Soul of Burning Steel

seven gods.

Returning from the void, returning to the Ural plain, Joshua stood on the earth and looked up at the sky. His eyes were concentrated on the boundless heaven outside the world, as if he was staring at the gods in it.

The illusion from the gods dissipated in the increasingly powerful northern region, and the dry cold wind made the warrior's clothes flutter, blowing on his cloak made of dragon skin, it can wipe away people's anxiety, but There was no way to shake off Joshua's doubts.

The seven gods of the human race.

He repeated the word in his mind.

This is not an unfamiliar term. On the contrary, it can be said that everyone knows it. Anyone who lives in the Mycroft continent knows the names of the seven gods, even the most ignorant beggars and farmers— —They may not be able to say the name and title of every god, but they know their existence and pray when needed.

These great beings who have been protecting all living beings since the beginning of the Starfall Era have already become an indelible part of the civilization of the entire continent. They taught the early civilizations of humans, elves and dwarves to cultivate and forge, and taught magic and magic. They have witnessed how a race grows from a member of the natural cycle to the primate of the world. In a sense, the seven gods are the guides and maintainers of human beings. If they are separated from them, the development of civilization will be slow Several thousand years.

"What a hassle."

Looking up at the sky, Joshua murmured, and then he closed his eyes, lowered his head and said in a low voice, "Even if we talked to him face to face, we didn't get many answers. On the contrary, the doubts are getting more and more too much."

If it is said that a world is a book, then in the book Mycroft World, the seven gods of the human race are undoubtedly crucial roles, and it can even be said to be one of the cores of the book, but it is so important The core of the world is full of confusing unsolved mysteries, which makes many people puzzled.

In the cognition of most people, gods need faith. In fact, the gods in Mycroft Continent are no exception. We all need faith, but for them, this faith is not the source of strength that most people think, but a stabilizer used to maintain their own existence.

For this point, it is actually very good to understand. Because of the powerful assimilation of divinity and divine power, it is easy to wash a person's self-awareness into a blank sheet of paper. Even Joshua, a strong-willed legend, cannot last long under the impact of divinity. , and the gods are naturally the same. In order to protect themselves under the huge assimilation power from the divinity, they need the belief of all living beings as an intermediary medium to safely control the divine power.

Gods who lose their faith will not lose their power, nor will they die, but they are easily assimilated by divine power and become part of the source of the multiverse. For human beings, it is even worse than death. For this reason, almost all gods will create churches, encourage believers to preach, and perform miracles from time to time, so that more lives can believe in themselves and fulfill their own teachings and ideas.

But the seven gods of the human race are an exception.

Since the establishment of the Church of the Seven Gods, no one in the world has seen the miracles of the Seven Gods with their own eyes. If not every clergyman can use the unique magic skills of the Seven Gods, and every altar of the temple will be The corresponding festivals and large-scale sacrifices of the Seven Gods will react, and there will definitely be people who doubt the authenticity of the Seven Gods. These seven great beings are completely different from the gods of other races. They strictly fulfill the highest criterion of 'non-interference in the world', So that most of the time, the sense of existence is not as high as that of the king of a small country.

They don't seem to need the existence of faith at all, and they even deliberately keep a low profile. You know, if it weren't for the Church of the Seven Gods still having a sense of presence on the mainland, the popes of all ages are among the most powerful in the entire world, and the clergy are also abnormal. Good at fighting, the belief of the Seven Gods will definitely decline under the instinctive suppression of other forces. If the abyss did not invade in the previous life, nearly a dozen layers of the abyss joined forces, and it is possible that the evil gods behind the scenes forced them to save the world and block the enemy Even the players don't know that these high-level combat powers are so strong that these seemingly silent background boards are so strong.

Therefore, there must be some secrets hidden behind this attitude that completely violates the instinct of the gods and the basic rules of survival.

This is the first point of doubt, followed by the second point, the relationship with the sages.

Every god is an existence that has reached the extreme in magic, battle qi or other power paths. Their power may be slightly flawed due to the limitations of the age when they ascended to the gods, but there is no doubt that they are absolutely perfect. With distinctive personal characteristics, the magic and special power they give must be completely different.

For example, the unique [Rage Instinct] of the orcs [God's Chosen General] and the [Multiple Rage and Bloodlust] of the [God of War Shaman] all foreshadowed the tyranny of the God of War, and the master of the ocean Because their gods are proficient in digging their own blood power, the [Awakening Guardian]'s [Ancestral Awakening] and the [Ancient Priest's] [Ancient Form] are all temporary evolutions or return to the most powerful form of their ancestors. Occult.

The Seven Gods should be like this. In fact, the priests who believe in them do have their own special secret arts, but what is surprising is that the core power system of the Church of the Seven Gods comes from the sages in the Era of Glory. For the way of the Holy Light left behind, the believers of the seven gods need to have made a lot of achievements in the Holy Light before they can choose to practice special secret methods-for other gods, this is an incredible thing, who would use other people's power? The road cultivates its own power? Who would do something like making wedding dresses for others? Stupid to the extreme.

But the Seven Gods did just that, and not only did they do it, they even carried forward the Holy Light—there are definitely more people or elves and dwarves who know the name of the Holy Light than those who know the unique secrets of the Seven Gods, and even the Seven Gods He knows how to use holy light. If these guys claim to have nothing to do with saints, Joshua will be the first to not believe it, and will question those who believe in such words as brainless.

But now is not the time to be constantly entangled with such speculation.

The soldiers noticed that the thinking circuit of the Shenji siblings who had been following behind them had started to feel a little hot. After seeing too many unimaginable illusions for them and witnessing the coming of the god clone, Yingying and Rin are now in harmony. A little dazed, realizing that Joshua's thoughts had returned from afar, the silver-haired girl and her younger brother carefully tugged at the corners of his clothes.

Joshua bent down gently, while the girl stood on tiptoe and whispered in his ear with some anxiety: "Master, are you still our master?"

The magical girl didn't understand what the scenes that flashed through the illusion meant. She didn't have that much thought to think about overly complicated things, but it was precisely because she didn't think about those superfluous things that she could be keenly aware of them. , The warriors not long ago were so strange that it seemed that there was a world as a ditch between them.

"Of course."

Joshua responded patiently and straightforwardly. He said this without any thought or hesitation. Soldiers who are not good at comforting people in this way even simply held each other one by one, amidst the exclamation of the siblings. They hugged each other and expressed their position with the firmest attitude.

Of course not.

He thought so. Of course you are not my servants, not my weapons, and I am not your master.

The soldier muttered silently to himself.

——You are the only family I have in this world.

And in the outer space, at the edge of the boundless heaven, the god of power looked down on the human world, and an inconspicuous light shone on the rotating black ring. This god was thinking silently.

"Joshua." After a long time, He said to himself, "Sinur can't find your weakness, but I can."

His gaze didn't rest on the shy young girl in the arms of the warrior, but on the young lord who was smiling softly.

Warrior, your weakness is that too firm will, and the belief of never giving up and never giving up.

In the face of endless, almost irresistible, and invincible enemies, you will never despair, and you will never run away. As long as there is a slight possibility of victory, you will keep fighting and will never be defeated.

Therefore, it is precisely because of this that you will fall into a cycle. Facing those real enemies, how can you who don’t know how to detour, how to retreat, how to give up and forbearance can win the real victory, you will only fight with them endlessly Stalemate, and finally become part of them, or be caught in an eternal battle—an eternity that is no different from death.

Just like civilizations, civilizations that only know how to fight and kill cannot win the final victory before the final moment. They are destined to burn, just like the stars that have reached the end of their lives, releasing a short but extremely bright light. Then it disappeared into the vast river of time.

"So, don't be a god and go our way."

In the void, the sigh of the gods echoed in the tide of magic and the turbulence of time and space: "That is a road destined to be bound."

The black ring turned slightly, and 'looked' into the demonic tide, and Xingzheng looked at the long light path leading to the other end of the multiverse. The world and civilization that cannot be measured by numbers were ups and downs in the brilliant light mist, and the burning The primordial fire is so eye-catching in the eyes of the gods, as if it contains endless brilliance.

This is the path you should take.

——Macrof Continent.

The warrior does not know that in the distant void, a god stops because of his existence.

On the surface of his body, there is a faint radiance flowing, and the huge and vast power surges inside his body, transforming every detail of this man's body, making his body gradually move toward the most condensed and heaviest body in the world. Also the most indestructible form shifter.

It was the strongest steel born after the end of a star.

There should be another chapter later

Yesterday I went to eat spicy crabs with my friends... I am allergic, I really am not lying to you, who knows why I have no allergies before and now I am suddenly allergic, my whole body is itchy, and my stomach feels uncomfortable. It is probably because the crabs are not fresh. I also feel that it is the same as It smells a bit fishy compared to the previous one.