Soul of Burning Steel

What kind of character is Joshua to friends and companions?

There may be thousands of different answers to the question, but there is no doubt that these answers will have one thing in common, that is, reassuring.

Whether it's the murmur of resentment from the weapon, or the praise of the leaders with a little fear, behind the superficial complaints lies an incomparable peace of mind. Joshua's existence is like a high mountain, as long as it is If you exist, you don’t have to worry about the coming of the storm. He seems to be aloof, but he is actually full of warmth—in Moldavia, no one can hear the slightest rumors about the lord. This is not only because of the strength of the lord himself, but also He really has nothing to discredit.

As a friend and comrade-in-arms, Joshua's reliability is needless to say. He advocates order, sticks to his duties, and never promises lightly, but he will do what he says. It is indeed the most reassuring thing to have such a person fighting side by side.

So, what kind of existence is Joshua to the enemy?

Only one word can describe it: monster.

Tenaciously straightening his body, Helm didn't retreat or curl up. He looked up at the unscathed steel giant in the high sky, with lines of light shining like runes on his body.

What other answer can there be? Any existence standing in front of the warrior will silently agree with this answer: the almost indestructible steel body, the incredible power to move mountains, the regeneration speed comparable to undead monsters, and the normal attack that is enough to destroy cities and mountains... Even long-range In battle, Joshua can also use fist wind, fusion flames and other means to attack, let alone attacking him at close range, this is the worst choice.

Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about the one who fought him in close quarters recently, Saruka. The demon lord is not weak. The worm, who is proficient in all kinds of changes, has a variety of forms and different fighting styles that make everyone feel troublesome. Even without the power to fight back—Saluka's ignited body is still falling towards the bottom of the blood moon abyss, the endless world. It was just a fight, and its bones were crushed and its body was completely distorted. out of shape.

But is Joshua really invincible? Helm didn't think so. The Serpent Beholder was very sure of this. Even though its fighting style and attack methods were restrained by the warriors from the beginning to the end, it didn't think the Iron Giant was invincible.

Joshua has a weakness and can be destroyed. Black Dragon King Keano's attack can be effective. Saruka's surprise attack can also break through a layer of armor. Although the Iron Giant seems indestructible, it is actually Still able to be destroyed, the mutual attack between him and the Dragon King had torn himself and the opponent apart, which had exposed the various fragility of his body structure, and Helm had already memorized them thoroughly.

But it's not strong enough.

The Iron Giant is quick and responsive in short distances, but at medium and long distances, it is difficult to dodge due to its heavy weight, and the fluctuation of gravity transmitted by the speed of light also makes it difficult for him to attack suddenly. Saruka's attack on Joshua was not intentional before. Then he counterattacked, but he really couldn't get out of the way, so he launched a defensive counterattack... In terms of pure speed, the giant does have a weakness.

But the demon is not strong enough.

At present, the fighter doesn't seem to have resistance to special types of attacks. He does have unparalleled adaptability to ordinary energy and physical attacks, but is the same true for special seals, curses, and spiritual attacks? If you want to defeat such an invincible giant on the battlefield, you may not need to face the enemy head-on, you only need to retreat back to the abyss, and planning a large-scale soul sacrifice curse can weaken the opponent and make it difficult for him to fight.

But Helm wasn't strong enough.

Yes, not strong enough.

Helm saw the fragile structure of Joshua's body, it analyzed the warrior's lack of agility, and it guessed that the Iron Giant was not resistant to certain special attacks... But so what? It simply cannot take advantage of these obvious flaws! The giant snake gritted its teeth anxiously. Helm was better at suppressing the entire world with his own power than fighting one-on-one strong men. Its attack was enough to turn half of the continent into scorched earth, but for some strong men But to no avail.

It sees through everything, but cannot attack its opponent's weak point, cannot exploit its opponent's flaw, does not even have a chance to try to attack from the enemy's weak point-because the warrior is facing it, Helm has no chance.

High above the sky, Joshua had almost finished dissipating heat, and he began to walk towards the giant snake. The speed was not fast, but the oppressive force was comparable to the pressure of the entire sky turned into a sea. He's on his way, and no one can stop him.

The fiery gust of wind slapped the body of the giant snake back and forth, making the flashing energy patterns on the surface of the demon lord hum, and the fiery air flow surged around his side. Helm watched Joshua walking in the flames, and felt a sense of relief in his heart. But it was cold. But in the end, the big demon made up his mind, and the pair of closed snake pupils on its body began to gradually open, and different lights began to flash in each snake pupil - dim, bright, hot, cold, With vitality, full of ignorance and death... millions of different lights began to surge and accelerate around the giant snake, making it seem to become a light aggregate.

"My king, Goliath, Lord of the Abyss."

Helm muttered in the ancient devil language, and the high-heat gas spewed from the giant snake's throat ignited the surrounding atmosphere, and the billowing heat echoed around.

"I am not afraid of life and death in battle, I am not afraid of pain and torture. I am willing to work for my people. There is no future."

Helm recalled the scene when he was defeated by Goliath. It was defeated by the other party neatly, but it was not killed as usual in demon wars in the past, but was left alive. The gluttonous demon who was not a demon king at that time didn't even glance at the defeated subordinate, but what it said did not make the beholder become angry, but instead made it willingly become the opponent's subordinate.

"The Sixth Abyss is too small, Helm. I want to conquer other worlds and take everything I want from them. Whether it's flames, souls, or the hope of reviving the Sixth Abyss, I will never let go."

"It's not because of my kindness that I saved your life. There are thousands of worlds, and I can't do it myself every time. I need a subordinate who will fight for me, and you are just right."

The former king of demons stepped on the head of the giant snake into the soil, and it said so while stepping on Helm's head. Goliath's tone was harsh, and every move showed his contempt for Helm, but this was the result of the victory of the demons in the battle. The right of the loser is a matter of course, but that word of hope made Helm who was waiting to die in the mud slightly stunned.

hope? How wonderful, what an unbelievable thing, when did the devil need this thing, and when can it have it? It's good that this stupid demon defeated itself, but does it really think it can revive the abyss? So stupid and so crazy.

Hey funny guy.

Above the sky, Joshua was still walking unhurriedly, and he could see that the steel giant's joints were still a little red. Although Helm's Starfire didn't cause any obvious damage to the warrior, it could indeed slow down his movements. , the demon lord discovered this, but it still couldn't find any possibility of defeating the opponent.

Yes, it has no chance. According to calculations, it doesn't even have a one-in-a-billion chance of winning. Instead of expecting it to defeat the steel giant alone, it is better to expect the Black Dragon King to come back from the dead, Saruka recovers from his injuries, and the three of them It's almost the same if people team up to besiege.

However, not everything requires a 'chance' before it can be acted on.

Joshua's walking speed became faster and faster, the influence of the blaze on him became weaker and weaker, and the light from Helm's body became brighter and brighter. Thousands of different types, different attributes, and different types of energy were flowing in the giant snake. Gathering together on his body, it suddenly circled itself into a huge ring—the demon lord gave up his snake-like physical form, but completely transformed his legendary body into a simple ring-shaped energy structure, Countless light spots of different colors began to move in the energy structure of the ring, and their speed kept increasing. After a few seconds, they turned into streams of light spinning rapidly, making Helm an energy circle with uncertain brightness and darkness. The ring, the space is shattered by this ring, and the fragments of the world oscillate and fall around it, like scattered colorful crystals.

There is nothing else to do.

In the next instant, the stream of light transformed by Helm suddenly soared into the air, and rushed towards him in Joshua's surprised eyes. It had already turned into light, a pure energy aggregate, and its speed was the speed of light. , nothing can stop it.

——Even in a battle that must be lost, Helm still has to take the initiative to fight for almost zero chance of winning.

This is the devil's 'stupid' and 'crazy'.

The halo formed by the demon lord rotates rapidly and advances at the speed of light. It shines with dazzling light, illuminating half of the blood moon abyss. Countless colors merge into white at this time, but this white is not pure and warm. It was white, but fiery chaotic, unspeakable white. It rushed towards Joshua, as if it wanted to hit him head-on.

——It was about to succeed. Everything happened in 16.67 microseconds, which is the time for light to travel five kilometers, which is the distance between Helm and Joshua. It is impossible for any creature to react in such a short time. This is a must hit.

But the four hands stretched out, the silver light flickered gently, and an invisible barrier blocked between the rushing halo and Joshua.

The light burst forth, and the entire blood moon abyss seemed to be illuminated. For a moment, the light released by the blood moon was blocked, but Helm was not shocked by this scene, and it hadn't reacted yet—it was blocked.

The soldier stared at the halo of Helm's incarnation in front of him. The time was too short. He didn't understand what the other party was going to do. However, it is absolutely impossible to underestimate a legendary strongman who can give up his own form to launch an attack. Therefore, Qiao Xiu Ya used the most prudent defense to resist the opponent, and the power of steel was condensed into countless crystals with absolutely smooth surfaces. Regardless of any light, any energy entering the cloud-like barrier formed by these crystals would be refracted and deflected, and it was absolutely impossible to cause any damage to him. harm.

And the reason why he was able to react was not because the warrior's reaction speed surpassed the speed of light, but because he was already prepared—after being defeated by Pope Igor in the spar, Joshua had been thinking about how to fight against this incarnation of light , although so far he hasn't figured out how to deal with the unimaginable ability that can change the speed of light, but he has thought of corresponding countermeasures for all other ordinary attacks. Shock is no exception.

The moment the other party turned into a halo, Joshua immediately put up defenses without thinking. This was not instinct, but a predicted answer obtained from rich experience, and every move of the demon lord was detected by him, just like now.

"Have courage."

He exclaimed in a low voice, for the sake of courage, Joshua did not intend to talk nonsense, the silver flame lighted up on his arm, and continued to accelerate, forming a terrifying chainsaw light stream, the warrior appreciated Helm's decisive attack , but he didn't intend to understand the other party's intentions. Joshua condensed the power of steel and the mass wave enough to shatter mountains. He wanted to directly cut off the body of the demon lord who was still accelerating, and put all the other party's hopes with him. May be completely cut off.

But suddenly, at the bottom of the dark and silent abyss, a dim star lit up.

The Blood Moon Abyss is a destroyed world. Before it was destroyed, the entire continent was floating in the air. Even the fallen rocks would float in the sky, and then be absorbed by other islands. Thousands of species and There are different races and civilizations, but no matter what race or civilization, they all have great awe of the bottom of the world.

They say it is the end of all things, they say it is a dark, bottomless abyss, no one goes there, no one knows if it has an end - but now a pale star rises from the abyss , it rises vertically, with a gray beam of light, this beam of light penetrates all the darkness, dyeing the dark and gloomy world with a touch of color, it is like an extremely sharp sword, exuding an incomparable momentum, in this For a moment, even Joshua couldn't help being distracted a little bit, but Helm didn't take advantage of this opportunity to attack, and it couldn't do it because it was actually attracted by the light spot.

In the next moment, they all knew what the light spot was.

That is the demon Saruka, the lord of the insect demons.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!"

Rising rapidly, with an inhuman roar, Saruka's body has roughly regenerated, and it has transformed into another smooth biological form, and it is flying towards the sky at high speed, the sound is thrown in the air. Behind it, the air was burning with thunder, it was seriously injured, but it was not powerless, the worm was eager to return to the battlefield.

The 'star' zoomed in rapidly, and it hit Joshua—it wasn't because the warrior couldn't react. He was wrestling with Helm at this moment, so how could he allocate his strength to deal with Saruka? All of this happened within a thousandth of a second, and we could only see that the continuously rotating stream of light finally broke through Joshua's barrier and hit the opponent's chest, and the worm king who directly hit the soldier's back also mutated into The strange shape like an octopus tightly bound the four arms of the Iron Giant, preventing him from launching a counterattack.

One hundred thousandth of a second later.

A supernova lights up in the center of the blood moon abyss.

There will be another chapter later.

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