Wasteland Echoer

"Era One: The great Creator seems to never wake up from the nightmare, because the entire world was born in His dream. All the universe, time and space, matter and dimensions are under the endless power brought by this nightmare Continue to multiply and develop until the unseen Supreme Being in a higher dimension awakens the Creator. At that time, everything will disappear in an instant, as if it never appeared.”

"Era Two: Before creating the universe, the Creator created two eternal 'substances', one is 'life' and the other is 'death'. The Creator said that if there is 'life', there will be 'life'; If there is 'death', then there is 'death'. Survival is an eternal topic in the universe, and death is also an eternal and eternal ending in the universe." - "Holy Words".

"The Future" and Luo Nie's death did not touch Luo Nie too much. Apart from the fact that being trapped in the "Silent Highlands" for thirty years obliterated some of his human emotions, in fact, he did not really have any relationship with this person. Two crucial "people of destiny" have been in contact for too long.

According to the script written by the Creator, he should indeed go north to explore with Ronie who obtained [Personality] after the battle of "Silent Highlands", fight together with Ivan XXII, the originator of this wasteland world, and then end Kru The wishful thinking of the "Global Energy Evolution Platform Plan" of the German Federal Council is heading east towards the territory of the Fire Empire before this land completely falls into the hands of the lost and the "unintentional people".

And now...

After an unknown amount of time, Wright rubbed his sore eyes and woke up from his short sleep.

He wiped off the yellow sand on the silver guard uniform, supported his body that had recovered some of his physical strength and magic power, and looked around.

The sun above my head seems to be much brighter, like midsummer, bringing a feeling of anxiety and heat.

The river not far away is filled with clear and dangerous water, which sparkles under the sun.

"Is everything...over?" Wright shook his head vigorously. After regaining consciousness completely, he found that the limbs that had been corroded by the decaying material of "Plamini's Sorrow" had returned to normal, except for the back of his head. There are only seven curled up and languid "Touches of Darkness" left, and the one that was cut off will probably not be able to grow back for the time being.

After observing for a while, Wright chose to run towards the place where the mechanical body Ronai had fought with "Plamini's Sorrow". Now, there was nothing else there except a pile of mechanical fragments and rotten and rusty metal blocks. exist.

"Logically speaking, defeating the boss in the illusion should open a door to the outside world or a deeper realm. However, 'Plamini's Sorrow' is already dead, and Luo Nie is also dead. Why should we reveal it to the outside world?" The passage has not appeared yet. Could it be that I have missed some important clues?" Facing a pile of scrap metal that smelled of engine oil, Wright held his chin and thought:

"Luo Nie said that Edari Sage's prophecy... there is such a sentence, 'The mechas of the old create a new world.' If this sentence refers to this battle, the passage to the outside world should have been opened. But if it doesn’t refer to battle, then the clues… should be in these mechanical fragments.”

With that said, Wright surged up the red magic power in his body and activated the "Burning Black Vision".

After a burst of black ribbon-like gas lingered near his eyes for a few times, his two originally pitch-black pupils quickly spread outward, turning the whites of his eyes into pure black.

This time, Wright chose to let the power of "Black Sight" act on both eyes, instead of reserving one eye for observing the real world as was customary when "Future" was used.

In Wright's view, the entire world is either a completely illusory existence or a completely real existence. There is no real existence between illusion and reality. If it is half real and half illusory, either a lot of important information will be left behind, or ...will be in a twist...crazy.

Soon, the world in Wright's eyes completely turned into a black and white existence, as if he was observing through a black and white camera. An uneven dome appeared in the originally bright and endless blue sky.

A boundary appeared in the seemingly endless world of yellow sand. If you look closely, you will see that it is a barrier composed of pale light.

"It seems that there is a boundary here. Perhaps it is not entirely an alien space, but one of the closed spaces under the 'Red Fantasy Ruins'. In this case, a passage to the outside world will definitely appear, but it should Not at the edge of the space, but at the core. The mechanical fragments in front of me have a strong aura of magic power, as well as traces of 'divineness' and 'ancientness'."

While analyzing, Wright was rummaging through the messy mechanical fragments for something. Soon, when he removed half of the broken mechanical head according to the information revealed by "Burning Black World", a mechanical head appeared in front of it. Composed of flower buds.

Legend has it that when the Dragon Clan was completely expelled to the Dragon Realm filled with blood and lava, humans with "wisdom" and "inspiration" sequence cores ushered in the "Steam Era" that the gods had never imagined, including the Dragon Clan. The alien beasts, vampires, monsters and other creatures that relied on extraordinary power to exist gradually lost their source of power. They either changed their faith to "ancient gods", or relied on weak magic to blend into the human world and exist as humans.

According to the long-burned Epic of the Future by Aidari Sage, after the steam world comes, machines and all the supreme scientific things they create will completely replace magic, and everything in nature will experience a destruction brought by humans.

All living beings, including humans, will experience a painful process of destruction and then usher in a new reincarnation.

If, in the "painful process", "the bud composed of machines" can be found, it can prove that in this reincarnation, the Creator does not want complete destruction to come, and He has left a glimmer of hope for mankind and all life.

"Remaining... hope?" After carefully reading the above content composed of the Central language text, Wright closed the "Burning Black Vision" and carefully observed the bud.

It was small enough that Wright could hold it in one hand, but it looked so tough. In the stains of machinery, oil and blood, relying on the "nutrients" given by the yellow sand, it stood among the dead machines like a star hanging in the curtain of the universe, and its silver-white color slightly reflected the light of the sun.

In Wright's view, perhaps this is the meaning of "hope": no matter the long night and death, or the scorching heat and survival, even if decadence and ruin are the style of the whole world, fear and confusion have never been far away, there will always be seedlings struggling to break through the ground, chanting the hymn of courage and life.

Such a charming "flower bud made of machinery" seemed to penetrate Wright's indestructible spiritual power in an instant. He unconsciously raised his right hand covered with dirt and stretched out his index finger to touch its top.

But what he didn't expect was that when his body filled with red magic power came into contact with the flower bud, a blade instantly jumped out of the flower bud and cut his finger.

Soon, countless hair-thin metal threads, like greedy leeches, drilled into the wound and sucked his blood.

Immediately, the yellow sand began to boil. As far as the eye could see, the sun's brilliance disappeared. Countless pure blue light beams rose from the ground one after another. The yellow sand turned into rusty powder and rose to the air, just at the top area of ​​the entire space, revealing the hollow iron plate with a strong mechanical style hidden underground.

A few seconds later, countless gunfire and explosions, either real or with an ethereal sense of illusion, came from a distance. The originally quiet, precise and harmonious world turned into the edge of a battlefield.

"Is there a battle? Or, did the Crusaders enter the 'Red Fantasy Ruins'?" Wright guessed.

However, in addition to a few shells exploding not far away and the rising mushroom cloud, there was only this red sky and blue underground space to answer him.

At this moment, the "flower bud made of machinery" seemed to have absorbed enough nutrients, and pulled the metal wire from Wright's fingers. After a disturbing mechanical sound, the "flower bud" actually bloomed, emitting an extremely unreal, bright light ball mixed with confusion and chaos.

Wright was afraid that the light ball would affect his vision, so he turned his head to one side, using his peripheral vision to observe the changes in the flower bud, waiting for the light to fade away.

Fortunately, his judgment was correct. The light disappeared after a few seconds. When Wright turned his head back, he found that the pile of mechanical fragments just now had turned into a pile of broken bones of various animals, emitting the stench of decay.

At the same time, under the influence of the strange illusion around, the petals that bloomed like an involute flower only lasted for a few seconds before they all withered, forming a beating heart made of machinery.

"This is a heart made of machinery..." Luo Nie's voice came from in front of Wright.

Wright looked up, and Luo Nie's pale blue shadow appeared in front of him.

"Luo Nie?"

"Don't be surprised, I didn't mutate into a 'different monster', nor did I die. Just now, the Lord of Machinery responded to my call, and He told me that I would return to the realm of God. Because I was created by the Lord of Machinery relying on the fate arranged by the Creator." "Luo Nie" said in a calm tone:

"I was born to fulfill your promotion as the [Orderer] at this moment. All my existence, including all my actions including acquiring [Personality], are meaningless embellishments. Even if I have never existed as a human, this heart will appear in front of you.

"It's called the 'Mechanical Heart of Hope', Wright, as long as you take out the 'Eternal Red Key' I gave you and insert it into it, it will shed its mechanical shell together with the heart and become a real heart for you to eat. When you really advance to Sequence 3, the passage hidden behind the confusion will appear. "

"The passage after the confusion? "Wright glanced at the military backpack in his hand, and after struggling for a while, he took out the "Eternal Red Key" and inserted it into the mechanical heart.

Click, click, click, click!

The mechanical shell fell off normally as Luo Nie said...

Half a minute later, Wright wiped off the red liquid and tears from the corners of his mouth, and walked towards the road leading to the deeper realm of the "Red Fantasy Ruins".

At the same time, a white sequence core was generated in his soul, Sequence 3: The white light brought by the battle appeared on the tattoo of irises and sunflowers on his right arm. (End of this chapter)