Soul of Burning Steel

The colorless holy beam of light went straight to the sky, hitting the cloud-covered sky into a circular vacuum. Some citizens who happened to look up witnessed this scene. They shouted in surprise, and then raised their arms, reminding the acquaintances around to look After this obvious change, not long after, many people gathered together and pointed at the void in the clouds in the sky.

Ordinary people have already noticed something is wrong, let alone powerful professionals.

The fortress tower, the fortress and city owner of the fortress in the Ural Mountains who is inspecting, Kate Medset, a gold-ranked heavy armor swordsman, immediately rushed to the top of the tower with a serious face. Unlike other ordinary soldiers, he Can clearly see the translucent beam of light that runs through the clouds and the sky.

"The gate of the city? What happened..."

Confused, he said to himself, as the city lord, Kate knew that he had to respond to these unknown situations as soon as possible, but there were no casualties or damages, so there was plenty of time. After thinking for a while, he said to The orderly at his side issued a series of orders.

"Is this the power of the Holy Light?"

In the central church of the fortress, the Bishop of the Ural Diocese raised his heavy scepter. This terrifying weapon weighing 300 pounds touched the stone ground while moving, making a dull impact sound. Compared with the priest, it seems The bishop, who looked more like a soldier, walked to the gate of the church in doubt. He stared at the beam of light that had not dissipated, full of doubts: "No, this power is more pure, but it has the same source as the holy light..."

"What kind of power is this?"

The same doubts also came from the local mercenary agency, that is, the hall where the mercenary union is called by ordinary people. Within hundreds of kilometers, the most powerful mage is also the most exquisite alchemist. Although the head of the mercenary agency, Jean Wilmot, was staying at a depth of thirty meters, he could clearly sense the power of order in the outside world, although not violent, through detection spells. The mage, who had never seen such pure power, couldn't help but put down the quill in his hand that was writing the rune, and then carefully observed the various data displayed on the magic instrument. An unusually evil force..."

At this time, the center of discussion, the focus of everyone's hearts.

Joshua held the Azure Orb in his hand and frowned. The carriage, which was designed to be strong enough to withstand artillery, had already been completely dispersed by the powerful force and turned into wreckage.

With the warrior at the center, everyone within a radius of several hundred meters was pushed away by a gentle force. Even the coachman was sent aside by the sudden force of order. The honest and honest coachman is still alive today. Wondering why he suddenly appeared on the other side of the artificial river, but after a while, he couldn't find the reason.

Now Joshua no longer has the time and attention to care about other things, all his energy is focused on manipulating the sudden burst of power from the Azure Orb in his hand, and the wave of evil soul lurking in his body.

Just before, at the moment when he had a warning sign in his heart, a strange and strange wave crossed the void with a wave of power capable of destroying all souls, and directly sank into his body. Before he had time to resist, he had direct contact with his soul.

--curse? Or what kind of soul attack?

Even Joshua, who is as experienced as Joshua, doesn't know the nature of this attack. In fact, curses and spiritual attacks are the aspects he knows the least and is the least good at. You know, in the previous game, no matter whether it is curses or mental attacks. Soul attack is nothing more than a reminder or negative state of the system, or a direct judgment. If the judgment fails, how much negative state or damage will be given. After all, no one has really been attacked by this kind of attack, so naturally there is no way Imagine it, simulate it.

Joshua has really experienced it now—it can only be said that it is very uncomfortable.

Although the warrior's soul is very powerful enough to temporarily resist this terrifying force, he was unable to drive it out of his body due to lack of preparation. When he was attacked, Joshua completely froze in place. Can't move, can't do anything but fight the force.

In the beginning, he could only passively endure the attack of that evil wave, using his tough steel-like soul to resist that weird destructive power again and again. In the cold wind, it was as painful as having splashed salt water on it. Every time he confronted, Joshua felt piercing noises in his ears, as if the sound of glass and steel rubbing against each other filled his brain and affected his concentration.

Even when Joshua was the most seriously injured, he was never in such pain. The warrior felt that his spiritual world had become an extremely fierce battlefield.

Subconsciously resisting, Joshua stretched out his hand and held the trembling Azure Orb in front of his chest. This was originally an instinctive move, but it helped him a lot—the one holding the Azure Orb In an instant, the soldier felt that the power of order that was flowing silently in his body was mobilized, and it connected with a certain power in the orb. Suddenly, accompanied by the sound of a flame being ignited, the immeasurable power of order erupted on the spot Like the most dazzling torch, it pierced through his body and soul, replacing Joshua's will, and firmly suppressed that evil force in the spiritual sea.

The dark green waves kept struggling as if they were alive, but they were completely suppressed by the power of order. They could only move slightly, and could no longer approach the warrior's soul.

Only at this moment did Joshua have time to take a breather. After calming down, he let out a breath, and then allocated part of his energy to control the power in the Azure Orb, suppressing the fluctuation of the evil soul in his body, and then began to think about this matter. What the hell is going on.

"Someone curses, or attacks me with a soul attack."

There is no doubt about this - Joshua muttered viciously to himself, Joshua wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his eyes were filled with rage, and his face sank like water: "This suddenly works, there is no Any ominous attack should be a curse... so who is it?!"

This kind of targeted curse attack, which can almost wipe out the soul of a strong-willed peak gold fighter, is undoubtedly not something that small forces can afford, and big forces definitely need various media to accurately locate him The presence.

No need to think about it, Joshua knew that this was an assassination aimed specifically at him, and now the only ones who would go to great lengths to deal with him, the lord of the Northern Land who is almost indisputable, are those damn dragons in the south !

"...Is this assassination over yet?"

The demonic blood giant dragon before, this time the curse, the group of giant dragons seem to have not given up, they have already launched the dragon disaster in the south, but they still use so many resources on him.

Temporarily suppressing his anger, Joshua let go of his right hand holding the Azure Orb. He frowned, turned his eyes, and turned his attention to the evil fluctuations in his body suppressed by the Azure Orb.

But it's okay if I didn't pay attention before, but now that I pay attention, the soldier has noticed the blind spot that he had ignored before.

This strange dark green wave that is still struggling and trying to attack Joshua's soul contains an incomparably thick aura of chaos. If it wasn't for the fact that the power of order erupting from the orb was too strong and completely overwhelmed it, he should have You should have discovered this a long time ago.

"Now the only ones colluding with Chaos openly and aboveboard are indeed only those dragons."

After confirming the target once again, Joshua looked at the soul fluctuation in his body and couldn't help feeling a headache: "The strong power of order hasn't purified it, so how can it be eliminated?"

Generally speaking, apart from lifting the curse, the only way to use pure power to wear it away is to use it.

He couldn't think of any good solution for a while, and he could only do this for the time being, so he was going to carefully try to touch the soul wave, and then use the overwhelming power of order to expel or erase it. The warrior moved quickly, As soon as he thought about it, he began to implement it. His tenacious soul was like silver steel, and he simply separated the power of order, approaching the black wave that had no shape or characteristics, but kept churning.

In the middle of approaching, his soul felt a pain as if it was being corroded and burned by acid.

But compared with the pain of directly confronting the horror before, this kind of pain is as pleasant as the warm wind in early spring. On the contrary, Joshua drives his soul more resolutely to get closer to the other party.

His silver soul, carrying a huge amount of power of order, touched the wave of black mist.

And at the moment when the severe pain came, a strange situation that had never happened before happened - a burst of intense blue light gushed out from the azure orb on Joshua's chest, turned into a halo, suspended over the warrior above his head, and with the rotation of the halo, a series of phantoms appeared in front of his eyes.

White light flickered, and countless scattered scenes emerged like slides.

He saw that it was a vast and endless plain, on which countless creatures multiplied, and a group of wandering humans came here. They drove the wild animals, burned the forest, and sorted out a clean and clean environment. Build a village here, build a wall, light the first bonfire, and swear that this place will be their eternal home.

He saw that countless refugees came from afar and joined them. They built various buildings around the village, sowed different seeds, and harvested different crops. At first, there were disputes among the various clans, but as time went by, , people of all stripes swear in front of a fire in the center of the city that they will join hands and fight together for their own survival.

He saw that under the light of this flame, the village became a city, the city became a country, and the country merged the races into the original civilization.

The flame representing human beings is burning blazingly in the torch of the giant city. Its light shines on the earth and sky, brightening the entire era.

The phantom appeared and disappeared, flickering non-stop. The warrior tried his best, but he could only see one or two fragments clearly, and he would never know the whole picture behind it.

Until the end, everything turned into silent darkness.

Just when Joshua was puzzled, countless memory fragments flickered like fleeting images.

This time, it was full of despair.

It was a dead and desolate world. There was no breath of living things on the land. Dead bodies were everywhere, and rotting bones became mountains. Among the ashes flying, the horrible disease caused by the war had already spread to the whole world, from the ocean to the earth, from the sea to the earth. From the mountains to the sky, forests, swamps, lakes, and deserts, there is no place that is not covered by death. All life is attacked by the plague and cannot be freed.

Behind the dark green poisonous clouds, there are huge shadows floating. Between the shadows, countless strange limbs and tentacles hang down from the sky. When all life is on the verge of ending, it wraps the world, and the monster incarnate of the plague is born. Huge tentacles with pus, carrion, and mucus flitted across the sky and earth, mercilessly taking the lives of all survivors. This evil with infinite malice was sublimated after harvesting the civilization of a world, and gained Power enough to travel to the outside world.

Two completely different illusions appeared on both sides of Joshua. One side was like a burning flame, emitting an incomparably bright light, while the other side seemed to be a bottomless rotten abyss, pregnant with a poison that could corrupt the world. .

Although he knew that he was deeply in an illusion, Joshua's spirit was unprecedentedly clear. He stood in the middle of the two worlds, as if motionless like a rock. Facing the evil whispers and spiritual erosion that churned endlessly on one side, the warrior was aggressive. Nose, with infinite curiosity, he turned his head to look at the raging flames on the other side.

Then he saw a pair of eyes that seemed to be able to look directly into people's hearts.

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