Soul of Burning Steel

Starfall 833, September 3rd, noon, cloudy.

The holy mountain in the distant sea, the central temple area, and the temporary square.

Hundreds of magical puppets were moving earth and rock back and forth, clearing out this rectangular square with a radius of hundreds of meters among the ruins. The square is open, and you can see broken temples and the surrounding golden masks around them. The top of the towering temples is filled with sacred light and mist, and one rune after another flies out of it, and then merges into the mask.

Since that battle, the mad dragon has never harassed the Church of the Seven Gods again. There are many reasons, and the biggest one is that the five-color dragons found that they could no longer break through the holy mountain.

Being the strongest on the mainland, Pope Eagle was not declared by humans alone. It was a fact recognized by all races in the entire Mycroft world. The three legendary dragons dared to fight against them relying on their numerical superiority, but naturally The appearance of Mentor and Israel is totally unexpected.

Today, the holy mountain with three legendary powerhouses can almost be called "indestructible", and even if the legendary dragon tried its best to entangle them, after losing the long sword of embers, the remaining mad dragons did not die. Way to break through the defense line of the central temple area.

As a result, Ada Gray Island ushered in a long-lost calm, the mad dragon no longer even blocked the sea route, and the first batch of reinforcements from the Far South Kingdom had arrived at the temporary port on the east side of the Holy Mountain—the original port was destroyed by the Ember Sword. It is powerful enough to change the terrain and collapsed in an earthquake, so it can only use magic to temporarily build a sea port.

The temporary square is precisely for storing the large amount of supplies brought by the reinforcements. The magical puppets that were originally used for war put down their swords, equipped them with shovels, and began to carry out large-scale repairs and reconstruction of the ground. Their efficiency was surprisingly good, and many priests began to think about the possibility of completely transforming them into engineering puppets. .

Saya stood on the top of a temple near the square. She leaned on the pillars on the top of the temple and issued remote commands to the puppets at the bottom.

Since the exploration team returned from the Abyss of Anos, the original three members of the church quickly went to different positions. Both Lolanda and Robzek were incorporated into the Northwest Defense Line as the commander, but she was in charge of manipulating the magic. Puppets, support the urgent line of defense everywhere.

This is an extremely mentally exhausting job, giving instructions to hundreds or even thousands of magical puppets at one time, and fine-tuning their formations against various dragon beasts. For Saya, the golden powerhouse, this job It's not easy, let alone working for several weeks in a row. But the war did not give her time to complain, and Saya was not that kind of person. She completed her work perfectly and rescued dozens of emergency temples. This devotion was rewarded by the church—— From now on, all the 233 magical puppets on the square belong to her.

Although these puppets do not conform to Saya's aesthetics...but at least the puppets will not betray! In this regard, the big nun, who was already psychologically traumatized, was very relieved.

"It seems that the holy mountain needs to be completely rebuilt." After confirming that the puppets under her were working according to the plan, Saya nodded. She looked around and looked down at the temple from a height.

Saya was able to 'see' the surrounding temple complexes in patches, covered with golden light, exuding a sacred aura. However, although it looks fine, in fact, the walls of each temple are full of cracks, and the stone roads linking the temples are all broken, and many stone tablets and pillars on the roadside have collapsed and cracked. , leaving only fragments of walls and ruins.

Although the mad dragon did not completely capture the holy mountain, it did destroy nearly 80% of the buildings on the surface. Only the inner circle of the core of the central temple area and the main body of the holy mountain were not affected. After the Dragon Clan withdraws, the church will definitely start a large-scale reconstruction work. At that time, she, who has many magical puppets, may be busier than she is now, or even during the war.

"That's fine. Those old buildings on the holy mountain were originally built piecemeal over the millennium, without any reasonable planning at all... Starting from scratch, it will definitely be better than before."

Just when Saya was thinking about how the holy mountain should be rebuilt in the future, a white light suddenly lit up in the sky, and the big nun looked up at the sky in surprise. Dispersed, the dazzling sunlight swept towards the place where the wild dragons gathered in the distance like a rapidly expanding beam of light.

But what is shocking is that those mad dragon legions who have been silent for several days and have not come to attack Gray Island, actually dissipate like bubbles under the sunlight, turning into pieces of shattered light shards.

"No, it's really an illusion!" Just by 'looking' from a distance, Saya clearly understood that those lifelike mad dragons were indeed just illusions, not only that, those giant dragons hidden in the dark clouds and in the sky The dragons have all disappeared, and the mad dragon army that has besieged the holy mountain for dozens of days has been replaced by phantoms without a sound, and the body has long since disappeared!

"snort."

A slightly angry cold snort from the legendary warrior came from the top of the holy mountain, echoing throughout the sea and sky: "Coward."

But the big nun exhaled slightly, as if a big stone had fallen in her heart.

At least, now there is no need to fight.

It seems that the five-color dragon clan knew that they could not break through the holy mountain, so they evacuated the main force during the period of rescuing the wounded and reorganizing the defense line on the holy mountain. It is no wonder why the support fleet of the Far South Kingdom came to Gray Island without any hindrance. From this point of view, the dragon scourge that ravaged the entire southern part of the continent will stop expanding because of the defeat of this battle. It is impossible for the mad dragon army that has temporarily withdrawn to go back to support the remaining dragon beasts on the far southern continent. Clean up one by one.

But this is not the end. Everyone knows that the previous decisive battle on the holy mountain was just anticlimactic. The mad dragon army that was withdrawn because of the three legendary powerhouses still has the ability to break through any country and federation in the southern continent. Lose core vitality, and still have the power to fight again.

Joshua also understood this.

At the entrance of the great temple at the top of the holy mountain itself, the warrior stood on the edge of the suspended temple, looking at the sparkling sea in the distance.

The development of all this can be said to be completely different from the previous life - the dragon disaster in the previous life occurred in Starfall 834. The powerful mad dragon army invaded most of the land of the Far South Kingdom. The worm nests also suffered great losses, and the main force of the mad dragon army almost broke through the holy mountain. It was not until Pope Yigel defeated the three legendary dragons, and the seven gods also knocked down the five-color dragon gods to the boundless heaven, and turned into a saint. Finish.

Although the mad dragon army was scattered, at that time coincided with the arrival of the first big wave of magic, the violent fluctuation of magic power that swept the whole world made all the wild beasts restless, and even stimulated the riots of scattered mad dragons, making the dragon disaster even worse. step by step.

It can be said that before this, the so-called dragon disaster was nothing more than a planned and step-by-step invasion of the five-color dragon clan, which was a war, and after that, it was a disaster similar to a beast tide.

But now, because the three legendary powerhouses gathered in the holy mountain, Joshua himself thwarted the other party's plot to destroy the defense line of the temple. Seeing that the frontal battlefield was no longer dominant, the five-color dragons did not forcefully fight, but retreated Unknown territory. In this way, the intensity of the war could not reach the point where the gods would intervene, and the great demon tide had not yet come, and the scattered dragons and beasts on the mainland did not go crazy any further, and the track deviation was extremely huge.

It can be said that the rate of change of the world line definitely exceeds 1, because the intensity of the war is not high, the five-color dragon gods did not fight against the seven gods of the human race, and the mad dragon army was not scattered, but retreated. The workers did not suffer much loss. Whether this is good or bad, the soldier does not know, but anyway, all this has nothing to do with him.

Because he is now preparing to return to the Northland.

Joshua had already chatted with the three legendary powerhouses for a while before Israel broke away the cloud and revealed the fact that the wild dragon had retreated. The archdruid of Delil Galanord explained what they had seen and heard in the world of Irgnar, and the long-named nature teacher confirmed through divine magic that the two were not lying, and believed what they said.

When the Father of Nature sent Joshua and others away, he closed the space-time channel, but the time-space traces at the bottom of the Great Ajax Volcano are still there, and the elves naturally cannot give up the possibility of finding their father god. You must know that even now, the belief of the Father of Nature is still widely spread among the elf tribes. Although most elves except Druids only regard it as part of their oral beliefs and culture, it can also be seen that the belief of the Father of Nature The influence is so deep that it has not been lost after a thousand years.

The natural instructor said that she would personally lead a team to the Northland in a few months to investigate the traces of time and space under the Great Ajax Volcano to determine the location of the Ilgna world. Before that, she suggested that Joshua Ya first returned to her own territory to rest, to ensure that no one destroyed the remaining traces of the space-time channel—if everything was true, she would present a big gift to the soldiers.

Whether it was Pope Eagle, Israel, or the warrior himself, they all felt that this was a good suggestion—obviously, the situation in the Holy Mountain was gradually becoming clearer, and there was no need for Joshua to stay here, as there were legendary strongmen in the formation. For his help, Igor temporarily expressed his verbal thanks, and the specific remuneration will be sorted out and sent out later because the holy mountain is still being rebuilt.

At this time, the three legendary powerhouses were discussing matters related to the five-color dragon clan in the main hall, while the warriors came outside the main hall with the siblings of Shenji, Hei, No. 1, and Sularno with a sad face, waiting Send later.

Not long after, the long-lost elf boy Hill and sea dragon lady Fina also appeared at the entrance of the hall. After seeing the soldiers and their party, they smiled and greeted their former comrades-in-arms.

The two of Hill came to the Great Temple to wait for the teleportation. They were invited by the Church of the Seven Gods to explore the Abyss of Anos. They also participated in the subsequent war with the mad dragon. They can sense that the strength of the elf boy is experiencing After a series of bitter battles, there has been a significant improvement, and it seems that they have touched the edge of the golden barrier. Because of this, Hill seemed to be in a very good mood. He and Fina stood aside, chatting and laughing, as if they were discussing how to describe this adventure with their companions after returning to the Eastern Sea Dragon Knights.

In September, the warm autumn wind blew past, followed by the bright sunshine. Joshua turned his eyes away from the empty sea with no trace of the mad dragon, and looked back at the man behind him. This big group of people.

The exploration and adventure to the Far South this time is considered to be over. He has gained a lot and changed a lot. Looking at the smiling faces of Hotaru, Rin and Hei, and at Chuhao and Sularno who was fighting hard, the warrior felt that this trip was worthwhile, both in terms of strength and mood.

After a while, footsteps came from inside the hall.

The white-haired old man walked out of the hall, and Pope Eagle smiled and looked at the group of people gathered at the gate of the great temple.

This time, Shengshan was able to solve the mad dragon attack at such a small price, precisely because of the group of people in front of him. If the Time Exploration Team hadn't closed the abyss rift in the Abyss of Anos and repelled the army of demon-blood dragons in the Blood Moon Abyss, then a group of berserk dragons might be added to the five-color dragons besieging the holy mountain this time. The abyss dragon. If Joshua hadn't been the first to discover that there was a problem with the red dragon holding the artifact long sword, then the clergymen on the holy mountain would have suffered at least thousands of casualties, or even over ten thousand.

Thinking of this, the old man couldn't help turning his head to look at the soldier. Maybe he could already tell him about the news about the fourth sage inheritance, Eagle thought so.

But in the end, he still didn't say anything. The old pope planned to wait until the holy mountain was rebuilt and everything was free before telling Joshua the news.

Now, let him rest for a while.

"It can be seen that you are also in a hurry to go back, so I won't talk nonsense."

Looking around at the crowd, Igor said in a deep voice, "Get ready, everyone, the teleportation is about to start."

Transmission is something that has been notified long ago, so there is no need to say more.

Joshua, Thrall and the others naturally expressed that they were ready. At the same time, the Natural Mentor and Israel also walked out of the hall. The two legendary powerhouses silently glanced at the crowd, and seemed to be in a good mood.

The faint blue light quietly bloomed under the surge of the surging holy light, and two time-space passages leading to different places appeared in front of everyone. After saying goodbye to each other, Joshua, Thrall and the others stepped into different time-space passages respectively , back to his hometown.

Stepping out and entering the transmission channel, the feeling of time and space being reversed and disordered hits. At this moment, the soldier suddenly felt something. He closed his eyes and used his soul to 'look' at the endless void around him.

The divinity spread out silently, hooking up all kinds of information in the fluctuations of time and space.

In the void, there are several gigantic existences that seem to be the incarnations of endless beings. They gather in one place, as if they are waiting and guarding against something. Among these huge existences, Joshua sensed several familiar auras, including the God of Power and the God of Life, but the one that surprised him the most was the Five-Color Dragon God with a faint aura of abyss.

The gods of the five-colored dragon clan, the seven gods of the human race, and several other gods who caused the dragon disaster and invaded the Far South Continent did not fight each other, but guarded against something together? !

There was no time to think about more things, the teleportation was over, the soldier opened his eyes, and found that he had come to the Northern Moldavian Territory, in front of the Lord's Mansion of the main city of his territory.

Behind them, the sisters and brothers of Shenji, the black dragon girl, Chuhao and the blue dragon all came out of the time-space passage one after another. Surging, the slightly surprised projection of Miss Artificial Intelligence appeared in front of Joshua.

"You... are back."

she said softly.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Joshua nodded: "I'm back."