Soul of Burning Steel

The flames of the multiverse are repeatedly extinguished and rekindled, and civilizations are rotated to glory and destruction. In a long time, there are no eternal things, infinite possibilities, and absolute power. Decay, not to mention everything created by intelligent life, is perhaps the most beautiful and fragile thing in this world.

But it is precisely because of the lack that it is longed for. Different from normal intelligent races who live in the normal world but constantly pursue violence enough to destroy themselves, demons who are born with destructive power, what they desire most is the power of creation that can create the world and revive the flame.

Around the sixth abyss, in the endless void, two mighty, majestic and dark, holy and terrifying forces collided once again, the destructive power enough to bring everything to silence, and the brilliance enough to illuminate thousands of stars The flames staggered past, and the aftermath shocked the turbulence of time and space, and even affected other abyss in the distance.

"So that's how it is." The gigantic demon holding the twin scythes shook violently, and from time to time there were streaks of silver fire coming out of its body, but it still let out a sneer - that was the voice of a demon, greedy like locusts and ants , as hot as the lava in the abyss: "You are the one who holds the power of creation!"

And at the same time when Goliath was so determined, it spread its wings suddenly, and the endless shadows began to spread, like a black mirror, countless shadows of demons of different shapes flew out of the mirror like this , They are burning with seemingly hot flames, but in fact, these shadows can absorb heat and kinetic energy from everything they touch, making them fall into absolute silence.

It can be seen that countless world wrecks flying in the void are touched by these shadows, stop moving immediately, lose energy, and then are dragged into the shadows like this, disappearing into the black mirror formed by Goliath's wings.

But Joshua didn't make any defensive moves, he just raised his head slightly, and the corner of his eyes swept over these shadows—the substantive light was wrapped with anti-entropy comparable to stars, and in an instant, hundreds of thousands of The shadow demon's body pierced through. The injury didn't seem serious, but soon, it was like a focal point was burnt by flames on the piece of paper. The flames began to spread rapidly on the pierced shadow demon's body, and then burned it up instantly. .

Even in the face of Goliath's seemingly incomparably weird attack, Joshua did not panic at all. He calmly used his power to defeat every attack of the opponent with the most insignificant strength. On the contrary, every time the fighter Clenched his fist and waved it, but Goliath had to stand ready and go all out.

This is not surprising. The skills and combat power mastered by Joshua's avatar are no different from those of the main body. The only difference is the mere "equivalence". The point of 'self-summoning' can be solved quickly, and facing such a serious warrior, the devil Goliath is related to the movement of particles, and can deprive the enemy of heat energy, kinetic energy and other energy, so it is no longer weird and mysterious.

There is no doubt that Goliath's strength is indeed powerful, but without revealing his fundamental cards and only using basic moves, it is impossible for him to confront Joshua, who has already perfected his own strength. Fighting against each other is to let the fighters have a little more control over their power, but Goliath can only know that his opponent has "great strength", "strong defense", "fast speed" and "a lot of energy". The attribute is so high that it explodes, which is meaningless information - after all, Joshua is just a normal attack from the beginning to the end, but it has to use one kind of extraordinary ability after another.

As if feeling confident, the body of the standing silver giant trembled slightly. This slight movement caused the surrounding space to appear time-space distortions visible to the naked eye, but after Goliath realized this, he made a strange reaction. Laughing loudly, the aura of the abyss lord above its head began to grow slowly, and the black splendor began to flicker. At the same time, Goliath raised the twin scythes in his hand and swiped in the void, a black and red magic circle The prototype began to be sketched quickly, and countless strange runes condensed.

But at this time, Joshua moved, his body disappeared, and only a silver torrent rushed towards Goliath like a straight line, and the distorted space-time created a long groove in the turbulent flow of time and space. The energy gathered by it turned into a colorful galaxy light belt that is also visible to the naked eye in other worlds behind its warrior.

The kinetic energy carried by this impact is enough to directly smash a planet into pieces. If it crashes into the sun, it will also cause celestial-level catastrophic changes, and this terrifying energy is all condensed in the warrior's four fists. The violent silver light instantly drowned Goliath and its magic circle.

But this time the onslaught was in vain.

Joshua stood where Goliath was originally, and he touched the black scar that suddenly appeared on his chest, which split the neutron armor, and smoothed it out. The soldier frowned slightly, and scanned his surroundings—the huge body of the abyss lord disappeared the moment he was about to receive his heavy punch, leaving him in vain, but Joshua didn't realize what the other party had done at all, so that he could While doing this, fight back against yourself.

Although the opponent's long-prepared counterattack could only barely penetrate his own defense, Joshua understood that if this strike fell on an ordinary world, it would be enough to remove most of the light and heat from the entire continent with one blow. , while harvesting infinite souls, it also extinguished the furnace of earth fire. This is a real 'scythe of death' capable of destroying the world and destroying civilization.

However, maybe it's not that I didn't find it, but that I couldn't understand it.

Joshua recalled the strange magic circle and runes drawn by the other party before he disappeared. They were completely strange things that he had never seen before, nor had he seen anything similar. And just as the soldier was guarding his surroundings and began to meditate, he suddenly raised his hand, and firmly clamped three fingers on the blade of a black scythe.

The giant scythe suddenly emerged from the dark void, and directly slashed towards Joshua's head. However, Joshua's perception and reaction speed almost reached the limit of the material world. He instantly sensed the surprise attack and launched a counterattack. ——As the warrior's three fingers continued to strengthen, dense cracks began to appear on the blade of the black scythe, and just before half of the scythe was about to be crushed by Joshua, the scythe immediately turned into a shadow and disappeared.

"That's right."

With just such a little flaw and such a little information, Joshua immediately understood many things. He looked around the dark void around him, and said with a low laugh, "No wonder you suddenly changed your form, and you didn't look like a demon at all. -"

"Goliath, you have actually mastered the power of 'Shadow'!"

The information flow stirred by the giant god spread throughout the void. Joshua's voice could be heard even in the surrounding abyss worlds, but there was no response in the void, only silence.

【shadow】

Once, Joshua discussed the changes in the world with Nostradamus, Barbarossa, Barnir and William, the most powerful spellcasters of Mycroft. It came from the center of the multiverse, the energy frenzy caused by the destruction of endless worlds, and it was they who, by studying the materials in the world of Siberia and many other worlds, discovered that there was a new kind of extraordinary in this multiverse. strength.

And that extraordinary power was named Shadow.

The original ordinary light and shadow phenomenon, in that silent but huge change, was changed in nature, and has since possessed extraordinary elements, just like in ancient times, the spirit of intelligent life was substantiated and became spiritual energy. Just like the erratic energy in the air is turned into magic power, like ether and the six elements, like the power of life is given meaning and becomes fighting spirit, when brilliance and love can also become 'holy light', everyone It's not surprising that 'shadow' can also become the inheritance of some kind of power.

However, the research on the power of shadows is still in its infancy even in the world of Mycroft. By observing the instinctively awakened shadow power users in the world of Siberia, the mages of the White Tower of Guantian have summed up many basic symbols of shadows. text, there are some rules of operation,

But now, the demon king Goliath has shown the power of the shadow and the method of using it with great proficiency-this is really shocking and wonderful.

However, it is not surprising.

Joshua looked around the void indifferently, trying to find out where Goliath was, who had escaped into the shadows. This brand-new extraordinary power, which had never appeared before, was very difficult even for him, and it did not take a while. Something that can be seen through, the soldier thought in his heart: "After all, the world of Mycroft has many complete inheritances of supernatural powers. For brand-new unknown powers, it is natural to hold a cautious attitude and study them bit by bit. There will not be many strong people who will abandon the original path and study this power wholeheartedly."

"But demons are different, they don't have so many choices at all, and Goliath's ability to become a demon king naturally means that he is extremely talented. As a demon king-level existence, he is not afraid of the backlash from the failure of the experiment... In a short time, It is not inexplicable to train the power of shadow to perfection."

Goliath, who is fused into the shadows, should be merging himself into the ubiquitous shadows in the multiverse at this time. This should not be considered a covert method, but since Joshua is not familiar with the power of shadows, As a result, he couldn't detect where the other party was at all.

This is a brand-new extraordinary power. For the influence of the original extraordinary, they need to adapt to this new environment, learn to deal with brand-new enemies, repair the loopholes in their own cultivation methods and combat skills, and fill up all the extra gaps. ... There are so many flaws in just fighting. For an existence that intends to control everything, this brand new extraordinary power will definitely cause it a headache.

Goliath didn't say anything, didn't reply, didn't promise, even if he saw the brand-new hole card of the power of shadow, it didn't show anything, the devil silently searched for Joshua's loopholes in the void, Raids are carried out from time to time. Although the fighters can make the most perfect defense every time to deal with it, it is obviously not Joshua's character to be beaten unilaterally.

However, when Goliath emerged from the shadows once again and attacked Joshua, it seemed to have received some kind of counterattack. Obviously the warrior hadn't turned back to block, and the whole body including the double sickle was just like that. It bounced away from a distance, and then sank into the shadows in some embarrassment.

Joshua turned his head slowly, and he could see, centered on the iron giant, one by one was constantly expanding, and burning fireballs were emerging in the silver nebula.

Blue flames, white flames, orange flames, yellow flames, red flames.

Exuding five different kinds of light, dozens of fireballs of different sizes continue to gather and grow in the nebula of the power of steel. They burn blazingly and release strong light of different spectra. These fireballs merge with each other, split, expand, and shrink. And with these different actions, the light of the fireball also changed rapidly.

At this moment, Joshua's whole body was surrounded by these small stars that emitted infinite light. There were more than forty-five small stars, and the number of small stars was still increasing, revolving around the Iron Giant's body like satellites. Under the simultaneous illumination of dozens of stars, all shadows in the optical sense will disappear, and even the power of shadows in the extraordinary sense will never be able to invade this pure "field of stars and celestial bodies".

Even without the holy light, Joshua can resist the shadows. He himself is the torch that ignites the unknown distance, so how can he be afraid of the endless darkness.

"call--"

The iron giant raised four hands at the same time, grabbing four different miniature stars. These miniature stars are very different from the stars formed by nature. Some of them are pure luminous bodies, like crystal suns. , and some are fireballs resembling real stars, with coronas popping up from time to time on their surfaces.

And some miniature stars are actually a small flame galaxy, cantilevers of different properties rotate and annihilate, bringing out high-heat sparks, while some stars are geometric models that are constantly merging and splitting—it can even be seen that some miniature cores have a Phoenix-like shadows are being conceived, and some three-legged birds are taking shape.

The crystal stars of psionic power, the blazing stars of magic power, the galaxy stars of elements, the geometric stars of ether, the stars of holy light and life that can be close to life... At this moment, the God of Steel evolves almost all the extraordinary powers that can be brought. The incoming light illuminates a small half of the abyss void.

Joshua looked around indifferently—all the darkness was dissipating, and even the turbulent flow of time and space gradually subsided because of his existence, forming a huge sunken flat area with endless light and countless different spectrums And supernatural power is spreading towards the surroundings with the momentum of a supernova explosion, all shadows, and things that have nothing to do with these supernatural powers are dissipating.

The warrior does not understand the power of shadows—but he understands other supernatural powers. As long as he gathers and expels all the supernatural powers he knows, the only thing left is the existence that he doesn't understand.

The brilliance shines.

Until the end, a huge demonic figure could no longer hide its own figure and had to burst out from the last shadow of the void.

Demon King Goliath came out of the range of the miniature stars around Joshua in some embarrassment, and stared at the warrior from a distance.

"The second time..." Joshua whispered with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"I lost." But Goliath took the lead - the abyss lord said: "I admit defeat."

Joshua: "...?"

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