The initial fire gives energy to the ember of steel, and the ember of steel gives birth to all living things. Although this is not the case all the time, in the simple world view of the universe, this is how they view the sun above their heads and the earth below their feet.
When the red satellite rose and fell in the sky for three cycles, and when the stars in the galaxy reached the correct position, a ceremony to call out the great existence in the distant void began on the Atrium Star.
The Supreme Archon Milhabus stood on the highest peak of the planet, on the solemn and ancient temple platform. This was a huge temple built by the ancestors of the Midgard people 1,700 years ago. At that time, they had not yet left the planet and went to The ancestors of the cosmic vacuum relied on their own bodies and negligible spiritual power to build a magnificent building that can be called a miracle on the top of the 8,400-meter-high mountain range of the Atrium Star to worship this. The 'Saint of the Void' came from everywhere and brought the entire Atrium civilization to its peak.
This belief allowed the people of Midgard who were still divided at the time to end the struggle for power among many countries in the chaotic era, and a united theocracy unified the entire world. After that, the people of Midgard walked towards the stars without hesitation, following the people who disappeared into the void. The steps of a saint.
The temple platform is a hexagonal tower with a base diameter of nearly two hundred meters, like a hill. The pale silver, polished extremely smooth rock constitutes its main structure. It is the highest point of the man-made world. Standing here, you can step on the clouds and mountains, the earth and the sea under your feet, and stand side by side with the stars and the sky. Milhabs stood on it, but he did not feel a sense of superiority over everything else, but felt deep awe.
It is precisely because it knows that there are stars and other worlds in the sky, and precisely because they have moved into the universe and established colonies on other planets, that it understands that this temple 1,700 years ago is of great significance to How unbelievable it was to the Zhongting people at that time. Not to mention anything else, the perfect, smooth outer wall of the tower with almost zero friction coefficient was a miracle that cannot be explained by current technology. It was also what all Zhongting people believed in. origin of.
If it weren't for the change of the Supreme Archon, or the discovery of a new intelligent civilization in the starry sky, the people of Midgard would never use this magnificent temple, but Milhabus is here, and not only that, it also comes with rumors that it is The treasure left by the Void Saint back then was the sacred object enshrined in the Grand Temple of the Atrium Capital, [Water Drop].
When he thought of this, Milhabs couldn't help but move his eyes downwards. In front of its plant-like body, which was composed of roots, and in its hands covered with gray plant fibers, there was a beautifully decorated and gorgeous figure, engraved with countless representatives. A transparent cylindrical vessel with words of praise and reverence. This vessel represents the highest technological creation and spiritual sustenance of the Zhongting people. In the middle, suspended is a gem-like object the size of an ordinary person's fist and shaped like a blue water drop.
Because the position is fixed through spiritual energy and powerful electromagnetism, time is stopped in the vessel called the 'Amber Pillar', where the temperature is close to absolute zero and the material will not move at all. This is the only way, In order to store the extremely smooth but indestructible water droplet that the people of the Atrium still don't know how to make, this is another powerful proof of the saint's belief. Even the people of the Atrium who have now walked into the starry sky use the most advanced tunnel. Even when scanning water droplets with a scanning microscope, you can only see tightly packed material particles without any gaps.
Taking the treasures left by the saint, they came to the most solemn and sacred high platform of the Supreme Temple. Naturally, Mirhabs, the supreme governor of the atrium, could not do it because of personal desires. In fact, his every move at this time was reported by people all over the world. The Midgardians used psychic communication to broadcast the broadcast in real time, and millions of psychic users, that is, temple priests, also gathered at the foot of the mountain, in the universe, at the flagship of the Central Starfleet of the Midgardians, the Forerunners. The "No. 1" was floating above the atmosphere with its own frigate, and all the officers and soldiers, including the fleet commander, were watching this scene through the battleship's observation lens.
Because what Mirhabs is about to hold is the most dangerous and sacred ceremony that has not been held for thousands of years, [Void Gate].
A thousand years ago, the Midgardians' exploration fleet finally discovered a planet suitable for their survival in a nearby galaxy. Overjoyed, they immediately launched a colonization plan that had been prepared for many years. Immigration ships filled with Midgardians and seeds one after another Through the huge psychic warp of time and space, we came to that beautiful green planet, and perhaps because this meant that the people of Zhongting had truly become a starry sky civilization. The moment the immigrant spacecraft landed on the new planet, all the people of Zhongting felt that they His soul was trembling - his psychic potential broke through the original limitations, benefiting all the people in the Midgard at this moment. After that, the psychic power that could only be understood by the priests and other high-level officials has completely become the standard for all members of the Midgard civilization. Matching, at most, there is a difference between high and low due to different individual qualities.
The already powerful priests and the supreme governors at the time - that is, the strongest psykers on the planet - did not benefit from this ascension to transcendence, but their realms were temporarily improved at that time. Unexpectedly, the spiritual induction of these powerful psychics broke through the limitations of the planet and even the universe itself, and came into contact with the existence on the other side of the 'Void Curtain'. They sensed that there was still a vast and endless space outside the universe, and that space Among them, some high-level existence was whispering in their ears.
It's a saint!
Whether they are priests or supreme governors, leaders of the Ministry of Technology or senior officials of the Ministry of National Defense, the powerful psykers in the entire Atrium civilization who can feel the whispers firmly believe this without any doubt. They believe that this is a warning from the saints. The reward for their progress, so he kindly allowed them to hear His voice. These high-level officials in the atrium could even sense that the voice was telling them a secret method, which was to use extremely powerful spiritual energy to tear apart the void and make those high-level officials aware of it. The method for the descending of a higher-level being, this is the origin of [Solemn Ritual·Void Door].
Taking advantage of the upsurge of immigration to new planets and the awakening of all psychic powers, the entire Midgard civilization broke out with unprecedented cohesion. Within a few months, they built a spiritual condensation device that could gather the power of all psychics, a simulated star ring. , a huge steel creation that revolves around the mountain. Priests and psykers of the entire planet have gathered their spiritual energy into this star ring, and then let the Supreme Archon guide this power to perform rituals, tear the void, and let the 'Saint The one's coming.
The power of millions of psychics gathered together to form a mighty stream of light that pierced the void of the universe. It penetrated the atmosphere in one breath and spread 400,000 kilometers toward the depths of the vacuum, even exceeding the distance of the stars and moons in the atrium. The orbit can be clearly seen even in the universe. This extremely powerful force undoubtedly tore the void and caused a high-level being to descend.
But what happened next... was a terrible tragedy.
The existence that descended was not the Saint of the Void that the Zhongting people believed in. It was just a huge insect-shaped super life covered in crystal. At first, due to the influence of spiritual energy, this super life was very obedient to the control of the Zhongting people, and because After being disappointed for a while, the people of Zhongting were disappointed that it was not a saint who came, and they happily began to study the powerful void life. By studying the opponent's carapace and energy core, the people of Zhongting made rapid progress in materials science and energy dynamics. , and the combat effectiveness of this void life is even more powerful than their interstellar fleet - it has even learned to use psychic energy to warp space, and can act together with the fleet, which is equivalent to directly doubling the military strength of the Midgardians.
It can be said that this crystal insect is a subordinate of the Void Saint. The people in the courtyard were too careless. When the spiritual energy condensed by millions of people gradually dissipated and finally disappeared completely, the docile and obedient crystal insect suddenly showed a violent look. , it is the will to destroy everything, devour everything, and turn everything into nothingness. The powerful super life form attacked the unsuspecting atrium fleet and completely destroyed dozens of the most advanced frigates in the periphery. The crystal insects moved towards The colonial star that had been named "Leaf Garden" flew away, slaughtering the entire planet's colonists, and then drained them of their spiritual energy and life force.
Life on a planet dies.
The shocked Atrium government immediately understood their fault - they understood from the abnormal reaction of the sacred water droplets that the crystal insects were not subordinates of the saint. In fact, the two were mortal enemies among mortal enemies. They summoned the descendants of the evil god. , and naively thought that was their own belief, and they almost made their world doomed. Therefore, the vengeful Atrium fleet took all the powerful psykers, including the Supreme Archon, across the starry sky to hunt down the chaotic and crazy crystal insects. The two sides started a fierce battle in the Garden of Leaves, and finally ended with the victory of the Atrium people, but at a price That is to say, most of the originally beautiful and vibrant colonial star was turned into a wasteland and became a land of barren famine, and most of the high-level psychics and their inheritance were lost.
Since then, the ritual of [Void Gate] has been completely sealed, and the people of Zhongting who were seriously injured did not have a second and third extraterrestrial colony until a thousand years later. That was what they were supposed to have in a thousand years. But now, the people of Midgard have once again built a star ring around the Holy Mountain, and have once again gathered millions of powerful psychics. They want to restart the solemn ceremony again, tear apart the door of the void, and call out to the outside world. existence comes.
Because at this time, the people in Zhongting were at a critical juncture of life and death.
In the starry sky calendar one thousand six hundred and twenty-three years, when the Midgard people's exploration fleet was exploring the unknown star field, they encountered a huge exile fleet. It was the main fleet of the 'Forbi people' with whom they had communicated. There are thousands of immigrant spaceships. The Forbi and the Midgardians are also psychic idealist civilizations that believe in the existence of gods. The two sides have no border conflicts because their territories are far apart, so the relationship is barely good. However, in the past hundred years or so, , there were few traders and communications coming from the Forbi people, and because of the Void Gate incident, they were relatively exclusive. At the same time, the Zhongting people who were dedicated to colonization had no time to communicate with the outside world.
Therefore, when the Atrium Exploration Fleet encountered the Forbi Exile Fleet, they were extremely shocked. They asked the other party why they wanted to use all their civilization to leave their home planet, but they only received a strange answer.
"Darkness... darkness is coming... they are catching up!"
Leaving behind this clueless sentence, the Fulbi fleet disappeared into the distance of the universe. Their fate is unknown to anyone, but losing their home star means they have lost the foundation and pillar of civilization, and they have no chance to recover in thousands of years. Yuan Qi will always be just a lost dog.
The people in Zhongting at that time did not understand this answer, but decades later, they understood.
The squirming herds that cover the sky bring plague, corruption and disaster to attack the third colony closest to the Fulbi star field, the 'Garden of Roots'. These cosmic beings that can wander in the void bring pure When the destruction and killing came, the telescopes of the people in the atrium turned around in grief, and then they saw a super life form in the distance that was at least several hundred thousand meters in diameter.
It was a weird spherical beast like a meat ball. There were countless twisted heterogeneous vortices on its body, just like eyes, and a huge gap spanned the entire body, like a grinning face. There were countless tentacles extending around its body. Come out and drag behind you, each tentacle is at least tens of thousands of meters long, with dark green light flowing endlessly above it, releasing a huge power that is completely opposite to spiritual energy, but can also distort time and space.
The endless herd of beasts uses this giant beast as its mother body, traveling through the starry sky, attacking world after world. The darkness that sweeps across the stars, covering the stars, is a chaotic thing as huge as a satellite, warping space and shuttling through the galaxy. It is The chaos summoned by the Forbi people was just like what the Midgardians did a thousand years ago, but the difference is that the existence summoned by the Folbians was stronger, and they did not defeat each other, but were embarrassed. Escaped from his home galaxy.
And now, it is heading towards the home planet of the Midgardians. The colonial fleet is going to stop it, but no one has hope for their decisive charge.
"The Holy Mountain is here, our civilization is here, the people of Zhongting are not Fulbi people, we will never abandon our home planet, we are the people of the Saint, and we will never escape the battle with the evil god."
"However, the only thing that can fight against the existence outside the void is the existence outside the void."
"Even if it is a descendant of the evil god, at least we can control it a little bit. Before it turns against it, that is our power."
Standing on the high platform of the temple, the Supreme Archon Mirhabus recalled the conclusions reached by the Psychic Council and closed his three eyes. The eye on the forehead is proof of the highly developed spiritual awakening of the people in the atrium. It is holding an amber pillar and water droplets in its hands, standing in the center of the high platform, and silver-blue spiritual light pillars overflow from its body. Out, forming bright light pillars, surrounded by thin dust mist high in the sky. A few seconds later, with the release of more powerful spiritual energy, within a radius of several kilometers centered on Mirhabs, including the air Everything was pushed away, and a vacuum bubble formed above the entire high platform of the temple.
And the next moment, the endless spiritual energy gathered by the star ring followed the light silver hexagonal tower and converged on Milhabs in the vacuum, and then formed a huge halo, this silver-blue The halo emptied hundreds of kilometers of clouds around the holy mountain, and then gradually condensed a pillar of spiritual light in the center of the halo that was spreading toward the sky, the atmosphere, and even the universe!
The [Void Door] ceremony was officially opened, and after that, there was no way back for the people of Zhongting.
In the center of the light pillar, so much energy that it felt like it was about to explode was concentrated on Milhabs. It felt like its whole body was bathed in magma, but this supreme governor was the strongest spiritual energy in Atrium Star. However, the creature did not waver, enduring the pain of being burned by high-energy radiation. It silently raised the amber pillar in its hand high, and then allowed this huge energy to gather on the holy object 'water drop'.
-If we say that the family of the evil god was summoned from the void last time, it was because the people in the courtyard listened to the whispers of those beings in the void.
—Then this time, I will use the saint’s holy objects as coordinates to summon the existence beside him!
The fibrous cortex on the surface of Milhabs' body began to burn and peel off layer by layer, revealing its internal body, which was like a plant root system. The people of Zhongting were originally a race born from the wisdom of psychic plants. The reason why they are The human form is simply an imitation of the 'saint' who came to the top of the holy mountain in the past and guided the people of Zhongting to develop civilization.
"I, using the ancient contract as evidence, summon the great existence from beyond the void curtain!"
"Brother of flames, holder of steel, descendants of saints roaming in the void, please listen to the call of our family, take the solemn platform as a contract, and take the holy water drop as a promise-"
"Look at us from the other side of the void, and then..."
"Come down here!"
And at the moment when the prayer ended, in the middle of the spiritual light pillar, the Amber Pillar, on top of the water droplet that should have completely suspended time, suddenly lit up a tiny light. This light was mixed with the mighty spiritual energy that pierced the atmosphere. In the light of energy, it spreads towards the endless void.
In a corner of the multiverse, a huge and dim world, a faint light suddenly lit up. This light was so tiny that it was completely overshadowed by the brilliance of the great demonic tide. Neither the ancient existence wandering in the turbulent flow of time and space nor the God of Chaos moving forward with endless resentment paid any attention to this small light. A small radiance, but this light contained a trace of strange fluctuations. This fluctuation traveled through a distance that could not be measured in words and numbers, and came to a space-time distortion point surrounding the outer orbit of a certain world.
The huge space-time distortion point shook violently, causing all the members of the major forces on the edge of the Fairy Township who were still processing the information inside the camp to jump in fright. They stared at this scene in shock, and then hurriedly contacted half of them. The answer given to all the legendary powerhouses in the interview was 'nothing unusual'.
In the Death Plain, Joshua still frowned, thinking about where the inexplicable call came from, but after Nostradamus called him, the warrior came back to his senses. He called Hotaru, Rin and The ball of light, which seemed to feel very comfortable, followed the old mage's footsteps and headed to the center of the demiplane to explore.
At this moment, in the demiplane, an ancient will that had been dormant for a long time slowly awakened from its millennia of dormancy. Its soul was severely damaged in the war a long time ago, and even now it has not been completely repaired. It was even getting worse, but even so, when it felt the arrival of its mission, it still woke up without hesitation.
"The governing will of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrificial Site is restarted, and the soul self-examination... is 89% damaged, 17% can be repaired, the governing will is on the verge of destruction... detects the void distress signal, suspends self-repair, and sets it as the first priority target."
"Searching for the handler of the first priority task: codenamed Saint. The search failed, and there is no relevant existence fluctuation. Searching for the handler of the second priority task: codenamed First Saint. The search failed, and the related existence fluctuation has disappeared. Searching for the third... "
After a long cycle of self-reexamination and corresponding processes, finally, this ancient will paused slightly and carried out its fourteen cycles.
"Looking for the handler of the fourteenth priority task: the codename inheritor. Success, there is a fluctuation of 3."
"Start implementing the [Wanjie Plan]."
This chapter will be revised in detail later
Summon of Heroic Spirits (not)
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