Soul of Burning Steel

The primordial fire gives energy to the embers of steel, and the embers of steel give birth to all living beings. Although this is not the case all the time, in the simple universe worldview of the Atrium People, this is how they look at the sun above their heads and the earth under their feet.

When the red moon rose and set three cycles in the sky, when the stars in the galaxy reached the correct position, a ritual calling to the great being in the distant void began on the star of the courtyard.

The supreme consul, Mirhabs, stood on the highest peak of the planet, on the solemn and ancient temple platform. This was a huge temple built by the ancestors of the people in the courtyard 1,700 years ago. The ancestors of the cosmic vacuum built a magnificent building that can be called a miracle on the peak of the 8,400-meter-high mountain in the Atrium Star with their own flesh and insignificant spiritual power, and used it to enshrine the Coming everywhere, bringing the entire atrium civilization to its peak, the 'Void Saint'.

This belief allowed the people in the atrium who were still divided at that time to end the struggle for power in many countries in the chaotic era, and a united theocracy unified the whole world. Holy footsteps.

The high platform of the temple is a hexagonal tower with a base diameter of nearly 200 meters, like a hill, and light silver, polished and extremely smooth rocks constitute its main structure. It is the apex of the man-made world. Standing here, you can step on the clouds and mountains, the earth and the sea, juxtaposed with the stars and the sky. Standing on it, Mill Habs didn't feel a sense of superiority over everything in his heart, but felt deep awe.

Just because it knows that there are stars and other worlds in the sky, just because they have stepped into the universe and established colonies on other planets, so it understands that this temple seventeen hundred years ago is important to the world. How unbelievable it was to the people in the courtyard at that time, not to mention anything else, the flawless, smooth outer wall of the high tower with almost zero friction coefficient is a miracle that cannot be explained by the current technology, and it is also the belief of all people in the courtyard. origin of.

If it weren't for the change of the Supreme Consul, or the discovery of a brand-new intelligent civilization in the starry sky, the people in the atrium would never use this magnificent temple, but Mill Habs came, not only that, it also brought rumors that The treasure left by the void sage back then is enshrined in the sacred object in the Great Temple of the Atrium Capital, 【Water Drop】.

Thinking of this, Mill Habs couldn't help but look down. In front of its plant-like body made of roots, in the hands covered by gray plant fibers, there is a beautifully decorated and gorgeous, inscribed with countless representatives. A transparent cylindrical container with words of praise and reverence. This container represents the highest technological creation and spiritual sustenance of the people in the courtyard. In the middle of it, there is a gem-like object the size of a human fist and shaped like a blue water drop.

Because of the psychic energy and the strong electromagnetic position, time is stopped in the container called the Amber Pillar, where the temperature is close to absolute zero, and the matter will not move at all, and this is the only way. In order to store the incomparably smooth but indestructible drop of water that no one in the atrium has made so far, this is another powerful proof of the saint's faith. Even the atrium man who has entered the starry sky now uses the most advanced tunnel When a scanning microscope scans water droplets, it can only see material particles that are tightly arranged without the slightest gap.

With the treasures left by the saints, he came to the most solemn and sacred high platform of the Supreme Temple. Of course, Mir Habs, the highest consul in the atrium, could not have done it because of his personal desires. The Atrium people use the psionic communication to broadcast and watch in real time, and tens of millions of psionic users, that is, the priests of the temple, have also gathered under the mountain, in the space, the flagship of the Atrium people's central star fleet, the 'Forerunner' The No. 1 is hovering above the atmosphere with its own frigate, and the collective officers and soldiers, including the fleet commander, are also watching this scene through the observation lens of the battleship.

Because what Mill Habs is about to hold is the most dangerous and sacred ceremony that has not been held in a thousand years, [Void Gate].

A thousand years ago, the Atrium people's exploration fleet finally found a planet suitable for their survival in a nearby galaxy. They were delighted and immediately launched a colonization plan that had been prepared for many years. The immigration ships full of Atrium people and seeds Warping time and space through huge psychic energy, we came to that beautiful green planet, and perhaps because this means that the people in the atrium have truly become a star civilization, and the moment the immigrant spacecraft landed on the new planet, all the people in the atrium felt that they were His soul was trembling—the psychic potential broke through the original limit, and at this moment, it benefited all the people in the atrium. After that, the psychic power, which was originally only comprehensible by priests and other high-level people, has completely become a must for all members of the atrium civilization. Standard configuration, at most there is a difference between high and low due to different individual qualities.

And the priests who were originally powerful and the highest archon at that time—that is, the strongest psykers on the entire planet, they did not benefit from this extraordinary ascension, but their realm was temporary at that time. They have improved a little bit, the telepathy of these powerful psykers has broken through the limitations of the planet and even the universe itself, and they have come into contact with the existence on the other side of the 'veil of void'. They perceive that there is still a vast and endless space outside the universe, and that In the space, some high-level existence is whispering in their ears.

It's a saint!

Whether it is the priest or the highest archon, the leader of the technical department or the high-level of the Ministry of Defense, in the entire atrium civilization, the powerful psykers who can feel the whisper firmly believe in this without any doubt. The reward for their progress, that's why they kindly let them hear His voice. These high-level atriums can even sense that the voice is telling them a secret method, which is to use extremely powerful spiritual energy to tear the void and make those high-level This is the source of [Solemn Ritual Void Gate].

Taking advantage of the upsurge of immigration to new planets and the awakening of all psychic powers, the entire atrium civilization exploded with unprecedented cohesion. They built a spiritual cohesion device that can gather the power of all psykers within a few months. A star ring imitation , a huge steel creation revolving around the mountain peak, the priests and psykers of the entire planet gather their psychic energy in this star ring, and then let the supreme archon guide this power to perform a ceremony, tear the void, let'Holy who'd come.

The power of millions of psykers converged to form a mighty stream of light that pierced the void of the universe. It penetrated the atmosphere in one breath, and spread 400,000 kilometers into the depths of the vacuum, even surpassing the distance of the Atrium Star and the Moon. The orbit, even in the universe, can be clearly seen. This incomparably powerful force has undoubtedly torn apart the void, causing a high-level existence to descend.

But what happened next... was a tragic tragedy.

The descending existence is not the Void Saint that the Zhongting people believe in, but a huge insect-shaped super life form covered with crystals. At first, due to the influence of spiritual energy, this super life obeyed the control of the Zhongting people, but because After a while of disappointment, the atrium people who descended were not saints, and began to happily study the powerful void life. By studying the opponent's carapace and energy core, the atrium people's material science and energy dynamics have made rapid progress , and the fighting power of this void life is even stronger than their star fleet - it even learned to use psionic energy to warp space, and can act together with the fleet, which is equivalent to directly doubling the military strength of the Atrium people.

It can be said that this crystal insect is too careless of the atrium people subordinate to the Void Saint. When the spiritual energy condensed by millions of people gradually dissipated, and finally disappeared completely, the docile and obedient crystal insect suddenly showed violent eyes , It was the will to destroy everything, devour everything, and turn everything into nothingness. The powerful super life form attacked the unsuspecting Atrium Fleet, and after completely destroying dozens of the most advanced frigates on the periphery, the crystal insects moved towards The colony star named 'Garden of Leaves' flew away. It slaughtered the colonists of the entire planet, and then drained their spiritual energy and life force.

Life on a planet thus perished.

The shocked atrium government immediately understood their fault—they understood from the abnormal reaction of the holy object's water droplets that the crystal insects were not subordinate to the holy one. In fact, the two were deadly enemies among deadly enemies. They summoned the evil god The family members naively thought that it was their belief, and they almost brought their own world to an end. Therefore, the vengeful Atrium Fleet took all the powerful psykers including the Supreme Consul, across the starry sky to hunt down the chaotic and crazy crystal insects. That is, most of the originally beautiful and vibrant colonial planet turned into wasteland and became a barren land of famine, while most of the high-level psykers and their inheritance were lost.

Since then, the ceremony of [Void Gate] has been completely sealed, and the people in the atrium, who were devastated, did not regain their second and third extraterrestrial colonies until a thousand years later. What was done, but now, the Atrium people once again built a star ring around the holy mountain, and once again gathered millions of powerful psykers, they want to restart the solemn ceremony again, tear the door of the void, and call out the world existence comes.

Because at this time, the Zhongting people are already at a critical juncture of life and death.

In the 1623rd year of the starry sky, when the exploration fleet of the Atrium people was exploring the unknown star field, they encountered a huge fleet of exiles, which was the main fleet of the Forby people they had communicated with. Thousands of immigrant spaceships, the Forby people and the Zhongting people are also psychic idealistic civilizations that believe in the existence of gods. Because the two sides are far apart and have no border conflicts, the relationship between the two sides is barely good, but in the past 100 years. However, there were very few merchants and communications from the Forby people, and because of the Void Gate incident, they were relatively xenophobic, and at the same time, the Atrium people who were devoted to colonization had no time to communicate with the outside world.

Therefore, when the Atrium Exploration Fleet encountered the Folby Fleet in exile, they were extremely shocked. They asked the other party why they would leave their home planet with all the strength of civilization, but they only got a strange answer.

Darkness...the darkness is coming...they are catching up!

Leaving this clueless sentence, the Folby fleet disappeared in the far reaches of the universe. No one knows what happened to them, but losing their home planet is equivalent to losing the foundation and pillar of civilization, and there is no way to recover in a thousand years. Vitality will always be just a lost dog.

The Atrium people at the time did not understand this answer, but decades later, they understood.

The swarm of creeping beasts that covered the sky and the sun attacked the third colony closest to the Forby star field, the 'Garden of Roots', with plague, rot and disaster. When the destruction and killing came, the Atrium people's binoculars turned in grief, and then they saw an ultra life form with a diameter of at least hundreds of thousands of meters in the distance.

It was a strange spherical giant like a meat ball. There were countless distorted heterogeneous vortexes on its body, like eyes, and a huge gap spanned the entire body, like a grinning smiling face. There were countless tentacles stretching out from its body. Pulling out and dragging behind him, each tentacle is at least tens of thousands of meters long, and dark green light circulates endlessly on it, releasing a huge power that is completely opposite to psionic energy, but can also distort time and space.

Endless herds of beasts use this giant beast as their mother body, traveling through the starry sky, attacking one world after another, sweeping across the stars, covering the darkness of the stars, warping space like a huge chaotic thing like a satellite, traveling through the galaxies, it is The Chaos summoned by the Forby people is just like what the Atrium people did a thousand years ago, but unlike that, the beings summoned by the Forby people are stronger, and they did not defeat each other, but were in a state of embarrassment. escaped from his home galaxy.

And now, it was heading for the home planet of the Atrium people, and the colonial satellite fleet was going to stop it, but no one had hoped for their decisive charge.

The holy mountain is here, and our civilization is here. The people of Zhongting are not Forbi people. We will never give up our home planet. We are the people of the holy ones. We will never escape the battle with evil gods.

However, the only thing that can fight against the existence outside the void is the existence outside the void.

Even if it is the servant of the evil god, at least we can control one or two. Before it turns against it, that is our strength.

Standing on the high platform of the temple, the supreme consul Mir Habs recalled the conclusion reached at the psychic council, it closed its three eyes. The eye on the forehead is the proof of the highly developed psychic awakening of the people in the atrium. It holds the amber pillar and the water drop in its hands, and stands in the center of the high platform. Silver-blue psychic light beams overflow from its body. out, forming bright beams of light, surrounded by high-altitude thin dust mist, a few seconds later, accompanied by the release of more powerful spiritual energy, within a radius of several kilometers centered on Mir Habs, including the air Everything inside was repelled, and a vacuum bubble was formed above the high platform of the entire temple.

And in the next moment, the endless spiritual energy gathered by the star ring followed the light silver hexagonal tower and gathered on the body of Mir Habs in the vacuum, and then formed a huge halo, this silver blue The halo emptied hundreds of kilometers of clouds around the holy mountain, and then gradually condensed a beam of psionic light that was constantly spreading towards the sky, the atmosphere, and even the universe at the center of the halo!

The [Void Gate] ceremony was officially opened, and after that, there was no turning back for the people in the atrium.

And in the center of the beam of light, a huge amount of energy that makes people feel as if they are about to explode gathers on Mir Habs' body. It feels like it is bathed in magma, but the highest consul, the strongest psionic power of the Atrium Star But the bearer did not waver, enduring the pain of being scorched by high-energy radiation all over his body, silently raised the amber pillar in his hand, and then allowed the huge energy to gather on the holy object 'water drop'.

——If it is said that the family members of the evil god were summoned from the void last time, it was because the people in the atrium listened to the whispers of those existences in the void.

——Then this time, I will use the holy object as a coordinate to summon the existence beside him!

The fibrous cortex on the surface of Mill Habs' body began to burn and peel off layer by layer, revealing a body composed of plant roots inside. The Atrium people were originally a race born of spiritual plants that gained wisdom. The human form is just a simple imitation of the 'sage' who came to the top of the holy mountain in the past and guided the people in Zhongting to develop civilization.

I, using the ancient contract as evidence, summon the great existence from beyond the void curtain!

The messenger of the flame, the bearer of the steel, the descendant of the saint who roams in the void, please listen to the call of our family, take the solemn platform as the contract, and the sacred water drop as the contract—

From beyond the void, look at us, and then...

Come here!

And at the moment when the prayer ended, in the middle of the pillar of spiritual energy, on the amber pillar, above the water droplet that should have completely suspended time, a tiny ray of light suddenly lit up. In the light of energy, it spread towards the endless void.

In one corner of the multiverse, a vast and bleak world, a faint light suddenly lit up. This light was so tiny that it was completely overwhelmed by the brilliance of the Great Demonic Tide. Neither the ancient existence wandering in the turbulent flow of time and space nor the God of Chaos who was walking forward with endless resentment paid any attention to this little light. Small brilliance, but there is a trace of strange fluctuations in this light. This fluctuation has passed through a long distance that cannot be measured by words and numbers, and has come to a space-time distortion point orbiting the outer orbit of a certain world.

The huge space-time distortion point shook violently, causing all the members of the major forces on the edge of Fairy Township and who were still processing the internal information of the camp to jump up in fright. They watched this scene in shock, and then hurriedly contacted half of them. All the legendary powerhouses in front of me can get the answer, but it is 'no abnormality'.

In the plain of death, Joshua was still frowning, thinking about where the inexplicable call came from, but after Nostradamus called him, the soldier came back to his senses, and he called Hotaru, Rin and Feeling very comfortable, the ball of light followed the footsteps of the old mage and went to explore the center of the demiplane.

And at this moment, in the demiplane, an ancient will that had been dormant for a long time slowly woke up from a thousand-year hibernation. Its soul was severely damaged in the war a long time ago, and even now it has not been completely repaired. Even it is still deteriorating, but even so, feeling the arrival of its own mission, it still wakes up without hesitation.

Myriad Worlds Sacrificial Field's dominance will restart, soul self-examination... 89% damaged, 17% recoverable, dominion will be on the verge of destruction... detect the void distress signal, suspend self-repair, set it as the first priority goal.

Looking for the first priority task handler: the code-named Saint. The search failed, and there is no related existence fluctuation. Looking for the second priority task handler: the code-named First Saint. The search failed, and the related existence fluctuation has disappeared. Looking for the third...

After a long cycle of self-reexamination and corresponding processes, finally, this ancient will paused slightly and performed its fourteenth cycle.

Looking for the fourteenth priority task handler: the inheritor of the code name. Success, there is a fluctuation number of 3.

Start to implement the [Myriad Worlds Plan].

This chapter will be revised later

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