Soul of Burning Steel

After a not-so-long silence, Rin let out a breath slowly, looked at the floor with his golden eyes, and murmured subconsciously: "Fortunately, obsidian is not expensive."

He has accepted his role of butler thoroughly.

——It’s really imposing. On the other side, looking at the broken stone cracks at the foot of No. 3, Yingying swallowed, but thought of it with envy.

"Of course I can take you there, but you should walk more lightly."

And Joshua, who had already changed into his dress, didn't feel sorry for these floors, he just said to Miss Artificial Intelligence in a soft tone.

And choked by this tone, No. 3, who had never heard Joshua's tone before, had a weird face—the living metal construct did have expressions, she thought for a while, and then explained with some reluctance : "The output of this body is still a little unstable. When stepping on the floor, it always subconsciously increases the output of the furnace core... There is too little running-in, and I can't help it."

"Then we need to practice more." The soldier's tone didn't have the slightest sense of blame. He waved his hand indifferently, and the invisible force reassembled all the broken obsidian in the entire Lord's Mansion into a whole piece, as if turning back time. When it returned to its original state, Joshua seemed to be holding a vase, but he forgot the strong nature of the opponent: "You can practice casually around the Lord's Mansion, but you must be careful when you go outside."

And maybe she hasn't adapted to this steel body yet, the artificial intelligence lady suddenly jumped up, Yingying and Rin were confused, but the warrior could see that she wanted to fly into the air like before, but how could the magic projection Compared with a body constructed entirely of precious metals? It takes a hundred times more magic power to float this steel body covered with various rune circles than to float an iron block of the same weight.

Shaking his head, Joshua simply stepped forward, picked up No. 3, which was about half the size of his body, with one hand, and then put it on his shoulder when Miss Artificial Intelligence was in a daze. During this process, the soldier has always been very careful, and he seems to be paying attention to his strength, but even with such a cautious effort, the two-ton construct turned into a light and flimsy piece of paper in his hands, as if It could float away at any time.

Turning his head, Joshua saw the silver-haired girl with an envious face. He laughed, then took the other's hand and said, "Take turns, let's go now."

Although he said with a smile, his tone was unquestionable. The two girls hummed subconsciously, then bowed their heads and stopped talking. Joshua turned to look at Rin in the study, and the black-haired boy blinked. Then he immediately said: "Master, have you forgotten? I also need to deal with the terrain transformation of the new urban area, so I won't go to the celebration this time."

"Thanks for your hard work." Stepping forward, the soldier touched Rin's head, and he said relaxedly: "Where do you want to go in the future, just say it like No. 3, there is no need to suppress yourself."

"In this world, there are not many places we can't go to." He said so.

Soon after, Joshua, Yingying and No. 3 entered the portal on the top floor of the Lord's Mansion and headed for the imperial capital.

After bidding farewell to them, Rin watched the blue time and space ripples slowly calm down, and his smiling face gradually became serious. He rubbed his temples in distress, and murmured in a low voice: "It's strange." , why do you feel something is wrong?"

It's not just him, Yingying and No. 3 also feel that something is wrong, and unlike the artificial intelligence that uses the steel body that she is not familiar with, the magical girl's psychic body directly holds the soldier's hand, so she feels especially obvious.

Did she... really hold Master's hand?

Temperature, tactile sensation, solidity, toughness... There is nothing wrong with the feeling, but Hotaru always feels that there is an inconspicuous but real barrier between her and Joshua. As for not even the temperature barrier, but the barrier is so strong that even she, who already has the level of a holy weapon, can't affect it in the slightest.

In fact, what they thought was right, the current Joshua did not come into contact with anyone.

In a sense, he didn't even touch everything in this world.

Since the return from the world of Grandia, after the warrior became a legend, his body has been gradually transforming towards the most extraordinary form he had dreamed of. During the few months in the holy mountain in the far sea, Joshua did not Instead of spending all his time traveling to the world of Carliss, most of his time was actually spent exchanging legends with Pope Eagle and completing his own form.

Now all the energy in Joshua's body, whether it is life force, battle qi or various other fragmentary elemental forces, has been transformed into pure steel power. Steel power is the highest level of the material world, the highest authority energy One is to rely on the assimilation of other material energies for self-strengthening. All the strength of the warrior before can only be transformed into a small group of steel power, but this small group of steel power can assimilate Karl in a few days. A small hillside in the world of Liss made the fighter's body density and strength soar to a terrifying level.

Let's put it this way, although the current Joshua is still in human form, it is actually just a shell for external communication. Inside the shell is a high-temperature, high-pressure, indescribably high-density material aggregate, similar to a nuclear energy reaction. Energy movement provides this body with energy for daily actions, and because the density of this body is too high, the assimilation reaction of the power of steel is too fast, the situation is so complicated that once a fighter uses his body to touch something, it is equivalent to The power of the mountains will directly crush them, and then the power of steel will assimilate them, this is a process of self-evolution of ultra life forms.

In order to completely control this power, instead of being driven to assimilate by it, Joshua had to temporarily stop advancing and focus on analyzing the deeper nature of the power of steel. Before that, he manipulated the surrounding The free energy and the magnetic field formed a thin film that bound his body. If the outside matter could not break the electromagnetic field formed by Joshua's own power, he would absolutely not be able to touch the warrior body behind the shell.

This layer of shell is comprehensive, so although Joshua seems to be standing on the ground, he is actually in a state of flying in the air, and there is an undetectable layer between the soles of his shoes and the ground If he steps on the gap, no matter how solid the ground is, it will be completely distorted and crushed by his terrifying weight—that's why he is so tolerant of No. 3. The artificial intelligence girl is only two tons, and his current weight is at least Ten thousand times stronger than the opponent.

This kind of walking is actually very inconvenient, and you need to be careful when you touch the surrounding things, so Joshua carefully touches No. 3 and others. In his eyes, everything is too fragile. Touch, everything will fall apart, and now he also temporarily understands why most legendary powerhouses live in seclusion, or only use avatars to act outside, because their bodies do have great power, and their mere existence will affect the survival of the people around them .

Joshua is fine now, but if his quality increases further in the future, then the warriors can only build a new Lord's Mansion deep in the Great Ajax Mountains, otherwise, he who lives in the city will be harmful to the hundreds of thousands of people around him. It is a huge threat to the residents. If one day they accidentally let go of the shackles, then most of the city will be destroyed.

Even a single drop of 'blood' would erode the surrounding land within hundreds of square meters. This was the result of Joshua's experiments in the depths of the Great Ajax Mountains.

Then again, most of the legendary powerhouses Warrior knew didn't have this kind of trouble.

Saint Eagle is the body of light, his body should be the endless light surrounding the great temple on the top of the holy mountain in the far sea, and that human body is just what he looked like when he was a human in the past, it is his incarnation, this form Even if he completely let go of the restraint, it would be nothing more than hanging an oversized sun lamp on the holy mountain in the far sea.

The natural teacher is incarnated in a place's ecological circle. Not only will her existence not cause troubles to the surroundings, but she can also regulate the environment and ecology of a place, making the barren land fertile, and she who focuses on making the elves strong even The power to go berserk is nothing more than the incarnation of a large black forest. Of course, this black forest itself is a legendary living creature.

As for Israel, the essence of this power is said to be "will to materialize". Whether it is described or rumored, it does not seem to have too much influence on the material world. Instead of worrying about this, it is better to worry about this empire One day the emperor forgot to feed his flaming prison dragon, and the damage caused by the dragon's anger must be greater than his own power.

This is also the difference caused by the different paths chosen. Igor is the pope of the Church of the Seven Gods, the natural teacher is one of the supreme leaders of the elves, and Israel is also the emperor of the empire. They are all leaders of a large force. In addition to destroying the battle, other aspects were also taken into account.

And the path Joshua chose was the path of pure steel, the most simple path of 'destruction'.

Iron and steel is what makes weapons. Although it can also make agricultural tools, it is still a man-made thing that needs to be tempered by flames in the final analysis, and all man-made things mean fighting against this world.

Even a seemingly indestructible hoe, in essence, destroys the original form of the earth and shapes it into what human beings need. Actively planting seeds, harvesting food, supplying human beings to survive, and developing civilization, this action itself is actually the human beings who are intelligent beings using their own wisdom to deal with the whole world as the leader of all spirits rather than beasts. The natural ecology of the world poses challenges.

Dou Qi, life force, magic power, martial arts, magic, magic technology, divine art... The essence of all power is the same. It is a tool for human beings to develop themselves and challenge the world. Although the power of steel is the original power at the beginning of all things, But as long as it is in the hands of human beings, there is no exception.

Stepping into the portal, holding Hotaru's hand, with No. 3 sitting on his shoulder, Joshua was still thinking about himself.

The most important of these is descendants.

The current age of the fighter is still too young compared to other legendary powerhouses. Before him, no one would have thought that there would be legendary powerhouses in their twenties in this world, except him. , even the youngest legend is at least forty years old, not to mention full of children and grandchildren, but there must be a bloodline passed down in the world, how could it be possible that he is still single like him.

At the beginning level of legend, there is still the possibility of natural reproduction, but at the middle level of legend, after being completely transformed into a high-level life, it is basically reproductively isolated from ordinary people, and it is impossible to have normal offspring without special means—if it is The Void-born monster that Herras advances to does not have reproductive isolation. It is similar to a giant dragon, or even stronger. It can mate with any life. Note that it is any. It can even pollinate flowers. And then give birth to their own plant descendants, fungi can also spread spores, it can be said to be omnipotent, so the Void Behemoth, the embodiment of primitive vitality, is also called a biological plague wandering in the multiverse, the world invaded by them, in the end only His descendants will remain.

Of course, Joshua is not the giant stallion of the multiverse, the Void Behemoth. Before that, he hadn't thought about the issue of his descendants at all, and there was basically no such thing as love between men and women in his head. In the eyes of soldiers, all lives are equal, the difference lies in the combat power value above their heads. This is indeed a high spiritual realm, but now it has caused some troubles for him.

In the past few months, at least dozens of nobles have extended invitations to him either implicitly or directly. Of course, Joshua rejected all of them without exception. He is not pursuing celibacy, but he is not interested in marriage for the time being. , although the world is rejuvenated by the rekindling of the flames, there are still evil gods and abysses peeping in. If these problems are not resolved, the soldiers will not be in the mood at all.

As for the future, let’s talk about it later. It’s not that after the middle level of legend, it’s not completely impossible to produce offspring. It’s just that because the life status is too high, the conditions for offspring breeding are too harsh, so it’s difficult to succeed.

It really doesn't work... Joshua actually has another choice.

At this time, the warrior can already engrave his inheritance information in his body, just like the blood inheritance of the Dragon Clan, the warrior can also engrave his memory and inheritance in his body, and then 'split' it out, as long as Qiao Xiu When Ya reaches the realm of perfect body, he can be like an ancient dragon, drop a drop of blood, and that drop of blood can survive alone. In a sense, this is his offspring. He only needs to find a mother to continue to conceive, and he can become a complete life.

But this is really a bit like an alien, too weird, Joshua is a bit hard to accept.

While thinking, the soldier stepped out of the portal again, and the faint blue ripples slowly closed behind him. In just a short moment, he had already arrived at the foot of the three mountains of the imperial capital from the north, and the distance of thousands of miles passed in an instant. .

Originally, the portal was unable to transport heavy objects. The warrior was originally far beyond the standard, but he restrained the weight by himself, so he could pass through the portal smoothly at this time.

Joshua subconsciously straightened No. 3 on his shoulder, but the moment he touched the opponent's body, a shadow suddenly appeared in the soldier's mind.

"Wait, number one!"

He subconsciously opened his mouth and muttered to himself, but the artificial intelligence girl and Ying blinked and looked at each other after hearing it, both feeling a little baffled.

But Joshua didn't care about the thoughts of these two people. He was frowning at this moment, recalling the scene about the birth of Number One.

At that time, because he suddenly couldn't control the "authority of creation" in the world of Ilgna, he sublimated part of the steel into steel element, which is the current No. 1. This power was directly given by the steel python. Now it seems that , its essence is the originating steel from the world of Ilgna.

It proves that it is that power that allows warriors to give life to inorganic objects, and this form of expression is the original vitality that can transform all things. This power had always been lurking in Joshua's body, but when it erupted suddenly at that time, he thought it was just an accident, but now that he thought about it, it might be because he had already reached the peak of extreme intent at that time, and the battle energy in his body had already started to move toward the steel. The power returns to its source, the two repel each other, and then force this external force out, and the result is the birth of the first number.

And number one has wisdom from the very beginning, perhaps because the power of steel contains part of the information of the steel python Irgner and Joshua. In a sense, number one might really be...

"No, this is really too weird."

Under the strange gaze of Yingying and No. 3, Joshua took a deep breath, shook his head and said, "Don't think about such things, I'm here to watch the celebration today."

Following these words, the soldier forcibly emptied all his guesses about Number One in his mind, completely deleted and formatted it, and at the same time, he raised his head and looked around.

It is now noon, the center of the empire, and the Sanshan area of ​​the capital ushered in the brightest sunshine since the long winter. In the green plain below the mountain, a silver ribbon-like river flows quietly, and the spring breeze sweeps across the river beach. In the woods that have already glowed with new leaves, you can vaguely see the running beasts and their cubs.

Because of the celebration, the wide-area time-space anchoring circle of the imperial capital was temporarily reduced to only cover the top of the mountain. Dozens of portals leading to various places were neatly placed in all directions below the mountain, and temporary reception areas were established. Come to meet these distinguished guests who can use the portal, and the road leading to the top of the mountain is full of tourists and adventurers from all over the world. They all come to see the biggest celebration of the northern empire.

The Mycroft Continent is vast and sparsely populated. In a city at dusk, you will often see a lonely scene where several streets are empty. However, the imperial capital at this time is uncharacteristically, and the flow of people going up and down the mountain is dozens of times higher than usual. , could even see many visitors from extremely distant and rare tribes in the crowd, and even a few of the same tribe of the barbarian under Joshua could be seen.

Compared with other regions, the area around the portal connected to the Northland is the most open. This is because the time-space turbulence around the Northland has disappeared in recent years. The transmission network has just been established for less than a few years, and I am used to using this thing There were still relatively few people, so when the soldiers walked out of the portal, they naturally attracted the attention of a large group of people around them.

"Joshua!"

Not far away, a man's slightly surprised voice came. Not long after, a blond man led a woman with violet hair out of the crowd and came to the soldier. He originally wanted to say goodbye to Joe. Xiuya opened his arms for a hug, but stopped regretfully because of the steel girl on the other's shoulder: "You are finally here."

"I'm not late, Brandon, Verdani."

Joshua shrugged, and said a cold joke solemnly: "Justice may be late, but I won't."

There is another chapter later, but I'm not sure I can finish it by 12 o'clock...

Monthly pass, I was reminded just now, ask for a wave of monthly pass at the end of the month...