High Above

   "Is this kind of inheritance?"

  Ian is not stupid, he can hear that the meaning of Grand Duke Thorin is very clear-Adelbert is the "inheritance of Inaiga II".

  He gave himself Adalbert.

  Let's not talk about whether Adalbert is willing to follow him, but a living person... er, the dead king should be considered a living person, right? In short, whether he has the right to give Yadbert to himself is irrelevant.

  The Grand Duke is really right.

Ian looked strangely at the dead king researcher with his eyes wide open, almost stunned—yes, both the dead king and the dead soul are here, and the R&D personnel of the core technology are also here, although Adbert himself Maybe he didn't know, but the knowledge in his brain, the techniques that Grand Duke Thorin let him learn without knowing it, are obviously almost the complete set of Inaiga's inheritance.

   Not only that, Adalbert is still a living person, and he can continue to develop technology. This guy is young, only in his early twenties, and the future is promising!

【This? ! 】

  Where would Adbert think it was this expansion? And he was fired? No, that's not the point...

  Did you get fired just now? !

  What did Grand Duke Sorin plan to do to himself?

  He thought he was going to die!

   Obviously not. If Ian had to guess, Grand Duke Sorin wanted to cultivate a 'successor' who had a personality completely opposite to his own, but also possessed Inaiga's legacy. He is very pessimistic about his own destiny, or his view of the world, so no matter what his actions are, he wants to leave 'traces'.

   Or 'tombstone'.

  The dead king and Adalbert are both his tombstones.

  【Knight of the Valley, do you really want to reproduce the dead king? Or even a dead river? ! 】

And Yadbert Shicheng is here—although he had the courage to question Grand Duke Thorin just now, when Grand Duke Thorin said to let him follow Ian and expel him, he actually turned his head and sincerely Ask Ian for his opinion, and advise him: 【Once this technology is born and started to be used, it will definitely go in an evil direction! 】

  【In the past, I thought technology was neither evil nor good, but now I don’t think so... All technologies that involve playing with the soul and essence of life are a kind of taboo! 】

   "As far as morality is concerned, Adalbert, you are right."

  Ian calmly glanced at the dead king beside him, and said in a low voice, "But I have never been moral. I just want to fulfill my wish."

   "For me, the technology of Dead Lord and Dead River is a must...Adbert, you are a very good person and an exceptionally good researcher."

   "But you are not one to reach the top of a mountain, let alone the sky."

Ian put the heavy iron sword in his hand back into its sheath. He knew that there was no point in fighting anymore: "But Grand Duke Sorin is right. After leaving the laboratory, he will be inspected by the empire. He has no Energy to protect you... It is indeed a bit troublesome for you, a dead king, to keep going."

   "I just happen to be able to help you a little bit."

   Lifting his head, the knight looked at the Dead River armed forces in mid-air.

  Even if he wanted to beat up Grand Duke Thorin, the other party would not fight back, just remove the projection.

At this moment, after being suppressed by Grand Duke Sorin, the originally dark blue Dead River Armed Forces began to slowly bloom with silver light—during the period when Grand Duke Sorin projected his body, through this fourth-level powerhouse With the fine-tuning and reconstruction of the former, today's Dead River Armed Forces has undergone a transformation.

  A transformation that is enough for Ian to pay attention to.

【anymore question? 】

  At this moment, Grand Duke Thorin is still very patient.

I have to say that because he knew the existence of Ian, or the Knight of the Valley, he was in a very happy mood, even with a smile: [Outside, King Tianhong and Mikhail are still fighting, and Moze was thrown by me. To the void, it’s almost time to come back now]

  【If you want to leave, it’s best to take advantage of the recent period】

  To be honest, Ian has nothing to ask, thank you Adbert, he has asked all the questions.

What the Grand Duke of Sorin did is the classic Terran sublimator—even though he is a nobleman who values ​​his people very much, he is still a sublimator in the final analysis. In order to protect his people, he will do his best to build souls for them , and then kill them all and turn them into tombstones.

  You can't say that Grand Duke Thorin doesn't care about his people, doesn't love his people...he's just naive, a madman.

   This is not a disease that cannot be cured, but it is a pity that the patient is too strong.

  When Ian is strong in the future, he will definitely ask Grand Duke Thorin to treat him.

   As for Dead River and Dead King—Ian wasn't lying.

  In his opinion, this technology is definitely not just such things as tinder and artificial hell, it has more mysteries and more uses.

  Even, it can become part of the core of his future territory...

Grand Duke Sorin saw that Ian had nothing to say to him, so he nodded slightly: [Then, everything will be witnessed by time—although I don’t know who you are, but the inheritor of Hilliard, I Looking forward to the day you succeed】

  【But if you also give up... there is no need to be too disappointed. Because it is indeed not a problem that we can solve]

   "I'm afraid it will have to wait until I die."

Ian said lightly, he didn't think there would be such a day: "Compared to this, the empire already knows that you are going to be independent, don't expect Feiyandi to help you, because the fortress group on the far side of Yandi was also instigated by the empire It's over—the war will be postponed, and your fears have become reality."

   "When the Empire and Flameland are ready to start an all-out war again...the Grand Duchy of Thorin will be destroyed."

   "Besides, you don't really think that Flameland will keep its promise, do you? The Avak central laboratory was destroyed, and the Dead River armed forces were lost. They don't care about your excuses. They will definitely betray you."

He knew very well that Grand Duke Sorin's worries were correct—if it wasn't for him on the way of the insect swarm, the empire and Flame Land would definitely have a full-scale war, and at that time, it would be good for the Grand Duke of Sorin to become a war wasteland , I am afraid it is biochemical waste soil, gunpowder waste soil and natural disaster waste soil together.

  Nanling couldn't stay out of the matter, and his farming plan would be disturbed.

  Since this is the case, it is better for the Grand Duke to be on guard against this... Even if Grand Duke Sorin continues to plan for the death of the king, the little power left by him can cause some disturbance to Feiyan, at least know a little bit of news in advance.

  By the way, what about the Institute of the Intellectual?

  Ian suddenly thought of one thing.

The Death River Armed Forces of Flameland regards the souls of other people as the driver's fuel, and uses these fuels to continuously strengthen the driver. As long as the driver can resist this passive "one-to-one complement", then the essence of his soul will It will improve rapidly, and with the Death River weapon, there is basically no difficulty in reaching the third energy level, and the fourth energy level is not impossible.

  Of course, the potential of the pilot must also be good, otherwise, he would be like Viscount Avak, who would be disturbed by the soul that was used as fuel after being resurrected a few times, turning into a monster thinking almost like a demon, completely chaotic.

  This can be considered a successful research—and it goes without saying that the dead king, Ian personally experienced it, and felt that it was also very successful.

  The plan of the Institute of the Intellect...the 'savior of the unknown', could it be that it failed?

  Ian is not surprised by this. After all, the research of the Academy of Gnosis is the most difficult. They have no intention of succeeding. They just plan to gain some related psionic technology in the process of trying to break through this impossible problem.

  Compared with this savior, the "Nightmare Demon King"'s plan to summon the Void Breed may be more destructive than Dead River and Dead King combined—if it succeeds, I'm afraid a fifth-level powerhouse will be needed to come to the rescue.

   But Ian felt something was wrong.

  He suddenly felt something was not normal.

  According to what Ian has seen and heard in the imperial capital, he knows very well that the Institute of the Intellect is the imperial department that is most loyal to the emperor...so many of their bad deeds have not been liquidated.

Emperor Axel almost acquiesced, allowing the Academy of the Intellect to 'steal' the precious collections in the Imperial Capital Library to the Adalbert and Avak laboratories, allowing them to complete their respective technologies... just like Fei Yan agreed Bringing out their own technology to cooperate, all three parties have needs for each other's technology.

  The needs of Grand Duke Sorin are now obvious, and Flameland also has the experience in making the ultimate "biological ether weapon" such as the Dead River Armament.

  What about the Institute of the Intellectual?

  The plan of the Institute of the Intellectual is the "Savior of the Nameless" that uses psychic energy to give birth, resurrection, artificial human body, and explore the limits of psychic energy...

   "Wait." Ian suddenly understood: "Isn't this still an echo?"

   There is no doubt that these are all technologies related to psionic energy, resurrection, and even 'echo'!

Yes. This is not Ian's nonsense. In fact, when Ian saw the essence of the dead king, he engraved the "soul" on himself, and when he recreated "resurrection" in the future, the first thing he thought of was " Isn't this the echo? '.

  If soul transfer is added, it is almost a 'mirror image'!

"I see…"

  Ian was stunned for a while: "It seems that the real purpose of the Academy of Gnosis has already been completed! All the research they will conduct next is of the type that it doesn't matter if it succeeds or fails!"

   "No wonder... no wonder!"

  Grand Duke Sorin's ambitions may have been seen through by Axel the Defender from the very beginning.

   Of course, they haven't seen through a bit.

That is, Grand Duke Thorin was so courageous that he dared to use the "laboratory accident", that is, the incident of "Adbert released the souls of the dead and killed everyone in the territory of Avak" to destroy the ultimate goal of his own research And cover up!

As long as Adalbert is intact, the Dead River Armament in the hands of Viscount Avak can still be used, and the "souls of all residents of Avak Territory" in it are still there... so for Grand Duke Thorin, it is basically equivalent to "no People die, all plans are completed, Fei Yan steals chickens and loses nothing, loses his arms and loses people, and the empire will think his plan has failed, so he relaxes his vigilance' This is the ending of a complete victory.

Ian believes that the reason why the empire did not expect the independence of Thorin in the way of the swarm was precisely because of the apparent "failure" of the Avak Territory—they never expected that Thorin, who theoretically lost all research results Grand Duke, he was actually able to carry out the plan of the dead king and lead most of the citizens to the center of the earth!

【Um? 】

  After hearing Ian's warning, Grand Duke Sorin immediately became serious—most of his energy and thoughts were put on the plan of Avakland, and he didn't know much about the things on the other side of Flame Land.

   It's better, this is a top secret, Ian himself knows it through the prophet, and Feiyan himself doesn't know it.

  【Thank you for your information】He nodded seriously, then glanced at Adalbert: 【Knight, I will leave the Dead River Armed Forces to you】

  【The souls in arms, I want to take them all away. They are still my people, but the souls of the two of you... are already your people]

  【Don't let them down. I won't say sorry]

After finishing speaking, with the flash of silver light, the silver moon directly above Little Garden disappeared, and the radiant Dead River Armed Forces fell obliquely from the midair as if they had lost their operators, and fell on the ground. above the earth.

   just fell in front of Ian.

"…he's gone."

  Ian looked around, he seemed to be talking to Adalbert, but also to himself.

Sighing, the young man walked forward with a somewhat complicated expression. He raised his hand and pressed it on the dead river that was no longer scarlet but pitch black in front of him: "Leave it to me... hmph, there are no experiments that are completely successful." It doesn't hurt to go out, does it? But it doesn't matter, anyway, I just plan to use it as a reference."

   "Exactly, it's time for me to prepare my ether armament...huh?"

  The moment he touched the Dead River Armor, Ian's expression suddenly changed.

  He felt that on the dead river armed forces, condensed into an endlessly surging 'emotion' like a mountain roaring and a tsunami!

   Oops—I forgot, although the soul has been taken away, there are still millions of soul-level hatred and despair left on this weapon!

  Adbert on the side was also in extremely complicated moods. The final battle with Viscount Avak and the appearance of Grand Duke Thorin were beyond his expectations in every aspect.

  Although the result is not the worst ending, it is still impossible for him to accept and understand so simply.

  He turned his head, and originally wanted to have a chat with Ian, trying to understand what kind of person this fellow dead king, who might also be a colleague in the future, was like.

  But Adbert was surprised to notice that in the eyes of the Knight of the Valley, there was an extremely bright, water-colored brilliance like a blue sun.

  Time is like water, with layers of waves. A piece of golden light was reflected in the pupils that were like vortexes.

  —Because I know too much truth... The vision of prescience has ushered in a new evolution!

  Before he started to predict, Ian saw it, saw a golden road shining in endless black resentment and despair...

   That is the way.

   is also a prophecy.

  A more classic, more clear... prophetic omen.