Soul of Burning Steel

"...No matter what, Your Excellency the Grand Inquisitor, what's the point of saying so much?"

Regarding the provocative words of the old man of the Order of Ashes, Judge Grong, Alpha was silent for a moment, then shook his head with a sneer and said: "In the end, I am just a stupid guy who can't even see your traps, Now it’s still in your hands—you can say black if you want to say black, and say white if you want to say white, and I can’t say no, can’t I?”

After saying this, Alpha sighed in his heart - the Ashes Cult didn't arrest him before because they needed to find this 'Crystal Obelisk' by themselves, but now that their goal has been achieved, then Is my own existence worthwhile? Can the safety of my wife and children be guaranteed? To be honest, there is really no guarantee for this. Although the Order of Ashes is an orthodox organization well-known in the entire Shining Region, it is not a good person.

"Do you think that's all you can do?"

However, Grong looked at him with a half-smile: "Scholar Alpha, don't underestimate your own value - whoever you think can easily travel through the distant twilight zone and come to the dark zone, just As if guided by fate, came to your destination without encountering any Chaos monsters, and finally crossed all the safety facilities of this crystal obelisk without any risk, and came to the deepest part of this prehistoric relic?"

"Do you think ordinary people can give birth to geniuses like your daughter and your son?"

Hearing these words, Alpha raised his head immediately, and stared straight at the old man in front of him, his eyes could be said to be terrifying.

But Grong didn't care. He shook his head at the surrounding guards, signaling that they didn't need to stay in place to guard, but asked them to explore the corner of the hall. After the guards left, the white-haired The judge motioned for Alpha to follow him, and then strode towards the center of the hall.

Although he wished to kill Grong's family with one knife, Alpha really wanted to know about his daughter's son, so he could only keep up with him. Grong knew this very well, so he said without looking back: "Don't worry. Alright, Bachelor Alpha, your daughter, son, and your wife are all fine. Rather, their living conditions in the Order of Ashes are much better than what you can provide in the City of Knowledge. After all, we need The power of your daughter, move the stars."

"Moving... the stars?!"

When Alpha heard these words, countless thoughts flashed through Alpha's mind, such as the large-scale disappearance of stars in the twilight area, the ever-expanding dark zone, the ultimate goal of the Order of Ashes, and his own teacher, etc. The purpose of human beings—but in the end, thousands of words are condensed into one sentence: "What do you do to my daughter?! What moves the stars, Siberia, she..."

"Sibia Falster is just an ordinary little girl—you want to say that right? But it's so wrong."

Although Grong seems to be old, he is a powerhouse of the ultimate level after all. Even if Alpha is furious, he can't beat him, but he didn't provoke Alpha too much, but said straightforwardly: "Don't worry, Siberia Now in the sect, she is almost a holy son. No one dares to do anything to her. Although your son is not so amazing and talented, he is also a godsend who can adapt to the power of the divine weapon. Not to mention your wife Now, she doesn't even know your movements, she only knows that you may have traveled far away, and now you are happily bringing your children, immersed in the joy of their success."

"Then, that hand..."

"We had perfect cloning technology 40,000 years ago-and you didn't even check to see if the hand was your child's, wasting the effort of our technicians, it's really too easy to believe."

Although I don't know if what the other party said is true or not, but according to Grong's arrival, he has not hurt himself, and the other party's tone is too casual, it doesn't look like a lie, Alpha's original surging hatred just got stuck like this For a long time...Of course, he is also very clear that the other party is relying on terms to arouse and dispel his hatred and anger back and forth, and to wear down his sense of confrontation, so that he can better pry his mouth open afterwards , but compared to this, he wants to know the recent situation of his relatives.

But unfortunately, Grong didn't say any more, he just continued to walk towards the center of the hall, and then threw out a sentence.

"Do you know, Bachelor Alpha, there used to be gods in this world."

"...This is a well-known fact. From 50,000 years ago to 100,000 years ago, this long 50,000 years has always been the age of the gods."

Ignoring the other party's tone of "what nonsense are you talking about", Grong continued: "But 50,000 years ago, the age of the gods ended abruptly—all the gods lost their power, and naturally, they all perished."

"First, the god of war, then the god of duel, the god of murder, and other gods related to fighting and killing. They lost their divine power first, and then there were various regional gods and creator gods—in the end, all the gods died. Lost their divine power. At that time, the Order of Ashes was still a religious order of different gods, serving the Father’s organization, so we recorded in detail the time and sequence of each god’s loss of divine power, and since then, many floating The city just fell from the sky and turned into ruins and dust."

"Do you understand? In less than five years, all the gods have lost their divine power one after another, and our gods have no time to prepare for early warning-all the temples on the former Great Tenjin Mountain were abandoned, and the center of The divine power transmission network that was built has all disappeared, our country has been divided by long distances, and our cities have been destroyed one by one—the glorious era we once had, because of the departure of divine power and gods, it came to a complete end gone."

When he said this, Grong's tone was full of regret, but he didn't seem to be sorry for the passing of the gods, but for the decline of the Lightseeker civilization: "Our civilization has grown from the boundless dusk area, fully retracted back into the Shining Fields...but then guess what we found?"

"The shining zone is also shrinking and shrinking."

At this moment, the two of them had come to the center of the hall. Right above their heads was the crystal prism of the sleeping blond boy. Alpha looked at each other suddenly, and his tone was flat: "In just two hundred years, the area of ​​the shining area has shrunk by one-twentieth, and the speed of shrinking is still accelerating! According to this trend, only It will take less than a thousand years, and all light chasers will probably live in eternal dusk, or even eternal darkness."

——But 50,000 years have passed, and the shining area still exists.

Thinking of this fact, and the saying of 'moving the stars' in the other party's mouth, a terrible possibility came to Alpha's mind. He looked at Grong, and then said slowly: "So, you can move the stars in other places. ...Come to the shining area? Is this how you continue the shining fire..."

"To be precise, it's not us, but the sons of the stars."

The white-haired Grand Inquisitor had a calm face. He praised the Heavenly Father in a low voice, and then continued: "At the most desperate moment, the founders of the Order of Ashes discovered that in this dying world, gradually some very special children."

"They—yes, these special children are basically girls, and there is no such restriction in some light-seeker races that can reproduce parthenosexually or have multiple genders. But anyway, these special children are all They have the ability to breed offspring. And they... they can control the trajectories of the stars, and even control the steel earth to a certain extent, accelerating the speed of star formation!"

"Strange, isn't it? Don't put on a look of disbelief, it's the truth, and we don't know how the original founders figured it out... Anyway, in the beginning, we called these kids 'Shepherds ', or the reincarnation of all powerful gods, because their orders can control the world and drive the actions of the stars, but later we found that these children are more like 'guide' than 'drive', or 'hope' 'The stars move in the direction they want, not command and control, so now, we call them the Sons of the Stars."

Although it is an understatement, Alpha can imagine how desperate those light chasers who discovered that the area of ​​​​the shining zone is rapidly shrinking in that era when the gods were lost and the chaos invaded, and they found the "Son of the Stars" What a joy it is to be in the end—this kind of exhilaration of rescuing life from a desperate situation is by no means something that latecomers like them can understand.

At this time, Grong's tone also seemed sincere.

"The Church of Ashes has been discovering as much as possible and cultivating more star sons. We transport stars from the twilight area to the shining area to provide new fuel for the central area... 50,000 years have passed, our Civilization is still continuing, we have not ushered in the dark age when the flames are extinguished, but are still burning tenaciously like ashes."

"So, got it? Grand Maester Alpha."

"We, the Order of Ashes, are the ones who have been trying to save the entire world! And your teacher, and your boss, are all 'Sacred Sons of the Stars' that we have not discovered and only recently learned about, and they all have control The ability of the stars, but they are unwilling to contribute this power to contribute to the continuation of our entire civilization. Instead, they have been secretly sabotaging our search for other sons of the stars! This is an act of hostility to all light chasers, yes Almost chaotic behavior!"

"Join us—your teacher is unwilling to contribute to civilization. We understand this kind of selfishness, but we hope that you can put aside your prejudices and become one of us."

While Alpha was shocked, he also reconnected all the clues... Why did Mr. Carliss take so much care of his daughter, and why did the disappearance of stars not cause any disturbance in the League of Nations? It's not that simple—the high-rises are all residents of the shining area, and they must support this kind of behavior of plundering the stars in the twilight area without hesitation!

In this way, basically everyone's actions became reasonable, and the reason why the Ashes Cult was coercive in the early stage, but now they are so gentle with themselves, is probably because they know that it is impossible for me to betray the teacher so easily, so find a chance Follow them, try to convince yourself in places where no one knows, be a spy, or follow the vines to find the hidden stronghold of the teacher and the others, and then get more Star Sons in the hands of the teacher and the others.

Everything makes sense... except for one thing.

"You are all right, Your Excellency the Grand Inquisitor, I can't think of any rebuttals - in order to continue the existence of the shining zone, the real core circle of our civilization, even if the stars in the twilight zone are looted and countless colonies are destroyed, in fact It doesn't matter. After all, all the people I know and know live in the shining area, and all of this is in my favor."

"But... what exactly is this crystal obelisk? Why do you follow me here, as if you have been looking for it all the time, and this life sleeping in the obelisk..."

Having said that, Alpha raised his head and glanced at the densely packed inscriptions and runes on the crystal prism above his head, as well as the shining and converging light, his tone became low: "And, how exactly does the Son of Stars control so many people?" The stars? You have always refused to tell me the situation of Siberia, just saying that she is the son of God, and she is valued... But is she living well? Is she happy? Is it hard? Why don’t you tell me this? As A father, I just want to know that!"

"...You have too many questions."

Grong sighed: "This crystal obelisk... I can only tell you that this obelisk is actually a kind of 'reinforced signal tower'. There is one at the Great Tenjin Mountain. As for the life sleeping here ...Isn't that mural clearly stated? A priest of the seven gods in the era of the creation of all things, a great hero who fought against chaos with the heavenly father."

"You want to wake him up?" Finally, Alpha said in a rather dry tone: "Let this sleeping hero work for you?"

"Of course not, or rather, it's not him that we want to wake up—but, we need his power now, otherwise, how can we control billions of people just by relying on those Sons of Star who were ordinary people or even little girls not long ago? The flow of ten thousand stars?"

Speaking of this, Grong glanced at Alpha's expressionless face, and the white-haired judge couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that you still don't plan to cooperate, right? Obviously I am so patient and gentle... Why can't you understand? In this dark age when the flame is about to go out, all means are necessary. We have tried our best to continue the flame for tens of thousands of years. The sacrifices of generations of brothers and sisters of the order...for our civilization , the religious order has indeed done many evil things, but we will not regret it."

"Of course, if I could, I'd really like to do it myself."

Saying so, Grong waved his right hand, and sparks ignited between his palms, and instantly turned into a flaming sword. He approached Alpha slowly, and declared for the last time: "Scholar Alpha, you are Light Chaser, I will not kill you, but we will brainwash you and let your knowledge and identity be used by us. It is best not to resist, I will use as little force as possible."

"I believe that you did dedicate everything to save the civilization of the light chasers, but compared to you, I am more willing to trust my teacher and my own instinct! Thank you for your explanation, I have understood a lot of things now."

Facing Grong, who was approaching him and whose strength was one level higher than his own, Alpha's body was trembling uncontrollably, but he still stood firmly in place - the top of this person's ears had become sharper, and the surface of his body was even more serious. It was the man covered by a thin layer of silver light, who suddenly raised his head, and then faced the endless light hanging on the top of the hall, and said loudly: "Praise the Lord! Stop the dormant warming process! Activate the repairing beam of light! Start the awakening process! " (Mycroff Common with Silver Goblin accent)

"The unknown pope, the prehistoric hero—this group of people in red and black robes, want to use you as a battery!" (Mycroft's common language with the accent of the silver goblin)

"...What are you talking about?" (Zhuguangyu)

The white-haired old man was stunned for a moment. He vaguely felt that the language Alpha spoke was a bit familiar, as if he had heard some similar clips somewhere...but soon, he realized something was wrong.

Because, an incomparably powerful, incomparably majestic, majestic force that even surpassed ordinary gods and reached a kind of 'limit' is reviving above the heads of everyone present, waking up, filled with its own terrifying aura.

Hum——a low buzzing sound came, as if shaking the entire obelisk, the entire world.

"What, what's going on?!"

Although I don't know the reason, there is no doubt that all this has something to do with the Alpha who suddenly spoke an unknown language! After going through hundreds of battles, Grong made a decisive decision and rushed towards Alpha at full speed - but when he didn't intend to kill at the end, but just wanted to persuade Alpha to brainwash him, this ending was doomed.

Because, accompanied by the solidified silver crystal prism, accompanied by the clear sound of breaking glass, it turned into a beam of light that penetrated the entire hall and even the obelisk. Gently opened his eyes—the sound of a huge heartbeat came, rumbling and rumbling, and in this increasingly rapid and full of vitality, the young man clenched his fists, he was at a loss , and suddenly.

Ah——such a long time has passed?

But it doesn't matter, because he has woken up from a time long enough to forget everything, from a long sleep that seems to be death.

Lowering his head, the light in the blond boy's eyes was very gentle, like the morning light in early summer, kind and warm. Looking at the people in the hall, he smiled and then blinked.

Then, all the light and everyone's actions stopped.

"Among the orders, is there still a cycle of disputes?"

And it wasn't until this moment that Grong, who was stopped in place and maintained a posture of charging towards Alpha, recalled where he had heard this language—it was an ancient divine language, which was rumored to be the creation of heaven and earth. At the beginning, the language used by some gods... Moreover, compared with the voices of the gods that have been handed down, the language spoken by the young man in front of him is more simple and the tone is more gentle.

"I understand. The reason for your argument...Even if it is right or wrong, there is always a difference. As long as you are not strong, you must face a dilemma."

"However, the only thing that eliminates chaos is the eternal consistency among all orders."

In an instant, the colorful light bubbles lingering at the top of the hall gathered behind the young man, and the light condensed and turned into a pure white robe covering him. He took a step forward, and the majestic holy light was like a tsunami Generally, it surges out in all directions, penetrating towards the upper and lower ends of the entire crystal obelisk!

Outside the crystal obelisk, in the dark zone, it can be seen that on the mountain of chaotic corpses that buried the entire obelisk, cracks like blood vessel scars began to burst, and holy rays of light emerged from these cracks. Bursting out, they are like sharp swords and beacons one by one—and after the entire mountain was shattered by the majestic holy light, the extremely huge, extremely mammoth, as high as twenty-four light points The majestic mountain collapsed and faded like this, and an extremely bright holy light shot out from the top of the obelisk, was strengthened and amplified, and finally turned into a beam of light that penetrated the infinite darkness of the no-light area, reaching the sky and the earth!

And in the huge earthquake that gradually spread towards the endless distance, in the smoke and dust that rose endlessly, a majestic and magnificent silver obelisk emerged from the ancient rock formations and history, standing on the ground, dazzling holy light , according to thousands of kilometers, countless chaotic monsters are all turned into fly ash just by touching!

But at this moment, inside the obelisk, Alpha, who was also stagnated, looked at Grong, who was shocked and angry, and his eyes were full of joy.

"Didn't expect that?"

"I can understand these inscriptions!"

Since entering the obelisk, Alpha has always felt that there is an instinct awakening in his blood. When he looked at the murals before, he felt that he seemed to understand those complicated inscriptions. As time went by, this memory and The knowledge became clearer—it was really thanks to Grong who had been trying to persuade him to join the Cult of Ashes, otherwise, he might not have been able to understand the inscription hanging on the top of the hall next to the crystal prism.

【Clean the dust every three days】

[Do not forget to check the dormant warming program]

[Before starting the awakening process, remember to activate the restoration light beam first, otherwise it will be difficult for the sleeper to come out by himself]

[Don't forget to praise the Lord loudly (emphasis)]

【】(Silver Fairy hasn't decided what to add to be reminded yet)

It’s fine if you don’t know this series of inscriptions, but after knowing them, Alpha found that these words were written crookedly, and the font size was large and small. There's no such thing as aesthetics—but whatever! Awakening this unknown sleeping life may be what the teacher asked me to do here. To be able to understand these poorly written inscriptions is undoubtedly something that only I can do!

But at this moment, outside the obelisk, deep in the dark zone, is the top of another mountain.

"It seems that the little guy has done a good job. Another old friend has awakened. He is different from those of us who have awakened halfway and have no power. He has enough power to change the current situation."

Wearing a brown capable explorer suit, with silver hair and red eyes, and fair skin, if not wearing a weird goggle telescope, he would be a well-known bachelor who is completely beautiful. Baron Carliss is staring at the rising pure white beam of light in the distance , she said to herself with emotion: "That's it again, alas, I really can't figure it out... Why do human beings always have some weird things that are in love with goblins?"

"You made a mistake. As far as I know, this time it should be the goblin who first confessed to the little guy's ancestor."

On the side of Karliss, the same silver-haired and red-eyed royal bachelor Mycroft, with slightly healthy skin, shook his head and fingered, and said, "The race on your side is relatively pure, while the mixed-race race here is more pure." Too much—do I need to talk about how mermaids mixed with centaurs to create a race of seahorses?”

"……no."

Shocked by what her friend said broke the lower limit of the three views of ordinary human beings, Karl List paused for a moment before continuing to look at the crystal obelisk. Her tone was quite emotional: "It seems that I did not misread— —Among all the living beings in Zhaozhaojingjing in this steel continent, he is indeed the only one who has fully awakened the blood of the silver goblin and holds the internal management authority of this 'silver world'."

"Since all the silver goblins were sacrificed in the battle of chaos fifty thousand years ago, and some of them were voluntarily converted into 'divine machines', this is probably the last bloodline left by that guy's family."

"The guy who can attract the reincarnation of the steel python is naturally not an ordinary person. Compared to these, he is still staying with the group of people from the Church of Ashes, is it okay?"

Shrugging his shoulders, unable to continue the story of the blood relationship between the mermaid, the centaur, and the seahorse, Mycroft seemed a little uninterested: "If Igor is not careful and asks them to kill your student, it will be the end of the story." The authority of the silver goblin is gone."

"Let's not talk about whether Igor is so dull, even if he is dead, he will be resurrected. What's more, the Cult of Ashes will not do this. Although their methods are dirty, ugly, and inhumane, they are also true. Working hard to save the world is the same as us."

Having said that, Carliss and Mycroft rose slowly at the same time, their bodies were wrapped in silver light, and the light of the leap was shining in the direction of the distant beacon of light, and when the leap left , when going to where the obelisk is, you can hear the last voice of Karlis.

"It's just, if it is said that their purpose is to 'continue the fire'."

"Then our purpose is to 'extinguish the fire'."

——The day when the salary is exhausted, when the flames are rekindled.

This day will come, will come, and will come soon.

They firmly believe.

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