Above The Sky

Although he said that his will is different from that of the worm nest, Ian has indeed been eroded by the other party's psychic energy.

The only thing that exceeded the expectations of the worm nest is actually only one thing - it integrates the memories of the great elder and all those who were devoured by him in the past, and together, Ian is not crazy alone.

Although the other party held a sword and looked rational and objective, calm and indifferent, this monster had a kind of fear for Ian.

Because of the madness of the other party, it is almost to accomplish an 'impossible thing'.

Through the spiritual contact just now, it can understand that Ian did not lie, and it can also understand the speculation in Ian's heart about the prison of the stars...to the point of despair.

But Ian has come out of despair and still has a firm dream.

It's not that Ian is different from Hive Will and cannot resonate, but Hive Will finds itself unable to keep up with Ian and cannot resonate with the other.

At this moment, all the fog, fluorescence, psionic energy and guards that lingered in front of the flesh and blood white cocoon were dispelled, and the entity of the will of the hive finally appeared in front of the boy's eyes.

It was a huge cocoon, more than five meters high. It was covered with a slippery and greasy mucus, and the inside was filled with a viscous slurry, and a brain-shaped shadow was suspended in it.

This shadow is constantly releasing psionic fluctuations, trying to connect Ian's mind and spirit again.

But just as the body's immune tissue will produce antibodies to foreign viruses, the spirit will also be insensitive to foreign heterogenous spirits, just like a joke won't be funny if you watch too many times, and you can exert too much happiness on the body in a short period of time. On the contrary, it will feel the pain, and the current psychic power of the hive will not have any effect on Ian.

In fact, the will of the hive has not been completely formed. Now it is just a collection of wills that reside in the psychic network of the brain-devouring insects. Its physical world entity is the brain in the cocoon in front of it. It sounds like it has created a weakness for itself. Not so.

Can the psionic energy of the world of Terra be independent of the body? Supernatural power needs a medium to manifest in the material world. Just as the pure psionic creatures like goblins need a core to carry their power, so does the will of the worm nest. It is this brain that gives it the confidence to exert its powerful psychic power, but it is not enough.

It wants to build a body strong enough for itself.

It was the Aether Crystal Dragon at first, and now it's Ian, so it steals the Crystal Dragon Egg and intends to assimilate Ian.

Of course, it may also be assimilated by Ian, making Ian the will of the hive.

No, it will definitely be assimilated by Ian - it thinks that its obsession is far inferior to Ian's crazy and bewildered, and naturally it can't beat this young man in spiritual confrontation.

The other party may be the real master of the swarm's fate.

They don't care, the swarm just wants to see the stars.

They don't care who is in charge, as long as someone can see it.

It's just that there are not many stars in this world.

Ian took a step forward, and he felt a sense of familiarity. This thought of the Hive Mind reminded him of Isengard, and the looming Earth Keeper Axel behind him... The Emperor really wanted to Do you want to use your grandson as the carrier of your own will? Is he also looking for his new body like the will of the hive?

Is it really that simple, is it really that despicable?

Perhaps—perhaps the imperial family is so unfamiliar... but can he really underestimate the opponent he is destined to face in the future... one of the kings who rule this land?

As I got closer, I could see more clearly. The young man could see that behind the white giant cocoon was actually an armor... a pre-epoch armor that had been destroyed by most of it.

The armored cockpit has been destroyed, and there is a broken corpse inside, and the root system of the white giant cocoon is wrapped around the corpse. It nurtures, grows, and finally changes into this shape.

And the matrix of crystal clusters and metals are also derived from this armor - they are all derivatives of the aether hearth in this armored engine!

The fluorescent crystals that spread around the entire worm's nest are all 'element derivatives' produced by the poor functioning of the ether weapon, a low-purity element crystal doped with a lot of dust and calcium!

And the metal layer is even easier to understand... They are all subsidiary creations of the core material of the heart of the aether armed 'Living Metal Morion Steel'!

It is this kind of living metal that can repair itself. Under the guidance of the psychic worm's nest will, it continues to grow and spread. It can absorb the metal from the ruins of the surrounding water purification plant, mix with local rock formations and crystals, and shape it into today's worm's nest. !

Of course, it is also possible that the Sequoia base system self-checked and noticed that the cooling port here was damaged, so it drove the self-repairing metal, that is, 'Morraine Steel', for automatic repair, but was cut off by the insect swarm.

Ian seemed to have seen a thrilling battle. In the past, when the Great Elder fought against the entire Sequoia Base, someone stepped forward and drove the armor to a duel with him.

They fought and attacked each other, and no one sympathized with their lives, and even couldn't wait to abandon them.

In the end, the Great Elder lost, and their bodies perished together. The Great Elder who lost his body could only live in the brain-devouring insect psionic energy network and continue to be the enemy of the base.

This also gave the other five elders in the base a chance to upload their souls into the psionic network and smash him into pieces.

Thousands of years have passed, whether it is the Great Elder, the five self-sacrificing elders, or other Sequoias, everyone's memories and desires have been mixed and reappeared in a long time, and the crawling ignorant slug has once again become As a terrifying parasite, he began to build a nest in the depths of the earth.

Reshape the Heart of the Swarm.

Ian's eyes have a halo of water, and he can see too many shadows from this swarm... The first elder, the five elders, each longs to go to the ground, go to the sea, breathe the fresh air, enjoy Sunshine, looking up at the blue sky and the soul of the stars.

Although the swarm is terrifying and abominable, it assimilates the core of the essential operation of life, but it is such a beautiful "desire".

Haha, he was wrong. If a wish, a grand plan, and a future vision are not good, how can it be desirable and make people want to integrate with it?

never has been.

Staring at the enemy in front of him, the worm's nest in front of him, there are countless fragments of the past in Ian's eyes.

In 3319, the alien spacecraft "Obera Tinder" landed on the far side of the moon Terra.

In 3432, the federal lunar expedition team found this Tinder spacecraft that carried an entire alien ecology.

In 3472, the Sequoia Base was established.

In 3518, the Sequoia Base launched a closed operation test, and all thirteen xenogeneic ecosystems were operating well.

Soon after, the catastrophe came, and the Sequoia Base was isolated from the surface ecology.

The inheritance from generation to generation, the sacrifice of people from generation to generation.

The ecological balance and power structure within the base that the leaders of the past dynasties thought about, as well as the efforts to maintain the Sequoia Base and the scientific and technological achievements of the entire pre-epoch civilization, finally came to an end.

Ended up in life's oldest and craziest longing.

There is a dead person who dares to covet eternal life.

- Eternal life, eternal life - Eternal life carries the meaning of everything, so that too many regrets can no longer be regrets, and too many rushes become unnecessary.

So crazy.

"No...More crazy than the desire for eternal life, it should be the life on earth, but dare to look up at the sky."

"Just because such a desire is too unbelievable, so humans can only retreat and use immortality as a foreshadowing, so that we can see a glimmer of hope..."

With a sigh, Ian pumped the energy in the ancient dragon's core, and at the same time provided power for the sand armor apprentice and the fairy wings, he was ready for the final blow.

At this moment, the outside world is shaking violently, and you can hear the roar of the weak dragon roar and the Archbishop of White Mist fighting with all their strength. The combination of the female worm and the giant eel has temporarily suppressed the combination of the Bishop of White Mist and the Ether Crystal Dragon.

He must use the fastest speed to defeat the will of the worm nest in front of him, otherwise he will usher in failure.

But in fact, the boy's heart is not as firm and crazy as the insect nest thinks.

Under the temptation of the insect nest, he even shook for a moment.

yes. If he can seize the will of the worm's nest and become the real master of the brain-devouring psionic network, how simple it will be for him to develop his power in the future.

Devouring the brains of a few key figures with the brain-devouring worm and turning them into their own subordinates, possessing the brains can also ensure the loyalty of all people, and even make all subordinates become saints who do not corrupt, do not sin, and are not selfish. This is enough to establish Great power, and even win every war.

Then continue to cultivate insect nests in the ruins, erode the surrounding monsters, defeat the ether crystal dragon, and make your own monster incarnation, biological battleship weapon; A fairly mature 'ecosphere core organism'.

Coupled with the 'tinder engine' he has already obtained, that is a ready-made biological superluminal spaceship.

Under his leadership, the Terra Swarm will quickly leave this uninteresting land and head to the sea of ​​stars to find out why the stars are extinguished.

He could do it - the vision of vision told him that a golden future was waiting for him.

Yes.

In Ian's eyes, since he saw the will of the hive, he didn't see any danger.

What he saw was a golden ocean!

It is a dazzling golden waterfall that looks like the gathering of countless stars, and finally goes upstream and reaches the high sky!

[The Will of the Star Seeker Hive (Dominant Species)]

[First energy level, first birth, core, assimilable]

[The main consciousness of the psionic network constructed by the accumulation of various mutations and soul fragments has now initially formed the main brain of the Gestalt Hive. Through the same emotions, desires and dreams to attract others to join itself, it lacks the main central soul command. The worm's nest integrates will, resulting in sublimation and transformation. It is the initial form of bee colony civilization]

[Integrated with the heritage of many other starfield civilizations, the prototype of the new hive civilization born in the Terra Starfield, but because its development process is too bloody and primitive, it does not conform to the 'fire civilization protection agreement', and will be handed over to the 'primitive life reserve area'. Correction and improvement]

【…】

【They are inviting you to be their master】

On the silver chip, such characters are beating.

As long as he is willing to resonate with the will of the hive and become the true master of the hive, he will be able to embark on this path of destiny... and embark on this [Insect Swarm Path] that is a civilization!

Bishop Bai Wu, or in other words, the 'catastrophe' seen by the 'Huaiguang Church' was not a worm nest at all, but he who chose the worm nest road! It's Ian who chose to be the Hive Master!

It's just the mutual influence between the prophets, so that the prophets of Huaiguang Church can't see the truth and mistakenly believe that

Ian is the hero who can stop the will of the hive.

That is the truth of the crisis that will truly threaten the entire world, and it is indeed a disaster that "only these people present are enough to stop it"!

but……

The sword left by the teacher and the heat from his core, which he held tightly in his hand, made the white-haired boy a little awake.

Ian recalled the brilliance of chips.

It is made up of countless colors, bright and shining, dreamy and magnificent... [Rainbow] brilliance.

Rainbow colors.

--yes.

Gold is not the highest level of haze.

On top of it, there is a rainbow-colored 'future'!

"Let me be greedy once—"

The corners of his mouth drew an arc, causing the source material to burn on the surface of the body, and then poured into the long sword in his hand, Ian said calmly: "This is the greed of the prophet, because he can see the future, so he can't help it, never can't help it... …”

"I can't help it, I want to reach the best future!"

He raised his head, stared at the will of the worm's nest in front of him, spied out the opponent's weakness, and the brain inside the cocoon was agitating uncomfortably, it sensed pure hostility, and countless crystals and metals were drawn by it, covering the cocoon, as the last defense.

After a while, the mad female worm will break free and come to protect it, and it only needs to hold on for a while.

But it is still sending out invitations to teenagers, hoping that the other party can become its master and become the true heart of the swarm, so that they can also reach the high sky.

But Ian ignored those psionic tentacles who were looking for cracks and gaps in his own spirit, and he had once again strengthened his heart and his own desires.

——The worm nest in front of you has a thousand-year-old origin, and the relics that exist with it are even more of a creation 1,600 years ago.

The base of the glorious civilization in the past, now only the bones are sleeping.

The towers that used to reach the void of civilization are now only ruins and decay.

In the past, civilizations could travel to the ecosphere of other places on the other side, but now there are only beasts screaming.

All the cravings, wishes and dreams of the past are now scattered, leaving only the empty ruins for future generations to stare at.

But now, some of the people gathered here are for the pursuit of eternal life, some are to get out of the cage, some are to kill their relatives, some are involved in an accident, and some are here to follow the prophecy to annihilate the great harm in the future.

Some nobles are intriguing, and some soldiers are continuing the disputes.

Prisoners of this world, their souls are bound by gravity.

Raising his head, even in the deep underground, he still looked up at the sky.

Ian held the middle long sword tightly, and the heavy abyss iron sword seemed to be covered by a layer of light golden illusory crystal, and then there was a blue essence wrapped around it, like a water vein.

The six sublimation structures in the body worked in unison, the cyan halo in the boy's eyes flashed, and the swordsmanship and inscription skills allowed him to see a huge gap in the many crystal iron armors suspended on the giant cocoon in front of him.

"I'm no different from them, just to fulfill my wish... I'm hostile to you, but I'm also afraid that I will promise you."

"I will swing my sword..."

Before he finished speaking, he jumped, flew up, and slashed a sword against the will of the worm's nest, which was crawling wildly and constantly retreating!

The sword light was blue and gold, tearing apart the dim fluorescence. It was just an ordinary oblique sword, but it cut through all the armor that protected the will of the hive.

It's hard to describe the swordsmanship that Ian is using at the moment. Maybe it's not the swordsmanship, because the trajectory of the boy's sword swing is not just swordsmanship, but enough to cut off the psychic tentacles, cut open the flesh and blood of the worm's nest, and reach the vital points of all enemies. The Sword of the Prophet—

This sword light is like lightning, swiftly smashing all other objects that block its edge, but in the perception of the will of the worm nest, this sword is extremely slow, as if thousands of years of time are on this sword bit by bit The ground slipped, it was like the condensation of the thousand-year history of the Sequoia Base, and finally turned into a bleak arc of light, smashing through the flesh-and-blood cocoon, and directly hitting the fragile pale swarm brain!

Even the brain-devouring mother worm, the giant eel, the etheric crystal dragon and the bishop of white fog, and even Master Gosse and Isengard, who were still trembling outside, seemed to sense something, and they couldn't help but turn their heads and look at the center of the worm's nest.

Even Patrick, who had just woken up and had half of his body broken, looked at the sublimation sword light swung by the young man under the gaps with a complicated look.

[We are the same kind...why...why don't we let us out...]

[We just want to break free, we just want to see the stars...]

boom!

The thunder exploded in the ground, and Ian could clearly feel that the giant cocoon was torn by himself, and the psionic slurry containing extremely high radiation was splashed on himself.

But without any hesitation, he still waved the sword light forward, until the heavy sword like a meteorite completely shattered the pale brain that seemed to want to say something and wanted to resonate with him.

The shield of psionic energy and the resistance of flesh and blood were meaningless, and they were all found under the observation of Ian's best psionic energy.

Yes, the will of the worm is right. It may be of the same kind as itself. Together, they may be able to go to the sky at the fastest speed.

The path of the swarm may be the most suitable and efficient path for him, a foreigner who has awakened the memory of his previous life.

But he swings his sword—

Standing on the smashing, disintegrating, slowly collapsing flesh-and-blood cocoon, Ian retracted his sword and stared at the brain slurries under his feet, and the worm that surrounded him, had completely dispersed, and it would take some time to recover in the worm's nest. Hive Will Psionic Debris.

The Prophet sighed softly as he stared at a path of destiny that he had cut off.

"Just for a better future."

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