[? ? ? ? ? Steel elements]
[Race: Unknown race·Dependents]
[Racial Skill: Steel Body]
[Level: LV20 Silver, Elite]
[Challenge level: LV18]
[Attribute: omitted]
[Skills: Metal Assimilation, Transformation, Advanced Physical Damage Reduction, Energy Ejection]
[Description: A brand new unknown life form. Its existence form is similar to the earth element, but it is harder than those brainless stone people. The energy core of the head can eject pure energy flow, and it is also the biggest weakness. Because they are created beings that do not exist in nature, they will instinctively obey the instructions of the creator - of course, do not overestimate the wisdom of these guys, after all, there is no essential difference between stone heads and iron heads.]
[Zhizhi, sizzle, sizzle.]
[by—Steel Elements]
"To touch the spirit body freely."
Looking at the steel figure that showed his surrender to him, Joshua couldn't help but recall the incident where he touched the magic projection No. 3 not long ago. The warrior repeated the explanation of the remaining steel scraps in the system, and if there was any He nodded thoughtfully: "You can also pay some price to give material life."
"Because I poured the power of power into steel, is it the steel element that appears? If I had touched water, fire or air before, maybe there would have been different results."
After groaning, the warrior smiled: "I don't know what price I paid, but it's interesting. It's really interesting."
You know, even summoning magicians do not summon water elements and wind elements out of thin air. They rely on the medium in their hands to call for the existence of other worlds. Although magicians who specialize in constructs can also create The steel golem is very different from this steel element.
Although it seems a little slow, this is 'life'.
"Get up."
Although the Iron Manoid looked like a puppet without intelligence, it could understand some instructions. The black-red light spot on its head flashed for a moment, as if in response, and then it obeyed Joshua's words and stood firmly. stand up.
It is more than two meters tall, and is a head taller than Joshua when standing upright. Its huge body is like a giant door with flashing light patterns. At first glance, you can tell that it is extremely strong and is a good material that can withstand pressure.
On the side, Firefly has triggered the magic in the Shapeshifting Pendant, and a weak but very precise wave surges out of it, and then covers the half-dragon's huge body. Hei's figure can be seen under the influence of this magic. The bottom gradually shrank, and finally in a burst of fluorescence, it became the size of an ordinary horse.
It is still in the extreme discomfort of seasickness. Even after encountering such a change, it has not woken up. However, because it feels that the surrounding environment has become 'spacious', Black instinctively stretches its body and coils its tail. Stretching out, the tip of the long tail touched the warrior's foot and even wrapped around it.
"... Firefly, go and call Rin over."
Helplessly breaking away from Hei's tail, Joshua turned his head and gave instructions to the silver-haired girl. Yingying was curiously touching the shrunken Hei. She stretched out her white little hand and tapped the gold on the half-dragon's chest. Core, and then said in surprise: "Master, this thing is not hot at all! I always thought it was very hot!"
"... Be careful. That's because I suppressed the energy in the black body just now. Don't touch it next time. It's really hot."
How could the energy core of a giant fire dragon not be hot? Even if the metal came into contact, it would dissolve and vaporize. Seeing this scene, Joshua couldn't help but frown and shook his head. The warrior repeated again: "What's your name?" Rin, come down and take care of Hei together, he should be sorting documents in my room now, it’s easy to find.”
"Oh well."
Obediently agreed, the silver-haired girl immediately stood up and prepared to walk towards the Gale's accommodation area. Before leaving, she glanced curiously at the metal figure standing silently beside her, and asked softly: "Master, what exactly is this?" What is it? It feels like there is a trace of your breath on it."
My breath? Is it because of the 'dependent' attribute
Although he had doubts in his heart, the warrior was not sure, so he shrugged and replied casually: "I don't know, but since it was created by me, it is normal for it to have my breath."
"As for what it is... I want to experiment."
With the thumping of footsteps, Firefly ran quickly towards the residential area, and Joshua also started his experiment.
Strength, wisdom, speed, warriors tested this steel element from all aspects, and the final result was more subtle.
As the system said, this steel element has silver-level strength. Its body is extremely hard, even better than the armor of a spaceship. But other than that, the steel element has no abilities. The metal in its skills Assimilation takes a few minutes to accumulate power. When Joshua ordered it to try to assimilate other metal walls in the cargo bay, he waited for a full five minutes and saw that the wall was missing about a palm. It was completely meaningless in actual combat. Still can only rely on physical combat.
The same goes for the deformation, just like it transformed from a large piece of steel plate into a human form before. If it weren't for Joshua's help, it would have taken at least ten minutes for this piece of iron to be transformed. The speed was really too slow.
In terms of wisdom, the steel element has simple wisdom. It can understand commands such as attack, defense, and standby, but it cannot understand more complex ones. Moreover, when there is no command, it will just stand still and not move. Indeed. It's a solid iron lump.
The speed is a surprise. Although the steel element looks very slow and stiff, it is actually surprisingly fast. The soldier allows it to run back and forth in the cargo hold. It only takes a little more than a minute to run 800 meters. Normally wearing armor None of the silver warriors can reach this speed, and the endurance of the steel element is the same as that of the earth element. As long as the energy is sufficient, it is endless.
Since the energy jet in the skill could not damage the hull, Joshua ordered the steel element to attack him, and the huge steel figure launched the attack without hesitation. He only heard a noise like the surge of electricity and a dark red energy. Shit shoots out from the light spot on its head.
The warrior took it easily. He felt it and felt that the power was reasonable. The impact was roughly equivalent to a blow from a warrior of the same level using an ordinary weapon. Although the temperature could not melt steel, it was still several hundred degrees. For ordinary humans, It will definitely cause severe burns if touched.
Generally speaking, the strength of the steel element is indeed good. Because of its hard body and endless endurance, its performance on the battlefield may be higher. If it can be created in batches, it will indeed be a great helper.
"It is indeed similar to ordinary elemental beings. They only have the most basic wisdom... I just don't know if they will become smarter as time goes by like the elders of the major elements."
After clenching and unclenching his left hand, Joshua looked a little regretful: "And after the change just now, the power of power disappeared completely. This kind of power is indeed impossible to grasp. Is it because I haven't found a way to use it, or is it just simple Does it work sometimes or not?"
If he can keep using this power, he can continuously create steel elements. Although this kind of existence is a bit stupid, it is indeed very useful as a human shield and forward during war. There cannot be too many warriors.
"Think about it, you don't have a name yet."
Patting the Iron Element's shoulder, Joshua said with a smile: "How about I call you number one?"
"Zizzizi."
As if in response to Joshua's words, the light spot on the steel head flickered and made a trace of noise. At this time, along with some chaotic footsteps, Hotaru came to the cargo hold with a tired look on her face.
As the warrior's butler, the black-haired boy was indeed in Joshua's room before, sorting out the documents sent from Moldavia. In fact, Rin's ability to handle government affairs was superior to that of the warrior, so as long as Joshua wanted If you relax, you will let the teenager do the work for you.
The soldier was relieved, but it was hard for Rin. Originally, the mysterious boy had to take care of Hei with Hotaru on weekdays, deal with the cultist incident with Miss No. 3, and occasionally prepare lunch and dinner for his master. The study room of the Lord's Mansion was relatively confidential. , so he is also responsible for cleaning. Rin is so busy every day that he has to deal with government affairs.
Therefore, occasionally when the boy is busy, he will fall into self-doubt like his sister.
—Am I not a weapon
—Why do I do these things
-What is the meaning of my existence...
Of course, unlike Hotaru's occasional confusion, the silver-haired girl doubts the meaning of her existence mainly because she has nothing to do, while the black-haired boy wants to escape reality because he is too busy.
"Hey, this big guy..."
As soon as he opened the door, Rin saw the steel element. He opened his eyes wide and subconsciously said: "Why does it have a hint of master's aura?"
"Hotaro said the same thing."
Touching his chin, Joshua turned his head and asked with some confusion: "Thank you for your hard work, Rin, but the aura on this guy's body is so obvious, you can tell at a glance that it is related to me?"
The warrior himself couldn't really feel it. In his perception, the breath of this steel element was very pure. If it didn't have dark red energy flowing on its body, it would simply be a big iron block.
"It is clear."
The black-haired boy nodded seriously. He struggled with the vocabulary for a while, and then slowly said: "It can't be said to be a breath, but as long as you look at it, you can immediately know that it must be related to you, the master, as if it is instinct."
"Is that so..." Narrowing his eyes, Joshua turned to look at the still motionless steel element: "It seems that it is the 'familiar' relationship."
But this kind of thing didn't matter, the warrior didn't think much about it, and the attribute card of No. 1 also changed slightly at this time.
[Steel Element No. 1]
[Race: Steel Element·Dependent]
At this moment, the entire Gale began to shake slightly, and a powerful stream of magic energy poured out from the heart of the furnace in front, seeming to be activating some huge magic circle.
For a time, space and time were distorted, with violent spatial fluctuations spreading everywhere.
"The teleportation has begun." Firefly said softly. The silver-haired girl's eyes shone slightly at this time and she looked very excited: "I don't know how long it will take to reach the far south. I can't wait!"
Ever since she knew that Joshua went to the Far South to help the Church of the Seven Gods fight against the mad dragon, the silver-haired girl had been very happy. Although Rin didn't express anything, her expression was the same.
Hotaru was so happy because she could finally do some fighting and exercise after relaxing for so long, while Rin felt that she could finally be liberated from the hell of official duties and relax a bit.
Looking at the cheering gods, Joshua also showed a smile of expectation. Hotaru and Rin wanted to prove the meaning of their existence, so why didn't he do the same? At the thought of fighting endless dragons, the warrior couldn't help clenching his fists, eager to try.
Of course, he quickly broke away from this expectation. Joshua glanced sideways and looked at Hei, who was sleepwalking and wagging his tail, and looked much better. He shook his head and said, "I feel a lot more energetic as soon as I become smaller. Look. It’s because it’s too big, so it’s a little short of oxygen when flying so high.”
In any case, Hei's matter was solved, and the changes in the power of power were brought out. The warrior gained a lot this time.
But the next few days were a bit uneventful.
Along the way, Joshua has been trying to mobilize the power of power in his body, and by the way, No. 1 cooperates with the mage on the ship to conduct various experiments.
These mages from the Royal Mages Association were very interested in the unknown life form of the steel element. They did not ask Joshua when he brought this guy here, but they just did a complete set of magic checks on the Silent Number One. The identification results are similar to what the system says, there is not much difference.
However, in addition, these mages discovered an interesting phenomenon - the spiderweb-like black and red lines on No. 1's body can absorb the magical energy in the atmosphere and maintain their own existence. In an environment with high concentrations of magic, the original The statue-like No. 1 will always actively seek out metal to assimilate to increase his size.
"This is probably the process of their growth. They strengthen themselves by absorbing magic power. They do have the characteristics of elemental life."
This is the conclusion drawn by a mage, who is very optimistic about the future of No. 1: "But generally speaking, it takes nearly a hundred years for the earth element most similar to it to grow from a silver-level to a gold-level giant earth element, and this The growth rate of the steel element is almost ten times that of it, and it can continue to accelerate in a high-concentration magic environment."
Joshua is also very satisfied, this means that the steel element can grow, and the speed is much faster than its kind.
Through the summons of the large teleportation array, the Gale continued to make teleportation jumps. Because the empire had already greeted the forces along the way, there were no surprises along the way, except for the occasional need to fly to rush to the transmission range of the next large teleportation array. , Joshua and his party basically repeated the whole process of 'opening the time and space gate', 'passing through the time and space gate' and 'opening the time and space gate again', and they didn't even see much of the outside scenery.
After passing through the southern fortress area of the empire, the edge of the Western Mountains, the gathering place of hill dwarves, several kingdoms in the Western Mountains, and the Naka Mountains, everyone finally approached their destination.
Starfall 833, July 1st.
Joshua arrived in the Far South.
Due for update... I know, but I have revised the outline and adjusted the subsequent plot. The main reason is that the outline was written a long time ago, and now it no longer fits the setting. This will happen in the middle of the work, and the early setting plot will be replaced. Swallow, need to readjust...
The transition is complete and we are finally ready to start fighting.
(End of chapter)