Soul of Burning Steel

Just when the war around the world of Mycroft began, the sixth abyss, the Hell of the Sea and the Inferno.

In the deepest hall of the Tears Valley Fortress, only the shadow demon king sat on his throne, quietly watching the flame in his hand.

It was a mass of blazing white flames, which burned silently, without relying on air, and without fuel. This mass of flames seemed to be born out of nothing, continuously generating holy power from the void, and the pure black demon king placed this fire on himself In the palm of his hand, he could see that when the black energy in the palm of the devil's palm touched the white flame, it was as if boiling hot oil met water, and countless black smoke and white mist spewed out from the place where the two touched, filling the whole place. hall.

If the high priests of the Church of the Seven Gods are here, they will definitely be shocked, because this is the completed form of the highest secret art of the Church of the Seven Gods, the "Imperishable Holy Flame"-this white flame looks like It is fragile, but it is actually connected to the void, and it can burn forever. Chaos and evil beings hit by it will be burned forever until they repent sincerely or are completely purified.

But now, the demon king of the sixth abyss, Goliath the lord of the abyss, is holding such a holy flame and fell into deep thought. Although it seems to be watching the flame in his hand, his thoughts have actually drifted back to the long past .

That was a long time ago, so long ago that it was not yet a demon, it had not yet become the lord of the sixth abyss, it had not yet become the king of demons who ruled all demons.

The gluttonous demon king at that time was nothing but an abyss worm that had awakened around the ruins of an ancient worm civilization.

The cold acid rain hit the roof of the ancient laboratory that was exposed from the depths of the mountains due to rain erosion. With the end of the internal energy cycle that had been maintained for thousands of years due to the collapse of the line, the ancient laboratory was finally forced to end its silent state , once again opened the door that he had closed for an era, and in the deepest part of the laboratory, a hibernation chamber that had been sealed for a long time opened, but in it, an experimental worm was slowly straightening its body, it opened Open your eyes, look around, and watch this world that has been thousands of years away from its original time.

And at that time, an abyss worm entered through the broken gate, it got into the laboratory, and then pounced on this perhaps the last normal worm in the world, and when the other person was unable to move due to hibernation, bit off its throat.

Green blood splattered, and the sound of swallowing raw meat and devouring internal organs could be heard.

That was the first time that Goliath devoured a complete intelligent life soul, and it was also the first time that it produced the concept of 'self'.

That was also the first time it devoured 'kind'

Most of the demons are just the survivors of the destroyed civilization in the past. They mutated in extreme environments, just like the insect civilization destroyed in the civil war. Their super weapons destroyed the ecological cycle of the entire world. The few survivors struggled to survive the centuries-long winter, forgetting all knowledge and falling into beasts. Thousands of years have passed, and the harsh environment caused the beasts to mutate and alienate again and again, and finally became ferocious and bloodthirsty monsters... Gradually, the insects lost their glorious and proud names, and became the words of other civilizations. 'demon'.

The so-called abyss worms are nothing but the original means of reproduction of the worm civilization... Before having civilization, they were originally a race that spread their eggs in the sky and the earth, watching luck to breed offspring. After having civilization, they learned to collectively cultivate offspring, It will no longer throw its own eggs at will, and let the worms wriggle around as larvae. But in the current sixth abyss, no demon tribe has this concept.

At that time, Goliath didn't know what would happen to him later, and he didn't know what he had to bear. As a greedy demon, he was just glad that he found a large piece of delicious and extremely weak raw meat to fill him up For several days, and completed the first metamorphosis. It wasn't until he became the lord of the abyss and the king of demons, and after knowing everything that had happened in this world, that Goliath realized that he might have killed the last normal bugman in the world.

But so what? The era of worms is long gone. They destroyed themselves, and no one can blame anyone, let alone demons.

Now, hundreds of years after that full stomach, the demon king is thinking - at this time, it is not thinking about the 'destruction' or 'conquest' that the demons crave, but thinking about the 'future' and 'hope' '.

Is it funny? not. Even the extremely greedy Demon King... No, it is precisely because of the extremely greedy Demon King that Goliath yearns for the future and hope that will never be possible in the abyss.

After all, in the abyss, compared with absolute strength and victory in war, the hope of the future is a more rare and inconceivable thing. The most naive demon dare not ask for it, and it is precisely because of this that the demon king fell into a long silence.

Under the centuries-old rule of the abyss lord Goliath, the unified demons no longer drink blood or fight each other in chaos. They have regained the basic concept of groups and learned how to build cities... The army of demons followed its Conquering other worlds with footsteps, but as the power of the sixth abyss continued to expand, the targets of plunder became fewer and stronger, and the cruel and bloodthirsty demon king in the past finally calmed down gradually. He began to think about how to Continue to develop the civilization of demons—not worms, but civilizations of demons.

If we continue to wage war like this, one day, the Sixth Abyss will hit an iron plate they cannot defeat, and civilizations stronger than them will completely destroy the Molten Sea Inferno, leaving all demons dead without a place to bury them. Just kidding, Goliath knows that there is no shortage of strong people in the multiverse, and even the world of Mycroft, which was originally the target, has recently shown incomparable potential and strength, which is proof.

So give up the war and develop with peace of mind?

It is also impossible.

The shadow of the Demon King raised his head, and a map of the sixth abyss emerged in his mind—the world resources it possesses are extremely barren, and the poisonous gas and howling gale are strangling the lives of its people. In this desperate doomsday, , Even demons can hardly survive. If it weren't for the large amount of supplies plundered in recent wars, a large number of monsters and demons would have killed each other because of hunger, and a civil war that spread to the entire abyss was launched, and this is also the case of most abysses. Normally, the remaining lives devour each other until the whole world dies completely, just like the Seventh Abyss.

Thinking of this, even a cruel and ruthless Goliath could only remain silent and unable to speak.

Should we use the few remaining resources to build a school, so that the next generation of demons can have a trace of hope and order, or concentrate all resources on strong people like the demon lord, and let these existences be the main body to continue civilization? For the demons who are too old to complete labor, should they be cruelly expelled into the wilderness to fend for themselves, or should they establish a concentration camp to properly resettle these old but experienced demons?

A more extreme question... In order to survive, can the corpses of the same kind be eaten? For the continuation of offspring, can the dead bodies of parents be reused? Should we respect the dead and build graves that can provide boring psychological care for them, or should we treat the dead as resources that can be reused and send them ruthlessly to the cafeteria?

Can demons who have long been accustomed to devour each other and kill each other really have morality and conscience, and pick up the long-gone civilization norms from the garbage dump thousands of years ago?

The answer is no.

Now is the end, here is the abyss - this is the hell that is hated in all the legends, the place of eternal sinking, so there is no mercy or redemption here.

This is the problem that the re-emerging civilization needs to face after the original world order is destroyed.

The reason why demons are demons is not because they want to, but because they can only be demons. Insects are destined to degenerate. In such a doomsday, as long as life wants to survive, it must give up all rationality and morality, because apart from living, They cannot ask for more.

Only the demon king of the shadow stared at the leaping flames in front of him. The flames were so hot that they could melt steel and make rocks boil. It contained incomparably holy power, which could make the ignited Great Intent-level demon howl in agony for seven days and seven nights before he died. , but it can also purify the sewage and revive the polluted land, but Goliath silently extinguished the flame in his hand-it didn't want to see this, the holy fire has no effect on the revival of the abyss. It wants another.

The other one can rekindle the world, satisfy its greed, and allow the devil to have the most precious flame of "future and hope" in the abyss.

Of course, if one day, the demons can take the step they want, then under their feet must be the bones of other civilizations full of resentment and wailing. The rebirth of a race requires the death of thousands of other races. The rise of civilization will inevitably cut off the hope of thousands of other civilizations. Who can criticize whose cruelty and ruthlessness? Who sacrificed, who lost everything, who wept in destruction? Goliath didn't care about that. It is a demon, it is a demon king, and it is the master of the sixth abyss.

"I'm going to have it."

Goliath whispered to himself, and then his voice changed from one person's voice to an accent that seemed to be uttered by millions of people in unison: "We must get it."

Accompanied by this sound, circles of ripple-like distorted spaces echoed behind the Demon King, as if they were replying.

The will of the abyss stands with its overlord. Its wish is the wish of 'it'.

This is their wish.

At this moment, the two demon kings who carried the hope of the demon king were facing their own fears in the blood moon abyss.

Not water, there will be a chapter later