Soul of Burning Steel

Starfall 832, March 7th, the main city of Moldavia, the Lord's Mansion.

The three-story castle made of granite stands in the center of the city, revealing a simple and heavy momentum. These fine and uniform stones are all from the quarries around the Ajax volcano. In order to celebrate the succession of the new lord Wei and respectful, the owner of the quarry sent his best material.

Banners with gold borders and black backgrounds were erected at both ends of the castle tower, and the coat of arms of the sword-holding hand fluttered in the wind. In front of the gilded gate, the guards in silver armor stood at their posts, motionless like a rock.

Inside the lord's mansion, the servants and maids were shuttling back and forth, moving many items and sundries. They hung the portraits of the lords of the past around the corridors and aisles, and carefully placed the trophies of this generation of young lords—each The heads of monsters and dragons are placed on the walls of the hall.

On the top floor of the castle, in a large study.

Deep black granite floor tiles absorb the light like a starless night sky, while a man sits at a desk carved from the heart of a steel core tree, reading a complicated report.

The steel core tree is a kind of tall pine unique to the Northland. Its heart is hard and rich in oil. With a little treatment, it becomes a very fine wood. Most of the handles and shafts of high-quality weapons in the Northland are made of steel core. It is made of polished wood, but it is rare to make it into furniture.

The pyroxene lamp illuminated the black study very brightly. Joshua's eyes flicked. After a few minutes, he finished reading the report and put it down.

"Some kind of dragon's blood—crap."

His voice didn't fluctuate, and he didn't look angry, but what he said was not like that. Joshua shook his head and crumpled the report in his hand: "The dragon blood horse that can gather fire elements is not the blood of the fire dragon. What could it be? Descendants of the White Dragon?"

He even laughed: "Has the Mage Association already outsourced this kind of appraisal work to wild mages? The level of the report is so low, it wouldn't be like this for me to write it."

A few days ago, after Joshua took the black blood sample, he sent it to the Imperial Association of Royal Mages with a newly built small teleportation circle for identification. Today, the result was sent back, but he did not expect it to be like this s things.

Joshua knew that the awakening of Hei's blood was related to him. As the guardian of the Azure Orb, he had been killing monsters and exterminating monsters. It was quite beneficial, not to mention that Hei was advancing and retreating with him in the demon tide, almost directly experiencing the baptism of the power of order. The fact that the chaotic breath was corroded and then purified back and forth stimulated its physical instincts even more.

As long as you pay a little attention, you can know these things by detecting the remnants of the power of order in the blood, but in this report, the whole article is discussing the bias of the elements and the speed of the collection of magic power, but it doesn't involve the problem of the blood at all. Only at the end did he write a sentence [Confirmed to be the blood of a certain fire dragon], which made Joshua wonder whether it was an academic paper written by an elemental mage, or an analysis to identify the blood.

But in fact, he guessed right. In a sense, this situation was caused by Joshua himself.

More than two months ago, he gave Brandon the [Ocean Derivative] that had been eroded by chaos, and let the future sword master bring it back to the imperial capital for analysis. Suddenly, the entire Royal Mages Association was shaken. Almost all mages who have researched bloodlines were attracted to analyze the source of the derivatives and how they were transformed by chaos. Now it is natural for mages from other departments to replace these experts in the identification work.

However, even though that report was full of completely irrelevant things, there is one point that is still valuable. At least Joshua knew that the ancestor of his war horse was a dragon of the original world, not a dragon. Astral Dragon.

There is a huge difference between the dragon of the original realm and the dragon of the astral realm.

The original dragon refers to the original beast dragons, flying dragons, bird dragons and other species on the Mycroft continent, while the astral dragon refers to the metal dragons and five-color dragons that spread throughout the multiverse. Wisdom is equal to wild beasts, even if there are relatively intelligent individuals, it is only an exception, and the vast majority of astral dragons have intelligence that is equal to or even surpasses that of humans.

The existing myths and poems in the world do not record the origin of the star dragons. They seem to have appeared suddenly and appeared in history without warning, coming from the other side of the star world like uninvited outsiders go here.

Thinking of this, Joshua no longer cared about the appraisal report. He stood up, walked to the window sill, and watched the flow of people in the city center.

The disputes in this world will never stop. The Kuroshio tide in the north has passed, and the next dispute is about to appear.

"After the Kuroshio, it will be the dragon's disaster."

Repeating this word in a low voice, Joshua looked calm.

In his previous life, he was in the far south, the center of that war. In this life, he was in the north, half a continent away from the origin of the dragon disaster. From a high position, Joshua was able to see more things clearly, and realized more deeply that the dragon clan was not the source of this dispute.

The first version of Continent of Disputes started in Starfall 825 and ended with the destruction of the orcs in early 832 this year. At that time, Joshua was just a lone warrior in Far South. He can pull up a team, but he is still a small character, and he is only familiar with some major historical events, and many details are completely unclear, at most it is just hearsay.

But in the second edition, that is, starting in 832, Joshua had already begun to prepare for the establishment of a large-scale battle group. The information he could get and the news he knew at that time were no longer so superficial. With the qualifications to participate in major events, he has also led his companions to kill and conquered many powerful enemies, not to mention that now, he is already a high-ranking gold fighter who is destined to enter the ultimate goal, and there is another one who is completely defeated by him. The earldom under his control, many information that he did not know in his previous life, is now open to him. As long as he continues to develop at this speed, then in the future, he will definitely have the ability to change the course of history, and all those wars that have not yet happened Terminate early.

But whether it is the conspiracy among the nobles or the disputes among the nations, the soldiers are not interested at all. They are all things that have been defeated by him in the previous life, and there is no challenge. The evil god of chaos among them is the real source of disputes.

"Moria has agreed to my request. The rune dwarves will send a team in a few days to build the prototype of the rune factory for me. At that time, I only need to perfect the design of the magic armor with the old dwarf and No. 3. It should be ready in a year or two."

Sitting back at the desk, Joshua took out a black notebook and began to record his future plans. After writing for a while, he fell into deep thought again: "The resources near the Great Ajax Mountains are enough to support the territory. The initial industrialization of magic energy technology, but funding is a problem, and operators with corresponding skills are also a problem."

No. 3 is currently in the church sealing room, copying most of the magic technology materials she knows, but these technical materials from the Karlisians are too advanced. To understand the most basic point, he estimated that even the old dwarves might not be able to understand much, and it would probably take many years to actually apply it.

Just as Joshua was planning for future development, a light blue magic circle lit up in front of the desk.

The soldier froze for a moment, but he immediately realized that this is a simple communication circle he specially requested to install. It communicates with the main body of the magic circle at the top of the castle, and links the magic communication network of the entire empire. But now, knowing that he communicates There were only two people at the address, one was the old dwarf, and the other was Nostradamus who was recently leading a team to install portals.

Moria had contacted him not long ago, and the person calling now should be the old mage.

As expected, Joshua heard Nostradamus greeting in a deep voice.

The old mage's communication this time is still for the corresponding matters of the northern portal. Although most of the space-time channels have been closed and the factors that affect the teleportation have disappeared, it is not suitable to build a portal everywhere. This time, he came here to tell Joshua that his students had already found several places suitable for building portals, but they were rejected by the local residents, so he hoped that Joshua would give permission to let his students in Walk and search freely in the territory without being blocked.

This is not a big problem, Joshua Feng simply agreed, he promised that as long as the disciples of the old mage come, he can get the corresponding permission.

The two discussed other issues again. The atmosphere of the conversation was very heated. As time passed, the conversation would soon come to an end.

... Besides, Joshua. "

Nostradamus' voice passed through the communication circle, thinking a little solemnly and hesitantly, he said slowly: "I have an idea."

"Please say."

Joshua replied naturally.

"What do you think of my idea of ​​opening a mage academy in the Northland?"