Soul of Burning Steel

"Black, glow."

After the awakening of the bloodline, the half-dragon's wisdom has also made great progress. At least it can fully understand Joshua's simple order. After the soldier gave the order, the core of the black chest began to flash with the brilliance of magic power. The fire element in the body was running, emitting a golden-red light.

The vast area at the bottom of the lake was illuminated by this light, and in some areas there were even some bright crystal reflections. Joshua noticed that apart from the huge red rock in front of him, there were also many similar dark spots scattered around. The red rock, but the one in front of him is the largest, and the magic power reaction in it is also the strongest.

"Open it and take a look."

After thinking for a while, the warrior stretched out his right fist, and then hit the blood clotted rock with a gentle force, which was half the size of the castle. A soft force shook its interior. Structure, gently shattered the surface layer of this multi-layered sedimentary rock, turning it into countless fine crystallized rock powders.

The huge rock was repeatedly smashed by the warriors, and after each blow, Joshua would carefully observe what was contained in the scattered dust.

And not long after, when half of the structure of the blood rock was shattered, he finally saw what he wanted to see.

"...This is really a strange sight."

Accompanied by the warrior's murmurs, the shock caused by the shattering and collapsing of the huge rock was transmitted back and forth at the bottom of the 600-meter-deep water, and the dim light of magic crystal dust radiated from the slowly falling red rock debris.

Under the golden-red light of the core of the black chest, countless strange-shaped things appeared in the dark red rock. These things have been completely assimilated by the magic crystal and become crystal-like things. They are scattered on the blood-colored rock. , flowing brilliant magical colors.

And according to Joshua's experience over the years, these are all corpses.

Numerous crystallized bones are wrapped in red blood rocks. Although it is impossible to recognize their images during their lifetime, they can roughly distinguish their races.

These corpses are perfectly preserved. Except for the lack of flesh and blood, everything is no different from the real ones. Among them are horses, people, and even obvious dragon bones. The soldier squinted his eyes, and after scanning the bones, he And found some new things.

It was an extremely well-preserved weapon and armor fragment.

Sealed in the rock, moistened by the magic power in the magic crystal all the time, these weapons and armor fragments that may have come from the last era have all been crystallized, and they maintain the distorted form before being wrapped, worn, or inserted in other On the same crystallized corpse, it seemed that time was frozen at the last moment of the battle.

"The magic crystal has preserved these things..."

As if thinking of something, Joshua turned his head to look at other places, those magical crystals covered by dust and silt, rocks and turbid crystals, he said softly to himself: "Is this the ancient battlefield?"

Could it be that some of the magic crystals he and Moria saw last time were not real veins, but assimilated ancient corpses?

This is indeed a very possible thing, and it can also explain why the magic power in the frozen lake is so cold and dead, and there has been no biological activity for many years-the breath from the ancient battlefield refuses to approach all living things, and even subtly changes. The properties of crystal veins.

Joshua felt that the secret hidden in the palm print lake under the Nissier Snow Mountain might even be bigger than he imagined.

"You can find this kind of thing in any college address you choose. It should be said that the predecessors and future generations have the same vision? They all think it is a good place."

Continuing to approach, Joshua walked to the front of these corpses and weapons, touched these crystallized ancient existences with his hands, and carefully distinguished the traces on them.

Human bones, horse bones, dragon bones, bones of unknown monsters, armors, swords, shields, he didn't let go of any of them, he carefully observed each one and memorized the lines on them.

"This design style seems to have been seen somewhere."

When he discerned the lines on a large shield that seemed to be dented by something, an inexplicable sense of familiarity flooded Joshua's heart, and he frowned and thought: "Yes... the appearance of this snake..."

"The Twin Snake Ring of Flame!"

Joshua recalled the Transcendent magic item that Verdani gave him.

But how? A magic ring cast in the Starfall Era, no matter how powerful it is, cannot bear any resemblance to the equipment left over from the previous Era, but why is the pattern on the shield so similar to the Double Snake Ring?

"Wait, I remember..." Joshua suddenly recalled the result of the system's appraisal of the Flaming Twin Snake Ring a long time ago.

【——For the Flame Snakes, there is nothing more worthy of following than Flame. It is a replica of an ancient relic from among the windswept dunes of the Shimmering Desert. 】

The Flickering Desert is the vast desert area in the west of the Mycroft Continent. According to legend, it is a place where life cursed by the gods is extinct. There are countless relics from the ancient times. There are famous cities of scholars and relic research organizations around the desert [Ancient History] Light】.

It is worth mentioning that in the flickering desert, the place where the ruins were first discovered was a huge tiankeng called "The Eye of the Deep", where the gravel was melted into dark green crystals by the unknown high heat in ancient times, and the strange magical power The flow of all winds has stopped, and it is one of the few places where travelers can rest in this desert.

From the sky, the tiankeng looks like a green pupil the size of a city.

The deep eye of the tiankeng - the palm print of the snow mountain and the deep lake.

Except that one is filled with ice and snow, and the other is deep in the gravel, there seems to be no difference between the two in essence. They are both equally deep, hiding many secrets, the ancient ruins in the eyes of the deep, and There is indeed a similar existence in the ancient battlefield under the Nissier Snow Mountain Lake.

"It seems that there are similar relics all over the world. You must know that there are quite a few such tiankengs and relics on the Mycroft continent."

While thinking, Joshua was swimming in the lake. He searched for other small blood rock fragments and smashed them to observe the existence within.

Some of them had nothing inside, but in most of the blood rocks, or under the blood rocks, there were well-preserved corpses and crystallized weapons and armor. He swept away the silt and sedimentary rocks and observed the magic crystals underneath. After careful identification, Joshua had to admit that the magic crystal on the surface was indeed shaped like distorted bones and various weapons.

This may be a psychological effect, but Joshua believes that his eyes can't go wrong - the bottom of the entire Palmprint Lake is an ancient battlefield. Some information was preserved, and in the process of solidifying the blood left by the unknown huge creature into rock, like amber, the time of those corpses and weapons was frozen at the moment when the battle ended.

Although the material was assimilated by the magic crystal and turned into a crystal-like existence, their shape did not change at all.

Another blood rock was shattered. Originally, Joshua thought there was nothing in it, but an unexpected light flashed through his eyes.

"Spiral crystal?"

Stretching out his hand, he took a piece of pure white crystal that popped out of the blood rock debris. Joshua felt a familiar surge of power in his hand, and subconsciously he recalled the time when Artanis healed his arm. , the crystal disc used to convert the holy light, the touch of the two is surprisingly similar.

This is not surprising. When they dived together with Moria last time, they also found an uncarved spiral crystal. But a few seconds later, the soldier was surprised to find that the pure white crystal in his hand was It is essentially different from spiral crystals.

"This is not the power of the holy light... this is the power of order!"

Joshua's eyes widened in surprise, his red pupils were fixed on this white crystal tightly, his hands couldn't help holding it tightly, not daring to relax for a moment. Before he could express his second emotion, the soldier noticed that the Azure Orb on his chest reacted again.

"Order crystal? There is such a thing?!"

Even in the water, Joshua couldn't help gasping. He had only seen the Sun Crystal, Frost Gem, Emerald Heart, Radiant Crystal and other natural elements condensed gem crystals before, but the power of order The crystallization of special powers, but I have never heard of it.

On the side, Hei also swam to the warrior's side. Huge fire elements flowed continuously around the sea dragon, transforming the cold lake water into a hot stream on the verge of boiling. Joshua held the crystal of order in one hand, and the other hand Touching the head of his mount, he heard Hei let out a comfortable dragon chant, while frowning and thinking: "The crystallization of the power of order proves that there used to be a very high concentration of power of order here."

"And the bottom of the lake is obviously an ancient battlefield. There are countless people and the corpses of war horses are enough to prove this, and the blood of some huge creature has also condensed into rocks here."

The black-haired warrior muttered to himself at the bottom of the lake, and he began to speculate based on the existing clues: "Nostradamus and I also felt that the barriers of time and space in the Northland were extremely weak. Nonghou came earlier than other regions, and it came obviously, and the evil god also left a space-time channel here."

"Near the Blind Sea, there is also an empire—no, not built by the empire, but a group of ancient fortresses discovered and maintained by the empire."

All the clues are gathering, Joshua stared at the crystal in his hand, pondered for a while, and said: "My family holds the Azure Orb, which is a sacred weapon against the evil god of chaos, and the Northland was a thousand years ago, In the lost three hundred years, it was a battlefield between order and an unknown enemy..."

Everything was proving one thing, and in the end, he came to a shocking but reasonable conclusion.

"The lost three hundred years may be the time when human civilization and the evil gods fought in the Glorious Era, and the northern land, where the shining desert and other ancient ruins are located, is the battlefield at that time?"