Soul of Burning Steel

The fog has completely dissipated.

The sea of ​​black mist that surged like a nightmare before dissipated into nothingness as if it had never existed, leaving only a corroded street.

The exclamation of the surrounding city guards and church knights has not completely disappeared. Although they saw the disappearance of the two-headed giant, they didn't know why. The powerful fluctuation of power was still shaking their hearts. Only a few mages noticed it. Well, the two-headed giant just now was just a phantom in shape, and it should have completely dissipated now.

But Joshua shrugged and said softly, "Farewell, Organa."

The passing of gods is no different from that of ordinary people, they are all so silent.

And just as he was about to step up and walk towards the old mage and others, the soldier suddenly discovered that his body did not have the weakness after temporarily losing its divinity.

On his bones, the mysterious runes are still flowing, absorbing the surrounding energy, constantly strengthening himself, a stream of pure divine power from the outside world quietly replenishing the divinity he lent to Organa before.

In this way, not only will he not be weakened by the borrowed divinity, but he will also get a little benefit. The soldier can even detect that he can make a little prediction about his future luck or not. This is probably Ogg A gift from Na.

"...What a kind god."

After a pause, Joshua could only express this emotion.

Waving to Hotaru and Rin from a distance, he put away the distracting thoughts in his heart and continued to walk towards the other side of the Avenue of Truth. Along the way, the loose sand and dust made a creaking sound, and the decayed streets seemed to need to be reopened. Construction, for the residents living here, is really an unwarranted disaster.

When passing the place where the two-headed giant disappeared, the warrior suddenly felt a little reflection in the corner of his eyes.

He stopped naturally, then turned his head to look at the place where the reflected light was coming from.

A strange transparent crystal.

"What is this? Energy crystallization?"

Joshua frowned, walked slowly towards the crystal, and picked it up.

And just when he picked it up, a violent energy flow exploded in the soldier's palm like lightning.

It was almost equivalent to the terrifying power of Thunderbolt, enough to completely blow up an ordinary one-story house into ruins. If it was on the battlefield, it would also be enough to blow up the human beings within a radius of ten meters into debris, and the last time it was bombed.

But that's all. This kind of powerful spell may be more difficult for silver-level fighters. They may be able to withstand one shot, but they will definitely not be able to withstand the second shot. The Super Meat Grinder, just need a little attention, and the fighting spirit can resist it.

And Joshua is now a warrior of extreme intent, a level enough to serve as the commander of an army and guard a province. Although he has not fought yet after he entered the advanced stage, his strength is real, let alone comparable to Thunderbolt The energy flow, even if it is raining fire from the sky or lava washing the ground, he can catch it all without changing his face.

The instant he remembered it, the black-red dou qi enveloped the bursting energy without any leakage. Joshua grabbed this strange crystal that seemed to have no weight, narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, and then slightly squeezed it.

Click, crisp sound.

"Huh."

This time I was really surprised, Joshua raised his brows, and his voice was a little surprised: "It's not broken, so hard?"

Just now, with his grip, he completely pressed the thunder in his hand back into the crystal. Although it looked like a light pinch, it was strong enough to squeeze steel into thin paper. If it was an ordinary energy crystal, it would have collapsed because of the structure. It was completely shattered, but the translucent crystal was intact as if nothing had happened.

Joshua began to be a little curious. He could bear the force of his palm. This is definitely not an ordinary thing. In addition, this is the crystallization found at the place where Organa disappeared, perhaps it is the wreckage left by the god. ?

Never heard of it.

In the eyes of outsiders, all this has only passed for a few seconds. The warrior just bent over to pick up something, and then clenched his fist slightly. Only the old mage, Saya and other powerful masters can realize that Joshua suffered a sudden death just now. made an attack.

The big nun was still describing the series of events that happened after he fell into a coma to Robzek who had just woken up, but Nostradamus was in no mood to explain it to his old friend Moore. Of course, the old mage knew about this level of energy explosion It was nothing more than autumn wind to the warrior, but this sudden situation made him vigilant, and he thought that the incident caused by the box of Erebus was not over yet.

After instructing Vera to take good care of his mentor, the old mage quickly walked towards Joshua, and Ying and Rin also followed behind him, and the two walked briskly towards their master .

Joshua turned on the system at this moment.

"Identification."

【Tentative Mysterious Crystal】

【...Item appraisal... The judgment of mythology knowledge failed, the judgment of divine object knowledge succeeded, and the judgment of special knowledge succeeded. 】

[Appraisal report: restless divinity · special fetish]

[Myth: According to legend, the gods have immortal life. Even death is just a short sleep for them. When the time is right, they will wake up again. Died, this restless divinity is one of the various wreckages they left behind. 】

[Sacred Object: Restless Divinity As the name suggests, it is a mass of unowned and extremely restless divine power. It usually appears in the place where the gods have fallen. These things are the core of the fallen gods and the most difficult combination of forces to dissolve. Because it is too pure and solid, this power cannot be used at all, anyone's touch will cause it to counterattack, and the strength of the counterattack depends on the state of the dead god before he was alive. Perhaps intelligent people can analyze some knowledge about gods from the divine power inside it, but the power in it is completely impossible to be used. 】

[Special: Divinity is originally invisible and qualityless, a collection of certain concepts, it is almost impossible to turn into a substance, but perhaps the death of a god is an incredible thing, so some gods will leave behind this special after the fall. A restless crystal, except for attacking everyone who touches it, this crystal is useless, but for some gods or people who are close to the realm of gods, observing these special crystals may have other benefits. 】

[Comprehensive: The transparent crystal containing the power of divinity, although seemingly ordinary and useless, is actually a kind of divine object, especially for some special people. 】

"Is it the crystallization of divinity left by Organa..."

Standing up and looking up, Joshua held the crystal in his hand, and looked at Nostradamus who was walking quickly. He felt a lingering thought in his mind, but he couldn't find the source. The soldier frowned. He frowned and said softly: "Weird, this feeling."

"Joshua, how are you?"

Before the old mage stopped, he asked eagerly from a distance away.

"Not bad, a little hungry."

As he was thinking about the flashing thoughts in his mind, the soldier's answer was very perfunctory, but Nostradamus took it seriously. He immediately turned his head and asked the mages standing far away to prepare food, and Hotaru and Rin also quietly He silently stood back beside Joshua.

After giving instructions, the old mage carefully looked at the warrior, and found that the opponent was indeed intact, and even his spirit hadn't changed much. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief. The black mist before was too weird, even if he didn't investigate clearly He was also unwilling to act casually. The old mage originally wanted to refuse Joshua's request to go in and explore, but finally agreed.

In fact, the moment he agreed, Nostradamus felt a little regretful. As a traditional mage, he felt that he needed to do more research in the face of this unknown situation, and be cautious, but the performance of the warrior was indeed beyond everyone's expectations— ——The black mist that can make powerful people like Robzek unconscious seemed to be afraid of him, and took the initiative to make a passage for him. Joshua entered the bottom of the association unimpeded all the way, and solved Erebo The problem of the Si box made the black mist dissipate.

Although the two-headed giant with a strong momentum did not know what was going on, Nostradamus had a guess in his heart. After all, the Box of Erebus was a sacred object of the ancient race excavated from a sacrificial place, and In addition to the size, the two-headed corpses that are clearly dominant are also very similar in shape to the two-headed giant.

But now is not the time to think about these things. Looking at the sky, it is now late at night. Nostradamus shook his head: "I will report this matter to Israel tomorrow, although he has been paying attention to it all the time." , but this form still has to go, Joshua, you have made great contributions again, this time the entire Royal Mages Association owes you favors..."

"I see!"

Rubbing Hotaru and Rin's hair casually, Joshua, who was originally thinking, his eyes lit up when he heard the name of Israel, His Majesty the Emperor, and he finally understood what the lingering thoughts in his mind were.

He ignored what the old mage said afterwards, and his brain began to work rapidly, recalling the information he knew in his past life and now.

Israel Diamond, the emperor of the Northern Empire, died at the end of 839 or the beginning of 840 in Starfall. Since the initial news was concealed by the royal family, the exact time is not clear, but the error will not be less than two months.

His majesty the emperor suddenly left in his prime and middle age, causing the entire empire to fall into great turmoil. The departure of a legendary powerhouse was not only a great loss of the empire's high-level combat power, but also made many forces feel different. With such thoughts, because there is no accurate will, the princes and princesses began to fight for the throne with the support of the forces behind them.

The civil war waged by the seven princes and princesses caused even more losses than the previous war with the orcs. Originally, the Black Forest territory that the empire expanded due to the era of great development was not very stable. Under such circumstances, it became a semi-independent area. The Northern Empire returned to the level it was ten years ago overnight, or even worse.

The following plot has been told many times. What Joshua is most concerned about now is why a legendary strongman died suddenly in his heyday and middle age.

They are legendary powerhouses, gods who walk in the world, and in ancient times they were even demigods who could call wind and rain. Their power can even shatter the barriers of the world, and shuttle through the void at will. If this level of power is said to be violent Well, Joshua was the first to not believe it.

But before, in the Holy Emblem Hall, the soldiers discovered that Israel had a hidden wound that damaged the source of life.

This kind of hidden injury is a shortfall caused by burning too much life before achieving the legend, and it is also formed by mixing some kind of injury caused by the enemy. It will continuously drain the vitality of the injured, even the legendary strong is no exception , the tree buds of the tree of life have a small chance to heal this injury, but it seems Israel did not succeed.

But even so, it is unlikely that Israel will die in five or six years because of this. After all, he is a legendary strongman, and he is also a dragon knight known for his physical strength. However, Joshua probably understood the reason for the other party's sudden death.

It is this divine crystal in his hand.

If Joshua hadn't crossed over and everything had gone according to the original plot of the previous life, then the chaos in the Royal Mages Association would have been suppressed immediately by the determined Nostradamus and Israel, as a legendary With the existence of God, he will naturally not be troubled by the mist of God's Evil, and he can also detect something wrong with the box of Erebus. Maybe this Emperor has communicated with the God of Despair and Luck, just like Joshua communicated with the other party like that.

However, His Majesty the Emperor was not as desireless as Joshua. Even if he didn't want to become a god, he still wanted to know how to heal his injuries.

After all, Ogner is only Ogre—that is, the god of the ogre in other novels in the previous life. He is unlikely to know any profound solution. The only answer is very likely to teach His Majesty the emperor how to cultivate Divinity, let him become an existence with divinity as soon as possible, so that the hidden wounds will heal without healing.

But... the matter of cultivating divinity is not as simple as it is said. In some cases, it is even more terrifying than the hidden injury of losing vitality

Turning his head and looking to the side, Joshua was thinking about the old mage who was looking at the slightly sighing old mage in the direction of the Palace of Morlaix.

Maybe, he has a way to help this emperor who is said to have died young?

As for why Joshua wanted to help, the reason was actually very simple. It was not for his own benefit, nor for the people of the empire not to suffer from the civil war in the future, nor for the sake of having one more legend, or even a higher level, when fighting against the abyss in the future. help.

Soldiers didn't think about so many complicated things at all.

"I haven't fought him at full strength yet."

Muttering to himself in a low voice, Joshua shook his head, then withdrew his hands and squeezed his knuckles hard.

"It's a pity to die so early."

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