Soul of Burning Steel

Grandia World, Southern Wastes, Night.

Joshua stood on the top of the mountain, looking down at the ground below him.

In front of his eyes was a continent shrouded in darkness. There were no lights, no torches, and no light brought by civilization and wisdom. The deep shadows engulfed everything, and the mournful howls of dead shadows could be vaguely seen reverberating in it. .

It has been nearly ten days since he came to this area. The warrior searched every corner of this land and shuttled it back and forth. Along the way, he rescued at least thirty shelters All the survivors have killed tens of thousands of dead shadows, and their power liberation has also broken through to 63%.

But it didn't make any sense, Joshua frowned so much that it almost stood up - the dragon wing girl seemed to have disappeared and lost her trace.

In the darkness, the soldier didn't speak, but following behind him, finally adapting to the environment of this world, the sisters and brothers of Shenji, who were able to restore their human form, also didn't speak, both Yingying and Rin could feel the rare moment in their master's heart Seeing anxious, they can understand this feeling.

In fact, it has not been a month since the warrior came to this world. In less than a month, he has found the place of the inheritor and confirmed that the inheritance of the sage is intact. This can be said to be fast, but Joshua knew that he could find his target directly when he was only a short distance away, but after missing it, he followed the clues to find nothing, so he would naturally feel uncomfortable comparing the two.

The next moment, he let out a long breath, his ups and downs calmed down, and Joshua regained his composure.

"It seems that she has left this wilderness." The soldier murmured: "Urban Deni gave me her aura, and I also noticed her aura in this land, but this aura was long ago. After ten days or so, she suddenly disappeared... I thought she was hiding underground, but now it seems that she used some method to cover her breath and hid somewhere else."

Thinking of this, the soldier stood on the top of the mountain and looked around the sky in all directions. Even if the opponent hid and went to another area, which side is it?

The devil knows, it can only be guessed by luck.

But just when Joshua was going to turn Hotaru and Rin back into weapon form, and then stand them up, and search in whichever side the tip of the sword and ax fell, he suddenly felt a faint but somewhat familiar fluctuation.

This can't help but make the soldier turn his sights to the direction of the wave, and let out a slightly surprised exclamation: "Silver Realm?"

The fluctuation just now was caused by a black iron enlightenment-level battle qi practitioner who allowed his own energy to penetrate his whole body, completely mastered his own physical power, and broke through the realm of Baiyin Yaoling!

"It's so fast."

In the entire southern barren plain, Joshua rescued more than 30 shelter survivors, and he passed down a different breathing method to each of them. This breathing method is a combination of fighting spirit and original crystal magic power The highlight of the system is that it can be improved by absorbing the free energy in the world, and it can also be advanced by absorbing the power of the original crystal.

Most of these surviving people are not very strong, and it is precisely because they are not strong and their aura is weak that they are ignored by the dead shadow powerhouses who destroyed the sanctuary. After Ya's help, his strength has indeed increased greatly, and he has some ability to fight against the shadow of death, but within ten days, someone broke through and achieved the silver realm, which really surprised the soldiers.

This proves that his deduction is not wrong, and it can even be said that it was a great success!

Then, above the mountain top, a red arc of light jumped up, and then fell towards the earth. The dim light drew a straight line in the dark world, and flew towards the eastern region of the southern plain.

At this time, in the ruins of a village in the southern wilderness, a pair of blond-haired teenagers and girls were standing in front of a newly repaired house, facing a group of slowly approaching dead figures.

"Krit, haven't you adjusted yet?!"

The heroic girl held an extremely sharp hatchet in her hand, and wielding such a hatchet, she quickly killed the group of weak dead shadows in front of her—the southern wilderness was the center of the entire grid twenty-seven years ago. The most fertile grassland in Landia is one of the largest gathering places for human beings. Most of the dead shadows recovered here are only at the level of ordinary people. It is precisely because of this that girls with certain extraordinary powers can support them for so long. .

But no matter how weak the dead shadow is, the girl can't support it alone. With difficulty, she dodged a dead shadow's grasp, and she couldn't help roaring: "You haven't adjusted well, I'm going to die in front of you!"

At this time, on the side, the boy who was named looked really bad. He closed his eyes and leaned against the wall of the house, as if he was about to drown, breathing briefly and rapidly, and under the naked skin all over his body , You can see blue blood vessels bulging, and the muscles wriggling crazily under them, bringing strength and extreme pain at the same time.

"Larael!"

The boy named Crete intermittently said in a voice that suppressed the pain: "Thirty seconds! Give me thirty seconds!"

It can be seen that there is a large amount of blood flowing in his blood vessels, transporting the power seeds condensed from the body to the whole body, preparing for the awakening of Baiyin's high-level fighting spirit, Kriter held it with his no longer trembling hand A fierce light flashed in his green eyes: "I'll be fine soon!"

But the girl named Larael could not wait for his rescue.

Of course, it wasn't because Larael didn't block the dead shadow—it was because there was a red meteor flashing across the sky.

Joshua is here.

As if the sun swept across the earth, the shadow of death on the eastern side of the southern wilderness was cleared in an instant. The teenagers and girls looked up at the sky in a daze. They saw a familiar figure in the midair above the village.

The figure who rescued them from the dead shadows and taught them the method of cultivation.

"grown ups!"

Larael and Kriter hurriedly knelt down, their eyes filled with reverence—although the two of them didn't know Joshua's name at all, this didn't affect the status of the warrior in their hearts. It is equivalent to re-creating parents, mentors, and even higher roles.

And Joshua saw Crete whose muscles and blood vessels had not returned to normal, so he pointed out his hand.

Just like that, a weak radiation of life energy shot out from his fingertips and sank into the young man's body. After a moment, the young man was shocked to realize that the muscles and tendons in his body had completely calmed down, and he was done. Advanced this time!

"Good job."

After finishing all this, Joshua looked at the dilapidated village, and nodded appreciatively: "In just ten days, a house was rebuilt in the ruins, and the general fortifications were completed. Also advanced to silver...Although this is because you have enough original crystals, you are indeed considered geniuses."

The warrior's eyes can see through all the secrets, so he can naturally understand that the reason why Crete advanced so quickly was not because he practiced too fast, but because he had enough original crystals in his hands.

The sanctuary village under him was breached by a group of undead knights led by a headless horseman in the mouth of the young girl. Only two people hiding at the bottom of the well survived. Rescued by Joshua and taught the breathing method, Crete and Larael both had enough original crystals to practice.

Excellent inheritance, good talent, sufficient resources, and daily arduous actual combat, the combination of the four has created this young man who advanced to silver within ten days.

"Get up."

Joshua asked the two to stand up. He was not in the habit of letting others kneel and talk. At the same time, the warrior's gaze penetrated Crete's flesh and blood, staring at and analyzing the seeds of power in his body.

This is a strange transformation - the power of magic energy from the original crystal, after the boy absorbed it into his body, was broken down into the power of the primordial elements bit by bit by the breathing method passed down by Joshua And life force, life force is used to enhance physique and generate fighting spirit, while the remaining elemental power is stored in Crete's heart, and transforms his organs bit by bit, as long as the boy advances to silver After a high level, as long as Crete needs it, he can run life energy, fuse with the elements in the heart again, and restore it to magic energy.

The breathing method that integrates the training systems of the combatants of the two worlds, if it is in the Mycroft Continent, it can only be regarded as an ordinary breathing method, but in the Grandia Continent, because of the extremely excellent ability to absorb the power of the original crystal The speed is enough to be called the top batch of practice methods.

And the most important thing is that Joshua can see that the fusion power seed in Critter has a slight resemblance to the pure grudge in Mycroft Continent—and this resemblance is the power of steel The most original, the essence that will not change even across different worlds!

"let me try."

Stretching out his hand, Joshua mobilized all the energy in his body to imitate this trace of essential power - in an instant, a dark silver light flashed in the palm of his hand. Although the light was dim, it was extremely thick, as if it carried the entire world.

Critter and Larael, who had just stood up, suddenly knelt down again involuntarily. While their hearts were filled with awe, they also felt a trace of inexplicable kindness. The young girl felt the black hair in front of her The powerful man with red eyes, the mysterious teacher who passed on the method of cultivation to them, seems to be gradually merging with this world, becoming one with this world.

64%, 65%, 66%, 67%, 68%, 68.5%... 69%!

In an instant, Joshua's power liberation reached 69%

Therefore, a powerful coercion swept across the entire southern wilderness!

Just like a giant beast cruising in the sea, setting off boundless waves, an indescribable wave of majestic power swept over everyone in this piece of land, whether it was survivors who sensed a familiar atmosphere, or scattered The dead shadows were all suppressed by this force, unable to move, and farther away, on the southwestern side of the mainland, in some shelters that were still intact, some sleeping powerhouses and heroic spirits suddenly felt stagnant for breathing, and the energy circulation in their bodies After a meal, the feeling of heart palpitations could not dissipate for a long time.

Farther away, in the northwest of the mainland, in Gaetar, the capital of the Ulan Empire, a great commander of the undead suddenly turned his head and looked at the sky where the southern region is located.

"Sanctuary..." it muttered to itself in a deep voice: "Who...who can break through the sanctuary at this time?!"

And the source of the fluctuations.

Hanging in the mid-air, Joshua's red eyes shone with a metallic silver light, which was the light of the power of steel, the power to carry, create, and encompass all things.

That is the power he wants to master.

At this time, Joshua, although the degree of power liberation has not reached 100%, but his strength at this time has surpassed the heyday of the Mycroft Continent.

But just when the soldier reached a 69% liberation rate, he suddenly stopped advancing further.

Therefore, the coercion is withdrawn.

Joshua slowly landed on the ground, ignoring the siblings behind him who said, "Master, you became so strong just now!" ’ ‘It feels better than when I was in Mycroft Continent! ’ Such an excited inquiry also ignored the adoring eyes of Crete and Larael, but looked at his palms that were no longer shining with silver light seriously.

"The power of steel...is being eroded?"

The soldier murmured in confusion and shock: "The power of the world, the initial fire is shrinking?! Who, who can do this kind of thing?!"

Just now, when Joshua's power liberation was about to break through the 70% mark, his fighting spirit and vitality were about to be sublimated into an energy closer to the power of steel. He was fighting with the world of Grandia. The heaven and the earth breathe together, so the warrior sensed from somewhere that the essence of existence in this world is being changed, and the power of steel that is the foundation of all things is also being eroded.

In this world, there is no steel python similar to the world of Carliss and the world of Ilgna, and its existence is too short to give birth to its own will. Therefore, the essence of this world is very easy to be corrupted. Manipulative change, even erosion and corrosion.

In order not to be affected by this erosion from the source, the warrior resolutely gave up the breakthrough.

In the distance, in the northwest direction, at Gaetar, the capital of the Ulan Empire, disturbing black clouds were churning, and black rain fell.

A halo of seven shades of darkness hangs over the city, sustaining the everlasting mist and whistling dust tornado around it.

But at this moment, the fourth ring of light in the center broke away from the array of the seven rings and began to gradually move towards the south. This deep dark vortex carried a huge dark force and began to move towards the outside world.

It was as if some shadow was climbing out of the abyss.

Its goal is the southern wilderness.

And its purpose is to destroy all resistance and hope.