Chapter 24: Who Do You Think I Am? (6600 chapters combined)
However, just as Nostradamus was about to go to the Atrium Fleet with Joshua to inquire about the situation of the front line, Joshua, who was halfway there, suddenly stopped advancing.
"Go alone, Master."
There was no light in the dark cosmic space, and even the light of the sun in the distant galaxy had lost its role as illumination after crossing a long distance, and Joshua's face was blurred in this darkness, and he couldn't see his expression clearly: "I, there's something. β
ββ¦β¦ Pay attention to yourself. β
Nostradamus frowned at first, but then shook his head, and said helplessly: "There will be a big war soonβmaybe the biggest war in my old man's life, and you can't go wrong." β
After speaking, the old mage did not continue to talk to Joshua, and with a misty glow, he dragged the blue light and flew towards the Third Fleet, which was slowly turning towards the interior of the galaxy not far away, leaving the warrior alone to stop in place.
And a few seconds later, when Nostradamus had left nearly a thousand kilometers, Joshua reached out to his chest, and then 'pinched' a small ball of light out of his arms. The warrior looked down at his hand, he had not spoken since the beginning of the battle, and the light ball Xiaoguang, who looked like an abnormal ball of light, asked with some confusion, "What's wrong?" You've been trying to connect with me since just now, but it was during the battle, and I didn't have time to play with you. β
During the battle, Joshua, who turned into a giant, assimilated Hotaru and Rin into his body together, and used the divine machine as a basis to create a huge quality weapon, the steel sword and the energy giant axe that can cut through space, and Xiaoguang was also put into a special protective space in the warrior's body together with the Shenji siblings, and it was from then on that Xiaoguang, who had been very happy, was unusually silent for some reason, and then tried to connect with Joshua's spirit several times in a row during the battle.
Naturally, Joshua would not respond at that time, but just now, Xiao Guang once again sent an extremely strong communication signal, and also hinted that he wanted to communicate alone, which made the warrior have to leave Nostradamus for the time being and talk to the light ball alone.
"Ding-dong...... Silent ...... Boom...... I want to talk to you......"
The ball of light, which was shrunk by the warrior and pinched between her fingers, seemed to be a little strange, as if she was still asleep, and she heard Joshua's question, so she replied in a somewhat hazy voice, followed by a more intense spiritual signal.
"Why is it the same as your body, you just don't want to speak well, and you have to communicate with my spirit." Shaking his head a little helplessly, for the hazy words of the ball of light, Joshua could only choose to open the spiritual connection to the other party and see what news it wanted to tell him.
With the strength of his current will defense, even if he is an existence at the level of the Seven Gods, there is no way to peek into his memories when the spirit is connected without his permission, and if it is a fragment that has passed away like the God of the River, it will even collapse due to the analysis of the warrior's spirit and excessive consumption, so he is not afraid of what harm will be caused to him by intercommunicating with the spirit of the light ball.
Therefore, in the next moment, Joshua held the ball of light that had been enlarged to about the size of a fist by him in his hand, and then pressed it on the door of his head, and the ball of light also cooperated to stretch out tiny tentacles of light, and connected himself to the warrior's head, and a stream of shining light surged, and the two spirits began to connect.
And at this moment, Joshua saw it.
A huge steel python that surrounds the entire world of stars!
"The will of the world! But it's still sleeping. Now, there was only one thought that flashed through Joshua's mind - it turned out that the silent kind that Xiaoguang was talking about was a steel python! 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, and in just a few breaths, Joshua entered the steel sanctuary in the time gap between his familiar world because of the pull of a gentle force.
Standing under the dome of the Star Sea, Joshua looked around, behind him, there was a turbulent river of history that represented the past, and in front of him, there were countless forks in the road that represented the future, misty and dark. And a huge python that seemed to entangle the entire sea of stars, the past, the future, and the whole world, just closed its eyes and faced the warrior with its huge head.
- 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 extensive, and it is not that he has not seen other Steelpythons - the world of Karlis, the world of Ilgena, and even the world will of the world of Grandia and Mycrove, he can be said to have barely met through the seal. But Joshua can be sure that even the will of these four worlds combined 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 that can devour tens of millions of stars in an instant and submerge the galaxy into its belly.
It is difficult to describe this kind of enormity in words, it is nothing more than that the entire field of vision is overshadowed, no matter how much you turn your head and try to see the end of it, you can only see the superficial description of the layers of silver snake bodies, but Joshua noticed that this steel python is not so much that it has not awakened, but that it has no obvious self-will, and its body can be condensed, it seems that it is already the limit, not to mention that on the silver scales, there are many dense black molds that seem to be spreading.
But at this time, it was the time for Xiaoguang to perform, and when he saw the steel python appear, it jumped out of Joshua's hand suddenly, and then flew to the other party's body, a faint white light flashed, and the huge steel python suddenly moved, and its eyes began to open slowly, releasing a bright red light, it seemed to have obtained something crucial, and it was waking up rapidly.
Soon after, an ethereal and ethereal sound, as if echoing between the stars, appeared in the dome of the Star Sea and was transmitted into Joshua's ears.
"Hello, Descender of Another World. What shall I call you, the Void Visitor who protects my people? β
The huge head shook the sea of stars, and the Steel Python lowered its head and looked at the human standing on the ground, staring at it, and it whispered in a gentle but tired voice, "I am the Steel Python [Star]. As you can see, I have always maintained an eternal sleep on weekdays, and there are few opportunities to communicate normally like now. β
"I am Joshua van Radcliffe, who has come at the call of the Atrium to eradicate the poison of Chaos."
Joshua answered the other party's question neatly, because of his personality, he didn't waste time, but immediately asked, "Great World Will, why do you want to communicate with me?" War is coming, and it is not wise to choose this time for communication. β
"And why, you have always kept your eternal sleep, and if it weren't for the strange movement just now, you wouldn't be able to wake up? This is not the same as some of the world's wills that I have encountered before. β
"Have you ever seen my kind? Indeed, you have their breath in you. β
As for the warrior's questions, the Steel Python 'Star' didn't answer them one by one, it just moved its body, and then said slowly: "This is the gap between the world, and for the outside world, it is a place where the flow of time is almost static, so you don't have to worry about the war in the outside world." As for why I keep sleeping...... It's because I'm too big. β
"My will runs through infinite distances and connects with countless worlds. My mind is scattered throughout the universe, with millions of galaxies and billions of stars...... This is a long distance that my mind cannot sweep in an instant, and even light will take hundreds of millions of years to penetrate my body, and my will cannot be concentrated, and I can only rule the operation of the world in my sleep. I am far stronger than most of my kind, and at the same time, far weaker than them. β
The Cyborda 'Star' is surprisingly easy to speak, and it seems that because it is rarely able to gather will, have clear thoughts and wisdom to communicate, so it is willing to say something to the warrior: "Just like rain needs dust as a core to condense." My vast will also needs a bit of a core to integrate it, and your companion, this strange creature of light, has this ability by accident...... It seems to be the prototype of the will of the world, my young kind, and it is it that awakens me so that I can communicate with you. β
After listening, Joshua nodded slowly. He understood the current state of the other party - this steel python called 'Star', because the ontological 'Star World' was too large, so its will could not be gathered together like the small and medium-sized dimensional worlds to form a complete mind, and only by relying on external forces could it temporarily condense for a while and obtain enough wisdom to communicate with people.
This is the same as what he had speculated before, at the beginning of the creation of the world, the initial value of the fire burned, the steel of origin was dispersed, and each piece of steel was divided into a world in the void, among which there was a small but high-energy super-demonic plane world inside, and there was also a non-demonic world that was extremely large but almost forbidden to extraordinary power inside. The Star Sea World is somewhere in between, it is not as large as the real Endless Star Universe, and it also has the extraordinary power of psionic energy in it, but as a price, although the will of this world is not as almost always awakened as the will of the Demonless World, it is not as free to act as the will of the Beyond Demon World.
And at this moment, the steel python 'star' did not continue to talk nonsense. It twitched its massive head slightly, as if contemplating its current situation, and then it spoke, "You are the only being I sensed, from outside the realm. You are from the same world as the one who first awakened me not so long ago. So, I think you might be able to solve the problem in my body. β
The first to awaken its existence? Sages? But why not so long ago? Joshua blinked, and then reacted, for this ancient will, which had existed for maybe billions of years, a thousand years was indeed not long ago. After hearing the follow-up words of the Steel Python, the warrior immediately asked, "What stubborn disease?" β
"It's 'them' that you destroyed before."
The Star tapped its head, and the endless starry sky beside it began to distort and change, and finally transformed into a thousand rapidly flickering light curtains, in which warships crossed the void and bombarded invading enemies with blazing cannon fire, and in primordial worlds, savage psionic creatures wielded inferior stone spears and fought monsters that had spawned out of the darkness. Fighter planes, small ships, flying lasers, humanoid robots, alien robots, battleship cannons, endless missiles, biotechnology, psionic power, and thousands of other means of warfare all flashed in the light curtain, and they were not facing other civilizations, but one after another, hazy and distorted darkness and shadows.
"Chaos Monsters. That's what you and the Great Being before you call this Void Eroder. They are the enemies of civilization, the destroyers of the world, they invade my body by all means, slaughter my children, and eat away at my flesh. β
The voice of the steel python echoed throughout the Star Sea Dome, this voice was ethereal, and the gentle tone of the World Will had a hint of real anger in his mouth at this time: "I can't solve these problems in my sleep, but now, I have been awakened, and I must face these tumors." β
At the same time, Joshua seemed to see a huge microcosmic picture, millions of galaxies floating in the void like discs, and a small number of discs inside, there have been black gaps, this is from the void, devouring the darkness of the stars, they feed on the sun and stars, giving birth to their own endless people to invade the whole world, in the many black gaps, Joshua sensed a lot of familiar breath.
There are the evil gods of famine, the evil gods of plague, the evil gods of natural disasters, and the evil gods of the atmosphere. Even the long-fallen gods of abundance seem to have remnants of power left in the world of stars, and their clans are expanding unscrupulously in this vast world far faster than their progress in the multiverse.
ββ¦β¦ There are at least a dozen different evil god clans invading this world! Tsk, that's more than a trillion β and much more! β
Even Joshua couldn't help but tug at the corners of his mouth, he frowned and said: "Psionic energy, as a force that can communicate with the void, is too dangerous, powerful psionic energy can be gathered together to cross the world barrier, its light is like a lighthouse in the void, it will attract countless dark beings like firelight attracts insects." β
"But without psionic powers, I can't sustain my will."
The Steel Python 'Star' said calmly: "In a world without extraordinary power, the will of the world will be silent, as if dead. Psionic energy is the only power I can spread within myself. And my people are not without the power to fight back. β
Tens of millions of light curtains have been transformed, showing scenes that are very different from before.
In the corners of the sea of stars, the ancient lost empires indifferently watched the reborn civilizations in the starry sky, and they watched these juniors explore the sea of stars as they did back then, developing technology that seemed insignificant to them. They are survivors of an apocalyptic battle of the last era, great civilizations that have stagnated and weakened, and some lost empires have been unable to understand the technology they have, and they have just stayed in their corners, not communicating with the outside world until the day of self-destruction.
But one day, the Spiritual Power of the Weak Emerging Race summoned the existence from beyond the Void, and countless dark forces representing destruction stretched out their claws from the other side of the multiverse in an attempt to infiltrate this vast world, and they swept across the sea of stars, slaughtering the fragile and weak civilizations in the starry sky, and these incarnations of pure destruction attempted to devour the galaxy once and for all.
So, they the ancients. The Lost Empires reclaim the reason why their civilization was closed off in the last era.
As a result, the reconnaissance posts abandoned by them in the sea of stars in ancient times were re-lit, countless survey beacons were projected to every corner of the galaxy, the fleet was assembled, the army issued a call order, those ancient factories roared again, and when their dilapidated docks were repaired and adjusted again, and the Taita Giant Ship Forge that had been silent for thousands of years was reopened, these awakened ancient civilizations began their mission of 'protecting the world'.
Joshua could see that in the center of each galaxy, the fleets of these ancient empires were fighting a decisive battle with those clusters of chaos monsters that had already been formed, and some of them failed, but most of the lost empires successfully closed the void gates that continuously teleported the void monsters to come, and they successfully eradicated the invaders in their hometowns and made the galaxy clean again.
The self-cleansing force of a world, the white blood cells of the universe. For some reason, such a passage suddenly flashed through Joshua's mind. Then, after pondering for a moment, he said, "What do you want me to do?" β
Looking at the previous exciting scenes, Joshua was not too excited, he just closed his eyes slightly, then raised his head again, looked at the steel python, and asked his own question: "As you can see, I am just an ordinary warrior, and my strength is insignificant compared to the final battle that will affect thousands of galaxies. β
"You underestimate yourself and what you represent...... Just as there is a deep and dark will behind the existence of those voids, I also need reinforcements to fight against these endless darkness. β
In response to Joshua's words, the Steel Python shook its head, and finally expressed its thoughts: "Although there are strong enough of my people to expel the Void, most of them have no power to fight back, and overall, the mold on my body is still expanding, and I can't sit back and watch myself fall like this." β
Star's voice was ethereal: "I have seen a great will from the same world as you...... His existence is even beyond my imagination, and behind him, the civilization that is powerful enough to cross the void and send super lifeforms like you to help other worlds must be incredibly powerful. β
"Therefore, I hope that you can serve as reinforcements for 'me' and work together to clear the cancer of these worlds."
As for the idea of the Steel Python 'Star', Joshua was silent for a long time.
If it were the era when the sages were still in the Glorious Era, the McCrove civilization with the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Ground would definitely have the confidence to accept the invitation of the 'star' and go to clean up hundreds of millions of chaos monsters as a reinforcement from the world, and the gods and sages would definitely be excited to lead the legendary powerhouses one by one to erase the families of the evil gods with the galaxy as a unit.
What a glorious and exciting thing this is - the expeditionary force across the multiverse will sweep away the cancer in countless worlds, and the civilization of the Mycrof world can also take advantage of this opportunity to take root in thousands of worlds, this is the prototype of the multiverse civilization, the behemoth that occupies countless stars, and is the final form of the transcendent civilization!
But everything was terminated in the bud.
The gods have passed away, the sages have traveled far away, the ancient civilizations have been left in the cracks of history, and the lost three hundred years are like a spell, cutting off all connections between the Starfall Era and the Glorious Era. Today's Mycrof civilization is just like the fallen empires in the world of stars, those who cowered in the corners of the sea of stars, closed themselves, or even worse, the descendants of the great races who once created the sacrificial grounds of the Ten Thousand Worlds have now forgotten the amazing advanced technology of their ancestors, and they not only do not have the confidence and strength to go on an expedition across a world, but even fall into a ridiculous infighting, which is sad.
But...... So what?
Joshua suddenly laughed, and he suddenly realized that this might be an excellent opportunity - a chance to completely change the trajectory of history, and an opportunity to awaken the 'fallen civilization' of the races of the Mycrof Continent!
Since those ancient civilizations that were cowering in the corners of the sea of stars, isolated and not communicating with the outside world, have all been revitalized and stepped into the galactic stage again, why can't the Mycrof civilization once again stand up from the mud and restore the great civilization of the Glorious Era?
This is absolutely unjustifiable.
In the past, he was too petty - what changed the trajectory of the future and resisted the invasion of the abyss was really a bit short-sighted. What kind of merit is to change such a small thing? If he wants to do it, he must make a big one! Not only will he have to fend off the Abyssal Invasion, but he will also lead the civilization of the Microf world back to the prosperity of the Glorious Age! First of all, the first step is to connect to the world of stars. As long as you can get the knowledge of these otherworldly civilizations, the civilization of the Mycrof Continent will definitely be able to make a rapid leap as if it were a chemical reaction!
And most importantly, if the sages can do it, why can't I? Could it be that he, Joshua, must be worse than the sages?
It's ridiculous.
Thinking of this, Joshua raised his head and said without hesitation:
"Okay."
At this point, the contract is concluded.
The starry dome dissipated into invisibility in an instant, and the steel python that was so huge that it surrounded countless galaxies also dispersed like a phantom, and the warrior once again stood in the cosmic vacuum at the edge of the distant galaxy, staring at the dark green spiritual energy vortex that was constantly rotating in the distance, and the last words left by the steel python 'star' were still surrounded by his ears.
"This companion of yours is the prototype of the will of the world, my kind. I don't know how you managed to keep it with you, but without it, I wouldn't be able to reunite my will. β
The ethereal voice was as clear as if it had just been spoken, and the words of the 'star' gradually faded: "But it is too weak, so I have strengthened it a little, which can be regarded as part of my gratitude for coming from the other side of the multiverse to save my people." β
In Joshua's hand, the sleeping little light turned into a thumb-sized ball of light, which Joshua stared at for a moment before placing it in his arms.
After a long time, the old mage's voice returned to the warrior's side in the direction of the atrium fleet with the fluctuations of time and space, and he did not ask Joshua what he wanted to do in the same place, but looked into the distance with the warrior, the vortex of psionic energy that was constantly stabilizing and expanding.
"Can we really kill this Void Mother Beast?"
The old mage said with some concern, "According to the survivors of the Root Court Star Domain colony, the Void Mother Beast's shield and self-healing ability are unbelievably powerful......
"Of course."
In this regard, Joshua simply and neatly interrupted Nostradamus's 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 two legendary powerhouses from the other side of the multiverse shook and stared at each other.
War is on the verge of breaking out.