Soul of Burning Steel

"Human beings are so strange, always so busy for some inexplicable reason."

In the main city of Moldavia, the lord's mansion, and Joshua's study, the silver-haired girl was complaining to her younger brother, "Rin, why are you talking?"

And the black-haired boy who was so busy dealing with all kinds of official duties that he didn't even appear on the stage raised his head tiredly, and looked at his very leisurely sister. He seemed to want to swear, but his good quality and upbringing Let him finally just mutter: "Even if you are not human, you will be very busy... Seriously, you should be very busy, too. What about the two sisters? Aren't you going to take care of them?"

"I had a lot of fun at noon, and I'm asleep now." Standing up from the chair, Yingying walked slowly to the window with her hands behind her back. She looked out the window strangely: "Why hasn't the master come back yet? He should just be with you Hei just went out for a walk together, it's already evening..."

At this time, it was evening, except for the surrounding area of ​​the tavern, the entire main city was quiet, with smoke rising from every household, only the glow of pyroxene lamps on both sides of the street was left.

"I guess he ran a little far?"

While reviewing the official documents, Rin muttered casually: "Hei has been holding back recently. For half a day, she ran with all her strength and might be able to run to the vicinity of the Confused Sea... Sister, don't just watch from the side, help me too." Let me deal with it together."

"No!" The silver-haired girl refused very firmly. She turned around and crossed her hands, making an X: "This is your job, I won't help you!"

"Then don't bother me!"

Angry at Yingying's lack of sympathy at all, Rin roared angrily, grabbed a document and threw it at the girl. The hard envelope, like a board, swirled and flew towards Yingying's forehead.

"It's too slow!"

But the silver-haired girl snorted, she stretched out her right hand neatly, pinched the envelope with two slender white fingers, and unexpectedly firmly clamped the envelope, Yingying waved the envelope in her hand with some satisfaction: "I'm working on the envelope recently." Learn the master's movements! Look, am I going to say 'poor and weak' at this time?"

"...you're happy." Rin was so angry and tired that he was completely speechless at this time, he shook his head helplessly, then turned around and continued to deal with official duties: "Really, I'm dying, don't bother me I'm going to play to find Miss No. 3, she should be on a night tour now, and I don't mind taking a walk with you."

"Miss No. 3 likes to float around in mid-air, and walking with her feels like walking down the street with a kite, it's weird!" With her mouth curled up, Ying glanced at the words on the envelope, Then he snorted slightly: "It's a letter written by Master Moria to the master, Rin, haven't you read it before?"

"Is it from Master Moria?" Rin did not notice it before, he just grabbed it casually just now, but seeing the girl's interested look, he shrugged and said: "Then this letter will be handed over to you, later Remember to repeat the content when the master returns."

Since Joshua often goes out, practices breathing techniques and trains the knights in the knight order, he seldom handles official duties, and most of them are left to Rin, Hotaru and No. 3. Out of trust in these three people, Joshua even handed over his personal letters to them, as long as he repeated the contents in time when he returned.

"Okay." Now that the letter was already in her hand, Hotaru couldn't continue jokingly rejecting it. She sat on a chair beside her and quickly opened the hard-shell envelope mixed with iron slag that dwarves often used, and then read the letter. the contents of it.

—To ruler of Moldavia, Joshua van Radcliffe

The living metal on No. 1 is a real treasure. By analyzing it, I have learned how to activate the metal. This technology is invaluable to the people of the underground (the official name of the dwarves). Thank you for your generosity and selflessness.

The process of metal activation is very complicated. After all, this is the initial version. When you have time, you can come to the dwarf gathering place to watch the process. I also want to know how your power works. This may optimize many steps.

With your current strength, you can no longer use the weapons and armors we forged, but your subordinates will definitely need them. Whether it is used for forging weapons or casting armor, living metal has a very powerful self-repairing ability. At present, I I am trying to use it to make a pair of magic armor, and No. 1 seems to be very interested in it. It has been observing our forging process near the big iron furnace recently. I suspect that it is analyzing the structure of the magic armor.

In addition, I still have some doubts about your last proposal-you want us to use living metal to create an autonomous construct humanoid? This is not impossible, but the size you requested is a bit harsh. Generally, the size of the construct is more than two meters. You also have to be slender... IMHO, that doesn't really make sense, and you specifically asked not to create thought circuits, do you just want a living metal statue?

All in all, the general situation is like this. The rune factory has been completed, and several of my nephews have already gone to preside over the work. As long as the materials are sufficient, about 50 sets of benchmark magic armor can be produced before next summer, which should be enough. The needs of your order.

...

The old dwarf Moria used the format commonly used by dwarves, which means that the words are very detailed. In order to see the above content clearly, Yingying could only concentrate on reading each word. She watched so carefully that she didn't even notice that the door of the study was opened.

"Work very seriously."

A familiar voice came from behind, and Miss Shenji's hands trembled in shock, and she shook off the letter in her hand, but a gentle force caught the letter in the air, and then put it back in Yingying's hand.

"Okay, there's no need to work so hard, you should go and have a rest."

Holding a translucent bouquet of ice crystals in his hand, Joshua walked into the study with Hei. He first touched Rin's head, whose core of thought was about to shut down due to dealing with government affairs for days, then turned to look at Hotaru, a little surprised He said, "I didn't expect that you, Yingying, would take the initiative to help Rin with work. You really look like a big sister."

No. Lying on the table, the black-haired boy who felt like he was about to die roared in his heart: She didn't take the initiative to help me with my work! She is nothing like a sister! But because I really don't want to expose Yingying's true face, I close my eyes and cool down my thinking circuit.

At this time, Joshua walked up to Ying, and stretched out his hand: "This is a flower for you."

Firefly: "Huh?!"

Not only was the silver-haired girl stunned for a moment, but Rin who closed his eyes and rested his mind suddenly opened his eyes, and looked back at his master, and the atmosphere suddenly became dignified.

But the black dragon girl standing on the side patted her chest and broke the atmosphere with a happy face: "I said that the color is so similar, and Yingying will definitely like it. Master, look, she is so happy that she is speechless!"

Lowering her eyes and looking at the flowers in front of her, Hotaru's eyelashes trembled. Rather than saying that she was speechless with joy, she felt like she was dreaming—Joshua would actually send her flowers. It is an unreasonable thing! The word flower, and the name Joshua, obviously cannot be related in ten thousand years! If the soldier gave her a jar of maintenance knife oil, she wouldn't be so surprised.

Out of this kind of trance, the silver-haired girl took the ice diamond thorn flower from the soldier's hand, and murmured in a low voice: "This... I may not be able to keep it alive, I killed the cactus last time." .”

"It's okay." Joshua said with a flat face: "I have asked someone to deal with it. As long as you don't put it next to the stove, it will spontaneously absorb the free elements in the air and grow. The cactus from last time It was you who watered too much, taking care of the plants..."

Not long after the topic inexplicably changed to how to grow flowers, Joshua seemed to remember something serious.

"Before, when Hei and I went for a walk on the Arctic Ice Field, we captured a group of cultists." The soldier always spoke simply and directly. He took the letter from Moria in Yingying's hand, and said while reading it: "No. 3 They are now taking people to the church for handover, but I already know their purpose, which is to prepare for a large-scale attack in Moldova."

Hearing this, Lin Zhi, who was slumped on the table, got up straight, and said solemnly: "In this case, master, we must notify Mr. Brandon and Count Verdani as soon as possible."

But Yingying's reaction was more obedient to her own desires. The eyes of the silver-haired girl who was holding the flowers lit up, and she said with a much more excited expression than before: "Master, are we going to make a move again!"

She looks full of vitality, and she is completely different from when she was reluctant to help Rin with official duties before.

"No." Joshua's reply made the girl extremely disappointed: "I will go alone this time, and I won't bring you with me."

Glancing sideways at Hei who was still full of energy, the soldier said again: "I don't know how to take Hei either."

"Aren't I going too?!" The black dragon girl was shocked.

"certainly."

After comforting the disappointed crowd, Joshua explained the reason: "After all, in my current state, I have been grounded... Although Israel's condition was to stay in the Northland, it wasn't just Moldavian. Ya, and in fact, there is no mandatory constraint at all, but since I agreed, I will not deliberately violate it. His most fundamental meaning is to let me not make any big news, so naturally I will not do this .”

"Then just watch those cultists wreak havoc in Moldova?" Rin pondered for a while, wondering: "Forty percent of our recent cargo circulation relies on Earl Verdani's large fleet for transportation. If the order in Moldova is disrupted, we will also suffer greatly."

"Of course not, how could I just sit back and watch the cultists wantonly attack civilians?" Joshua said as a matter of course, his tone was calm: "But in the final analysis, the name Joshua had better not be too publicized in the recent period, otherwise Israel's face is also embarrassing. I didn't take you there because you are so famous now that it is easy to expose my identity."

By that time, even the cultists have run away, so how can they arrest people. This is the thought in the soldier's mind, but it is impossible to say it directly.

"And whenever I need you, you will come to me right away, won't you?"

indeed so. Ever since Yingying and Rin advanced in the Holy Mountain, they have obtained the ability to act on their own. In the form of weapons, they can respond to the soldier's call and fly to his hand spontaneously. The calling distance depends entirely on Joshua's strength. The ultimate level of strength means that as long as Joshua moves his thoughts in the Northland, no matter where he is, Hotaru and Rin will be able to respond.

In this way, it doesn't really matter whether you have a weapon or not, as long as you prepare before the battle, everything will make no difference.

Thinking of this, Yingying, who was a little disappointed, felt much better. She sat on the chair, tilted her head slightly, and asked curiously: "Then master, are you going to hide your identity this time?"

"That's right, but we still need to tell Brandon and the others in advance." Joshua nodded, and he turned to look at Rin: "Thank you, Rin, for helping to draft a magic message."

"No problem." Although the boy was indeed very tired, it didn't matter to write a text message. Rin took out the paper and magic ink specially for magic text messages, and waited for the soldier to dictate the content.

"Just say it."

As he spoke, the corners of Joshua's mouth curled up slightly, and he said in a subtle tone.

"An extreme intent warrior who does not want to be named will go to visit."