Soul of Burning Steel

Suddenly, gloomy but calm mental fluctuations came from the head of the eight-legged fungus: "This is the residence of the Great Khan, a metal can from another world, so continue to be silent and humble, the generous Great Khan said Maybe it will keep you alive instead of throwing you into the 'fusion energy grid' as a bio-battery."

It seems to have known for a long time that everyone in the exploration team is awake. This weird alien creature even stretched out its forelimbs and pointed at the location of the magic armor 'camera', as if to say that it had discovered everyone's 'camera'. Eye'.

After finishing these actions, it took the other eight-legged fungus and left without hesitation, leaving the five people who were still tied to the crystal pillar to stay where they were, in front of the giant regular hexagonal prism 'palace'.

The Royal Court of the Shepherd.

This is what the eight-legged fungus called the palace.

Priest and his teammates raised their heads and looked at this huge building beyond ordinary human imagination.

The appearance of the royal court is a pure white regular hexagonal prism, about 1,200 meters high, and each side is also 1,200 meters long. It is bathed in light golden magic power, and the white shell seems to be covered with a Layers of gold yarn, it can be seen that there are layers of grooves on the pure white shell, in which translucent magic veins are flowing, just like the blood vessels of creatures.

The huge white regular hexagonal prism is pulsating, like the heart of the entire hive. This regular and orderly 'building' bigger than the mountains just stands in front of Priest and the others, carrying it with incomparable majesty. With boundless pressure coming, it seemed to block all the surrounding air and material activities, making it difficult for everyone in the exploration team to breathe, think, and move even a little finger.

What is the concept of a building with a height of more than 1,000 meters?

How does it feel when a human being stands in front of a building more than 1,000 meters high?

It feels as if everything around is rapidly enlarging, enlarging, and enlarging again, but I am rapidly shrinking, shrinking, until like an ant, the feeling of insignificance comes from the deepest part of my heart. It is a 'huge' that seems to fall at any time, crushing everything and even the world.

Priest heard his heavy breathing, he heard the restless heartbeat of his teammates, the eight-legged fungus threw them here, without any other follow-up actions, just let them stay in front of the royal court, watching all of these.

White walls see no boundaries.

The top of the hive shone with a golden light.

The solid biological ground was vibrating—as if beneath it, there was a gigantic heart.

How small are human beings...

Priest felt that all his spirit, all his vision, and all his will would be destroyed by this huge, weird 'building', and he would lose himself in the end—if he wasn't Joshua's disciple, this would be Everything is extremely possible.

"call--"

Exhaling deeply, Priest quickly recovered from the inexplicable mental shock, his pupils dilated and then focused, he looked at the huge white building in front of him with a look of fear, and whispered: "This building Can corrode the human spirit! And..."

Moreover, it seems to be an unconscious behavior!

Priest couldn't help but feel lucky. Fortunately, some time ago, he followed Joshua to the multi-dimensional sealing circle where the black mist was imprisoned. There, he saw a larger architectural structure than the giant central beehive. And he has also witnessed the coercion of the warrior's neutron starfighter body-if it weren't for these advance preparations, he might really lose himself in front of this weird hexagonal prism.

At the same time, after hearing Priest's reminder, and they also often meet and communicate with a certain legendary powerhouse, and have also seen the legendary battle that took place in World No. Wake up from the coercion that appeared inexplicably.

"This is a 'spiritual' attack!" The caster looked serious.

"Seven gods..." the clergyman subconsciously said.

"Dizziness, oh my god, something is eroding my brain just now... Let me take one first." The alchemist activated the magic armor and injected himself with a dose of sobriety potion that he had prepared long ago.

"What's going on?" The knight looked bewildered.

"……Huh."

Noticing that all five members of the exploration team were free from mental erosion, the grand and majestic will came from nowhere, and gave a little bit of doubt.

Then, accompanied by a subtle surge of magical power, an eight-legged fungus with a pure white shell appeared in front of everyone.

Since Priest and others are not eight-legged fungi, they can't figure out how this fungus is different from other fungi, whether it is majestic or luxurious, but anyway, this eight-legged fungus is different from ordinary people just in the way it appears. In an instant, everyone's attention was focused on this peculiar eight-legged fungus.

"An alien life that can resist 'spiritual influence'... Interesting."

There is no meaningful emotion, not even any fluctuating spirit, overwhelmingly coming from this eight-legged fungus, and forcibly pouring into everyone's brains, it uses a strange, weird and slow rhythmic tone Said: "You have a solid body, a tenacious will, and enough technology for time-space transmission... You are not ordinary 'food', and are qualified to talk to the 'Shepherd'."

Priest didn't understand what the other party was saying, because although it was a spiritual communication, the language could be ignored for information transmission, but the other party's arrogant attitude did not try to make them understand at all, as if throwing a data compression package over , It takes a long time for Priest and others to decode what it says.

But the young warrior didn't try to decode it at the first time. He stared at the white eight-legged fungus, recalling the metal altar where they failed to teleport at the beginning, and the group of eight-legged fungus that first appeared in front of his eyes. Foot fungus.

And in the center of the group of eight-legged fungi, there seems to be a distinctive, white eight-legged fungus surrounded by it.

Great Khan.

Is it the Great Khan?

The supreme leader of this alien civilization?

wrong. Priest sensed something was wrong - he was Joshua's disciple, and he often went to the Lord's Mansion some time ago. He had met Hotaru, Rin and No. 3 several times, so he was familiar with it. The white eight-legged fungus in front of him It's not an entity, it's just a magic projection!

From the very beginning, it was a magic projection! A simple avatar used to talk to visitors from other worlds like them.

At this time, the white eight-legged fungus was still asking questions in that strange and slow tone.

"How did you find the Shepherds?"

"How do you bypass the layers of space-time anchor points in the outer layer and directly enter the 'Wangting Flagship'?"

"Where do you come from? Shepherds have traveled all over the world, and have never seen such a strange life like you."

The white eight-legged fungus asked Priest and the others in the mental space with a calm tone, not seeming to care too much. Although it seemed indifferent, everyone sensed an extremely dangerous aura.

——If you don't answer... there is no doubt that they will be completely wiped out!

Together with the body and soul, they were completely wiped out! Even the soul ball and the restoration light beam can't save it, it's a complete death!

But what greeted the white eight-legged fungus was only silence.

No one spoke.

Priest closed his eyes.

The thirteenth rule of the foreign exploration team: If you are captured by a foreign civilization, you must not disclose any information about the world of Mycroft.

When necessary, commit suicide.

Simple but normal rules, Priest feels that he and the others may not be setting an example right away—according to the spiritual and magical achievements of the eight-legged fungi, he does not think there is any possibility of lying in front of these guys , when the time comes, it will definitely be thrown into some energy network and used as a biological battery.

However, it was not time to commit suicide. After all, the question asked by the "Great Khan" in front of him had nothing to do with the Mycroft world.

The first question, the answer is that the teleportation failed, I don’t know, the same is true for the second question, and the third question, why not tell it that it is from the world of Mycroft? Anyway, people like them don't know the space-time coordinates of Mycroft's world at all, it's just a name, just talk about it, it's no big deal.

Thinking of this, Priest and several teammates made eye contact with each other.

The white eight-legged fungus listened silently to the five people passing on the same spiritual information. It did not move or show any dissatisfaction. After confirming that everyone was not lying, it continued to ask a few other questions. question. For example, where is their original teleportation location, what is their purpose, and what is the level of civilization.

Priest’s brain was running fast, and he basically answered all the questions he could answer, and if he couldn’t answer, he directly deleted that memory by himself——this is also the case for most other people, which is not true for members of the expedition team who have received special training. Disaster.

What is strange is that the white eight-legged fungus does not seem to be as cruel as it was shown at the beginning. It did not directly kill Priest and others because they did not answer questions or even delete their memories. Instead, it often kept silent for a long time.

During the long question-and-answer process, Priest and others also discovered a strange problem.

The one in front of me seems to be the white eight-legged fungus of the 'Great Khan'. In fact, it does not use any special slow tone, but its thinking speed is indeed very slow.

Sometimes, it even wanders off and asks the same question repeatedly - this is naturally not a questioning technique, but it seems to have really forgotten that it has ever asked this question.

Although it has enormous spiritual power and unimaginable coercion, this white eight-legged fungus is a bit like a temporary, rough and crude temporary carrier, just a simple incarnation of inquiry, and the Great Khan's body, But he was dealing with other things.

And such weird questions and answers will soon be over.

The incarnation of the white eight-legged fungus suddenly dissipated—the next moment, a colossal will that was ten times, a hundred times larger than before, solidified and almost substantive came.

In an instant, the sealing circle that originally sealed off the five members of the exploration team disintegrated directly, and before the five members experienced the feeling of regaining freedom, this materialized huge will carried the bodies of everyone in this way, directly Submerged into the white regular hexagonal prism.

Hum, there is no feeling of touching the entity.

Accompanied by a simple whisper of magic power, Priest felt as if he had entered a layer of liquid magic power like water—and this was the truth of the 'House of the Star Shepherds'. An extraordinary power building composed of physical magic!

The too bright golden radiance gradually subsided, Priest and everyone passed through the barrier of magic power, he felt the materialized huge spirit silently surging beside him, just like the most magnificent undercurrent in the depths of the ocean—— When everything gradually calmed down, he and the others were already in the center of the white prism.

In a dark void.

No, not nothingness... but void.

The interior of the white prism, like a 360-degree observation lens, reflects the void scenery of the surrounding world!

Priest could see that in the chaotic space-time turbulence, there were extremely faint starlights shining, which were the brilliance of the world, and these starlights were thin and weak, so it was obvious that the failed teleportation of the Myriad Realms Sacrifice Field was not It didn't deviate too much, and it did send them to the edge of the world's galaxy.

But now, it's not the time to worry about needles.

The five knights, mages, alchemists, priests, and Priest all gasped.

Now, they finally understood why their teleportation was wrong, and why they suddenly appeared in the habitat of the eight-legged fungus.

It's all because of the scene in front of me.

In the vast, dark, and silent void, there are some errors in the structure of the space. It can be seen that the starlight is shifted, the time and space are distorted, and the strange magical rainbow light replaces the light of the stars, making the entire void full of abnormal but And conspicuous light golden light.

And what emits these light golden lights is one after another semicircular 'star world'.

The stars are naturally not real stars, and the world is naturally not a real world. The largest of these semicircular star worlds is no more than the size of a province in an ordinary continental empire, although this is already large for a normal-sized creature. It's unimaginable, but compared with the real world stars, they seem pocket-sized in the boundless void.

But even so, this scene is already spectacular enough - more than 20 semicircular star worlds are suspended in the void, and the huge mass is mixed with magic fluctuations, forming an incomparably huge space-time abnormal area. Travel through the void, like a fleet.

And what drove this fleet to move was one after another terrifying creatures that were so huge that they surpassed human imagination.

It was a giant void monster with eight legs, just like the lower body of an eight-legged fungus, so huge that it was indescribable in words—only a void monster could describe this creature, even if It wasn't actually, but the moment it left the mother world and was able to survive in the void with a physical body, it had already become a new kind of void behemoth.

One after another, small, semicircular star worlds, like fungi, 'take root' on the flat backs of these giant void life forms, just like hermit crabs and their shells, in the ocean called void Moving forward slowly, they disturb time and space, distort the orbit of the real world, and move forward with a brilliant momentum.

Priest felt that his sight seemed to be able to penetrate the shells of those star worlds, and he could see that there were billions of eight-legged fungi living in these worlds, living on the backs of those giant beasts!

The eight-legged fungus hosts its body in the eight-legged arthropods, and they root their world on the same eight-legged giant void monster. Priest doesn't know whether it is the eight-legged fungus that cultivates such a creature. Huge void behemoths, or they have been parasitic on these behemoths since their birth.

But all these questions are meaningless.

This is the 'Shepherd'.

This is the world fleet of the ‘Shepherd’.

——This news must be reported to the Foreign Exploration Department... No, the Mycroft civilization must be informed!

In just a split second, Priest made up his mind to pass this information back!

"...a life from another world."

The huge will that brought the exploration team into the royal court of the Shepherd is condensing. It is the real will of the Great Khan. It is taking back the spiritual tentacles that it did not know where it was before, and is condensing into a real will entity. He was about to turn his attention to the five people who had been taken into his 'body', and really started to interrogate and search for the souls of these little ones.

But it was shocked to find that a series of faint blue space-time ripples were flickering rapidly.

That is from the legendary space-time mage, Nostradamus created by connecting the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field, the highest priority one-time teleportation circle.

The materialized spiritual tentacles stretched out violently, trying to interrupt the time-space teleportation, but how could the time-space magic circle prepared by Nostradamus be interrupted so easily? That is a solid structure that cannot be affected by the 150 million-degree high temperature of the black mist mother body and the distortion of time and space. In a hurry, even the power of the 'Great Khan' can slow down the speed of time and space transmission, and cannot really stop it.

Moments later, the shocked Great Khan could only look at the empty palace, staring in a daze.

After a long time, a gray-black eight-legged fungus entered the royal court.

"Great Khan."

It respectfully said to the void, which was nothing but a layer of distorted incarnation: "We haven't found a way for these alien creatures to teleport through time and space... Their teleportation magic is far superior to ours."

"……nothing."

A calm mental wave came from nothingness: "They... are not the beings of the galaxy we are in."

"I don't blame you, I made a mistake from the very beginning. They are not speculators following our secret route... but the aborigines in this 'lost galaxy'. The teleportation items they use are also There are props made by myself at the same level as mine, and I was careless for a while, and I really couldn't stop it."

"Great Khan."

The gray-black eight-legged fungus slightly twisted its column, bent its figure-of-sight legs, and made a weird 'bending' movement. It used weird sound waves mixed with mental fluctuations, and said extremely sincerely: "Although This goes against your teachings, but I must say, this 'Lost Galaxy' is too dangerous!"

"Sealed for 12,000 years, it only exists in the legendary fallen place, the Jedi that is absolutely forbidden in the multiverse, the fallen place of the 'World Eater' and the 'Endless Abyss'... We have only just entered, and we have encountered such Strange alien life, and creations that exist at the same level as you... This place is really too mysterious and full of unknowns, we have time to turn around now!"

"Kumosinda... the first king of the sky. I know why you are afraid."

The distorted spiritual void seems to be distracted, or it is doing something. It can be seen that a total of twenty-seven void giants and the star world on their backs are flashing a little bit of light, just like the current flashing of nerve nodes like that.

After a while, it replied belatedly: "We all know that this 'lost galaxy' closed outside the normal multiverse definitely contains infinite dangers and unknowns. It took us three hundred years to find out From the ancient relics and legends to find the passage leading to this closed galaxy, we spent 150 years preparing resources and crossing the 'material vacuum layer' between the galaxy and the galaxy to come to this place .”

"In this lost galaxy, there are endless mysteries... It used to be the center of the multiverse, with the most prosperous civilization and the most powerful strongman, countless ancient wreckage, and relics of prehistoric civilization."

"Legends say that there is even a secret here that can resist the 'World Eater'."

In the distorted spiritual void, the "Great Khan" said: "And we have no retreat, we can only move forward."

"Back to the original galaxy, only fire and destruction greet us."

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