After leaving the Joint Research Institute, Joshua prepared to go directly to the Void and ask the Metal Python Karlis for information about the Great Information Repository from a thousand years ago.

"Hotaru, and Rin, do you two plan to accompany Hei and Hatsu to continue this sightseeing tour of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Grounds, or do you plan to accompany me for a walk?"

Standing on the gentle sand that had been sorted out at the entrance of the Joint Research Institute, Joshua held Xiaoguang in one hand, and casually asked his weapons about their next moves, and he said calmly: "Or do you plan to go back to Moldavia first?" I just heard Rin and Amira's chat, and it seems that there is some big celebration in the territory today, and you seem to be planning to preside over it in my place. ”

"Master, you hear me......"

Hearing this, Hotaru couldn't help but scratch her head, she wanted to stick out her tongue and pretend to be stupid like usual, but in the face of Qiao Shuya, the silver-haired girl still honestly admitted: "Yes, because this time I came here just to see the master's situation, whether you can wake up or not, we don't know." ”

On the other side, Rin took over the conversation, and he explained helplessly: "After all, master, you haven't come forward for too long, and there is a bit of turmoil in the territory, so we plan to take advantage of the celebration to appease the people, lest anyone think that they can take the opportunity to cause chaos...... But since you're awake, master, it's not important to soothe the uneasy, and I'll go and cancel this event later. ”

To this, Joshua nodded undeniably - although he looked expressionless, in fact, he was quite relieved.

Whether it is Hotaru, Rin or No. 3, or the fiery Black and Hatsu who have been fighting with their own group of students and the students of Winterburg, they all have their own opinions, their own rhythm of life, and they all have their own decisions, for example, this sightseeing of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Ground, in fact, was facilitated by Hotaru and Rin, and the same is true for the next celebration, which can't help but make Joshua feel like a child has finally grown up.

"There's no need to cancel, I'm going to go to the Void later, ask about the will of the world next door about something, it's estimated that I won't be back until later, you continue to preside over the festival as originally planned, I'll ask the 3rd when I come back, and see how you do."

The warrior stretched out his hand and patted the two Shenji siblings on the shoulder, and he encouraged, "I'm happy to see that you have your own plans. ”

With that, he stepped forward, intending to go to the Void, but at this moment, Joshua heard Hotaru's voice, and he couldn't help but look back at the Shenji siblings, wondering what was going on.

"Wait for the master!"

The silver-haired girl seemed to hesitate, but after she and Rin looked at each other, she seemed to have made up her mind, and then, Hotaru took a deep breath and asked, "Master, although it is a bit overstepping...... But when are you going to get married? ”

Hearing this question suddenly, Joshua couldn't help but squint his eyes and take a closer look at Hotaru—and then he said rather strangely, "I don't plan to do it yet...... You two little guys, why are you asking this? ”

"For the sake of the Radcliffe family's future, of course!"

Although he was a little hesitant at first, since he opened his mouth, Hotaru's words became more and more fluent, and at this time, the silver-haired girl even said in a straightforward tone: "Master, you are almost thirty years old, master at this time, son...... Master, you're six years old! Although, we can't help you now...... But if it is a small master, it is still a little useful, and Moldavia is so prosperous, it will inevitably continue to develop more prosperous in the future, and it is time for the Radcliffe family to grow! ”

At first, Joshua still listened to Hotaru's words with a smile, after all, the other party was indeed the head maid of the Radcliffe family, and Shenji was indeed an important member of the family, so he was naturally qualified to make suggestions on this matter, but when it came to the back, his expression slowly returned to normal, and even a little serious.

Indeed, although he himself did not notice, but now that he is old and his territory is developing more and more, he should let his family grow, not be so alone now...... Not to mention, Joshua himself knew that he was not destined to manage the territory, he did not have the time or energy to care about such a trivial matter, and if there was a child who could replace him, it would indeed be a good way, just like Israel was now training Dimore to replace himself.

But does it make sense.

Joshua turned his head silently, he looked around the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Ground, the fierce battle of a thousand years ago made this plane still a highly poisonous wasteland, and the presence of many McCrof transcendents purified a small part...... A plane comparable to a continent, guarded by countless gods, and with its own god-level strength, can be beaten into ruins, so you can imagine the fierceness of that battle.

He remembered Karlis, Ilgener, the two worlds that had been invaded by the gods had paid a terrible price, one had only just rekindled some of the flames, and the other was still closing itself off so as not to bring evil gods to the world of Microf. Joshua didn't even need to recall too much of a long time ago, he talked about the world of Sibeja and the Sanctuary civilization that he had visited not long ago, and their endings flashed before the eyes of the warriors.

When the evil gods came, a world, or even a space-time realm, was reduced to a wasteland, turning into a catastrophe that was clearly visible on the model of the void structure like the Void Maelstrom, and they would invade in a few decades, or even less, to re-enter the world where they had fallen into the sand.

Does it make sense.

"To be honest, I never thought about it."

Facing Hotaru, who had the courage to say such things to herself for some reason, Joshua said in a calm and serious tone: "Find someone you like to marry, have a child, leave a bloodline, and grow the family...... It's a normal thing to do, but it doesn't mean much to me. ”

Ignoring the rather complicated expressions of the two Shenji siblings, Joshua let out a rare sigh, and he smiled helplessly: "Whether it is marriage or the continuation of bloodline, it represents responsibility - and I don't even know if this world can exist in the next few decades, how can I make up my mind and think about this matter?" Did I bring him into the world to welcome the arrival of countless evil gods? That's really the worst father. ”

"If I can't defeat the evil gods, then neither the Radcliffe family nor the McCrove world will make sense, and I won't do anything that will affect my 'strength' until I defeat them."

After saying that, he turned around directly, and his figure disappeared into the void, while Hotaru and Rin stayed where they were, not moving for a long time.

"Sister, as I said, if the master doesn't solve the hidden danger of the evil god in the future, it is impossible for him to think about other things."

After a long time, when the space-time fluctuations caused by Joshua had dissipated, the black-haired young man shook his head in place rather bitterly: "Don't we know the master yet?" Although he looks leisurely, he has never stopped, the distance the master has traveled in a year, the world he has experienced, and the number of enemies he has killed are things that ordinary people can't walk in a lifetime, can't go, can't do - the urgency of the master's heart, you and I should understand it best. ”

"Of course I do."

In this regard, Hotaru replied lightly, the silver-haired girl did not seem to be sad because of Joshua's answer, she just sighed slightly: "But you have to ask...... Get an answer for others who are still waiting. What's more, in fact, the result is not bad. ”

Speaking of this, she turned her head and smiled at her younger brother: "If it is said that after a few decades, the master defeats the evil god and the world is peaceful, then won't he have time to think about this problem?" ”

"I don't have to, I don't have to." Rin was amused by her sister's optimism, "It's not like we've never seen the power of the evil god, it's too early to think about it now." ”

"It's okay to lose." Hotaru pursed her lips slightly, the girl's green eyes turned to the direction where Joshua disappeared, and she said softly: "For the sake of ideals, for the sake of faith, the glorious death in battle, and the breaking of glory, are the fate of warriors and weapons...... What's so terrible about such an ending? The master should have been ready for this kind of realization, wouldn't he? ”

"What's more, I believe that the master will not lose."

In the short words, there was an overflow of faith.

And in the void, Joshua hurried towards the world of Karlis.

The current avatar of the warrior probably has the energy level when he first entered the legend, but in terms of the degree of fineness of the structure and the degree of grasp of power, it is more than a notch, at least at that time, Joshua was not able to use the power of steel to broadcast, calling the will of the world in the void.

As the ripples and ripples formed by the power of steel spread layer by layer, an illusory steel python phantom could be seen to appear in the void, and then came to Joshua's body.

"You're awake, Joshua."

The Steel Python Karlis was not surprised by this result, and it nodded: "This time you actually took the initiative to find me, the rare situation, could it be that there is something you want to ask me." ”

"That's true."

In the face of the old acquaintance, or rather, the familiar python, Joshua didn't greet him too much, the relationship between the two did not need to be like this, he said directly: "Our Microf world is looking for a half-plane that was shot away during the Abyss War almost a thousand years ago, we know the general trajectory of its flying, but it is difficult to find it...... So I'd like to ask you steel pythons about any clues. ”

"More than a thousand years ago, at that time, I happened to be invaded by the evil god of famine, and all my energy was on fighting it......"

In this regard, Karlis was a little embarrassed: "To be honest, it was not that I didn't have the energy to observe the void at that time, but I couldn't observe it at all, and the overwhelming evil god clan obscured all my vision, not to mention that a half-plane was knocked away, and even the destruction of the world I estimated that I couldn't detect it." ”

Joshua was not surprised by this result, Karlis was indeed the closest Steel Python to the Mycrof world, but because of this, it also suffered from the Evil God War, and it was impossible to care about the lost trajectory of a small half-plane, but the warrior did not intend to get the answer directly, he just entrusted Karlis to help collect the news.

"I'll send you the specific data and trajectory information of that half-plane later, probably around the hollow zone of the Void Maelstrom - with that, you can ask about the Steel Python you know."

He said: "Since they will send you a signal for help, you can also take the opportunity to ask for similar information, and if you really don't, it is nothing more than taking a little more time to confirm one by one." ”

"Since it's your commission, then I'll do my best."

Although Joshua said that he would not force it, Karlis became serious, and the Plasma Python Phantom nodded solemnly: "But I must remind you, Joshua, only the world with intelligent life has the Steel Python, if it is a world without intelligent life, then the Steel Python will sleep...... The number of steel pythons I know is not very large, and most of them are not in good condition, and the civilization in their bodies is primitive and backward, which means that thousands of years ago, they may not have been awake. ”

"That's exactly why I said it doesn't have to be forced."

Joshua shook his head, he still remembered the results of deep space observations, he had expected this possibility for a long time, and now it was just proved through Karlis's words, thinking of this, the warrior added another sentence: "According to my speculation, if that half-plane collides with other worlds, it should cause a lot of space-time earthquake disaster, if you want to help, you can start from this point." ”

"Is it a space-time quake, it's really normal, after all, it's a half-plane that has been knocked away, so the range should be able to shrink a lot."

Karlis nodded, acknowledging, "Then I'll try to start with that, don't worry, Rekindler of the Flame." ”

The communication between Joshua and Karliss was simple and direct, and both parties were very pleasant, but after all, they had to cross the void, and by the time Joshua finished this commission and returned to the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Ground, the time had already reached the early morning of the next day.

The early morning of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Ground was particularly peculiar, because the silver light of the sun, like a gradually glowing crystal lattice, was lit up in a grid-by-grid charging way, and it could be seen that the majestic energy converged, and finally lit up an artificial silver sun in the sky above the plane.

At this time, Joshua was not in a hurry to go back to Moldavia directly, he came to the center of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Ground, which is where his own body is located.

After being busy with everything, the warrior finally had time to summarize the gains of his trip through the void, and thinking of this, Joshua couldn't help but raise his head and look at his own body.

It can be seen that the heavy silver cocoon has now stopped spontaneous contraction, its surface has completely stabilized into a neutron degenerate substance, and a layer of protons flows on it, like a sinuous silver-white light, while its interior, the high-density matter has stopped simply collapsing, but has produced all kinds of wonderful reactions that are difficult to describe in words.

And the simplest outward manifestation of this reaction is expansion.

At this time, the diameter of Joshua's main cocoon was already more than one hundred and seventy meters, which was five or six times larger than the smallest swelling, and this expansion was still continuing, as if something was being born in the cocoon.

If there were people who knew Joshua well, such as Nostradamus and the Old Pope, or Israel and the Mentor of Nature, they would surely laugh and say that there must be a huge steel giant in the cocoon, and when the giant was enough to tear the cocoon apart, the warrior's metamorphosis would be over.

But this conjecture is wrong.

Joshua's avatar raised his head, his gaze was so deep that he could directly look beyond the strongest substance in the world that could be controlled by man, and directly see the inside of the cocoon of the power of steel.

It wasn't a giant of steel, but a mass of rapidly spinning, condensed nebulae, and a shining crystalline of steel power, which released a pure light that shrouded it in a hazy mist.

It was the first time the world had opened.

Inside the cocoon, it is a newborn small world.