Brom Castle.

Woowoo woo –

The steel behemoth called [Dragonbone] was docked above the ruined castle, its massive body emitting a muffled mechanical sound. The behemoth's steel armor reflected the rays of the sun, shimmering with metal, and powerful mechanical components and gears swirled through its body, making a firm and orderly sound, like a precise piece of music.

From the ship's porthole, you can see the complex mechanical activity inside, and the steam pump spews steam that fills the surrounding air, accompanied by a hissing sound, like the breath of a giant beast.

The Iron Behemoth's eyes gleamed with a cold red glow, staring at the ground below.

"This is!?"

On the deck of the ship, Zhou Zhou stood on the guardrail, looking at the ruins under the ship with an incredulous expression.

The once magnificent castle has now been razed to the ground, leaving only ruins. Ancient stones were scattered on the ground, like huge puzzle pieces disrupted and no longer complete; The walls are tilted, the corners have collapsed, and the spire has disappeared, leaving only the traces of the mutilation.

The crevices between the stone bricks are covered with weeds and weeds, which gently sway in the wind, as if telling the story of the decay of the castle.

There was no life, no sound of people's movements, only the low and mournful sound of the wind passing through the stone pillars of the ruins, bringing with it a touch of desolate sorrow. Sunlight shines through the broken windows and shines on the ground, creating a hazy light and shadow that fills the ruins with a sense of desolation.

In this ruin, a man covered in blood was slowly walking in the direction of the ship, and at this time, Xia Xiu, who was controlling the ship, also opened the teleportation circle to lure the other party to the ship.

Phew-

With a not-so-dazzling light lit up, the berserker, who had experienced a bloody battle, walked wordlessly all the way to the ship.

At this time, Waldarsson Broly's face was stained with bright red blood, and the scars were intertwined into a poignant picture on his face, and he held a vampire head that was still ticking and dropping blood in his left hand, his eyes were full of fear and madness, and on his shoulder was a bumpy but headless female corpse.

"Here's what you want."

Broly casually threw Albert's head onto the deck, and the vampire head naturally rolled down in front of the blonde youth, who was also familiar with sticking out his foot on the skull.

"You... This damn human! Loosen your feet from my head!! ”

Albert is different from Nosferatu, who was completely closed by [Sirte], the other party was tortured by the terrifying thaumaturgy and repeated burning at the stake until he lost consciousness, and Albert was simply blown up by Broly.

They are the wielders of the [Vampire Armament], and their immortality allows them to survive even if they only have one head left, and as long as they are willing to burn their core blood energy, it is a small matter to be reborn instantly with a severed head.

However, Albert and Nosferatu were almost autistic after being beaten by Xia Xiu and others, and the core blood energy on their bodies was burned and burned, and it was already delusional to resurrect instantly at this moment, and the only one who still retained a large amount of core blood energy, Torredo Arinia, was infected with the sensory distortion emitted by [Beowulf's Oath], so her consciousness and spirituality were in a state of 2 times slowed down at the moment.

Arinia's head had actually grown several times before Xia Xiu and the others came, but they were all directly crushed by the [Juggernaut Incarnation Beowulf] behind Broly.

Facing Albert's shouting at his feet, Xia Xiu didn't care, his eyes were rapidly flowing with various data templates and parameter information at this time, in the ship's radar detection, there were several red dots exuding a large ARad field that were rapidly approaching him, these are estimated to be the [Combat Team] body purchased by the [Secret Alliance], and the other dense small red dots, needless to say, this is the bloodline troops that are quickly gathering here.

The Daevite Empire's armed system is a synthetic mobile force, or [Combat Team/Tactical Group], which is generally in a high state of combat readiness.

A [tactical group] consists of a mechanized airframe battalion with anti-aircraft, artillery, engineering, and logistical support units, and usually the grouping also adds two specific arms, fire suppression and mobile decapitation, and generally a [combat team group] is 30 to 60 airframes, and every three airframes is a squad.

The Daevite Empire currently has 100 [Fighting Squads] in [Proxy Wars].

It should be noted that the war machinery of the Daevite Empire is very expensive, and the maintenance cost of the conventional [Gladius I] needs to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, not to mention the equipment of weapons.

In the modern Terra thaumaturgical wars, few thaumaturgists dare to enter and exit the mechanical torrent of the Daevites except the angels of the heavens.

The [Secret Alliance] spent a lot of money to purchase a complete [Combat Team] from the Daevite Empire to enrich its military capabilities, in fact, many coastal hubs, especially in the areas inhabited by foreign races, secretly retain a large number of military warfare capabilities - some of them are thaumaturgical equipment and twisted items with a destructive nature; Some are called by evil gods and living gods; Others are newly developed large myamic viruses and perturbed ether-type thaumaturgy······

If it weren't for the fear of the current Terra countries and the deep fear of the heavenly kingdom, these alien races would have raised their arms a long time ago, and the group would have counterattacked back to the main world of Terra.

At this moment, in the face of this gradually approaching enemy, Xia Xiu on the ship has already adjusted the parameter position of [Phase Shuttle].

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of our trip to Reykjavík." Xia Xiu said to everyone present like a tour guide.

"Finally we can leave the vampire's territory, to be honest, you kid made [Smoke-Free City] look like this, the prince of the inner ring of [Secret Alliance] definitely hates us to death, and he will definitely reward us with a high price on the dark web." Turce sat on the deck with his feet crossed, and said speechlessly to the smiling golden retriever in front of him.

"What is the dark web?" A week ago, I asked my own questions at the right time.

For a week, the world is always new, maybe give him a good game, he can play it tirelessly for the rest of his life, because he will always be amazed and loved this game.

When the question was asked, Broly looked at the kid-like, well-informed fox-eared kid in front of him.

The curious look in Week's and Broly's eyes gave Tours a sense of going back in time, he had been a university professor for a while, and it was the most comfortable time he had ever had, and he especially liked the inquisitive and curious eyes of his students, so that when the two of them looked at him with such inquisitive eyes, his old pedantic habits came up again.

"Ahem—" Tours clenched his right hand into a fist to his lips and coughed to moisten his throat.

"The Ocean of Aether is the transcendent origin of a vast anomaly, and most thaumaturgists obtain the power to distort the real world by observing it, and the major lineages of modern Terra are the most advanced observation techniques in thaumaturgy at this stage, and the genealogy is a vast network of people from different parts of the world, which helps all kinds of thaumaturgists construct convenient, efficient, and rational ways of observation.

At the same time, the high-level lineage does not actually make thaumaturgists dependent, [entrificing] is the root of getting rid of dependence, that is, the pedigree network is blocked, and the combat effectiveness of each lineage member will not be affected too much - the essence of the pedigree is to allow thaumaturgists to more easily access all corners of the [Aetheric Ocean] or deepen their thaumaturgical theories.

However, not every thaumaturgist will have access to all parts of the Aether Ocean through the lineage. Part of Oceans of Ether is hidden from regular search engines, but of course, this hiding is not because of how powerful or special it is. It is hidden purely because it often operates on a privately constructed lineage network, and only allows communication through certain means.

This achieves a high degree of concealment, which means that it has countless roots, and there are more than 200 famous dark webs, which make the dark web a hotbed of many illegal or unethical activities - drug dealing, arms smuggling, evil religious crime syndicates are rampant here, and most of the hidden in this deep sea are rare archives, documents, and high-quality and dangerous extraordinary knowledge. ”

Speaking of which, the old pedant Tours couldn't help but think of the first time he came into contact with this dark side thing, and to be honest, it was easier to get into the dark web than he was to get in touch with the anomorphic lineage.

His first contact was because he needed to use a cryptocurrency, which was related to the [Financial Turmoil] and [Ether Tide] caused by the [Financial Street] of the Addison Federation at that time.

Now the countries of Terra have to admit that when the [Financial Street] manifests itself in the whole Terra, it brings many opportunities and crises, once the [Financial Street] fails, such as the collapse of the stock market or the collapse of the bond market that houses many [extraordinary securities], then it will not only fluctuate to the market of the present world, causing the financial crisis of the world, which will have a huge impact on ordinary people.

Its collapse is also bound to cause panic among many transcendents.

This panic is a panic in which the origin of spirituality is threatened, not only a psychological problem, but also a panic caused by a large number of thaumaturgists who observe the [Aetheric Ocean] will inevitably distort the [Aetheric Ocean], and will inevitably produce many strange myogenic viruses, which will inevitably distort the fragile thaumaturgists········

The huge observation effect, the EVE particle riot of a large number of thaumaturgists and the collapse of the ARad field will inevitably set off a huge tide in the [Aether Ocean], which will cause a large-scale natural disaster to appear in Terra.

[Financial Street] binds the entire Terra, and if it is finished, the creatures of Terra will also be finished, not only by humans, but also by other races.

The emergence of cryptocurrencies is itself a distrust of the Eddison Federation, the root of the [financial street], and there are many thaumaturgists who actually do not want to be controlled by [financial cards] and monitored by [risk rating agencies], some believe that cryptocurrencies have the potential to preserve value and resist inflation.

Tours first came into contact with the dark web because it didn't need to use a [financial card] to be able to run some of the permissions of [Financial Street].

And for the sake of scarcity, the total amount of cryptocurrencies is set at 21 million, no more, no less; New cryptocurrencies can only be obtained by dealing with complex issues to verify and add transactions to the blockchain.

Interestingly, the Federation of Addison recognizes cryptocurrencies as a legal form of currency in circulation, and has regulated and regulated them at the tax and regulatory levels. The Addison Federation treats cryptocurrencies as an asset rather than a currency, taxes them and requires transaction reports, well, the main thing is to pay taxes.

"Those guys on the dark web can dare to hang on anyone, I remember that many angels have also been hanged, by the way, Abraham, do you know the recent exchange ratio of cryptocurrencies to Western dollars?" Turce looked up at the blonde young man on the side, he had rarely been on his pedigree since he was sick, and he had been living in A3, not asking much about the outside world.

"This year's market price, 1 coin: 25,030 Western dollars."

Xia Xiu, who was adjusting the parameters of the folding, replied directly without raising his head, he had been paying attention to the movements of the Addison Federation, the [Financial Street] complex financial machine, but it had the potential to kill the entire Terra creature, and it was really not good to care about it.

"Tsk, this thing, it's crazy." Turce couldn't help but smack his tongue and said, his coin was only more than 2,000 Western dollars, and now it has directly increased more than ten times.

"And expect even crazier to come, and the scarcity alone makes cryptocurrencies an incredible holding asset that is indisputably existent, and the next halving, that is, when the amount of cryptocurrency granted is cut in half, is likely to trigger a massive price spike."

The blonde youth raised his head, his golden eyes glittering with various parameters staring at Tours.

"The market capitalization of cryptocurrencies has now exceeded 1 trillion dollars, which is a terrible amount, and there are many invisible hands behind it; And its value is still climbing, and if it is really cut in half, it may create a huge price rise like crazy, and some bold economists are not shy about saying that if this trend is followed, it will reach 1 coin: 1 million Western dollars. ”

"Crazy, how can such a highly speculative and overvalued thing be..."

Turce couldn't help but speak:

"If this happens, its popularity and market acceptance may be limited. The high price may make it difficult for the average user to buy and use it, while more institutional investors and wealthy individuals may be more likely to participate in the market; The advent of cryptocurrencies is itself a means of circumventing the restrictions of [financial cards], and if it does, it will become a high-priced thaumaturgic spell-casting item in itself. ”

"If you're interested in this thing, our next destination is just to have this collection."

The blonde young man rubbed his chin and said to Tours.

"What's our next stop?" Turce asked curiously.

"Our next destination is..."

Boom –

Before the blonde young man finished speaking, a huge roar of the mechized body was heard in the distance, and a red mechized body was rapidly approaching this side, and at this time, the adjustment of the ship's parameters had been completed.

[Start to jump——]

A strong energy field surrounded the ship, like a transparent barrier. As the engine hummed louder and louder, the energy field began to distort and shift, emitting blue arcs and light. The ship seemed to be gathering strength, like a beast ready to leap forward.

Suddenly, a bright white light flashed from the ship's periphery, and with a loud bang, the ship seemed to be violently propelled by an invisible force. Space distorted, time seemed to be pulled, and the ship disappeared in a bright flash.

Phew-

(End of chapter)