Soul of Searing Steel

Chapter 963: What is your honorable name?

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Meteors fell one after another, falling to the earth like violent rain of fire, causing the seas to boil and the sky to tremble.

Tehran Star Territory, Tehran Star, an ocean world that was originally full of vitality and gave birth to intelligent life forms like jellyfish called "Tehranites", is now facing the impact of stars that seem to destroy the world again and again, and meteorites flying in the sky. During this time, the roars of countless anti-aircraft fires and the hoarse roars of monsters could be heard.

"Damn it, there's no way I can kill all these chaos monsters!"

On the side of the planet facing away from the sun, it was dark night. An air defense soldier was using his flexible tentacles to control the firepower point, letting the smooth four-barreled artillery fire take turns, pulling out straight beams of light in the dark night. The silver-blue psychic energy beams flowed through the atmosphere, burning the strange-looking chaos monsters into ashes one after another.

It can be seen that the thick clouds are torn apart by the remains of a huge black beast. Its body is still squirming and twisting, as if it is giving birth to a new generation of monsters, but dozens of light streams are focused on it at the same time, directly making its whole body Wrapped in a layer of blazing blue light. Even the Chaos Monster couldn't withstand this kind of power. Its wreckage quickly disintegrated, melted, and then exploded into a dim fireball in the air. The sewage-like wreckage fell into the ocean and the earth like rain.

There was no rest, no pause. Even though the anti-aircraft firepower was like a fine fishing net, completely covering the entire sky. Even outside the sky, there were countless warships and fortresses struggling to block it, spreading artillery fire like rain, but in the endless Under the invasion of chaos, there are still a few trapped fish that can penetrate the fire and fall into the rough sea of Tehran with their ignited bodies.

However, even such a brutal battle will eventually come to an end - as the planet rotates and night turns into day, the chaotic invaders from outside the star field have no chance to bypass the defense network in space and come to the star field to counterattack. To the inside, naturally, they cannot come to the other side of the planet. Seeing the light in the sky gradually brightening, and the number of chaotic monsters invading getting smaller and smaller, until there was nothing, the air defense soldier's tentacles finally twitched, and the entire jellyfish completely collapsed to the ground.

Due to long-term and high-intensity thinking and exercise, all the water composing the air defense soldier's body has become as hot as a hot water bottle, and the war has come to an end.

The air defense soldiers are not worried about the damage caused by the chaos monsters that invade the planet. On a living planet with an anti-chaos stance, as long as the chaos erosion does not reach the critical value, the natural environment can decompose all monsters like a corpse, and the purpose of these surface defense forces is to reduce the invasion of chaos as much as possible The real main force is the void battleships and fortresses in space.

"How many times is this this month? The nineteenth time?"

However, unlike the fleet that can take the initiative to destroy the enemy, the surface defense force that can only passively withstand the enemy's attack is under great psychological pressure. After resting for a while, the Tehran air defense force, whose body was cooled by water, finally squirmed to get up. He was shaking. He looked at the condensation on his body and muttered to himself in confusion and annoyance: "It's only been five days this month!"

The Tehran Star Territory, located on the front line of the Chaos battlefield, is indeed the bridgehead against Chaos, but it has encountered nearly twenty attacks in less than a week. This number is too unbelievable... After all, the soldiers of Chaos are not endless, so in vain Attacking the heavily fortified planet fortress without a plan is simply giving away a victory.

But the air defense troops did not usher in the joy of victory. On the contrary, his heart quickly sank to the bottom like a stone falling into water.

"If this continues... there won't be enough artillery shells and energy..."

The Tehran civilization, like most civilizations in this world, is an extraordinary civilization that has awakened psychic energy. However, their conventional weapons, except for the 'psychic light spear' that is common in the universe, are of little use against chaos monsters. Electromagnetic guns and fission weapons, and if psychic weapons want to be used continuously, either their operators must be Omega-level (Ultimate) psykers, or they must be linked to a psychic storage as large as a truck. Tank', as for the psychic engine... that thing has not yet become popular enough to load every empty fire point.

The air defense soldier knew very well that the single-man firepower point where he was located only had two psychic energy storage tanks, which were usually enough to cope with several months of impact. But now, one tank has been used up, and the other tank has been mostly used up. If he continues like this, he may have to squeeze his spiritual energy tomorrow and shoot his soul out like a bullet.

Of course, with this kind of consumption, Chaos will naturally suffer a loss. Even if the entire Tehran star field defense line is completely destroyed now, the losses suffered by Chaos will far exceed the normal battle loss ratio by dozens of times. In a sense, this is completely worthwhile. - It's just the senior officials who think so, but the soldiers at the bottom, the Tehranites whose home star is Tehran, don't think this is a good deal, just like the air defense soldiers, who are now waving their tentacles and yelling at the senior officials of the Guardians of the Galaxy Alliance.

"Damn! What's going on with the logistics?! We've been fighting for five consecutive days, why haven't the support supplies been delivered yet?!"

Although the air defense troops are powerful, there are not many curse words in the language of Tehran people. They only use soft words like 'damn' and 'so disgusting'. What's more, the air defense troops also know very well why the battle has already begun. Five days have passed since the beginning, but the reinforcements have not arrived yet.

It's all the fault of those Zhongting people!

The logistics materials responsible for the Tehran star field and the surrounding five star field defense lines are all transferred by the Atrium star field. Recently, the leaf heads of the Atrium star people did not know why they applied to the alliance senior management for the right to hold a very large ceremony, and The alliance's top leaders also approved the ceremony after a tense emergency meeting. This ceremony gave the people of Zhongting almost the highest level of material mobilization authority, and occupied a large part of the resources of the logistics system, causing the replenishment of materials on some front lines that had not seen much fighting recently to be delayed.

The Tehran star field was indeed relatively peaceful some time ago, so the delay was relatively severe. No one could have imagined why the chaos monsters were so fierce. Therefore, even if the rear area urgently mobilized after receiving the request for help message, it would not be able to be transferred within a week.

"What's the 'Void Door'? Isn't it a modified version of the 'Void Anchor' commonly used by Chaos monsters?"

Thinking of this, the air defense soldiers couldn't help but become more and more angry: "And summoning 'gods' - those people from the Midgard are still living in the Middle Ages? Even if their god is according to the records, the highest output is only at the level of the Void Mother Beast. Why? Mobilize resources from several star regions?!"

You must know that although the Void Mother Beast is strong, it is not insurmountable. Among other things, the main artillery of the star base in the Tehran star field has the power to severely damage the Void Mother Beast - diverting materials from several frontline star fields to do so. What kind of summoning ceremony is fundamentally unstable, has no effective means of control, and has extremely low efficiency? It is a waste of money and treats the lives of all the soldiers on the front line as nothing!

"I don't know if the summoning was successful... Damn it, come and support us if it succeeds! Forget it, it's better to get more psychic energy storage tanks. That thing is more reliable than some void creature."

Until now, the air defense soldiers have not figured out what kind of void creature is it that makes people in the atrium pay such a high price without thinking, and even take great risks to perform this level of summoning rituals, even if they risk losing the front line. may continue.

At this moment, a dazzling white light suddenly lit up in the sky - it lit up from the center of a distant star, and after flying through space for nearly ten minutes, it arrived at the outer end of the planet.

This flow of light with a diameter of more than three thousand kilometers illuminates all the stars along the path, leaving only pure white. Countless chaotic monsters hidden in the darkness are illuminated by the light, reveal themselves, and then turn into nothingness. , Small chaos monsters that did not exceed the kilometer level were basically burned out instantly, while giant monsters that were even larger, more than five kilometers in size, could only withstand it for less than a second, and then were melted and evaporated.

"Stellar main gun!"

The air defense soldier immediately shut down his photoreceptor, and then skillfully hid in a dark box to avoid being completely dried out by the too strong light, but he was still happy - using stars as energy, it was enough to severely damage the Void Mother Beast with one blow The launch of the base's main cannon was enough to instantly destroy the main force of the Chaos monster army. After such a blow, the impact of the Chaos monsters would be greatly slowed down in the next few days.

But soon, he also became worried: "Now that the Void Mother Beast has not appeared, the stellar main cannon has already been used... In ten days, even if the stellar main cannon can be fired again, its power will be reduced a lot. We are young as a last resort."

The light cannon, which gathered the power of stars and was infused with endless spiritual energy, did not care about the worries of a small air defense soldier. It swept across the space majestically, sweeping away all the chaotic monsters in the eight astronomical units, leaving only the remaining twisted monsters. Facing such a majestic flow of light, one can only turn around and run away, not expecting any resistance.

Three minutes later, the light flow gradually faded away, and the dark space returned to its original state again.

However, the air defense force did not receive the order to "rest and recuperate" from the combat headquarters. In the past, after the main cannon of the star was fired and the enemies around the star field were cleared, such an order would be issued to allow the space fleet and surface defense forces to check for damage and errors and recover their strength. Spirit.

Without the intensive and scorching anti-aircraft firepower, even with the radiance of the sun, the entire Tehran star revealed an oppressive and icy atmosphere.

For ordinary races, this is nothing more than a psychological illusion caused by the huge contrast between before and after, but for the Tehranites with psychic powers, things are not that simple.

"Warning! An extremely large-scale psychic jump was discovered - it's the Void Mother Beast!"

Not surprisingly, the air defense soldiers who hated their accurate prediction immediately heard the order from the combat headquarters: "Everyone is on the highest alert, we are about to usher in the twentieth wave of impact!"

"Damn it! Everyone can guess that there must be a void mother beast behind so many chaotic monsters, why are you still using the stellar main cannon indiscriminately!"

The air defense soldier raised his tentacle and slapped it on the head in despair. It felt like it was going to be dizzy and turned into a plate of cold jellyfish skin: "Now that's it, how can we deal with it!"

It wasn't just the air defense soldiers who were like this. Even in the Void Fleet, there were countless people who took a breath or wailed.

At the satellite fortress at the front, with advanced psychic detectors, observers have seen that not far from the heliosphere of the Tehran galaxy, a circular dark green psychic rift is slowly opening, accompanied by A psychic wave huge enough to shake the planet, a super-giant Chaos Mother Beast with a starfish-shaped appearance and a length of more than 500 kilometers from end to end climbed out of the crack, like a monster crawling out of hell.

Unlike most chaotic monsters whose body surface is dark green or pitch black, the body surface of the Starfish Mother Beast is an almost completely smooth translucent medium. Layers of liquid psychic energy flows through this medium like blood vessels, with extremely unique characteristics. Strong psychic resistance, with such a layer of defense, even the bombardment of the stellar main gun cannot seriously damage it with one blow. This is the special spirit created by the Chaos side who has been fighting with the Guardians of the Galaxy for a long time. Can defend.

Even if it is not civilization, chaos will still correct itself.

And as the Void Mother Beast completely climbed out of the spiritual rift and reached the other side of time and space, a huge reproductive cavity opened at the end of its five starfish-like tentacles, and countless new monsters flew out of it. Swimming around the mother beast like a bee.

"It's not over yet!"

Of course, the air defense soldier could see the real-time broadcast on the screen. He couldn't help roaring, and then began to quickly check whether there were any errors in the barrel and energy converter - what else could he do? The surface defense forces cannot be like the fleet and retreat when they cannot defeat them. Their final outcome will be either to be destroyed by their own people using Star Destroyer weapons, or else they will be transformed into a new void together with all the creatures on the planet. Mother beast... At that time, I am afraid that other alliance members will be able to see a large chaos jellyfish or jellyfish flying in the vacuum.

But it was different from the surface defense forces and void fleet that were crying and silent.

Tehran Star, in the star base, in the command center of the combat headquarters, an old jellyfish that looked a little shriveled was communicating with an atrium person.

"As you can see, the Chaos monsters have evolved tactical awareness. As soon as they find out that we have used the stellar main gun, they will immediately call the mother beast to attack."

The old commander of Tehran calmly stared at the female void beast that had just crawled out of the rift in time and space in the video. He whispered: "But sometimes, with the awareness of combat, it is not as difficult to deal with as the beast... It has been drawn out, and next , it’s time to prove your own abilities.”

"For your ceremony, the headquarters has spent a great price. Don't let the alliance down and betray its trust in you."

"As you wish."

The polite envoy from the Zhongting people nodded slightly. He took out a box from his arms. The box was simple in shape, just a metal box without any patterns or markings. The envoy opened it without any fancy, revealing a small group of small boxes behind it. , only a palm-sized, silver light group like water droplets.

Then, the envoy gently pushed the silver light - it immediately disappeared without a trace.

"… that's all?"

Commander Tehran adjusted his sensory organs before he could react: "What did you just do?"

"that's all."

The world of Zhongting people bowed slightly, and he said in a fervent tone: "God's will has arrived."

"Next is the end of chaos."

No one noticed this small silver water droplet at first. Only the detection radar on the flagship of Tehran's Void Fleet discovered that a small individual moving at 80% of the speed of light was speeding forward in a straight line - this thing is very fast. It was ignored as a radar error. After all, the star's main cannon had just been fired, and the huge psychic energy was still shaking the surrounding stars. It was normal for errors to occur.

But soon, as the original small individual slowly slowed down, its mass began to become heavier and heavier - but by the time the fleet reacted, this abnormal sub-light speed material had expanded to enough size for unknown reasons. It is the size of a football and weighs more than a large battleship.

"What it is?!"

Just for a few seconds with his eyes wide open and wondering, the silver drop-shaped ball of light had already flown nearly a million kilometers and passed directly through the entire battleship cluster. By the time the technicians extracted from the flashing video, only In just one frame of the screen, the ball of light had expanded to about fifty centimeters in diameter, and densely packed micro runes and various engine parts appeared around it, causing it to begin to jump.

At this time, the Tehran fleet was unable to capture the traces of the light ball at all. They could only detect that the psychic waves caused by the transition were approaching in the direction of the Void Mother Beast.

Soon, within a few minutes - for the Tehran Void Fleet that had not jumped to follow up, it was more than ten hours later. At the edge of the heliosphere seventeen light hours away from the Tehran star, there was already a silver sphere with a diameter of one meter. The ball appeared in front of the Void Mother Beast.

"Detection, large-scale mass fluctuations detected!"

Star base, combat headquarters command center, the reconnaissance personnel stared at the scene on the screen in shock. He raised his head and said in an incredible tone: "The void mother beast cluster is retreating!"

"They're running away?!"

It can be seen that on the screen, there are countless light points representing the chaotic monsters, and a huge light ball representing the void mother beast is retreating - they are like a flock of sheep encountering a tiger, fleeing in panic. This is It was the first time that the people of Tehran saw a chaotic monster without intelligence showing such intelligent actions.

"How can this be?!"

You can see that the water in Commander Jellyfish's body is about to boil, and steam is rising from the top of his head: "Even if the Void Mother Beast encounters the main cannon of the star, it will not run away, but will directly hit it with its body - how could they suddenly collapse?"

"etc… "

Thinking of a possibility, the old Tehranian turned his head and looked at the smiling envoy in the atrium.

The Zhongtingren envoy seemed to be smiling and saying nothing, but in fact he was also at a loss in his heart.

"'God' didn't tell me that this is the case..."

He thought in confusion: "Isn't it possible to absorb the mass of the star, convert it into a giant fighting form, and then fight with the Void Mother Beast... This is unreasonable!"

But it is unreasonable. Sometimes it is the normal state of the strong.

On the screen, you can see the small silver dots that are completely invisible without amplification or careful observation, just like dust, hitting the surface of the huge, starfish-like Void Mother Beast.

Then came the twist.

It can be seen that the moment the small point of light comes into contact with the mother beast, the translucent anti-psionic medium is immediately eroded and assimilated, and a layer of bright silver light is creeping and spreading, absorbing the flesh and blood of the void mother beast - Countless gears that seemed to be alive appeared. They rotated and derived more structures. Endless conduits, pistons, hydraulic devices and even various geometric structures with sharp edges began to form the flesh and nerves of the machine. In less than a few seconds, In time, one of the five tentacles of the Void Mother Beast, which was originally like a starfish, has turned into something else.

"Hi-la!!"

In the vacuum, there was a howl that only echoed in the spirit. The mother beast, which originally lived on erosion, now suffered a reverse 'purification'. It can also be said to be a 'predation' by a more powerful person - able to see, be The transformed tentacles don't look like flesh and blood at this time, but more like a powerful mechanical arm, gears, levers, and various mechanical structures that God knows how to operate, vibrating, running, and releasing powerful energy. And powerful energy fluctuations.

There was no doubt that it had its own will at this time, so the tentacle turned its angle and struck the starfish mother beast on the face with a whip, smashing countless flesh and blood.

"Gah—"

In the silent hall of the combat headquarters and command center, a half-scream came from an observer as if being strangled by the neck. Everyone was shocked to watch what was happening on the screen. They looked at the Void Mother. The beast's tentacles rebelled, and he beat himself up until he was about to die, and then his brain almost went blank.

To be honest, they never imagined such a dreamy scene in their dreams.

Are they really not dreaming

"...my God is on high."

The atrium envoy was the first to react. He forced himself to calm down, then swallowed his saliva (coolant), raised his hand, and drew a Φ symbol on his chest: "Thank you for his great power in protecting us."

The commander of Tehran stood quietly in front of the screen. He watched everything happening on the screen with an expressionless face, his observation organs motionless.

At this time, it can be seen that the huge starfish-shaped void mother beast has curled up, looking like it was beaten into coma, but the silver mechanical structure has not stopped spreading, it is still spreading, and the huge The void mother beast decomposes into a hazy silver mist. It can be seen that countless gears, levers, various conductors and microstructures are squirming in the mist, and around this silver mist, countless chaos monsters are also like As if being controlled by the mind, they rushed into the mist one after another.

"No, it's not control—it's gravity!"

An observer keenly noticed something was wrong, and she exclaimed loudly: "Variable gravity source detected! All the chaos monsters were sucked in!"

At this moment, the giant beast in the void had been completely decomposed and turned into a nebula-like fog. In the center of the fog, a tiny but extremely dazzling light spot appeared. After shining for a moment, , then rapidly shrunk, dimmed, and completely absorbed the extremely huge silver cloud.

The light distorts.

The too chaotic and huge gravitational waves shattered all detection lenses.

All that remains on the screen is the last bit, a 'black dot' that even light cannot escape.

It is a dim but dazzling 'dark star' shining outside the galaxy.

—An astonishingly long silence.

After a long time, the commander of Tehran exhaled and closed the screen in front of him, triggering a noisy and shocked discussion among all the staff.

He turned his head and looked at the envoy from Zhongting who had to remain calm and calm even though his heart was equally shocked.

"Although it is a bit abrupt, Mr. Millar (the name of the atrium envoy)."

Commander Tehran said this, his tone seemed a little embarrassed, "That's it..."

At this point, the fluid in his body began to boil, and even the dry skin swelled, just like a human's face blushing with shame: "The god you believe in..."

"What is the name of the god you believe in?"

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