Soul of Burning Steel

When the Seven Sacred Mountains cheered because they detected the signal from a distance, Joshua did not go to the void.

At this time, he was still in the Mycroft Continent.

If you want to go to the void, you can go anywhere. As long as you can fly upwards and rise to an altitude of more than 700,000 meters, you can come to the edge of the world. Here, the boundaries of time and space are ambiguous. Just a little effort. Then you can easily go to the outside world without using the space-time gate at all. With Joshua's strength, he doesn't even need to rise too high, as long as the power does not affect the height of the surface buildings, he can distort the space and go to the void at any time.

Now, the soldier has set the coordinates that he has already prepared, he strode through the time-space gate, and then, in bursts of strong blue light, he came to the hilly area of ​​the southeast of the Eastern Plain. Inside the conspicuous mage tower.

The "Nameless" stone tower is a round tower building located at the highest point of the Magna hills. The outer layer is composed of huge granite and squarish stones. A series of depressions that seem to be traces of wind erosion are all over its surface, but its interior But it was shining with magical fluorescence. Many adventurers living around Magna will think this is an ancient ruin at the beginning, but when they get close and ready to explore, they will find that this seemingly unremarkable mage tower is surrounded by a powerful defense method. According to some adventurers who have sneaked into the circle around the circle, there are huge stone puppets standing around the unknown stone tower, as if they are rejecting all outsiders.

Many people speculate that the owner of this mage tower may be a powerful but often travelled mage, so they have left huge puppet statues to guard the mage tower that seems to have fallen into disrepair. In fact, they guessed it. That's right, just for the strength and number of tower owners, they are still too conservative.

Joshua walked out of the teleportation circle on the fourth floor of the stone tower. It was Barnier and William who greeted him. Two legendary mages stood in front of the gate of time and space, one was looking at a certain large magic book, and the other One is instructing an obsidian puppet to prepare coffee. When the time and space are turbulent and the warriors have completely walked out of the fluctuating time and space channels, they all abandon their work and instructions to welcome the warriors.

"Here you are, the analysis of mental fragments and magic cocoons has had a rough result, and many interesting things have been discovered."

Without greetings, the three of them communicated directly as if they had communicated a long time ago. After nodding to each other and confirming the situation, they walked to the laboratory on the top of the stone tower together.

Barnier took the lead, and the old mage shook his head and said, "Of course, because the experimental materials are relatively small and destructive analysis methods cannot be used, the efficiency is relatively low."

The "Nameless" stone tower is one of the footholds of the two legendary wizards of Barnier and William all over the world continent of Mycroft. This is their largest research base in the Eastern Plains, except for some students who will be brought here on weekdays. Apart from assisting in the research, no one knew that the stone tower belonged to them, and after Barnier closed his mouth, William took the conversation again: "The mental fragments are too scattered. It seems that after being severely injured, it was completely shattered. It’s really hard to peel off the memory fragments."

"Thank you, trouble you guys."

In this regard, Joshua, who entrusted the two to help, didn't say much, he just thanked him sincerely. Soon, the three of them came to the laboratory on the top of the stone tower.

This is an extremely white room-with four arms, the ground and ceiling are all in the purest white, without any stains, and the silver-white metal workbench is engraved with a rune array gleaming with light blue light patterns. , The cabinet is filled with all kinds of bottles and jars, and there are a number of labels on them:'Crawling Forest', Abyssal Soil, and Styx Water'... But the most eye-catching one is placed in the center of the laboratory. A huge round formation, and three crystal **** placed on the formation.

"Speaking of it, it's a coincidence. Barnier and I caught a demon in your territory last time. By analyzing its spirit and soul, we have accumulated first-hand analytical data on powerful demons. It’s a lot easier this time."

After arriving in the laboratory, William raised his hand to a crystal ball placed on the array, and said with emotion: "If we hadn't had this kind of experience, we wouldn't have dared to accept your request."

"What demon?"

Joshua turned her head curiously.

In the abyss of the blood moon, after fighting the black dragon and the two demon princes, Joshua gave the spirit fragments of the beholder prince Helm and the remaining half of the worm prince Saruka to the imperial royal family. The Mage Association and Barnier and William are two, but because the Imperial Royal Mage Association is currently focusing on the development of another world, it is impossible to help the fighters analyze the wreckage left by these two legendary powerhouses as soon as possible, so in the end, Joshua will Its full power was entrusted to two legendary mages.

Now it seems that both Barnier and William are very dedicated to complete Joshua’s commission. In just a few months, they have already gained a lot and sorted out most of them before the warrior was ready to go to another world. data.

Thinking of this, he looked at the crystal ball that William pointed at.

Then, Joshua saw a familiar face-his expression suddenly became subtle: "Lardanasi? You caught it in my territory?"

It is a perfect sphere of red and white. In it, a dying demon is being imprisoned in it. It can be clearly seen that this is the Great Demon of Extreme Yi that has fought with warriors in the past. The heart demon Raldan Ass, but compared to the aggressiveness at the beginning, let alone the aura of despair, the heart eater is now curled up in the crystal ball very desperately, indifferent to the outside world. Even if the three legends came and watched it, it was the same, like a piece of dead flesh that had been played badly.

"Yes, you should have caught it from the time before and after the return of Grantia World. It just crossed the Ural Mountains and it happened to be discovered by us."

Barnier did not continue to explain how the two caught the big demon. He just gently stroked the surface of the crystal ball, and said with emotion: "If it weren't for analyzing the soul and body of this heart-eater, it would make us Having mastered the ability of the living body to strip the soul fragments and memory fragments, we may not be able to successfully complete your entrustment. By the way, we found that demons are essentially no different from normal creatures in life, just because they live in a harsh environment But there is a mutation, and their meat actually tastes good after purification."

"The only pity is that although this heart-eater has not completely collapsed, it is completely autistic and will not react to our stimuli. Now even if you kill it, it will not move halfway. ."

"It's a coincidence..."

Taking a deep look at the motionless big demon in the crystal ball, the legendary demon lord of the "future" in the previous life, Joshua smiled lightly, and then stopped paying attention. He looked at the other two placed in the array. The crystal ball in the direction said: "So, you really have finished analyzing Helm's mental fragments and Saruka's body?"

"Saruka's is more complicated. We haven't figured out how its energy merges with its cells, and then transforms into other life forms, but Helm's mental fragments are indeed resolved."

William came to the silver crystal ball on the other side at this time, in which there were scattered fragments like colorful prisms, which were the spiritual fragments left by the beholder after the death of the beholder. The soul master turned his head and looked at Joshua. , Added a sentence: "It's just that it's broken too badly, and the memory is messy...I don't know who broke it."

Qiao Xiuya didn't reply. He looked at the silver-white crystal ball and asked seriously: "Trouble, then, is there any information worth mentioning?"

"Yes... but to be honest, Barnier and I don't understand it a bit. Although we often go into the void and go to the abyss, we really haven't seen that kind of world."

Barnier stretched out his hand and made a ‘please’ gesture: "You should come and see for yourself."

Joshua did not refuse, he stepped forward and came to the silver crystal ball. He reached out and touched it.

Then, light and shadow intertwined, and a torrent of thoughts consisting of fragments of fragmentary memories surged toward Qiao Xiu.

He saw the many memories that belonged to the demon lord Helm deep in his heart-born in a broken soul of a certain alien mage, swallowed his compatriots to grow and evolve, fight endlessly in the Sixth Abyss, expand his power, Qiao Xiu Ya saw a demon struggling to survive in the doomsday, and then became more cruel and ruthless.

Demons have a long life span, much longer than humans. Even fragments of shallow memory fragments are extremely vigorous compared to humans. However, Joshua suppresses all the memories and thoughts belonging to demons one by one, and only extracts the right ones. Useful information for yourself.

Goliath, the gluttonous demon king, would rather be hit hard by himself, and would have to cross the shield of the sacrificial grounds of the Ten Thousand Realms to **** the remains of Saruka and the mental fragments of Helm. Joshua doesn’t think that the opponent is just to save his subordinates. Remains, there is definitely something worth paying for each other in the two of them, so he spared no effort to gather the fragments of Helm's spirit that he crushed, and finally entrusted the control of the soul to master and the rune that reached the pinnacle of self-transformation. To analyze it, Joshua has already obtained a lot of geographic information related to the Sixth Abyss, but this is of no use. He feels that he needs to go deeper.

So Qiao Xiu went deeper.

In the hundreds of years of memory of the Demon Lord, Joshua sank into the deeper thoughts of the other party. He searched for all the memories of the other party that could be called'secret', and relentlessly turned them off. open.

Finally, he found the fragment hidden deep in memory by Helm.

This is a memory more than three hundred and seventy years ago. It was a failed teleportation. The great demon who had not yet achieved a legend was caught in the space-time rift between the world and the world. It was there, and it witnessed it with its own eyes. The most ultimate destruction.

That is light, the mighty stream of light. The stars are shining with silver-blue brilliance, and the gamma-ray burst that destroys everything is surging from the center of the stars. It destroys everything, turning the planet into ashes with a snap of your fingers, like a giant blowing away a castle made of gravel. Like that.

Death blew the horn, chanted hymns of destruction, and the planet with huge energy shields erected was directly destroyed, and its ashes flew and burned in the stream of light, like sparks floating on a campfire. It can be seen that the iron core of the stellar body turns red, and then is washed into the stars-this scene may be a bit difficult to understand for the legendary wizards who have been living in the plane world, but Joshua is very clear, he sees the supernova The light of the burst of birth crossed the Milky Way, destroyed all the stars along the way, and finally hit the sun in this galaxy.

As if the egg shell was broken, the egg white mixed with the egg yolk spilled out in a vacuum, and the liquid high-heat gas spewed out from the inside of the star, and then was blown away by light.

A star was extinguished in this way.

Witnessing all of this with Helm at the time, Joshua couldn't help holding his breath-he knew the terrible scene better than everyone else, even Helm, who had seen it with his own eyes.

The gamma-ray burst coming from a distance does not destroy the planet and blow away the stars. It kills all life on the surface of the planet and blows the atmosphere away. If what Helm sees is true, then there is only one possibility... ...That is, not far from this destroyed galaxy, even within a distance of less than a few light years, a huge super star exploded and collapsed, forming a neutron star...even a black hole.

"It's really amazing. I didn't expect the prototype of Helm's Starburst to be a real gamma-ray burst... But it shouldn't be taken so seriously by Goliath."

The shock was only a moment, and Joshua was not affected by this scene. He frowned and thought: "A terrifying astronomical disaster, for the abyss demon, may also be some magic inspiration. There is no need to be so nervous. recapture."

There should be some important information that he didn't find. Joshua thought so, and then continued to search for Helm's remaining mental fragments, hoping to obtain deeper information.

Next, countless fragments of memory flicked past... The advanced legend of Helm, who had gained a stronger strength, determined its own legendary form. It controlled the stream of destruction and suppressed the small half of the sixth abyss. And prepared to move towards the supreme goal of conquering the entire abyss plane-but in the middle, a stronger force ended Helm's ambitions, that is the future demon king, Goliath.

Unbelievably powerful, he didn’t even use any trump cards. He defeated the all-out Helm with pure energy intensity and physical strength. It seemed that the abyss lord who could dominate everything first showed his edge and unified the entire sixth abyss, and this one The demon king did not choose to kill other demon kings, but ordered them to conquer other worlds for his own ambitions with his own power.

For various reasons, Helm did not choose to resist. It decided to temporarily surrender to this powerful abyss lord, but Joshua saw that in the first 100 years of being defeated, Helm was not as loyal as it is today. Thinking about how to become stronger, replace Goliath, and become the next demon king to dominate the whole world.

It has tried many methods, whether it is meditation, conceiving new spells, accumulating energy or optimizing the energy condensing acceleration structure in the body... It does become stronger, but it can’t beat Goliath. Helm was extremely troubled by this until the end. , It thought it might be the only way.

That is to return to the world where gamma-ray bursts have occurred, and analyze the source of this terrifying force.

Helm firmly believes that if he has mastered the truth of the terrifying power, let alone the Lord of the Abyss, I am afraid that even the gods can hardly contend against him. Therefore, with more than ten years of preparation, it finally restored the original mistaken transmission. Coordinates, ready to enter that world again, looking for the source behind that power.

"...I can't find its source... It's too far away. I have been flying for a few months and I haven't left this hot cloud area."

"The energy radiation here is even more terrifying than the void, even I can't support it for too long... The Blaze of Stars is not over yet, and scattered energy streams are still erupting from time to time."

"Weird... terrible sense of space distortion, what is it in the distance? The light has turned into a whirlpool... something is coming?!"

"It rushed in! No, it rushed in long ago... This is the light from decades ago... It is the source! It is the cause of this disaster!"

This is the last trace of Helm's memory-it saw a bright star, and an inconspicuous little spot that came from nowhere and crashed into the star.

Loosing his hand touching the silver crystal ball, Joshua took a step back, his brows furrowed, and he was lost in thought.

Barnier and William on the side didn’t bother Joshua. In fact, they had the same feeling when they observed Helm’s memory. They were even more incomprehensible than Joshua. After all, whether it was Barnier or William, They have always lived in the plane world of the Tianyuan place, the vast and boundless star sea world like stars and planets, they have never heard of it.

At this time, the soldier was thinking about the meaning of the last fragment of memory in Helm.

"The beholder does not have a psychic jump engine like me, it can't cross the astronomical space...Even after flying for a few months, it still escapes in the blown out sun. Inside the nebula."

The soldier murmured: "The energy eruption has not ended yet, which means that the stellar debris that erupted at the source has not yet been completely stabilized... But since light can be twisted into a vortex, it must be a black hole even more terrifying than a neutron star."

As for the last scene, Joshua can also easily understand: the gravitational chaos caused by the black hole may distort the light. It was only after a few decades that Helm saw that it should have appeared at the same time when the gamma-ray burst arrived. In the past scenery, it should have seen something suddenly appear around the supernova that is about to explode, and then induce the supernova to collapse and explode.

It's just... what is that thing? Three hundred and seventy years ago, what caused the terrible gamma-ray burst?

There is no follow-up. This is the last spiritual fragment left by the demon lord Helm in this world. Most of them are in the hands of Joshua, and the other half are in the hands of Goliath. Until now, Joshua has not done anything. He understood why the Lord of the Abyss had to seize Helm's mental shards to prevent him from succeeding, but there was a vague guess in the warrior's heart, but this guess was quite ridiculous, and he felt that it was somewhat impossible.

"Has your problem been solved? Joshua."

After Joshua finished his contemplation, Barnier on the side spoke. He looked at the warrior with a serious face and shook his head: "To be honest, William and I didn't see anything. The memories of these demons are messy. There are many weird places."

"No... the problems are getting more and more."

Although he said that, Joshua’s complexion improved a lot. Although he did not understand Goliath’s purpose, he knew the source of Helm’s power and the coordinates of the star world... Helm didn’t. The leap engine cannot cross the distance of light-years, but he can. When he has time in the future, he will naturally go to the world to see the situation and figure out what is going on.

"Don't worry too much, Joshua, the memories of demons are almost like this."

On the other side, William, who was knowledgeable and didn't know how much he had played with his mind, smiled slightly. He turned his head, looked at the cocoon placed in another black and white crystal ball, and shrugged his shoulders: "Saruka's life Although we have not finished the analysis of the form, we have to say that it is truly a legendary powerhouse. It is just a little bit of the essential structure of life that we have analyzed now, which is enough to let us in the'rebirth of the broken limbs' and'longevity' and ' Great progress has been made in life research such as strengthening the internal organs-this cocoon is even alive, which is much more valuable than the mental fragment of a dead demon."

"Haha, just as valuable as it is, in short, I beg you for the research in this area."

Joshua smiled slightly at this. This was the purpose of sending Saruka's body fragments here. Although he also had the technical ability to analyze the body fragments of the Insect Demon Lord, he didn't have time—perhaps In the eyes of others, he seems to be very leisurely, as if he does not need to manage his own territory at all, or even run around, but in fact, Joshua is far more busy than others imagined, just like now, he is going to another world. Halfway through, take a moment in the way to get information about the demon princes.

After exchanging a few words with the two legends and confirming that Winterhold Academy would take over the next joint research, Joshua left the stone tower. Standing on the Magna hills, he slowly raised his head and looked up at the sky. Then, the soldier turned into a dim silver light and went straight up into the sky.

During the straight flight, Joshua thought a lot in his mind... Demons, abysses, evil gods, gamma-ray bursts in other worlds, gods' inquiry about order, and sages in the distance... it sounds complicated, but The soldier is a simple person. For him, no matter how much doubt he can't stop him, it can only give him more motivation to move forward.

"There are so many interesting questions~www.novelmtl.com~ so that this time will not be boring.

Thinking of this, Joshua came to the void outside of Mykrov. Under the silver glow of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice, he stood in the turbulent flow of time and space. The soldiers looked around. He seemed to have noticed something, so Joshua Seriously facing the void on his side: "Let you wait for a long time, Karlis."

"For me, it's just a moment."

Accompanied by Joshua’s words, the turbulence of time and space slowly vibrated, and a great will crossed time and space and directly talked with Joshua’s spirit. Its voice was gentle and deep, with a reassuring tone: "So, are you ready, Joshua?"

"of course."

When the decisive answer came from the turbulent time and space, Joshua calmly looked at the chaotic void, and he whispered: "Let's start now."

"Let me see, which world is seeking my help."