Soul of Burning Steel

"Are you going to leave now?"

Artanis stood up. Regarding the so-called black blood disease, he actually still had some doubts in his heart. After all, the sudden plague was still a bit weird, but all doubts disappeared when he faced the man in front of him.

Joshua is a man who does not lie, and will not lie. He once said many strange words that seemed to be delusional, but they all came true in the end. If other people, the old bishop, might try to test it, But only Joshua would not.

This is a fighter worthy of trust.

"Almost, it's in good shape now."

Also standing up, Joshua took a deep breath, the strong fighting energy centered on the heart, as the blood vessels spread to the whole body, a burst of red light circulated around the body, the warrior felt the power in the body, and then looked out the window Asked: "How is Hei recently? Why didn't I see it?"

"It's too big to enter the city, so I asked someone to take it to Nessiere Winterhold. It's a big place, and it's no problem to accommodate at least one dragon."

Shaking his head, Artanis seemed to be a little emotional: "It's getting bigger and bigger, what did you feed it recently... By the way, I'll take that thing out for you first, if you just Going directly to the imperial capital will definitely cause a huge commotion."

As if he suddenly remembered something, the old bishop immediately turned and walked towards the door. He asked Joshua to wait in the room first, and then walked towards the stairs.

"Speaking of which, it seems that we haven't been idle at all recently."

Watching the old bishop leave, Rin, who was sitting beside him, stretched, and the black-haired boy said in a lazy tone, "I'm--busy."

"Think about it carefully, it's like this..."

Ying lay on the table, and said in a soft tone: "After fighting for so long, I think I really need to take good care of myself... I don't have the energy to deal with the plague."

The expression and demeanor of the silver-haired girl can only be described in one word, and that is laziness.

"Don't worry, it's not our turn to deal with things like the plague."

Joshua sat back on the chair again, and he looked at the tired look of the teenagers and girls with a little amusement. Of course, the warrior understood that it was because things like the plague could not be cut with weapons that Ying and Rin were not interested.

After thinking for a while, Joshua comforted his two weapons: "At most, we can deal with the plague in our own territory. To really deal with this invisible disease, it still depends on the power of the empire and the church. It is not our turn." Fee God."

The reason why the plague broke out on a large scale in the previous life was that the dragon catastrophe blocked the connection between the Holy Mountain of the Far Sea and the outside world, and various cultists created disturbances in the refugee wave, which attracted the attention of the high-level officials of the Far South Kingdom. Blockade, and in this life, the mad dragon vaccine appeared at least one or two years earlier, the pressure of the dragon disaster is not so great, and the holy mountain in the far sea has not lost its connection with the outside world. In this way, can black blood cause so many casualties? Still unknown.

Even if he could, it didn't make any sense. He went to the imperial capital to nip this possibility in its infancy. Although Joshua didn't remember how to make the targeted drug, he knew what the ingredients were! The task of collecting special medicine materials back then was a daily routine for all players in the Far South region. Even now, he can clearly recall what materials were needed and how much they were.

Shortly after, Artanis returned to the room.

He was holding a pocket watch in his hand. The watch body was silver, and the chain shone with warm metal light. It looked a bit old. The old bishop directly handed the pocket watch to Joshua, and the soldier took it without being polite. .

Opening it, Joshua found that it was the same as a normal pocket watch, and the pointer moved slowly, which was exactly the current time.

"Just inject a little magic power or grudge. Its function is to hinder other people's perception of you."

Artanis explained the utility of this pocket watch to Joshua: "Although it can't change your appearance, most people can't recall your appearance after being affected by it, and the resentment and chaotic atmosphere lodged on your body will be destroyed. Cover up, that way, at least it won't cause panic."

——but walking around is still inevitable.

"Thank you very much."

Joshua injected a little grudge on the spot, activated its effect, and a wave of magic power immediately covered the warrior's whole body. At this moment, Ying, Rin and Artanis all had the illusion that Joshua had disappeared , it was clear that Joshua was standing in front of them, but the thought of 'there is nothing here' was turning back and forth in his mind.

However, this illusion is only for a moment. After a moment, everything returns to normal, but the strong sense of presence on the soldier has indeed weakened a lot. If it is like the sun before, as long as you see it, you can't help but notice it. If so, then the current Joshua is just an ordinary tall man, although eye-catching and even eye-catching, but that's all.

【Mist Pocket Watch】

【Advanced Magical Creation】

[Effect: Greatly reduce the holder's sense of existence, shielding low-level detection spells. 】

【——Who can recall the passer-by who walked in the mist and passed by? 】

"good."

Seeing everyone's reaction, Joshua nodded in satisfaction and said, "Thank you, Bishop Artanis, this suits me very well."

"This is the equipment I used before. I traveled the entire empire back then. In order not to cause conflicts in some sensitive areas, I specially customized this magic item."

The old bishop smiled slightly. He looked at the pocket watch in Joshua's hand, with nostalgia in his eyes: "It has been more than 30 years, and I didn't expect it to still work so well. The last time I took it out, I drank with Fan. "

Speaking of the names of the previous generation of housekeepers of the Radcliffe family, the room suddenly fell silent. Artanis also noticed this, and he laughed at himself: "When you get old, it's easy to recall the past."

"The past should be remembered."

Putting the pocket watch in his pocket, Joshua shrugged his shoulders, and there was a trace of nostalgia in his eyes. He murmured in a low voice: "Yes, the 400-year obsession of the Radcliffe family has come to an end. The chaos in the world has completely dissipated, and everything is over."

Perhaps it is time to go back to the family cemetery in Black Forest Fortress.

——Tell the souls who have passed away that their perseverance has been answered.

And just when everyone in Moldavia was about to set off.

The Imperial City, the Royal Association of Mages, the No. 2 large underground laboratory.

In the center of the solemn and solemn steel hall, which shone with icy light, stood an incomparably huge square crystal cover tens of meters high, and the crystal cover was filled with a gray and strange mist.

This fog obscures all vision, even if there are dozens of high-power positive energy magic circles emitting a steady stream of light around it, there is no way to purify it and see the existence behind it.

It can be seen that the fog seems to have an unknown source, and its concentration is still increasing bit by bit. If the high concentration of positive energy hadn't offset some of it, the fog might have turned black long ago.

Around the crystal hood, stood seven mages in white robes with powerful magical auras. They were discussing with each other in low voices as they watched this scene.

"Ordinary positive energy and holy light cannot be completely purified, but can only contain the mist released by the 'Erebus Box'."

An old man with a deep voice said to the other mages around him with a serious face: "There are only ten days left before the three-month period given to us by His Majesty the Emperor. If you still can't resolve the fog, open the Erebus The box, the empire will hand it over to the group of idiots whose eyes are above the top of the Eastern Guantian White Pagoda according to the agreement."

"At that time, not to mention the anger of His Majesty, the funds of the association will be reduced, and we will definitely be regarded as waste and hung on the pillar of shame."

"But we haven't been able to connect to touch so far!"

Another middle-aged mage with an extremely bad face frowned and said: "The inside of the gray fog is a chaos, no matter what method we use, we can't get close to its center. Although we isolated the fog with white crystals, many experiments If you can’t even do the first step, how can you open the secret box at the center?”

The other mages also agreed one by one. Although they are all proud mages, the two and a half months of research without any clues and results have made everyone doubt their IQ. In fact, there were nearly twenty mages united There are only seven people who study this subject, but now there are only seven people left.

Box of Erebus. Repeating the name silently in his heart, the face of the old mage couldn't help but become even more ugly.

This strange item came from the underground of the destroyed orc king's court.

Not long ago, the Empire devoted all its power to completely exterminating its confidant for hundreds of years. The orc clan entrenched in the northwest Tataros Plain, the orc royal court was burned to nothing in the fire, and in the post-war excavation operations , a knight discovered an extremely hidden underground tunnel in the center of the ruins of the royal court.

The length of this tunnel cannot be calculated, and it is abnormally winding. It leads deep underground. During the exploration, everyone found that there are countless strange murals on both sides of the tunnel. These murals are completely different from the totem style commonly used by orcs. It seems to be a product of another civilization.

After researching, the mage accompanying the army believed that the mural was not in the style of the centaur tribe exterminated by the orcs, but was created by another new race that had never appeared on the mainland. This immediately caused a sensation in the academic circles—the orcs Under the royal court, there is a ruin of a brand new unknown race.

Within a few days, mages from all over the world who are interested in studying ancient civilizations have come to the site of the Beast King's Court, and many of them are members of such powerful forces as the White Tower of Guantian and the Qiyao Council. Even the empire will give them a share. face.

With the support of many forces, the large-scale excavation operation was launched immediately. After making all preparations and walking underground along the tunnel for at least ten kilometers, the mages came to the end of the passage—a huge underground cave.

The interior of the dark cave is full of decaying and disgusting stench. Through various investigations with spells, the mages found that there are long-decayed or even fossilized bones. Everyone agrees that this place is the ancestor of a certain race. sacrificial place.

After sorting out these bones, the mages discovered that this is indeed a brand new species.

After roughly restoring the shape of these white bones through magic, this brand-new creature is divided into two categories, one of which is tall and basically has a height of more than three meters, while the other is extremely rare, and their physique More muscular, with two heads and a natural ability to cast spells.

The two-headed is obviously the high-level of this race, controlling other single-headed individuals. Most of the corpses are single-headed, and they are obviously sacrificed sacrifices.

And in the center of the cave, above a stone altar, there is a black box that seems to be soaked in countless blood.

Also known as the Box of Erebus.

The box of Erebus was normal at the beginning, until a mage who held it was accidentally injured, and blood touched it, and the black box that absorbed the blood began to release a steady stream of mist. It is powerfully corrosive and confusing, and neither magic power nor grudge can penetrate it. It killed many people on the spot, and even almost closed the exit of the underground cave. He could only be forced to put it into a crystal cover to seal it, and sent it all the way back to the imperial capital.

During this process, the mages from the White Tower of Guantian contributed a lot, so, due to geographical reasons, the opportunity to study the black box was first given to the Empire. It has the characteristic of releasing black mist, and is named "Erebus".

As an existence of an ancient race that devotes all its power to sacrifice, both the empire and the White Tower of Guantian believe that the box of Erebus contains extremely deep mysteries. If they can be analyzed, it will undoubtedly strengthen their own power. Strength, among other things, just the fog that cannot be penetrated by magic is of great value in sneaking and concealing.

"Maybe we should go to the heir of the Chaos family, Brandon Chaos, who possesses a powerful purification power."

A mage made an opinion. He seemed to have wanted to say it a long time ago, but he didn't speak for some reason, but now it is indeed the deadline, so he couldn't bear it: "I know, the relationship between you and Nostradamus Not good, and he is prejudiced against his students, but now is not the time to pay attention to this."

"……you're right."

Taking a deep breath, the old mage in the head seemed a little annoyed after hearing the name Nostradamus, but he quickly calmed down: "My personal face is naturally not as good as that of the imperial mage. The face of the association."

After a pause, he whispered, "Please come."