High Above

It sounds like Ian is a bit like a demon-eating lord who was born to devour demons, using the souls of his enemies as trophies.

Actually...it's not wrong!

As we all know, great demons are immortal and can resurrect again and again from the memory of their birth.

It's like, if the war demon born from an extremely horrific war that drained the blood of both countries becomes the fourth level, then before all life in this world completely forgets this war, this war demon will The existence will not disappear.

Of course, it's not the same war demon. It's just that after the former one dies, the latter one will continue to condense and inherit some of the characteristics of the former one.

Even if the death knell is a fourth energy level that relies solely on the accumulation of souls and a chance breakthrough, it is still the fourth energy level, and it has a certain attribute of immortality.

But here comes the problem.

What is the origin memory of Deathstroke?

Ian wasn't sure, but based on what he had seen before, it was estimated that the memory of the other party's origin was the memory of his hometown being destroyed.

And that memory... Until now, the only one who can remember it is Deathstroke himself.

After all, everyone in his hometown has died, and he has become a fusion demon. Other Feiyan people may remember the more grand war between the Empire and Feiyan, but no one will specifically remember the death of that town.

Therefore, it can be said that Deathstroke really died completely due to loss of memory.

What Ian saw in front of him was his last remnant.

[Soul of the Great Demon·Death Knell]

[Fourth energy level·Special individual·Core·Edible]

[Because the soul of the great demon is formed by gathering the power of the demon army, it naturally fuses with demons. The essence of the soul that was supposed to have immortal power could not rely on it because its memory was completely forgotten, and could only drift alone in the virtual world. If it is completely defeated here, it will be the final death of the great demon]

[Can be used as a potion material, applicable to demons and ectoplasmic creatures. 】

[Can be converted into a ‘fourth energy level core computing unit’]

[Contains source quality: 77251.9723 core unit]

【……】

This is what Ian gained.

Whether it is used as a test object to test the nature of the devil's immortal source, or it is stored directly as a potion material and left to those who will inherit the lucid state in the future, it is not a loss.

Even if you don't want to, you can directly convert it into the core computing unit of the fourth energy level - with the help of this thing in the Heart of Terra, you won't need to borrow Xio's dragon soul next time you fight the Nanling Battle.

Although Xiou himself seems quite contented, the more computing power he has, the more powerful he will be.

With demons as enemies, Ian has already tasted the effect of unmanned armor... They are basically equivalent to consumables, but at the juncture of war, exchanging steel for the enemy's flesh and blood is definitely not a loss.

You know, in today's Terran battlefield, due to the existence of personal qualities and sublimates, both parties in the firefight have to shoot ammunition that is dozens of times the quality of the other party to eliminate an individual. Sometimes, even after it is consumed, it cannot be eliminated. , can only damage.

"Adlbert, what do we do with this great demon soul?"

With a happy mood, Ian said to Adalbert happily: "With it, we can not only restore part of the demonic technology, but also enrich our reserves of advanced computing units... even if we want to Immediately converted into combat effectiveness, this thing can also be used on my Dead River Arms or Ether Arms."

"A wave of wealth!"

"Hmm... Do we really want to restore demonic technology?"

He had just used the form of the Giant of Light to recharge his energy, and after a long time of recharging his energy, he defeated Deathstroke's final fighting spirit. At this moment, Adlbert felt a little weak.

But after hearing Ian's words, he still braced himself and said hesitantly: "Isn't this not good? We have all seen the limits of demon technology. Without the Dragon of the Abyss, so many years of development would only give birth to a fourth energy level. The big demon... I feel that it is better for us to work steadily and cultivate the arcane path."

To be honest, indeed.

For things like the devil's path, it is best to have other devil civilizations to plunder for him, so that he can grow quickly. Otherwise, if he takes his time, God knows how many years it will take to complete the primitive accumulation.

"Different."

But Ian shook his head slightly: "The essence of demonic technology is not simply a 'demon', but the use of technology in the virtual realm to create spiritual bodies that obey a certain purpose, idea and emotion."

"I dare say that the Void Realm Machine God was developed by the civilization in the pre-Terran era when it studied demons and other Void Realm creatures. There are no serious Void Realm angels in this world. Fairies are half of them. Void Realm creatures. The technological front-end of Jingjishen must be part of the devil’s technology.”

"For the future of our Xiahui Territory, it is normal to build a defense line against the erosion of virtual lands like the 'Cursed Earth'. It is normal to study the enemy. Not only should demonic technology not be sealed, but we should also intensify research to avoid it again. A demonic legion attack!”

"If nothing else, wouldn't it be a better choice to create a kind version of the 'cursed land', such as a 'promised land' or a 'pure land' or something like a defense line?"

What Ian said made sense, and Adlbert almost believed it: "What's the truth?"

"It would be very convenient if you could use a demon vest to sneak into the enemy camp and cause damage." Ian said truthfully: "When the time comes, we can find an opportunity to infiltrate the Feiyan Land. Wouldn't it be wonderful?"

Albert: "Ha. I knew it."

Ian's truth is quite candid, and his previous foreshadowing is indeed reasonable - the virtual realm machine god, as an artificial virtual realm super life technology that surpasses the devil for a generation or even half a generation, definitely needs relevant prerequisites. If it can Obtaining the corresponding technical inspiration from the soul of the big devil, it will take at least ten years less for Silver Peak to lead.

In addition, it is not that such things as angels in the virtual realm do not exist, but that is all a matter of civilization in the previous era. At that time, at the most prosperous moment of civilization, there was indeed a virtual realm life called the "Holy Spirit" that appeared and interacted with demons. Contrary to, or even completely overpower, the devil.

The Void Realm Machine God should have been developed with the cooperation of the Holy Spirit, so it has the ability and instinct to maintain civilization and eliminate demons.

But the current Terra Continent, I am afraid that even the Void Realm Machine Gods cannot stand it. As the Dragon King said, it is not surprising even if it enters the abyss... In this case, you cannot take the path of the Holy Spirit, you can only take the path of the devil.

Then jump from the devil to the virtual realm machine god, and then try to create his own 'artificial holy spirit'.

Adlbert didn't intend to stop Ian, he just wanted to know what Ian was thinking - it wouldn't matter if he knew it, since Ian didn't intend to create demons anyway.

But instead of creating demons, maybe... we can also create other demons?

Ian thought about the 'devil's path' he sensed when he contacted the insect swarm again some time ago.

The swarm trades souls and futures with all living beings with benefits and contracts. This move is undoubtedly completely different from the plundering and killing of demons, but it is equally demonic, so it is called a demon.

but……

Ian turned his head slightly, and the perspective switched to Ian, the Immovable Fortress.

When the Dragon King took away the Dragon of the Abyss, he also took away a little soul... That soul was brainwashed by Ian and was full of the confusion of order and light.

At this moment, he is very different from ordinary demons.

If at the beginning, he was just changed his thinking by Ian's forced kindness, then now, after understanding his own existence form and thinking induction, he is sure that this form is what he wants.

It sounds a little strange.

But it's actually normal.

For example: a person can't get up in the morning, always slacks off when he wants to exercise, can't listen carefully in class, and when he comes home, he just plays games and looks at his mobile phone without doing homework or writing questions... If you ask him to study hard, he will definitely have a look on his face. Bored, he rolled his eyes and said that he was just garbage and had no life, and he didn't want to learn.

However, Ian put a stamp on his thinking, asking him to get up early and go to bed early every day, insist on exercising, study hard in class and review seriously at home, and have two hours of free entertainment time every day. His physical health and excellent study have won the respect and love of others...

Well, even if this person discovers that he may have been brainwashed one day, will he insist on undoing this brainwashing?

Indeed, there will be people who want to unravel. But there must be some of them who want to resolve it just because they feel that their sense of freedom has been distorted. If they can, they must also want to live a serious and orderly life, instead of being self-destructive and self-destructive like before.

If there is really a choice, who doesn't want to be loved by others, but despised by others?

Luo Xin is the kind of person who thinks that Ian has done a good job - he himself cannot resist Fei Yandi, but Ian helps him resist and helps him become the enemy of Fei Yandi.

In this case, the Soul Seal is actually his treasure and the key to maintaining himself.

So, can all demons be like this?

Forced to twist from chaotic evil to orderly evil... or even orderly neutrality.

If it is such a devil, maybe it is the legendary devil!

If you add the relevant psychic contract ability of the insect swarm, it will become even more devilish, and can even be said to be a neutral 'contract spirit'.

Even just for this possibility, Ian plans to conduct in-depth research in this area.

At this moment, the Dragon King is communicating with the Dragon of the Abyss - the identity of this Dragon of the Abyss is not ordinary. It is an 'ancient true dragon' that escaped from the Abyss Galaxy more than 1,600 years ago, or perhaps Say, an echo of 'ancient true dragon'.

The flying flames release the dragon's echo from death, and the echo dragon, which completely inherits the memory of the original true dragon, can also provide the dragon kings with more information about the creator of the year.

It was at this time that Adalbert noticed something rather strange.

"Ian."

The giant human body of light pointed cautiously at the flow of light in the virtual realm: "There seems to be something wrong with the direction of those demon souls?"

Ian looked up.

At this time, the silver sun incarnated by the Heart of Terra is recovering demon souls. Under the shining light, all the demon souls that burst out from Deathstroke's body are gradually purified, and then stored in the virtual space, waiting for future purification and Convert.

But now, there is another force that is wrestling with the silver sun. It seems to want to seize the ownership of these souls, causing the direction of the sun's refraction to twist slightly.

"oh?"

Seeing this scene, Ian raised his eyebrows and said thoughtfully: "It seems that it is the same as what I thought - the Dragon of the Abyss is not the final back-up of Feiyan Land, and may even be just their 'ally' ...And this ally may not be so obedient."

"The reason why they dare to use demonic technology openly is not only because fused demons can avoid the observation of the Void Realm Machine God and Dragon Island, but also because they originally wanted to use Dragon Island to eliminate the unstable point of the Dragon of the Abyss. "

This is Ian's guess since the Demon Legion was used on a large scale in Flying Flame Land.

After all, how could a force as big as Feiyandi not think that his actions would endanger the Evil Dragon Island, and that there was even a high possibility that someone would target him and call the God of the Void Realm to come over and eliminate him?

But they still used it, which proves that they had a reason behind taking such a huge risk.

As for the Dragon of the Abyss, there wasn't even a single fifth-level Feiyan who came to argue with him. Even if it was just a chat, it could be seen that they probably wanted the Dragon of the Abyss to leave.

However, it was too early to leave this time. There are definitely many related plans and experiments that have not yet been completed in Feiyandi, and the Dragon of the Abyss must also have many technologies that have not yet been explained, but Ian called the Dragon King in advance and disturbed them.

Ian believed that now he would really become a thorn in Feiyandi's side, someone who could kill them quickly.

As for now, the existence of the demon soul competing with the Heart of Terra... is probably the real backer related to the Feiyan Demon technology.

That...abyss consciousness that is independent of the Dragon of the Abyss.

Without any hesitation, Ian himself merged with the Heart of Terra to increase output and compete with the abyss consciousness for the ownership of these demon souls.

This is the most important harvest of the Silver Peak Leader, a computing matrix worth millions of ordinary people's souls and the raw material for the growth of the Heart of Terra - the Heart of Terra at this time can already provide a considerable degree of gain for Ian. After Wan Soul upgrades, God knows how powerful it can become.

When it comes to the speed at which things will snowball in the future, he will never give up.

In the distance, the influence of the Abyss Consciousness is not as strong as imagined - the destruction of the Abyss Cursed Earth network caused by the Dragon King's personal visit has obviously severely damaged the Abyss Consciousness, and now he probably instinctively recycles demon souls to supplement himself.

Although the hard power of the Abyssal Consciousness is definitely stronger than that of the Heart of Terra, the Heart of Terra is undamaged, and its essence is a fifth-level source-plasma computing chip. It is certainly more powerful than the Abyssal Consciousness that has been severely beaten.

So, after a while of wrestling, Ian took the Heart of Terra and kicked away the tentacles extended by the Abyss Consciousness, completely protecting his trophies!

Not only that.

"We don't have to come forward for this kind of thing."

Ian said to Adebert without hesitation: "Our South Ridge has been attacked by the demon army. It has been severely damaged and suffered heavy casualties. All major cities and territories have suffered a bloodbath and are now in ruins - and we happen to be in We discovered the enemy's extremely powerful backhand in the virtual realm, and in order to prevent Nanling from being destroyed, we immediately reported this information."

"ah?"

Hearing this, Adlbert nodded blankly: "We did have many casualties, but they were not particularly heavy, right? Even if the souls were not recovered, most of the casualties were small noble lords who were unwilling to listen to our advice... Let’s not talk about whether they deserve it or not. Most of them are in the Golden Plains and do not hinder our productivity in Nanling.”

This is not to say that Adelbert doesn't care about civilian casualties, but you always have to make choices in life. The propaganda of the Silver Peak Leader is not unsatisfactory, but they must stay in their hometown and coexist with their hometown... In theory, they do not belong to Nanling is under jurisdiction, what can be done about this?

"I mean, we have to act like this. Just follow Scott's example. He listens to the beginning and helps me write the entire report."

Ian knocked Adalbert's head helplessly: "In short, we will never get involved in matters related to abyss consciousness."

This Adalbert can understand: "Showing weakness to the enemy, I can understand this."

"The Empire Central Committee is not an enemy yet... but it is normal for local governments to conceal information from the Central Committee."

Ian doesn't expect Adalbert to understand politics, selling misery and crying about poverty. Maybe he has to change this matter to "requiring funds" like the education youth, so that Adalbert can understand it?

Who are these people...

Shaking his head slightly, Ian was slightly distracted and reported the news about the abyss consciousness to the Southwest Legion headquarters, which is the second prince Mikael.

Soon, Ian received a reply: [Very important news, Earl Yinfeng is worthy of being a role model for the nobility of Nanling. Even if he wins a big victory, he will not forget to warn the enemy! 】

What followed was a large piece of eloquent praise, which Ian passed by without reading.

But in the end, he saw a key message.

[...Now, the offensive and defensive momentum has been reversed. We will launch a major counterattack against the mainland of Feiyan Land in late July under the guidance of the Imperial Capital]

[Sincerely invite Earl Yinfeng to come and watch the ceremony around Qian Marian Mountain and enjoy the scene of the counterattack together! 】

"The scene of counterattack?"

Ian chewed on this sentence for a while and tasted the various flavors: "The empire has already had counterattack means. I know this, but it is actually a reward... What, is it a nuclear bomb?"

This is just a joke - when the nuclear bomb on the earth was just invented, a large number of military and political officials were indeed invited to watch it. At that time, there was no awareness of radiation protection. Everyone had a personal taste of nuclear radiation baptism.

That is to say, the nuclear bomb yield at that time was not large and the radiation was not serious. In the end, it did not make any big news, otherwise it would have been fun.

The empire invited him, a nobleman who had just won a big victory in Nanling, to watch the ceremony. It was obviously of the same nature. This also meant that Ian had indeed reached that position and could already start to participate in some of the games played by the upper echelons of the empire.

After all, the third-level goblins and territorial allies can call out three other third-levels. This can be regarded as a force no matter which country it is placed in. If Ian himself has the fourth level, find a small place It is enough to establish an independent country.

The only question is, will this visit be as fun as the visit to the nuclear bomb on Earth? For example, if you invite a large number of nobles to see a super weapon, you forget that the viewing location is slightly compatible with the super weapon's killing radius...

No way?

"Want to go?"

Adlbert also sensed this reply, and he asked casually: "Later, I can just go over and deal with the territory matters, so I won't be too busy... I'm really looking forward to what the big counterattack will be."

"It's probably also a group of new troops and creations. I'm also looking forward to it."

Ian nodded slightly. He had already made a decision: "I will definitely go, but before that, we have to clean up the mess in Nanling."

"Although most of the people of the Golden Plains are protected by us in the refugee camps in the rear cities, it will take some time for the Golden Plains to be inhabited after experiencing the bloodbath of demons. Rebuilding settlements is one of them. Those whose ecology has been disturbed The Golden Plains monster is even more of a big trouble."

There are many resources in the Golden Plains, which are these Warcraft and Warcraft-related ecological products. The Flying Flame Land does not care about the Empire's environment and naturally uses catalysis at will. The Empire wants to restore these destroyed and disturbed areas to the point where they can be produced. It will cost a lot. A lot of effort.

In addition, similar to the remuneration for the action of the Marquis of Barton and Viscount Grant, as well as related negotiations... Winning the battle is only the first step. As the actual leader of the South Ridge today, Ian still has many things to do.

Actually, it's not just the Empire and the Firelands.

The Seven Cities Alliance, Canaan Moore, and the Capital of Knowledge all received news of the defeat of the Nanling Demon Legion and the Dragon King's action to arrest the Dragon of the Abyss.

There are different reactions from all parties, some are appreciative, some are worried, and some feel that the previous investment was still insufficient, and now they are sighing.

But the most peculiar reaction was from the City of Learning.

The capital of knowledge, the capital of heaven.

Tower of Quest.

A thin and white hand put down the crystal plate in his hand, his blue eyes thoughtful.

"The defeat of the demon army in Nanling is abnormal." He murmured to himself: "Now, except for us and Yanjiang, Terra does not have the ability to deal with the erosion of cursed soil... But the lord of Nanling passed Some kind of method delayed the spread of the cursed soil, so that he could force the Nanling Demon Legion to fight decisively at the location he decided, and then be bombarded by the space-based weapons released by his brother Mahdi on Dragon Island."

"Interesting, Longdao also cooperated with him in this attack... Could the rumors be true? The Dragon King plans to convert the descendant of Fudo Fortress into a real dragon and train it as the next generation of Dragon King? This kind of thing Can fake news come true?”

The image was blurry and he could only see a pair of hazy figures with blue eyes leaning on his big leather chair. After lying down comfortably, he couldn't help but smile: "It's so interesting - I remember that during this period of time,... The young master of the Lun family is coming to the Capital of Knowledge for inspection...and he is also friends with Ian and Mahdi?"

"Perhaps we can invite them to be our guests?"

"After all, our city of knowledge is different from any force on this continent... We are absolutely neutral and only seek the truth."

Having said this, the psychedelic humanoid with blue eyes looked at the 'mirror' opposite his desk: "Are you right?"

In the mirror, another person with 'blue eyes' looked at him and showed a different smile: "'Myself'?"