Soul of Burning Steel

"come in."

Accompanied by the sound of pushing the door, the door of the study opened, and the groom from Beppu appeared behind the door.

This ordinary-looking stuttering man with short chestnut hair first paid respectful respect to Joshua, and then began to explain why he came here with a face full of self-blame. This guy stammered and gestured with his hands. It took several minutes to explain the matter clearly—in short, for some reason, Joshua's dragon blood horse [Black] in the stable suddenly refused to eat the feed, and violently drove everyone out of the stable.

"My lord, roughly, the situation is like this."

Listening to the stuttering groom who is covered in mud and has horseshoe marks on his body is simply torture, which can be seen from the expressions of Joshua and Yingying: "Now, in the dark, going back and forth between the horses and the stables , Dubu, just, refused to eat, my lord..."

"Okay, I understand."

Immediately raising his hand to stop the groom from continuing to speak, Joshua stood up with a serious face: "Go change your clothes first, and I'll check the situation now... Yingying, do you want to rest for a while, or go out with me?"

After hesitating for a while, although she wanted to go with the soldiers to see what was going on with Hei, Ying felt that her head was still in a mess, as if a lot of information flowed through her mind without leaving any traces.

"Forget it, you stay here first."

Seeing that his magic machine seemed to be really unwell, Joshua ordered: "If you want to sleep, go back to your room and lie down for a while."

He added: "This is an order."

"……Um."

Seeing that the silver-haired girl agreed, Joshua nodded in satisfaction, then he strode out of the study and walked towards the stable outside the room.

The stables are not far from Beppu. After a short while, the soldiers came to this building made of northern gray pine. It is now evening, the setting sun is about to set, the snow has not disappeared, and the feet creak on the ice and snow There was a creaking sound. Before he could enter, Joshua heard a violent hiss and the sound of something being smashed into pieces.

"It does seem to be angry."

He whispered to himself, he stepped into the stable, Joshua glanced, and saw the wood fragments all over the ground, and the tall black dragon blood warhorse was pacing back and forth in this narrow space, its eyes were Congested and red, he hissed from time to time, then he flicked his head and swept his tail, smashing the surrounding things into a mess.

But what is strange is that even though it was so irritable and angry, when the war horse saw Joshua, the more violent temperament from all over his body gradually faded away, and even when the soldier reached out to touch its head, the head hit him directly. The fierce horse that broke the fence and the door of the stable door meekly stuck out its tongue and licked his hand.

"Pretty good."

Feeling puzzled, Joshua ran along the hair on his neck, and Joshua looked around in confusion. If he hadn't clearly known that the sawdust and fence wreckage were good things done by the guy in front of him, no one would believe that this docile A horse would do such a thing.

"Why were you angry before?"

Asked to himself, and then tried to probe the inside of Hei's body with grudge, the warrior didn't find anything wrong, although its vitality was extremely strong, but it was not abnormal, but the effect of dragon blood— ——Back then Joshua rode Hei all the way back from the Beastman Canyon in the Northwest Plains back to the Northland. He had been running around for seventeen days and nights without rest, and Hei didn't show any obvious signs of fatigue. The fiery dragon's blood provided him with a steady stream of power .

This is fairly average. Some creatures with a relatively thick concentration of dragon blood can even obtain the same ability as dolphins, whose brains are half asleep and half awake. According to common sense, creatures of that level will never have real sleep in this life.

The grudge didn't work, so Joshua used the system to look at the situation of his horse again - the abnormally detailed data report was swiped, but there was no abnormal data, but according to the system display, the soldier was surprised to find that it seemed that it was because of many Accompanying the warriors in battle for many times, experienced several battles, Hei's level has increased several levels, and now it can be regarded as a powerful mid-level silver mount!

"You actually meet the conditions for blood purification. I didn't expect you to have good talent."

Touching his horse's body, the strong, muscular body made the warrior very satisfied: "Very well, the stronger you are, the stronger I will be. As long as you can bear my strength, then I will be able to stand on horseback." The combat effectiveness of your weapon can also increase rapidly, and you also need to work harder, and when you reach the high level of silver, you will be pleasantly surprised."

"Xi Law Law!"

Hei seemed to be able to understand human speech, and responded excitedly.

This is not just nonsense. Joshua knows several ways to purify the blood. As long as he finds some powerful auxiliary materials, he can purify the dragon's blood in Hei's body or the blood for other reasons, and even break through the golden realm.

Leaving other things aside, a golden-level mount is really one of the most extravagant things in the world.

At this time, the groom had already changed into a suit of clothes and drove past him. When he entered the stable and saw Hei Wenmei neighing under Joshua's hands like a kitten, the man's eyes widened immediately, his face full of disbelief.

Hell, I swear by his life of watching the horse for thirty-two years. When the horse kicked his chest and knocked him away, his expression was completely different! Judging from his experience of taking care of dragon blood horses for so many years - this time is definitely the most dangerous! If it weren't for his black iron-level strength and wearing steel-lined armor, several ribs would definitely be broken!

Even so, the steel armor lining was completely dented. If it wasn't thick enough, the groom felt that he must be lying on the ground now, unable to move.

"Oh, here you are."

Patting Hei on the head, Joshua turned his head and said to the groom: "It seems that I was playing with my temper before, or I was a little overactive due to the improvement of strength... Anyway, you should go and see if you feel unwell first. After that, I will go to get a medical fee first."

"It's not big, but people just have a little pain, that's all. After all, it's been so many years to train horses."

The groom stammered back.

"Then go prepare the feed first."

Shrugging his shoulders, the soldier glanced at the manger that had been kicked over to the ground, and said again: "Prepare more meat, I can see that it doesn't eat much grass now."

After confirming that there was nothing abnormal, Joshua returned to the study and continued to process other documents.

But the soldier didn't notice one thing...his passive skill [Purification Flare] had actually been activated once before entering the stable, and expelled something.

Hei stopped in the stable, gorging on the carefully prepared animal meat feed, occasionally a gleam of red gold flashed in his eyes, releasing a burst of coercion, but then the gleam of red gold disappeared immediately.

The voice that had been whispering some strange things back and forth in its ears had disappeared, and the restless blood force in its body became calm under Joshua's comfort. It was finally able to calm down and eat something.

Well, the sides of the head seem to be a little itchy, and it feels like something is about to grow out...

... Time passed, and a few days passed in a blink of an eye.

There was nothing worth caring about in the main city in winter. After dealing with the accumulated government affairs, Joshua became rare and relaxed.

On the morning of December 31, 1983, on the day before the new year, another heavy snowfall fell from the sky.

Walking out of the church and standing among the flying snowflakes, Joshua seemed to be in a pretty good mood.

Probably because of the system, or the improved self-healing ability brought about by the steel armor breathing method, the wound on his left arm healed faster than the old pastor imagined, and he didn't need to rest for a month or two, only two or three weeks It can completely heal, the bone brackets have all grown, and what is waiting now is to gradually strengthen these new bones with fighting spirit, and restore them to the toughness that a golden warrior should have.

On the street, although it was snowing, many people were busy running.

The northern region is really too cold. Judging from the current weather, the body temperature is at least 30 to 40 degrees below zero under the blowing of the wind. This temperature makes it impossible to hold large-scale celebrations in the New Year. There will be a banquet at home to spend the New Year with family and friends, and even single people will get together to celebrate the last night of the year.

A steady stream of felled pine wood is brought in from the city gate and distributed to every family. As a model of evergreen leaves, the Northland holly pine means 'permanent peace and happiness', and it is used to celebrate the new year. Banquet decorations have been the custom of people in the Northland for many years.

"Speaking of which, it's time to prepare."

Before he knew it, he was about to usher in his first new year after time travel, and Joshua couldn't help showing a smile on his face: "If my memory is correct, then as a lord, I still need to do one more thing during the new year." .”

Looking around the city that belonged to him, his eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the rocky walls, seeing every flaming fire of life, the soldier nodded in satisfaction, and then walked towards Beppu in the west of the city.

For this matter, he will call Shangying.

——And the new year is coming.

I slept until 9:30... I've been staying up too late lately...