The mother tree met all Joshua's requirements.
Whether it is the most advanced jump engine of the people of Midgard, the corpse of a derivative beast of the void, or even the part of the body of the mother beast that was crushed and left in the universe, as long as the warrior thinks about it, no matter how precious the material or the top-secret technology is, The mother tree will satisfy him without hesitation. At first glance, this seems like a broken pot, a dead horse being treated as a living horse - since the people in the atrium are completely unable to defeat the enemy on their own, then they simply let Joshua, who also exists outside the curtain, do whatever he wants. Let's see what kind of waves the other party can make in this stagnant water.
"Your requests are very reasonable, and I have no reason to refuse you."
But in fact, the mother tree explained its actions like this: "First try to learn how to move at high speed and take the initiative in the battle, and then understand the enemy's army and the enemy itself. These are very orderly and normal requirements. However, the remains of the mother beast’s body must be kept within our bodies for suppression, as its corrosive power is too strong and cannot be taken out by you.”
"Of course, I understand the characteristics of chaos monsters, especially this one."
Deep in the earth's crust, inside the body of the mother tree, in a huge temporary wooden chamber, Joshua did not respond too much to the mother tree's words, because he was currently concentrating on analyzing the extremely complex and strange half-crystal and half-plant creation in front of him.
The huge wooden chamber is one hundred and twenty meters long, wide and high, and its six walls are made of dark brown tough biological matter deliberately made by the mother tree. Such a huge space, let alone individual parts, can fit even a smaller unmanned warship, but at this time, it is occupied by a blue spherical behemoth occupying most of the space. Joshua is now floating in mid-air. He uses the power of steel to peel off the outer layer of the huge sphere bit by bit.
There is no doubt that this huge blue ball is the important technology that the people of Atrium rely on for transportation, the 'Psychic Jump Engine'. It is precisely because of the research of this technology that the Atrium civilization back then was able to cross the distance measured in light years. distance to colonize other galaxies. Now, soldiers are using their own methods to understand the meaning behind this technology.
Using the power of steel as his arm, Joshua carefully peeled off the shell of this extremely delicate semi-biological engine bit by bit, trying not to damage its internal energy circuits and psychic structures as much as possible, but even though he had obtained the mother tree With the complete set of engine design drawings given as a gift, Joshua could not guarantee that he could completely dismantle its external protective armor and components. He could only dismantle one part at a time, and then record and store the information about that part.
This process lasted for nearly eight hours. During this period, the old mage was invited by Milhabs to go to the Zhongting people's library in the center of the eastern continent to read about the 'constants' of this world, that is, Information on the so-called laws of the world. Legendary strong men are super life forms that have evolved to the limit, but they are not able to show their great power in all worlds. For example, if a super strong man goes to a world with almost no super power, he will easily become weak due to exhaustion, or even... die. Although the world of stars has psychic energy, and due to the great demon tide, the energy concentration is enough to supply the needs of legendary powerhouses, but overall it is still very different from the world of Mycroft.
Nostradamus is not Joshua. He uses the power of steel as his foundation, so he must refer to the local energy situation and basic constants to fine-tune himself so that he can exert his full strength.
In addition, Firefly and Rin followed Joshua and started attacking. Firefly was responsible for helping Joshua remove part of the armor of the jump engine, while Rin helped the warrior find the densest psychic structure. The area where space-time fluctuations are most obvious. The light ball stayed in Joshua's pocket and seemed to be resting. After almost half a day of intensive analysis work, the warrior finally understood the working principle of the Midgardian's psychic jump engine.
"Use flesh and blood to stimulate spiritual energy, and then use crystal machinery to amplify it. The powerful spiritual energy will separate the gaps in the material world and create a void-like 'psionic vacuum'. In this spiritual vacuum, specially designed battleships It can accelerate infinitely and move forward at the speed of thinking, until the end of the extension of spiritual energy."
His eyes were shining with silver light. Joshua, who had already roughly analyzed it, pondered for a while. The engine design of the Midgardians was indeed exquisite. They created artificial psychic plants and released spiritual energy that was far more powerful than the average Midgardians. Then the crystal mechanical structure is used to maintain the activity of the psychic plant, and amplify its psychic energy hundreds or thousands of times. Finally, this powerful psychic energy is used to tear apart the space-time transition. It seems to be a perfect design that is perfectly self-consistent, able to repair itself, and can last indefinitely as long as there is enough psychic plant culture fluid, but in fact it has big flaws.
First of all, the first one is the transition distance. Although the speed of the warships of the Midgardians is said to be the same as thinking, and they arrive as soon as they think about it, just like teleportation, but in fact, their spiritual strength cannot be extended very long, even through the special crystal technology design of the Midgardians. , cannot exceed three trillion kilometers, which means that if they want to cross a distance of one light-year, they need to jump twenty or thirty times, or even more. At the end of each jump, they need to pause for a long time to cool down. The more jumps there are, the easier it is to make mistakes. This is why the Midgardians only colonized three planets in a thousand years. This is because their jump technology is stuck at the level of psychic strength.
However, this strength is not as easy to increase as crystal crafts or biotechnology. Even if the people of Zhongting are determined to collectively transform their own race, it will take one or two generations of them, that is, one or two hundred years. There are results.
"My power of steel can simulate psychic powers... According to their words, my psychic power far exceeds that of the Omega-level psychics in the atrium. At full strength, it is even several times that of the flagship Forerunner. If I were in the Iron Giant's body, If I reconstruct this engine in my body, my jump distance should be further than that of the Zhongting people's warships. After all, my body is far stronger than the materials that the Zhongting people can find, and my material foundation is very solid."
In theory, this is indeed the case. But the reason why Joshua was brooding was precisely because of this - although he had roughly understood the operating principle of this engine through the engine design diagram given by the mother tree and his own disassembly and analysis, and was sure that he could reproduce it, but There is no room for carelessness in transitioning, it is a must for cosmic-scale battles. He always felt that there were some key points that he had not grasped. However, the soldier was not someone who would always dwell on such trivial matters. He immediately changed his mind and started the next phase of research.
"We don't have much time. Let me first take a look at the corpses of those void derivative beasts and the body fragments of the mother beast."
The body of the void derivative beast was brought by the survivors of the Garden of Roots through an emergency conveyor, while the body fragments of the mother beast were the special operations troops of the Garden of Roots, who risked almost certain death and forcibly escaped from the siege of countless derivative beasts. It was picked up from the universe. After hearing Joshua's request, the mother tree silently integrated the dismantled psychic engines into its own body, and then raised a wooden experimental platform again. On the stage, there is a layer of psychic shield and the body of the void derivative beast.
"Good guy...what the hell is this..."
When he saw the body of the Void Derived Beast with his own eyes, even Joshua couldn't help but frown. In the memory passed down by the mother tree at that time, because the battle in space was thousands of miles away, it was not obvious. But now that the other party is right in front of you, the feeling of contrast is very strong.
Of course, this is not to say that the void derivative beast is ugly, weird, and indescribable—in fact, the reason why Joshua was surprised was that its appearance was too simple.
"Isn't this just a ball with a few tentacles?"
On the side, Firefly couldn't help but complain: "And even the tentacles don't feel slippery and sticky. They feel like a steel whip."
"It's a bit different than expected..." Rin also nodded. He looked closer with some doubts, but he didn't find anything special about the other person: "It's really just the tentacles and the ball body... How does it fight?"
The corpse of the derivative beast that was placed on the experimental table was nearly twenty meters long and fifteen meters high. According to the mother tree, it was only the weakest larvae, while the mature derivative beast was hundreds of meters long, with body parts all over its body. It will also be covered with black-red crystal minerals that look like bone spurs, and can emit high-heat energy streams that are strong enough to cut through battleship armor. There are various types of this larvae, some are like cylinders with many strong joints at the lower end, and some have a general structure similar to a crown. Generally speaking, they can be divided into five categories: sphere, spiral symmetry, bullet shape, The icosahedron, the cylinder and finally the tadpole.
The appearance of these derivative beasts is simple, and even has a simple and smooth beauty. It is completely different from the many twisted and weird chaos monsters that Joshua has seen before, but he feels the extremely rich aura of chaos from them, and for some reason , he always has an odd sense of familiarity.
"By the way, it's a virus!"
It didn't take long for Joshua, who was already able to search the database and review his memory, to easily find the source of that familiar feeling - the shapes of these void derivatives were all enlarged in various ways. A billion-fold virus? !
Although it only looks similar in appearance and is essentially a chaotic monster, in the final analysis, it is the shape of a virus!
After realizing this, Joshua stepped forward without hesitation and reached out to touch the body of the round monster. As the mother tree shouted a warning, he immediately realized that after he broke through the psychic energy set by the mother tree, The moment the shield came into direct contact with the corpse, countless extremely tiny 'lives', or in other words, 'chaos power' were trying to invade his body in the most direct and brutal way. These extremely tiny microscopic forces attempt to decompose the warrior's body, then assimilate and break through from the inside, and then infect Joshua into a chaotic monster like them. Everything is the same as the microscopic virus invading cells, only it is many times faster.
"As expected, it's the Evil God of Plague. A familiar routine."
With a wave of his hand, the flowing silver light wiped out all the invisible power of chaos. The power of steel is the foundation of all things. In terms of assimilation power, it is more viral than the virus. When the two meet, the warrior will naturally win. At this moment, Joshua couldn't help but recall the scene when Robzek had no choice but to kill more than a dozen of his Paladin students in the Plague Land. The power of chaos in the Mycroft Continent has been severely suppressed, so it requires contact with bodily fluids to be infected. And those paladins who suddenly became crazy must have been invaded and assimilated by this chaos virus, right? Robzek was right to kill them all decisively, because those people were no longer human beings, but humanoid vessels of chaos.
This was the terrifying beginning of the plague. Its frontal combat capabilities may not be as good as those of Famine, Natural Disaster Familia, Crystal Insects and Stone Demons, but its weirdness aspect is far superior.
"... I'm just too worried. Come to think of it, a being of your level wouldn't be afraid of this weird corrosive power."
Seeing that there was indeed nothing unusual about Joshua, the mother tree's voice became calmer. It said softly in an emotionless, almost cold tone: "On the Garden of Roots, almost all the survivors are here. In strange places like cold storage, around volcanoes, or in sterile laboratories, people from other areas will turn into the prototype of the monster in front of you in just three days, and then follow the void mother beast to the next step. A colonial star... Even plants are no exception. This weird power can assimilate and erode as long as it is alive."
"The other party is the natural enemy of organic life. Although you claim to be a psychic civilization, in the final analysis, you have not yet transcended the shell. Therefore, it is normal for you to be restrained by the evil god of plague."
After scanning the corpse of the derivative beast at a glance - or in other words, the active chaos virus aggregate that has lost the ability to take initiative, Joshua murmured: "So, the so-called void mother beast is the source of the plague. It is so-called The invasion is infecting one world after another... It’s not quite the same as the insect swarm I thought. But that’s a good thing.”
Because his body is a steel giant that releases thousands or even tens of thousands of degrees of heat all over his body, and uses the molten star as the energy source in his body - no matter what kind of virus he has, it will never be able to infect him, even if it is Chaos Not even viruses. No matter what, even without the Azure Orb, Joshua still holds a part of the power of order.
It’s hard to describe the evil god of plague, but his dependents are naturally restrained by him! If the other party is a virus, then he is a white blood cell.
Thinking of this, my mood suddenly improved a lot. But Joshua suddenly frowned again. He remembered the source of the plague at that time, which was the scene when the Void Mother Beast destroyed the Atrium Colonial Star Squadron in an instant - the endless dark green light shield spread in three hundred and sixty, along the way All the asteroids and battleships were reduced to nothing in an instant. The warriors haven't yet figured out what the principle of this move is - is it antimatter annihilation? Or material disintegration? Or is it an extremely special chaos virus that has eroded all matter
No matter how you say it, it is a very difficult move to deal with. Joshua is not sure whether the opponent can decompose his body. After all, he has not completed 100% assimilation, and his own mass is far from the material of a white dwarf. It can be temporarily condensed during battle, turning part of the body into a temporary white dwarf star.
"Joshua, do you still want to see the body fragments of the Void Mother Beast?"
While Joshua was still thinking, he heard the will of the mother tree say from the side, and nodded: "Let me see."
Soon, the body of the void derivative beast was immediately enveloped by the spiritual light shield, and then submerged into the mother tree. As a super life form, the Mother Tree can naturally understand the horror of the Chaos Virus, but it has survived for tens of millions of years and is the aggregation of wills of the atrium psykers. Naturally, it is not afraid of this level of erosion. It can even be the same as Joshua. Reversely parse the other party, but the speed is very slow.
The next moment, another high platform covered with a psychic shield emerged from the wooden chamber. Joshua strode forward and looked at the fragments in the light pillar.
"Hasn't it lost its activity yet?"
What appeared in front of Joshua's eyes was a group of black spheres that were constantly wriggling and splitting, and spontaneously suspended in mid-air. This sphere is five meters in diameter. From time to time, it will eject smaller black spheres to hit the spiritual energy barrier set up by the mother tree. The impact is very powerful. Even the energy of the mother tree far exceeds the ultimate level in Mycroft Continent. The shield also vibrated significantly. After the smaller sphere failed to hit it, it shattered into thick dark green fog. This thick fog has extremely strong corrosive and assimilation powers, trying to erode away the spiritual shield of the mother tree bit by bit. It can be clearly seen that layers of mold are growing out of thin air on the inside of the psychic shield, and dark green pus is constantly flowing out of it.
"The body fragments of the mother beast have extremely terrifying assimilation abilities. Whether it is matter, energy or spiritual power, it can devour and strengthen itself... Before capturing it, we have always wondered why the Forbi people would I allowed the chaos monster I summoned to grow so big, and why I fled so embarrassedly, now that I think about it, it’s probably because of this.”
The words of the mother tree flowed from Joshua's ears, and of course he could understand what they meant. Obviously, when the so-called Fulbi people opened the void door and summoned the plague evil god's family members, the mother beast must not have been that big, maybe it was still very small, which in turn made the interstellar races who had not yet met them relax their vigilance. . And when the plague swept across the world and the mother beast showed its full strength and began to rapidly assimilate and grow in size, the Forbi people must have long lost their ability to resist... Maybe there is a part of the mother beast's body lurking in their migration spacecraft. , it’s just that the mother beast, like the virus, deliberately spared the fleeing group of Fulbi people, and then used them as hosts to infect other races in the universe.
Apart from confirming again that these were indeed the descendants of the evil god of plague, Joshua made no other special discoveries. He also reached out and let the fragments of the mother beast erode his body, but the result was no success. The corrosive power of the mother beast is indeed much greater than that of the Chaos Virus, but it still cannot break the defense of the warrior. The power of steel is too powerful to resist this kind of erosion. It can even reversely assimilate the mother beast, just like Assimilating part of the opponent's body to his own use like a rock, but doing so is too slow and too labor-intensive. Otherwise, Joshua would have wanted the people in the atrium to use him as a cannonball and penetrate it into the body of the Void Mother Beast. Use your own 'white blood cells' to destroy those viruses.
"All things are indeed interdependent. I didn't expect you to be able to completely ignore this corrosive force, which is a natural enemy for us Zhongting people... Summoning you is our luck and the saint's protection."
After seeing that Joshua could even assimilate the mother beast in turn, the voice of the mother tree in the atrium suddenly became much deeper. From this voice, there was no trace of luck or happiness at all.
There is no doubt that even the Mother Tree, as a gathering of wills, has begun to fear Joshua's power. If it hadn't been able to feel the aura of the sage from the warrior, it might have listed this guy as more terrifying than the Evil God's Familia. Strictly guard against those who cannot be contacted, and even say that they will transfer to alien colonies as much as possible to stay away from the main body.
What a joke, a white blood cell that can devour and assimilate infinitely—what is the difference between this and those chaos viruses! Although I don’t know about leukemia, the mother tree’s instinct is still vigilant.
Joshua didn't care about the other party's caution. To be honest, he himself was a little afraid of his own power. This is not a joke, but a reality - if one day, after the warrior has a 100% call with the Power of Steel, he completely loses control of the Power of Steel and becomes a puppet of this power, then his ending will either be self-destruction , or there is an extremely slim possibility that it will become a living white dwarf star that, like leukemia, constantly devours the world of assimilated order, even if it transforms into a small black hole, it is not impossible.
But beware, Joshua is confident in his control. Even if he is a god, he can suppress it, not to mention the power of steel condensed by his own hand? The warrior couldn't even imagine how far he had to sink before he could sink to that level.
"Okay... I almost understand what the enemy is."
Having obtained the means to fight in the universe and understood the nature of the enemy, Joshua had completed most of his goals on the Atrium Star. He turned his head and said toward the top of his head, where the will of the Mother Tree was: "Thank you very much. Also, can you provide me with a spacious and quiet place? I am going to start trying to build a jump engine in my body."
"Don't worry, Mother Tree, I won't stay here for long. In the final analysis, I am just an outsider in this world."
"When the jump engine is completed, it will be time for me and my companions to set off."
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