Soul of Burning Steel

World galaxy, unknown void.

"This world is full of powerful chaotic energy...but it is far from being called an evil god. It seems that even if there is civilization inside, it has only developed to the era of primitive tribes at most."

A surge of holy light flashed through the chaotic time and space, and then slowly condensed into an aggregate of countless colorful bubbles. Under the holy light, an old white-haired old man led Standing in the void is a blond knight with a firm face.

"Hmm... Did it die because of the fight for the gathering place? The insect clusters released toxins to each other, causing the compounds to mix, creating a low-flammable, high-concentration acidic vapor. The acid mist was directly ignited by the sun's rays, resulting in a huge explosion. The explosion. In addition, there is also the reason for the spread of abnormal infectious diseases because the corpses were not disposed of in time."

The old man narrowed his eyes slightly. He seemed to be able to cross the barrier of the world and directly see the situation inside the world. He murmured in a low voice, "It's the large-scale self-destruction phenomenon caused by the civil war of the insect-like cluster civilization. The civilization has developed to the point where it can build large-scale The level of an underground lair."

"Purify."

Having said that, the old man raised his hand, and the holy light descended from the air.

Endless brilliance pierces through the barrier of the world in an instant. Gold, white and gray beams of light sweep across every part of the inner world like three suns, from mountains to ocean bottoms, from continental shelves to basins. The infected areas have been thoroughly purified by irradiation.

The blond knight stood behind the old man. He watched his adoptive father purify the world, then connected to the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field, and asked to go to the next possible world of life. He remained silent.

The turbulence of time and space caused them to appear in another world.

"This world has not been completely infected by chaos, but the ecological circle has been severely damaged...Chemical weapon warfare has completely poisoned the atmosphere, and civilized individuals can only carry anti-virus life support equipment to move outside. Chaos energy has not yet condensed into entities , but it is already very large, it seems that I have to lower my avatar to clear it."

The old man sighed, a stream of light flew out of him, and fell into the world. He shook his head regretfully and said, "The civilization of this world has already developed... the satellite technology that Joshua said? The colonization of the moon can even build floating cities... But the matrix of civilization has been completely damaged, and even after the end of the world, it will take a long time for them to re-establish civilization from scratch."

It can be seen, like a lizard, but it looks more slender and light. The creature with a wing membrane between its hands and feet is wearing a strange life suit. It walks carefully in the ruins of the city full of poisonous gas and acid, collecting as much as possible. Materials and facilities, their current gathering place is located on the top of some building wreckage, and there are still some remaining large floating cities, which are located in the sky, the air is relatively clean, and they can barely live, but the floating city has no source of resources and is a source of water.

Another time teleportation.

Teleportation does not save every time, nor does it encounter civilization every time. The journey of the old man and the knight is long and tedious. They just keep fighting the fire and destroying the chaos that has been formed. In just a few days, they , has witnessed the demise and near-destruction of dozens of civilizations. They have never discovered these civilizations before, because they have not shown the value of being worth discovering and communicating. They are unformed fires that are quietly lurking. Waiting for the moment of light in the future and in the void.

Only now, everything lost its meaning.

"Loranda, what do you think?"

In the end, on a blue planetary world, the old Pope watched his incarnation in the radiance human figure defeat the evil incarnation like light balls in the void, and solved the civilization on this planet from unprecedented social riots. He didn't turn his head, but asked in a low voice: "Do you understand the power of this 'unknown evil god'?"

"Father, I understand."

Holy Knight Lolanda, adopted son of Pope Igor of the Seven Gods, bowed his head respectfully, and seriously replied: "But there are some things that I don't understand now... After witnessing that the poison of chaos can spread to so many worlds, I Apart from being angry and shocked, I unexpectedly had some other feelings."

Hearing this, Igor nodded slightly, and said, "This is why I brought you here... Tell me."

After getting permission, Lolanda turned his head. He looked at the azure world that had gradually returned to calm, and said softly: "I used to travel around the Mycroft Continent, helping people everywhere, solving problems, and eradicating cults. Because of your teachings, , I don’t intend to stay on the holy mountain to practice hard, to be a strong person who does not benefit the world except for his strength.”

"I have traveled all over the far south and wandered in the Western Mountains. I have helped countless people and punished many villains... I have seen many love and hate partings and many thrilling things. Naturally, I have also seen this Some of the ugliest things in the world."

"In a small town on the edge of the mountains, young women always disappear inexplicably. Sometimes they are the second daughter of a blacksmith's family, and sometimes they are the daughter of an ordinary farmer's family. Their disappearance is naturally a big bad thing for my family, but for my family. For the whole city, it was just irrelevant gossip...Of course, I would not just sit idly by at that time. I traced the clues, ruled out the persuasion and warnings of many local officials and nobles, and found all the missing women... Some, only part of it was recovered."

"If you are lucky, you will be sold as a slave and can be rescued intact. If you are unlucky, you will be sold to black magicians as experimental materials, or illegal vampires or those with sadism, hand fetishism, and necrophilia. Rich people and nobles, in that case, it is good to have a complete human figure, most of them are fragments even if they are corpses."

The old Pope listened silently, and he who had traveled the world in this way did not say anything. And Lolanda continued to say indifferently: "Of course, not only women are abducted and trafficked, but some little boys or babies are also stolen... Some of them are sold to other infertile families as heirs. This is the luckiest thing." Well, at least they can have a complete life, but at most, this kind of child will become someone's dead, an experimental tool, or have their tongue cut off, some limbs cut off, and used as beggars in big cities tool."

"There are many possibilities, and I won't list them all. Of course, these are not important, at least for civilization."

Saying so, the paladin raised his head, his tone was not angry, only very cold and calm: "These are small things...Father, there are many bigger things, such as collusion between government and businessmen, exploitation of the bottom, such as cutting corners on dams, As a result, the lower reaches of the river were completely submerged, tens of thousands of lives were lost, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced... The king was corrupt, the officials closed their eyes, and the nobles did whatever they wanted in their own territories. This kind of thing will not improve with technological progress. A few days ago, a king of Xishan showed off his pet maid to me, and used people like animals. I couldn't kill him with this kind of thing. I know that this is legal and reasonable for the society they live in. I can't force the ignorant natives to observe etiquette just because I have high morals."

"You can kill him." The old Pope couldn't deny it: "Of course, you have to know the consequences of your actions. But Lorenda, what do you want to say?"

"What I want to say is that conflicts, disputes, ugly things, resentment between people, and the sorrow that has settled in the depths of society are all normal things, as long as we haven't reached the glory era of the past Realm, these bad roots will never disappear. But even in the Era of Glory, aren’t there similar contradictions? What does disputes have to do with evil gods?”

The paladin raised his head, and his tone was as firm as iron: "I don't think at all that these disputes are caused by evil gods—because this is the malice hidden in people's hearts, and the bitter fruit that is brewing. If it doesn't break out now, it will never happen in the future." It will explode."

"But in fact, the destruction of these civilizations was caused by the chaotic disturbance of the 'unknown evil god'."

Igor didn't express much emotion for his adopted son's words, he just pointed out that what the other party said was wrong: "There are no unknown evil gods, and these contradictions of civilization are likely to be covered up by social progress brought about by technological progress. Ablation is like the fact that after our Mycroft civilization obtained the integrated large information base, because of the rapid development of technology, many contradictions have disappeared—at least there is no day of outbreak.”

This is also the reason why the Mycroft civilization has not had many contradictions that can be called crises until now. The property of an acre of land is less than 100 kilograms, and farmers cannot survive after paying taxes. This will naturally lead to conflicts. If you die, the contradictions will naturally be suppressed.

Regarding the contradiction pointed out by Eagle, Lolanda just smiled calmly: "Father, what I mean is that at least the 'dispute' itself is not spawned by evil gods. Disputes have always existed, and the demise of these civilizations is very reasonable. Except that it will be transformed into chaos after death, everything is as it should be."

"The power of this evil god does not create disputes at all. If it had a name, it would definitely not be 'disputes' and 'contradictions'. At least there must be an evil god who created them out of thin air to be called an evil god of disputes or an evil god of contradictions."

This argument was very clear, and it was also in line with Eagle's own previous speculation, so he nodded and signaled Lolanda to continue.

"Father, I have explored different worlds with Earl Radcliffe before, and I have often contacted him. He often said that the existence of civilization itself is not an 'inevitable' thing. Any civilization may collapse at any time. This is the biggest 'social experiment' conducted by all intelligent life with instinct, everyone is crossing the river by feeling the stones, not knowing what ditch lies ahead."

"Even a glorious civilization will usher in destruction, and the same era may not be perfect—since civilization is not 'eternal', then it will inevitably usher in an 'end', and the reason for the end is whatever it is, it can be destroyed , will inevitably be destroyed by its reasons.”

"The essence of this unknown evil god is to bring civilization, and even all things, to the 'self-termination'. It can be called [the evil god of the end] [the evil god of destruction], of course..."

Speaking of this, Lolanda let out a breath, and he said softly: "It can also be called [death]."

"Father."

The paladin paused, and he sighed: "I want to protect the world of Mycroft, my hometown - I also just want to protect this world. But to be honest, after seeing the power of this evil god, I really I am so scared, more scared than when I saw the incarnation of the evil god of natural disasters coming."

"When sorrow keeps accumulating in the abyss, one day it will be fermented by despair into a bitter fruit called death... So many civilizations have been destroyed, and to provide power for this unknown evil god, the Mycroft world can support it even now. We will not be spared in the future, if we only protect one world, we will not be able to protect this world, and only with the Milky Way in our hearts can we protect one side's peace."

Hearing this, Igor finally had some expression, and he smiled.

And Lolanda continued. He raised his hand and pointed to the blue world below him. Under the barrier of the world, the chaos dissipated, and the figure of light returned victorious: "There may be an island between people, but civilization It’s absolutely not the case, they are extinct, we are like teeth that have lost their lips, even if I am a selfish person who just wants to protect my own world, I must do it now to help other civilizations.”

Speaking of this, the paladin also laughed: "My strength is enough to suppress some weaker worlds. Father, I don't want to follow you anymore, I want to perform tasks alone."

"Go, just remember your heart."

Igor didn't say much, he just turned around and patted Lolanda on the shoulder: "But I thought you would need to settle down for a few more years before you could understand so clearly... Lolanda, your Great progress, far beyond my imagination.”

"That's because I'm standing behind you, father, and Earl Radcliffe... The speed of those who walk forward is so fast, and those who follow behind naturally dare not slack off."

Lolanda began to apply for the teleportation authority of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field. Of course, because he is not a legendary powerhouse, there will be a certain delay, but just taking advantage of this time, he can still have a few words with Igueld, The paladin said with some emotion: "The so-called hero is not one who charges alone, but one who can muster up the courage to fight and move forward together."

Igor stared at his disciple and adopted son, stroked his beard, and said in a low voice, "You mean, Joshua is a hero in your eyes."

"Of course not, father."

Loranda smiled and said, "Earl Radcliffe is not a hero—he is a banner."

"He is the banner of our time."

A flag that was erected ten years ago, fluttering in the strong wind.

"It's just that he doesn't know it himself, and he doesn't care... The flag is at the forefront, and the hero follows closely behind. Our civilization is all moving in the direction he leads because of him—Joshua may not be aware of it at all. Up to this point, but in fact, even you, father, couldn’t help but be led by him? It’s like this time through the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field to suppress the chaos infestation, and he is also at the forefront.”

"Haha, he's always aggressive."

The old man couldn't help laughing in a low voice, he stroked his beard again, and said calmly: "Then Lolanda, what do you think you are, and what do you want to be in the future?"

At this time, Lolanda's body was already covered by the teleportation circle dropped by the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Field, and he was in the incorporeal state before teleportation. Regarding the question of his adoptive father, the paladin naturally said: "I want to Be a hero."

"Since it can't be a banner."

"Then be the one closest to the flag."

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