Chapter 25: Soul Stars 5000
As the huge steel golem roared towards the dark night sky, the line of sight began to rise from the barren land, and the gray-yellow mud and sand plains could be seen spreading endlessly, and the eerie cold wind different from the day hovered high in the sky.
Joshua looked down at the ground, he could see the lights of the plantation on the ground flickering, the battle of the Siboya Super Squad did not cause fundamental damage to this golem garden, as long as a new team of soul golems arrived, then it would be restored to its original state.
Joshua looked up at the night sky, and he saw the stars twinkling in the gray mist, their light dim and obscure, as if hidden behind layers of hazy veil, they flickered, releasing an unsettling light.
The starlight of any world is the same, because of the different locations in the multiverse, the starlight seen in each world is different, but unlike the world of McCrove, there is no moon in the world of Sibeya, and in the black night sky, there are only thousands of points of light flickering, but there is no familiar round of silver light.
Of course, the most important thing is not this little thing.
"Siboya World...... There shouldn't be stars. ”
He had risen to eight thousand meters in the air, and Joshua was still rising at this time, he had crossed most of the clouds and dust and mist, and came to a high altitude where there were no specimens of dust, he looked at the twinkling silver stars in the sky, and said to himself in an intriguing tone: "How can there be stars in the world in the great vortex of the void?" ”
Those who inhabit this world may not know the situation of their own world, but the warrior knows very well that outside the world of Sibeya, there is no world within a distance of hundreds of thousands of reference points, and what is rushing in the void is the mighty energy vortex, and this world is the isolated island in the center of the vortex.
It should not have stars, it should not have starlight, and the night sky of Sibeja's world should be pitch black, as silent as death...... In that case, what exactly are those glowing points of light?
It was in order to explore this that Joshua had risen to such a high altitude.
At this time, the huge steel puppet had reached an altitude of 20,000 meters, and at this altitude, Joshua could already see that those starlight points of light had begun to grow, which proved that the warriors were not far from them.
At a cursory glance, it seemed to be a group of burning fireballs, the silver-blue light spread in the clear air without dust, Joshua could feel a very obvious fluctuation coming from these fireballs, this fluctuation was rough, thick, as if there was life, but it also made him feel extremely familiar, feeling this fluctuation, the warrior couldn't help but pause for a moment, he looked at these distant fireballs seriously, his brows furrowed.
Because this is the fluctuation of the soul core.
“…… What the hell is this world doing? ”
The golem paused for a moment, then started again, the spinning steel ring accelerating, and the invisible propulsion force allowed it to soar high in the air at a rapid speed of thousands of meters per second, and with such speed, in a matter of seconds, Joshua was next to the nearest fireball to him.
And when he really came to this fireball hanging high in the sky, Joshua realized that it was not as big as he imagined.
It was a perfect sphere twenty-five meters in diameter, its outer shell was composed of some kind of semi-energy crystal, and within it, silver-blue flames like liquid magma were gushing, and an incomparably strong light was released from it, blinding all creatures who dared to look directly within a few kilometers.
The terrifying soul fluctuations thick enough to plunge ordinary intelligent life into endless dreams reverberated with the churning of silver-blue flames, and it reverberated with a sharp hum in the thin atmosphere, and could smell the scorching stench as if it were ionized...... This is a star, the body of a star in the world of Sibeya.
"This thing...... This thing. ”
Seeing this huge 'star', an unimaginably large 'soul core', Joshua's human body couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then gently exhale, he and his puppet body stared at the silver-blue soul light together, and said in a deep voice: "How many souls did it take to make it?!" ”
Joshua turned his head, he looked at the starry sky around him, there were at least a thousand 'stars' bright enough to observe in the sky of the entire Xiboya world, and some of them could not be seen because of the angle, the overlapping light, and the dimness of themselves - if each planet was the same as what the warriors saw today, it was such a giant soul core with a diameter of twenty-five meters, then how many souls would it take to create such a false starry sky?
Soon, Joshua estimated the answer: one such soul star would require at least one hundred and twenty million standard souls, and one thousand would be one or two billion.
1.2 Billion Souls...... Meaning 1.2 billion lives, and many more, soulless Sibeya as derivatives.
Joshua came up with an answer, and he was silent, the warrior shocked for the first time by the numbers.
In the entire Xiboya continent, except for the large steel building complex in the center of the world, the number of soul puppet gardens can exceed a thousand, no matter how you calculate it, the population of the entire world will never exceed 400 million, 1.2 billion, three times the total population of the world today, if this is the accumulation of thousands of years of breeding, it is not unreasonable, but even so, it is too terrifying.
"Obviously, the total number of soul puppets in a plantation is not more than seven hundred, a thousand gardens, plus several armies of hunters, if you count it highly, there are only 100,000 soul puppets in total, even if there are a large number of puppets in the center of the world, the number cannot exceed 200,000."
"The puppets used to rule the world and are responsible for coordinating the order are only in their early 200,000s, but the number of souls hanging in the sky is more than one billion, no matter how you think about it, it's incredible."
Slowly approaching the huge soul star, Joshua stretched out his hand, wanting to touch the churning soul light, his eyes were not only shocked and angry, but also deeply puzzled.
What do the people who created this starry sky want to do?
At the same time as asking himself, Joshua directly stretched out his hand, the huge steel puppet iron fist clenched, and then swung out, with the flash of silver steel power, he simply smashed the half-energy crystal shell of this soul star, and then directly used the power of steel to link into this incomparably bright soul light.
Then the warrior saw the whole world of Sibeya.
The 1,684 stars hanging high in the sky are connected to each other at the highest point in the world, and above the earth, the top of the dark blue spiral tower emits almost the same light, and they form a large, three-dimensional, incomparably sophisticated network that envelops the entire continent, and this network does not have any magical and strange effects, its only function is to observe.
Yes, observe, the soul light and soul fluctuations released by more than 1,600 soul stars perfectly covered the entire world, and this fluctuation even penetrated the earth and stones, reaching the depths of the earth, and Joshua was at the moment when he linked this soul light, as if he saw every move of the entire Xiboya world from the inside to the outside at the same time, beyond the ordinary means of life observation, immeasurable information poured from the other side of the steel power link, which made the warrior snort and interrupt the link.
Joshua descended in the world of Xiboya, after all, it was only a part of the soul and the power of steel, what he did was an extremely special path that did not require soul growth, only the evolution of the body, if it was the body of a warrior, then it was enough to deal with this immeasurable amount of information transmission, but if it was only a soul, it was far from enough.
In order not to be swallowed up by the soul light of the Soul Star Network, Joshua could only interrupt the link.
“…… Just to observe the whole world? ”
After calming the shocked soul a little, Joshua suddenly felt even more incomprehensible, and the huge puppets were shaking their helmets, as if to indicate the incredulity of their masters: "1,600 soul stars, more than two billion standard share of souls, if such a large amount of soul is made into a weapon, even a god is estimated to be directly crushed, if it is used to save the world, I can rekindle ten Karlis worlds!" ”
Using these souls as fuel, even if it is to kick the will of the world directly, it is not impossible!
Of course, this is an exaggerated metaphor, if it is the dying world of Karlis at the beginning, let alone two billion soul power, even two billion cannot be saved, because it simply does not have the ability to stabilize the cycle of order. But if it were the world of Callis, which now had the remnants of Grandia, Joshua would be able to slowly restore itself and return to its glory even if it did not rekindle the flames.
The soul is the best absorber of the overflow energy of the multiverse, and with the soul as the source, the dead world can get a trace of rebirth, but it is still far from enough to use it to directly reshape the world, it depends on the quality of the world itself.
After calming his puzzling thoughts, Joshua calmed down. Although he didn't know why the people who created the Soul Star Network used so many souls just to create a giant observation system, he knew that this was definitely an extremely important part of the other party's plan.
In that case, then destroy it.
To tell the truth, Joshua came to this world with an extremely neutral attitude from the very beginning, and he was a little unaccustomed to the behavior of soul puppets cultivating intelligent life, but he didn't intend to correct it, because he didn't know how the relationship between soul puppets and Sibeya people came about, and it was not easy for him to intervene in the disputes of local civilizations as an outsider.
After all, right and wrong are relative, and if the world is destroyed because of war, then who is the one who started the war? Who can be called a mistake? What if the soul puppet says that he is oppressed, so he wants to rebel against the Siberyas? This is the natural process of civilization, natural change, abrupt intervention, will only make the order degenerate, make civilization distorted, if you can't know the reason, you can arbitrarily interfere with the freedom of other worlds with your own power, it is a very boring thing.
But as he learned more and more about the world of Siboya, more and more deeply, Joshua gradually realized that the soul puppet side, even if it is not a great evil, is definitely evil, although the Xiboya rebels have three wrong views, but the soul puppet and the mastermind behind all this are the source of everything, and more than 1,600 soul stars are all proof - such an unbelievable slaughter almost exceeds the upper limit of the word sin, and for a while Joshua can't even find any sin to match this kind of behavior.
Perhaps, this is no longer a sin...... Because it has become an order, the soul puppets breed the Sibeyas, harvest the souls and super-energy units, just as man eats the flesh of livestock, harvests wheat and rice, and nothing is more normal than this, and nothing is more distorted.
That being the case, without further ado, without much thought, Joshua decided to correct the distortion.
So, the huge steel puppet raised its hand to the empty sky.
In an instant, the starry sky trembled, and the clouds and mist in the southwest of the entire Xiboya continent were forcibly separated by a huge force, and then quickly closed - it could be seen that above the unreachable sky, a huge vortex appeared, it rotated violently, and even tore a star apart and swallowed it. In the center of the whirlpool, the silver-blue light penetrated the heavens and the earth, and even formed a pillar of light that connected to the sky.
Joshua raised his right hand, and in his body, the fragments of steel in Sibeja vibrated violently, as if they had life, but in the next moment, this evidence of authority that could not be destroyed by any means shattered, it was eroded by the power of the same source, and became a part of the opponent's body, and it could be clearly seen that the fragments of steel that materialized shattered into billions of steel particles, and then were easily absorbed and assimilated by the warriors.
At the moment when the steel fragments shattered, the fifteen-meter-tall giant puppet blew up like a balloon to become larger, and its incarnate vortex swallowed the soul energy of millions of souls on its side, and used it as an energy source to rapidly evolve itself - thirty meters, forty meters, fifty meters, in just a moment, it had a huge size of more than sixty meters, and all kinds of special transcendent structures were generated in its body.
The entire Xiboya world saw this shocking scene, whether it was a plantation or an industrial park, whether it was a mining garden or a breeding garden, the numb Xiboya people raised their heads because of the instinct of the flesh, and the soul puppet sensed a powerful energy source and looked up, even the Xiboya rebels who hurriedly packed up their supplies and prepared to avoid the impact of the hunter army couldn't help but stop their work, staring at the silver vortex in the sky that was slowly spreading and the countless stars that were slowly moving and twisting because of the silver vortex- Their eyes were glazed over, and they forgot even to marvel, and no one knew what the vision meant and what it represented.
The whole world fell silent, the dark night was illuminated by the silvery light, and the starlight was attracted by the whirlpool, like a moth to a fire. In the center of the vortex, the huge machinery did not expand, but began to shrink gradually, and on its side, countless simple runes formed a complex magic circle, and the energy spontaneously formed complex radial patterns, which condensed behind Joshua's back, and finally formed a ring of energy, which coincided with the rotating metal ring, and finally formed a Φ-shaped symbol that was the same as the back of the warrior's body.
A symbol that represents perfection.
Joshua's power of steel possesses all kinds of strange abilities, most of which are sublimated from his fighting spirit and life force before he advanced to the legend - material devouring, self-regeneration, adaptive evolution, extreme strengthening, information linking, energy conversion. With such a power of steel, no matter what world he enters, Joshua will have a strong combat power, which is the authority he has achieved by crossing the power of steel in several worlds.
But now, this kind of steel power alone is not enough, the main messenger behind the world of Sibera is very likely to be a real god, even Joshua, he does not dare to say that he can win a legend, let alone a true god.
Therefore, he pushed his power within the world of Siberia to the limit, causing the energy that shook time and space to explode and cut the world apart.
High in the sky, a crack tore through the sky.
"Oh my God, this ...... What the hell is this?! ”
On the ground, the chariot holding the six-colored gem trembled all over, and the old man's brain, which had already known its function from the information contained in the gem, was blank for a while, and of course he knew what it meant—these were the six complete inheritances of powerful superpowers, which allowed the person who held the gem to ignore his innate ability and cultivate six completely different superpowers. Silver gemstones represent the control of metal earth and stone, cyan means to create wind, fire and thunder, white is high-speed oscillation, red is radiation and explosion, gold gems can make people teleport, and black can create energy absorption shields against everything.
If these inherited knowledge can be used perfectly, then the Siboyan Rebels will have the power to defeat the soul golems! And the old man knows that this is only the most basic inheritance, and behind these simple diagrams, there is a more complex and advanced superpower inheritance that requires the use of all kinds of mysterious knowledge!
Now, the chariot had recovered from the shock of the gem inheritance, but now, he was in a new round of shock, the old man stared straight into the sky, and beside him, the young man's eyes widened, and he exclaimed: "Chariot, invisible, quick, look there!" ”
No one cared about his words, for all eyes were already on the same direction, on the sky that had cleared as the clouds had cleared—and then, with a bright silver flash, everyone felt creepy.
For at the highest point of the sky, a pillar of silver light touched the heavens and the earth, and it broke through the clouds, pierced the night sky, and reached the depths of the night sky that could not be seen even by the limits of eyesight......
And at that supreme heaven that seemed to be outside the world, a huge and incomparably large crack was actually cracked little by little—at the other end of the gap, a huge, majestic, and heavy steel hand like a mountain was slowly reaching out, but he did not pass through the gap, but caught the beam of light outside the world.
The giant god's eyes were fixed on the world, and he took a deep look at the world, and then exhaled.