Soul of Burning Steel

　　The beginning of civilization was the kind of fire burning in a wild campfire.

　　 In the first thousand years after the initial fire ignited the chaos, the order and the world were revealed, the ancient humans were born on the forestless plains. This new race walked in the nascent world, watching everything curiously.

　　 At that time, everything had no name.

Because they hate darkness, people imitate thunder and lightning, use solid stone and dry wood to ignite the fire of the wild era, and use it to illuminate the dark night without light. In the process of holding a torch, exploring and identifying this unknown world, they have no name for everything Name the things, use primitive symbols to describe and record unfamiliar things.

　　 Gradually, accumulating, using simple language, mankind summarized the laws and logic, and developed the civilization of the Enlightenment era.

　　 Then, the fire was passed down and continued to this day.

　　 Star pendant, December 11, 831, night.

　　 Kuroshio besieged the city four days later.

　　 The cold wind kept blowing on the fortress standing among the snowy forests, and the soft and white snow like feathers fell on the ground into a thin frost. The twin moons hung high above the sky like silver plates, and the bright moonlight seemed to spread across the entire bluestone plank road.

　　 The black-haired man led his war horse across the street in the dark, and quietly followed a silver-haired maid beside him.

　　 Looking around the entire fortress, the young lord's gaze seemed to penetrate the endless darkness and cold and solid walls, and saw the gleaming fire of life. And his young maid maid looked up curiously at the night sky dotted with stars, and quietly estimated their number.

　　 The girl's elegant voice echoed in the quiet street, while Joshua focused on the surroundings.

　　 Now they are at the back of the fortress, rows of similar houses lined up neatly on both sides of the street. However, part of the house is no longer inhabited. There is no firewood smoke from the fireplace in the chimney, and there is no trace of the owner's activity behind the window.

　　 In the past few days, the Kuroshio seemed to be over, and there was no movement at all. Even if the soldiers personally entered the Black Forest to explore, they could no longer see the group of wild beasts rushing like a black tsunami. Under the sunlight, the purple mist gradually dissipated, and the black jungle restored its former tranquility.

That being the case, after confirming that this was not some kind of conspiracy, the fortress resumed its normal operation. A steady stream of dragon cart fleets came from the main city to transport the food and equipment that were in short supply, and to hold a requiem ceremony for the fallen soldiers. , Pastor Atanis of St. Laurent Cathedral even withstood the freezing cold of this winter, and brought his two apprentices to the Black Forest Fortress with the motorcade.

The team led by the archbishop to the sacred mountain of the far sea has not yet returned, so at present, in the entire Moldavian collar, he is the only one who is capable and qualified to preside over the ceremony, but this morning, in the solemn silence, the general After the people who died in the dark tide were buried, the white-haired pastor set off and did not stay in the fortress for a long time.

　　 But before that, he deliberately found Joshua and said a word to him.

　　 "Now is the time."

This old friend of the old housekeeper said to Joshua, his eyes were extremely calm: "Go and see if your father is still alive... Although I don’t know why, he wants me to be the lord for a while before he leaves. Later, I told you this sentence and said that you should understand what it means."

　　Joshua certainly knows what it means.

　　 December 11th, so much time has passed since the death of his father, and the old housekeeper has left for almost two months. Now that he has arrived at the fortress, it is indeed time to see them again.

　　 So in the middle of the night, he put on a coat made of white wolf skin, and simply walked out of the room and wandered in the winter fortress with his maid and war horse.

This is a cold and regular city, relying on the magic of the wizard, the gray-white city wall that has been roughly repaired once again separates the mountains and the plains, the strong and tall towers stand behind it, and the pine gray-green needles on the roadside are in the cold wind. Rustling.

Broad avenues, winding small streets, and stone huts lined on both sides of them, as well as fort and barns inserted in them, a few patrolling soldiers walked back and forth on the stone path, with long lights made of pyroxene in their hands. With white faint cold light.

　　 And Joshua’s destination is a quaint church on the edge of the fortress.

　　 Crossing a few more streets, Joshua came to the door of this old building. He looked around but found nothing. This accident made the soldier show a rare expression of confusion.

　　 "What's the matter? Isn't it here? Impossible."

　　 shook his head. He left Hei outside, then pushed open the unlocked door with the firefly and walked into the church.

"what."

　　 Just walking into the hall, the silver-haired girl gave a soft exclamation. She looked around with some confusion, then frowned and said, "Master, this place... feels a bit weird."

　　 This church is not big. There are only forty seats in the prayer hall. There is a layer of gray dust on it. It seems that no one has cleaned it for a long time. In the front of the hall, behind the altar, the place where the statue of the god's holy emblem was supposed to be placed was empty and there was nothing.

But Qiao Xiuya is very clear that the weirdness that Hotaru said does not refer to this, because he also felt that after entering the door, there was a strange force surrounding his body, which seemed to welcome him, and seemed to be guiding something. .

　　 Vaguely, Joshua could even hear a voice echoing in her ears.

　　 "Go forward."

　　 is temporarily unable to answer his maid’s question, the same puzzled soldier can only say: "Although it is a very young memory, but the impression is very deep, I can be sure that it is right here, but I don’t know where the problem occurred."

　　 So the two of them walked slowly forward.

In the process of walking, Joshua can clearly feel that there is a strange energy in this church, which repels any unqualified force, even the ubiquitous elements and magic are completely imprisoned. , Cannot form a spell.

　　 Forbidden Magic Domain.

　　 Even in his previous life, Joshua rarely encountered such a situation. Except for certain natural dead magic areas, he had hardly seen magic that was suppressed to such an inertia.

But the forbidden magic field in this church is different from the dead magic zone in those extreme environments. The magic here is not so much suppressed, but sealed. It is not that they cannot be formed into spells, but they cannot be formed freely. Spells.

　　 as long as the conditions are met.

　　 As the distance gets closer, I can sense that this repressive force is gradually becoming stronger, and the source of that power is the square altar made of silver metal.

Before reaching the altar, Joshua subconsciously looked at the center of it. In the religious code of the Conflict Continent, when believers pray, there should be sacrificial offerings to the gods in the altar. There should be a holy emblem of the gods. In short, you can't let it be empty no matter what.

　　 But there is nothing in this altar, neither the sacrifice nor the holy emblem are seen, only a trace that is recessed like a handprint.

　　 "...is it?"

　　 looked at his hand, Joshua didn't hesitate for long, he simply put his hand in the groove of the altar, and then wanted to see how he would react.

And it seemed that I sensed the arrival of the long-awaited goal, a gray-blue light lit up from the bottom of the altar, and it passed quickly like a ripple. UUreading www.uukanshu.com swept over Joshua’s in a flash. The whole body, even the firefly behind him, was scanned by this light.

　　 "Bloodline confirmation... The Radcliffe family has a direct bloodline, has a divine machine contract, and meets the conditions."

　　 The voice that had been surrounding Joshua's ears finally became clear and audible, and a thought passed from the altar, carrying a large amount of information into Joshua's mind: "Authorization is granted, the channel is open."

　　 "From fire, born of steel, wisdom is immortal, and order will last."

Accompanied by the trembling of time and space and the ancient compliments, the originally sealed magic power began to become active, and a quiet blue door slowly emerged above the altar, and it was vaguely visible, behind it. The earth is black, and countless stone tombstones stand in it.

Around every tombstone, there is a weapon stuck on the ground. There are knives and guns in them. Almost all the weapons used by humans can be found in them. They look extremely broken, and every one of them has been damaged. Great damage.

　　 "...That's it, I said why I didn't see it outside. I remember it was next to this small church, but in the end there was nothing around."

Staring at the slowly expanding space-time gate, Joshua, who understood all the information through the ideas in the altar, whispered: "It turned out to be here, actually here... No wonder the secrets of the gods and the seal guards have been kept for so many years. No one was discovered..."

　　 With this sigh, the cemetery of the Radcliffe family hidden in the narrow passage of time and space, it completely appeared before his eyes.

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