Soul of Burning Steel

Over the years, Joshua has seen many strange things. He has also seen many kinds of magic books and magic books.

Summoning monsters and bringing bad luck are commonplace for these books, the foundation of the foundation, in fact, whether it is killing people to absorb life and soul, or bewitching people to tempt people to sign a contract, even the whole book will change. He has seen girls or tentacles fighting with people, but no matter what - this is the first time he has seen a book that will actively escape and hide from people in so many years.

In the hall, Joshua and Yingying looked at each other, and then the warrior took a step forward, continuing to reach for the parchment book with a light brown cover.

But strange things continued to happen—the book trembled, and unexpectedly took another step forward, hiding a little away.

Frowning, Joshua continued to step forward and reached out to grab it, but for some reason, the reaction speed of this book was also fast. While the soldier was walking forward, it also flickered and ran into the room corner.

"..."

His complexion completely sank, Joshua put away his playful thoughts, his eyes became indifferent, and his eyes narrowed slightly: "What's going on."

The soldier's voice remained unchanged, as if he was serious: "Can you hide? The speed doesn't seem slow. It seems that Alfonso has indeed bought the real thing. This kind of book is indeed not ordinary."

After speaking, his feet trembled slightly, the soles of his feet vibrated rapidly, and his whole body suddenly accelerated to the point beyond the sound, and he sprinted towards the book. At the same time as the mist, there was a sharp and piercing noise.

Now, even this strange book couldn't respond. When the gust of wind was about to hit the body, it seemed to want to avoid it, but a big hand as strong as a steel tongs just stuck out and grabbed it firmly. its body.

Using a little strength, Joshua successfully grabbed the magic book.

Around him, although the floor was not shattered under careful control, the tables and chairs were overturned by the shock wave brought by the previous supersonic speed, and the strange thing was that the book had been struggling and seemed to want to escape. When the strange book fell into Joshua's hands, he no longer struggled, but just like a real book, lying quietly in the soldier's hands, completely unable to see the lively appearance before.

This reminded Joshua of some cunning animals in the forest, they - would play dead.

"This is really strange."

Frowning, Joshua said to Yingying, who was straightening the table and chairs and arranging the furniture, "Why does a book have autonomous action?"

"...Could it be that it is an object with self-awareness like us?"

The silver-haired girl thought for a while, and then came to a conclusion with some joy: "Is it the same kind?"

"Probably not."

The soldier shook his head, as if he didn't agree with the answer. He looked at the magic book in his hand, glanced at it and said: "I didn't find any trace of the soul, probably an instinctive reaction, or it was written long ago. Automatic response measures."

But what reaction would make a book run around.

This kind of thinking was fruitless, so Joshua simply gave up thinking about this kind of problem. He directly held the spine of the book with one hand and the cover with the other, ready to open it for a look.

But another strange thing happened

This book cannot be opened.

Stunned for a moment, Joshua tried several times, but each time the result was the same—he couldn't open the book, as if it had been locked, and he couldn't turn a single page.

Now, he couldn't help laughing, but after laughing, Joshua frowned again.

A magic book that cannot be opened is actually quite normal. After all, a magic book originally records the life experience of a spellcaster at the Extreme Intent level or above. There are all kinds of terrible taboo magic, or things like the records of the evil god's depravity. There are even many seals on these books, and it is not easy to open them.

The Book of Eibon was, after all, the Great Magic Book that destroyed the Ares Fortress and summoned several Terraria abyss worms in the previous life. There are some strange things that ordinary people can't understand, which is normal.

——But Joshua is too lazy to care about these messy things——he took a deep breath now, and then the flames of fighting spirit began to flow all over his body, a powerful shock wave was released, and the power of steel gathered in the warrior's body , turned into an invisible force, surging into his hands.

The body of the strong gold man has been initially combined with energy, and can instantly burst out a powerful force that has nothing to do with physical fitness - at this moment, Joshua doesn't believe that he can't open this book!

But before he could make a move, Yingying's slightly flustered voice came: "Wait, master, don't force yourself here!"

"Master, stop!"

Rin, who was packing up the tableware with the maids before, also ran back in a hurry. He looked at Joshua, who was calm, but his whole body was shining with fighting spirit, and said in a hurry: "Don't mess around in the house, master. What's the matter, let's go outside!"

Even No. 3 couldn't calm down, her projection appeared in mid-air, and also persuaded: "Yes, Joshua, you made too much noise with your hands, this book looks really unusual, if you want to To open it, let’s try it in a wider area.”

"……Right."

Since everyone said so, Joshua naturally would not forcefully open this strange book in the lord's mansion. In fact, the soldiers also realized that the essence of this matter was not whether the book could not be opened, but It's a question of whether he can use his full strength in his own home... The new lord's mansion has just been built, how can he use as much force as before!

So, Joshua exhaled, dissipating all the fighting spirit in his body, then took the magic book in his hand and walked outside.

Hotaru and Rin also exhaled, and they pushed the trolley where the core of the No. 3 body was located, and followed the soldier all the way.

Soon after, the four of them came to the outskirts outside the main city.

Now, the snow on the extremely cold ice field has gradually melted away, and now there are black land and patches of green grass on the endless white plain, but Joshua didn't pay attention to these scenery at this time, and all his attention was on it. Concentrate on this parchment in your hand.

The brown cover, the name written in strange characters, the texture like sheepskin... Except that it can run by itself, it is obviously just a very ordinary book, but why can't it be opened?

The warrior shook his head.

Then in the next moment, he burst out with all his strength, his red vindictiveness was blazing, Joshua must open this book today!

boom!

The aftermath brought by the huge force blows away the remaining ice and snow and the black soil together, and the extremely powerful impact sweeps around, except for the small piece of land under Joshua, a large piece of land with him as the center is covered. A layer was scraped away, and smoke and dust rose up, engulfing the figure of the soldier.

The impact gradually subsided, and the smoke dissipated.

And in the gradually falling dust and mist, a voice came.

"If you can't open it, you can't break it."

Frowning deeply, Joshua, who was standing on the only intact land, looked at the undamaged book in his hand, and muttered to himself: "I didn't even think about opening it just now, I just wanted to open it. It’s just shredded, lest it cause bad effects again, I didn’t expect that it would have no effect... It seems that this book is really related to abyssal demons or evil gods, even if an extreme-level mage really appeared in front of me, his magic protection Shields aren't even that strong."

The power of the gold powerhouse can reach a level unimaginable by ordinary people when it explodes at full strength. The gate of the main city of Moldavia is a huge solid steel block, which is integrally shaped by the black steel furnace of the rune dwarves underground. It weighs about 4,500 tons. When this huge object is pressed down, even a solid piece of iron will be crushed into a discus and sink into the ground, but Joshua can push it down with one hand when he explodes with all his strength. lift up.

But even with an explosion of this level of power, there is no way to tear this book apart—so there is no doubt that this cannot be a crazy book written by a powerful magician, but must come from the book of evil gods of chaos and demons. Book.

"The material of the book itself is not mysterious, it's just pure sheepskin and ape skin."

Joshua didn't intend to use brute force now, he squinted his eyes, and carefully checked the material of the book: "The back cover is made of human skin patches, it really is an evil book... It seems that I'm right , what is special is not the book, but the things recorded in it.”

In this world full of magic and vindictiveness, holy light and demons, words also have power.

According to legend, at the beginning of the ancient times, the [rune] born from the primordial fire claimed to have the power to reproduce all phenomena in the world, while the [inscription] that emerged on the steel of origin had the ability to make one's wishes come true.

Not to mention these, even the ancient dragon language, high elven language, and the initial common language of mankind all have magical powers, not to mention the words handed down by the evil gods wandering in the void.

The words soaked and infected by the power of chaos, written on even the most fragile mortal things, will become extremely difficult to destroy, which is why the Church of the Seven Gods has a special holy light for purification, That is precisely for these extremely difficult to destroy chaos products.

"The existence of evil gods cannot be known by ordinary people. The more people know, the more people will become the carriers of the power contained in the evil name. These eroded existences can also obtain forbidden power through sacrifice and degeneration. , but the evil god will also take advantage of this opportunity to spread its power to this world."

Gently repeating what he had learned about the evil god through the old housekeeper a long time ago, Joshua couldn't help but have a deeper understanding of this sentence. He thought of the fallen black dragon he killed, and the last thing it His corpse was eroded and turned into an invisible monster: "For these terrifying existences, their power can reside in everything, even if it is a simple record in a book, it is an extremely powerful force. If there are too many people invading, it might really be possible for those monsters to directly use this to invade."

Looking at the book in his hand, Joshua nodded slightly, and he said to himself: "I roughly understand that this book should have gained the power of taboo just because it recorded some information of the evil god, so it has some instincts. The reaction, it stays away from me, just because I have the power of order, which is enough to destroy it."

"Rin, you take this book."

"Eh, me? Okay."

The black-haired boy standing in the distance was stunned when he heard his master's call, but he immediately ran to Joshua's side and took the book from his hand.

At the same time as he handed the book to Rin, Joshua's aura immediately began to decrease rapidly. Before, the existence of warriors was like a burning volcano, extremely hot and eye-catching, but now, at most, The level of a match - in the daytime when the sun is a little bright, even if you look for it seriously, you can't see it at all.

And just when Joshua's aura completely disappeared into nature, in Rin's hands, although the book was still not stable, it no longer had any momentum to leave, even if the warrior was standing beside it, is also like this.

"Come and open this book."

Joshua asked so, he seemed very interested.

Rin did what he said—although the black-haired boy was a little skeptical, his master couldn't open it with all his strength before, he was just a magical machine, can this work?

But in fact, he opened the book quite easily, as easy as an ordinary person flipping through a book.

Sure enough, it opened.

Looking at this scene, Joshua secretly thought: "As long as it's not me."

And at this moment, time and space fluctuated.

In the distance, in a jungle in a mountain range, a white-haired old man stopped his measuring work.

Nostradamus, who was looking for a suitable site for the mage academy in the north, raised his brows. He turned his head in doubt and looked behind him.

"Is this... the breath of the abyss?"

The old mage muttered to himself: "How come, the breath of the evil god is nothing more than that, why does the breath of the abyss appear in the Northland..."

In the void, there was a huge roar, as if some evil and huge monster was traveling through the narrow passage of time and space, and came to this world.

As the Book of Eibon unfolded, bursts of incomparably weird black-red mist diffused from its pages, enveloping the surrounding area, exuding terrifying coercion.

"Boom!"

The sound of huge footsteps was heard.

tear up.

A claw appeared.

Under the erosion of the black mist, the fragile time and space were torn apart.

The extremely ferocious aura spread, a huge crack was torn open in time and space, and two huge red lights lit up in the black mist, a huge and terrifying humanoid monster stared coldly at the world from the other side of the crack in time and space .

However, it saw Joshua standing in the black mist, before the space-time rift.

There was also a red light flashing in the soldier's eyes, and the corners of his mouth were raised with a calm smile.

The monster froze.

(Fear.jpg, dedicated to magic books)

(Don't b shadow, how many times have I said, the queen should not b in the shadow! The meme comes from dota2)

Originally, I wanted to divide it into two chapters, but I thought about merging them, and then I just finished writing it now. I originally finished the first half at noon...