Chapter 107: Elf Forge (1/2)
Spring has come, and it is the season of multiplication of all things.
The Great Labyrinth of the South China Sea and the surrounding waters present themselves in a virtual realm, a huge circular island, with a sky half clear and half cloudy, and the waves churning endlessly.
Continuing to look deeper, you can see that in the blue ocean, there is a huge submarine volcano arching, its eruption vent protrudes from the sea, which is the most superficial 'ring island', and in the center of the ring island there is a deep cave that leads to the endless depths, where the sea turns black, as if some dangerous giant thing lurks in it.
In a sense, this scenery is also a metaphor for the existence of the labyrinth and the hidden dangers.
The place where Ian and the elves are now located is on this circular island, where Birch has built a small observation base, which is also her temporary residence in the South China Sea.
And in the middle of this circular island, there are two Void Machine Gods who are reproducing.
Or rather, there is a peculiar kind of 'merging and splitting,' or rather.
These two mekages, under the identification of the silver chip, are named [Dust Remover] and [Incinerator] respectively.
An electric fan that appears to be constantly rotating, surrounded by a grayish-blue wind layer visible to the naked eye.
The other one looks a bit like a robot vacuum, but instead of a soft and harmless brush, it's a golden-red blazing fire.
With this appearance and name alone, Ian doesn't need to guess, and can directly identify it as a 'Void Cleaning Tool designed by the civilization of the previous era.'
Their strength is not strong, and the third energy level is around the middle and high ranks.
The outermost layer of the two disc-shaped mechs is constantly spreading out their own blue and red spiritual structures, like thousands of data lines intertwined with each other, they continue to rotate rapidly on the sea surface in the center of the circular island, forming a spiral pattern similar to Taiji, and the two different spiritual essences are staggered and churning, radiating one or two lightning bolts from time to time.
It's clear that they're merging...... Or rather, fusion.
Ian watched intently.
He saw that the [Dust Removers] and the [Incinerators] were spinning at high speed, decompressing their sturdy Void Bodies, and that outward manifestation was the churning spiritual vortex in front of his eyes now.
And in the post-decompression, there are a large number of incomparably complex inscriptions intertwined - most of the Shroud Machines are essentially semi-intelligent psionic beings created by the uncontrolled Shimmer program designed by the pre-epoch civilization, and these inscriptions are the 'memetic programs' left by the pre-epoch civilization when they created them.
And now, countless inscriptions are intertwined, information is fused, and the two meks are communicating with each other, each taking out all their information and data to share with each other, and then merging into one to build a new and more powerful mekhan......
In the middle of the Void Sea, the gray and red whirlpool suddenly moved slightly, and thousands of data waves suddenly began to converge towards the center of the whirlpool, and at the core of the whirlpool, a bright silver light flashed—'Hum, with a soft sound, a silver ball suddenly appeared in the center of the whirlpool.
At the moment it appeared, time seemed to stand still, and the vortex of data that had been constantly intertwining and merging all came to a standstill.
Then, just as a black hole devoured everything, all the spirits that had been decompressed by the [Dust Repellent] and [Incinerator] were pulled towards them by the silver orb, causing the originally somewhat illusory to quickly become almost material, and also causing its outer layer to be covered with a layer of hazy particle light mist like a nebula.
A sound that seemed to be a sigh and a cheer sounded, and in an instant, lightning burst out from the nebula sphere, sweeping the surrounding virtual realm.
A new name emerges from Ian's vision.
【Void Mekhan: Urakan the Exterminator】
The boy's eyes widened slightly--because this new machine god born after the fusion of the two machine gods, although the strength is still only about the third energy level, it has the potential to lead to the fourth energy level!
No, it's more than that!
Ian saw that before the [Dust Destroyer]
In addition to the many spiritual and inscription data that were undecompressed with the [Exterminator], in addition to becoming the raw materials for the new machine god [Urakan the Exterminator], there was also a small part leftover, turning into small silver balls, floating around the opponent, and there were eight of them, each of which was named [Exterminator Seed]!
"This is how the evolution and reproduction of the Void Machine God turned out to be like this......
Ian couldn't help but sigh, "The two meks that have grown to the limit have fused together, and their main body has become a more powerful new mekhan, and a different number of 'new mekhans' juveniles. As the new mekshin grows and mutates, there will be a new group of meks with different functions in the Realm!"
"Is this the mating, growing and reproducing creatures of the Realm? It's really interesting, I've seen a lot!"
Ian was so fascinated that he even recorded the scene from beginning to end with a silver chip.
Of course, this is not because he likes to watch the reproduction of the Void Realm Machine, but this process has greatly inspired and helped him in his inscription skills.
Some time ago, Ian and Adalbert had been busy writing new features for artificial souls, programming them in the Shroud with inscriptions...... For the current Terra, this is quite a huge project, and even with a prophetic researcher like Ian and a genius like Adalbert, it took quite a long time to write it.
But in front of the Void Realm Machine God, such an inscription program is just a small fight - after all, the Void Machine God is essentially an 'artificial soul' created by the civilization of the previous era, and the functions of this artificial soul, the information it stores, and the data complexity it has are all far superior to that of artificial souls!
That may be the real pinnacle of pre-era civilization.
Even with Ian's current level of technology, he is far from being able to write a soul program in the Void and create the Void Realm Machine, but he can learn it - in the process of merging the two Void Realm Gods, they have completely removed their encapsulation shells and decompressed all the underlying programs.
Of course, ordinary people can't capture and remember all the data in that waterfall data vortex, but Ian, who has a silver chip, can!
At that glance just now, he had already directly prostituted all the underlying data of the [Dust Removers] and [Incinerators] in vain!
It's a pity that when the Nebula Sphere, that is, [Urakan the Exterminator], was born, all of its programs had been encapsulated and black-boxed, and Ian had no way to see its internal programs.
But it doesn't matter, after all, the technical level of the newly born machine god is too high, and he may not be able to understand it if Ian reverses.
It's better to be weaker and easier to learn.
"Still."
After watching this scene, Ian left the observation array with great satisfaction, but he was a little puzzled, "Is it that simple? The fusion of two third-level Void Realm Machines that have not yet reached their peak can be fused to create a new Machines with the potential of the Fourth Energy Level...... That's too efficient, isn't it?"
"Of course it's not that simple."
A crisp voice sounded, and Hua Di held his small parasol, floating on Ian's side, and said in a natural tone: "The Dust Destroyer and the Incinerator are obviously very complementary, and the two meks with the same abilities, their information and data can play a role in solving each other's problems, and each has accumulated a very large essentia, not a simple third-level mech."
"It is precisely because of this that their fusion can create a new new mekhan...... According to the self-naming method of the Void Mekkai, the new Mekkai should be called the 'Exterminator, but I don't know what its core number is."
"Actually, the success rate of the mechgod fusion is very low, seven or eight out of a hundred can succeed, which is quite good, this time it is Ian, you are lucky, so you can see the birth of a new mech, instead of 'boom, boom, the big explosion of the virtual realm!'"
Miss Elf was still staring at the Exterminator in the distance, and her tone was a little emotional, "There's a huge Elven Forge in Falling Star City...... All elves who have lived enough and do not want to be resurrected will choose to throw their memories and souls into that furnace and merge with the souls of other elves
...... And then a new elf is born."
"I haven't seen the Elf Forge with my own eyes, but I think the way the Elf Forge works is very similar to the reproduction process of the Shrewd Mekvan...... After all, in the pre-era civilization, we goblins also had a pivotal position, and the Void Machine God should be a semi-intelligent life created by imitating our goblins."
"It's just a pity that now we goblins have lost too much technology, and we have to find it from the Void Machine God."
Birch's emotion revealed a lot of information, especially the existence of the Fairy Furnace.
Although Ian had vaguely heard of it before, there were many furnaces in Fallen Star City, and one of them was related to the reincarnation of goblins...... But he didn't know that the effect of the fairy furnace was actually like this.
The goblins who have lived enough throw themselves into death and become the raw materials for the birth of new goblins......
It's back, there really is a goblin free and easy demeanor.
As for the rest, it is purely normal.
The same psionic life, the existence of life in the virtual realm, the machine god and the goblin are inextricably linked.
The reason why the goblins continue to send goblin scholars to observe the machine gods all over the world is to try to obtain the technology and information related to the goblins that may be contained in the machine gods.
Birch's original mission was to observe the elf lair in the Great Labyrinth, but this task has been completed, and even with the help of Frost Butterfly, all the primordial elves in the lair have been successfully integrated, laying a solid foundation for the construction of a new branch in Paradise Township.
Although the method is a bit strange, at least these primordial goblins are obedient.
It was precisely because he had finished the work at hand that he had time to observe the Void.
As a result, it happened to be a rare scene for her and Ian to encounter the birth and reproduction of a new machine god.