Old days in the box

Chapter 527: Soul Return Demon Network is a big chess game

Since the Old Ones reached a deal with the Goddess of Harvest, orders were quickly transmitted from the magic network to all parts of Vanaheim, urging the Old Ones' fleets to gather in the same direction.

The outer ring galaxy of Vanaheim is also the first front line of the fierce battle between the old gods and the divine realm.

Under such orders, the fleets of Deep Watch and Undead merged into a joint fleet, advancing towards the outer ring galaxy while supporting the disaster planets along the way.

But today is the last time, and they are about to enter the final acceleration phase.

"After a brief search, our target has been locked by the magic network. It is initially located in the sixth star field of the Outer Ring Galaxy. At the same time, in that area, we have also received multiple signals from the original atrium. It is estimated that many people are left there. We must recover them all."

In the control room, Freya briefly explained the current situation to the three rulers, as well as the target star field they were about to visit.

"Who are we targeting?" Nordens asked.

"Gabriel, the angel prince of the divine realm, we met him once in the battle of Helheim decades ago, but this time, our mission is to kill him completely." Tyne took over the conversation.

"It looks good. I hope he's a good opponent." Itakuya leaned against the wall and glanced at the screen.

On the central control screen, the image of a tall man was soon displayed. He was holding a contaminated Thor's hammer. He was the first to be promoted among the angel princes and the one who devoured Thor, the god of thunder.

"But shouldn't we be focusing on the mission of retrieving our people and our ruler brothers? Why are we suddenly targeting this goal?" Nodens hesitated and raised his question.

"This is an order directly issued by the Old One. He sees much more and farther than we do, so we don't need to question it, we just need to execute it." Freya said seriously.

"Understood." Nodens bowed his head.

In the first hundred years of the Midgard expedition, the Dominant Primarchs have replaced the Chosen Champions as the core force of the war.

Compared to the Chosen Ones who hold the power of authority, the Old Ones are born to be the darlings of this era. They are super individuals who can hold a large amount of power of faith. They are more suitable for reaching specific locations and performing specific tasks.

It seems reasonable that from the pre-Midgard era to the current era of interstellar warfare, the role of the Chosen Champion has risen from soldier to commander.

In addition to Nodens, Itakua and Ghatanothoa, the third Primarch, Ksira, who is also of Freya's bloodline, has actually awakened. However, since she is the only female among the many Primarchs of the Rulers, her brothers all agree that she needs extra care and did not follow the army into the starry sky.

In addition, among the five Primarch devices held by the Atrium, only one of the Tyne bloodline has not yet awakened.

As for the four Primarchs who were lost outside, none of them has been found so far.

During these decades of expansion wars, in addition to spreading intelligent machines throughout the universe, Midgard has also gradually recovered tens of millions of old Japanese citizens who were stranded outside.

Some of them were former citizens of Byzantium, some were citizens of the Jade Realm, and some were even tribal tribesmen from the Black Cloud Continent. During these decades of waiting, most of them had gradually grown old, and by the time they returned to the atrium, much had changed.

But this is still the mission that the Midgard Army takes most seriously, because bringing all mortals back to Midgard is a promise that will never change. …

On the other side, there is Alfheim, the elven kingdom known as the Alliance of the Old Gods.

After leaving the magic network, the harvest goddess Sif hurried back to the palace in the forest and brought the magic network's advice to the gods there.

During these decades, rumors about the magic network spread from Vanaheim to Alfheim. Gods and mortals alike had all heard of this thing. Now with Sif's personal promotion, it quickly became a trend in the Palace in the Forest.

For the gods and armies on the front lines, the magic network is naturally a rare and valuable thing.

Simplified process, convenient words, extremely fast spell response speed within the coverage area, all these features are a dimensionality reduction attack on traditional magic, not to mention that the magic network is open to everyone;
But on the other hand, for those who are in the rear and dealing with the complicated political struggles between the Aesir and the Vanir, the magic network is not that important. Everyone seems to be more willing to regard it as a bargaining chip.

But no matter what, under Sif's lobbying, most of the gods, either out of support or curiosity, all gradually moved into the magic network and connected their souls to this huge omnipresent network.

Including the elves who were fighting on the front line, under the leadership of their own gods, they all let go of their last guard and chose to embrace the magic network, using this new power to fight against the invasion of the gods' realm.

The quality of the magic net has become unprecedentedly strong.

As a platform for transmitting spells, the magic network uses its own magic power to bear the extra losses of thousands of spells, and in return it is a deep binding of all the souls within it.

Every person who is connected to the magic network - no matter if he is a god or a mortal, as long as he wants to explore higher levels of magic, his soul will inevitably go deeper into the magic network, and gradually develop an inseparable connection with the magic network.

The higher the level a spellcaster reaches in the magic network and the more powerful he is, the more dependent his soul is on the magic network.

In addition to helping to generate the power of faith, this strong connection also means that when the caster dies, his soul will automatically return to the magic network and become a natural nutrient that helps it grow.

As mortals should be like this, so should gods be like this too.

Ever since the gods moved into the Demon Network, their blazing and glorious souls have occupied a large amount of computing power in the seventh layer of the Demon Network.

Indeed, the souls of gods are ten thousand times more dazzling than those of mortals. The consumption brought about by a random thought of theirs is already far beyond the devout wishes of mortals, not to mention the extremely powerful seven-ring spells.

But at the same time, with the influx of so many spirits, the foundation of the entire magic network has become exceptionally strong. With more and more people joining in, the network has gradually become larger and more indestructible, and it has completely established its foothold in the two realms of Vanaheim and Alfheim.

At this time, the queen of the elven kingdom, the goddess of fertility Victoria, finally summoned Sif, hoping to meet with her to discuss the matter of the magic network.

Sif had anticipated that this day would come; for a long time, the so-called alliance of gods had actually always relied on the goddess of fertility to maintain itself, and this goddess was obviously not on good terms with the Old Ones. Now, seeing the gods in the alliance flocking to the Old Ones' magic network one after another, it was conceivable that He would not be happy.

(End of this chapter)