"Time is running out, I'll take a look at the corpses of those Void Derivative Beasts and the body fragments of the Mother Beast."

The corpse of the Void Derivative Beast was brought over by the survivors of the Root Court through an emergency conveyor, and the body fragment of the mother beast was a special combat force of the Root Garden, forcibly picked up from the universe from the encirclement of countless Derivative Beasts at the risk of almost certain death, after hearing Joshua's request, the mother tree silently integrated the dismantled psionic engine into her body, and then raised a wooden experimental table again, on the experimental table, there was a layer of psionic shield and the corpse of the Void Derivative Beast.

"Good fellow...... What the hell is this......"

When he saw the body of the Void Derivative Beast with his own eyes, even Joshua couldn't help frowning, at that time, in the memory transmitted by the mother tree, because it was a cosmic space battle thousands of miles away, it was not obvious, but now that the other party was in front of him, the contrast was very strong.

Of course, this is not to say that the Void Derivative is ugly, weird, or indescribable—in fact, Joshua was surprised because its appearance was so simple.

"Isn't this just a ball with a few tentacles?"

On the side, Hotaru couldn't help but complain: "And even the tentacles don't feel slippery and sticky, it feels like a steel whip." ”

"It's a little different from what I imagined......" Rin also nodded, he looked closer with some confusion, but he didn't find anything special from the other party's body: "It's really just the tentacles and the orb itself...... What exactly does it fight on? ”

Placed on the experimental table, there are nearly twenty meters long and fifteen meters tall derivative beast corpses, according to the mother tree, they are only the weakest larvae, while the mature derivative beasts are hundreds of meters in size, and their bodies will be covered with black-red crystalline ore like bone spurs, which can spray a high-heat energy stream, and the strength is enough to cut the armor of the battleship. The juveniles are varied, from cylindrical, with many sturdy arthropods at the lower ends, to coronal-like ones, and in general, can be divided into five categories: spherical, spirally symmetrical, bullet-shaped, icosahedron, cylindrical, and finally tadpole-shaped.

The appearance of these derivative beasts was simple, and even a little simple and smooth beauty, completely different from many twisted and strange chaos monsters that Joshua had seen before, but he felt a strong chaotic aura from them, and for some reason, he always had a strange sense of familiarity.

"By the way, it's a virus!"

It didn't take long for Joshua, who was already able to search the database and review his own memories, to easily find out the source of that familiarity - aren't the shapes of these Void Derivative Beasts all kinds of viruses magnified hundreds of millions of times?!

Although it is only similar in appearance and is already completely chaotic monster in nature, at the end of the day, it is the shape of a virus!

After perceiving this, Joshua stepped forward without hesitation and reached out to touch the body of the orb monster, and in the midst of the mother tree's loud warning, he immediately noticed that the moment he broke through the spiritual energy shield set by the mother tree and directly touched the corpse, there were countless extremely small 'lives', or rather, 'chaos forces' were trying to invade his body in the most direct and murderous way. These extremely tiny microscopic forces attempt to disintegrate the warrior's body, and then assimilate and break through from within, and then infect Joshua into a chaotic monster like them, everything is like a microscopic virus invading the cell, but it is only as fast as I don't know how many times.

"Sure enough, it's the plague god. Familiar routines. ”

With a shake of his hand, the flowing silver light wiped out all the invisible chaotic power, the power of steel was originally the foundation of all things, and when it came to assimilation power, it was more viral than a virus, and when the two met, it was naturally a complete victory for the warriors. At this moment, Joshua couldn't help but recall the scene when Robzek had to kill more than a dozen of his paladin students in the Plaguelands. The chaotic forces in the Mycrof continent are very seriously suppressed, so they need to be touched by bodily fluids to be infected, and those paladins who suddenly become crazy must have been invaded and assimilated by this chaos virus, right? Robzek was right to kill them all, because those people were no longer human, but humanoid vessels of chaos.

This was the terrible beginning of the plague, and it may not be as good as Famine, the Scourge Clans, the Crystal Insects, and the Stone Demons in its frontal combat ability, but it was far superior in the weird aspect.

“…… It's because I'm too careful, and I think about it, an existence of your level will not be afraid of this weird corrosive force. ”

Seeing that Joshua did not have any abnormalities, the mother tree's voice became calm, and it said softly in a tone that did not have the slightest emotion, almost coldness: "On the Root Court Star, almost all the survivors stay in cold storage, around the volcano or in strange places such as sterile laboratories, while people from other regions have turned into the prototype of this monster in front of you in just three days, and then followed the Void Mother Beast to the next colony star...... Even plants are no exception, and this strange power can assimilate erosion as long as it is life. ”

"The other party is the natural enemy of organic life, although you claim to be a spiritual civilization, but in the final analysis, you have not transcended the shell, so it is normal to be restrained by the plague evil god."

Sweeping away the corpse of the derivative beast at a glance—or rather, the active Chaos Virus aggregate that had lost its ability to act actively, Joshua muttered, "In this way, the so-called Void Mother Beast is the source of the plague, and its so-called invasion is to infect one world after another...... It's not quite the same as I thought of a swarm. But that's a good thing. ”

Because his body is the steel giant that releases thousands or even tens of thousands of degrees of heat all over his body, and uses the Molten Core Star as the energy source in his body - no matter what virus he is, it is impossible for him to be infected, even if it is a chaos virus, no matter what, even if there is no Azure Orb, Joshua still has a part of the power of order.

It's hard to say about the plague evil god, but its family members were born to be restrained by him! If the other party is a virus, then he is a white blood cell.

Thinking of this, my mood suddenly improved a lot. But Joshua frowned suddenly, he remembered the source of the plague at that time, that is, the scene of the Void Mother Beast destroying the Atrium Colonial Star Fleet in an instant—the endless dark green light shield spread at three hundred and sixty, and all the asteroids and battleships in its path were reduced to nothing in an instant. The warriors still haven't seen what the exact principle of this move is - is it antimatter annihilation? Or is it the disintegration of matter? Or is it an extremely special chaotic virus that erodes all matter?

In any case, it was a very difficult move to deal with, and Joshua was not sure if the other party would be able to decompose his body, after all, he had not yet completed 100% assimilation, and his own mass was far from the point of white dwarf matter, so he could only temporarily condense during the battle, so that a part of his body could be temporarily transformed into a white dwarf.

"Joshua, do you still want to see the fragments of the Void Mother Beast's body?"

While Joshua was still thinking, he heard the mother tree's will say on the side, so he nodded, "Let me see." ”

Soon, the body of the Void Derivative Beast was immediately shrouded in psionic light, and then submerged into the mother tree's body. As a super life, the mother tree can naturally understand the horror of the chaos virus, but it has survived for tens of millions of years, and it is the will aggregate of the atrium psykers, so it is naturally not afraid of this level of erosion, and it can even reverse analyze the other party like Joshua, but the speed is very slow.

The next moment, another high platform shrouded in psionic shields emerged from the wooden chamber, and Joshua strode over, looking at the fragments in the pillar of light.

"Haven't you lost your life yet?"

What appeared in front of Joshua's eyes was a black sphere that was wriggling and splitting, and spontaneously suspended in midair. This sphere is five meters in diameter, and from time to time, smaller black spheres will erupt to hit the spiritual energy barrier set by the mother tree, and the force of the impact is very large, even the mother tree's energy shield in the Mycrof continent far exceeds the extreme level of the energy shield also emitted a significant vibration. After the smaller sphere failed to hit, it shattered into a dark green fog, which had a strong corrosive and assimilative power, trying to erode away the mother tree's psionic shield little by little, and it could be clearly seen that layers of mold were growing out of thin air on the inside of the psionic shield, and dark green pus kept flowing out of it.

"The body fragments of the female beast have an extremely terrifying ability to assimilate, whether it is material, energy, or spiritual power, it can devour and strengthen itself...... Before capturing it, we had been wondering why the Folby would let the Chaos monster they summoned grow so big, and why they fled so embarrassedly, but now that we think about it, it's probably because of this. ”

The words of the mother tree flowed through Joshua's ears, and he could certainly understand what it meant. Obviously, when the so-called Folby opened the Void Gate and summoned the plague evil god family, the mother beast must not have been so big, maybe it was still very small, which made the interstellar race that had not yet met relax their vigilance. And by the time the plague swept across the world, and the she-beast showed her full strength and began to assimilate and grow larger, the Folby people must have lost their ability to resist long ago...... Perhaps, there are some female beast bodies lurking in their migration spaceship, but the female beast, like the virus, deliberately spares the group of Folby people who fled in the wilderness, and then uses them as hosts to infect other races in the universe.

Except for reaffirming that this was indeed the family of the plague god, Joshua made no other special discovery, and he also reached out and let the fragments of the mother beast eat away at his body, but the result was unsuccessful. The erosive power of the female beast is indeed much greater than that of the chaos virus, but it still can't break the warrior's defense, the power of steel is too strong in resisting this erosion, it can even reverse assimilate the female beast, just like assimilating the rock, turning part of the opponent's body into its own use, but it is too slow to do so, and it is too laborious, otherwise Joshua wants to let the people of the atrium use themselves as cannonballs, into the body of the void mother beast, and let his 'white blood cells' to destroy those viruses.

"All things are indeed mutually reinforcing, I didn't expect you to completely ignore this corrosive force that is simply a natural enemy for us in the atrium...... It is our luck to summon you, and it is also the protection of the Holy One. ”

After seeing that Joshua could even assimilate the mother beast in reverse, the voice of the mother tree in the atrium suddenly became a lot lower, and from this voice, there was no trace of luck and joy at all.

There is no doubt that even the Mother Tree, which is an aggregate of wills, began to fear the power of Joshua, and if it hadn't been able to feel the breath of the sages from the warriors, it might have listed this creature even more terrifying than the evil god clan as an untouchable person and put it on strict guard, and even said that it would be transferred to the alien colony as much as possible, away from the main body.

What are you kidding, a white blood cell capable of infinitely devouring assimilation - what is the difference between this and that group of chaos viruses! Although I don't know about leukemia, the mother tree is still instinctively vigilant.

Joshua didn't care about the other party's guard. To be honest, he himself was a little scared of his own power. This is not a joke, but the reality - if one day, after a 100% call with the force of steel, the warrior completely loses control of the force of steel and becomes a puppet of this force, then his end will either be self-destruction, or in the very slightest possibility, he will become a living white dwarf like leukemia, constantly devouring the world of assimilation order, even if it is not impossible to incarnate a small black hole.

But beware, Joshua has confidence in her control. He can suppress even his divinity, not to mention the power of steel that he has condensed in the first place? The warrior couldn't even figure out how far he had to fall to get there.

"Alright...... I almost know what the enemy itself is. ”

Having obtained the means of cosmic combat and understanding the nature of the enemy, Joshua had already completed most of his goals in the Atrium Star at this time, he turned his head and said in the direction above his head, that is, where the will of the mother tree was, "Thank you very much. Also, can you provide me with a spacious and quiet place? I'm going to start trying to build a migration engine in my body. ”

"Don't worry, Mother Tree, I won't stay with you for long, at the end of the day, I'm just an outsider to this world."

"When the Leap Engine is built, it's time for me and my companions to set off."

The mother tree fulfilled all of Joshua's requirements.

Whether it is the most advanced Leap Engine of the Atrium People, the corpse of the Void Derivative Beast, or even the part of the body of the Void Mother Beast that has been shattered and left in the universe, as long as the warrior wants to, no matter how precious the material or the top-secret technology, the Mother Tree will not hesitate to satisfy him. At first glance, this seems to be like a broken jar, a dead horse as a live horse doctor—since the people of the Atrium alone are completely unable to defeat the enemy, they simply let Joshua, who also exists outside the Veil, act recklessly, and see what the other party can stir up in this pool of stagnant water.

"Your demands are reasonable, and I have no reason to refuse you."

But in fact, the mother tree explained her actions like this: "First try to learn the method of moving at high speed, grasp the initiative in battle, and then understand the enemy's army, understand the enemy itself, this is a very organized and very normal requirement." However, the remains of the she-beast's body must remain in our bodies to suppress it, and its corrosive force is too strong for you to take out. ”

"Of course, I understand the characteristics of Chaos Monsters, especially this one."

Deep in the earth's crust, in the mother tree's body, in the huge wooden chamber that was temporarily constructed, Joshua didn't respond too much to the mother tree's words, because he was now engrossed in analyzing the strange half-crystal half-plant creation in front of him, which was extremely complex.

The huge wooden chamber is 120 meters long, wide and high, and its six walls are made of dark brown tough biological material deliberately made by the mother tree. Such a huge space, let alone individual parts, can fit even a smaller unmanned warship here, but at this time, it is occupied by a blue spherical behemoth. Joshua was now floating in mid-air, using the force of steel in the air, peeling away the outer layers of the massive sphere bit by bit.

There is no doubt that this huge blue sphere is an important technology for the Atrium people to rely on transportation, the 'Psionic Migration Engine', and it is precisely because of this technology that the Atrium civilization was able to cross the distance measured in light years and go to other galaxies to colonize. And now, the fighters are using their own methods to understand the meaning behind the technology.

With the power of steel as his arm, Joshua carefully peeled off the extremely delicate semi-biological engine shell little by little, and tried not to damage its internal energy wiring and psionic energy structure as much as possible, but even if he had obtained a full set of engine design drawings given by the mother tree, Joshua could not guarantee that he could completely remove its external protective armor and components, he could only dismantle each part, and then record and store the information of that part.

This process lasted nearly eight hours, during which time the old mage was invited by Mill Habs to go to the Atrium People's library in the center of the Eastern Continent, where he could read through the materials about the world's 'constants', the so-called laws of the world. Legendary powerhouses are super lifeforms that have evolved to the limit, but they are not able to show their power in all worlds, for example, if an extraordinary powerhouse goes to a world with almost no extraordinary power, it is easy to weaken due to exhaustion, or even die. Although the Star World has psionic energy, and because of the Great Demon Tide, the energy concentration is enough to supply the needs of the legendary powerhouse, but in general, it is still very different from the Microf World.

Nostradamus is not Joshua, he uses the fundamental power of the power of steel as his foundation, so he must refer to the local energy situation and the basic constant, and then fine-tune himself, so that he can exert his full strength.

In addition, Hotaru and Rin are working on Joshua's side, with Hotaru helping Joshua unload some of the armor of the Transition Engine, while Rin helps the warrior find the area with the densest psionic structure and the most obvious fluctuations in time and space. The ball of light was in Joshua's pocket, seemingly resting, and after almost half a day of intense analysis work, the warrior finally had a rough understanding of how the Atrium Person's Psionic Leap Engine worked.

"Activating psionic energy with flesh and blood, and then expanding with crystal mechanical amplification, powerful psionic energy will separate the gaps in the material world, creating a void-like 'psionic vacuum', in which specially designed warships can accelerate infinitely, advancing at a speed like thinking, until the end of the psionic energy that can be extended."

With a silver glow flashing in his eyes, Joshua, who had roughly analyzed it, pondered for a while, the engine design of the Atrium people was indeed exquisite, they created artificial psionic plants, releasing psionic energy far more powerful than ordinary Atrium people, and then maintained the activity of psionic plants with crystal mechanical structures, and amplified their psionic energy hundreds or thousands of times, and finally used this powerful psionic energy to tear apart the space-time migration. It seems to be a perfect design that is self-consistent, self-healing, and can last infinitely as long as the psionic plant culture fluid is sufficient, but in fact it has a big flaw.

First of all, the first is the jump distance. Although the speed of the Atrium People's Battleship's leap is claimed to be the same as thinking, and it is like teleporting when you think of it, but in fact, their spiritual energy strength cannot be extended for a long time, even through the Atrium People's special crystal process design, it cannot exceed three trillion kilometers, which means that if they want to cross a distance of one light year, they need to move twenty or thirty times, or even more, and each time the jump ends, they need to pause for a long time to cool down. And the more you move, the easier it is to make mistakes, which is why the Atrium people have only colonized three planets in a thousand years, this is because their migration technology is stuck in the level of psionic strength.

And this strength is not as easy to increase as crystal technology or biotechnology, even if the people of the Atrium are determined to collectively transform their race, it will take one or two generations of them, that is, one or two hundred years to have a result.

"My steel power simulates psionic energy...... According to their words, the strength of my psionic energy far exceeds that of the Omega-level psionics in the atrium, and the full strength of the flagship Precursor is even several times that of the flagship Precursor. If I reconstruct this engine in the body of the Iron Giant, then my jump distance should be farther than the Atrium Man's battleship, after all, my body strength is far stronger than the materials that the Atrium Man can find, and the material foundation is very solid. ”

In theory, this is true. But the reason why Joshua is groaning is precisely because of this - although he has roughly understood the operation principle of this engine through the engine design drawings given by the mother tree and his own manual disassembly analysis, and is sure that he can reproduce it, but this kind of thing can not be sloppy, this is a necessary thing for cosmic scale battles. He always felt that there was something else he didn't grasp. However, the warrior is not a person who will always dwell on such trivial matters, and he immediately changed his mind and began the next part of his research.