Soul of Burning Steel

time flies.

Starfall 834, February 3rd, deep winter.

The entire northern land was covered with ice and snow for half a year. Although there were few blizzards in February, the bitter cold wind still howled on the plains, causing ice crystal fragments mixed with snow and dust to fly all over the sky.

At this time, more than three months have passed since the death of Herras and the incident at the Mordus Mountain ruins in Moldova.

Compared with the high-level empire, which was like a frozen lake and could not make any waves, the entire Mycroft continent, especially the royal families of many kingdoms in the western mountain range, were shocked by such a major event.

The new generation of plague cult led by Herras the Blight has been wreaking havoc in the western mountainous areas for the past few decades. They hide in the deep mountains and old forests, and use the underground temples covered with hidden magic circle runes as bases. Carry out terrorist sacrifice operations.

Although due to the strict defense of the western countries, the sacrificial actions of the plague cult are seldom successful, but once they succeed, they will bring large-scale casualties or species extinction enough to completely collapse the whole place. I have always wanted to completely wipe out Herras and others, but facing the high priest who has his own subspace and can give up his physical body at any time, most of these powerhouses can only return bitterly, but if there is no legendary power No one leads a team, so no matter how many people go there, it is just to deliver rations to Herras.

This time, Herras went all the way to the northern part of the empire, which indeed alarmed many strong local forces in Xishan. They gloated at other people's misfortune, and wanted to see how the empire would deal with this big trouble, and how it failed, but in the end But it surprised the group of people—Herras confronted the well-known dragon slayer lord head-on, but he was defeated and died in a foreign land.

This news really caught a lot of eyeballs and smashed a lot of tables——Joshua is indeed a powerful Jiyi who has become famous recently, but Herras is not an unknown junior. The legendary powerhouse of the priest was even more frightened secretly, knowing this well. You know, it's not that they haven't attacked Herras in the past, but none of them succeeded. The vitality of the other party is no less than that of some legendary powerhouses. In fact, he has reached a limit of extreme intention. Only by breaking through the last step can a legend be achieved.

The fact that Joshua was able to kill Herras meant that he had also reached this level - he had found his own path, and he was only short of finishing himself and reaching the legend.

In just three years, from a silver knight to the present, this kind of advancement speed has never been seen before or since. In the entire Mycroft Continent, even if you count the history recorded in the ancient books of the Glorious Era, no one can do it.

Even the inheritance of sages is a little unclear, but this is also a little good. In the past, Joshua's reputation was always accompanied by massacres, terror and the impression of a fighting madman. Many people, especially those who are deeply influenced by demons The extraordinary people in the Xishan area feel that the warrior may have made a deal with a certain abyss lord, which is why the strength has improved by leaps and bounds, but it will not happen now-there is no demon that can possess this kind of power at all. Without this kind of power that can make people become legends for three years, they will still be trapped in the abyss? Swept across the multiverse long ago and conquered all worlds.

All in all, Joshua is now regarded as the incarnation of a certain god who has secretly descended to earth in some specific groups of strong men. Many strong men who have traveled around the continent are very fond of this youngest legend in history. The soldiers were very interested, and they all set off towards the Northland collectively by coincidence.

But compared to the turbulent outside world, today's Northland is unexpectedly calm.

Starfall 834, February 3rd, Moldavia.

Because of the incident at the Mordus Mountain ruins in the neighboring territory of Moldova, a large-scale wave of cleaning up the cultists was set off in the entire Northland. Taking advantage of the snow and ice covering the land in winter, it is difficult for the enemy to hide this advantage in the wild. The four leaders of the Northland did seize There were quite a few scattered heretics hiding in the mountain villages, but in terms of numbers, Moldavian had the fewest and weakest heretics.

According to the confessions of the arrested cult members, today's Northland, especially Moldavia, has become a demon den in the eyes of various chaotic and chaotic forces. Many personnel would rather be punished than go there to die. People come here because they've all committed a lot of terrific mistakes, and they've been sent to be punished.

Moldavia, Nissie snow mountain palm print lake, evening.

As the evening glow fades away, the golden sunset light fades a little, and a cloud of dim red, lavender clouds hangs above the gray-blue night sky, and a few looming white stars can be vaguely seen through their gaps.

The cold wind of minus 30 degrees blew across the surface of the lake, making the lake, which was not frozen in the extreme cold, rippling with layers of waves. In the shimmering sunlight, you can see the bottom of the lake shining brightly.

Suklash and other adventurers belonging to Caesar's Eye are standing by the lake, watching this beautiful scene.

Because of the Mordus Mountain ruins incident, both Caesar's Eye and the Tusk Adventurer Squad suffered serious casualties. They came to the Northland for exploration and adventure, so no one will pay for their losses. Now, because of the heavy snow and ice on the way back, the two adventurer teams can only stay in the Northland quietly. While rectifying the team, He also took on some tasks to subsidize the family.

Why would Joshua let these two elite adventurer teams sit idle in the city, or do some meaningless exploration work? The warrior generously offered generous conditions, inviting these elite adventurers on the entire continent to be the teachers of the field training class at the Academy of Winterhold.

The two teams, who had nothing to do because of the heavy snow, thought why not do it? The two hit it off.

Just now, a group of adventurers headed by Suklash had finished teaching. After one and a half months, they returned safely from the Great Ajax Mountain Range with a team of college students. Recently, adventurers have no other jobs for the time being, and now they only need to relax around the beautiful Nissie Snow Mountain.

Then, they saw a group of dragons.

Due to the unusually active magic spar mine at the bottom recently, a dozen huge water splashes suddenly appeared on the surface of the palmprint lake that could not be frozen, followed by more than a dozen white baby dragons jumping out in unison The surface of the lake, and then plunged into the lake again.

"...What were those just now?"

A younger-looking adventurer rubbed his eyes. Standing by the lake, he asked suspiciously, "A big white fish?"

"No, it looks like it's some kind of water dragon?"

Beside the young man, stood a middle-aged adventurer who seemed to be his elder. His eyesight was sharper, and he could clearly see part of the body structure when the young dragon leaped to sleep, but he couldn't be sure. , What kind of dragon is this.

"As expected of the Dragon Slayer Lord, it's really unusual to have so many water dragons."

This is the emotion of others.

"But Moldavia does not rely on the sea, and there are no rivers nearby, only scattered lakes. Why does the Earl raise so many water dragons?"

This is the doubt of some people.

But Sucrash is different from them.

As a golden knight, Suklash was more shocked than other adventurers, because he could tell that those white dragons were not water dragons or sub-dragons, but real pure-blooded five-color dragons One, the larva of the white dragon!

--what happened? ! Master Joshua, how did he hatch this group of pure-blooded dragons? !

Of course Sukash knew that Joshua had wiped out a dragon nest, and it was not strange for soldiers to obtain dragon eggs, but hatching a pure-blooded dragon from dragon eggs has always been a matter of luck, and the difficulty It is as high as finding a giant dragon directly, beating it up, and subduing it into a mount.

But now in Cold Winter Castle, he actually saw more than a dozen young dragons!

Before Suklash was shocked, everyone suddenly heard a long dragon chant.

In the sky, the clouds were broken, a huge floating shadow passed by, and a giant blue dragon gracefully descended from the sky with a storm, and came to the surface of the lake.

The air exploded due to the flapping of the dragon's wings, which made the ears of many adventurers who were not strong enough ringing. Coupled with the undisguised superior Long Wei, their brains were suddenly in a trance.

Great Dragon! Suklash's scalp exploded in an instant, and his hands and feet were numb. The golden knight wanted to find a hole to bury himself on the spot, but the surrounding area of ​​the lake was flat.

——Could it be that the five-color giant dragon was planning to take revenge on the earl and rescue the young dragon by the way? !

Before this thought flashed through the knight's mind, more than a dozen water splashes appeared on the surface of the lake. The young white dragons obeyed the giant blue dragon's command and walked towards the shore. They swayed in the water one by one Swimming along, following the blue dragon suspended in mid-air, like a group of ducklings following their mother.

As if the extreme blue dragon swept the shocked and flustered adventurers by the lake, it nodded friendly, greeted, and then led the young dragons towards the forest.

Su Kelash watched this scene. After a long time, he pinched his thigh, and then looked at the companions around him in confusion.

A huge five-color dragon with extreme intentions actually took a group of young white dragons for a walk for the dragon lord...?

This, what is the situation?

While the adventurers in the north were using grilled fish by the lake to soothe their fluctuating hearts because of seeing the dragon of extreme intent, the northern empire, the imperial capital, was not so peaceful.

The Holy City of Three Mountains, the side hall of the Morlaix Palace.

In a secret dark room.

This is a narrow trapezoidal room with only a few tens of square meters. There is a long table and many chairs in the middle. Perfectly hiding this small space from the automatic defense circle of the Morlaix Palace.

No one has been in this dark room for a long time, and there is a thin layer of dust on the table, but now, there is a slightly slender woman with long hair hanging down her shoulders sitting on the main chair, and beside her In front of him was a half-kneeling black armored warrior.

The woman's face was covered by the black mist formed by magic, so she couldn't see clearly. She looked at the extremely respectful warrior in front of her, and said softly in a voice that was clearly adjusted by magic: "You mean, the North that His Majesty is optimistic about?" The Earl is about to become a new legend?"

"Yes."

The black-armored warrior's reply was simple and concise: "Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, Joshua Van Radcliffe may break through the legend at any time and have an impact on your plan."

"yes."

The woman sighed softly, and she said wearily: "It's been more than twenty years, everything is going well, why did such a change happen at this moment? Most importantly, why was the prince who was the first to see him, It's that little fellow Di Moore."

Just looking at her figure and skin, the woman who spoke didn't look like she could say that the second prince Di Moore was a kid's age, but both the samurai and her took it for granted, as if it was true.

"This is a hidden danger, and it must be eliminated as soon as possible." The woman muttered to herself.

"Erasure who?"

In the words of the black-armored warrior, there was a faint clang of gold and iron, and it sounded very firm: "Second prince or the Earl of the Northland? No matter who it is, I will do my best!"

"Erasure who?" After hearing the words of the black-armored warrior, the woman couldn't help laughing, she shook her head and said, "Of course it's the second prince, my beagle, do you want to attack the mad dragon army head-on? Will the militant lunatic who directly kills the capital of God and beheads the heirs of the Fertao family do it?"

"Even if you want to die, your family and me as the master don't want to."

The woman sitting on the chair bent down slightly, and touched the head of the black-armored warrior, as if she was really touching the head of a loyal dog, she said softly: "Maybe I can save my life because of Israel, You will surely die."

"alright."

Straightening up, the woman who was sitting suddenly said lazily, "Get ready."

Although her voice is soft, it contains the coldness that seems to be deep in the polar glacier, which will not melt for thousands of years: "Get ready."

"That bitch's son, it's time for him to pay a price!"

The black-armored warrior nodded silently, and then replied clearly in a low voice: "Understood, my master!"

The conspiracy of the imperial capital has just begun to weave, and the south of the mainland, the gray island in the far sea, and the top of the holy mountain.

Pope Igor stood on the top floor of the Great Temple with a pure white staff in his hand. He watched the sunset that was almost completely silent, and the dim firelight was reflected in his eyes.

Afterwards, the setting sun was completely swallowed by the sea, and the old pope also closed his eyes.

The huge and immeasurable mental power is like light. With this old man as the center, it spreads towards the entire holy mountain and even the Far South Continent with the speed of thinking. In a short time, all the regions south of the entire continent will be destroyed. Under Eagle's spiritual induction, most people did not notice this gust of thinking breeze, and even some strong people who could detect it would attribute it to an illusion amid doubts.

It seems that this is not the first time that the old pope has done this kind of thing. He silently scanned the world, and then concentrated his perception on a certain vast forest in the far south.

Near the Holy Land of the Elves, the Lake of Eternity, and the Tree of Life, there is a huge, verdant 'soul' gushing out from the earth and the sky. It was pulled out from the void, and then slowly condensed into the image of a beautiful elf woman.

The natural tutor, Eidriel Galannord, spent several months adjusting the balance of the world, and then pulled her own body out of the Holy Land of the elves. This high-ranking Drew Yi sat on the frame that had been prepared, and walked towards the opened Continental Teleportation Circle.

She is about to set off to Moldavia in the north to find the roots of the elves.

The teacher of nature seemed to have sensed something. She turned her head and smiled in the direction of the south in the quaint rattan frame.

——That man may really be able to change the world.

Withdrawing his spirit, Igor sighed softly.

That black-haired, red-eyed warrior has changed what many old people thought was doomed. He destroyed the space-time channel and found the message of the father of nature. He ended the plan of the five-color dragon and sealed the abyss that the church could not seal for many years. gap.

The old pope lowered his head, and he glanced at his wrinkled, extremely old hands, and pure white hair.

It doesn't matter if he sacrifices his old bones, but he is the most powerful legend in the world after all.

If Joshua can successfully find the fourth inheritance and learn the mystery of the primordial fire, then he doesn't need to use the long-inherited secret method to become the pillar that keeps the world burning.

"How far can you go?"

The old man said softly to himself, he looked at the top of the scepter in his hand, which was slowly burning, and the colorless and invisible flame was getting smaller and smaller, his eyes were full of expectation.

Let me, an old bone, see it!

The center where all eyes gather.

Starfall 834, February 3rd, the main city of Moldavia, the backyard of the Lord's Mansion.

The warrior with white hair that has mostly turned back to black is holding a huge bristle brush in his hand, brushing the back of the black dragon lying in the backyard, and beside him, the silver-haired girl and the black-haired boy are busy He clapped his hands, carried water and handed tools, and helped clean up the inconspicuous stains on Heilong's body. The petite artificial intelligence lady was floating and rolling in the sky, watching everyone busy with interest.

With a sinking heart, Joshua, who had absorbed the insights from Herras and the fragments of the evil god, was cleaning up his mount, that is, Hei after a long absence. He seemed to be in a good mood, and was humming An out-of-key ditty, and scolded softly: "Turn over, Hei... you're still asleep?!"

But before the black dragon turned over from a drowsy sleep because of being too comfortable, suddenly, a knight with a hurried face came to the backyard of the lord's mansion, and then half-kneeled and reported to Joshua: "My lord! Urgent message!"

He is Joshua's dedicated communications officer, so he didn't say much, and got straight to the point: "A message from the rune dwarf gathering area in the North, and a message from the holy mountain in the far sea!"

"Let's talk about the dwarves first... No, let's talk about the Holy Mountain in the Far Sea first."

After blinking, Joshua suddenly understood. He glanced at the artificial intelligence lady who was floating in the sky, and then coughed: "The dwarves, you can just put it on the table in the hall later."

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