Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 319 The Fusion of Gods?
The wheels rolled over the snowy street. Aegir, who was in the driver's seat, controlled the steering wheel and made a sharp turn at the corner. The steam gushing out of the exhaust pipe melted the frost that had solidified in the dark corners and snow-covered windowsills. Hot air rose up, but was soon swallowed up by the wind and snow, and was swept into the vast expanse of white.

After narrowly avoiding a panicked pedestrian on the street for who knows how many times, Aegir slammed on the brakes and stopped the steam locomotive borrowed from the local Night Watch headquarters on the side of the road. He turned around and said to Wade Locke who was sorting out his equipment, "No, Captain! The blizzard is too fierce, and the visibility is very limited. If we continue driving, the probability of a traffic accident is very high!"

This is a pure steam-powered locomotive without any modification of magical components. Therefore, even if there are auxiliary magical devices such as "heat source capture plug-in" or "life form detection plug-in", they cannot be installed on it.

Wade carefully examined the hood and mask in his hand, and asked without looking up: "How far is it to the area where the Eternal Summer Palace is located?"

"If we walk, it will probably take another fifteen minutes."

"That's enough." Wade gave the order succinctly: "From now on, abandon the vehicle and walk to the mission site; please note that the summoning ceremony is already in the awakening stage, and the conception of the spring spirit Tifu may wake up from his slumber at any time, so during the mission, everyone must wear the infection meme isolation device and the refining factor filter device."

"Got it!" The team members responded one after another and began to change into corresponding equipment.

The infection meme isolation device is the hood in Wade's hand, with a feather-shaped cloak attached to the back. The overall tone is a cold ice silver, and the surface is painted with intricate and delicate magic circuits. The feathers that make up the main body are made of steel and are connected together with iron chains. When walking, they make a clattering sound, as if wearing a heavy chain mail.

The refining factor filtering device is the mask. From the appearance, it is no different from an ordinary chemical gas filtering mask, but it covers a larger area, almost wrapping up the back of the head and neck. There are three rows of six pairs of small auxiliary filter tips on the left and right cheeks respectively. The material of the filter layer is more complex, which can not only effectively block the entry of chemical gases, but also filter out harmful substances mixed in magic power.

The functions of these two devices are not as complicated as their names suggest. They were both created to resist the refined power of the conceived gods. The inventor, Mr. Mendeleev, was promoted to a philosopher for this achievement. If the Continental Alliance had these two devices during the 200-year Steam Crusade, they would not have been forced into a desperate situation by the Alpha Knights.

Wade didn't have time to pay attention to his companions' complaints. He hurriedly looked up in the direction of Yongxia Palace, trying to confirm whether the imagined Quan Lingtifu was still in a dormant state. The result made him feel relieved.

About five seconds later, the door of the steam locomotive was opened, and the fully equipped Wade team left the vehicle and entered the street. The four people were wearing the standard uniforms of the Order Balance Arbitrators, cloaks with steel feathers, and dark red filtering masks. The magic furnaces on their belts were roaring and spewing hot steam. They were equipped with various magic devices. From the outside, they had a fantasy style that surpassed all cold and hot weapons of the current era. This made them look like characters from science fiction, full of strange charm.

"It looks like we still have time." He said to his companions. His voice was a little muffled under the mask, but it still came through the howling wind and snow: "Aegir, please use the clockwork fairy to monitor the situation on the nearby roads..."

Sally herself did not feel this way. As soon as she left the steam locomotive, she stepped on the snow covering the street. The snow was so thick that it sank directly to her ankles. In front of her was a vast expanse of white, with flying snowflakes and ice crystals everywhere, and her vision was extremely limited. Obviously, the magic clothes blocked the coldness, but the girl from the Lessenwell Prairie still shuddered in discomfort when she saw this scene, muttering, "What a terrible weather."

In this dim and dark snowstorm, the shadows of all the buildings became dim and turned into moving shadows. The only figure of the god who brought the disaster could be clearly seen: a huge crystal floated under the rolling clouds like an ice coffin. The goddess in the coffin had her eyes closed and fell into a peaceful sleep. Only the icy vortex above her head and the six diamond-shaped ice wings on her side were still blowing wind and snow to the world below, creating a severe winter.

"Captain!" Michelle suddenly shouted, staring at the god in the sky: "Something is wrong!"

Wade Locke looked up reflexively, and he knew how serious the situation was without Michelle's explanation: In his field of vision, a thick and heavy khaki light column shot up from the direction of the Eternal Summer Palace, quickly sweeping away the violent and turbulent snowstorm, making the world suddenly clear. It was obviously just a light column, but it was more magnificent than the towering tower formed by more than a hundred dark blue light rivers. It was wrapped in amazing momentum and hit the ice crystal in the sky fiercely, injecting it with another completely different but seemingly consistent power.

At the beginning of the collision of these two forces, it was a fierce confrontation that could not be described in words. The blizzard seemed to be wailing and the earth seemed to be shaking. Neither side could tolerate the existence of the other, and it was bound to be a fight to the death. With the collision point as the center, all the buildings rumbled, as if they were about to collapse under the weight of the snow and become ruins. However, just when everyone thought that the moment of explosion was inevitable, the two forces strangely merged, as if they had found the most perfect balance point, which could integrate the two different spiritualities and create a brand new posture.

Rochelle's current state is magical. He feels that he does not exist, but he is everywhere; he feels that he still has material thoughts, but he feels that he is falling into an endless abyss of nothingness; he sees God nodding and smiling at him, but in the blink of an eye, He disappears, and all he sees is a familiar face, who is calm, cool, tough, paranoid, indifferent, cruel, noble and mean, just like another self in the world. There is an infinite amount of power hidden in this man's body, which are the many spiritualities he has collected while traveling across the earth to revive the glory of the fertile land: the rough and primitive power from Ankelier, the "Big Mine" in Ryatom, the "City of Holy Steel"; the extremely suppressed anger from Turia, the "Chimney Mountain" in Ash City, the "City of Tiles"; and the savage yet vibrant scene of the Sosen Mountains, the "Wolf's Lair of the Continent" in Rustin, the "City of Prosperity"... He still remembers all of this, and he has touched all these memories with his own hands, and now they will be reborn in his hands.

Ah, he suddenly realized that this person was himself.

That's right.

He is his own God.

The omnipotent God saves all living beings and also saves himself.

……

When the two completely different forces, the spirituality of water and the spirituality of earth, began to merge, everyone saw amazing changes. A violent earthquake suddenly broke out in the nearest area, and countless houses collapsed with a rumble. Then, the building debris was pulled free from the constraints of gravity by some invisible force and floated towards the crystal in the sky. A huge and majestic clay monster was constructed below it. It looked like a terrifying monster crawling out of the ruins of a swamp. It had no mouth, but had sixteen pairs of bronze eyes, flashing the dim light of a broken street lamp; eight sharp and huge rock legs, and the fragile joints were covered with thick mosses, lichens, iron-colored shrubs and huge rust-red mushrooms; it used its sharp and broad back to support the weight of the entire crystal. The twisted steel bars and pipes were the entangled algae, and the dark bricks and metals were the silt at the bottom of the river, giving it a solemn and terrifying feeling.

At the same time, the khaki lines spread rapidly along the surface of the crystal, gradually smearing the pure and clean cold coffin with a heavy and corrupt yellow-brown color, as if it was wrapped in a barren wilderness. The silted swamps on the wilderness gurgled with dirty bubbles, and from the sticky and filthy mud gradually emerged pairs of huge arms, which seemed to be made of gray rocks covered with weeds and vines, with a ball joint structure like a puppet. More than a dozen pairs of rough and bulky rock arms waved wildly and disorderly, stirring up waves in the dark clouds in the sky, with electric snakes wandering and wind and snow howling.

Looking upwards, the ice crystal vortex on the top of the crystal was gradually contaminated by the ochre and yellow-brown colors that symbolized the earth. A huge and terrifying head slowly emerged from the center of the vortex. It looked like a human face, but was covered with deep grooves and had no facial features. Only a roaring and snarling mouth with sixteen rows of sharp teeth inside. It was like a ferocious beast from ancient times, rushing towards them with violence and anger, in stark contrast to the tolerant and indifferent temperament exuded by the Goddess of the Spring inside the crystal.

As if influenced by the spirituality of the earth, the goddess's exposed skin gradually crawled with lines symbolizing thick soil and heavy rocks, extending along her arms, shoulders and neck, all the way to her cheeks and forehead, adding a bit of wildness to her sacred and noble temperament. At the same time, a golden holy stone suddenly emerged in front of her chest, firmly embedded in the surface of the frozen body. It was the holy stone that Rochelle touched in the garden greenhouse of Yongxia Palace.

The appearance of the holy stone injected the most fundamental driving force into the sleeping God of Conception. As a result, the flawless eyelashes of the goddess of spring, who had originally closed her eyes, suddenly trembled slightly. Then, she slowly opened her eyes, revealing a pair of indifferent and empty crystal eyes.

In an instant, the giant clay beast holding up the crystal suddenly burst out with a surging breath, and its eight legs trampled the earth wildly, causing wave after wave of violent aftershocks; a dozen rock arms poking out from the inside of the corrupt yellow-brown crystal slapped the void even more angrily, and even slapped the clouds above and the ground beneath their feet, raising visible smoke and dust that mixed with the blizzard, blurring the vision of all living things; the head overlooking the world under the vortex roared to the sky, and a shrill roar burst out from its mouth full of sharp teeth. The tangible sound waves instantly swept across a large area of ​​buildings, and the clattering sound was like building blocks being pushed over.

This monster... no, this god, a hypothetical god formed by the fusion of the Spirit God of Springs - Great Tifu and the Spirit God of Mother Earth - Great Titan. Perhaps it can be called the God of the Abyss, but it has no name.

now.

He finally woke up and came to the world.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)