Soul of Burning Steel

In countless legends about the abyss and demons, there are always survivors who will describe the appearance of those monsters in horror: flames, poisonous and hideous burly flesh. And demons are such creatures.

Almost all monsters from the abyss have powers related to fire and poison. Their bodies are stronger than steel. Except for little devils and worms, they are generally more than two meters tall. The strange soul of talent allows them to perform in the abyss Terrible magic, but that doesn't mean they can't manipulate magic energy in the normal world, it's just that it's been suppressed by half. Such terrifying power makes them widely feared in the outside world.

There are many kinds of demons, even the most basic abyss worms have weird mutants, not to mention other more advanced types, but there is no doubt that the most well-known and most powerful type of demon is the abyss flame magic.

As the name suggests, the Abyssal Balrog has a body completely covered with raging flames, but under the flames with a high temperature of a thousand degrees, their bodies are black viscous substances similar to oil, and these black viscous substances are all the time. It releases intense flame energy, and radiates an invisible and qualitative poison towards the surroundings. It can cause ordinary people to age, lose energy, and deform and mutate all parts of the body. It is recorded in history that after the Balrog passed through Frogs will grow extra legs and lizards will grow two heads. This horrible poison is so terrible that it can even make a piece of land barren for decades, which is amazing and disturbing.

The abyssal balrogs have no final shape. Their bodies are just a mass of black viscous substance. In terms of their initial appearance, they are probably similar to the flame slime, but they are countless times more dangerous than it. But once the balrogs awaken Wisdom, they will shape their bodies consciously—these terrifying beings at the top of the abyss food chain will devour all kinds of metals and monsters, use those strong steel and bones to shape their bodies, and then Build your own avatar.

Therefore, there are human-shaped Balrogs and dragon-shaped Balrogs. For these monsters, the shape can be changed, and the larger the body, the stronger the Balrog's power, and it also means that after killing them, The richer the harvest, after all, they can withstand the erosion of the flames of the Balrog and the highly poisonous body, and there are very few substances used to build their body bones. They have always been the raw materials for making magic weapons.

And now, Joshua caught him from the abyss to the Mycroft Continent, and it was a five-meter-tall humanoid Balrog.

The Balrog Syndicate still hasn't figured out what's going on now—it was wandering in the boiling sea of ​​the Burning Purgatory on the thirty-seventh floor of the abyss, looking for a place to fight in the poisonous soup that had long been polluted by sulfur and heavy metals. I don't know what happened, but suddenly a hand ignored the thousands of degrees of high-temperature flames above its head, grabbed its black body that was enough to poison an abyssal king elephant, and then dragged a The terrifying power of the island pulled it up from the high-temperature seabed at a depth of three kilometers.

For a moment, the Syndicate thought he had been conscripted by some pit lord or daemon lord—or that some god or void wanderer from another world had captured him as a guinea pig.

This is actually not uncommon, just like the recruitment of an abyss lord. This is actually a very normal thing. The abyss is endless, but there are some levels that have lords who are loved by the will of the abyss. The power of all the demons, as long as they have a thought, any demon whose strength has not reached the legendary level will be recruited by it and sent to its army. The demons who dared to disobey the will of the abyss lord would have died long ago, and the demon lord would have died. In the same way, they are actually not loved by the will of the abyss, but still rely on their own strength to subdue the lord of an abyss.

However, the thirty-seventh floor of the abyss should be a world without an owner——the devil thought a little puzzled, otherwise it wouldn't be wandering in this layer of abyss. Balrogs have a strong sense of territory, and they rarely appear in places with In the abyss of lords and maharajas, because every Balrog has the ambition and potential to become a king.

So is it a god or a great existence outside the realm? Syndicate guessed this in its simple mind, but when it raised its head and looked at the existence standing in front of itself, it suddenly realized that it didn't know when it would start, and the thirty-seventh floor of the abyss would have its owner. .

What kind of face is that? Although it looks like an ordinary human male, it is actually an obviously suppressed appearance. The Balrog can easily see that the opponent's body is able to maintain its human form after layers of restraint. Underneath is something even more terrifying, greater, and more sublime. It is filled with high-density matter like the core of the earth, and has an extremely high temperature that is a hundred times hotter than ordinary Balrogs. His life radiation is so terrifying that it The highly poisonous radiation that is the Balrog was easily overwhelmed and suppressed.

There is no doubt that this is a great king-level demon, which is different from his body which is only five meters long. If the other party shows his body, it will probably be as high as a hill.

Just the physical body is so terrifying, not to mention the soul wailing around this big demon (?), the screams and curses of endless lives before dying surround the other's body surface, far surpassing the mind flayer , far surpassing the despairing aura of the Horror—no, the Terrifying Domain is declaring its existence to the outside world all the time, making it, a Balrog with only a simple mind, want to tremble involuntarily.

——A king-level desperate demon king. Thinking of it like this, Syndicate wanted to kneel down and completely worship.

In fact, it did kneel down.

The five-meter-tall flame figure bowed its head neatly, kneeling respectfully to express its obedience. Although the devil's natural chaotic mind makes it want to get rid of the fear in his heart all the time, even if he dies, he still wants to punch the existence in front of him. , but that's just a thought. Now Syndicate's instincts are suppressed by fear and reason, and it can't help trembling in the Abyss language: "The great king of terror, you called me to come, do you have anything to ask?"

The Balrog uses magic power to imitate the vibration of sound waves. The distortion brought by the high-temperature flame makes its voice sound blurred, like a noise like lava drumming, and there is no honorific word like "you" in Abyssal Language, but according to emotions Joshua could roughly understand the meaning of the other party's actions. He looked at the figure of Lie Yan lying on the ground obediently in front of him, and showed a satisfied smile.

"Good attitude." He said: "If you can keep it up, I can spare your life after I ask you."

The questioning didn't last too long. The Balrog knew a lot, but most of them were different from what Joshua wanted to know. After temporarily sealing the Balrog's power aside, the soldier began to organize Information.

He discovered that the abyss that the Book of Eibon was linked to did not come from the same abyss. For example, the Balrog in front of him came from the thirty-seventh floor of the abyss, while the demons he summoned to kill came from the seventh floor and the first floor respectively. Six floors, the space-time coordinates of these three abysses are very close, and they all contain lava and poisonous power.

Joshua summoned the demon this time because he found traces of demons in the Northland, and if the disappearance of the two legendary mages was because they went to the abyss from the Northland, they must have gone to the abyss closest to the Mycroft Continent. The same is true for the Book of Eibon. The demons it summons are also demons from the nearest abyss. The warrior wants to see if he can catch a demon with higher strength and can detect the fluctuations in time and space in the abyss, and then ask the specific situation. If the timing is right, Barnir and William should have gone to the abyss.

This plan was simple and rude, but it turned out to be quite effective—the Balrog named Syndicate did have the power to detect time-space fluctuations, and it did sense some time-space fluctuations some time ago, but it was a pity that, together with the two legendary mages who disappeared, The time is not right, and it can only sense the space-time fluctuations within dozens of kilometers around it. Joshua thinks that it should be just a normal time-space change in the abyss. For example, a small strip of time-space suddenly appears that will disappear immediately. cracks and such.

However, as the overlord of a small area in the thirty-seventh layer of the abyss, the Syndicate will not only know this. Through the little devils under his hands and the ferry demon from the river Styx, the Balrog knows many news about other abyss realms, and These news are usually all told to the soldiers. For example, the sixth layer of the abyss is fighting with the twenty-third layer of the abyss. There are multiple abyss lords and demon armies fighting bloody battles on the twenty-third layer, so the sixth layer melts Most of the demons in Seafire Prison were conscripted away, and Syndicate also ran to the thirty-seventh floor to take refuge because they were afraid of being conscripted.

The River Styx runs through all the abysses, and it is also an important medium for demons to transfer time and space. The Ferry Demon is a kind of demon that can survive in the River Styx for a long time. In a sense, they are like messengers, but if they don’t have enough strength, these messenger demons, which are shaped like huge crocodiles, don’t mind opening their mouths, showing their fangs, and trying something else. Taste of fresh raw meat.

Apart from the meaningless trifles of the Burning Purgatory, Syndicate only had these three pieces of news from beginning to end that were valuable—the sixth layer of the abyss is invading other abysses, and the five-color dragons have occupied one of the layers in the abyss and renamed it Longmian Abyss officially became one of the races of the abyss, and there was a huge change in the seventh layer of the abyss. The continent in the center of the world was undergoing a violent earthquake, which even demons could hardly bear.

Although it doesn't make much sense to Joshua's current goal, no matter what it is, he has never heard of it in his previous life, or it only exists in those thick settings, and now, everything is so far away from the warrior Nearby, an ultimate level abyssal balrog told him these big events that used to be far away but are now very close to him in a respectful and fearful air.

Joshua couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

But before he could ponder for a long time, a holy light flickered, and Archbishop Artanis who hurried over had already come behind him.

This place is a remote suburban plain in Moldavia. The old bishop could clearly see the sun-like figure of the warrior in the energy vision. When he came to Joshua, he did not greet Joshua first, but glanced at it in surprise. Sealed aside, unable to speak or move, the big demon paralyzed on the ground turned to the warrior and said, "Joshua, I just sensed the wave of summoning a demon—"

"it's me."

Breaking away from his contemplation, Joshua said bluntly. He turned his head to look at the old bishop, raised the book in his hand and waved it: "Just now I was going to find a devil to ask about the situation, so I used this abyss magic book to catch A demon came out."

Shouldn't it be a call? I used the wrong verb no matter what. Blinking his eyes, the old bishop didn't have the energy to care about the soldiers' grammatical issues. His quick thinking immediately reminded him of the topic he and Joshua had discussed not long ago, so the old man frowned and said, "What's the matter, Could it be that the disappearance of the two legendary mages is related to demons? What level of demons can capture them? Abyss lords can't do it either."

"Think differently, Artanis." Joshua shrugged, "Maybe they went there by themselves."

As he spoke, Joshua explained his appearance in the Great Ajax Mountains, emphasizing that there were residual space-time fluctuations around the devil's aura.

"I have obtained the coordinates of the three abysses from the Book of Eibon." The warrior concluded with these words: "When tomorrow morning, I will find Master Nostradamus and let him see the remaining time and space." If the three coordinates that the fluctuations lead to, if they can correspond, then it can be confirmed that the two legendary mages went to the abyss to explore with their own will, rather than disappearing."

"It's more than that, Joshua?"

But the old bishop was keenly aware of the soldier's tone. He had known Joshua for a long time, and his words and deeds were not complicated, so Artanis could easily see through his true thoughts: "If you are sure, You will want to go to the abyss to find them yourself!"

Facing the old bishop's conclusive words, Joshua was not dissatisfied with seeing through his mind. He smiled and said relaxedly: "Of course, logically speaking, they disappeared in my territory, so I naturally have to personally Go and confirm the whereabouts and safety of the two legendary powerhouses."

"Secondly, the abyss is so big." After speaking, the soldier paused, and then said, "I want to take a look."

"It's that simple."

But at this moment, as if by coincidence, there were bursts of thunderous sounds flashing in the distant sky, and a huge figure shuttled through the clouds. Joshua and Artanis raised their heads together, Perception, they easily noticed each other's true identity hundreds of miles away.

It was the warrior's prisoner, Suklash, the blue dragon of extreme intent.

====No charge for the following words====

The abyss and demons in this article are different from the world view of dnd Dungeons and Dragons, and so is the Balrog. According to my setting, the abyss is a world that has long been destroyed. The reasons for the destruction are different, and it is also the origin of the bad environment in their world.

Radiation, flames, poison, the body of Balrog and the abyss do not need me to explain the origin of those doomsday worlds, right?

Repeat, not dnd, this article, not dnd!

Yesterday was my birthday, I wanted to update it earlier, but the computer blew up, it really blew up, a series of crashes, but I couldn’t open it, I am writing the update with a desktop computer from 2006, it’s really Awful……

This chapter will be revised later.