Soul of Burning Steel

This is a scorched world.

The sky was covered by gray smoke and dust, and the sun's rays could only see a dark yellow dot. On the ground, the forest was burning, the hills and grasslands were scorched black, and countless human and beast corpses were scattered among them. In the smog, only seven huge portals can be seen standing on the mountain peaks in the distance, and red light is projected from them, like seven dim suns.

Looking in through the portal, you can see the blood-red sky, the red lava lake, and the endless fortress made of bones and black iron, where countless monsters with wings roar.

This is exactly the layer of [Abyss] closest to the mainland of Mycroft, the scene of the molten sea and fire hell, and those hideous fortresses are the camps of the demon army.

Joshua's will was suspended in mid-air. He stared at this scene, the burning fire reflected in his red pupils. The soldier remained silent, except for the crackling sound from the burning forest, the surroundings were completely silent.

And this silence lasted until another wave of will appeared beside it.

"Unexpectedly, you have also seen the opening of the gate of the abyss..."

A voice emerged out of thin air. This voice was ethereal and holy, as if it was echoed by many people at the same time. Its tone was very surprised: "Have you also experienced that era? Or, can you see the future?"

"Who are you?"

Joshua didn't answer the other party's question, and Joshua didn't turn his head. He stared at the seven huge portals in the distance, and asked in a calm tone, "What do you want me to see this illusion?"

"This is not an illusion, the inheritor of the power of the sage."

The voice said slowly: "This is a scene you have experienced or seen before. All I did was provide a 'blank' scene, but you recalled it."

"...No matter what, if you have any purpose, let's talk about it quickly."

The other party was not malicious, which is why Joshua was able to patiently communicate with this voice, but there is a limit to this patience, the soldier turned sideways, looked in the direction of the voice and said impatiently: "My companion Waiting for me to wake up, now is not the time to dawdle."

Through his own will, Joshua was able to see the outside world. A giant black dragon was galloping across the land. It jumped over hills and canyons, forests and ruins. Countless rock giants and flying stone demons were chasing after it. On the back of the dragon, the paladin frowned and tried various methods to wake him up. Ying and Rin also tried to communicate through their contract, but nothing worked.

His body has already fully healed under the influence of the Azure Orb, and the feedback he received from destroying the Thunder Mountain is so huge that even a serious injury that is near death is completely fine now. The reason why he cannot wake up is entirely because of his The soul is trapped in this illusion.

In the direction from which the ethereal voice came, there was only a cluster of green light, which was different from Joshua's indistinguishable human figure in reality. There were countless human faces shining in this cluster of green light. They were either majestic or kind, facing this The light group, the soldier narrowed his eyes, and said lightly: "Besides, if you hadn't suddenly transmitted the voice when I was retreating, I might not have been injured."

"It was a regrettable accident, soldier. I didn't know it was a critical moment... Of course you will wake up, but not now."

The voice seemed to have not heard the threat hidden in Joshua's voice, but said slowly as before: "The place your companion is going to is extremely safe, there are no Chaos monsters in that direction, and it is the only one that can Where to restore the current situation... As for now, soldier, don't you want to know what's going on in this world?"

"...It seems that you understand the current situation very well."

After being silent for a while, Joshua raised his eyebrows, and he smiled interestedly: "Let's talk."

"I happen to be at a loss about that."

The world of Ilgna, on the Great Plains.

In order to avoid being attacked by the stone monsters, Hei led the crowd all the way, but it seemed that because the other party could perceive their existence, the half-dragon did not escape from the pursuit of the rock giants, and more and more soldiers followed closely behind them. Behind him, there were even many other types of stone demons.

For example, there are densely packed flying stone demons that seem to cover the sky.

Hei's speed is much faster than ordinary stone golems, let alone slow-moving rock giants, but the speed of flying stone golems is extremely fast, and half-dragons occasionally have to bypass some complicated terrain, causing the distance to be pulled repeatedly close.

"Hei, can you go faster?"

On the dragon's back, Rin looked at the flying stone demon behind him like a dark cloud version, and said to Banlong hurriedly: "The stone demons are about to catch up!"

And Hei let out a long cry, and the golden core on his chest flickered—it wasn't that it didn't want to go faster, but no matter how fast it was, it couldn't guarantee the stability of its back, and everyone might be thrown off.

The situation is so far, there is no good way, as time goes by, the flying stone demon in the sky is about to catch up with the half-dragon that is running with all its strength, and several huge figures emerge from the churning clouds. They look like gargoyles, with With bat-like wings, this kind of Golem seems to be an evolution of ordinary flying Golem. They screamed and rushed towards the half-dragon, spitting out beams of light wrapped around thunder, bombarding everyone.

"Hide to the right!"

"Quickly speed up!"

Since Hei couldn't see the direction of the light beam coming from behind, Ying and Rin could only tell it where to avoid while observing. Hit, but hit the ground, setting off waves of shock waves and smoke.

However, there was a beam of light crossing the arc and shooting at a strange angle. When they realized that this beam of light was different from the others, neither Ying nor Rin had time to remind them. It buzzed and trembled. It happened to hit the half-dragon's flank, and Hei let out a howl of pain as the lightning flashed.

The blow just now was like lightning, bringing incomparably scorching and paralyzing pain. Even though the black carapace has extremely strong magic resistance, it still felt great pain, but in order not to affect the pain on the back. Paladin and others, it endured the pain and continued to run forward, but the speed slowed down a lot. Immediately, more flying stone demons pulled into the distance, and the situation was critical.

"I don't have time, I can only rely on luck, I hope this guy can wake up soon!"

Faced with such a dangerous situation, Lolanda, who was still trying to wake up Joshua, had to temporarily give up on waking up the warrior. He read the holy words and summoned his great shield and war hammer from the void.

[Soul Armament] This magical technique can turn weapons or armor of a certain quality into incorporeal bodies and store them in the magical space, so that paladins can use weapons to fight no matter how bad the situation is. He soared into the air from the flying thunder beams, brandished his giant shield and quickly blocked the crosshammer, smashing all the densely incoming beams into arcs of lightning.

"Protect Joshua well, leave this place to me temporarily!"

Flying back to Hei's back again, Lolanda briefly explained the mission to Ying and Rin, and then he flew up again to resist the continuous attacks of the stone demon.

In the face of these chaotic monsters, the paladin showed amazing fighting skills. He used the holy light and fighting spirit to block all the attacks that hit Hei one by one while flying. Occasionally, a stone monster could approach his side , will be shattered by the war hammer that blooms with divine light.

If it weren't for Lolanda not wearing armor now, which made him afraid to take some powerful magic attacks, otherwise his performance would be even more outstanding.

But no matter how powerful the paladin is, he is only one person, and more and more flying stone demons are approaching in the air, which gradually makes him, who was originally at ease, fall into a hard fight.

Moreover, as the magic power in the atmosphere became stronger, these stone demons who had only the most basic abilities gradually acquired various special powers, some of which could threaten the paladins. The wings suddenly disappeared, and then appeared behind Lolanda, it pecked fiercely at the paladin's back heart, and the tip of the sharp stone beak glowed with metallic light.

With this blow, even steel will be torn, not to mention the human body, instinctively felt the crisis, Lolanda roared, and then burst out of fighting spirit, forcibly displaced a certain distance in mid-air, dodging After this attack, he swung his sledgehammer angrily, blasting the stone demon with teleportation ability into two pieces.

Although the crisis was temporarily escaped, the situation took a turn for the worse. The rock giant in the distance had disappeared, and was thrown beyond the horizon at the speed of the black, but in mid-air, the clouds kept stirring, as if there was some giant behind it that was about to descend. .

Blocking several thunder beams, Lolanda couldn't help but look up at the sky.

Then, in his shocked eyes, the clouds were torn apart.

A gigantic stone demon like a flying giant whale was revealed.

Different from the creature-like stone golems around, this huge flying stone goblin is more like some kind of sky fortress. It has no wings, but only has a hexagonal geometric body, and the bottom of the body is shining with a light blue magic talisman Wen, as if that's the driving force behind its ability to float in the sky.

Loranda forgot to defend, until a beam of lightning shot directly at his head, he suddenly raised his giant shield and hastily blocked the blow.

Ying froze in place, the silver-haired girl opened her mouth slightly and let out an exclamation, while Rin shuddered, he frowned, and smiled wryly: "What kind of monster is this?"

He and Joshua once went to the famine world full of Aragami, where there are countless huge monsters, and he even fought against the extreme Aragami with the warriors, so he has a strong resistance to the current scene. sex.

But even so, it doesn't change anything.

In the huge air fortress, there was a burst of noise, which was like the silver human figure, which was extremely harsh, but it could make people understand the content of the mental noise.

"Coordinate terminal No. 4 to carry out the clearing mission. The target is five. It is estimated that the number of attacks required to destroy it cannot be estimated."

The voice was dull and indifferent, as if it was just a predetermined voice from the machine: "Start attack—"

After finishing speaking, complicated magic circles began to emerge at the bottom of the fortress, they were running like gears, and then, a steady stream of magic fell from the sky, roaring towards the half-dragon and the people on its back.

Fireballs, frost, lightning and explosions, invisible impacts and scorching white light beams, all kinds of attacks slanted down like rain, Lolanda broke out with all his strength, holy light mixed with grudge, condensed in the large shield in his hand On the day, he even took back the Crusader Hammer, and concentrated on using the giant shield to resist all kinds of magic attacks.

But he could resist a hundred spells, and the air fortress could tilt out two hundred spells. Under the almost endless spell attacks, the paladin finally reached the limit, and was blasted into the ground by a blast of flames.

Faced with this amount of magic attacks, Hei's huge body is really an excellent target. Even if it is a half-dragon, no matter how dodges, there will always be a few spells that will hit it. Although the carapace derived from the blood of the ancient dragon has excellent magic Hei couldn't resist, but hei's body was still scarred by the constant attacks.

Ying and Rin used their bodies to protect Joshua. As gods, although they have a certain amount of power, they are absolutely impossible to resist spells of this level. They have no choice but to do so.

—Is this the end?

——Is it true that all of them will be wiped out here as the sky fortress said?

"Okay, go away."

A voice came from under the gods.

Ying and Rin raised their heads in surprise. They looked at the warriors under them, and then smiled happily. After being signaled by their master, they hurriedly stepped aside and stood aside.

Joshua, who was a little pale, sat up slowly. He stood up, looked at the huge air fortress in the sky that was about to launch a terrifying beam of light, and took a deep breath.

His voice was a little fluffy, but extremely firm.

"let me."

I wish you all a happy new year and a prosperous year of the rooster!

I hope that in the new year, I can write more and better plots for you without getting stuck!