Soul of Burning Steel

"Joshua, are you okay?"

In the silence, the warrior could vaguely hear an urgent call. It was the voice of an elf lady, with the unique gentle voice of elves around the Eternal Lake. At the same time, there was a strange energy released, which seemed to want to Block the connection point between the remains of the evil god of abundance and itself.

Because of this action, Joshua reacted from the cold and dark illusion. He let out a breath, and then actively cut off the link with the remains of the evil god of abundance, allowing his consciousness to return to the real world.

Opening his eyes, Joshua turned his head, and he saw Galannord pressing one hand on his shoulder, the pure force of nature surged, as if trying to wake him up from the long immersion, although this It's not necessary, but Joshua still pulled out a smile, nodded and said, "Thank you for your help, Teacher Nature, I'm fine."

It was already late at night, and Joshua had been linked to the remains of the evil god for more than four hours. Even Lamotte, the sword master of the Western Mountain who cleaned the Black Forest at the slowest speed, had finished his work two hours ago and came to the chaotic land in the center of the Black Forest. spring.

Seeing Joshua connecting to the wreckage of the evil god alone, the holy sword envoy didn't say much, just shook his head, then stood aside, and leisurely lit a cigarette, which was left behind when he was not a legend in the early years. habit.

Originally, according to the plan, it should be the joint efforts of Galan Nord, Faina, Ramot and Joshua to directly use the legendary power to erase the remains of the evil god of abundance from the material world. It doesn't matter whether the link is or not, because No one can guarantee that valuable information can be deciphered from the chaotic whispers of the evil god, but since Joshua wants to try, then others are willing to let him try-but the time of the attempt is too long, so that Even the teacher of nature, who had the most confidence in the warrior, felt something was wrong.

So she took action immediately, preparing to forcibly cut off the link between Joshua and the evil god.

"What did you see in the illusion?"

Galannord and Faina jointly conducted a test on the warrior. She confirmed that Joshua was not infected by chaos, and her mental state was still normal. Afterwards, she patted the warrior's chest, which was a bit strange. Said: "Why did you stay for so long? It's almost five hours."

On the side, Faina, who was reading a magic book, also shrugged: "And you actually took a step back subconsciously. This is not like you. Could it be that mere illusions make you back away in fright?"

This joke immediately caused a wave of good-natured laughter around, because everyone present knew that this was impossible, and apart from anything else, in the battle to seal the will of the world, Joshua was able to kill the Black Dragon King and the two The demon lord, the dangerous situation of the legendary wheel battle didn't scare him away, so how could it be possible for mere illusions?

But Joshua didn't laugh together. His expression was solemn, and even the atmosphere around him became low, and his laughter gradually disappeared. Behind him, the distorted halo where the evil god's wreckage was located suddenly shattered! The distorted circle of light with a radius of tens of meters was originally the source of all the chaotic breath around it, but in an instant, all the chaotic breath disintegrated in the sound of fragmented sharp sounds, and the entire distorted circle of light was like shattered glass. Layers collapsed, and then turned into invisible!

It can be vaguely seen that in the center of the aperture, a strange shadow like a plant leaf emerges, but it only appeared for a moment, and then disappeared, as if it had never existed, and with it, all the chaotic magic around it They all disappeared completely, and they could no longer perceive the slightest trace of their existence!

Seeing this scene, the cigarette in Sword Master Ramot's hand fell from between his fingers. Faina, who was flipping through the magic book, also subconsciously closed the book, and the natural teacher standing beside Joshua took a step back subconsciously. , made a posture of preparation.

However, the mutation ended here, and apart from the complete dissipation of the evil god's remains, nothing unexpected happened.

"Lord Radcliffe?"

La Motte, who was standing on the outermost side, stared at the position where the distorted light circle was originally. He straightened his body and stamped out the cigarette butts under his feet. The Juggernaut turned to look at Joshua, and said in a doubtful tone: "You know...what is this? what's going on?"

"I extracted all the information in this piece of evil god's wreckage, so it decomposed itself."

To this, Joshua replied succinctly: "I am immersed in the illusion, and I am really sorry for keeping you waiting for such a long time."

No one cared about Joshua's apology. Right now, there is only one question in everyone's mind.

What exactly did Joshua see in the illusion, so that the remains of the thousand-year-old evil god could disintegrate by themselves?

Faina was the first to ask this question. She and Joshua often exchange letters on theoretical issues. She is also the first legendary powerhouse who went to a different world with civilization and communicated with the civilization of the courtyard. The two had a good personal relationship, so Faina didn't hesitate to ask about it.

However, Joshua did not directly answer the question of the East China Sea sage. He took a deep breath, then looked up at the sky, and said calmly: "To be honest, if it weren't for the memory of the evil god of abundance, I really couldn't To imagine...too young."

"The multiverse we are in is really too young."

When Joshua said these words, his heart was full of emotion and disbelief.

Because if the memory of the evil god of abundance is not wrong or lying, then according to the research of those high-energy civilizations 160 million years ago, the multiverse including the world of Mycroft was born only 3.2 billion years ago.

What is this concept? The age of the earth is 4.6 billion years, while the age of this multiverse is only 3.2 billion. In other words, the existence of the earth alone is longer than this multiverse!

Although the flow of time in each world is different, if calculated by standard time, there may indeed be a multiverse with a history of only 3.2 billion years, but tens of billions of years have passed in some worlds, but to be honest , Joshua has never encountered such a situation. Whether it is the world of Karlis or the world of Siberia that he went to not long ago, the time flow speed of the two worlds is almost the same-if there is a It's another story for the strong man of the level to control time.

But compared to Joshua's emotion, the other legendary powerhouses showed polite smiles to hide their confusion—although they understood the concept of 3.2 billion years, they didn't understand why it could It is young.

After all, it takes only a few thousand years for a world to take shape from its birth to its formation. It will take at most a few million years for intelligent life to breed civilization from scratch. Because of the existence of extraordinary power and ancient dragons, the possibility of the birth and stabilization of civilization is greatly increased. , the speed has also been accelerated, and the entire Starfall era is even less than a thousand years.

Talk to them about the concept of 3.2 billion years, how can they understand the meaning and empathize with Joshua? For them, the ancient civilization of 160 million years ago is surprising enough.

After understanding this, the warrior couldn't help sighing.

One hundred and sixty million years ago, the prototype of the evil god of abundance, that is, one of the initial high-energy civilizations that formed the world galaxy, should be the first batch of intelligent life after the environment of the entire multiverse became stable. Around the fire, an extremely brilliant civilization has grown up. They can move the coordinates of the world and cross the void at will. They can even determine the age of the multiverse by some means, and artificially create planes and small worlds at will.

But in the long records of such a glorious civilization, there is no trace of the existence of evil gods.

It wasn't because it was deleted on purpose, or it wasn't discovered. In fact, in the records of those civilizations, the evil gods didn't exist in that era at all. Those ancient civilizations selflessly pursued the ultimate civilization. It doesn't seem like there is a little bit of chaos invading, and they may be attacked by external forces at any time. Threatening look? There were no void behemoths in that era, and all worlds were created directly out of nothingness by the primordial fire.

Only at the end of the illusion, after a long period of darkness, when all ancient civilizations are reduced to smoke and dust in the maelstrom of the void, the familiar atmosphere of chaos fills the void, and even the primordial fire begins to shrink, the primordial void behemoth , and the oldest evil god of abundance quietly emerged.

On the side, all the legendary powerhouses listened carefully to Joshua's narration. Warriors don't have much talent for speech, and everything is said in the most simple and straightforward sentences and tone, but everyone, including a The platinum vine mothers of the vines are steeped in truth.

"All philosophical questions will eventually be transformed into practical questions. Why do apples fall? Why do all things exist? If you deduce them carefully, you can get a lot of truth, such as gravity and electromagnetic force... But evil gods are different .”

At this time, the warrior looked extremely solemn. He recounted what he had seen and heard in the illusion of the Fertile God, and narrated his understanding of it: "They reduced the problems of reality to the original philosophical and conceptual problems. We originally I thought that the evil god is actually some kind of the most powerful demon, the most powerful void behemoth, a physical threat. But we are wrong, they do not exist at all. The evil god is actually a kind of force that can change the composition of the material structure The laws of nature, a special concept, as long as it is dominated by this law and concept, even the most normal world will become an evil god."

"Cthulhu doesn't exist?"

Originally silent, Faina asked, as a sage who pursues the truth of the world, her face was heavy: "Joshua, what exactly does this mean?"

"It means that the evil god is actually a natural phenomenon, just like the holy light is created by sages, the evil god is also created by other existences, and it didn't exist in this multiverse at all—the law of nature."

Joshua replied calmly: "The evil gods don't bring about the doomsday—they are some kind of endorsement of the doomsday, and they are the existence of the doomsday itself."

"The destruction of the world is just the cause of their birth, just like an earthquake. The real end is not the destruction caused by the earthquake, but the plate pressure accumulated in the earth's crust."

Suddenly, the entire bottom of the Fountain of Chaos fell silent, and no one continued to ask questions.

The evil god didn't actually exist in the multiverse from the very beginning? Is it a law and a natural phenomenon created by a being?

This really breaks everyone's common sense. After all, according to their previous cognition, the evil god is equal to the remains of the world after death. There is no other explanation, but now, it seems that someone suddenly told them that 1+1 is actually It is equal to 3, smashing all the original cognition.

And Joshua, who had absorbed most of the memories of the remains of the evil god of abundance, had a silver glow in his eyes. He looked around and fell into deep thought. He even planned to take out the communication equipment and contact the legendary powerhouses of his friends and companions. Said: "This is just a guess, not a 100% fact. No one knows whether there will be mistakes or omissions in the memory of the evil god of abundance. There is no need for you to notify other legends so quickly."

"No, Joshua, this is very important."

The teacher of nature raised her head, and she took out a mirror-like communication instrument at this time, as if she was contacting the elf queen of the Eternal Isle, Galannord heard the warrior's words, then raised her head and explained: "The memory of the evil god is what you analyzed. information, and we trust you—and, most importantly, 'the evil god didn't exist from the beginning'."

"Yes, Galannord is right."

Another time, Juggernaut Lamotte also nodded heavily. This casually dressed legendary powerhouse rarely frowned, with a serious expression on his face, and he said seriously: "To be honest, many high-ranking forces, such as the group of warlocks and royal families in Xishan After knowing the existence of the evil gods, their hearts were filled with uncontrollable fear, because they believed that the evil gods were irresistible, even if one was destroyed, there would be a second, a third, endless, endless—— But if it is true as you said, the evil gods are not natural phenomena that existed at the beginning of the multiverse, then it means that they were indeed created by certain beings, just like my sword, which was forged by humans come out of the tool."

"Since they can be created, they can be destroyed. Since they have an origin of birth, they naturally have the possibility of a complete end."

Faina has already sent the information. After all, she is the supreme leader of the East China Sea forces. Her expression is not heavy at this time, but there is a smile on her face: "Listen, I also thought that the evil god is some kind from the multiverse. The phenomenon that existed at the beginning of its birth, like substances attracting each other, and high-temperature objects will transfer temperature to low-temperature objects, makes people completely unable to muster up the courage to fight. But now, after knowing this, I feel that the evil god' But that's it."

Faina's last sentence was nothing more than that, she deliberately imitated Joshua's usual tone - she imitated it perfectly, and even corrected her voice with magic, which made the soldier stunned for a moment, and then, this A sage from the East China Sea sensed the current time for a moment, then turned around and left gracefully, and flew into the sky: "It's very late, the black forest has been cleaned up, and you have awakened, the next thing will be handed over to Mother Vine and Prison Kong." Long, I want to go back to the East China Sea first."

After speaking, with the fluctuation of space magic, Faina simply disappeared into the air.

Immediately afterwards, Juggernaut Ramot also bid farewell. Before leaving, he shook hands with Joshua and showed off the information terminal he made into a ring.

"It's a good thing."

Ramot said with a smile: "It is rare for my wife to give me a gift. She is now a die-hard fan of your Moldavian industrial group, and the house is full of those interesting magic props you invented... This little thing makes me Even if you are wandering around the world, you can chat with her at any time, without having to prepare a large communication circle and magic source at home like before."

"This is the trend in the development of magic props in the future."

Joshua shrugged, and the two of them didn't exchange much greetings. After turning around, the Juggernaut turned into a phantom and disappeared into the real world like smoke.

"I don't have anything to say." The last person is a natural teacher, this beautiful elf lady smiled at Joshua, and then said softly: "However, the elves have joined the empire's foreign exploration plan, officially launched , I will come to the Empire to visit you, Earl, and personally watch the beginning of the first exploration operation."

"You are very welcome, you will not be disappointed."

Soon, the body of the teacher of nature also turned into flying branches and leaves, dissipating between the sky and the earth. In an instant, in the center of the entire black forest, the bottom of the former spring of chaos was empty. According to the plan, the 'seal of another world' was to be used 'The completely sealed remains of the evil god were also completely destroyed by Joshua, and the entire center of the Black Forest will gradually return to normal within ten years, turning into a normal and fertile forest.

Joshua was silent for a long time, his body rose slowly, away from the bottom of the Fountain of Chaos, he stood on the black forest soil that had turned into white gravel.

"Are the ignorant fearless, or do they really have no fear of the truth?"

The soldier sighed, and said in a low voice: "Although it is just speculation, if the evil god is really a natural phenomenon created by an extremely powerful existence like the Holy Light... then, who is this existence? ? How powerful is it?"

And what is the purpose of creating the evil god?

But this kind of contemplation was soon interrupted by a loud noise from afar. Joshua raised his head, his gaze pierced through the layers of woods and hills, and looked into the distance.

It was the sound of Heihe Chuhao in the form of an ancient dragon crossing the terrain and trampling on the black forest, while the surrounding monsters, under the coercion of the legendary monsters beside them, dared not speak out against the opponent's rude actions.

"Forget it, I'm too lazy to think about this kind of question."

Joshua simply gave up thinking.

Regardless of who created the evil god, and why did it do that, is it meaningful to think about this kind of thing? Can you stop the invasion of evil gods by thinking about it? Can thinking about this kind of thing make Joshua stronger? If you can't, then it's pointless behavior.

What's more... as the East China Sea sage Faina said.

"But—that's it."

Repeating this sentence that Faina imitated his daily language, Joshua swept away the little gloom in his heart caused by the memory of the evil god of abundance, he shook his head with a smile, and walked slowly towards the direction where Hei and Chuhao were.

"Speaking of which, why do other legends have such handsome entry and exit methods? Why can I only walk?"

I had a stomach attack yesterday, and I stopped for a day... I should have asked for leave, but I forgot...