Soul of Burning Steel

Far away, endless clusters of worlds, multiverse galaxies.

The multiverse galaxy is the largest cluster of galaxies in the currently observable multiverse. If a strong person observes it in the void, it will be found that its shape is an extremely regular circular disc, and the galaxies of countless worlds are neatly arranged. Arranged in sequence, they form this huge world cluster structure beyond imagination.

The closer to the world galaxy inside the multiverse galaxy, the higher its energy level, and the closer the world is to the molten form at the beginning of the birth of all things. Although resources are abundant, this kind of world is not suitable for most intelligent life to multiply and survive. On the contrary, a large number of intelligent civilizations are bred in the halo disk near the outer side of the disk structure.

And in a cantilever bulge at the lower right of the galaxy in the multiverse, in an edge world galaxy, there is a booming civilization that has arisen in the last thousand years and is expanding in the void.

The intelligent life that claims to be the Eldar is a bee-like insect that obtains self-will through the soul, and thus develops the existence of civilization. They were originally just a large omnivorous insect that lives in groups on the originating mother planet, and their social structure is similar to that of bees. In each group, except for the worm mother, no individual has wisdom, but due to a large-scale geological change of the original parent star, the magic energy veins hidden in the ground were exposed on the surface, and the large-scale magic recovery phenomenon caused by it caused the bee The group of individuals gets their souls and wisdom emerges.

Surprisingly, as bee-like insects, the Eldar did not merge into a huge bee colony consciousness after gaining wisdom. In fact, they formed a monarchy system with the empress as the core, and in a series of In social reform, the government is confirmed as a virtual monarchy similar to a constitutional monarchy.

The Eldar are naturally calm and good at obeying order. They have developed a complex but highly efficient bureaucracy to manage intricate world-class lair groups. In addition, since there are no other intelligent life forms born from awakened souls on the original home planet, they have always been They all have great curiosity about life forms in other worlds.

In fact, the spirit race is also lucky. The world galaxy they live in is extremely remote. Because of the lack of high-energy environmental catalysts, there are no other high-level void civilizations in the same galaxy. Activities within the scope of this galaxy, the closest dangerous advanced civilization to the galaxy of this world is the fleet civilization known as the 'Knowledge Receiver', and they wander throughout the galaxy of the multiverse.

The Eldar civilization didn't know that those knowledge collectors had indeed discovered them, but because the Eldar were too backward at that time, they didn't make any effort to approach them.

Therefore, today's spirit civilization is equivalent to monopolizing a world galaxy. They have expanded wildly in the last thousand years, and their technological level has also improved dramatically. Now there is a vaguely large-scale interstellar empire. Everything can be described as Said it was smooth sailing.

Except for the sudden attack three hundred and fifty-one years ago.

Everything originated from an abnormal time-space fluctuation. The central hive received an emergency alarm from the fringe star field. A first-class mining world to be developed was suddenly attacked by an unknown race. In just one night, the entire world was 100% Eighty percent of its quality is stripped away, and the remaining wreckage is the worst and worthless silt.

Most of the spirit race individuals responsible for guarding the world died in that huge change. Only a few technicians in the void observation station survived. They were all greatly stimulated, as if they had seen some unimaginable existence , in the fragmented words, they can only be heard repeating the word 'behemoth' constantly.

But this is not the end, but just the beginning—soon, after the first alarm sounded, the second, third, or even a dozen alarms sounded one after another, and one after another was preparing for development, under development, or already developed Not only that, but also many uninhabited and low-value worlds were destroyed, and the water resources in several ocean worlds were also drained.

If you look at it from the star map, it is a huge shadow that continuously invades the territory of the Eldar from the edge of the galaxy, and the place it passes is barren, just like the grass that has been eaten by locusts.

In times of crisis, the Spirit Race gathered all their fleet strength—but because there were no foreign enemies, the strength of the Spirit Race fleet was simply useless compared to the size of the entire civilization, and there were less than a hundred ships. Even so, the Eldar still dispatched this only fleet to the periphery of the world star field where the shadow is about to invade, preparing to resist unknown powerful enemies.

Then, they knew what the so-called 'giant beast' meant.

It was a mighty crowd of nearly forty giant void beasts, covering the sky and the sun, and even the stars. The giant void beasts in the shape of a crab advanced silently. The bulges on the sky are not as good, and the space-time turbulence caused by their advancement will even affect the orbit of the world.

Not accepting communication, not accepting communication, not accepting resistance, the huge behemoth fleet responded to all communications and battles of the Eldar with silence, they didn't even care about the suicide attacks launched by the Eldar fleet, they just plundered the resources of one world after another, Then it flew forward like this, destroying one world after another.

That attack did not cause devastating damage to the civilization of the Eldar. All the densely populated worlds on the trajectory were evacuated urgently, and the Void Behemoth fleet was simply advancing in a straight line and storing all the resources that could be stored. The evacuation fleet of the Eldar was not pursued.

They are not attacks, but simply passing by, just the damage caused by the giant stepping on the ant nest, which is too large for the ants—fortunately, after walking halfway through the spiritual civilization circle, These behemoths seem to have stored enough resources, they did not continue to destroy the world, but just flew towards the end of the world's galaxy.

The disaster that happened at that time led to the death of tens of millions of individuals of the Spirit Race, and had a great impact on the civilization of the Spirit Race. They finally realized that there are other powerful civilizations in the huge galaxy of the world, and these powerful civilizations Civilization sometimes cannot be described as 'friendly' and 'malicious', because if it does not reach a high enough level, let alone communication, the strong will not be able to detect the desperate counterattack of the weak.

'They' just passed by and disappeared at the end of the galaxy that the Eldar could not observe. As for whether the consequences would be destruction or help, it was none of 'their' business.

Because of this, today's Spirit Race civilization vigorously develops void technology, and puts the focus of national power on the battle fleet. After hundreds of years of continuous development, the Spirit Race civilization has not waited for the powerful existence and enemies they are vigilant against, but the development of the fleet It has become a deep-rooted tradition of the entire civilization. Now, the huge void fleet of the Eldar has taken shape. They firmly believe that even if they encounter the former void behemoth army again, at least they will not be at a disadvantage, and they will have no counterattack as before.

And out of the vigilance of encountering sudden attacks hundreds of years ago, the spirit civilization has been collecting as much information as possible from the surrounding star field and the world galaxy, so as to avoid being attacked by the giant beast fleet without warning but without warning. Unsuspecting...Of course, they have been fruitless in the past few hundred years. After all, the Eldar who are isolated from the offset galaxy do not know how anxious the situation in the galaxy cluster of the entire multi-dimensional world is at this time, so it is naturally impossible to have Civilizations would waste time sending fleets to explore the fringe galaxy at the end of this world.

And just when the Spirit Race themselves began to slack off, no longer paying attention to the information of detecting the surrounding galaxy.

A watch station on the fringes of the Eldar Empire's borders sent a vague and urgent message to the central hive on the homeplanet of origin.

...Respect, in the name of the great empress, the twenty-fourth generation of awakened Kai Luoya, the No. 937 frontier monitoring station has detected a very weak fluctuation of magic energy...

...with an extraordinary energy level jumping and spreading in the depths of the silent void, our technicians and instruments are unable to trace the source of this fluctuation...

...It's not a misjudgment caused by the aging of the equipment. It is indeed some kind of abnormal fluctuation of mana energy, which is mixed with some strange spiritual energy flow. We apply for advanced testing equipment...

At the beginning, this emergency notification did not attract the attention of the entire empire. Although the local technicians repeatedly reiterated that this was not a misjudgment caused by the aging of the equipment, such ambiguous reports and almost isolated data cannot be regarded as There are even high-level suspicions in the technical department that this is just an excuse fabricated by the local monitoring station to ask for more funds.

Originally, this kind of thing was like throwing a stone into the lake, causing no big waves, but to the surprise of the entire Eldar clan, similar emergency notifications came one after another from all the frontier monitoring stations in the entire empire. .

...Our instruments have sensed some kind of extremely weird energy fluctuations that are completely different from the systems we are familiar with...

...Our monitoring station intercepted a strange subspace echo, the sound came from the unknown depths of the silent void...

...It has been confirmed that the echo is very weak at first, but it is gradually getting stronger as time goes by. It seems that something is approaching our galaxy...

...its source is in the depths of the Silent Void, but we can't correctly judge its scope. The existing explanation is that the Silent Void is usually too calm, so as long as there are any abnormal energy fluctuations in its depths, it will set off a large-scale explosion. Resonant waves...

...technical staff can't explain why, this strange phenomenon has never been seen before, but we are still analyzing the existing data, hoping to get the support of advanced equipment...

The announcements from different monitoring stations, although most of them are different in content, are the same in essence—all the monitoring stations at the edge of the world’s galaxy have detected corresponding strange fluctuations. These fluctuations have unknown sources and occurred in the silent In the depths of the void, there is no way to know the cause of the occurrence.

For the spirit race living on the edge of the multi-dimensional galaxy, the void facing the inner side of the world galaxy is a normal void, while the void facing the outer side of the world galaxy is called the silent void, because there are no other worlds outside, so the silent void is always empty. It is a state of incomparable tranquility, without a large amount of space-time fluctuations.

But now, the silent void is no longer silent, which immediately sparked heated discussions within the technology department of the empire.

Not only that, the news about these fluctuating signals has now become all kinds of strange speculations in the mouth of the media, for example, a brand new world galaxy is being born on the other side of the galaxy, for example, the behemoth fleet that disappeared inexplicably in the past is disappearing from the silence. Returning in the middle of the voyage... There was an upsurge of speculation about external signals in the stable development of the Eldar Empire.

A large number of high-end equipment is supported to these frontier monitoring stations. The Eldar Empire began to mobilize the fleet, prepare for exercises, the arrival of their new friends, and guard against possible future enemies. In short, they will make all preparations and deal with all exchanges with threats.

However, the Spirit Race is just a new empire after all. They may not be behind in the technology of void warships, but they are a bit too weak in terms of information monitoring and extraordinary power system.

The multiple world galaxies, many civilizations that are also located in the fringe areas, powerful extraordinary individuals, and one after another prosperous super civilizations that span multiple galaxies have all detected corresponding strange signals, and they can all hear the energy from the distant galaxies. Waves and warp echoes.

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