Soul of Burning Steel

At the end of 833, in the territory of Moldova, due to the strong wind blowing from the extreme north, the thick black clouds in the sky gradually loosened under the sunshine, and the blizzard that lasted for a whole month finally stopped.

In the northwest of the territory, on Mount Mordus, many adventurers walked out of their tents. They looked up at the sky, and one after another, thin golden threads pierced through the gaps in the clouds and fell on the ground, forming a spot of pure white snow. Gold spots on it.

Blizzard is over.

Such thoughts flashed through everyone's minds, so whether they were adventurers, scholars, mages or Moldovan knights, they all turned their heads and looked at the simple mountain not far away.

At the foot of Mount Modes at this time, there are more than 15 gold powerhouses gathered from eight factions, among which the Moldovan Lord's Mansion, the Guantian White Tower Mage Investigation Group, the Imperial Royal Ancient Relics Investigation Group and the Qiyao Council Investigation Group are all official forces. , and the rest are several large mercenary organizations and adventurer teams with gold powerhouses.

In order to determine the first inspection right of the ancient ruins in Mount Modes, these eight forces have been restraining each other for a long time. If the snow had not completely blocked the entrance of the cave, and the stormy day would not be suitable for excavation, maybe it would have been sooner or later. There are forces that sneak in to explore in advance.

But now, the blizzard has stopped, and the negotiations between the eight factions are coming to an end. Soon, they will join forces to explore the mysterious ancient ruins in Mount Mordus.

Brandon Chaos and his wife Verdani Scarlet stood on the watchtower of the Scarlet family camp. The blond swordsman rested his right hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, his eyes full of Worried, while the purple-haired mage stroked the sapphire on the staff in his hand, and he was also worried. The two looked at each other, and then stood hand in hand on the edge of the watchtower, watching the other forces that were gathering not far away.

At the foot of the mountain, vigorous figures came from afar and gathered under the banner of their own camp. In a short time, the total number of all teams exceeded a hundred people.

Eight forces, one hundred and twenty-nine people, including the two of them, a total of seventeen gold powerhouses, such a huge force is enough to crush a full-fledged legion head-on, if everyone let go to fight, Then it is not difficult to turn Modes Mountain and the surrounding Black Forest into flat land. If you are not careful, it will even pose a great threat to the towns in Moldova. .

Brandon understood that if he and Verdani hadn't both had the strength of the golden pinnacle and relied on the power of the empire to make those free and powerful adventurers and mercenary teams feel scruples, these forces would have long since competed for exploration. A large-scale fighting broke out, let alone the current situation, and they are ready to join forces for excavation.

But it's not these small things that really worry them so much, even until now.

Plague Cult.

According to the ranger reconnaissance of the intelligence in the territory, Brandon and Verdani know that there have been at least two teams of elite cultists with gold powerhouses lurking in the Great Ajax Mountains recently, although there is a team of cultists It disappeared without a trace some time ago, and it seems to have left Moldova, but the remaining group of cultists also has a lot of power. , to attack various cities and villages, it will undoubtedly cause great damage.

Just two teams of elite cultists exhausted the couple, not to mention the existence far more terrifying than two teams of cultists.

Herras the Blighter. Just thinking of the name, Brandon couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

The strongest contemporary of the plague cult, the high priest who is only one step away from the legendary realm, is a figure of the swordsman's father's generation. Long before Brandon was born, he had already possessed a terrifying power in the West Mountain area. The prestige of Herras, now that Herras has come to the Northland and is heading towards Mount Modes, compared to him, the more than a hundred dangerous people present plus two teams of elite cultists are no more than Is a meek lamb.

"Dear, Mr. Nostradamus, do they have any news yet?"

On the side, Verdani, who looked tired, said in a soft voice: "It is impossible for the strength of the Northland alone to stop a cult priest of the extreme level."

"No news yet." Shaking his head heavily, the blond swordsman clenched his wife's hand.

This is a lie.

Compared with his wife who has always been in the Northland, Brandon, who is an aristocrat in the imperial capital, must know more information. He had already contacted his family through a magic text message last night, but the news he got was very bad.

Nostradamus is now in the Void Observatory, which is a top-secret place on the outside of the world to detect alien drifters and other worlds. Even with Brandon's confidentiality level, he cannot know the news, but It is an indisputable fact that the old mage is now isolated from the world. Even if the staff of the Star Warden Office notified Nostradamus, he could not return to the Mycroft Continent immediately.

The ruler of the empire, Israel, is not in the imperial capital. In fact, not only the northern empire, most of the legendary powerhouses have lost news in the past few days. It is rumored that Pope Igor of the Church of the Seven Gods held a meeting in the holy mountain. The legendary conference was held, and all the famous legendary experts in the world were invited to discuss a major event.

In addition, several other extremely strong men in the empire, such as the commanders of the major armies, also have their own important affairs. Without exception, they are all in the black forests or dangerous Jedi everywhere, and they are conducting large-scale battles in winter. Clean up activities.

Even if the blond swordsman is as stupid as a pig, after getting so much information, he can guess that now is the time when undercurrents are surging, and big things are about to happen. What's more, Brandon is not only not stupid, but his thinking is as fast as lightning , Through some information exchanged with Nostradamus and Joshua before, he already vaguely understood what this big event was.

Therefore, he knew that this time when the plague cult struck, the reinforcements would definitely not be able to arrive on time. All he could do was to wait as long as possible and delay the time. Thinking of this, Brandon's heart sank even more, but he couldn't tell the people around him, because even telling Verdani the bad news would not help the matter, but would cause panic. The blond swordsman knew very well that his wife She is a stubborn person who would rather die than give up the people of the territory. If Herras really comes, then she will definitely not run away, but will fight to the death for the territory.

Thinking of this, Brandon raised his right hand that was holding the sword hilt tightly, and stared at the palm lines on his palm.

He's already prime gold.

The blond swordsman was silent, no one in this world knew better than himself how close he was to Jiyi.

He has dabbled in the ultimate intent of technique, the ultimate intent of strength, and the ultimate intent of soul, but the one he is most familiar with is the ultimate intent of technique. Brandon has been immersed in the golden realm for many years, and has often been instructed by legendary experts. He naturally understands that as long as he is willing to sink his heart to communicate and comprehend, then he only needs a few minutes to break through the wall of ultimate intention and reach this level. The extraordinary realm, if there is such a realm, then even if Brandon can't beat Herras, he can easily run away with others.

However, such a foundation is not solid, it is not a natural breakthrough, and it will cause great obstacles to his future advancement to legend.

But...Brandon turned his head to look at his wife. Verdani Scarlet was rubbing her eye sockets tiredly. The hard work also brought an indelible wrinkle to the corners of her eyes.

The blond swordsman held the female mage's hand tightly. He watched her turn her head with some doubts. When his eyes met, Brandon knew that he had nothing to hesitate.

When it really came to the most dangerous moment, he would break through the extreme intention without hesitation, and then escape with Verdani.

But just when Brandon made up his mind, suddenly, a dazzling red light lit up in the Great Ajax Mountains in the far northwest. Then, like a unparalleled sharp sword, it pierced through the gloomy clouds in the north, reaching the end of the sky, and in the next moment, a terrifying life radiation that made people feel hot and uneasy came from far and near, sweeping across dozens of snow-capped mountains. Then sweep towards Mordus Hill.

Everyone present did not react, except Brandon, who opened his eyes wide, watching the familiar life radiation sweep across the foot of the mountain in an instant, and then extend to a further distance. The blond swordsman's eyes were full of shock.

"Jo... Joshua?!"

When did he come? !

Because of his familiarity with his friends, Brandon easily identified the owner of this extremely domineering, ignorant life radiation, who was the lord of Moldavia, Joshua Van Radcliffe. As for the purpose of the other party's coming here, with the thinking speed of the blond swordsman, he only needs one hundredth of a second to think of the answer.

Herras the Blight! Only this strong man at the peak of extreme intent can lure his friend who is extremely war-thirsty to leave the territory and use such a vast search method to find traces!

Not only Brandon, but also the other seven forces at the foot of the mountain were in chaos because of this shockingly magnificent radiation of life. All of a sudden, everyone drew their weapons and guarded their surroundings nervously. I haven't identified the source of this radiation yet, thinking that there are some terrifying monsters peeping around.

At this time, in the Black Forest not far from Mordus Mountain, a team wearing gray and black robes also panicked.

When Randall, the priest of the plague cult, was swept by the life radiation like the light of the scorching sun, he felt that his heart was just pinched by an invisible big hand, and the extreme fear even made this high-ranking golden gray The robed priest was temporarily aphasic and suffocated, his lungs were throbbing, but he couldn't breathe a single bit of air.

After a while, he gradually regained his energy. Beside Randall, a large group of cultists behaved even more unbearably. They looked around in horror and yelled some words that no one understood, as if this It can make the owner of the life radiation show his true form, so that he can feel at ease.

"Quiet!"

Although Randall still had a trace of fear in his heart, he had to stabilize the team. He loudly reprimanded the most flustered members of the cult, and then calmed down everyone one by one. After finishing all this, the gray-robed priest took a deep breath, and then said in a deep voice: "It may be the special investigation spell of the Moldovan collar just now, we have been discovered by those forces under Mount Mordus, and the hidden plan has been cancelled." , turn to raid!"

At this point, his voice was full of fanaticism: "Follow the father's will, and sacrifice the blood of the disrespectful!"

"Lovely Father! Sacrifice with blood!"

"The light of life protects us, and all things return to the bosom of a loving father!"

Many heretics responded in unison. They showed fanaticism, and then tore off their clothes. In the next instant, the bodies of these cultists began to deform and expand rapidly. In just a few seconds, they all turned into monsters about three meters tall.

Pooh. Accompanied by a soft sound, the bodies of these inflated cultists cracked dozens of small openings. Under the bright red flesh, arthropods and tentacles that resembled spiders and giant crabs pierced out of them and pierced into the ground. The body was completely shattered, revealing the strange colorful carapace behind it, and a dozen slippery and weird tentacles flicked around, splashing highly corrosive mucus.

Not long after, dozens of cultists all turned into giant deformed spider monsters about three meters high. Human heads were inlaid on the head of the spider monster, firmly covered by a layer of translucent carapace.

Plague cults, body modification secrets, and blasphemy nerubians. Human beings transformed by this kind of evil magic can become extremely powerful when necessary, and have a terrifying spider demon with no solution to the poisonous plague. Its carapace is hard and can easily withstand swords and swords. The weak have the strength of high-level silver, and the strong ones can even rival the gold-level for a short time. Putting it on the battlefield is undoubtedly a super meat grinder.

Only the most elite cultists have this opportunity to be transformed into plague monsters. After transforming, their sanity will gradually dissipate, and they can only regain their sanity by returning to their human body again. But even so, none of the nerubians have any changes , They obediently stayed where they were, looking in front of themselves.

In front of many Nerubians, Priest Randall also began to transform. With a cold snort, the gray-robed priest's body expanded rapidly, and two apparently hard tentacles protruded from his eye sockets, and then condensed into big soaring horns like giant beetles.

Body modification secret technique, abyss giant armor.

It sounded like bones cracking and steel rubbing against each other. A moment later, a half-human, half-worm monster covered with a solid chitin carapace and muscles that were developed to the point of exploding raised its head, and its mouthparts emitted something similar to The piercing sound of insects chirping: "Ka Ka Ka!"

"Hiss! Hiss!"

The nerubians responded one after another, and the next moment, this group of terrifying monsters that seemed to come from the abyss of another world lifted their arthropods and feet, and rushed towards the direction of Mordus Mountain.

And the investigators on the outskirts of Mt. Mordes immediately discovered this group of undisguised monsters. The people who were extremely nervous because of the radiation of life before suddenly found a vent, and they immediately made full preparations to meet them head-on superior.

"It's those fanatics of the plague cult!"

Brandon and Verdani naturally noticed the monster in the distance, and the purple-haired female mage frowned. She stood on the edge of the watchtower, using magic on the camp below, and amplified her voice: "Listen! Prepare to meet the enemy !"

But the blond swordsman was a little out of his mind, his eyes still stayed on the distant sky, and under the spiritual induction, Brandon could know that there was a red star like the sun that released endless life radiation tens of miles away. Breaking through the atmosphere quickly, he flew towards the bank of the Mai Zhe Unfrozen River.

And there, there is an extremely dark black vortex that seems to be able to swallow everything and annihilate everything.

On the banks of the Unfrozen River Major.

The blizzard still hasn't dissipated here, and the suffocating dense snow flakes fell from the sky as if being poured by the gods, covering the surrounding forests and snowfields with layers of ice and snow.

However, the sky in the southwest of the river was suddenly clear. A red star broke through the atmosphere at more than ten times the speed of sound, and came to the sky above this place. The ear-piercing scream accompanied by rolling thunder and shock waves spread in all directions, and it was easily dispersed. Clouds covering half of the sky.

At this moment, the sky is occupied by such two distinct parts, one part is full of scorching sun, and the two suns in the sky and the earth emit scorching hot light, while the other part is silent, and all colors and sounds are controlled by a certain existence. Swallowed, leaving only a cold and empty dead silence and gray.

In mid-air, a man with black hair and red eyes looked down at the ground.

On the ground, a man with dark green hair looked up at the sky.

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