However, just when Nostradamus was about to go to the Atrium Fleet with Joshua to inquire about the current situation of the defense line, Joshua suddenly stopped moving halfway through the flight.
"You go alone, Master."
There is no light in the dark space of the universe. Even the brilliance of the sun in the high-beam galaxy has lost its role as illumination after crossing a long distance. Joshua's face appears blurred in this darkness and cannot be seen. Clear expression: "I have something to do."
"...be careful yourself."
Nostradamus frowned at first, but then shook his head and said helplessly: "There will be a war soon - it may be the biggest war in my life as an old man. You can't make any mistakes. .”
After finishing speaking, the old mage did not continue to talk to Joshua. He brought a hazy light and dragged the blue light belt towards the third fleet not far away, which was slowly turning towards the interior of the galaxy. Fly away, leaving the warrior alone in the same place.
A few seconds later, when Nostradamus was nearly a thousand kilometers away, Joshua reached for his chest and pinched out a small ball of light. The warrior looked down at the light ball in his hand, which had been silent since the beginning of the battle. It looked like an unusual light ball, and asked with some confusion: "What's wrong? You have been trying to connect with me spiritually since just now, but then It’s during the battle, so I don’t have time to play with you.”
During the battle, Joshua, who transformed into a giant, assimilated Hotaru and Rin into his body. Using the divine machine as a basis, he created a huge mass weapon, the Steel Sword, and an energy ax that could cut through space. Xiaoguang Together with the Shenji siblings, they were put into a special protective space in the warrior's body. From then on, Xiaoguang, who had always been very happy, became unusually silent for some reason, and then continued to fight during the battle. Several attempts were made to connect spiritually with Joshua.
Joshua would naturally not respond at that time, but just now, Xiaoguang once again sent an extremely strong communication signal, and also hinted that he wanted to communicate alone, which made the warrior have no choice but to leave Nostradamus for the time being. Talk to the ball of light alone.
"Ding dong... Silent fellow... dong... I want to talk to you..."
The ball of light that was shrunk by the warrior and held between her fingers seemed a little strange, as if she was still sleeping. When she heard Joshua's question, she made a vague voice to answer, and then, Stronger spiritual communication signals.
"How come it's the same as your body, but you just won't talk properly, and you have to connect with me spiritually to communicate." He shook his head helplessly. In response to the hazy words of the light ball, Joshua could only choose to open the spiritual connection to the other party. See what message it has to tell you.
With his current strong defense line of will, even beings at the level of the Seven Gods would not be able to peek into his memories when they are spiritually connected without his permission. And if it is a lost fragment like the God of Rivers, it will even be lost because of his permission. Analyzing the warrior's spirit, excessive consumption leads to self-collapse, so he is not afraid of the harm that communicating with the light ball spirit will cause to himself.
So, in the next moment, Joshua held the ball of light that he had enlarged to about the size of his fist in his hand, and then pressed it on his forehead, and the ball of light also stretched out tiny tentacles of light in cooperation. , connected himself to the warrior's head, sections of shining light flow surged, and the two spirits began to connect.
And at this moment, Joshua saw it.
An extremely huge steel python that surrounds the entire world of stars!
"The will of the world! But it's still sleeping now." Now, Joshua only had time to flash this thought in his mind - it turns out that the silent kind that Xiaoguang mentioned is the python of steel! This is indeed a reasonable explanation. Then, as the scene of the real world became fragmented like a torn curtain, a huge star sea dome appeared above the warrior's head. In just a few breaths, Joshua entered him due to the pull of a gentle force. Inside this familiar world is the Holy Land of Steel in the time gap.
Standing under the dome of the sea of stars in Nuoda, Joshua looked around. Behind him was the turbulent river of history that represented the past, and in front of him were countless misty and dark rivers that represented the future. Fork in the road. And a huge python that seemed to be entangled in the entire star sea, the past, the future and the entire world, just closed its eyes and pointed its huge head at the warrior.
-too big-
This was the first thought that flashed through Joshua's mind after seeing the other party's body. The warrior's knowledge is not limited, and he has not seen other steel pythons - the world of Kallis, the world of Ilgona, and even the world will of Grandia and Mycroft. They barely met each other through the seal. But Joshua can be sure that even the combined will of the four worlds is not as big as one-tenth of the giant python in front of him. If Joshua is a sun, then this giant python is The world devourer who can swallow millions of stars in an instant and swallow the Milky Way into its belly.
It’s hard to describe this hugeness in words. It’s just that the entire field of vision is covered. No matter how you turn your head and try to see the end, you can only see the layers of silver snake bodies. This is a superficial description, but Joshua I have noticed that this giant steel python is not so much awake as it has no obvious self-will. It seems that its body can be condensed, which seems to be the limit, not to mention the silver scales. Lots of dense black mold that seems to be spreading.
But at this time, it was Xiaoguang's time to show off. Seeing the giant steel python appear, it suddenly jumped out of Joshua's hand, and then flew to the opponent's body. A faint white light flashed, and that The huge steel python suddenly moved, and its eyes began to slowly open, releasing a bright red light. It seemed to have obtained something crucial and was waking up quickly.
Not long after, an ethereal and ethereal voice, as if reverberating among the stars, appeared in the dome of the sea of stars and passed into Joshua's ears.
"Hello, descendant of another world. How should I call you, visitor from the void who protects my people?"
The huge head shook the sea of stars. The Steel Python lowered its head and stared at the human standing on the ground, staring at it. It whispered in a gentle but tired voice: "I am the Steel Python [Star]. If As you can see, I usually stay in eternal sleep, and rarely have the opportunity to communicate normally like now."
"I am Joshua Van Radcliffe. I am here at the call of the people of Midgard to eradicate the poison of Chaos."
Joshua answered the other party's question simply and neatly. Because of his character, he did not waste time and immediately asked: "Great Will of the World, why do you want to communicate with me? The war in the outside world is coming. Choose this time. It’s not smart to communicate.”
"And why do you remain in eternal sleep? If it weren't for the change of light just now, you wouldn't be able to wake up? This is different from some world wills I have encountered before."
"Have you ever seen my kind? Indeed, you have their breath."
Regarding the warrior's questions, the Steel Python 'Star' did not answer one by one. It just moved its body and then slowly said: "This is the gap in the world. To the outside world, it is a place where the flow of time has almost stopped. You Don’t worry about the war in the outside world. As for why I stay in eternal sleep... it’s because I’m too big.”
"My will penetrates infinite distances and connects with countless worlds. My thoughts are scattered throughout the universe, coexisting with millions of galaxies and billions of stars... This is a long distance that thinking cannot sweep across in an instant. Even light can't It takes billions of years to penetrate my body. I cannot concentrate my will and can only control the world in my sleep. I am far stronger than most of my kind, and at the same time, I am far weaker than them. .”
The Steel Python 'Star' is surprisingly easy to talk to. It seems that it is because it rarely gathers the will, clear thinking and wisdom to communicate, so it is willing to say something to the warrior: "Just like rain needs dust as the core to condense. I A huge will also needs a core to integrate the will, and your companion, this strange creature of light, unexpectedly has this ability... It seems to be the prototype of the will of the world, my young kind, it awakened me, So that I can communicate with you.”
After listening, Joshua nodded slowly. He understands the current state of the other party - this steel python named 'Star'. Because the body of the 'Star World' is too huge, its will cannot be gathered together to form a complete body like the small and medium-sized plane worlds. Only by relying on external forces can our minds be temporarily condensed and gain enough wisdom to communicate with others.
This is just like what he had speculated before. At the beginning of the creation of the world, the initial value fire burned and the steel of origin was scattered. Each piece of steel differentiated a world in the void, in which there was a small but high-energy super demon position. In the outside world, there is also a demon-free world that is extremely huge, but within which extraordinary power is almost forbidden. The star sea world is between the two. It is not as huge as the real endless star universe, and it also contains the extraordinary power of spiritual energy. However, as a price, although the will of this world is not as good as the world without demons, it can almost never be awakened. But it is not as free as the will of the super-demon world.
But at this moment, Steel Python 'Star' did not continue to talk nonsense. It moved its huge head slightly, as if it was thinking about the current situation, and then it said: "You are the only existence from outside the world that I sensed. You were the first to wake me up not long ago. The great will of my body comes from the same world. So, I think you may have the ability to solve the stubborn disease in my body."
The first being to awaken it? Sage? But why not so long ago? Joshua blinked first, and then realized that for this ancient will that had existed for perhaps hundreds of millions of years, a thousand years was indeed not long ago. After hearing Steel Python's subsequent words, the soldier immediately asked: "What's the stubborn disease?"
"They are the 'them' you destroyed before."
'Star' moved its head, and the endless starry sky beside it began to twist and change, and finally turned into thousands of rapidly flashing light curtains. Among them, there were warships crossing the void, bombarding the invading enemies with fiery artillery fire. There is also a primitive world, where wild psychic creatures wield inferior stone spears and fight against monsters derived from the darkness. Fighters, small spaceships, flying lasers, humanoid robots, alien robots, battleship cannons, endless missiles, biotechnology, psychic powers and thousands of various means of warfare all flashed through the light curtain, and What they faced was not other civilizations, but groups of hazy and twisted darkness and shadows.
"Chaos monsters. That's what you and the great being before you called this kind of invader from the void. They are the enemies of civilization and the destroyers of the world. They use various means to invade my body and kill me. Children, eroding my body.”
The voice of the Steel Python echoed throughout the star sea dome. This voice was ethereal and the gentle-toned Will of the World had a trace of real anger in his mouth at this time: "I can't solve these problems in my long sleep, but now, I am awakened. , we must face up to these cancers.”
At the same time, Joshua seemed to see a huge microcosmic picture, with millions of galaxies floating in the void like disks, and there were black gaps inside a small part of the disk. This was The darkness that comes from the void and swallows the stars feeds on the sun and stars, giving birth to their endless people to invade the entire world. In the many black gaps, Joshua senses many familiar auras.
There is the evil god of famine, there is the evil god of plague, there is also the evil god of natural disasters, and there is the evil god of atmosphere. Even the fallen evil gods of fertility seem to have residual power left in the world of stars. Their families are expanding unscrupulously in this vast world, much faster than their progress in the multiverse. .
"... There are at least a dozen different evil god families invading this world! Tsk, the number has exceeded one trillion - far more than that!"
Even Joshua couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. He frowned and said: "Spiritual energy is too dangerous as a power that can communicate with the void. When powerful spiritual energy is gathered together, it can cross the world barrier, and its light shines in the void. It is like a lighthouse, attracting countless dark beings just like the light of fire attracts insects."
"But without psychic powers, I can't maintain my will."
Steel Python 'Star' said calmly: "In a world without extraordinary power, the will of the world will be silent, as if it is dead. Psychic energy is the only power I can spread within my body. Moreover, my people are not without the ability to fight back. force."
The tens of millions of light screens changed, showing scenes that were very different from before.
In the corner of the star sea, the ancient lost empire watched indifferently as civilizations were reborn in the starry sky. They watched these juniors explore the star sea as they did back then and develop technologies that they considered insignificant. They are survivors of an apocalyptic battle in the last era. They are great civilizations that have stagnated and declined. After a long time, some lost empires have been unable to understand the technology they possess. They just stay in their own solitude. Corner, not communicating with the outside world until the day of self-destruction.
But one day, a weak emerging race called out psychic powers and summoned existences from outside the void. Countless dark forces representing destruction stretched out their claws from the other side of the multiverse, trying to get involved in this huge world. They swept across The sea of stars is slaughtering the fragile and weak civilizations in the starry sky. These incarnations of pure destruction attempt to completely devour the galaxy.
Therefore, they angered the ancient ones. The lost empires once again recalled the reason why their civilization fell into isolation in the last era.
As a result, the reconnaissance outposts that were abandoned in the sea of stars in ancient times were lit up again. Countless survey beacons were projected to every corner of the galaxy. Fleets were gathering, the army issued recruitment orders, and those ancient factories roared once again. , and when their dilapidated docks were once again repaired and adjusted, and the Taita ship forge, which had been silent for thousands of years, came back online, these awakened ancient civilizations began their mission of 'protecting the world'.
Joshua could see that in the centers of the galaxies, the fleets of these ancient empires were engaged in decisive battles with the clusters of chaotic monsters that had already formed. Although some of them failed, most of the lost empires had successfully shut down the endless supply of monsters. The Void Gate that teleports Void monsters to come, they successfully eradicated the invaders in their hometown and restored purity to the galaxy.
The self-cleansing force of a world, the white blood cells of the universe. For some reason, this passage suddenly flashed through Joshua's mind. And then, he thought for a while, and then said: "What do you want me to do?"
Looking at the exciting scenes before, Joshua was not too excited. He just closed his eyes slightly, then raised his head again, looked at the Steel Python, and asked his question: "As you said See, I am just an ordinary warrior, and my power is insignificant compared to the final battle that affects thousands of galaxies."
"You underestimate yourself and what you represent... Just like those existences in the void are supported by deep and dark wills, I also need reinforcements to fight against these endless darkness."
In response to Joshua's words, Steel Python shook his head and finally expressed his thoughts: "Although some of my people are powerful enough to expel the void, most of them have no power to fight back. Overall, In other words, the mold on my body is still growing, and I can’t just sit back and watch myself fall like this.”
'Xing''s voice was ethereal: "I have seen the great will from the same world as you... His existence even surpasses my imagination, and behind Him, there is the one who is powerful enough to span the void and kill a super life like you. The civilizations sent to help other worlds must be incredibly powerful."
"So, I hope that you can serve as 'my' reinforcements and work together to eliminate these cancers in the world."
Regarding the thoughts of Steel Python 'Star', Joshua was silent for a long time.
If it were the era of glory, when the sages were still there, the Mycroft civilization with its Ten Thousand Realms Sacrificial Site would definitely have the confidence to accept the invitation of the 'Star' to serve as a reinforcement for the world and go to clean up hundreds of millions of people. Chaos monsters, gods and sages will definitely be excited to lead legendary powerhouses one by one to eradicate the evil god's dependents on a galaxy-by-system basis.
What a glory, what an exciting and shocking thing - the expedition across the multiverse will clean up the cancer in countless worlds, and the civilization of Mycroft's world can also take advantage of this opportunity to take root in thousands of worlds. The world, this is the prototype of multiverse civilization, a behemoth that occupies countless stars, and is the final form of extraordinary civilization!
But everything was ended in the bud.
The gods passed away, the sages traveled far away, and the ancient civilization was left in the gaps of history. The lost three hundred years were like a curse, cutting off all connections between the Starfall Era and the Glory Era. Today's Mycroft civilization is just like those self-enclosed fallen empires that huddled in the corners of the sea of stars in the world of stars. It is even worse. The descendants of the great races who once created the sacrificial sites of all realms have now forgotten the ancestors. With amazing advanced technology, not only do they not have the confidence and strength to go on an expedition across a world, they have even fallen into ridiculous internal strife, which is sad.
But... so what
Joshua suddenly laughed, and he suddenly realized that this might be an excellent opportunity - an opportunity to completely change the trajectory of history, an opportunity to awaken the 'fallen civilization' of the Mycroft continent tribes!
Since those ancient civilizations that huddled in the corners of the sea of stars and were solitary and did not communicate with the outside world were rejuvenated. On the day they once again entered the galaxy stage, why couldn't the Mycrovian civilization once again stand up from the mud and recover? That great civilization during the Glorious Era
This is absolutely unreasonable.
In the past, I was too petty - changing the trajectory of the future and resisting the invasion of the abyss was really short-sighted. What kind of achievement is it to change such a small thing? If Joshua wants to do something, he must do something big! Not only does he have to resist the invasion of the Abyss, he also has to lead the civilization of Mycroft's world back to the prosperity of the Glorious Era! The first step is to connect the world of stars. As long as the knowledge of these alien civilizations can be obtained, the civilization of Mycroft Continent will definitely be able to leap forward as quickly as a chemical reaction!
The most important thing is, since the sages can do it, why can't I? Could it be said that he, Joshua, must be worse than a sage
Ridiculous.
Thinking of this, Joshua raised his head and said without hesitation:
"good."
At this point, the contract is established.
The dome of stars in the sky dissipated into nothingness in an instant, and the steel python that was so huge that it surrounded countless galaxies also dispersed like a phantom. The warrior once again stood in the vacuum of space at the edge of the high-light galaxy, staring at the constantly rotating deep in the distance. Green psychic vortex, the last words left by the Steel Python 'Star' are still surrounding the ears.
"This companion of yours is the prototype of the world's will, and is my kind. I don't know how you brought it with you, but without it, I would not be able to regain my will."
The ethereal voice was as clear and audible as it was spoken just now, and the words of 'Xing' gradually faded away: "But it is really too weak, so I strengthened it a little, which can be regarded as a warning to you from the other side of the multiverse. Come and save the partial thanks of my people.”
In Joshua's hands, the sleeping little light turned into a ball of light the size of a thumb. Joshua stared at it for a while, and then put it into his arms.
After a long time, the old mage's voice carried the fluctuations of time and space and returned to the warrior from the direction of the atrium fleet. He did not ask Joshua what he wanted to do by staying there, but looked into the distance with the warrior. The spiritual vortex is constantly stabilizing and expanding.
"Can we really kill this Void Mother Beast?"
The old mage said with some worry: "According to the survivors of the Garden of Roots Star Colony, the shield and self-healing ability of the Void Mother Beast are incredibly powerful..."
"certainly."
In this regard, Joshua neatly interrupted Nostradamus' rather pessimistic analysis. He shook his head, then folded his arms in front of his chest and said:
"Who do you think I am?"
At both ends of the galaxy, the Chaos Mother Beast from the void, and the two legendary powerhouses from the other side of the multiverse shook their heads and looked at each other.
War is about to break out.
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