Soul of Burning Steel

Starlight hovers above the wasteland.

Joshua looked up at the shining coordinates in the darkness, and was silent for more than ten seconds. Then, he looked down at the vast wasteland in front of him.

This is a land that is extremely unfamiliar to the warriors. It is endless, desolate and dead, without any life. At the end of the land, there is a black plateau hidden in the shadows, covered by sandstorms and black clouds.

The sun and the moon are all extinguished, and the stars are obscured by dark clouds. The world is dark and deep, except for the purple lightning flashing in the clouds, there is no light in the sky. At this moment, the starlight coordinates suddenly fly up, and it extends towards the end of the horizon, bringing out a silver winding line, leading directly to the towering lid Top of Taal Plateau.

No matter how deep the darkness is, it cannot cover this light, because it is the last imprint left by Akhal.

Joshua stared at this deep path of light, and a deadly chill spread all over his body. This seemed to be a dead end leading to the realm of the underworld, but even if it was the real realm of the underworld, the soldiers at this time would have absolutely no reason to retreat.

Shaking off the layers of high-density rock that had condensed on his body, Joshua took the first step.

——The unknown knight.

Although he still didn't know the knight's name, the warrior knew from the bottom of his heart that he was a strong man worthy of praise and worthy of all glory.

Even if he destroys the world and drives the Infinity Shadow to kill countless people, even if the two of them don't speak more than ten sentences, and the fighting time doesn't exceed one hour, nothing will change.

Every shot, every shot, every change in the gravitational wave contains the knight's unwillingness and doubts, confusion and relief, and finally, the heart to face everything calmly. In just a few fights, Joshua already knew better than most people what kind of person the other party was, and what a heavy truth he was carrying.

Now, he let go of his heavy burden, quietly turned into dust and died, taking over everything by himself.

Going in the direction guided by the light path, Joshua suddenly found that his heart was so calm that he was a little indifferent. He waved his hand, and the dragon hunting sword spear that fell in the distance turned into a stream of light and returned to his hand.

"It's always been like this."

He thought indifferently: "The battle is like this, it has never changed."

Fighting against strong human beings is completely different from fighting against chaotic monsters and wild beasts. When a warrior stabs with a spear, and when he retracts his fist and swings out, what he wants to smash is not pure life, but the will of the opponent, and what he hits is not It is only weapons and fists, as well as its own belief and soul.

Every fight between the two sides is a collision of spirit and will, a battle of faith and persistence. The strength of pure strength can only determine the superiority and weakness, and the soul that can truly determine victory or defeat is the soul.

Just like the previous blow.

The strong gravitational changes caused the earth and rocks within a radius of tens of kilometers to fly out of thin air, and were sucked into the sky by the gravitational source condensed in the old knight's body. Under the gravity, it collapses and compresses into an incredible super-condensed substance, which seals itself firmly—or is completely crushed to death in it, as evidenced by the solidified layer of high-density rock on the warrior's body.

Faced with such a powerful astronomical attack capable of changing the terrain, Joshua's only way to deal with it was to abandon his own body and become a giant of life energy, and then imitate the fusion star's self-destruction with the awareness of giving up his life, pushing The life energy in the body can burn and fuse, transforming it into the purest heat, impact and light, blasting out with all its strength.

He was almost at the end—at the last moment, Joshua almost gave up his body, and used this last, most fiery sacrifice blow, trying to break through this invisible prison that could imprison stars.

If the development of everything is really like this, then this is simply a perfect battle that can make the blood of the soldiers boil to the extreme, with life and everything as the bet to see who can win the final victory.

But everything in this world cannot be perfect.

[Prisoner Star Prison] was interrupted.

A piece of mental fragments that came along with the terrifying gravitational fluctuations told the warrior the name of this move, and also foreshadowed the knight's ending. It is indeed a powerful skill worthy of its name. As long as he can withstand this move without dying, the warrior can use it This collapse compresses all the gravitational force, shatters one's own tough 'eggshell', and sublimates one's own life essence to the legendary realm.

But everything came to an abrupt end. After Akhal's final blow defeated all of Joshua's methods and forced him to the point where he was about to burn his life and soul to fight back, he had already burned himself up.

He is too old.

The warrior clenched his fists, causing the wounds that hadn't healed to burst open. The blood dripped down on the ground, splashing a few dust particles. The moment the crimson blood dropped out of the body, it seemed that it wanted to conceive something, but in the end it turned into a drop of broken blood and was absorbed by the dry gravel on the ground. The weapon in Joshua's hand seemed to sense the ups and downs in his master's heart, so he remained silent.

A thousand years, Akhal has been dead for a thousand years, if the Ulan Empire hadn't exhausted all its efforts to find his tomb, dig up his remains, and use the most profound psychic secrets to disperse his soul throughout the continent The reunion of the brand mark, this old knight should have been completely wiped out long ago, how could he recover as a heroic spirit and unleash a sanctuary-level blow? But even so, he has come to an end, and the battle with Joshua is his last persistence. It is not the energy in Akhal's body that burns in the Prisoner Star Prison, but his soul.

He didn't have the slightest leeway, and indeed he shot with all his strength, but he was old, that's all.

The knight who lost to time still didn't get the most perfect ending.

And Joshua also came to the plateau.

The howling wind forms a vortex, turning the gravel and earth into sharp knives, tearing everything involved. The black sandstorm in the Gaetar Plateau is like the strongest wall, a fortress that will never fall, and keeps all visitors away. outside the door.

The light path formed by the starlight passed through the dust and spread straight to the center of the plateau. The soldiers did not stop, but accelerated their speed.

He took a step forward, blurring the scene around him, and the fiery gust of wind was circulating around him, like a red-hot iron cone piercing into the endless storm with rapid speed, and the pitch-black storm rolled and rolled under the impact of this violent force It began to recede, and the mighty force of nature bowed its head to a person at this time, and could see that the originally huge storm vortex was being divided into two at a speed visible to the naked eye, retreating to both sides of the plateau like Moses dividing the sea, revealing the path walked by the soldiers in the middle.

Joshua seemed to be dissatisfied, he raised the dragon hunting sword and shot horizontally at the black sandstorm on both sides.

As a result, the storm continued to recede, and the energy source that constituted this huge vortex was pierced by the invisible life energy radiation, losing most of its power.

Not long after, the soldier slowed down. He raised his head and looked at the majestic giant city in front of him. This was the end of the Starlight Road and his destination.

The Ulan Empire, the capital of Gaetar.

On the other side of the black sandstorm is a magnificent city. This city is located between two slightly raised hills. On the hills are six extremely tall black towers engraved with countless runes. The city walls of the city are entirely made of polished square gray rocks. Strong fortresses and arrow towers stand behind the city walls. You can see four beams of light piercing the sky in the center of the city, shattering the black clouds in the sky. Stirred into a bottomless huge vortex.

In this city that can be called the origin of the shadow of death, there is no trace of the shadow of death. Joshua felt it carefully, and indeed he did not notice the slightest breath of death—but he also noticed that there were still some people in this city who did not know what it was. Death is the strange breath of life.

Naturally, no one opened the city gate, so the warrior came to the city wall. He clapped his hands, and a gust of wind blew by. The solid city wall collapsed into countless debris, gray The sand and dust paved a road forward, allowing Joshua to walk into the city without hindrance.

Inside the city, it was dark, with noisy and strange noises coming from it, and one could see dwellings shrouded in shadows. The positions of these dwellings were incomparably neat, not like the layout of a city, but rather like some kind of giant formation In the center of the city, there are four tall obelisks, surrounded by the ruins of three steles. They are covered with a dark luster, and the beam of light piercing the sky is centered on them, piercing the sky.

Joshua looked up at the obelisk, and then looked down at the dwellings. The aura of neither life nor death and noisy noises came from them. If there were any evil monsters, the soldiers would not mind eradicating them. .

But the result made him slightly taken aback.

In every residential house, there are indeed weird creeping monsters. Their bodies are like a mixture of mud and mud, and they are bound in a room that is almost sealed. It seems that they have sensed Joshua's gaze. Noises, but trembling silence, not daring to continue speaking, and the soldiers also saw through their essence in an instant.

It was a human being who was completely alienated into some kind of strange existence by being infected by the incomparably deep death energy of the underworld.

Twenty-seven years ago, a doomsday event occurred in this city, reversing life and death. The power of light and darkness transmitted the endless breath of the underworld to the whole world, awakening the endless army of dead shadows, and the imperial capital closest to this power The residents were mutated into such weird monsters.

They, they, the noises made by these sane beings are painful wailings and prayers. Ordinary humans may not be able to understand this alienated language, but at Joshua's level, they can clearly understand it. meaning.

It is neither life nor death, and the body is turned into mud. Even if it is dead, it will also turn into a dead shadow, so what these existences pray for is not resurrection, nor death.

but rest in peace.

"Ah..." Sighing softly, the soldier closed his eyes, then opened them again, and walked firmly towards the center of the city.

The fate of Grandia's world has been entrusted to him by that unknown knight, and the truth is right in front of his eyes. The current Joshua will not stop there.

Therefore, at the next moment, the warrior was already standing in front of the remaining four obelisks.

The center of the city is a huge square, which is paved with white granite, and seven obelisks are built on it according to the law. In the center, this is a high platform with unknown purpose. Now, with Arman, the dead shadow After the death of the swordsman and the old knight, the three steles turned into ashes and dissipated, leaving only the remaining base of the tower.

Joshua felt that the black light flowing on the four obelisks made him very uncomfortable, and the power of decaying steel spread around them. It seemed that this was the center of corruption, so he shot them with spiral spear force. All of them were broken, and there was no magic circle or barrier in the middle. The process was so simple that some people doubted whether it was an illusion, but after stopping, the soldier suddenly felt a lightness in his chest, as if some promise had been fulfilled.

In the distance, in the direction of the four holy cities, the commanders of the dead shadows who were entangled with the four holy city lords suddenly froze in place. Muttering a word, the expression of the summoner who can summon the ice bone dragon and various otherworldly creatures looks a bit pity, because he has the upper hand in the battle, while the archer holding the metal longbow shrugged and smiled freely With a sound.

In the next moment, these strong undead, who carried the destiny of an era, just disappeared with the wind and disappeared into nothingness.

"what happened?"

Whether it was the old machine man, the elf lady, the dwarf warrior or the giant, they all looked shocked and confused, but then, wanting to understand something, they immediately looked in the direction of the Getar Plateau, their eyes full of surprise.

In the distance, the four jet-black beams of light dissipated, and the black cloud like a whirlpool gradually returned to calm. The endless dead stillness did not spread towards every corner of the world, but piled up in the same place, making the already infested like the underworld The ordinary capital of Gaetar was shrouded in darkness.

This darkness is like the incarnation of death and extinction, it is bottomless, there is no light in it, and there is no sound at all, whether it is the shrill wind or the wailing of monsters, they are all swallowed by this darkness, everything is like the world has not yet been born At that time, the non-existent void was still in chaos.

However, there is a little light on.

The formation formed by the seven obelisks and the entire capital of Gaetar—no, not only these, the dust storm on the plateau, the cold wind in the barren plain are all part of this formation, and everything in the world is included in it , this city is just a hub for collecting and gathering everything.

And at the very center of the center of the great formation, suddenly appeared a shapeless, colorless hazy light group that could no longer be described in any words other than its existence. It looked not transparent, but it was not solid either. While releasing light, it also expands and shrinks like a living thing, as if it has life.

A hand stretched out from the darkness, holding the light ball.

Joshua van Radcliffe knew that this was the truth of everything, whether it was the strange attitude of the fourth inheritor, Urbani's past, the reason why the dead shadows slaughtered the living and destroyed the world, or the old All the answers to the fate of the world that the knight said are contained in this mysterious light group, as long as you grasp it, you can know everything.

So he held it without hesitation.