Soul of Burning Steel

The northern part of the empire, Moldavia, the southern part of the Great Ajax Mountains, where the dwarves gather.

Starfall 832, March 1st, 9:45 am.

A young-looking mage held a brown wooden staff and stood in front of the lava lake. He watched his teacher hover above the golden magma, constructing a huge and complicated space-time magic.

In front of his eyes, the white-haired old mage wearing a golden-patterned robe smoothly manipulated the blue space-time runes, combining them into one after another shining magical characters, which turned into space nodes, repelling The surrounding fire elements are then rooted in the void, connecting the space of the other world.

As the huge magic power was attracted, the dark blue door was opened bit by bit—but it didn’t take much effort to open it, and it could even be said that it didn’t take any energy at all. In fact, what the old mage did was It is suppressing the endless expansion of this space-time gate.

"After fully unfolding, the radius is 700 meters. Such a huge space-time gate will have a huge impact on even the underground dwarf gathering places."

Gently sighing, the young mage looked at his teacher with admiration: "If it weren't for the teacher's restraint, the time-space gate that opens instantly after activation will cause unimaginably terrible geological changes."

The mage's name is Lorraine, and his teacher is the chief archmage of the empire, Nostradamus.

This mage is 21 years old now, and he has been studying at the Royal Mage Academy of the Imperial Capital for eight years. Today, he and his thirty-one classmates came to assist Nostradamus in exploring the time-space gate and maintaining the time-space channel.

These thirty-two people are all the most loyal disciples of Nostradamus. They are basically commoners and born in poor families, and none of them are nobles. Even if they don't have the money to buy materials and magic books for spell experiments, they rely on their talents and hard work to fight desperately without a good blood, and now they all have silver-level strength. In a sense, It can be said to be a genius.

A few days ago, Nostradamus hurried to the school, summoned them civilian children, and said that he would go to the Black Forest in the Northland for a field internship, and observe the consequences of chaos erosion at close range—of course, this time Internships will definitely add credits and year-end grades, and if you perform well, you will be given priority in applying for scholarships.

Needless to say, everyone was immediately attracted by this excellent condition, and the team of thirty-two people was full in an instant.

In the gradually warming weather, they crossed many checkpoints. The checkpoints reinforced by the winter black tide have not been completely evacuated. They saw various legions stationed in various fortresses. The heroic military posture made these civilian mages Emotionally.

This is of course—the common people who want to quickly improve their status can only rely on military merits. If they make great achievements, they can even be knighted quickly. The legion is where these mages will work after graduation in the future.

Under the spell of flying and teleportation, it only took them a few days to reach the south of the Great Ajax Mountains, where the rune dwarves in the North gather.

Of course, they all know that this kind of sudden field investigation is definitely not for observing some samples of chaos erosion-this kind of subject is not something they can study at all, their teacher is just making an excuse, and Nostradam Marth also quickly gave their real purpose for coming to the Northland this time.

Find the time and space gate.

The old mage roughly explained the cause and effect to his students-roughly the lord of Moldavia in the north, the guardian of an ancient elf clan in the far south and the dwarf leader here disappeared for no reason. It is possible that they were involved in the time and space gate that opened suddenly, and now they need to find the time and space gate that may cause them to pass through as soon as possible, and then search and rescue them.

"Well, teacher... how long have they been missing? What are their occupations?"

"About two days, one gold druid, two gold warriors."

Ha, two savage professions, and an environmentalist who doesn't understand the subtleties of magic.

Lorraine let out an aha in his heart. If the three golden mages were involved in the time-space gate, they might have rebuilt the time-space gate with local magic materials and returned.

Sure enough, only us mages can understand the mysteries of time and space!

In any case, after going back and forth several times, the mages headed by Nostradamus finally determined the location of the time-space gate and established a restraining circle.

At this time, it was time for the old mage to open the door of time and space.

The magic circle was activated, and the thirty-two silver-level mages gathered their strength. Cooperating with Nostradamus to connect the corridor between the dimensions, the dark blue door slowly opened, and the majestic chaotic atmosphere spread instantly. However, as early as The mages who were prepared had [purification shields] as barriers on their sides, but they were not disturbed, but the moment the lava lake in front of them touched the chaotic atmosphere, it began to cool down and condense rapidly, turning into Gray-black rock.

After the door of time and space was opened, several mages left the magic circle. They put on a whole set of magic equipment and prepared to go to another world to search and rescue those missing people.

However, before they entered, with the fluctuation of time and space, two figures appeared in the dark blue door.

Accompanied by the golden grudge and the green force of nature, Claire and Moria quickly passed through the space-time channel and landed on the condensed magma.

"Nostradamus, it really is you!"

The old dwarf seemed to be acquainted with the old mage. After landing from the gate of time and space, he looked up and saw Nostradamus floating in the air and maintaining the magic circle. He immediately smiled and said hello: "I disappeared very quickly. Yes."

"Thank you." The elf was not as big-hearted as Moria. She also knew the old mage, but she didn't say much. She just bowed slightly to express her gratitude.

"Stop talking nonsense, Moria, Joshua—is that the human lord?"

Nostradamus was a little surprised that his two old friends returned safely so quickly, but he was more delighted. However, he looked back and forth for a long time, but he still couldn't find the third shadow, so he frowned. He asked suspiciously, "You are all back, why is he missing?"

"He said he had something to do, so he left the team halfway, and now he doesn't know where to go."

This is Moria's answer.

"This guy!"

The faint blue light flickered on and off, and the majestic power was shaking. Nostradamus and his students tried their best to maintain the time-space gate. He said in a hurry: "The big time-space gate here is tidal. With the surge of magic power, it will open one by one, and the next time it will be opened, it will be at least one day later."

"If he doesn't come now, he will have to wait until tomorrow!"

On the side, Lorraine, who was helping to maintain the time-space gate, took a breath.

The time-space gate in front of you contains more power than everyone imagined. In order to calculate its time-space characteristics, everyone present felt that their brains were not enough. The mage felt quite stressed.

"What the hell are you doing, this lord!"

Tired, Lorraine couldn't help but start to hate the lord who hadn't appeared yet: "He's obviously a warrior who can't even make a time-space gate, but he's still doing things so slowly after returning, the time-space channel won't wait for anyone!"

In a different world, the decaying and dead wind is constantly blowing from the passage of time and space. Although the external energy in it is eliminated by the shield, the smell of this air makes everyone feel very bad. On the contrary, the dwarves and elves are a little With emotion, they feel that the environment has finally improved and is much more comfortable.

"No, if this continues, the tide of time and space will recede, and even I can't hold the door of time and space open!"

With a bad sound in the secret, Nostradamus felt that his physical strength was declining rapidly, and this was a sign that the tide of time and space was slowly receding.

Not only that, but the old mage also noticed a trace of erosion from the chaotic atmosphere.

Another five minutes passed.

There was a gasp.

The tide of time and space has almost completely receded, and the natural power has disappeared. Now, the power needed to support such a huge time and space gate is indeed a bit overwhelming for the mages——

The time-space gate, which had expanded to a diameter of thirty meters, was slowly shrinking, and Nostradamus was slowly closing the time-space gate bit by bit.

We can only wait for tomorrow. He thought with some regret. .

But suddenly, contrary to the smell of decay and silence before, a fresh wind of order emerged from the shrinking space-time channel, and came out

Everyone was stunned.

This feeling...why is it completely opposite to before?

But the space-time channel is still slowly closing, and the power of the crowd can no longer be maintained.

The wind of order is getting stronger and stronger, and Nostradamus's heart tightens.

The Chaos Guardian possesses the power of purification. On the opposite side of the space-time passage, Joshua must be rushing quickly, but the time-space gate is about to close, and the warrior must be too late!

"Zizizizizizi."

The ear-piercing buzzing of time and space sounded, and the gate of time and space became smaller and smaller, shrinking to the point where people could no longer enter. Seeing this scene, the dwarves and elves couldn't help but sigh.

"Looks like Joshua will have to wait another day."

"Why don't you come here quickly."

All the mages present felt very uncomfortable——do you want to come again tomorrow?

They think so, they have already wasted so many days in the North, their time is precious, even if there are credits and year-end grades in return, they can't be wasted like this!

Lorraine thought the same way. He had begun to regret abandoning his magic experiment and coming to the Northland with his teacher to do such meaningless things.

Nostradamus, on the other hand, was a little puzzled. He didn't think Joshua was the kind of person who intentionally made others worry about waiting.

But what was he doing?

boom!

There was a vibration, and the time-space door seemed to be completely closed.

But everyone's eyes did not diverge, but all focused on one point.

Where the gate of time and space was originally located, there was a finger hanging in the void. Around him, faint blue ripples vibrated rapidly.

The finger slides slowly, and the space-time gate expands accordingly.

Under the silent gaze of everyone, the part of the finger owner entering this world is getting bigger and bigger.

one palm

arm.

half body.

"open!"

Because of the passage through time and space, some muddy voices came. The violent shock was accompanied by the red impact, and the time and space gate burst out a big hole, and the figures of Joshua and Rin appeared in front of the stunned crowd.

The fresh wind of order mixed with the corrupt wind of chaos, and the source of the power of order is Joshua. He is holding Rin in one hand and holding the blue-purple rune core in the other. exhausted.

Ignoring the shocked eyes of the others, Joshua just frowned, looking at a small piece of burning silver crystal that suddenly appeared in his hand.

【Shards of Burning Steel】

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