Soul of Burning Steel

Starfall 837, Northern Empire, Moldavia.

In April it was cold and clear, and the clocks struck thirteen. While the church bells were ringing, Priest breathed the long-lost cold air of the Northland, and returned to this land after a month and a half away. He stood in front of the tall keel city gate in South Moldavia, looked up at the The building, which was taller than the city wall, stared blankly.

"Good guy, is this still Moldalvi?" Priest muttered.

Just one and a half months away, the changes in Moldavia have already made this champion academy intern and member of the experimental team of the Northern Empire Foreign Exploration Department feel a little strange, although he only lived in Moldavia It took less than half a year, but such a short few months was enough for Priest to regard the Northland as his second hometown.

And the fact is just as he thought, Moldavia has changed a lot.

In the southern outer city, mana factories are still in production. They spew gray-white mist in the atmosphere, and the newly added purification circle operates at full power, purifying most of the condensed magic dust. The factory is towering, like a hill to ordinary people, and taller than these giants are only the teaching buildings of the Champion Academy and the headquarters of the Northland Chamber of Commerce.

The newly built headquarters of the Northland Chamber of Commerce is a huge black rectangular building. It is about 80 meters high, 40 meters long, and 30 wide. On the whole, it is not so much a building as a huge rock block. The surface of the building without any decoration and carving is completely composed of black rocks, and on its wide four walls, there are four huge screens.

This is an LCD screen, has it already started to become popular? Priest has already entered the city and immediately found the headquarters of the Northland Chamber of Commerce. There are some beautiful pictures playing there, and the elegant melody is also coming from the magic circle. , Priest listened to the soothing piano music, and did not like the passers-by around him, who was amazed from time to time, because he was no stranger to this thing. Sturt often uses this strange alchemical creation.

In fact, apart from this thing, he also saw a lot of novelty gadgets in the training base that he would never have access to—the magic net, point exchange system, single-use flying device, special magic armor, and various other things. All kinds of wonderful alchemy creations - LCD screens are just the most ordinary ones, and the biggest function is to make long-distance communication screens, or as it is now, to play some videos and play some music for everyone.

"It's almost time to go home."

Across the trade zone where the Chamber of Commerce is located, Priest walked towards the residential area around the industrial zone, which is his home in Moldavia. Looking at the familiar street scene around him, the man couldn't help feeling softly: " Although it's only been a little over a month...but it always feels like a long time has passed."

Since the beginning of Starfall 837, Priest joined the Academy of Winterhold and was invited to join the Empire's External Development Department, his life has undergone tremendous changes.

After a week of the most basic systematic teaching and training at the Champion Academy, Priest already had a basic understanding of magical fighting spirit and other extraordinary powers. Afterwards, he quickly and several students who were also invited, together was transferred to the training base located in the East Banter Plateau. Here, they will have a month of high-intensity exercise, as well as targeted talent development and cultivation.

One month, to be honest, is only thirty days, and Priest even frowned when he heard the news—what can he do in one month? Is this really training rather than a trip to the plateau? One must know that whether it is holy light or magic, battle qi or martial arts, they all need a long time of honing to achieve something. Look, among those great magisters and priests who have achieved fame and fame, which one is younger than forty? And who among those famous warriors has gone through hundreds of battles?

In one month, at most one apprentice can be trained. Priest really thought so at the time, and thirty minutes later, he knew he was wrong.

The high-intensity training he understands is completely different from the high-intensity training that the adult understands and designs.

All in all, a month and a half of hell training is over, Priest feels that he has been reborn - he has learned fighting spirit, can fight with the silver storm bear, he knows how to make traps, make fire, stealth detection and build simple shelters, Priest learned 81 ways to survive in the wild, and memorized and integrated a lot of knowledge about the different world. He still remembers "100 simple techniques to identify edible plants based on vitality" he recited while running a 12-kilometer sprint All the details of this book, in the last week of real survival practice, Priest even learned how to build an entire small exploration base in the wilderness with bare hands.

The current Priest, even if he is thrown to any place in Mycroft with his hands empty, he can survive smoothly and comfortably, but even so, all this is just the foundation, because his goal, Instead of surviving in this comfortable hometown, he left his homeland and went to the void, exploring a different world that has nothing in common with Mycroft's world.

And the same goes for the entire External Exploration Department.

Of course, it seems that compared to the changes in Priest's life, the changes in the whole of Moldavia - or, the whole world are not inferior.

[Now insert a piece of news: the eastern province, the lord of Gler, Yasin Gler, was deprived of his knighthood. According to the announcement of the Imperial Noble Court, the former Earl Gler was suspected of human trafficking, abuse, killing civilians, and conducting cults He was shot dead on the spot because of the ceremony, and he is currently the highest-ranking nobleman involved in the case. 】

[The censor is cooperating with the local garrison to carry out a large-scale search and arrest operation in the territory of Gler. More than 120 people involved in the case have been arrested. The organization conducts human trafficking, drug trafficking, cult sacrifices, and illegal distribution of unknown alchemy creations in the local area. This is the fourth large-scale black and evil force to be eradicated this month. 】

The melodious piano sound suddenly stopped, and at the headquarters of the Northland Chamber of Commerce, which was funded by the imperial family, the four huge LCD screens switched rapidly. A female examiner with a good face and a calm tone read the manuscript seriously to the screen. Spread her voice across half of the city, and almost everyone who is not busy with work can hear her clear voice.

The news ended soon, and the large LCD screen continued to play beautiful landscape pictures and music. The original piano now had an extra violin ensemble, and the passers-by who were listening to the news were also quite moved and moved. The people next to them started talking.

"Good catch! Good kill! All traffickers will die!"

"Recently, it's indeed a lot more peaceful. My relatives in the east contacted me some time ago, saying that the original gangsters have disappeared, and life is much easier without Pang Majesty. They are planning to invite me to go there for a while!"

"No, thousands of people have been arrested... There are also quite a few nobles. It seems that His Majesty the Emperor really did it, not a joke!"

"That's needless to say? Although I don't know who it is, but it was an earl, and he was killed on the spot... Was it possible before?"

"I remember, the lord seems to be..."

"Can this compare?"

Although they are still a little uncomfortable, there is no doubt that this is not the first time for the residents of Moldavia to watch this kind of news. After these seemingly ordinary crackdowns, what kind of secrets are hidden? Ordinary people don't care about these, they can only see that the empire is scraping away the abscesses on its body with knives from top to bottom, and the lives of ordinary people are also changing. It's getting easier.

Hearing the news, Priest, who had almost returned home, couldn't help but stop. He turned his head and glanced at the huge LCD screen behind him, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

Really cool.

To be honest, Priest, who originally lived in the south of the empire, really didn't have a good impression of the nobles. In that market where black forest monsters attacked human cities and towns, basically all the nobles lived in strong castles and In the fortress, those people enjoy a comfortable life together with the legions stationed in the big city.

Apart from collecting taxes, Priest and his family have never interacted with these nobles. Even during the Dragon Calamity, not many people came to lead them to the refuge... This kind of nobles is actually quite good, because They just ignore their own people and enjoy their own luxury, and in more territories, noble lords have all the rights to the people, they are the gods of ordinary people, they can oppress and exploit them at will, which is difficult to maintain living civilians.

Not hating the rich, Priest just likes the feeling of justice being done—of course, not everyone thinks so, even in the External Development Department, there are quite a few people who feel that this kind of justice is done relative to the past. The overly harsh treatment expressed their dissatisfaction. They felt that the emperor had too much power, and the review was too strict and too fast. Israel and his noble court almost ignored all the privileges of the nobles, and they even ignored the law. Those noble people were not arrested in their mansions without any evidence.

Everyone has no sense of security, they feel that their freedom and dignity have been oppressed, they oppose this kind of simple and crude 'violence', and say that if it continues, the entire empire will become His Majesty's words, Yi Thrall will be the biggest and worst dictator ever.

And the man scoffed at that.

Freedom, dignity? First of all, people have to survive before they can consider such things—and only when they have freedom and dignity can others oppress them. Most of the low-level civilians in the empire do not have the conditions for freedom and self-respect at all. They are oppressed by gangsters and nobles. They walk in the wild and worry about the attacks of monsters. It is already difficult for them to live. How can they think about these things?

If His Majesty the Emperor can let all the low-level civilians live well, with freedom and dignity-then why can't such atrocities be carried out? why not? If a ruler can eradicate all inequality and darkness, and expel all dirty atrocities and oppression from ordinary people's lives, if he can make monsters disappear from the roads of major cities, and let all civilians eat If he has enough food to live a life without worries, then there is no doubt that he has the right to be a dictator and have the right to carry out such 'atrocities'.

He even has the right to ask people to worship him.

Speaking of this, Priest couldn't help but look towards the southwest of the world. He raised his head and looked towards the sky - at the far end of the sky, a layer of hazy space was flickering, where it was like Covered by boiling water vapor, there is a blurred white light flashing in it... There is a boundless heaven, the abode of the gods.

It has been more than a week since the spectacular vision of the heavens descending on the human world. Most of the people who used to chatter about these things have now shut their mouths. Now, even illiterate peasants know that the gods have put in all their efforts to prevent the heavens from falling into the world suddenly. At this time, they are tired and need to rest, and the heavens are slowly and completely integrating into this world. And because of the holy fluctuations that swept the entire world that day and cleared the universe, many people who did not believe in God have recently started to go to church and pray to those holy emblems.

The world has changed... Although I still can't feel it now, Priest knows that all this is just a prelude, when the gods walk out of their residences, when the world is completely integrated into the world, when the atmosphere of the entire empire is cleared At that time, the ancient Mycroft world will glow with new vitality.

This is indeed an exciting future, and Priest couldn't help but start to think about it, but soon, he suppressed his thoughts, and now is not the time to think about these—these problems are too vast, even if you want to Thinking, it is not his turn to worry, this is a question that only their lord needs to think about.

Anyway, in this world of supernatural powers, he just needs to be himself.

Now, Priest was standing in front of an ordinary two-story house. The man collected himself, then took out the key and opened the door.

"I'm back."

He suppressed his excitement and said so.

Soon, another voice of a girl who was surprised but filled with joy from the bottom of her heart came from the house:

"You're back, brother!"

Almost at the same time, in the lord's mansion in the inner city of Moldavia, the artificial intelligence girl's low cry of surprise sounded, followed by the helpless complaints that the Shenji siblings and the black dragon had long been used to.

"You're back, Joshua?" "Master, you're back!" X3

"Um."

A man's voice sounded from the top floor of the lord's mansion. He embraced a ball of light that was "jingling, jingling", as if it wanted to jump on the head of a certain black dragon girl, and said calmly, "I'm back."

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