Soul of Burning Steel

Compared with the so-called burning soul gaze, Joshua is more interested in this system that has not appeared for a long time.

After all, this system is probably the only existence that came to this world with him.

Joshua doesn't care where he came from, because he knows who he is, and Joshua doesn't care where he is going, because his goal is always the same, but no matter what, the warrior knows his origin, he will not It is hypocritical to say that he has no sense of belonging to this land, and he will not deny that he has always been interested in such magical things as the system. After all, it is it that gave Joshua his first pot of gold in this world.

It doesn't matter the origin of the system is one thing, and it's another thing to be interested in its own existence. In the past, he didn't ask the root of the system because he was not strong enough, so he didn't need to care about it. But now, he has achieved Legend, in order to ensure that he has no weaknesses, he must find this mysterious system.

If you want to, just do it.

At this time, Joshua has sunk his spirit into the depths of his soul. He is chasing a wave in the dark, following the information given to him by the 'system' to track the other party's whereabouts. Warriors must grasp the tail of this system , to find out its root.

Unfortunately, he found nothing.

Joshua's spirit looked around the depths of his soul. Here is the reflection of his subconscious, the manifestation of his will and soul. In an endless black space, countless mountains stand, and in the center of all the mountains, there is a The peak of Tongtian is like a pillar, connecting the sky and the earth. The spirit of the warrior looked down from the sky, but he didn't find any trace of the 'system'.

Soldiers are not good at souls, but he still knows some basic information. For example, if there are foreign objects invading the soul, there will inevitably be abnormalities in the subconscious reflection. But now, no matter how Joshua examines his soul, He still hasn't found the difference for half a day, so there are only two possibilities.

The first type: His strength is not enough, the personality of the system itself has even surpassed him, a legendary powerhouse, and is at the level of a 'god', whose existence form cannot be discovered by ordinary observation methods, so he has nothing to gain.

The second type: the system itself is a part of his soul, because it has existed from the beginning, so there is no abnormality, just like who can find a drop of water in the ocean? Even if it can be found, the energy consumed by self-examination must be enough to drag down a legendary strong man.

Thinking of this, Joshua, who was sure that there was no way to find out the truth of this system for the time being, withdrew from the depths of his self-examination. It doesn't have much binding force on him. Joshua vaguely remembers that after he entered Extreme Intent, the system became quieter and no longer issued tasks. Even the situation log had to be searched by himself. It is a sign of collapse, or self-dissipation.

Joshua felt that if his strength continued to improve, the system might disappear completely, and he would never have the chance to know the truth behind the other party. Let's talk about it next time.

Withdrawing his attention, the warrior looked back at the information still floating in front of his eyes.

【Divinity · Burning Soul Gaze】

[Just like people will sigh when they see high mountains and the sea, and they will naturally feel shocked when they see great things. During the battle, when ordinary creatures look at you, they will undergo a shock judgment based on your will points. If they fail, they will fall into shock and energy disturbances. 】

【—He closed his eyes not because of indifference, but because of love. 】

A powerful ability, no less than the high-level spells 'Death Gaze' or 'Petrified Magic Eye'. But Joshua didn't feel much joy in his heart.

"Divinity..." He muttered to himself, then shook his head.

Since the battle against Mandagar in the Blood Moon Abyss, Joshua has never tried to use his divinity, even when facing the Ember Sword and the endless dead shadows in the world of Grandia. One point, the warrior frankly admits that it is a power beyond his control, and he is not sure that he can break free from the erosion of the great source of divine power every time, and that kind of irrational state may not be enough for a real warrior. It is a strengthening, but a weakening.

What's more, if Joshua didn't get rid of it, there would only be two results - he would become a godlike monster without reason, only caring for killing and destruction, or he would be completely melted by the endless river of divine power in the multiverse, turning into Part of it, and these two results, Joshua did not want, so he has been trying not to use his divine power as much as possible.

But obviously, this thing is different from muscle, if you don't use it, it doesn't mean it won't become stronger.

——Probably because I have killed too many demons, which is in line with the essence of the three divinities of 'fighting', 'killing' and 'destruction'.

Thinking of this, Joshua couldn't help frowning. Divinity does not lie. Whoever obtains the divinity represents who is most in line with this divinity. Those who can get the divinity of conspiracy are definitely not upright people, and it is absolutely impossible to get the divinity of justice. An evil and mysterious person, every word and deed in the abyss is Joshua's heart. He doesn't think there is anything wrong with him killing demons and destroying the fortress. His divinity also thinks so, so his synchronization rate Just one more point.

— After all, it’s not a bad thing.

Although there is not much excitement, Joshua will not take this kind of thing to heart. The growth of divinity is not a bad thing, it is just that he has not fully grasped its ability. What soldiers have to do now is not to entangle Don't worry about such small things, but continue to complete your goals.

"Syndicate, where are we now?"

Standing on Hei's head, feeling the turbulent wind beating against the armor, Joshua asked the Balrog who was running desperately in front of the black dragon with a deep voice.

At this time, the Balrog had completely changed his appearance—the original Balrog lived in the abyss, so the black and red flames all over his body had an extremely blasphemous and filthy aura. Not to mention other toxicity issues, just the smell was enough Very pungent and disgusting, but the syndicate is completely different now.

Balrog's whole body was burning with golden-red flames. It was a light that was extremely pure and devoid of any evil power. Apart from the highly toxic radiation brought by its body, Balrog at this moment was like a large torch lighthouse. , giving a 'sunshine' feeling.

And for Syndicate, this is a matter of course-forcibly turned into a big sword, scimitar, long spear or even a dragon hunting bow by a legendary strongman, and then filtered over and over again with the power of pure steel, even if it is an abyss soft The slime has to be purified into a celestial slime. Its Balrog can still have a little bit of poison because it is its natural constitution. If it is purified, it will burn it clean, so it survives.

"I don't know, Your Majesty, I've never been to this place before." After honestly answering Joshua's words, the Balrog immediately added before the warrior continued to ask, "But the sixth abyss is not that big. The speed of the river will soon reach its center, and when I see the Styx, I will be familiar with it.”

Hearing what the other party said, Joshua nodded. He believed that Syndicate would not dare to lie to him, and what the other party said was correct. Although the big devil can shuttle back and forth between various abysses, it is impossible to go to every corner of the abyss. For big demons with the strength of the Balrog, if they don't want to be forced to capture the strong men by the abyss lord and stay at their own level, they can only wander around the Styx River.

"Roar." Hearing the conversation between the warrior and Syndicate, the black dragon suddenly raised its head. While running, it wanted to say a word to its master—but it forgot that Joshua was standing on top of itself, so why? Can't even turn around to see.

"Okay, I'm right on top of your head... you say." Gently touching the corner of the other party, Joshua signaled the other party to stabilize his focus. He listened attentively to Hei's dragon chant, and then understood the other party's words .

The black dragon sensed the same kind of breath.

"Same kind?" Even Joshua touched his chin in doubt, the gauntlet formed by the power of steel came into contact with the steel helmet, making a piercing metal friction sound, he turned his head and looked around, and said puzzledly: "No The breath of the dragon clan... how could I not notice it after killing so many?"

Hei himself is also a bit baffled, it was only a momentary blessing to his mind just now, and he sensed an extremely familiar breath, it feels like walking on the road and suddenly recalling the taste of his hometown, like a dream, how does Heilong know this is real Fake? Facing the doubts of the soldiers, it finally felt that this was probably an illusion, so it just whined a few times and did not insist on its own opinion.

At this time, Warrior and Long and his party had just left the Gray Salt Mountain Range. Since they had been running on the ground, they didn't notice it.

Among the incomparably huge mountains, there are a few peaks with extremely special shapes. It's as if something huge and incomparably walked through it unscrupulously, squeezing them away abruptly, and stepping out of a path.

At this time, the Sixth Abyss, the center of the Molten Sea and Fire Prison, and the Valley of Tears Fortress.

With the transfer of information layer after layer, the urgent communication of one demon lord after another, this is built of black iron and corpses, and the giant fortress as tall as a mountain is full of hurried footsteps, in the dark and hot In the corridor, one high-ranking Winged Demon Communication Officer after another speeded up as much as possible, even fanned their wings, and hurriedly sent the information collected from other places into the communication circle leading directly to the central hall.

There are dim runes flickering in the magic circle. When each document is placed in it, the exact same part will be copied on the other end. This is one of the good spells collected by demons from other worlds. The magic fluctuations in the abyss are dead and decayed, and the general detection circle is easily distorted and disturbed. Only this kind of magic can guarantee long-distance stability, and even transmit information across the world.

A hurried Winged Demon messenger held a lot of information that had been sorted out by other low-level demon attendants, and hurriedly walked on the road leading to the communication circle. In the abyss, all kinds of demons are really There are too many of them, many of them, such as the Corruptor and the Balrog, cannot use tools. They can only use simple voices to communicate, and their accents are also strange. In order to ensure that the correct information can be collected , in the Tear Valley Fortress, there are many low-level acid demons and fire rock demons specially cultivated to recognize the words of their higher counterparts.

Inadvertently, the Winged Demon glanced at the contents of the document in his hand. It was not a big deal, after all, the rules of the demon were not so strict, so it saw the above few lines written in the distorted Abyssal language.

It shivered immediately, and then rushed towards the communication circle at a flying speed.

——With the invasion of king-level demons, the lords of the Black Sea Great Plains, Obsidian Sands, and Gray Salt Mountains are almost wiped out.

another world.

In the sky, countless long lines of fire streaked across the sky. They broke through the sea of ​​clouds and finally connected to the earth. The solid rock from another world fell to the ground carrying countless ferocious invaders, bringing endless challenges to this strange world. Pain and disaster.

Under the blood-red sky, wars are unfolding in every corner of the world. Countless creatures with scales on their bodies that look like lizardmen but have no tails, and are stronger than lizardmen hold their spears and blades high, roaring Fighting against the seemingly endless black demons, but it was of no use, as high-temperature meteorites descended from the portal above the sky, forests ignited fires, and lakes and seas boiled.

Cities were destroyed, civilization was collapsing, beasts howled and fled, and Chongshan was shaken by it.

And at the same time when the hurried Winged Demon messenger put the documents in his hands into the communication circle, on a battlefield burning with flames and black smoke, a demon who was not tall but looked a little short suddenly raised his head.

"The beholder elder Kasendi was seriously injured, and the bone demon lord Crodi was seriously injured..."

It lowered its head and murmured in a rough voice: "The twelve fortresses were destroyed, all the demons along the way were killed, and no soul escaped."

"Most of my territory...has been destroyed..."

The more it talked about the back, the lower its voice and the more angry it became, until finally, the demon suddenly raised its head, sneered in a rough voice, and then cruelly crushed the head of a scale human in its hand, the light blue Blood spattered on it: "Plundering war? Someone actually took the idea of ​​our sixth abyss? Want us to fight on three sides?"

The body size of this demon is only about two meters. It is covered with a smooth gray-black carapace. Apart from two long horns, there are no other organs on the head, only densely packed dark yellow pupils that keep turning. Mouth, the voice came from inside the body, and in the center of the demon's chest, there was a diamond-shaped crimson gemstone shining with evil light.

As if angered by the news, the demon's body slowly floated up into the air. This battlefield is located in front of a huge scale-human city. Seeing a demon flying up, the spells of countless scale-human warlocks fell like rain. The arrow flew towards him at high speed, but this oddly shaped demon did not panic at all. Hundreds of thousands of pupils stared indifferently at the front. Then, it raised its right hand with long, blade-like fingers. stick out.

The dazzling light lit up with the shrill tremors, and a crimson light whizzed across the atmosphere, and then instantly hit the scale caster team in the distance. Immediately, accompanied by a violent explosion, a bowl-shaped energy shield It rises rapidly, spreads, and engulfs everything around it. After a while, the energy shield shatters into light spots all over the sky, and whether it is scaled people or demons, steel or soil, all of them are completely burned into nothingness by the condensed energy.

After seeing the results of the battle, he didn't stop. The demon didn't make any extra moves. In mid-air, its carapace began to squirm, and then transformed into protrusions like bone tubes. In an instant, hundreds, thousands, even Tens of thousands of shots are exactly the same as the previous red light, and even more concentrated energy clusters are ejected from it, bringing out a series of complicated afterimages in midair, bombarding the positions ahead and the distant cities.

"Run away!"

"Unstoppable!"

"His Majesty is angry!"

Immediately, on the battlefield, both demons and scale humans uttered the same screams of panic and despair, and one after another dazzling light spots and energy shields also enveloped the entire battlefield and the city in an instant. In the middle, the solid city built by the scale people using rocks was destroyed by the terrifying impact and high temperature in just a few seconds, part of the rocks and metals were completely gasified even in an instant, and the burned artificial rivers and lakes turned into violent The water vapor rises, and the solid temple cannot last long even if it is protected by magic. After being hit by hundreds of rays, it slowly melts under the high temperature erosion of tens of thousands of degrees, and then a golden magma can be seen Rivers flow through the streets of the city, swallowing all survivors.

Soon after, the city disappeared, leaving only ruins in a lava lake.

The hot smoky wind turned into a violent shock wave, passed through the messy battlefield, the tornado of flames danced on the ground, the bone tubes all over the body slowly retracted, this not tall demon landed back to the ground, it closed its eyes , not paying attention to the world that has been completely covered by smoke, flames, storms, terrified demons, and lava hell in front of him. The spirit of demons is linked to the battlefield in another abyss far away.

"Goliath."

It said in the spiritual communication: "Your abyss, my territory has been invaded, and it is suspected of maharaja-level strength, so I want to temporarily suspend the invasion here and go back to see the situation."

And after a long time, from the battlefield at the other end of the abyss, there was a low-pitched response from the Demon King.

"Go."

"Give the heaviest lesson to those who dare to provoke us."

Sunday, getting up late...