The Record of Unusual Creatures

Under the leadership of Constance, the group left the castle of the lord and took a lift hidden in the depths of the mountain directly to the hillside of Frost and Snow City.

Their destination is the "old palace".

“Here?” Seeing the building that has become a historical attraction, Vivienne’s face has an unexpected look. “Here is the place where the Black Sword Knight performs the transformation ceremony?”

“Strictly speaking, it’s underground,” Constance smiled. “And it’s the place where ‘have’ was a transformational ritual.”

Hao Ren suddenly thought of his previous discovery: in the underground of the old palace, there is a weak energy source that constantly releases pulse fluctuations.

He originally planned to find an opportunity today to explore the old palace, to find out what secrets are hidden in the underground, but did not expect that he had not acted, and he had a bright light to enter the building. The opportunity plan really can't keep up with the changes.

With the Constance Ribbon Road, everyone was able to easily walk into the old palace. As he passed through the palace's old and magnificent front porch, Constance talked about the palace: "Frost Snow City as the Dracong Emperor It has been a matter of thousands of years ago. For ordinary humans, it is the change of hundreds of generations. Therefore, even the knowledgeable scholars do not know the oldest part of the city.

"People only know that there is an old palace in this old capital, but few people know that the first holy arsenal of the Black Sword Knights is also in this city, and it is hidden in the underground of the old palace."

Hao Ren heard the words "Sacred Arsenal" and moved: "As far as I know, all the black mechanical swords come from the holy arsenal, they are cast and stored here, so for the Black Sword Knights with the sword as the body. Saying, holy arsenal is their real barracks and headquarters."

“Yes, and I have to add that St. Arsenal is not only used to cast and store mechanical swords, it is also a... sacred tomb.”

Constance said solemnly, and in front of her, stood two armed Armed Knights, and the two Broken Swordsmen guarded the door in the old palace that looked no different from the other.

However, Hao Ren was able to feel that there was one source of energy pulse emission behind the door.

Constance is now using other people's bodies to act, but the sword-breaking knights seem to have special feelings for their masters. The two knights standing at the door immediately stand up and salute: "His Royal Highness!"

"Open the door," Constance nodded. "I want to bring a few guests to St. Arsenal."

The goalkeeper immediately executed the command without hesitation. They simultaneously activated the magic guides on both sides of the door. The heavy door that appeared to be able to be described by ancient artifacts was accompanied by a series of mechanical friction sounds, and slowly turned toward Retreat on both sides.

The entrance to St. Arsenal appeared in front of everyone.

It is a cylindrical hall, the ring-shaped walls of the hall are inlaid with numerous neatly arranged metal prisms, and the center of the hall has a metal platform that is more than ten centimeters above the ground. As Constantine stepped in, the induction lamps in the hall lit up, and in a soft sound of the magical infusion, the magic lights placed in the halls brightened, and soon the inside became like a white enamel. general.

Although this place has been abandoned for thousands of years, its interior is still as clean as new. This shows two things: First, there are regular cleaning and rectification here. Secondly, the materials and construction techniques used in this building are far away. Far more than the current era.

“The real holy arsenal was moved to the south as early as when it moved to the capital. Even with all the mechanical swords and most of the casting, pouring, storage, computing, and transformation equipment were removed. There is only one left. Empty shells and old model facilities that are difficult to dismantle," Constance said as he walked toward the round table in the center of the room, while the door of the hall was closed from the outside by two swordsman knights. "But even then, the old There are still a lot of things to be used in St. Arsenal. Plus the inheritance of the inheritance is knowledge, not material wealth, so as long as we give us enough time, we can rebuild many things on a blank basis, and I will With that knowledge, some new devices are built here, and after they are docked with the old database... they can be used."

Constance stepped onto the platform, and a soft female voice rang in the room: "An external connection was detected... the administrator passed the certification. Each system entered the standby state and was ready to accept instructions."

Constance waved his hand to Hao Ren: "Come on, I will take you to see what we are going to inherit."

The group set foot on the platform, and the latter suddenly shook and began to sink slowly below the floor.

Lily opened her eyes and prolonged her tone with a small signature exclamation: "Wow..."

After sinking for a short distance, an extremely large underground space is presented to everyone. Hao Ren saw that the outside of the transparent shaft was a cave that seemed to be a giant bowl. The outer wall of the cave was covered with heavy alloys, but there were also some areas where rocks were bare. In the underground space, you can see many layers of areas, a variety of large and unknown equipment is installed in each area, forming a variety of functional ... production line.

It is like an old factory full of alien stars.

“That is the old foundry,” Constance pointed to one of the areas where large, sophisticated equipment could be seen mounted on the pedestal, with conveyor belts and a large number of pipes and cables attached to the rear of the pedestal. "The mechanical sword was cast there, but to be honest, the casting of the mechanical sword itself is the shallowest and simplest part here... although some special materials are used, it is nothing but a mass production."

"So the number of mechanical swords is not technically difficult, nor is the raw material of the blade material limited." Hao Ren immediately thought of this. "So the number of '700,000' is decided... I am afraid it is the soul. ”

After collecting enough information and seeing Ou Dagong’s situation and his plan to turn himself into a black sword knight, Hao Ren’s understanding of the nature of the Black Sword Knight has already been guessed. As soon as I said it, I touched the truth.

"Yes, soul," Constance nodded lightly, raising his finger to another area below. "The seventy-seven thousand immortal souls... they used to sleep in that place, waiting for the spirit to be infused into the black sword. Can be in the core."

Hao Renshun looked in the direction of her fingers and saw dozens of neatly arranged black cubes placed on a platform cast from alloys, surrounded by countless twilight cables, in each You can also see a faint light flashing on the cube.

And in the wider area around those cubes, there are already empty platforms and disconnected lines. Obviously, the cubes that remain below are only a small part of the huge number, and most of them have already been removed.

“There were 770 servers here, but most of them have been moved to the new St. Arsenal in the South. The rest are servers that have failed in the long run and lost their migration value. The souls inside have already been Being moved out, the machine itself is in standby. I have fixed a small part of it, but to be honest, they have not been used anyway."

Vivien frowned slightly: "Because no soul is available, right?"

"Where did those souls come from?" Hao Ren then asked, "If I didn't guess wrong, it was the last era..."

"Yes, the soldiers of the last era," Constance nodded. "In the last era of change, my father led his army to defeat the former hero who became a monster, and then followed him. To the end of the warriors, that of the seventy-seven thousand people, almost 90% of them are not inheritors, but still able to cross the era and maintain a reincarnation memory with the power of the scepter. After the end, the world was once again destroyed and remodeled. Seventy-seven thousand souls also followed my father to the new world. After that, many years later, my father and the emperor completed the technique of soul perfusion and transformation. Let them reappear in the world in the way of the Black Sword Knight."

Lily frowned and thought hard. She suddenly reacted: "So, you choose the strongest and the best soldiers to train as black sword knights. In fact, they use their bodies as containers. Right, their original soul is Have you erased it?!"

When Lily said this, Hao Ren and Vivian and Lia immediately looked at Constance seriously: the nature of this matter is quite serious.

"Of course not," Constance naturally thought that the other side would have doubts in this regard, and immediately shook his head with a smile. "That is a contract."

Hao Ren: "Contract?"

"Controlling a body is always the most suitable for the original soul, so the black sword knights must retain their original soul. The most important thing about the perfusion ritual is a soul tuning contract: an ancient soul from the previous era. An original soul from the modern, two souls communicate to control the body and weapons, the ancient soul is responsible for providing knowledge, skills and experience, and the modern soul is responsible for the specific control and thinking process. After complex integration and adaptation, two The soul will be extracted and injected into the mechanical sword, and the ai black sword knight who became a complex will be born." Constance explained the process. "Of course, not everyone will succeed, nor is it Everyone will accept that the conversion ceremony of the Black Sword Knight has always had a small mortality rate, and there are also some trainee knights who have conflicted after knowing the content of the contract. Because of the slight resistance, the probability of failure will be greatly increased, so those who are unwilling If you accept it, you will be washed away and then removed for various reasons. The usual argument is that ...... trials failed. "

Hao Renyi raised an eyebrow: "You are quite human in this respect."

"Humanism? No, we just chose the most effective method," Constance said faintly. "Only because the control of the two souls is more efficient and more robust, we chose this option. If it is unnecessary to keep the original soul, we will not hesitate to erase those souls."