In the year 430 of the Rune Calendar, the first batch of 5 ships set off for the Frontier Exploration Fortress, and in the following ten years, two more batches departed one after another;

In the year 442 of the rune calendar, Bi Linyi explored the fortress and arrived at the target star field, and launched the corresponding scientific research activities;

Then, by the end of Runeter Calendar 450, all of the first fortresses except the Black Hole Quest had reached their destination;

In the past 20 years, new breakthroughs have been made in technologies such as the miniaturization of fusion reactors, and the research on degenerate matter in neutron stars has also taken steps in the meantime, and the establishment and development of space refractive technology have also taken place in this interval.

In the year 472 of the Rune Calendar, after 30 years of exploration and verification, the space refractive technology finally made a breakthrough, and was successively placed on the fortress-class spacecraft starting with the Black Hole Explorer.

It was also from this year that the Republic's external exploration process was greatly accelerated, and more knowledge was gained as the number of observed objects continued to increase, and the iterative update of the application level also advanced by leaps and bounds in continuous feedback.

And many of Nesta's clones embarked on their own journeys before this 'leap and bound' began.

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Leisurely, the calendar was flipped to the year 485 of the rune calendar;

One day during the year, Azhara finally completed her ascension to become the second individual to step into the molecular level, and reshaped her body in a short period of time according to the latest genetic template;

However, because the upgrade is not directly related to the growth of the volume, she will have to enter the material filling stage again;

However, since this process does not require deep meditation, she is still able to separate many bodies to walk in the outside world.

After leaving the retreat pod, Esshara first retracted her 'mentally retarded' thread, carefully combed through the events of the years, and separately checked the operation of the brain and the state of the Republic in various directions, and immediately began to look for her partner after finding that there was no major problem

There were so many Nestas in his brain that Aishara picked out the most concentrated and relatively active area and ran over with great momentum.

She arrives at a laboratory on the central moon, where three Nestas are performing some kind of operation, two of them standing next to the stage and one of them lying on the bench, apparently acting as researcher and researcher

Aishara actually doesn't like this aspect of her partner, and used to complain that he always treats his body inappropriately, even though their bodies are now far away from the traditional concept, but they still can't help but stab.

"Are the claws of evil reaching out to yourself again?"

With a lukewarm expression on her face, she approached and looked curiously at her husband lying on the bench to see what he was trying to do.

Nesta lying on the bench had a large hole in her chest and abdomen, which was almost entirely a composite of metal and flesh, and was filled with inscriptions everywhere;

They form circuits that connect every inch inside and outside the body, forming a series of deformable pathways of different thicknesses that connect the mouth and nose, and the lower part of the body, and present a pore appearance on the body surface that did not exist before.

At this time, the one on the stage is carefully carving the inscription composition of the main part, while the other two seem to be completing the many auxiliary circuits along the line;

During the operation, the fingers are absolved into a liquid that flows through the body, and an intricate pattern is presented in an area that has not been walked an inch, which is a delicate inscription structure that is undoubtedly combined from the molecule all the way to the cell.

Without even having to discern it closely, Azhara could see at a glance what they meant, which was the Fission Furnace and the corresponding energy transfer module.

So she looked to the sides with some confusion, and asked the other two husbands who were acting as researchers,

"What is this doing, why are you still stuffing the pile in?"

Stuffing this is a bit of a misnomer, as the raw material is Nesta's own body.

"Eh, research super elf transformation?"

The Nesta had discovered that the coming Azhara was an entity, and replied uncertainly from the Nesta lying on the stage, and then added a question,

"You broke through? My stupid daughter was also taken back by you? ”

He was referring to the threaded mind that Aishara had separated from during the retreat, and this appellation came from the special state of mind and behavior that he had maintained over the years.

"Hmph, you've been bullying me for years, aren't you still satisfied?"

"Haha, how can it be, it's just a pity to see that you're smarter again."

"Nasty Guy"

Although most of her thoughts had been in a state of deep meditation before, the part that was combined with the brain and the part that made up the projection was also herself, and she was not absent from everything in the process, and there was no need to ask about it, so Aishara did not continue the topic

And looking at the ongoing experiments, she thoughtfully guessed,

"Is this to increase the instantaneous energy output?"

"That's right, you can understand it at a glance if you're smart~" one of the experimenters patted his ass, "The decay energy supply rate is a little too low, so I want to build an instantaneous burst system. Originally, the idea was to build a miniature fission stack in the cell structure, but the difficulty was a bit too great, and it ended up being the size of an organ. ”

"Instantaneous? Erupt? Gee. Obviously, I haven't really fought a few times in so many years, and most of them still go to the combined battle of catching the Beastmaster, why are they always happy to ponder in this direction. ”

"That can't extinguish my heart that I want to be a warrior~" Nesta, who was experimented, said dissatisfiedly, "Wouldn't it be bloody to transform with a roar and then transform into the righteous Supa Elf 1 form?" ”

"It's quite exciting to think about~" Nesta also said with longing in his eyes.

"Supa Elf 1? It's all a mess, and it's a righteous warrior. The evil perverted warriors are about the same, so why is it 1, is there still 234? ”

"There should be, right?" Nesta, who was being tested, said uncertainly.

"The train of thought hasn't been settled yet, and the weakness of this '1' form is too obvious now;" Experimenter Nesta gestured to the operation in progress, and continued, "Although it is impossible to die after being destroyed here, the state of high energy supply cannot be maintained, and it will take time to reshape one." ”

Opposite him, another Nesta immediately added,

"But once you're proficient, you don't need to do this step in the lab, you can do it as you go, let me get up and try the effect first;"

The 'I' in his mouth got up from the bench, and after putting away the control of his healing powers, he made it impossible to see the difference on the surface in the blink of an eye.

"Aishara, you should get out first, this is still a bit dangerous."

"Okay, then be careful yourself."

Nodding, Aishara followed her two husbands to the next door, checking the rest of the situation through a layer of highly resistant transparent walls.

And when they went out, after a series of processes such as refining, condensation, and injection in the body, the experimented Nesta began to operate the fission reactor in the body.

"Supa Elf Transforms into !!"

In the midst of Azara's somewhat ashamed gesture of covering her face, after he let out a meaningless yell, violent waves of qi and lightning scattered out from the center of her body, and even her hair stood high in tufts.

"Did it work?"

Although she didn't want to admit it, Aishara felt that her partner in this state was also quite handsome, and asked her husband next to her.

"Amount"

Before the other Nesta could reply, the situation in the laboratory changed, and the body of that Nesta was continuously drumming and contracting around the chest and abdomen, and then at one of the drums, a flame of light was heard with a loud noise;

The light and vibration came so violently that even the super laboratory in the central moon could not completely block it, and there was still a small amount of momentum that passed out, and turned into the vibration and explosion in Aishara's perception;

At the same time, you can also see purple mud blocks flying one after another, some of which are densely smashed on the transparent wall in front of you.

"Well, I seem to be a little impulsive at the end."

Under his partner's frowning gaze, Experimenter Nesta said with some depression and some unconcernedness, but the former obviously didn't want to pay attention to him.

Azhara stood up and immediately headed back for the lab next door.

Walking through the controlled open door, there was a sudden hot smoke and dust that wanted to rush out of the passage, but it couldn't stop shrinking inward under the action of some kind of suction, and the rest of the smoke and fire were all converging towards the center, as if there was a powerful vacuum cleaner there.

As the light and flame dust gradually gathered towards the center, and quickly disappeared somewhere, the majestic silhouette of Nestana, which was about 5 meters high, was revealed in the diffuse red-black color;

His chest and abdomen grew larger and larger in constant bulging, and three thick black and red columns like dragons poured in the direction of his mouth and nose, and countless thin columns of the same color were also drawn from the holes that opened and closed around themselves;

After only a few moments, the laboratory was spotless again, and Nesta's bulging chest and abdomen began to shrink little by little, and quickly returned to the normal level of its current size.

"Haha, it's a bit careless~"

Turning around, Nesta in the center said with a hint of embarrassment, and a few thin wisps of white smoke came out of his mouth and nose as he spoke.

Azhara approached with a cold face, and looked down at her partner, who was noticeably shorter than before, the obvious anger flashing in her eyes, but it only lasted for a moment before it vanished, leaving only resentment and worry, still entangled with each other in her eyes.

"How much have you lost?"

"Not much~"

"How much is it?"

"It's about a hundred tons? But I sucked all those fireworks into it, so I guess I made up a little bit of it. ”

"Tsk" looked at the partner who obviously lost more than 100 tons of body, and then looked at the half-crippled experimental equipment that did not survive one in ten, Aishara shook her head helplessly and said,

"That's a fission explosion, right? Isn't it an energy pile that you built in your body, and how can it explode? ”

"Well, I just wanted to try atomic breath or something, so I temporarily concentrated a little bit."

"Are you stupid?" Pointing her index finger at Dwarf Nesta's head, Azhara scolded a little wretchedly.

Then, as if she remembered something, she divided some threads, and connected them to the back of her brain to check the 'Nesta Volume Growth Log', and saw the detailed information recorded on it.

It's okay not to look at it, but when she looks at it, it suddenly makes her feel angry

The data shown in the log is '170 meters, 2.3 million tons', but the stock shown in the brain is less than '1.7 million tons', so where did the remaining 500,000 tons go, and all of them were lost in the inexplicable experiment?

"How many messy experiments have you done?! What about your body? Where did my 600,000-ton husband go!? Haven't you thought about what to do if there is a hidden danger? ”

Seeing that she seemed to be on the verge of exploding, the three Nestas hurriedly stopped her anger and explained,

"No, no, how can you do an experiment and throw out 600,000 tons, it's all good~"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's all fine, but some of them are not in the scope of monitoring."

"Uh-huh, that's it~"

After hearing this, Aisara's face softened slightly, but she still asked with residual anger and suspicion,

"Really? So where are they? How can there be a place that the brain can't track? ”

"Uh," one of Nesta replied with an awkward smile, "Pretty much outside of the Exploration Zone, but now they're all starting to go back, because things are a little out of plan." ”

Eshara was very smart when she quit deep meditation, and her partner's words and some of the technological changes that had taken place over the years made her immediately understand the twists and turns.

Then she retreated angrily and smiled, and gloated,

"You're just stupid and reckless, haha!"

"Didn't I think of that? Who knew that after breaking through the 'can and can't', the speed of technological progress could be so fast;" Another Nesta said helplessly, "Alas, on the contrary, the breakthrough speed on my own side is unexpectedly slow." ”

"Hmph, the original intention is too outrageous, like an obsessive-compulsive person;"

Shaking her head, Aishara said with some disapproval,

"What if you just find an asteroid to try, can you really eat the resources of the country on your own?"

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Nesta was involved in the entire early development of the Leap Engine, but to be honest, he was not the main force driving the technology, and the high-level spellcasters who arrived in the starfields were the ones who were responsible for the creation of this technology.

Of course, this is not something to be regretted, so after witnessing and mastering the technology, he began to carry out the plan he had prepared earlier.

That is, after going a little further, plant your doppelganger in a suitable place.

However, with the passage of time, the advent of the folding and jumping technique made the original distance of small fights no longer suitable, so he planned to fly farther before completing the planting.

In the absence of the need for volume growth, the elves of the new era do not need to rely on water replenishment and breathing to maintain their vitality, and can have uncompromised activity ability only by relying on the decay of super-heavy elements in their bodies.

As the only genetically prime-aged individual, Nesta naturally possesses these qualities, as do his doppelgangers.

Therefore, the craft can be said to be quite simple, almost only the equipment related to the communication of the virtual realm, temperature maintenance, engines, and energy power, and no one except the elves may have imagined that they can be used for space navigation.

All in all, at the end of Rune Calendar 472, the year when the Snap Engine technology was first born, a total of more than a dozen Nesta clones who were in different star fields or routes embarked on a journey on such a group of improvised flying machines.

He didn't know how high his material transformation speed would be when he was promoted to the atomic level, nor did he know how many star domains would be able to meet the accumulation needs of the Republic, and he didn't know how fast the breakthrough speed of related technologies would be;

That's why he has this journey that is equivalent to exploring the path, ready to open up his appetite for future promotions and find a suitable place to play, maybe it's a little fuss, but in his heart, he wants to explore, anyway, he set off like this

But it didn't come to pass, the internal observation data and derivative knowledge, the manufacturing technology of the composite engine, and the design and manufacturing of the production line, etc., are all through the realm of the virtual realm for efficient real-time communication across space, and after crossing the boundary of 'can and can't', with the spread of the elven footprints, with a speed far beyond imagination, as if there is no end, one after another to form breakthroughs;

As a result, in just over a decade, the scale of distance obstruction has become completely different from what it used to be, and the application of new technologies has greatly expanded the scope of the Republic's access to resources

At this time, the refrillation engine has risen from 6 times the speed in the early days, to 8 times the speed, then to 12 times the speed, and finally to 15 times the speed, and the original speed achieved by its variable frequency traction function has also jumped to 0.85 times the level of light during this period;

After combining the two, the space navigation capability under the new situation has reached a level of 12.75 times that of light

It is known that the current class star cluster, the local star cluster, and the local total star cluster are located at the remote edge of the entire river system with extremely low material density;

However, even the smallest unit, the 'Cluster of the Present Class', is a cosmic structure with more than 1,600 stars, and its widest point is only about 50 light-years.

According to the current navigation ability, even if you really go to the 50 light years, it will only take about 4 years each way and about 8 years back and forth;

What's more, the position of the parent star in it is not an extreme edge region, and if you only consider the navigation within the star cluster, it is rare to need to travel 50 light-years each way.

So when the time comes to 485, although in the exploration cycle of reaching the goal, building a fortress with matter, and then going to the next area, the speed of progress is not exactly the same as the speed of the voyage;

But it's only a matter of time before you can make your footsteps here, and even crossing the chasm between the clusters to get to the side is not impossible;

Moreover, even if it is only counted from the 472nd year of the rune calendar when the Folding Engine was first born, there has been a full 13 years of development and accumulation;

Therefore, the trip of the Nesta clones seems to be somewhat anticlimactic, and the original intention is no longer necessary;

Even if he really breaks through the atomic level now, there will be no more resource problems, it is better to gather the clone and retrieve the maximum observation ability, especially after Azhara breaks through, there is no obstacle to entering the inner perspective together, and it seems to be obvious which is more important at the moment.

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"Hmph, you're always so reckless"

Aishara snorted with some dissatisfaction,

"I'm still thinking about trying to combine with you after the breakthrough to see if I can still observe the inside perspective like before, how can I try to do this now?"

"Well, it's really my negligence, it's okay to say in other directions, anyway, you can always come back fast or slow, but the Black Hole Exploration Ship is there. In the first 42 years, it flew 30 light years, and in the last 13 years, it traveled 85 light years; ”

Nesta said with some regret,

"It's a shame that my doppelganger is going back now, why don't you wait? Maybe there's a breakthrough."

(End of chapter)