Soul of Burning Steel

It has a completely different terroir, a completely different atmosphere, and a completely different sky and land from the Mycroft Continent.

Unlike the world that had just recovered from the ruins, the world in front of me was filled with an aura called 'peak prosperity'.

Undoubtedly, Joshua can conclude that this is the Central Continent in the Era of Glory, the land that the god of rivers, Xinur, remembers most deeply. His own entry awakened the existence sleeping in the deepest part of the god's imprint, making him expanded its field.

Standing by the river where all the rivers converge, Joshua stepped on the rocks on the bank and watched the river flow. Brother Ying and Lin followed his footsteps and came here. The three master and servant stood in place, waiting silently.

The rolling river flows endlessly. It originated from the Miguel Plateau in the land of thousands of mountains. The cold snow water flows along the ditches between the mountains under the temperature of the sun, and converges into streams in the forest canyons. Countless such The stream merged into the same great river, and finally became the long river that ran through the entire central continent.

In the ancient past, the spirit of God was conceived here. It endured the beliefs and prayers of all living beings in the twilight, and produced a form similar to life. The Mother Earth enlightened it, and finally awakened this natural half-god Divinity, and sublimated into a god.

"He's awake."

Suddenly, Joshua spoke, his body leaned forward slightly, and the spirit of the warrior lifted up.

And following his words, a blue misty brilliance rose from the vortex of the river, and the water surged, converging into a huge body tens of meters high, controlled by the half-human, half-snake river god. As the waves appeared in the middle of the eddy, his upper body was a man wearing scales and holding a staff, while his lower body was the body of a giant snake made up of river currents. This young man with long blue hair turned his body sideways, staring at the river bank. Joshua and the others at the place had empty and empty eyes, as if they had no intelligence at all.

And the entire fantasy world also changed with the gaze of this former god.

Noticing that the ground under her feet was rapidly blurring and changing, Ying subconsciously approached the warrior. She grabbed the corner of Joshua's clothes and asked cautiously, "Where is this place?"

Rin also approached, he stood close behind the warrior, and asked softly: "What is he doing, master?"

"This is the inheritance of a lost god."

Joshua replied: "And he is looking for my weakness and is preparing to give me the most severe test."

Warriors aren't lying.

For different existences, the trials given by the Mist of God's Evil are naturally of different levels. It is impossible for ordinary people to be equal to professionals, and silver can never be compared to gold. The wreckage of the God of Rivers does not need to be used, but the existence of a legendary powerhouse is worthy of Shinur's true body, and he will go all out, because at this time he is not a god in full bloom, but has long passed away God's remnants.

Therefore, as the world changed, Joshua could sense that countless information flowed in accordance with the link between him and the imprint of the gods, manifesting in this fantasy world.

As if the wheel of time was rapidly reversing, scenes of fragmented scenes began to appear in the hazy world. First, the main city of Moldavia, which was being expanded at full speed, was followed by Radek, which was relocated in the Great Ajax Mountains. The family cemetery of the Reeve family, the remains of the river god—the engraving located in the deepest part of the mist of God's Evil began to analyze every detail of the warrior's memory, trying to find out the weakness of this powerful tester.

And Joshua didn't resist, for some reason, he let the other party flip through his memory.

Leading the survivors through the Ural Mountains, meditating in the Church of the Seven Gods, and talking with Pope Igor... It seems like a roll of tape that has been pressed for fast playback, and the scenes of the past are replayed, and the surrounding environment is constantly flowing. The rivers and rivers have become deep mountains and old forests, gray islands in the distant sea, and the deep depths of the Star Temple.

The camera turned again, and the sudden change of the world made the sisters and brothers of Shenji a little surprised. They subconsciously held the soldier's hand, wanting to change into a weapon form. If we fight together, we will not be afraid of all unknowns and challenges, but Joshua just held their hands tightly, and has no intention of fighting.

The light and shadow continue to change—traveling together with the primordial fire in the void of the multiverse, falling into the silent and dark world of Grandia, fighting against the old knight, the undead general and the Titan, under Joshua's calm gaze, you can even With connivance, the god of rivers and rivers reproduced everything clearly, but everything the warrior experienced was so heavy that the wreckage of the god also bore a huge burden.

At this time, in the outside world, what appeared in the eyes of everyone was such a scene.

Near the commercial road not far from the mist of God's Evil, many adventurers and mercenaries who also wanted to explore the mist but were afraid to go forward due to fear of risks stayed around the lake. They planned to wait for Joshua and his party to prepare When leaving, buy some information about this kind of fog that will make you unconscious for several days from those knights and college students, and prepare for your future expeditions.

However, it has been more than ten minutes since the soldiers and others entered the fog, and most of the adventurers in the group fell into silence. Except for a few people who are still observing the reaction of the fog, most of them have already lost their minds. Or start communicating with each other.

But such a dull situation changed with the exclaim of a mercenary who had been observing.

"My God, the mist is glowing!"

The crowd was in an uproar, and in an instant, countless pairs of eyes turned to the silver mist not far away.

At this time, the mist of God's Evil has undergone a huge change. The sea of ​​mist that originally covered thousands of square meters is extremely thick. As long as ordinary people enter it, they will be completely invisible within a few meters, as if being swallowed. But now, the fog is thinning at a speed visible to the naked eye. Some of the edges are weaker, and the figures of college students who have not penetrated into the depths of the fog can already be seen. On the contrary, the center of the fog is extremely dense. The mist has gathered into a slowly rotating solid 'ball', which emits an extremely bright blue-blue light from the inside out, like a blue-blue sun.

In the microcosmic field of vision that ordinary people cannot observe, this huge ball of light is actually composed of countless densely packed soul particles carrying a trace of divine power. They are frantically absorbing the free energy around them and connecting them together for calculation and thinking. The entire body of the particles released a bright light, proving that they were undergoing a high-intensity load.

At this time, in the illusion of God's Domain, Joshua's memory replay has reached a very far distance. The silver-haired girl opened her eyes wide and looked at every scene around her. Rin also exclaimed softly, because what they saw was them and the warrior The scene before the conclusion of the contract - the war between Thomas and the orcs in the Grand Canyon, the military life in the Black Crow Legion, the study in the Miskatonic Military Academy, the hard work in the Moldavian territory under the watchful eyes of the old steward and the old lord Exercise... The speed of memory playback is getting faster and faster. In a few years, there are only a few seconds of flashing pictures. In less than half a minute, the life belonging to Joshua Van Radcliffe has been captured by this river. The God of God finished browsing, but the trials that belonged to warriors still did not appear.

"Well……"

As if realizing that he had returned in vain, the half-human, half-snake Shinur's empty eyes showed a trace of unwillingness. Now He is just the inheritance imprint left by the gods of the past, looking for the weaknesses of the testers, and giving them the most suitable Trials are his responsibility and instinct, but going back to the end of Joshua's memory, he still hasn't found the slightest weakness of the man in front of him.

The temptation of money and power is meaningless. The relationship between women and friendship is as thin as water. The desire for food, wine and all enjoyment has no trace in this man. In terms of desire alone, a man has reached the limit of thinness. If No accident, no one can tempt him in this regard.

In other aspects, whether it is physical strength, skill, will, spirit, wisdom or even luck, men are also above the standard. Even if there are occasional flaws, it is not something that Shinur, who is born as a god, can take advantage of. If it is not for Hechuan The wreckage of the God of God is just a fragment left over from the ancient times, and he only wants to complete the inheritance trial task set in front of the body, so he probably ended this meaningless search for weaknesses long ago, rather than irreversibly falling into Infinite loop.

However, for some reason, although the memory has reached the end, the backtracking is still not over. Even Shinur himself did not realize that the world around him is still changing.

The world fell into darkness, as if everything fell into a void that didn't exist.

And at this moment, in the absolute darkness, the warrior stepped forward.

Footsteps rise and fall in the darkness, but in the end, the foot wearing black leather boots does not step on the empty space, but on the clear but ever-changing ground.

In the last scene, Joshua was still standing in Moldavia with the frosty frozen soil and the indescribable void, but the next moment, he was already in a strange world that shocked even the gods. The gods who followed him looked around in shock, as if they sensed something, they immediately raised their heads, and then saw a scene that could not be seen even in the most psychedelic dreams.

This is a piece of land suspended in the sky and in nothingness—on a huge, indescribable, huge blue 'sphere' that is beyond the imagination of weapons, a huge city made of steel is in the dark void. Floating in the middle, the cylindrical space city rotates regularly to obtain enough gravity for life to survive. Countless giant silver ships anchor in the gravity-free central axis port area, and then set off for other steel cities not far away.

In the vast darkness that is so empty and beyond countless continents, there is a golden star shining with dazzling light, releasing light at the far end, and in the surrounding sky, stars gather to form a river, in the dark sky Flickering, they are located in an endless distance where even the rays of light have to travel hundreds of thousands of years, but the faint starlight spans such a long distance and shines on the alloy shell of the space city.

Seventy percent is the sea, thirty percent is the earth. In the orbit of the star, there is a silver satellite a quarter of its size revolving around it. Steel cities are located on this satellite and another one like a flame in the distance. On the surface of an ordinary red star, steel ships emit light blue or colorless light streams, shuttling between the space port in the void and several stars.

Not only Hotaru and Rin were shocked, in such a strange world, even the god of rivers fell into panic. He and Shenji siblings observed the world in shock, so that when Joshua came When he was more than ten meters in front of him, Xinur lowered his head slowly.

Joshua stepped out step by step, and the surrounding scenes also changed step by step. From the Budokan located in the orbit of the planet, in the space immigrant city, step by step, he retreated to the giant city composed of steel and concrete inside the planet's atmosphere, and this The city, which is so huge that it can be clearly seen even in space, is rapidly regressing as time goes by. It has changed from a perfect giant future city with space orbits to a steel ruins devastated by war.

And finally, in a wartime hospital hidden in an underground bunker, the soldier stood in the birthplace of his previous life, standing in front of the half-human, half-god god, he raised his head, looked at the god, and there was no memory in his eyes The dissatisfaction of being observed by others did not have the fear and worry that should have occurred. Joshua just stared at the other person's eyes that were beating blue light like this, as if waiting for something.

Outside, the sea of ​​mist covering a vast area has boiled, causing all adventurers to retreat in horror. The black dragon flying in the sky with a floating ring on its back anxiously moves around the ball of light below it, but it doesn't know The situation of my master and friends, and in the center of the bright ball of light that seems to be about to explode, countless thinking particles flash with dazzling light. They have already calculated to the extreme, but there is no complete soul that belongs to the gods as the center. No matter how active the particles are, they can't get the results they want.

"The powerhouse of future generations."

In the realm of the illusion of gods, soon after, a blunt voice came, and Xinur's empty eyes shone with an inexplicable light. The wreckage of this former god seemed to be a machine that was running to the extreme, repeating the long-awaited words in a machine-like tone. The scheduled reply: "I can't give you a trial, you... the future is destined to be above me, please... go back..."

The colleague who said this, the figure of the god of rivers has begun to gradually disintegrate, and the huge body composed of rivers is rapidly disintegrating into streams of water. The trial knights and college students also felt the turbulence of the trial. In their mission world, all the scenery began to distort, and the voices of people began to become hoarse and sharp. The power is being drawn by the engraving of the most central god to calculate matters related to soldiers, but even so, everything still has no results and falls into the final endless loop.

In the deepest part of the mist of God and Evil, where the stars fell from the sky in the past, a complex light blue rune trembled and emerged from the void. This rune was covered with totem patterns like water flowing and rivers. It was complex and beautiful. The figure constitutes its main body, belonging to the gods, belonging to the supreme majesty. It rotates in the light blue divine light flashing in the center of the rune. It is the remains left after the death of the river god Xinur—a piece containing Inheritance runes that contain all divinity and knowledge related to Jianghe.

However, at this moment, this precious rune, which is enough to make a mortal achieve ultimate intent, a legend or even a god, is shattering violently, and the tiny cracks spread along with the violently glowing mist of God and Evil around. Just a few seconds later, the cracks had spread to every part of the rune, and the blue light spread along the cracks, and the extremely unstable terrifying aura seemed to erupt with the shattering of the rune in the next moment.

Not far away, the extreme blue dragon Suklash vaguely noticed this. It grabbed a carriage containing two humanoid dragons who were scared to the point of coma, and was about to turn to flee immediately, but the soldier's captive After seeing the black dragon flying anxiously around the misty light ball, he couldn't help sighing.

——If you don’t help, you will definitely be killed by that man. Thinking of this, the blue dragon flew towards the black dragon at the fastest speed in his life.

And just when Suklash was about to use magic and dragged the extremely anxious black dragon away, a star suddenly appeared above the bright day sky of Mycroft Continent.

Compared with the bright sun, this star can be said to be bleak, but at the moment when this bleakness formed a flickering light, a majestic and magnificent power that could not perceive its end fell from the sky.

On the ground, the adventurers and mercenaries who were fleeing from the fog in fear stopped still, and a dagger that fell from its master's hand froze in mid-air. In the sky, Sukash, who was flying, was still, and it remained in the scene where it was about to cast a spell on Hei and took the anxious black dragon away.

And around the lake, the surface of the lake that was rippling due to the breeze remained motionless, as if it was frozen in place like ice, and the fog and light balls that were boiling like before did not move at all, and the flashing thought particles remained in place. Be 'governed' by this mighty force descending from beyond the world.

At this moment when everything was stagnant, a rotating black circular holy emblem flashed at the end of the sky for a moment, and at the core of the mist of God and Evil, the runes that carried the inheritance of the god of rivers, Xinur, seemed to be reversed. As time passed, it began to rapidly 'restore' to its original state, the flickering divine light shrank, the spreading cracks closed, and the engravings manifested from the outside of the world due to excessive load began to return to the void, disappearing.

In the illusion of the gods.

The half-human, half-snake river god stopped collapsing, and a mighty force from afar maintained the existence of the god's wreckage. After returning to normal, Shinur's eyes returned to emptiness. He stared at Joshua for a moment, and then closed his eyes. The eyes, then self-dissipate, return to the engraving of the gods.

But what is strange is that this illusion of the gods did not disappear because of his departure, but continued to operate.

Joshua looked thoughtfully at the constantly distorting space in front of him.

Why did this illusory world persist after Shinur left?

The answer is simple.

Another god has entered this world.

"Hello, holder of might and justice."

Staring at the gradually emerging black rotating ring, the soldier nodded slightly as a gesture of salute, and said softly, "Your Majesty Zinsen."

And with Joshua's words, a human form is rapidly condensing out of thin air.

Everything is dominated by a powerful force, the dust in the air, the tiny water droplets floating in the atmosphere and the magic elements invisible to the naked eye, everything that exists is controlled and dominated by the slow rotation of the black ring, and then It turned into countless most basic material particles, and condensed into a majestic man's body from scratch.

This majestic middle-aged man has gray messy long hair. His face is hard, as if he has been forged by all iron fires. The thick and sturdy full-body armor covers his whole body, with countless fine and exquisite reliefs all over it, and the back of the shoulder armor is black. Rumo's cloak fluttered with the wind, like a burning flame.

In a world where everything was static except for Joshua, the majestic god-no, the existence that was originally a god opened his eyes, and in the dark gray pupils, there was an indifference that did not resemble a human.

"Xinur was our staunchest ally a thousand years ago, the river god fought to the last minute against the evil from beyond the world."

Unlike Xinur, who is like a machine, this god whom Joshua called Xingzheng spoke in an indifferent but obviously wise tone. The low and clear voice penetrated the entire illusion space in an instant, The holy and majestic echo echoed in this empty world: "Because of the oath, I couldn't just sit back and watch him disappear, so I intervened in this world."

"Joshua van Radcliffe, successor of the sages, man who rekindled the fire."

Xing Zheng raised his head, and he looked at the soldier, with an inexplicable light flashing in his dark gray pupils: "I know, you have doubts in your heart. You have a purpose in entering the illusion of Shinur's inheritance."

"He is a long-gone wreck, and he cannot answer your doubts, but I, one of the seven gods, can."

Yesterday's 5,800 words, there will be a chapter later, and I will finally finish writing the plot of this Kawen...

I never said that the earth where Joshua is located is a modern society (there is actually a side story)