High Above

   Chapter 693 The Prophet Fulfills His Prophecy (5400)

   Empire. central empire. Setar Empire.

   This is the name of a huge force dominating the center of Terra Continent.

   But what exactly is an empire?

  —A ruling system based on the local nobles as the core and knight lords as the grassroots management?

  —A military system based on the flesh and blood of the major armies, the bones of the ten knight orders, and the heads of the four major military regions?

  —Or those ordinary people living in this vast land, those farmers, craftsmen, hunters, bakers, butchers, waxsmiths, tailors, blacksmiths...

   Actually neither.

  The Setar Empire exists only because of the emperor.

   Just because of the emperor.

  The empire is called an empire because of the emperor, not because the emperor is crowned because of the territory and people of the empire.

If one day, there is no fifth-level powerhouse in the Setar royal family, then the governor of Icewind Valley will announce the establishment of an independent country on the second day, and the head of the First Legion will announce the protection of the royal family on the third day. Back to the imperial capital, supported in name but actually independent.

   On the fourth day, the powers of other countries that carve up the rest of the empire can hold meetings on the territory of the empire.

   Even if all the remaining nobles work together to control the imperial capital to fight, they will definitely not be able to defeat other big forces.

  The empire will perish like a candle blown out by wind and rain.

However, as long as the Setar royal family can continue to give birth to the fifth energy level, then the Setar Empire will have three fifth-level powerhouses for a long time, and there may even be four fifth-level powerhouses at the peak. power.

  The major powers on the continent of Terra generally have one or two fifth energy levels. Only one power is stable but difficult to advance, while two powers can develop, and three or more will lead to internal disputes... But if the power can reach an agreement, then this power can dominate Terra.

Before Inaiga II, the empire also had such a moment-at that time, the governor of Icewind Valley, the long-lived Titan King of Warcraft, had not yet been born, the emperor and the two grand dukes, and the four commanders of the first legion. The five-energy level officially finalized the huge territory that now includes the current Junling Fort. The Seven Cities Alliance was a vassal of the empire at that time, and the Royal Court of Heaven also became a warm and kind nomad.

Everything prospers and declines. Since the death of Emperor Gale, the Setar Empire has gradually declined. Although the new emperor is strong enough, he cannot command the two dukes like his father. The struggle between the imperial power and the grand duke continued. For hundreds of years, internal conflicts were so severe that they could not even control the nobles in their own territory. It was at that time that the current Junling Castle became independent. Inheritance is precisely because the royal family of Setar wants to train a Grand Duke of the North as an arm to fight against the other two Grand Dukes.

   And this infighting finally came to an end in the hands of Inaiga II.

Both the East and West Grand Dukes were cut off, and the First Knight was his real help, plus the First Legion who swore to only serve the Empire itself, and the Governor of Icewind Valley, the Fifth Energy Level of the Empire once again reached its peak. four.

   But this has not changed. If the empire loses the emperor, the entire country will fall apart, and there is no possibility of salvation.

  In the current empire, there are only three fifth-level powers, Axel, the emperor's keeper, Nethaniel, the commander of the First Army, and Bai Ji, the governor of Icewind Valley. The Setar Empire is still the most powerful force in all of Terra, but it is by no means unchallengeable.

   After all, Bai Ji is a monster. Even though he vowed to regard the empire as his homeland, and the people of the empire are no different from his descendants, no one really thinks that this King of Ice Wind Butterfly will contribute to the development and conquest of the empire.

  That's why Flameland confronts the Empire head-on without fear.

So…

  What exactly is Flame Land?

  There is no need to think about this question, and there is no need to wait for someone to answer it.

  Because the thing that best represents Feiyan's spirit and image has come before Ian and the others.

  Under the night sky, the invisible cold wind rolled the gloomy rain clouds, and the dull thunder rolled in the clouds. From time to time, the deep and thick clouds brightened for a moment, and then dimmed again.

  On the top of the Sacred Steel Mountain, the white-haired lord stood on the edge of the platform, overlooking the noisy dust and fog rising from the other side of the mountain.

The trajectory from the northwest goes straight forward, whether it is the villages of the mountain people, the mountains of Baisen, the jungles, hills, rivers, lakes along the way...no matter what it is, what it is, it is covered by the extreme violence. Run over and become the road beneath them.

  This power is enough to destroy cities and tear apart armies, it can conquer wilderness and make civilization retreat.

  They are the Constructed Knights of Flameland, one of the most powerful armies in the world, and the hammers used by kings to punish all living beings.

  Ian looked intently.

  Three similar but inconsistent steel giants, three inhuman giants with a height of forty meters, made of pure metal, flames and inscriptions.

Their armor shells exude the cold beauty of industrial design, and the tightly seamed armor plates are assembled into a nearly human-shaped upper body. There should be a vertical crack in the area where the head is, and in the center of the crack is a shining star. From the brilliant red crystal core, a powerful spiritual energy field overflows from it, following the dense inscription plating, splicing parts and armor together.

Its lower body is a base connected with or two, or four or even six mechanical legs, each structure is different, similarly, the 'arms' of each structure are also different The same weapons, some were psionic shield generators, some were gigantic alchemy cannons, some were meltaxes—but whatever they were, they were powerful enough to overwhelm an entire city.

  These weapons can usually be retracted to the base, and the base and the inside of the body hide a huge amount of weapon reserves, and even an automatic ammunition manufacturing plant and an intelligent fire control center, allowing them to adapt to any environment.

They are the Titans of this era. Along with the charge of these mechanical giants, they are also spewing source quality light mist that is visible to the naked eye from top to bottom. The light lines like lines start from the crystal core on the heads of these giants. It spread from point to point, and finally spread to the whole body, exuding thunder light that fluctuated from strength to strength.

   This is a very advanced spiritual energy shield, even the wear and tear of parts can be offset.

   "This is the Constructed Knight..."

  Ian's eyes flashed with a silver-blue halo, and he couldn't help muttering to himself: "This is not a knight at all...I didn't even see the pilot...Isn't it?!"

  Ian calmed down, he was slightly startled: "There is no body in the construct, but there is a soul response—these knights, all have only 'souls'?!"

   "They lodged their souls in this huge structure and manipulated these weapons of war?!"

  Ian almost took a breath.

  He has a thorough understanding of what the full name of Construct Knight's "Mobile Fortress for Continuous Combat" means!

  —Yes, only the soul, only the existence that does not need a body, can fight forever, and such a huge mechanical construct, isn’t it just a mobile fortress?

   "Most of the Constructed Knights are physically damaged due to accidents, and there are problems in the practice of the true form of the blood, but the sublimation of the flying flames with a firm will and a sound soul voluntarily abandons the body and integrates into the 'spiritual weapon' to achieve success."

Staring at the Constructed Knights in the distance, Elder Manya stood on the top of the holy mountain, with a deep voice, as if recalling the past far away: "They gave up most of human instincts and minds, and transformed themselves into genuine butcher machine souls. , the most terrifying executioner, become the 'knight' of the most terrifying mount of the 'giant war construction unit'!"

   "Just a constructed knight can conquer a city!"

  —more than that, it is more than enough to conquer a primitive world before the atomic age.

Ian admired in his heart, he even felt a little familiar with the shape of the Constructed Knight... The Constructed Knight is obviously related to some kind of pre-epoch technology, and it should be a giant combat unit used to deal with future alien colonization and suppress the primitive natives on the living planet .

  After the catastrophe of falling from the sky, the prototype of this technology was acquired by Feiyan and transformed into the terrifying war weapon it is today.

  And these most terrifying weapons of war are coming towards the holy mountain of steel.

  At this moment, Ian is thinking about a problem.

  —Excluding all prejudice, discrimination, and hostile perspectives, what exactly is Flameland?

   He already has an answer.

Flying flames are persistence, fighting, revenge, and the heroic, unrestrained and ruthless nature of acting as one pleases—the Nemathus bloodline derived from the waves of the sea and the Absalom bloodline derived from the mountains and hills Grinding and absorbing and assimilating each other in wars, these two ancient bloodlines finally became the well-known flying flames under the oppression of the Setar Empire.

  —Destroy what we can’t get, and destroy what doesn’t belong to us.

  —We are the hammer, we are the punishment, we follow the law of flying flames, and we wield the sword of punishment.

  —Those who disobey should be completely eliminated!

   Just by watching, one can sense such crazy persistent beliefs.

   “It’s such an unbelievably firm soul... No wonder they can control such giants with their own minds, and display incredible combat power.”

  The young lord sighed, but he showed no fear: "Fortunately, we are not bad."

   "Even better."

  Behind the boy Bai Zhimin, a pitch-black tower stands on the top of the holy mountain, amidst the cloud of thunder.

The thunder light visible to the naked eye slowly revolves around this prismatic tower, and the sacrificial fire of the dragon **** is no longer displayed in the form of flames at this moment. Now it has turned into a straight white beam of light, serving as the central energy source of the ultra-giant magnetic storm coil.

  Its brilliance was obscured by clouds, hidden in the long black night.

   Waiting for Ian's instructions.

The Constructed Knights have already arrived at the original location of Avod's Department. The residents there have long since evacuated, and their valuable property has also been transferred. Stone houses and buildings were all crushed and collapsed, causing large swaths of smoke and dust.

  Elder Manya watched all this expressionlessly, until these giant statues came within the attack range of the giant magnetic storm coil, he clenched his fist: "Now?"

"hold on."

  Ian opened his eyes slightly, and only a few seconds later, when all the constructed knights came within the attack range of the giant magnetic storm coil, he raised his hand and waved it down decisively: "It's now!"

  Boom!

  In an instant, there was a thunderclap between heaven and earth.

  A pure white ray of light rises from the holy mountain of steel, like the rising dawn, sinking straight into the endless dark cloud tower.

At this moment, the purest source quality swept across the natural spiritual energy field, piercing through all the rain clouds and mist around the holy mountain. This pure white light was gradually transformed into thunder and roar in the continuous torrent. , the arc streamer visible to the naked eye passes through all the clouds within a radius of hundreds of miles in an instant—

   Then they all gathered back and gathered on the top of the tower.

   A cyan thunder sun formed.

  The dawn of the white night shone on the earth, and the knights who came rushing silently slowed down their pace.

【what is that? 】

  【Mountain people's dragon **** offering fire? But that doesn’t do any harm]

  【No, it’s an electromagnetic weapon! And it's an extremely high-energy electromagnetic weapon! 】

Running all the way, even though the constructed knights with crushing power have completely stripped away all negative emotions, the scene of terrifying electric currents criss-crossing the top of the sky still makes their souls feel a little numb—but Not waiting for them to make any decisions, under Ian's guidance.

  The thunderbolt has struck down amidst the rumbling roar!

At this moment, the thunder sun at the top of the super-giant magnetic storm coil became extremely dazzling, just like a real star releasing its own light and heat—a bluish-white thunder light visible to the naked eye separated from the surface of the sun, tearing countless arcs , slanting towards the extremely thick cloud in the sky, gushing out like a fountain.

  Then, these thunders that poured into the clouds gathered the power of the whole nature, and descended vertically in the direction of the constructed knights in the form of thousands of falling thunders!

  The bluish-white thunder light was not just one, but one after another—they converged and fell in the direction that Ian's right hand was pointing.

   It's like a rainstorm made of thunder.

   Lightning storm has come.

The Constructed Knights fell into an endless sea of ​​thunder in an instant. Countless lightning strikes and magnetic storm interference firmly restrained them in place. The powerful psionic shields around them were flickering constantly, resisting the super high energy level. Thunderstorm.

Although the energy system originating from the Sacred Steel Mountain cannot provide healing for the King of the Mountain, it is definitely the most powerful one in the third energy level. The reason why Ian can use it is because he used the "Dust Cleansing Dragon" The protective heart shell'—it is the third-level electromagnetic monster material obtained from Jiamubu that allows Ian to create a super-giant magnetic storm coil in the first place, and the energy of this holy mountain will also purify this As the monster material at the core of the tower, it undergoes the most thorough tempering.

  【This is a brand new weapon! 】

  【What is the intelligence department doing? ! 】

The constructed knights were frightened and angry. They had indeed thought that they would be blocked. Whether it was the army of the empire or the title knight, or even the third level of the mountain people and the son of the king of the mountain, they were not afraid , all have the confidence to break through the defense line head-on, destroy the holy mountain and walk away.

   But what they are against is not a specific enemy, but the entire natural field with the Sacred Steel Mountain as the core.

  However, even so, naturally it cannot be compared with the Constructed Knight.

  —Naturally they are also defeated!

  【—Furnace core overrun—】

The core energy supply system of the steel colossus headed by overclocking, accompanied by a trembling sound that seemed to be low and roaring, scarlet brilliance lit up from the red crystals on the head, he raised the molten battle ax in his hand and slashed forward, a scarlet red The colored rays of light started from the ax blade and continued to extend forward, shattering the endless magnetic storm in front of us.

Not only that - the light extended thousands of meters away and fell on a mountain peak. The dense forest was instantly ignited, and the entire mountain trembled violently, like an earthquake. The loud noise like landslides and tsunamis even briefly overwhelmed the thunder , lava flows on the mountain.

  【Charge with me! 】

  In an instant, the leading construct knight even broke free from the prison built by Thunder, allowing the entire giant construct to break through and continue running towards the holy mountain!

   And it was this one, Ian shouted: "It's now!"

   "Siou!"

  Then the swift dragon shadow broke through the cloud and swooped down rapidly. Xiou opened his mouth, and a translucent but dotted with scarlet light spots obliquely pierced through half the sky and the earth.

  The fire of the void burns the spiritual power of the soul. Although it cannot shake the soul of the constructed knight whose mechanized mind is permanently blessed, it is enough to shatter the psionic shield surrounding the constructed knight's body.

The fire of the virtual world burned the illusory shield on the surface of the construct. At first, it was just cracks as fine as a spider web, and then began to collapse and collapse into holes. Huge cracks spread, causing the entire brilliance armor on the surface of the knight to be constructed. Start twisting and bumping up.

  Without the protection of the psionic shield, the terrifying surge of energy when the Construct Knight overloads the core can even damage his own structure.

   Facing the real dragon's breath, even the constructed knight couldn't ignore it. The leading constructed knight staggered back, and two of the four mechanical legs even knelt down. The high-intensity electric current shattered its support frame.

   And Ian will naturally not let this opportunity go.

  The super-giant magnetic storm coil began to recharge for the second time. This time, it was no longer a prison of thunder that mainly restrained, but a magnetic storm that directly smashed everything.

But in contrast, the three constructed knights seemed to have fully reacted. The strength of the enemy was far beyond their expectations. For his captain, the inscription circuits on their bodies began to contact and fuse with each other, forming a temporary steel fortress, sharing a spiritual shield.

And this fortress can even move forward, it forcibly carries the continuous thunderstorms in the sky, steps on the ground-shaking steps, and moves towards the holy mountain - Xiou can't get close, and the tops of their heads shoot out one after another. The high-heat rays cut through the clouds and cut the sky into dozens of pieces, forcing the real dragon to maneuver and dodge at high speed in the air.

When did the surrounding mountain people see this situation—a steel giant that had never been seen came from a distant mountain, stepping on the pace of destroying the town, and this powerful enemy that trampled on the mountain was originated from the holy mountain. blocked by Lei Guang.

   Thunder is like rain, and real dragons are flying in the sky, fighting with enemies.

  Everything is like a legend.

  They held their breath and hid in the mountain shelter that Manya had arranged for them, but there were still many people who couldn't bear it, stuck their heads out from the entrance of the cave, and watched the scene.

  In the burning cloud, in the diffuse water vapor, they saw in the distance, a pure white lightning falling from the top of the holy mountain.

   It is the fire of the wrath of heaven.

  And on the ground, the steel structure fortress also rushed forward roaringly. They got the order, and they had to practice it.

  —If there is always a purpose that must be achieved, if there is always a belief that must be practiced, let them collide.

  All beliefs and dreams will come to fruition in a thorough collision.

  The broken sound of one side is the sound of footsteps of the other side stepping further.

   Just like this moment.

  When the white thunder light fell and hit the construction fortress, the dazzling light bloomed, followed by a huge shock wave sweeping in all directions, and a small mushroom cloud rose in place.

  With a loud bang, under the watchful eyes of all the mountain people, the prophet who descended from thunder fulfilled his prophecy.

  (end of this chapter)