Chapter 20: The Second Signal

When Joshua easily saw through the dragon girl in front of him as a mass of shaped slimes with the power of steel, he immediately fell into a brief shock.

Syndicate...... Isn't it a fire demon? No, no one said that the fire demon must be male, this is a misunderstanding...... No, the fire demon has no gender at all! But even if this is the case, why did the Syndicate choose Lisa's image shaping? This is completely inconsistent with the usual perception!

The situation after that is difficult to describe in words, all in all, a few minutes later, when Joshua came to the gate of the Lord's Mansion with a dejected black in one hand and a loveless syndicate in the other, a large group of people in the Lord's Mansion suddenly gathered together, and asked with surprise that there was even a genuine Lisa, the dragon girl had just returned from the factory area with Hotaru, and it seemed that she had bought some furniture for the new house.

Some time ago, Lisa suddenly said that she didn't want to live in the dormitory of the school, and wanted to find a house to live in alone, this normal request naturally no one would refuse, as for the money, if the credits in Lisa's hand were converted into precious metals, they would even be enough to buy a single-family villa around the Lord's Mansion, but the dragon girl just bought a small building in the factory area of Nancheng, and then immediately moved in.

The environment in the factory area is actually not very good, but the high mana radiation is not a problem for Lisa, and there is even a pair of enthusiastic siblings next door to help, and I heard that the elder brother seems to be a member of Wintercastle Academy.

Hearing the end, Rin summed it up perfectly: "So, because the syndicate has become your appearance, in order to avoid misunderstandings, I really don't know how to explain it, so I just moved out first?" ”

"Actually, I want to move out too."

Scratching her head, Lisa smiled shyly: "But the main thing is that I still want a home of my own, so it's more down-to-earth." ”

On the other side, the Syndicate is confessing on the side.

"The last time you helped me shape my body, I said that I could shape a new body as I wished."

At this time, the fire demon sat honestly on the chair and said the specific course of the matter: "But I am a fire demon after all, and I can't figure out how to make a human body after thinking about it for a long time...... When I got home, I fell asleep and woke up in a daze. ”

"Instinctive...... In Lisa's body, staying as a part of the other person's body for too long has led to not only the blood being connected, but also the essence of life beginning to affect each other. ”

Joshua didn't torture him, mainly because he was curious about the transformation of the Flame Demon's form, but if you think about it carefully, this matter is normal, the High Slime and the Abyss Ooze Monster do have the ability to transform into other creatures by devouring other creatures, and the Syndicate's body is naturally the same, or even higher, it can change according to the surrounding environment, and even strengthen the form.

But unlike other creatures, they devour other creatures to obtain a tangible body, and the Syndicate is in a sense swallowed by Lisa for more than half a year, which in reverse affects the nature of their bloodline...... Shame on you, no, Firedemon.

To be honest, the title of Fire Demon is a bit inappropriate now, and the Syndicate at this time is more adept at using the electromagnetic power inherited by the Thunder Ancient Dragon, as the power of the Fire Demon, only the point of 'fever' is preserved, and at most it is used as a hot water bottle for Lisa in winter.

"If you want to open up, at least Lisa's image is beautiful, and it's much better than you being ugly."

Hotaru patted the syndicate's shoulder with a big grin: "And if you change the image of a man, you can't continue to live with Lisa and live with an underage girl, you will be arrested and sent to the Moldavian prison." ”

Syndicate: "Uh-huh, oh-......"

"That's right!"

The black with a small light on his head also added fuel and vinegar: "You actually rely on Lisa's cute image to trick me into going out to play cards, it's really too much!" "Jingle jingle bell! (What a dissonance!) )”

Syndicate: "......"

In the final analysis, it is a small episode, not a big deal, according to No. 3, it is to think about someone day and night, causing himself to become someone, everyone rarely gets together and has a meal in the Lord's Mansion, but unfortunately the first team is on a mission in the Ural Mountains at this time, otherwise they will be called together, and Joshua's student team will be collected, but even so, Joshua also encouraged each other through the information terminal.

At this time, in the first squad, the first four people are about to graduate, and their strength is also in such six or seven years of excellent training and high-intensity battles, and they are about to reach the golden realm In fact, Ivan, who is the leader, has already touched the golden barrier when he explored the underground world last time, and has recently entered the golden realm, but after all, normal people are not like Joshua, and after entering, they will be stable directly, and he still needs a period of precipitation to completely stabilize the leap in his strength level.

And in addition to Ivan, his sister Amira is considered to have become a dragon mage, to put it bluntly, she is a dragon mage, this former hunter girl has an extremely terrifying elemental affinity talent, and can quickly release a large amount of high-power magic without interference, and directly destroy a small piece of forest, it is a real battery, and now it is the first team to protect her, but in the future, as long as the white dragon grows up, she can fight independently.

And Karin, who is not ostentatious and even unusually low-key, is actually close to breaking through the golden realm, she has built a stable elemental furnace in her body, and she can quickly restore her magic power by consuming the magic material stored in her body, and release magic far beyond her level, and the structure of this elemental furnace is actually the precursor of the heart of the melting core in Joshua's body, as long as Karin moves forward step by step, then she will one day become an existence that can control the power of the sun.

The strength of the Seventh Prince Alva has improved normally, and his fighting spirit has risen steadily, which is not worrying, but there is no unexpected progress, and the same is true for magic, but I heard that he has recently learned to cook a good dish, which makes everyone in the team sigh to themselves, and he even learned to assemble a magic puppet, showing an incredible talent in magic engineering.

Nick the Dwarf is the most unusual one...... At this time, he was in retreat in a secret place, and did not participate in the mission with the first team, and it is said that he is using enhanced magic and magical elements to transform his body, sublimate the essence of his life, and gradually become a transcendent being beyond ordinary humans. To be honest, this is actually a direct path to the Legend, a path similar to the legendary rune mage (Extreme Meaning of Force) Barnier, if you let Joshua say that among all his students, who is most likely to reach the Extreme Intention first, then it must be Nick, even Lisa, who is currently the most powerful.

After the meal, Lisa happily took the hand of the syndicate, said goodbye to Joshua and the others, and then went back to her house in Nancheng District, while everyone in the Lord's Mansion watched each other leave, and then cleaned up as usual.

Joshua went back to his study, he hadn't been here in a long time. The warrior reached out and touched the world map hanging on the wall of the study, dotted with small red and black dots, some with a few lines of small print underneath.

At the beginning of his travel, all kinds of major events were recorded on the map, such as the target of the dragon's raid, the imperial civil war, the base camp of the various princes and princesses, and the gathering place of some cultists...... All kinds of things, what he remembered at that time, basically dotted on it, which reminded him of how dangerous the world he was in was.

But now...... Joshua chuckled lightly, and with a wave of his hand, the silver light flickered, and the map of the Old World, which had already turned yellow, was replaced and placed in a drawer, and a new 3D light curtain appeared on the wall, which was the world galaxy model where the entire Microve world was located! Thousands of stars could be seen glowing, and a conspicuous red star twinkling at the edge, which was where the world of McCrove was.

But Joshua still didn't seem to be satisfied, he shook his head, shrunk the huge model of the world galaxy, shrunk to incomparably small, and then, at a great distance from the world galaxy, he lit up a ball of light that was so large that hundreds of millions of worlds could not be compared to it together...... It was a virtual model of the Initial Fire, because there was no word in the world to describe it, anything to imitate it. Except for the small cluster of world stars and the Initial Fire, the multiverse was pitch black, shrouded in a gloomy mist.

Joshua nodded.

This is the multiverse in his mind.

Then, the warrior stood in front of the model, fell into a long contemplation, opened the door, and Rin was about to clean up the study, and after seeing Joshua like this, he quietly closed the door and left, and No. 3 and Hotaru also secretly glanced at it, and did not continue to bother.

In the early morning of the second day, Joshua sighed, no longer staring at the multiverse model, but turned away, and continued to carry out experiments on the 'repair of the pillar of light', and the grinding of his own strength, the busy and fulfilling days passed quickly, and the time soon came to March 3, 838 Starfall.

And on this day, Joshua, who was still optimizing the system of the repair light pillar in the dust-free laboratory under Wintercastle, was notified by an unknown technician.

"Sir, there is a communication from the Church of the Seven Gods, please access it."

The Nameless Mechanic awoke the day after he fell unconscious, sighing and giving up on the idea of returning to the world of Siberia after learning that the civilization he was looking for did not actually exist, and that the original world of despair had been reshaped by the Cybora.

"Something that doesn't make sense, even if my people rebuild their civilization, it's completely different from what I expected...... Besides, the world is more interesting, isn't it? ”

The nameless words were simply direct, and there was no hidden thought: "They have all come to the new world, so live in the new world, people always have to move forward and look forward." ”

As for the nameless name, it is called nameless, this is a matter for him to decide, according to the other party's words, that is, someone is called 'bush', someone is called 'wild boar', and some people's name directly means 'son of so-and-so', so it doesn't matter if he is called 'no name'. All in all, Nameless is currently undergoing teacher training as a specially appointed instructor of Soul and Golemology at Wintercastle Academy, preparing to open a new discipline of 'Intelligent Construct Body' under the Department of Magical Energy Structuring in the future.

Before he officially took office, he would occasionally serve as Joshua's experimental assistant, helping him with the repair of the light pillar in the experiment.

After hearing the nameless words, Joshua stopped what he was doing, he strode out of the laboratory, frowned and asked, "Church of the Seven Gods?" Is the old Pope looking for me? It doesn't always feel like good news. ”

But as it turned out, Joshua's hunch was wrong this time.

"Joshua, good news like never before!"

In the communication room, on the other side of the light curtain, Joshua rarely saw Pope Eagle show such a happy expression, in his memory, this old man who has worked all his life for the life of the Microf world has basically always been full of sadness, and rarely has a heartfelt and hearty laugh.

But now, the other party smiled and stroked his white beard, and even accidentally pulled out one of them, letting the beard turn into holy light and dissipate: "A few days ago, the Holy Mountain Battleship received an unexpected message in its daily patrol of the void, and we once again received a call for help from the Great Information Database!" ”

"Really?!"

This time, even Joshua couldn't help but amplify his voice: "Can you determine the direction?" You've been prepared this time, and even if you can't determine the coordinates, at least you can narrow down the possible range, right? ”

"That's true, we've confirmed the area where the signal is!"

On the other side of the light curtain, the old pope's expression was quite emotional: "It's completely different from what we guessed at the beginning, the source of the signal is located in a dark void in the Void Vortex, where the light of the stars is dim, and most of them are dead and silent worlds, so it was not used as a key investigation object at the beginning, and the possible range we selected at the earliest is too far away from this area, if we search blindly, we may not have found any clues yet!"

At first, both Eagle and Joshua were going to give up on saving the Guardians in the Great Database, as they were simply out of their power. The void is too big, and there are too few people, in the absence of accurate signal coordinates, searching for the void is a big operation that needs to be calculated in ten years, in order to save some people who are actually destined to die, wasting a world's few void-level powers, it is too emotional, and it is completely inconsistent with the interests of civilization. Of course, absolute sanity is not what they want, but they are confused, and they don't know where to start if they want to save it, and considering the difficulty of transmitting information in the void, the target may have died a long time ago, and they can't be saved at all.

But this time, with a rough area lock, it is not difficult to search the world, as long as the target is clear and the target is sure to survive, then the rescue operation can be attempted.

"This time, the signal is similar to the last time, it all means that the inner circulation circle has been damaged, and they are just surviving now, but recently, a large number of tiny clouds of matter have appeared in the empty void darkness where they are, and by collecting these materials, they have supported it until now, and sent a second signal for help."

Eagle said this, he passed the original planets he collected to Joshua, and after Joshua sensed it for a moment, he nodded solemnly: "It seems that they can hold out for a while and can start moving." ”

"Originally, I couldn't save it, so I planned to give up, but now that we all know the range, it would be too much not to try."

The old Pope nodded with satisfaction, he had always been haunted by the fact that he could not save the guardians of the Great Database, and sighed at his powerlessness, but now that things had taken a turn for the better, of course he would be sincerely happy: "That's true, after all, they are also our compatriots." ”

"Then I'll go and inform Israel, Nostradamus. I'll go to the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Ground again later. ”

After a short period of thought, Joshua immediately made a decision: "It's almost time for the Imperial External Exploration Department to conduct its first practical exploration...... And my creation. ”

As he spoke, the warrior turned his head, his gaze penetrated the wall, and looked at the pillar of repair light in the primordial dust-free laboratory, and he showed an intriguing smile: "You can also really try the effect." ”