Soul of Burning Steel - Vol 7.10 Chapter 12

　　 It is often said that weapons are the best partners of warriors. This is true. After all, for warriors, a good weapon that can exert one’s best strength is really no weaker than a good companion who has the same mind.

So based on this, from ancient times to the present, there have always been a group of people dedicated to creating self-willed weapons and weapons, skipping the ‘run-in’ stage and reaching the highest state of spiritual communication.

However, this is not to say that if a weapon is truly connected to people’s minds, it can be regarded as the’best partner’, allowing the holder to exert the best strength-because when the weapon also has the will, it is no longer Only the soldier chooses the weapon, but also the master of the weapon selection.

There are only a handful of people who can convince self-conscious weapons to be used voluntarily.

—Of course, this does not mean that very few people have to use weapons.

850 years, January 1, 0:17 AM, Moldavia, the basement of the cemetery church.

The church that is often cleaned does not have the slightest dust, and the fluorite lamp that is incompatible with the era of magic is shining with light golden light. Walking through the basement full of metal smell, Hotaru and Rin came to an underground portal. The silver-haired girl and the black-haired boy did not hesitate, they all stretched out their hands.

Then, this door was opened.

For an instant, there was the sound of a golden horse and iron horse, the sword blade could be heard trembling slightly, and the shield could be heard being struck. The two brothers and sisters sensed the echoes of dozens of completely different weapons, spreading the heavy murderous aura.

For the transcendents with lower levels, this kind of battle may really shock them, immerse them in a strange state of mind, and increase the success rate for the next contract action, but Hotaru and Rin are not at the first level. Low, and now they have been extremely interested. Secondly, they are not humans at all, but are different from the weapons buried in this basement, they are all’sacred machines’.

So the two of them were not affected at all, so they strode into the basement.

“Hey, why are you guys?”

Noting that the person who came was not a human being, but his own kind, a puzzled spirit wave came from a long spear inserted on the ground: “Is it time for maintenance again? Actually, it is not necessary. The last time the Patriarch updated the nurturing circle. That’s great, I now feel stronger than I’ve ever been before, and I can eat people, RUA!”

“That’s true.” On the side, it seemed that I was knocking on myself just now, and the shield that made a terrifying knocking sound also sent mental fluctuations: “I even feel that I have a lot of energy, my thinking is much clearer, and I am quick to think. ”

Immediately afterwards, dozens of divine machines in the entire basement made mental fluctuations almost at the same time. The noisy communication was enough to make a psionicist out of control. For this, Hotaru and Rin had nothing to do. The two looked at each other and shook helplessly. He shook his head, then put his palms together, and the crisp applause suppressed all the sounds in a moment.

“Alright, dear seniors, this time we are here, not for your maintenance… to be reasonable, you are so spirited, what can be maintained.”

It was Hotaru who said this, and then Rin was the one who answered the conversation. He opened his hand and began to unleash his power, connecting all the magic machines present: “In short, there is an important event announced today, and since then, you don’t have to Stay in this basement again.”

With that said, the proliferation of powerful power, as the energy released by Rin overwhelmed all the magical machines present, one after another strong lights flashed-and then, along with the rushing wave of magic power, each of them had different shapes.’ Humans’ just appeared in the basement.

There are seemingly respected old people, there are also young girls like Hotaru and Rin, more normal men and women, dozens of human figures transformed into divine machines are beyond the expectations of these divine machines, and their figures are revealed outrageously. .

“…Wait, Rin, and Hotaru.”

Some surprised staring at his human-shaped hands. The young man who came from the spear did not seem to be excited about it. He frowned and said: “What do you mean? I can feel that we and Radkley The husband’s contract was severed…No, it was intercepted.”

“It’s strange to say that no new divine machine has come in in recent years-doesn’t the Patriarch have any descendants? Or is he giving up the divine machine?”

The indifferent woman who was transformed from the original giant shield squeezed her hands tightly. She shook her head and shook her long cyan hair: “No, the contract on you is still there. He shouldn’t give up the magic machine… so, Did he give up on us?”

This kind of speculation can’t be said to be unreasonable. Even if there are a few humanoid speculations about the incarnation of the gods, I’m afraid the new Patriarch feels that it is too troublesome to maintain the gods and raise them, the “losers”, so they simply suppress them. The contract allows them to find their own way, or in other words, let them fend for themselves.

“Oh, that’s not the case.”

Hearing all the strange speculations, Yingyue’s cute little face wrinkled. She looked bitter and said helplessly: “The main reason is that this is the order the master left us.”

“‘When the production of the **** machine stabilizes and everyone slowly accepts the new life form of the **** machine, it is also time to regain the freedom of the **** machine left by the ancestors of the Radcliffe family.” The original words of the master That’s it, and we just fulfilled this order when he was away.”

“Yes.” Rin on the side nodded. He stepped forward and helped a few people who had been useless for a hundred years, who had forgotten how to walk, and stood up. The boy shrugged and said: ” A few days ago, the Shenji production line was completely completed. Although the output is not very high, it is only a matter of time before it spreads at this rate. It is even possible that the Mycroft civilization spread across the multi-galaxy.”

“From then on, Mrs. Mike Rowe, it’s probably about to usher in the era of the nation’s magic machine-the owner said it is called the nation’s AI assistant, I think it is quite appropriate.”

Hotaru and Rin felt that what they explained was easy to understand, but they did not expect that for the old antiques that have been stored in the basement all the year round, many things they already consider to be common sense do not exist in the old antiques’ minds at all. .

“Mythical machine production line?” The young man with a spear was dumbfounded.

“Are we popularized?” The shield woman was lost in thought.

“Mikerov civilization comes out?” The long sword man scratched his head.

“Multiple Galaxy, there are other civilizations?” The Twin Blades Gemini asked in unison: “No, what are you talking about?”

“And the most important thing is not this.”

After returning to my senses, the spear machine with the best mental state gradually became angry: “What does this generation of Patriarchs mean? Also, the magic machine left by the ancestors of the Radcliffe family Freedom’-what is he talking about?”

“Aren’t we free?!”

“Yes.” Shield Shenji also solemnly responded: “Weapons should be sealed if they are not used. Our freedom allows us to voluntarily choose to wait. Even if the person who fits our contract has long since passed away, we will do the same. Fulfilling the promise-we are buried in the soil, and it is our freedom. While we are waiting for death, it is the responsibility of those of us who have not been chosen to teach the next generation of common sense and knowledge.”

“Speaking of which, don’t this generation of Patriarchs have any descendants? Why haven’t new gods come in yet?”

“…It is indeed the master’s idea that he didn’t take good care of you. Let me first say I am sorry… Indeed, to say that you are free is an insult to your loyalty by the Radcliffe family.”

Hearing in the basement, the divine machine from the past generations kept questioning and questioning, Hotaru rolled her long hair in distress, rolling her eyes, she seemed to be extracting the knowledge that can cope with the current scene from the memory bank: “But seriously, Seniors, the technological progress is so fast now, if you don’t go out to renovate and evolve, you will really be completely eliminated by the times!”

When Hotaru said this, he deliberately released his extremely deliberate aura, a powerful force that could press and scroll in a small basement, even if all the divine machines present were silent: “The master also took this into consideration. That’s why I want you to get in touch with the outside world as soon as possible, lest you are obviously a veteran of meritorious service, but you will be eliminated by the times.

“…What about the current Patriarch.”

After being silent for a while, he probably reluctantly agreed with Firefly’s words, and the spear machine looked distressed: “After all, we are all the Radcliffe family’s magic machine. This kind of order, it is better to have the Patriarch himself order this kind of order.”

“The current owner…”

Firefly and Rin sighed together, and then said in unison: “The current Patriarch is now practicing in retreat somewhere, even if it is us, we can’t see it.”

“Compared to these, you should come out quickly and let us go to the production line to rebuild it. Nowadays, the Radcliffe family has too many businesses, and the owner is a no-brainer, and we have our own tasks…if not really busy. Come, we won’t think about bothering you, seniors.”

With that said, under the strong urging of Hotaru and Rin, many divine machines left the basement where they had stayed for dozens of hundreds of years in doubt and incomprehension, and came to the outside world ignorantly-and appeared in front of them. Yes, it is not in their memory bank, simple and lonely, just like the Moldavia main city of the fortress.

What appeared in front of these divine machines was a giant magical city full of high-rise buildings, even in the middle of the night, bright as daylight, full of vitality and hustle and bustle.

Hundreds of meters high super-giant statues stand between the cities. Magic cars can be seen everywhere, running back and forth along the avenue. The pedestrians on the roadside are not only humans, but elves and dwarves, there are many others similar to it. The ethnic minorities of murlocs, even strange individuals from different worlds and civilizations, can even see an individual of Lund civilization—that is, a large iron ball floating in the air, with many human children riding on him in mid-air. China flew around, laughing and laughing.

is similar, if it weren’t for Hotaru and Rin back and forth to emphasize that this is Moldavia, the gods would only feel that they were in a different world.

“Oh, this violates the’Moldavian Air Flight Law’… Forget it, I will send a warning later.”

Unlike the screenwriter who nodded in satisfaction because of the harmonious coexistence of multi-civilized individuals, Rin watched this scene of an upsurge of professional habits, and just wanted to issue a ticket, but the timing was wrong and she had to endure: “Did you see it? Seniors, The current world is no longer the original world, and our divine machine’s responsibilities are no longer what it used to be.”

Actually, he didn’t need to say much, all the magic machines present were basically in a state of shock.

“What’s going on.” The last generation of magic machine was only sent in decades ago, except for Hotaru and Rin, the youngest cheap magic machine rubbed his eyes, seriously doubting whether he had seen a hallucination. : “Isn’t the Radcliffe family just ordinary Northland nobles? When did… develop so strong?!”

He even saw airships with large screens floating in the sky, and in those airships screens, in addition to advertisements, there was also a headshot of a black-haired and red-eyed man — everyone knew it was Radek. The image of Joshua Van Radcliffe, the contemporary patriarch of the Reeves.

…The great marshal of the coalition government, the legendary powerhouse Joshua Van Radcliffe, one of the creators of the Magic Net, and the founder of the Multi-Galactic Civilization Invitational…he could hear it in just such a short time There are countless information about this generation of Patriarchs.

“Understood? Now it’s not the past, there is no longer any time to spend time.”

Shock? Just be shocked! Hotaru was very satisfied with the shock of the gods, otherwise, it would be a hassle to let these stone heads (physical meaning) obediently follow their requirements to upgrade: “All in all, it is not to let you leave Rader. There are still many job vacancies in the Cliff family—the industry within the family. We also need some trustworthy people to help take care of it. If we want, we can continue to serve the family.”

“Even if you don’t want to be a handyman, we now have a dedicated practice method to become stronger on your own. Believe me, this is a brand new era that is far more magnificent than you imagined. The possibilities in you are far greater than You have to think big.”

—This is indeed the case.

Time is leaping rapidly, and change is coming quickly. Under the rotating pointer movement, the curtain of the first Multi-Galactic Civilization Invitational has been drawn down a few months ago. Through this event, the exchanges and relations between diverse civilizations have become stronger and stronger. , And the rapidly spreading exchange beam system, gradually following the spread of many civilizations, penetrates into every detail of Galaxy.

Although it is said that the truly top, as the foundation of civilization, did not participate in the competition, but that huge invitational game that affected hundreds of millions of civilizations did make many civilizations realize the strength and heritage of each other. The battle from low to high is just like the explanations of different depths. Both participants and viewers can benefit from it, and those who show the outstanding and the civilization behind it can get amazing opportunities. With resources, one step at a time.

For example, the champion of the single gold group of the Invitational comes from a civilized individual with little reputation. It is a psychic entity civilization that is born with advanced spiritual abilities. Their individual has no physical body and is composed of pure psychic energy. Consisting of some magical elements, the gold rank is only their natural strength in adulthood, and the spiritual power far surpasses ordinary races, as well as the advantage of exempting a large number of blows without entities. The gold rank has not yet honed all aspects to the limit. Realm is actually very dominant.

And just after this self-proclaimed “Amond” won the single gold championship, countless civilizations extended an olive branch to it, willing to devote resources to assist in growth-natural, with conditions, but there are very few in this world Are there any conditions to pay, and the Almond civilization readily agreed to the requirements of the Mycroft civilization, and the two sides began to cooperate in all aspects in the spiritual field.

The extreme champion of the single group, but an acquaintance, that is Joshua’s disciple, Lisa, a dragon girl from the world of Koronos. To be honest, after Lisa advanced to the extreme level, developed the ancient dragon bloodline, and also practiced the inheritance of the strongest in the world, the power she could burst out could make all opponents who miscalculated her abilities due to her size Surprised—As the dragon girl’s blow can be said to be comparable to the legendary “Stone Breaking the Sky Shocking Dragon Tyrant”, when a mountain brought her opponent, a “God Realm Element” blasted to the sky, basically all the audience present were there. Doubt his own eyes.

The champion of the single-player legend group came from the “Star River Maintenance Group”, which was rumored to be a natural disaster civilization. This weird civilization, which claims to use war to quell war and destroy to deal with destruction, challenged Joshua in the last interpretation, but was defeated, and because Joshua’s declaration of peace was very much to their tastes, it gradually became more and more important Revealed its true mysterious features-a purely mechanical civilization.

The mechanical creation created as a “peacekeeping group” judged that its parent civilization itself was the largest peacekeeping object, so I did not hesitate to take it away, but over the long period of time, it was originally controlled by the core instructions. The mechanistic aggregates of China began to give birth to “free individuals” who can think independently. Although these free individuals still obey the core instructions to bring peace to the world, they are not incapable of independent thinking. This time the single player champion is the strongest free entity of the Galaxy Maintenance Group. Its body is an iron-grey void continent, carrying 78 kinds of world-destructive annihilation weapons, and various kinds of weapons. A defensive plug-in that can deal with various attacks. This is basically a combat method of equipping the entire civilized arsenal on oneself. In a sense, it can also be said to be’doing your best’.

However, the single-player championship doesn’t make much sense. Joshua will not play, and many powerful civilized individuals are not ready to make a shot. Moreover, if they do, they seem to be bullying the small… After all, both the legendary limit and the legendary high are legendary. , Really fight, the gap between them may be bigger than the gap between mortal and legendary.

Single-player competitions mostly reflect the individual potential of a civilization and inherit their heritage, while multi-player competitions are more chaotic and tend to be coordinated.

The champion of the team gold group comes from the Mykrov civilization, the elite exploration team. Its members are Priest, Constantine, Clark, Said and Wayne. Among them, Priest has been able to advance to the extreme, but for this game, he pushed his advancement a little later. time. In fact, the point of the team competition is not that it is strong on one side, but that it can deal with all kinds of enemies through the division of labor and cooperation. For example, the previous Almond civilization was able to win the singles championship because he had better luck. When encountering individuals with natural restraint of mental abilities, or in other words, individuals with that ability are eliminated by others.

However, team competition is different. Stability is above everything else. The advantage may be restrained by the opponent, and the disadvantage may be used by the opponent. You must be comprehensive in order to ensure that you can suppress the opponent with hard power—and the elite team can be said to be perfect at this point. Successfully defeated all opponents, and won the championship with an overwhelming and stable advantage that is not shocking, but like a mountain.

“After all, in the process of exploring different worlds, we have endured many challenges, such as evil gods, the relics of the distorted space-time realm, the lair of different civilizations, the primitive world full of thunder elements… We often fight against wild extreme intentions, overlord level monsters. , Surviving the legendary duel several times, this has brought us solid and incomparable combat experience, and also tempered our will-man will conquer the sky, we firmly believe that.”

In an interview with the host of the invitational tournament, official reporter Ying, the captain Priest had deep eyes, and his tone of vicissitudes seemed to have countless emotions: “Every time you go to explore another world, you must make sure that you don’t make any mistakes, otherwise If you do, it is very likely that you will suffer a big loss because of the crow’s beak, and it’s not surprising to die… You ask what the crow’s beak is? Nothing, just sharpen the whetstone for us to move forward.”

Aside, Knight Clark, who had been silenced for the entire game, wanted to protest, but was suppressed to no avail, but everyone else nodded in agreement.

The champion of the team Jiyi group comes from a multi-civilized race mixed team. Its members are Xiaoguang from the Blood Moon Abyss, Elma from the Royal Court of Amos, Balrog Syndicate from the Furnace Abyss, and Karlis The first issue of the world and Alva from the Mykrov civilization.

From the very beginning, few people were optimistic that this team came from various civilizations, and they didn’t know how to cooperate to win the championship, but the subsequent performance of the game surprised everyone-the glowing sphere that seemed to be just a pet, unexpectedly It can inflate into a giant ball of light like a small star in an instant, and the Amos who looks like a transparent humanoid can actually summon a big and amazing void battleship at any time, which looks like a dragon-like balrog. , Can actually transform into a giant slime filled with infinite thunder. It looks like an ordinary iron ball, much like the first title of the Lund people. It can actually be transformed into a metal Titan figure hundreds of meters high, but it looks like a human being. Alva… is really just a human being.

Sometimes, when you think he will transform into a surprise for you, he does not transform, which is also a kind of surprise.

All in all, they won the championship after a pleasant surprise for the entire event.

This is a very peculiar combination. When the official reporter Rin interviewed, Xiaoguang as the captain was very emotional: “Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink, Dink!”

“So that’s the case.” As a reporter, he suddenly realized: “What you mean is that this is not your complete state. If there is no accident, you and another player who did not participate can cooperate better, and she also Will transform, right?”

“Dingling, Dingling, Dingling!”

“Well, it is true. Many of you have participated in the singles… Obviously first place, but so humble, it is really admirable!”

“ding~” (slightly proud and self-effacing)

This peculiar interview process is very popular on the forum.

[Whether you understand or not, I understand anyway]

【Dingling, Jingling, Jingling! 】

[No, you should announce the names of other members of your team as well-you can get the first place if you are not in perfect condition, what is the perfect condition? 】

[Become a special team… This name is so weird, who got it? 】

Because he stayed up late to fight in the big arena and challenge the AI, he overslept and missed the competition. When he heard this interview, he shed tears of regret.

As for the team legend team, there was no live broadcast or follow-up video broadcast. The specific news was only circulated among the senior leaders of various civilizations. It seems that the fighting time is too long. The game has not ended yet, and The content of the battle cannot be released to the public.

However, as reporters Hotaru and Rin know that this team battle is essentially a tentative exchange of force between civilizations. Each civilization will not only send a team, and there is no such thing as a champion. . After all, if you don’t use all your strength and take death as the prerequisite for fighting, you can’t test much at all. Many people just use the platform of the Civilization Invitational to resolve the contradictions between civilizations.

This is also the only way to adjudicate disputes between civilizations after the Joshua Declaration of Peace—and this kind of battle involving grievances and disputes is not suitable for playing in a fun-filled competition.

Anyway, all the participants in the room can’t beat the level 10 AI of a certain game.

The memories of the past are over. After bringing the old **** machines to the production line of the **** machines in Moldavia, after upgrading the relevant parts and optimizing the energy cycle for them in turn, Hotaru also bid farewell to his younger brother at this time. .

“Then I will set off.”

The silver-haired girl stretched out her hands and could see that a set of streamlined armor appeared out of thin air as the silver mist filled her body, wrapping it firmly, while a cyan hug hung in the center of her chest, shining like Huaguang like flowing water.

“Thanks for your hard work, sister.”

Sitting on a chair in the office, he sighed and turned on the light screen, seeming to be preparing for official duties: “The task of the master is always so hard, and he didn’t tell us the reason…but just do it.”

“You are also very hard. Rin, the production line of the magic machine and the popularization of the magic machine are all planned by you… In a sense, this is simply creating a new race, and you who are in charge of everything are just right. Is the leader of this new race.”

Behind the armor, a girl’s clear voice came, and Hotaru’s tone sounded a little emotional and lonely: “You can always help the master with these important things, but I can do nothing but fight… Haha, I can’t say that. I have learned a lot of things over the years, but I’m not as good as you in this regard.”

“What the **** is this.”

In response, the black-haired boy curled his lips and shook his head: “There are only suitable and no bad things. I am busy with these ordinary, for the owner himself, there is not much significance in government affairs. I will handle the logistics for you. , And sister, you can directly complete the instructions given by the master to help the master directly. Seriously, it’s just a different division of labor, so there is nothing to be impressed.”

“In the final analysis, we are part of the master, and what we do is to solve problems for the master-now the master is in the creation vortex, conducting very important experiments and advancements, and what we have to do is to maintain everything The stability ensures that when the master leaves the customs, he can see a world that satisfies him.”

“I know everything.”

The power of the armor is activating, and the teleportation array is unfolding. Because time and space are distorted, Hotaru’s voice is a bit distorted, she said softly: “As a weapon, you don’t have to go to’fight’. As long as it can help the owner deal with the problem , Is the best help for him. I understand and I also know that weapons are just a tool to deal with problems, just like we can turn magic machines from weapons into AI assistants, swords can also be used as Medical tools, construction tools and even kitchen utensils are used.”

“It’s just that I’m still a bit unwilling, even if it’s only once, I want to be needed by the current owner, waving… it doesn’t need too much, just once.”

“Goodbye, brother, let you listen to me again.”

“Goodbye, sister, but this is not a complaint.”

Seeing the faint blue space-time passage opening and disappearing, Rin sat on the office chair and rubbed his eyebrows tiredly. Instead of starting to work immediately, he raised his head and looked at the familiar ceiling above his head.

“At least, you have accompanied the master through the previous battle.” He whispered to himself: “And I, I have not followed him several times.”

“But what does this have to do? I don’t feel sorry for this. I am always attached to the identity of the’weapon’. We are always the master’s right and left hand, and the master’s plan must be realized through us. During the time he is leaving temporarily It is the moment when we should work hard to complete the tasks delivered by the master and rely on us to complete the tasks.”

No one knows him better than the weapons of that man.

That is a selfish and lonely man who always walks alone. He is so selfish that he does not want to share even a little bit of suffering with others. Even if it is sin, he chooses to bear it alone in a distant time and space.

However, there are only two exceptions-although he selfishly deprived them of the right to fight with him, the man transferred part of his ‘responsibility’ to them.

The responsibility of being the’patriarch’, the responsibility of the’lord’, the responsibility of the’noble’, the responsibility of the’leader’…These responsibilities are very important responsibilities that he should not ignore, but above this responsibility , There are more and bigger ones, such as the responsibility for’civilization’, the responsibility for’order’, and the responsibility for the future of’multiverse’.

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This is the responsibility of the ‘two people’.

He issued tasks and instructions, entrusting part of his mysterious plan to the two of them, and even, he will be able to determine part of his future possibilities and put it in the hands of those two individuals

—If the value of weapons lies in helping their holders solve problems, there is no doubt that the weapons that can solve the above problems are extremely rare weapons in this multiverse.

“So, sister, don’t be too conceited.”

“Whether it is you or me, as far as the master is concerned, it is a ‘magic weapon’ that is hard to find in this multiverse.”

said to himself, the black-haired boy bowed his head and started to work.

At the far end of the void, the silver-haired girl in armor also started her long journey with firm eyesight.

They are the weapons of Joshua Van Radcliffe. Even if they are not eye-catching, they can cut off troubles and deal with worries for that man.

“This year is the second year that the owner left the world of Mycroft and went to the Maelstrom of Creation.”

This year is the second year that Joshua Van Radcliffe entered the Maelstrom of Creation.

was approaching when he left.

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