Soul of Burning Steel

When the warmth of summer gradually dissipates in the darkness of night, and a slightly damp wind blows through the streets and alleys of Moldavia, the cicadas still echo in the woods, wandering between pubs and parties. Adventurers will never calm down. Their presence makes the entire commercial street brightly lit, and also brings a glimmer of life to the silence in the darkness.

I don’t know when, the Northland residents who were used to going home after nine o’clock in the evening to rest, and then woke up at four or five o’clock tomorrow morning to prepare for work have begun to adapt to this kind of life that can also be entertained at night—since several years Since the former lord inherited the title of the old lord, the whole of Moldavia has changed at an earth-shaking speed. Although he did not change any government orders or change some laws, just some suggestions he made casually made people All have benefited.

TOEFL is based on the pyroxene lamps that have been popularized for a long time. In the main city of Moldavia, ordinary people only need to spend a few silver coins every month to buy some cheap pyroxene, which can make their homes full of light day and night. Yu is rapidly laying free heating pipes to every household, and many people who are worried about firewood feel relieved. Apart from these two items, there are always mentors in the public communities around the Lord's Mansion. The adventurers explained the distribution of monsters in the Great Ajax Mountains and some practical skills in the frozen forest. Judging from the words of the adventurers in the tavern, many people have benefited from it, and even saved a life .

Although some people with ulterior motives advertised that the heating pipe is just a high-heat by-product of the activation of the magic furnace core, and those cheap pyroxenes are just transformed from discarded magic spar, everyone still feels the generosity of the lord, because This by-product and cheap pyroxene had never been popularized or sold before, and this is the fundamental difference.

That adult seems to be planning to join forces with the dwarves to build something called a 'subway' underground in Moldavia. It is said that this strange means of transportation can transport thousands of people at a time, or countless ore goods to distant places.

It is rumored that this thing called the subway was originally called a train. It is not underground, but travels on the ground. However, because there are too many monsters in the Northland, it is easy to damage the rails, and the dwarves have strong underground construction capabilities, so they changed it to Underground construction.

After all, compared with Warcraft, the troubles encountered by early trains on the earth, such as train robbers, can only be said to be minor problems. Large-scale Warcraft doesn’t even need to deliberately destroy them, just step on the rails while walking, and everything is over.

Feeling the tranquility of the city, Archbishop Artanis stood in the darkness at the bell tower at the top of St. Laurent Cathedral, the damp wind blowing his white hair, and the scenery of the main city of Moldavia was a little bit A little bit reflected in his eyes.

But at this time, the old man is not admiring the increasingly prosperous city, but is waiting for the arrival of someone.

He has already waited for quite a while, and it is not recommended to wait for a longer time. The spirit of a strong gold man is enough to last for several days of non-stop fighting, let alone such a leisurely situation?

But in fact, he didn't make him wait too long. Following an obvious fluctuation of time and space from the top of the Lord's Mansion not far away, the old man's eyes that were slightly squinted suddenly opened, and then he lifted his palm slightly, a wave of The holy fluctuations are also transmitted at the same time.

At the top of the Lord's Mansion, the man who had just stepped out of the time-space gate noticed the fluctuations coming from St. Lauren's Cathedral. He blinked and then turned his head to look at his side.

Beside him, two girls were holding the man's left and right hands. A large pile of parcels and bags floated behind Joshua, supported by an inexplicable force, and they also carried several large and small bags in their hands. Yingying and No. 3 both had satisfied expressions on their bags and bags, which made the soldiers feel that Yingying and No. 3 looked more and more like women of their age, which only appeared after this kind of big shopping. Satisfied expressions will never appear on Rin.

"I have something to do now, you should go back to the Lord's Mansion first."

Putting the package that he controlled to float with his strength on the ground, there was a dull crashing sound. Joshua explained a little bit, and the two girls are now immersed in a sense of satisfaction, and they also know that it is not good to disturb the work of the soldiers. So they all nodded and said 'hmm', and he also nodded, and then slowly flew up towards the direction of the cathedral.

And when the figure of the soldier disappeared into the night sky, the silver-haired girl turned her head and shouted at the entrance on the top floor, "Rin, Hei, come out and help move things—the master and I bought you gifts!"

"Hey, are there any gifts?" "There is such an operation?"

Suddenly, the surprised voices of the black-haired boy and the black dragon girl came from the second floor of the Lord's Mansion. After a while, with the sound of stepping on the stairs, both Rin and Hei appeared on the top floor of the Lord's Mansion.

"Here you are, here you are."

Then, their arms were filled with a large pile of packages and bags that Yingying unceremoniously handed over: "Remember to take the rest back, and I will leave these tasks to you, brother!"

"Hey, isn't this too much?! When will such a large group be moved!"

Not listening to her brother's complaints, after finishing speaking, the silver-haired girl happily pulled the worried black dragon girl aside, helped her unpack some packages, and put on a piece of jewelry for the bewildered black belt.

"I said, is it true that Rin is really allowed to move alone?" Hei, who was being played with like a doll, was still worried about other people at this moment: "Shall I go to help too?"

But Ying, who played with Hei like a doll and happily placed all kinds of jewelry, waved her hand smartly: "It's okay, although those things look like a lot, they are actually very light." It was because Joshua was beside them.

Not to mention the frowning Rin who was wrapped in a pile of amethyst stones, the artificial intelligence lady on the side also showed her supernatural powers - I saw a phantom breaking away from the steel body and returning to No. 3, the body of the magic projection Linked to his own body, the majestic magic power immediately turned into materialized power, lifted up the large and large packages, and sent them floating to the storage warehouse underground in the Lord's Mansion. The pile in front of Rin was also moved After leaving, I immediately received the sincere thanks from the black-haired boy.

The affairs on the side of the lord's mansion were temporarily over, and at this time, the warrior had already arrived at the gate of St. Lauren's Cathedral, where Archbishop Artanis was waiting for him.

"What's the matter, my lord bishop, has something happened?"

Without exchanging too many pleasantries, facing the friend of the old housekeeper and his father's friend, Joshua asked curiously: "I'm only going out for a day, so could there be an accident that even you have to be dispatched? "

Soldiers know that there are a lot of things going on at St. Lauren's Cathedral recently. Because of the expansion of the new city, the Church of the Seven Gods will also build a new church. Taking advantage of the summer, the promotion of faith must also be stepped up. Recently, Artanis has been busy with planning. For this kind of problem, the trivial matters below are left to the apprentices to solve, and the things that can be dispatched by him are definitely not trivial things that can be handled easily.

"This matter is neither big nor small, but no matter what you say, it is very troublesome."

Sighing, the old bishop was not overly polite. He shook his head and said succinctly: "This afternoon, an urgent text message from Guantian White Tower was sent to me. According to what they said, they are looking for It was originally you, but the Guantian White Tower does not have the SMS address of your lord's mansion, and I can't find where your person is, so I will send it to me for the time being, and then let me pass it on to you."

"This matter actually has something to do with the Church of the Seven Gods, otherwise, they wouldn't let me read the content of the text message first."

"Then what exactly is it?" Joshua asked.

Taking a deep breath, Archbishop Artanis frowned, and said solemnly: "The two visiting instructors of the White Tower, the 'Run Master' Barnier and the 'Mind Master' William, have lost contact."

After Joshua heard the news, he didn't show much surprise. He just said flatly: "Those two legendary powerhouses? They lost contact...is it strange?"

This is not because the warriors have a big heart, but because the usual habits of these two legendary mages are like this.

As the rare two legendary powerhouses in this world who have no subordinate forces, but roam the entire continent, looking for traces of ancient dragons, what Barnir and William are best at is hiding among the crowd and traveling on the continent , The family and kingdom behind them once offered a reward of millions of gold coins, just to find their traces. Countless high-ranking bounty hunters with long reputations collectively took action, but none of them found any traces of them.

In addition, these two will go to some extremely dangerous and closed Jedi from time to time. In those places, let alone communication circles, even time-space magic and even all elements will be imprisoned. You know, Mycroft There are quite a few dead magic areas on the mainland. Although they are of no use to the legendary mages whose mighty power belongs to them, it is really easy for them to temporarily lose contact with the outside world.

"Also, what does this kind of thing have to do with us?" Joshua asked with some doubts: "Although I have a good influence on those two legendary mages—after all, they helped me guard the territory for a long time, I haven't thanked them yet, but they lost contact, why did they find us?"

And Artanis took a deep look at Joshua, he muttered 'I thought you already knew', then sighed, shook his head and explained: "Joshua, to be honest, you have something to do with this matter. Maybe I don't know...but it does have a lot to do with us."

After a pause, the old bishop immediately said: "Since these two legendary mages accepted the entrustment of the Church of the Seven Gods and came to guard the territory for you, they have never contacted the Guantian White Tower. The fluctuation of magic power shows that they It has been staying in the Great Ajax Mountain Range in the North, and seems to be searching for something."

Not only that, but Artanis continued: "If it's just that, then it's nothing, after all, the two of them are not subordinate to the White Tower of Guantian, they are there only because of the favor of the 'Element Controller'. It's just a mentor for a period of time. If these two people don't take the initiative to contact the Guantian White Tower, they have nothing to do. After all, the element master still wants to absorb these two to join his forces, so naturally he will not restrict them too much, but not long ago, The magic fluctuations of the two legendary mages have completely disappeared from this world!"

Joshua could understand what happened next without the old bishop saying much.

Legendary powerhouses are free, and this freedom is manifested in all aspects, just like Israel can go out at will, accompany Master Nostradamus through every fog of God and Evil, and then wait for him in the Void Stargazer The advanced stage is over, which is the symbol of his legendary power. You know, if it is an ordinary emperor, let alone go out so casually, he can't even step out of the palace. He can only sit on the emperor's throne in the Morlaix Palace and accept the strictest protection of everyone.

Barnir and William, the two legendary powerhouses, are willing to stay in one faction, so any faction will give the warmest welcome, but if they don't join, they will be subject to the strictest vigilance, just like the Northern Empire has not allowed This is how the two of them entered the territory, but in any case, most of the time they can go wherever they want, and the imperial ban is only because they don't want to violate the law, so they didn't violate it.

These two stopped in the north to look for things, they were just looking for traces of the ancient dragon, they hid their whereabouts, and even Joshua couldn't find out, so the White Tower of Guantian and the empire naturally turned a blind eye. , but the magic fluctuation completely disappeared, which is different.

Both Barnir and William have left their own magic marks in the White Tower of Guantian. This magic mark can roughly determine whether these two legendary powerhouses are alive, whether they are still in this world, and roughly in which direction they are located. It is operating all the time , even if two people are in the dead magic area, it will work the same way, but now, it has stopped, which only means two things.

"They're dead."

Joshua said word by word: "Or, he left this world."

Just like that, the old bishop nodded solemnly, and said with a frown: "Joshua, the disappearance of two legendary mages in your territory is neither a big nor a small matter - after all, they are not subordinate to The White Tower of Guantian, or any force, and everyone knows that you can't restrict the freedom of the two legendary spellcasters, and you can't kill them so simply and neatly." When he said this, the old bishop couldn't help but grit his teeth, because The sorcerer of the White Tower of Guantian who contacted him before seemed to have such doubts, and now he couldn't help but sigh a little for the reputation of the warrior in the outside world. .

"But they disappeared in my territory after all."

Joshua went on to say that he also understood the seriousness of the matter, and also understood why the old bishop specially waited for him to return from the imperial capital: "It is very likely that this will cause an incident of the country's diplomatic level... Hey."

As he said that, he actually laughed. The soldier turned his head to look in the direction of the Great Ajax Mountains, and said in a relaxed tone: "The two legendary mages disappeared in my territory? It's really interesting. I have been resting for more than a year. All Interesting things happened together, didn't they?"

"Be serious—" Artanis originally wanted to frown and remind the soldiers of the seriousness of the matter, but he couldn't help laughing as he spoke, "Forget it, just pay attention to this matter." It's going to be fine."

Originally, the old bishop had been worrying about this matter all this afternoon, but for some reason, when Joshua came back and saw the figure of the soldier, he felt relieved involuntarily.

There are always some people who can make people involuntarily calm just by their existence.

Looking at Joshua who had turned his head and seemed to be planning to go to the Great Ajax Mountain Range to see the situation now, Artanis couldn't help thinking with some emotion.

Being so resolute and yet reassuring, perhaps this is his charm.

—Of course, only friends.