and he said:

Relying on my connection with the mother box, I can slightly control the speed of energy injection.

I can feel that once I give up this control, this sonic boom channel will be completely opened! A portal will appear in your hell.

From that light will emerge armies of demonoids to take over the world for their evil masters

But I also feel that I can stop this energy vibration by manipulating the mother box. It may take some time. What should I do? Mr. Merlin.

Steel Bones, who was on a mission for the first time, was a little at a loss.

He instinctively turned to the most trustworthy people around him for advice.

Merlin's answer was simple, he said:

Keep the status quo, Cyborg, hold on tight, don't panic, look, something's about to jump out.

As soon as Merlin finished speaking, a black thing flapped its wings and rushed out from the jumping beam of light.

Like a pioneer.

It's like a scout thrown out as cannon fodder.

The demons in hell will also use the same detection method. Every time they find a new world, they will grab a demon and throw it into the passage.

If it can come back, it proves that the world can survive without much danger.

It seems that these demons seem to have the same habit.

It's so ugly!

Looking at the guy who was thrown out of the sonic boom tunnel, the glasses girl immediately made a proper, disgusted evaluation.

Well, it's really ugly.

Merlin stared at the spies who had been thrown out.

He nodded approvingly.

The guy had a human body, about the size of a normal adult.

The whole body is black, as if it has been smeared with something similar to oil, or some kind of liquid contaminated when larvae tear open the cocoon.

It has wings, black bat-like wings, and arms that have been transformed into claws resembling bugs.

There are no obvious features on the humanoid head, and the face looks as if it has been melted in a flame.

However, its creator may need it to continue to preserve the senses. This guy's eyes have solidified mechanisms similar to telescopes.

It flapped its wings like that, floating in the empty hall of the Mechanical Temple.

Its twisted nose kept sniffing.

It seems to be looking for a certain special taste.

But it can't find it.

this world is strange

In the air, there is not even a trace of fear, it is as cold as a lifeless wasteland, but there are a few strange lives in front of it.

mechanical?

Aw!

This so-called demonoid thing has no real intelligence.

After confirming that this world is alive and can be invaded, it let out an ugly roar, turned its head and rushed back into the shining passage behind it.

It is to report.

There is another world in front of you that can be invaded by the Dark Lord!

From the beginning to the end, this creature that looked like a fly, behaved like a fly, and even flew like a fly, was floating beside it without being noticed by Merlin, who was less than 2 meters away.

They're coming.

Merlin raised his head with his hands behind his back, and under his gaze, the outer armor on the top of the entire Mechanical Temple slowly opened, like a flower of steel that was rapidly blooming.

Inject energy, maximum power.

Lord Raven said something to Steel Bone who manipulated the Ultimate Mother Box.

The latter hesitated a little, but still decided to follow Merlin's wishes.

In the next second, during the operation of the steel frame completely releasing the energy gate, the sonic boom channel that originally stayed in the mechanical palace expanded rapidly, and the colorful cracks were like rapidly spreading tree branches.

It rushed from the interior of the Mechanic Temple all the way to the sky, like a dazzling beam of light falling from the hazy clouds.

It was very similar to the sound of a swarm of locusts flying across the ground. Under the watchful eyes of Lord Raven, a gleaming black cloud rolled out of the sonic boom channel.

Hundreds of thousands of demons roared and flew out of the beam of light, like a real swarm of predatory insects, they flapped their wings and screamed, fought, roared, and circled

Rush into this cold new world with a swaggering attitude.

In the vibration of the mechanical palace, dozens of weird metal substances like purple vines extended from the altar of the ultimate mother box.

They rolled, crawled along the ground, and pierced into the ground, like needles inserted into the world. Under the control of the ultimate mother box, those purple mechanical pipes began to absorb the energy of this wasteland.

It's like draining the world dry before injecting dark venom into it.

They want to change the world.

Not only take away the life of this world, but also transform all the creatures in this world into a brainless army similar to demons, and make another victory for the dark lord.

This is what the Ultimate Mother Box was born for.

In the past countless times, the most capable general under the Dark Lord held this fetish from Apocalypse, plundered one world after another for his lord, and shaped an endless army of destruction for him.

But all the demon soldiers who rushed out of the sonic boom channel encountered the same problem as the pioneer spies.

They don't smell fear.

A familiar emotion born of the life instincts of living beings, these engineered soldiers feed on the fear of all living beings.

Well, here they come!

Under the Doomsday Volcano, the legendary mechanical warrior Scourge riding on the back of the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex Grimlock held the metal rein in one hand, while looking up at the sky that had been enveloped by the black demon-like army.

A frenzy flashed in the eyes of this 15-meter-tall mechanical warrior who rode on a mount that was also nearly 15 meters high and moved like a mountain.

It was born of the legendary samurai Shockwave's passion for war.

bass

The loud sound of metal clinking sounded on the scorched earth plain, and the natural disaster brandished an 8-meter-long mechanical epee with one hand, and pointed the sharp blade in his hand at the sky.

behind him.

Behind the already restless Mechanical Tyrannosaurus Grimlock.

45 omnic legions have been assembled.

They have exactly the same appearance, that is the outer armor mass-molded in the processing factory of Mechanicus, simulating human form, just like the full body plate armor of ancient knights.

Combat omnics do not have eyes in the conventional sense, but instead have V-shaped tactical eyepieces on the head like a warrior's helmet.

The eyepiece glowed green.

On the bodies of the omnics, there is also a green glow, seeping from the ring power holes in the chest, arms and legs.

They are clad in heavy robes of demon hide, on which there is a crest of skulls made of mechanical gears.

They hold standard electromagnetic pulse guns, and have mechanical halberds for close combat on the back. The third mechanical arm is hidden in the armor behind it, and it is also equipped with deadly weapons.

The commanders of each Legion are larger than normal combat omnics.

There are special mechanical outer armors, they are all selected by the natural disaster, the most fearless, the most brave, the most skilled in combat skills, and the most fanatical mechanical pioneers for the God of Myriad Machines.

Their weapons are also more ferocious than ordinary omnics.

Chain sword, saw chain knife, saw chain halberd.

Pulse Cannon, Pulse Ray, High Explosive Missile, Vector Torpedo.

The outer armor painted blood red has the emblems of their respective legions. These destruction machines in robes seem to have smelled the breath of war.

The time for war has come!

The deep voice of the Great Knight Scourge resounded in every omnic communication channel.

The green rays of light on the 45 omnic legions and millions of combat omnic helmets all over the entire plain of ashes turned into a dangerous red at this moment.

Like a red ocean.

This means the war is on!

Fiends certainly don't smell fear.

What they have to face is a group of creatures that have no fear circuits programmed at all.

In the true sense, the heart is like steel. Computer side::/

In the name of the God of Myriad Opportunities! In the name of Lord Raven! In the name of the King of Vanity!

The natural disaster roared, and the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus Grimlock under his crotch also spewed out scorching flames to the sky.

The battle sword in his hand is raised high!

Flesh and blood are weak! Purify them!

boom

All the anti-air defense systems deployed by the Mechanicus around the Plain of Ashes were fully activated.

The sharp blue laser cut across the sky like a scalpel, and the demons flew so densely that they couldn't dodge it at all.

Against the backdrop of the corpses that fell like a torrential rain, Merlin hovered in the air with an expressionless expression.

The laser roared, and the machine roared.

Flesh perishes, death has come.

But he was not moved by the scene in front of him, he had seen too many big scenes.

After all, this

It's just a combat exercise for future wars

PS:

I saw a brother asking about Styx.

The Styx in this book is not fabricated, but the name of the Styx in Greek mythology. The four Styxes are:

Acheron (aheron), the river of resentment, the river of distress.

Exeters (coytus), the river of sorrow, the river of lamentation.

Styx (styx), the river of anger, the river of oath keeping.

And the phlegethon, the river of fire, drawn by Hades to divide hell.

These things are reflected in various games, and specific hints can also be found in Baidu, so no explanation will be given.