Soul of Burning Steel

In this world, occasionally there will be some people with incredible talents. They have made incredible efforts, gained incredible strength, and then achieved incredible achievements, and finally left their mark in history. name.

Such people are called heroes or lunatics.

And Lolanda the Fallen is undoubtedly such a character.

Loranda Glamorgan, one of the most talented paladins in the history of the Church of the Seven Gods for nearly a thousand years.

He was born in a prominent aristocratic family in a certain kingdom in the Eastern Plains. When he was young, he was sent to the church by his parents for refuge because of political struggles. However, he did not give up his life after falling into the mud from the clouds, but relied on His talent and hard work gradually come to the fore.

At first, as a junior clergyman, he was unknown and rarely appeared in front of everyone. Instead, he honed his strength silently and completed the tasks assigned by the church. Like a young lion, he trained himself to fight Skill.

But Joshua knew that three years later, in the star fall 835, the year of pioneering, Loranda would go out of the Holy Mountain of the Far Sea, and carry out crusade against cults on the entire Mycroft continent, whether it was the Empire or the Far South, Whether it was the eastern plain or the western mountains, or even the archipelagos on the Brilliant Sea to the Ocean of Storms, he had fought bravely.

At that time, what appeared in front of everyone was no longer the silent and firm clergyman before, but was holding a mace and a square heavy shield, wearing pure white armor, burning with righteous anger, and fighting against all odds. The power of blocking crushes all paladins who dare to stand in the way of evil people in front of him.

Players who were lucky enough to fight with him all expressed that Lolanda is reliable. Under the surging enthusiasm of the paladin, the uninterrupted gain power spread to the team with the halo, and even enveloped the entire battlefield. It was difficult to move forward, but they were like ducks in water, and seemed to have divine help.

Because of the successful eradication of cults in various places, the name of Lolanda has spread all over the world because of many people who have praised his achievements. Some people who have been deeply harmed by cults even suggested that the church should be named before the name of Lolanda. Adding the word [Holy] that can only be added by the most outstanding clergymen of each generation, at that time, everyone thought that he would advance to legend and become the next generation Pope, or the grand master of many knight orders in the church. .

At this time, the new king of the kingdom where Loranda was born even directly declared that his father, that is, the previous king's sentence on the paladin's parents was wrong. He publicly apologized and immediately built a hero monument for him.

But at this time, Lolanda, who had experienced many battles, didn't care about these things anymore. He rejected the king's invitation to become a knight of the country, but returned to the holy mountain in the far sea, sorted out the harvest of these years, and put away the anger in his heart. Precipitate, temper your own soul, in order to step into a higher realm.

It only took him less than ten years to go from a silent and firm junior clergyman to a paladin who was burning with anger and eradicating cults, and finally to Saint Loranda who was indifferent to the world.

Even the players didn't have many negative comments on Loranda. Such an ascetic clergyman had no black spots. At that time, Joshua also admired the paladin very much. Sticking to one's heart and not wavering for fame and fortune, this is indeed a respectable soldier.

However, the development of things is not as good as everyone imagined.

Time passed, and several years passed, just when everyone thought that Lolanda, who had already advanced to the ultimate level, was about to break into the legendary realm, a piece of news that was beyond everyone's expectations appeared.

On the holy mountain in the far sea, the old Pope St. Igor died unexpectedly. After the holy mountain was closed for several days, he unilaterally issued a notice announcing that the solar knight Lolanda had fallen, betrayed mankind, and launched a full-scale hunt and kill. The former paladin didn't give any explanation either. With some wrinkles on his face, he fled all the way and returned to the kingdom where he was born, before the grave of his parents.

After leaving a sigh, the former paladin disappeared without a trace, disappearing from the eyes of all those who wanted to hunt him down.

Some people once said that they saw the figure of Loranda in the abyss, a knight in the scarred gray paladin armor, fighting a large group of demons on the blood sea plain, and others said that he was in the shadow plane. In the depths of the cave, I saw a powerful cleric holding a sunset warhammer dealing with several shadow dragons, but no one knew whether these things were true.

After that, no one saw Lolanda again, and no one paid attention to this matter.

Because of the seal of the gate of the abyss, it was opened.

In any case, this legendary figure had a not-so-legendary ending. The truth of history is hidden in the turbulent folklore. The passage of time was covered in dust.

After all, the next thing is that there will be no time to breathe for a moment, and there will be continuous wars. As Joshua who knows the name of this world called [Continent of Disputes], he understands this better than anyone else.

Starting with the death of the old Pope Saint Igor and the fall of the Solar Knight Lolanda, the era of abyss invasion officially opened.

Of course, today's Loranda has not fallen, and he has not even started his own adventure to destroy the cult, but all the stages have been set, the actors have come on stage one by one, the hero draws his sword, and the conspiracy is everywhere.

"As far as I remember, he was really good at playing."

After reminiscing, Joshua had other thoughts in his mind: "Again, what did he do back then to be declared corrupt by the Church of the Seven Gods?"

Few people know about the depravity of Loranda in the previous life. It is also a top secret among the top secrets of the Church of the Seven Gods. Players can only rely on a few words to explore the secrets.

Some people speculate that Lolanda killed the old Pope, his adoptive father, but let alone how a supreme paladin kills a legendary priest, no one can even find a reason for Lolanda to do it , as long as he can advance to legend, then he will be the next pope immediately, and with Lolanda's qualifications, it is only a matter of time before he becomes a legend, and it is impossible to do such a stupid thing.

As for the other deeds of the so-called black history, it is nothing more than being too cruel to the cultists and not treating them as human beings at all-but in fact Joshua did more than Loranda at the beginning. Thinking of this, the soldier He couldn't help recalling the whereabouts of those cultists in remote villages, he shook his head, feeling that the group of people who said they were cruel were really hypocritical.

In fact, the soldiers didn't have many memories related to Lolanda. At that time, their entire team was cheering for the opening of the abyss dungeon. Except for some worshipers of the paladins, not many people cared about it.

Forget it, no matter how much you think about this kind of thing, it doesn't make sense. Joshua gave up thinking, but turned to look at the old pastor in front of him.

Since Artanis advanced to gold, the complexion on his face has improved a lot. Although the white hair and the beard on the chin have not turned black, the hair has become tougher just by naked eye observation.

"It seems that you also got the key."

Under the puzzled eyes of the old pastor, the soldier sighed.

In the endless disputes on the Mycroft Continent, only reaching the gold level can be regarded as touching the door of the historical stage, and the power of glory is the key to the door.

In Joshua's eyes, there was a layer of holy radiance different from holy light flowing on Artanis's body. It was a kind of power related to life. There is no doubt that the old priest who had accumulated a lot of money could not stabilize his golden realm. , has already touched the edge of the power of glory, but he doesn't know it yet.

There is a huge gap between gold with the power of glory and gold without it. It is a gap that is almost impossible to bridge. Only by mastering it is the first step to master your own destiny. Regarding this point, The soldier didn't intend to tell him that sometimes, it's better to take that step by himself.

After chatting with Artanis for a few words, Joshua continued to walk on the road back to the main city with Hotaru, Rin and No. 3.

The essence of level advancement on the Continent of Disputes is actually to gradually transform one's body and soul into extraordinary materials. According to each person's preference, the direction of advancement is different. For example, Joshua is going now, which is Strengthen in terms of sheer strength.

In fact, because of killing too many Chaos monsters, his physical body has now reached an unbelievable level with the addition of the Azure Orb and the Chaos Watcher profession. Ordinary peak gold can't match him at all. There was even no way to completely break through his defense.

The peak of gold, the power of glory, Joshua took a deep breath, and after thinking about it carefully, he has now finally obtained the ticket to the world stage.

This step took five and a half years for the world number one in his previous life, but it took him nearly six years back then. This was because the world number one was a mage and he was a fighter.

Of course, Joshua in this life cannot be compared.

It took him 17 days to go from middle silver to gold rank, and it took him almost half a year to go from gold rank to peak gold.

But now, he is about to enter the realm of ultimate intention.

The wave of killing intent is the name Joshua gave to his power of glory. Its essence is actually to strip part of the souls of all the lives he killed, and then use the remains of these souls as fuel to release incredible destructive power .

This is not a rare ability. There are many glorious powers that use soul power. That's why the old dwarf Moria directly pointed out that Joshua is a soul burner. However, Joshua is definitely the strongest soul burner in history. By.

Now in the warrior's body, the depths of the soul abyss containing the soul are full of black soul fragments, while his own soul hangs high in the sky, shining on these fragments like the sun, melting them bit by bit, into pure destructive force.

While thinking and walking all the way, Joshua returned to the Lord's Mansion, and at this moment, news from Nostradamus also came.

Like Artanis, he also wanted to remind the soldiers that one of the most powerful paladins of the younger generation from the Church of the Seven Gods was about to come to the Northland, and after Joshua expressed his gratitude, he did not continue to pay attention to such issues.

Time passed, late April.

Looking north from the main city of Moldavia, you can see that the sky is extremely clear, with a layer of almost transparent white clouds floating on the blue sky, and the golden sunlight shines directly down, covering the entire Ajax Mountains and the Black Forest. It shines as magnificently as a fairyland.

This is a rare good weather in the Northland. All the farmers took the opportunity to carry out the second round of sowing. The plants are growing just right, especially this year with the purification and fertility of the sun vines. It is definitely a bumper harvest year.

And Rin's advancement was completely completed after the Shenji boy rested for a few days.

I have gained enough experience through the Book of Eibon. Unlike Hotaru, Joshua doesn't know whether Rin's physical fitness is naturally better, or because the last time it was really an accident that caused the deep sleep. When advanced, it is only occasionally that I suddenly feel that my energy is low, other than that, there is no other special feeling at all.

Sitting in front of the steel core wood desk, Joshua listened to Rin standing aside, reporting messages and messages to him.

"Master Moria has now led a team from the dwarf gathering place, and will come to visit soon."

The black-haired boy looked down at the document, summarized the main points, and then told Joshua one by one. After reading it for a while, he was a little surprised and said: "Here is Miss Clare's letter, which expresses my respect for you. Thank you, Master, she said that she has planted all the sun vines now, and she is waiting for some time to purify them all, and then return to the Far South... There is still a small box inside, it seems that there is something."

"Take it apart and have a look."

Hearing this, Joshua couldn't help but be a little curious and said, "Let's see what it is."

"OK."

Nodding, Rin simply took the box out of the envelope and opened it.

A ring appeared in front of the master and servant.

"It turned out to be the Ring of Two Snakes of Flame..."

Joshua, who had completely forgotten about such a thing long ago, picked up the women's ring in his hand, then shook his head and sighed, "Although it is indeed mine, what is the use of this thing...why don't you keep it for yourself? I sent it out and didn’t intend to return it.”

Saying so, the warrior quickly made a decision.

"Firefly, here you are."

After speaking, he handed the ring in his hand to Yingying who was sitting in the corner reading a book.

"Thank you master..."

Hearing Joshua's words, Yingying immediately put down the book and took the ring, but then she also worried: "But master, I can't bring other equipment, as long as I have a machine, all the foreign Equipment will be discarded automatically."

4000, Kavinka is very good recently... I can't think of the chapter name, so I just write it casually