Soul of Burning Steel

The coming of death is like winter rain, the cold paralyzes perception, makes the body stiff and heavy, and finally the consciousness is like a block of iron, falling into the abyss rapidly.

Joshua calmly felt the heaviest and most intense feeling of dizziness and slumber. He watched the fire of his life go out bit by bit, and endless memory images flashed before his eyes.

But he took the initiative to extinguish the replay of his memory, but continued to perceive the taste of contact with death.

Because the eyes have been burned, all the nerves in the whole body have become charred, so all the usual perceptions are gone—sound, taste, touch, picture, everything has long gone, but this state allows the soldiers to easily detect it. Something you don't usually notice.

Joshua could see that all he had left was a burning soul shining brightly in the darkness.

Under the light of this soul, the warrior vaguely saw and heard something.

"This won't work! Holy Light can regenerate flesh and blood, but..."

The urgent worries of a kindly old lady.

"Pure life energy is needed at this time..."

An old man calmly narrated.

The perception of the state of the soul is rapidly expanding. Joshua can already detect that there are four extremely strong men beside him. They are using the extremely powerful holy light to maintain the vitality of their bodies. Joshua can detect it. Placed in the center of this solemn hall, the coke-like body was his own body, and at this moment he was observing himself from the perspective of a third party.

On the other side of the main hall, the silver-haired girl and the black-haired boy had water in their eyes. They seemed to want to come to his side, but they were stopped by the heavy-faced Lolanda. In the corridor not far away, a black dragon girl came. The hurried steps and the heavy footsteps of No. 1.

Matter can't block a soldier's vision. As long as he wants, his vision can penetrate these ordinary stones and trees at any time, and he can see the scenery hundreds of meters away or thousands of meters away.

It turns out that this is the perception of the soul.

Joshua was stunned. Is this the perspective of the ghosts? It's really strange, very different from what I imagined.

Death did not arouse the slightest fear in the warrior, as if this emotion did not exist in his soul by nature.

Quite novel. Joshua thought of it this way, the powerful soul rippled invisible in the hall, but none of the people present noticed it. The sisters and brothers of Shenji were praying for the soldiers, the strong man of extreme intention was healing the soldiers, and the battle on the distant surface It has stopped, the heavy rain of lava has stopped, and the battle on the holy mountain has temporarily come to an end.

Joshua felt that he could actually speak in this state, just like those ghosts in the legends. It's not difficult, just a little preparation, and just as he was about to try to do it and say hello to Ying and Rin, a powerful and holy energy wave came from the other side of the hall.

Pope Eagle and a lady full of natural breath are projected here. The old pope stared at Joshua's body in the center of the hall cautiously at first, but then, he seemed to have noticed something, and began to look around the entire hall.

Of course, His Majesty the Pope quickly saw Joshua at the side. At this time, Joshua's soul had gradually changed into the appearance of his human period. He was about to say hello to the old Pope, but Eagle's spirit The summons interrupted the action of the fighters.

"Come on, Joshua, you..."

The Pope's voice was angry and funny, and seemed to be filled with surprise and helplessness: "I deliberately distracted myself from the battlefield and brought Your Excellency the Teacher of Nature to reshape your body, not to turn you into an undead ghost—you hurry up Back to your body."

The legendary powerhouses have been paying attention to the battlefield of the Holy Mountain. Whether it is Joshua's sudden attack or Evian's decisive counterattack, they are all under the watchful eyes of the three legendary dragons and the three legendary powerhouses. At the moment when they were almost killed directly, the three legendary dragons even tended to leave the void and return to the holy mountain battlefield, but Eagle and others stopped them.

Next, it was Evian who activated the artifact long sword, which dropped the entire western part of Gray Island by nearly five meters, splitting the continental shelf of more than ten kilometers along the coast.

By this time, the three legendary dragons had almost no intention of continuing to fight. They wanted to return to the main material plane, and Igor was immediately distracted, persuading the teacher of nature to cast a projection on the holy mountain temple.

He knew that Joshua was not dead, and he also knew that if he wanted to save the warrior, he could only rely on this beautiful and powerful elf lady.

But the old Pope never imagined that Joshua's soul was so active. In just a few minutes when he was dying, he had sorted out his memory and consciousness, and had a complete thinking ability—if he hadn't come quickly, the soldier Maybe it can be reborn as a powerful spirit body.

This is not a joke. Igor even saw that Joshua's soul has divine lines spreading. With the support of this kind of power, the warrior has the same powerful power after becoming a spirit body, and it may not even be much weaker than before. , but in this way he can't be resurrected, so the old pope can only let Joshua's soul return to his body quickly, and don't walk around in the form of a soul.

In any case, this time the warrior has done the Church of the Seven Gods a great favor. If he hadn't restrained the power of the red dragon, I am afraid that an entire line of defense would have been wiped out by the power of the divine weapon long sword, and the separated sea and continental shelf would have been wiped out. As proof, this is not a horror story, but a fact. For this alone, Igor must do his best to help Joshua resurrect, even if he asks for a 'God's descent'.

It's not the last step yet, the natural teacher is walking towards Joshua's body, and she can heal his injuries.

Strangely, the outer layer of the warrior's soul has a circle of light lines flashing with the power of order, which seems to shield the perception of the natural teacher, so that the legendary powerhouse did not notice the message from Joshua's soul and Igor , but Joshua himself didn't realize this. He obeyed the old pope's words and returned to his body neatly.

At the moment when the soul was thrown back into the charred body, the soldier seemed to have seen a green crystal full of life force being pressed against his heart.

Then, a warm touch came, and the heartbeat started to beat again.

And just when he felt that he could open his eyes and look at the world from a human perspective again, Joshua suddenly felt his world spinning.

In the main hall, Ms. Natural Mentor looked at the soldier's heart in surprise—the moment she pressed the heart of the tree of life to the opponent's energy center, and used secret techniques to spread the powerful life force contained in it to the whole body, urging the rebirth of flesh and blood For a moment, Joshua's heart suddenly lit up with an incomparably bright blue light.

This light was mixed with the life force of the tree heart that could bring people back from the dead, and quickly repaired Joshua's body. In just a few seconds, coke can be seen falling, new red flesh and various tendons and nerves are rapidly regenerated, internal organs and even eyeballs are regrown at a frightening speed.

But at this time, Joshua's spirit awakened in a certain illusion.

This is a vast grassland, stretching as far as the eye can see, with green grass all over the hills, a small river meandering on the edge of the grassland, beside the mountains and forests, a calm and peaceful small village is located beside the river, and the sound of the waterwheel mill running Come on, creak.

The sky was clear, cloudless, and the sun was shining brightly.

"The first time I revived a lamb at home, my mother looked at me with terrified eyes, and my father tried to comfort my mother as much as possible, and gently asked me not to use this power in front of everyone, but I Knowing that he is also afraid, and confused about my origin, as if I am not their child."

Joshua paused slightly, and then turned his head. He saw a person sitting on the green hill behind him. It was a handsome young man with white hair and white eyes.

This young man has long pure white hair that does not seem to be of a mortal color. His face is soft and there is no defect in his appearance, as if he is the embodiment of perfection. Beautiful and handsome can only describe part of him, but the most conspicuous thing at this time is the slight smile on the corner of the other party's mouth.

He just smiled quietly, sitting on the hill, his simple linen robe fluttering in the wind, making a slight noise.

"...Sage?"

Joshua took a deep breath, this was not the first time he came to this place - the small village where Sage lived in his childhood, this was not even the first time Sage spoke, but it was the first time the other party , take the initiative to communicate with him.

But the white-haired boy didn't reply to the soldier's words, he just stood up slightly and looked up at the sun.

The crisp youthful voice continued: "The fear of the unknown is only temporary. They finally accepted my ability, but I am not satisfied. What does my strength represent? What is the secret behind it? I want to know All because of human curiosity."

Facing the sun, the boy stretched out his arms, and the golden sunlight fell into his eyes, reflecting a blurred color: "So I left my hometown and traveled around the world to explore the truth behind nature and the truth behind all phenomena. "

The peaceful small village by the river began to change, time began to flow rapidly, high mountains, dense forests, villages of elves, lairs of dwarves, villages of halflings, tribes of lizardmen, human cities, floating islands of winged people living in the sky, halflings People and horses galloped on the grasslands, wild orcs drank blood in the wild land, and Ogier, who was as stunned as a stone but stronger than monsters, hunted huge dragon beasts under the leadership of his two-headed kin.

On the edge of the cliff, there are harpies living, and in the deep sea, there are primitive murlocs domesticating sea beasts. Even in the center of the ice sea in the extreme north and the top of the mountain in the western continent, there are also many strange races multiplying. Everything is so vibrant that it is full of emotions.

But in the end, the phantom stayed on a battlefield.

This is a battlefield for thousands of years. The mixed armies of many races fought each other for a fertile plain. Swords intersected, blood flowed, bones spread all over the land, and red liquid stained rivers and lakes.

The white-haired boy stood at the very center of the battlefield, with blood and bones beside him. He calmly stroked the cheek of a human warrior and closed his still-open eyes. The blood was so incompatible with him. But he didn't show any displeasure.

"Know the truth and have power, so you can see higher and farther, and think deeper and heavier."

He said softly, as if he was talking to himself: "This world is full of strife and suffering. War and poverty are sweeping across the seven continents. The nations are constantly fighting and the tribes are killing each other. I want to change all of this, and I can change it." That's all, so I changed everything."

The illusion began to change again, and the white-haired boy stood at the center of all the chaos. He turned his head and looked at the silent warrior. Beside the boy, a figure emerged, and finally thirteen figures stood beside him. At the side, the firm guard stood beside the young man.

"I lead mankind to progress, bring peace through war, and the world returns to peace under the power of me and my followers. I let mankind separate from the city-state and merge into an empire. I let the elves leave the jungle and form an alliance. I let the dwarves For the first time united under one leader, most disputes are eliminated, order is established, and all races join hands to enter a new era."

He said calmly, "That's why they honor me as a sage."

The time was finally fixed on an autumn day thousands of years ago. In the white temple made of marble, the sage's expression returned from seriousness to the gentle smile of his childhood. His eyes could sweep the whole world, although there were occasional disputes , There are still killings, wars and sufferings, poverty and ignorance are still happening quietly in some corners, continuing, but this is enough, he is very satisfied.

The dwarves built a steel city that can move among the mountains, and the elves built a solar ship that can navigate the void in the sky. The human exploration team traveled through time and space and found more than a dozen new worlds. Everything is developing smoothly, even if the essence of life is to grow and evolve in war, to advance and survive in carnage, but in this era, no one needs to do so.

Seeing this scene, Joshua took a deep breath.

He knew what happened afterwards—the abyss invaded, the evil gods descended, and all peace and prosperity were shattered, like earthen pots in a kiln.

The warrior was therefore silent.

The white-haired boy naturally knew it, so he just looked at the prosperity around him with a nostalgic and regretful expression, and then everything collapsed into nothingness, and all illusions returned to darkness, leaving only him and the warrior standing in the darkness of the void , looking at each other.

"Order will always be destroyed, but a new order will always be established. The multiverse cycles the destruction and rebirth of everything, and I think our world is the same."

He said softly, then walked in front of the soldier, he stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to touch Joshua's face, but because of his height, he could only touch the chest, the white-haired boy didn't care about it , he just said calmly: "My successor, can you love this world for me?"

Although he looked like a young man, what he said was full of love and nostalgia, as if an elder looked at his long-lost junior and expressed his heartfelt emotion.

Without waiting for Joshua's answer, the 'sage' smiled slightly, and then turned into nothingness. The black phantom space also changed rapidly, and returned to normal, the darkness caused by closing his eyes.

The soldier slowly opened his eyes. This is a separate room in the temple of the Church of the Seven Gods. He was wearing a loose robe that only sick patients would wear. Beside him, the siblings of Shenji and the Black Dragon girl stood nervously. Next to it, the huge Steel Element No. 1 stood at the door because of its size and did not come in, but it also bent over, watching the soldier's bed with its single eye.

After seeing Joshua waking up, Hotaru jumped into the arms of the soldier first. He could feel the moist liquid flowing from his chest, and he could also hear a slight choking sound. Hei breathed a sigh of relief, and then lay down on his stomach. On the bed, holding down the soldier's legs, Rin was the calmest, but it seemed as if he had let go of a big stone in his heart, and as soon as his body softened, he seemed about to fall to his knees.

Touching the head of the girl in his arms, Joshua showed a gentle smile that was completely different from his previous image, and he spoke to comfort everyone, expressing that he was safe and sound.

But for some unknown reason, the soldier could always faintly hear a voice that seemed to be sighing and blessing echoing in his ears.

--all of these.

——All beings whom I love and care for.