Soul of Burning Steel

Mycroft Continent.

The Church of the Seven Gods, the Holy Mountain of the Far Sea.

The old pope stood on the top of the holy mountain, looking down at the gloomy clouds dyed golden by the setting sun and the churning sea below, his eyes swept across the end of the sky.

Igor watched everything in the distant sea, such as the endless sea wind surrounding the oceans, such as the increasing number of five-color dragons, and he had a panoramic view of everything.

As the war on the Far South Continent gradually subsided, the number of mad dragon armies around Ada Gray Island became more and more numerous. Before that, they could not block every sea area, but now, the mad dragon has completely wiped out the entire far sea. occupy.

The holy mountain has become an isolated island, even if the Far South Kingdom and other forces on the mainland want to send reinforcements, it is difficult to reach it. Before the coastal ports are repaired and a new fleet is created, the broken kingdom cannot extend its power beyond the land.

With long silver hair flying in the wind, Igor stared at the sky. He was already very old. The old Pope did not transform his body into the perfect state of his youth like other legendary powerhouses. He was just like a normal human being. Growing up, aging, watching my skin loosen and wrinkles spreading indifferently.

But this does not mean that he is weak. On the contrary, Igor is the strongest human being on this continent, the well-deserved first person under the sky, and a god walking in the world.

Holding the pure white staff, the old pope's silver eyes became brighter and brighter. He could see that above the clouds in the distance, under the deep sea in the distance, and in the center surrounded by countless dragons, there were three extremely powerful strands, as if occupying All the breaths of existence in this world, they did not conceal their own existence, but revealed their figures openly and accumulated strength.

It was the aura of the three legendary giant dragons among the five-color dragon clan. These existences second only to the gods released their coercion provocatively, so that Igor had to stay at the holy mountain in the far sea and confront them.

This confrontation has been going on for a long time, and it started ten days ago. It will continue until both sides have prepared all their forces and it will end when the war is about to start.

"Huh." Suddenly, Igor turned his head and looked at the vast sea on the east side of Shengshan Mountain. He whispered in surprise, "This is..."

In the vision of the old Pope, the Abyss of Anos, which was originally covered by a storm and had huge waves, suddenly calmed down, and even the abyssal breath that gradually spread and eroded everything disappeared completely, but he was not overjoyed by it, but Frowning, he murmured solemnly: "They failed?"

Eagle could perceive that in the center of the Abyss of Anos, where the turbulent vortex was located, the space from the other world was constantly eroding the Mycroft Continent and turning it into a part of the Abyss.

Although Robzek and Joshua, the two Ultimate-level powerhouses, jointly failed the mission, the old Pope was a little surprised, but it was not like he had never made such a bad prediction.

"Although it was somewhat unexpected, it was not the worst outcome."

The silver-haired old man looked at the direction of the three legendary dragons with some headaches. With the help of the arrangement in the Seven Sacred Mountains, he was confident that he could completely suppress the vision caused by the crack in the abyss, or even seal it directly, and then rescued everyone. The strong dragon clan will also take this opportunity to launch an attack. Although Eagle is not afraid of these enemies and is even confident of defeating them all, he doesn't want to make more changes for no reason.

In the distance, the breath of the abyss gradually became stronger, and the old pope's face became more and more dignified, while on the side of the five-color dragon clan, the aura was getting higher and higher.

But just when Igor was about to make a shot from the air to separate the merging abyss at the other end from the Mycroft world, the chaotic atmosphere condensed in the Abyss of Anos suddenly stagnated and stopped growing.

Even, because of the spontaneous resistance of the world, it became weaker and weaker, and it could still be vaguely felt that there was a powerful force erupting in the abyss at the other end, a force that Eagle was very familiar with at that time.

Temporarily dissipating the power condensed on the pure white staff, the old Pope narrowed his eyes, he thought for a while, and then chuckled.

"Forget it, I'll trust you just once."

The old man turned his gaze back to the majestic aura of the three legendary dragons: "Even if it is irreversible, I still have time to make a move."

——Blood Moon Abyss.

Joshua crushed the crystal dragon fragment in his hand.

A pitch-black soul howled and wanted to escape from it, but was caught and swallowed by the surging black aura from the warrior.

The power of the wave of killing intent comes from the soul fragments of the defeated. Although Joshua called it by this name, other existences who knew his power of glory, such as Loranda and Moria, believed that its name It should be called Soul Abyss.

Just after asking all the key information about the fusion ceremony from the already collapsed Mandagar, Joshua turned his head and looked at the constant space-time fluctuations at the edge of the plane, then immediately got up and flew in the direction of the time number. go.

Soon after, he came to the ark.

At this time, Hill, Fina, and Hei had all turned into prototypes. Their power was exhausted and they were unconscious on the deck and around the time ship. Only Robzek was left frowning, standing by the side of the ship, using the Holy Light Bind the parasitic brain-eating worms in his brain, and turned them into nothingness bit by bit.

After all, he is not Joshua, and he can't do such things as opening his own head and pulling out parasites. It's better to say that this method of paladins is the safest and most normal, but it requires a quiet and undisturbed environment, which consumes a lot of money. It also takes a little more time.

By the time the warrior landed on the deck of the Timer, Robzek had just finished purifying the parasites in his brain. With the burden lifted from his heart, his fighting spirit and holy light were running smoothly, returning to 50% of the original state. the power of.

"How is it?" Joshua spoke very directly when it was not the time to exchange pleasantries, and he asked directly, "Do you still have the strength to drive others away?"

Robzek glanced at the conspicuous scar on the left side of the soldier's skull, and the paladin, who had guessed a bit of the process, underestimated softly: "It seems that you don't need it anymore."

Afterwards, he nodded solemnly: "Most of my strength has recovered, and I will be expelled by others faster—you have defeated Mandagar, are you going to destroy the fusion ceremony?"

In fact, Robzek wanted to ask Joshua many things, whether it was the terrifying strength or the ominous divinity revealed, but now is not the time, their first task is to destroy the abyss crack, and Before that, destroying the fusion ceremony is a necessary condition.

"No need, actually, once Mandagal dies, the fusion ceremony will be over." Joshua shook his head, he glanced sideways at the filthy sea of ​​blood, and said with emotion in his tone: "The crystal dragon himself It is the center of the ceremony, it has the breath of Mycroft, the abyss, and the evil god of famine, which can promote the fusion of the two worlds, and only in this way can it achieve the legendary realm while completing the ceremony."

"Once it dies, the ceremony will automatically end, and it will gradually self-destruct as time goes by. We don't need to worry about it."

In fact, if the warrior hadn't exploded with divinity before, Mandagal only needed to create one more Chaos Rune, and it would have beaten Joshua. The strength of the two is actually not much different. Being distracted to manipulate rituals is not good at melee combat, and he has to protect the Chaos Runes from being destroyed by soldiers, so he suffers a little.

If you are fighting in the void around the blood moon, with the speed of the crystal dragon, the warriors who cannot accelerate with the help of the ground will not even be able to touch its edge, and will only be slowly consumed by endless magic.

But no matter what, Mandagal was completely dead and his soul was devoured. Joshua won this battle.

"Really." The paladin looked at the sea of ​​blood in surprise. He originally thought that there was a core in this ceremony, which was hidden in the depths of the red moon. He did not expect that the crystal dragon itself was the starting point of the ceremony. The corner of Robzek's mouth Lifting it up, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "In this way, the task is close to completion, and we can destroy the abyss crack as soon as possible, and then call the church to send us back."

But Joshua shook his head, and he signaled the paladin to look towards the edge of the abyss plane: "I'm afraid it's not that simple."

Following the soldier's gaze, Robzek looked towards the end of the plane, and at the extreme level, he naturally saw the dense space-time fluctuations - because of the interference of the parasites before, he had no spare time to pay attention to the surrounding situation, let alone Not to mention the subtle space-time fluctuations in the distance.

The paladin gasped: "What is that? An invading army of demons?!"

Joshua corrected: "The devil blood dragon is not a devil."

"Wouldn't that be worse!"

After finishing speaking, the paladin frowned, his face was ugly: "Look at this speed, within 20 to 30 minutes, they can penetrate the plane barrier and come to this layer of abyss... Even if we destroy the abyss crack now, It is also impossible to send it back so quickly."

This time it was Joshua's turn to frown: "The speed is so slow? It doesn't take a few minutes for my Gale floating battleship to be towed and teleported."

"Although I don't know what Gale you are talking about, but we are teleporting across planes."

Robzek walked up to Saya. He stretched out his hand and pressed it on her forehead. Even if the big nun was in a coma, her expression was not in pain, but rather sad. As the closest person to Nolan on weekdays, she was betrayed. She was also the hardest hit.

While expelling the parasites for Saya, the paladin explained to the soldiers: "After we blow up the crack in the abyss, it is equivalent to completely breaking away from the world of Mycroft. There is no connection at all. The church will use the engraved in the central hall of Time to ——that is, the place you teleported to—the space-time rune inside will carry out the reverse pulling ceremony to 'summon' us back to the world of Mycroft, this process is very long, and it will take at least half an hour."

"Originally." Speaking of this, Robzek glanced around the situation of the blood moon plane, and he couldn't help shaking his head: "We thought this was an ordinary abyss plane, with the earth and demons, who were rushing into the abyss on the other side. At the end, after blowing up the space-time rift, we only need to persist for more than half an hour under the siege of scattered demons to return, who knew there would be so many unexpected situations.”

Leaving aside the rituals and plans of the Crystal Demon Dragon, the size of this abyss was beyond their expectations. Since it was a fragment of a complete plane, the entire Blood Moon Plane was not far from the south, and the place where the Demon Blood Dragon sent The distance between the edge of the surface and the blood moon is slightly farther than the distance between the abyss crack and the blood moon, so that it won't last long at all.

Speaking of this, Saya slowly regained consciousness, and when she regained consciousness, she noticed that the paladin was expelling the parasite for him, and the big nun immediately cooperated. With the joint efforts of the two, the parasite disappeared completely within a few seconds.

The two teamed up and quickly rescued Lolanda again. With the joint efforts of the three church members, it took less than five minutes to wake everyone up—the crew of the Time in the cabin were still in a coma. But now that the situation is urgent, I can't take care of them.

"Long story short, we're in a very dangerous situation right now."

Touching the head of the sickly and weak black dragon girl, Joshua said solemnly to everyone: "In ten minutes, the army of the blood dragon will come to this plane. We have three choices now."

"Which three options?" Fina asked first, after knowing the current situation, Ms. Blue Dragon was not flustered, she calmly asked the warrior: "Beforehand, don't mention the options that are sure to die, it will only increase your frustration. "

"First, we will take the time number directly to leave the blood moon plane, and then detonate the wheel of holy light on the side of the Mycroft continent to temporarily seal the crack in the abyss. Although such a seal is very unstable, it is better than safety. Looking for opportunities in the future, I can gradually improve."

Joshua didn't say anything superfluous, and his words were concise: "The second is that we will take action immediately and completely destroy the space-time crack on this side of the abyss. It can only return after hours, and it must be ensured that the magic blood dragon has no means of affecting the teleportation."

"To be honest, apart from Robzek and me, even if it is an optimistic estimate, more than half of the people present will die."

"Let's talk about the last one." This sentence was said by Lolanda, who was rubbing his head. Although the brain-eating insects did not really hurt everyone's brains due to timely suppression, they did damage some of them. , the blond paladin feels very uncomfortable now: "This choice is close to certain death, I want to hear the third one."

"The last one is a bit risky."

The soldier said softly. He raised his head and looked at the fusion star on the top of the ark with a calm expression: "And it's a little extravagant."

After finishing speaking, Joshua lowered his head and looked at the thoughtful Robzek: "The third way is that you use the wheel of holy light to destroy the cracks in the abyss, and I use the fusion star to interfere with the magic blood." The teleportation of the giant dragons—if you are lucky, you may be able to last until the end of the reverse summoning ceremony of the church, and the magic blood dragon has no time to teleport over."

As treasures full of positive energy, the fragments of the sun and the explosion of the fusion star have a power far exceeding that of the wheel of holy light. If this power can be used correctly, it can completely interfere with the transmission of the blood dragons. Joe Xiuya felt that this was a very good choice, and he was eager to try it.

"No, master." But hearing this, Hei immediately subconsciously refused. She looked at the soldier with worried eyes, and her tone was helpless and tense: "This is too dangerous, you will... die..."

Halfway through speaking, the black dragon girl bit her tongue and immediately covered her mouth with a cry of pain, but even so, she still stared at Joshua with golden eyes, her eyes full of pleading.

Everyone knows that the dangers involved in blowing up the cracks in the abyss and stopping the transmission of the monster blood dragon are not of the same order. If there is a slight mistake, countless angry monster blood dragons will tear the soldiers apart—look at those The fluctuations in time and space knew that there were no less than tens of thousands of demon-blooded dragons about to be transmitted. Even if the legendary powerhouse wanted to deal with it, he would have some headaches, not to mention the warriors who had fought successively and were obviously in poor condition.

Saya also immediately shook her head and refused: "If this is the case, we will choose the first one, return to the Mycroft Continent as soon as possible, and blow up the cracks in time and space, so that even if there are hidden dangers, it is considered half of the mission completed, and there will be remedies in the future Chance."

The big nun has always disapproved of meaningless sacrifices. In her opinion, this option is more dangerous and dreamy than the second option.

Ms. Blue Dragon, Hill and Lolanda are also not optimistic about the third option. They are not afraid of death, but the possibility of realization is too low. They would rather try the second option. Attack, and they don't want to let the soldiers interfere with the time-space transmission of the blood dragon by themselves. They are not so thick-skinned, and let Joshua bear all the dangers alone.

But Robzek's expression turned serious.

He is also an extremely strong person, but he is different from the gold-level Saya, Lolanda and others. The silver-haired paladin understands the power displayed by Joshua and Mandagal in the previous battle, and the warrior proposes a third option Suggestion, obviously he has enough confidence, and he has the experience of destroying time and space gates before, maybe this is not as difficult as most people think.

He turned his head and looked at Joshua. Robzek looked at the pair of red pupils of the other, and felt the warrior's firm confidence.

—Maybe, you can try.

It made him decide.

"Saya, go to Nolan's alchemy laboratory and take out the Wheel of Light."

Closing his eyes, the paladin said in a deep voice, "Loranda, you should go to the central hall and inform the church that the summoning ceremony will begin now."

After finishing speaking, he didn't look at Joshua, but raised his head, looked at the top of the ark, the jewel that released brilliant light like a little sun, and said solemnly: "Joshua, I will give you the Fusion Star. "

"Okay." The corner of the soldier's mouth was raised slightly. He patted Hei's head beside him, then stepped forward and walked towards the top of the ark, as if he couldn't wait.

"Leader!" Lolanda, who originally thought she had chosen the second option and was about to notify the church, turned her head immediately after hearing Robzek's last words, and said with a trace of anger: "What are you doing?" -"

He is not afraid of death at all. Death in the battle with demons and chaos is the fate of paladins. As long as the task can be completed, even if it is Lolanda who sacrifices his life, he is absolutely unwilling. Seeing his friends sacrificed in meaningless places is like killing countless of his companions in the Plaguelands by the terrible Chaos Plague.

Saya, who was already walking to the laboratory and on the way to obtain the Wheel of Light, also stopped. She was different from the blue dragon lady and the elf boy who were also frowning. She was waiting for Robzek's explanation.

"Since the army of the devil blood dragon can break through the barrier between the abyss and the abyss, it can naturally break through the weaker place between the abyss and the Mycroft continent." The silver-haired paladin shook his head, he didn't care about other people's emotions , but glanced at Joshua's back, and then said in a deep voice: "The first option is likely to be this end, the devil-blood dragon can still break through the cracks in time and space that are not completely destroyed, and come to Mycroft World, in this way, we will all die, and the task will not be completed."

"The second option is extremely dangerous, and the third option is also the same, but there is a slight possibility of a safe return."

Having said that, he took a deep breath, and then said in a tone close to a sigh: "Time is running out, I trust Joshua, how about you?"

...

...

— Ten minutes later.

The edge of the blood moon plane.

Huge cracks in time and space slowly opened, filling the field of vision, and endless dragons with devil blood would follow one after another.

Seeing this scene, Joshua, who was suspended in mid-air, clenched the Fusion Star in his hand.

He heard in the distance, the sound of the abyss crack completely distorting and disappearing under the self-explosion of the wheel of holy light.

The traitor is dead, and the future gate of the abyss is completely closed.

The sun-like power was held in the palm of the warrior, generating waves of hot wind. He smiled and lifted the gem, urging the power in it.

History, destiny, everything has been completely changed by this, and since then, a new world will be born, and a brand new future will be born.

The wind howled.

It filled him with determination.

5700 words

The feeling of this chapter is a bit strange, but it is what I have always wanted to write.

The core of the game Alien World is to change the established history and destiny, and shape a new future with your own will

Joshua is fearless

to this

he is full of determination