Soul of Burning Steel

Once the wheels of destruction set foot on the track, everything that happened next was as uncontrollable as a wild horse running wild.

Babel province, the capital, the suburbs.

Because of the large amount of foreign magic power brought by time-space rifts, clouds, smog, and endless gusts of wind and lightning spread outward from the center of Babel Province. Although the inexplicable elemental attenuation phenomenon slowed down this phenomenon in other provinces, but As far as the area from the capital to Sapphire Harbor is concerned, this momentum has not stopped, but is getting bigger and bigger.

The light rain in Babel Province has now turned into a downpour. Everything is hidden in the endless rain and darkness. Ordinary people can't do any activities in this situation. Even if they stretch out their arms, they can't see it clearly. Where.

However, on the outskirts of the ruins outside the city, there is a group of golden light shining, the light flickers on and off, as if beating with breathing.

This is the core of the half-dragon's chest. The originally active half-dragon is now lying on the ground like a docile cat or dog in the dark rain. On the back, there is a human being holding a book, flipping through it non-stop.

Sitting on Hei's back, with the rain falling from around the red hood, Joshua was flipping through a book about the history of elves and stone demons in this world, and beside him, there were many books that had already been flipped through, or Books that have not yet been read are placed.

The high-level officials of Babel Province still attach great importance to this unimaginably powerful warrior. Joshua just made a simple request. Within half an hour, almost all the books that meet the requirements and can be collected are placed on the his side.

Afterwards, most of the high-level officials went to plan disaster relief, because many of them were hiding in their basements, but their houses were knocked down by stone demons. The elves who couldn't escape are in urgent need of help. The torrential rain flows into the basement along the cracks in the rocks. Rescue, within a few hours all the refugees who survived by chance will all return to the mother tree.

For this reason, Lolanda volunteered to help the group of elves to rescue them. Originally, the elves did not have much expectations for this blond man in casual clothes, but the paladin could detect all the lives within a few hundred meters in an instant. The breath still shocked them, but not many people were surprised by the brute force that was enough to easily peel away the broken rocks and beams on the ruins to rescue people.

After all, he is the companion of the volcanic dragon master, how could he have nothing special about him?

Behind Joshua, Ying and Rin were talking in a low voice. The firefly pupils of the silver-haired girl shone with misty fluorescence, while the golden eyes of the black-haired boy also shone brightly. Mingshenji felt the energy in his whole body start to activate, and at the same time he was a little panicked, the boy and girl felt the improvement of their own strength. The conversation between them was to exchange mutual feelings.

But the soldier didn't care about this. He frowned, flipping through the ancient books in his hand, and Joshua devoted himself to it.

"This world used to have a brilliant magic civilization. From the first dynasty to the third dynasty, countless magicians were active in the wars, but in the fourth dynasty, that is, the last dynasty, the elves were only left with the elite. Archers, even if they know a little bit of magic, it's an insignificant little spell."

"About 300 years ago, a meteorite crash in Tengger Bay may have been the first time stone demons came to this world, and the one more than 200 years ago was the first large-scale invasion."

Muttering to himself, Joshua's voice was a little puzzled, and his face looked very hesitant: "But it doesn't make sense, if the gradual reduction of magicians is the interference of the evil god of chaos in the world, just like the evil god of famine in the world of Karlis What you have done, turning everything into a barren land, then the time for the arrival of the stone demon and the decay of the elements will not match."

Elemental attenuation, it can be said that since the elves have clearly recorded history, it has been a continuous problem, and no matter how the signs of stone demons and chaos are pushed forward, they can only stop at the time period three hundred years ago.

There is only one conclusion - the world's thinning elements have nothing to do with magic and chaos, but for other reasons.

However, even though he knew a lot about the continent called Ilgna, Joshua still didn't know much about the huge magic circle and stone demons in the sky, and the elves hadn't looked at it yet. After crossing the sky, they had no idea where the Apocalypse Formation came from, and what connection it had with the Stone Demon, which made the soldiers who originally wanted to find some targeted information a little helpless.

It took this group of elves three hundred years, but they still don't know anything about the origins of their enemies.

While Joshua was feeling emotional, a white holy light lit up in the distance, it kept approaching, and finally came to the side of the half-dragon.

"Joshua, do you have time?"

It was a steady male voice, and Lolanda's tone was slightly tired. He raised his head and said to the warrior sitting on the dragon's back, "Can you accompany me for a walk in the city?"

After thinking about it, Joshua felt that there was no problem. Anyway, he couldn't get more information from the book for the time being, so he might as well go for a walk around the city.

So he jumped off the dragon's back and walked towards the capital of Babel province together with the paladins.

All the way without words.

Passing through the outskirts and the edge of the city, the two walked silently among the ruins in the center of the capital. There were pieces of meat and rocks everywhere, and the remains of countless elves and stone demons were scattered all over the place. The rain washed away the blood and internal organs, making the stench become Strange, weird, and annoying.

Joshua was naturally unaffected, he had experienced countless battlefields, even the orc battles in the Northwest Plains, the smell in the pile of corpses he woke up for the first time was much more disgusting than here, but Lolanda's face was astonishing. It turned out to be more gloomy, and even attracted the soldiers to look sideways.

This is not like the look a paladin should have... But as long as he knows his future, it is not surprising.

Noticing the warrior's gaze, Lolanda's face gradually returned to normal, he sighed slightly, and then said to Joshua in a low voice: "Seeing the miserable appearance of this world being invaded by Chaos always scares me. "

Frowning, Joshua knew that the paladin in front of him was by no means a timid person, and he must have a reason for saying this.

Sure enough, after being silent for a while, Lolanda stood on the spot, looked around the ruins, and slowly talked to the warriors: "I am not afraid of death, and I am not afraid of fighting. Fighting with Chaos warriors is the meaning of my life." One, my existence is to protect human beings, this is the consciousness that a paladin and one of the next generation Pope's heirs must have."

"But every time I fight Chaos, I can't help but think, what will happen if I fail?"

When he said these words, Lolanda's face was covered with a layer of black mist, and his voice was in a trance: "My companions will be slaughtered, and my hometown will be ravaged, just like here."

As he said that, the paladin stretched out his hand and pointed at the ruins in front of him. Under the power of the holy light, Joshua could vaguely hear the wailing of resentful souls. It was caused by countless elves dying at the hands of stone demons, but the warrior's keen I noticed that most of the resentful souls were disappearing rapidly, as if they were being called by some distant existence.

But now is not the time to focus on that.

"The battle against chaos cannot tolerate the slightest failure, even if it is a little bit of possibility, we cannot relax!"

Now, Lolanda's expression seems to contain deep-seated hatred and anger, and his voice seems to be forced out of his chest: "All Chaos should die, no one left, no one left, but why? Why is the Godfather Does he not completely destroy the Plaguelands? He is a legendary powerhouse, a god walking in the world, and it is nothing to do this!"

The Plaguelands, like the Sealed Lands of Moldavia, are areas where chaos is sealed. Just like the Radcliffe family has been destroying the gods all year round, those places also need a large number of people to encircle and suppress the monsters from time to time.

With this expression, did he lose some comrades in the battle against Chaos?

Without the need for the other party to say it, Joshua can almost guess what happened just by looking at the other party's expression.

A paladin dedicated to protecting mankind began to doubt the meaning of his battle after his comrades died in battle one after another. He began to regret, question, and resent all the causes of this incident—chaos, and the strong forces that did not completely eradicate it. By.

In other words, he doesn't know why ordinary knights like them are required to practice when the legendary strong can destroy the Plaguelands with one blow - even if it is to adapt to chaos as an enemy, he shouldn't take such a big risk risks of.

Regarding this, Joshua thought for a while, and he said slowly: "I have a guess about your doubts, but I'm not sure."

"Loranda, I don't know if you have heard such a legend - the world originated from the light of existence of the primordial fire?"

"...I seem to have heard of it."

The paladin was stunned for a moment, and he frowned. There was no myth of creation among the seven gods, not even the sages said so. Lolanda vaguely felt that she had heard about it somewhere, but he Still a little hesitant: "But I don't remember very clearly."

But how could Joshua care about the other party's hesitation, he was just narrating his own speculation, the soldier raised his eyes, scanned the dark world in front of him, then raised his right hand, and lit a red light, which was originally shrouded The ruins of the city in the darkness suddenly appeared under the light, and he said calmly: "Look, the flames ignite, release the light, and the tangible world is born under the light - but the flowers bloom, they need to cling to the soil, they have no roots The duckweed also needs to float in the river.”

"The burning of flames naturally requires firewood, and the rotation of the world can never be an eternal cycle. The initial fire burns chaos and creates the world. Then for the world, what do you think is the best firewood? What?"

There is no need to say the answer. As a person who once became the king of burning souls, burned chaos, and reshaped the world, Joshua naturally knows the answer to the question, and he believes that the people in front of him can also perceive it.

But after hearing Joshua's words, Lolanda remained silent for a long time, his heart was full of turmoil.

What the soldier said, Pope Igor also said to him, but it was only a few words, and did not explain in detail, but now, Joshua told him his guess, confirmed by both sides, the paladin found that , I actually found a possible truth.

A tinge of startling truth.

"Just as people need food, and fire needs firewood, if the orderly world wants to maintain, it can only rely on the burning of chaos as the source."

He whispered to himself softly, with a tremor in his voice, and the paladin recalled the truth that the Pope told him calmly in the temple on the Seven Sacred Mountains: "The fire has been poured down thousands of years ago, without these Cancerous tumors are the source of firewood, and the fire on Mycroft Continent has long been extinguished."

"Really? It seems that you know something too."

With a laugh, Joshua could tell that the other party had sensed some truth. He had guessed about this truth a long time ago, but now the words of the paladin were confirmed.

The two stood in the ruins of the city, the warrior extinguished the red light ball in his hand, and everything returned to darkness

But suddenly, there was a slight humming in the sky.

The sound was so slight that even Lolanda didn't notice it. The paladin was frowning and thinking, only Joshua was keenly aware of it.

The world's shackles on space are weakening.

But how is this possible?

Joshua turned his head and looked at the endlessly churning black clouds and lightning in the sky. Behind them, ten huge light spots were slowly appearing. The white light reflected an arc of light in the warrior's pupils. There was a trace of caution in his eyes.

Others always thought that he was a reckless man who knew nothing but fighting, but how could a reckless man be truly invincible? He has always been more sensitive to the outside world than most people.

"More stone goblins coming?"

Since Joshua did not sense any extreme danger, although Joshua prepared Lolanda and himself to avoid the flight, he still had the energy to think about this question: "Or should I give that magic circle another time?" Light cannon?"

The soldier had a vague feeling that things were not that simple.

The ten light spots in the sky appeared for a while, and then gradually disappeared. After that, the magic power in the space became stronger and stronger, and the purple magic power thunder endlessly tumbling among the clouds. They danced wildly, and then blasted down on the ground, sending out There was an endless deafening roar, and the rain was getting more and more heavy, and there was also a hint of chaotic power in it, which made people upset.

This is no longer ordinary rain. If this rain continues, it will undoubtedly turn into a natural disaster called flood.

In the heavy rain, Joshua stared at the sky.

What is the purpose of this chaos?

And in the suburbs, Banlong and Shenji are chatting happily with each other.

But countless huge shadows slowly emerged from the darkness.