Soul of Burning Steel

The sixth floor of the abyss, the molten sea and fire hell.

In the dark sky, black clouds filled with poisonous dust surged in the blood-colored sky. In this long-dead world, the sun was extinguished, the stars and the moon were dark, and only the red glow of lava shot out from countless huge gaps in the earth. .

This world is sultry, but not dry. From time to time, a huge amount of high-temperature hot water vapor mixed with metal solution is sprayed out from the ground. They rise into the sky, mix with the sky full of poisonous clouds, and then turn into acid rain that can corrode everything. The earth then pools into patches of highly concentrated acid lakes that persist for at most a few hours.

But even so, it is one of the few sources of water in the world other than the Styx.

The Hell of Molten Sea, the Great Plain of the Black Sea, next to an acid lake that just appeared due to rainfall, accompanied by the sound of trampling, countless traces of creatures suddenly appeared on the originally empty land, and the low-pitched howls began Echoes around the lake.

It is said that the Great Plain of the Black Sea was indeed an ocean two thousand years ago. What churned in this sunken plain was not thick smog, but seawater that was barely drinkable although it contained a lot of toxicity. The battle in the abyss, where multiple demon lords fought, caused the sea to evaporate out of thin air, and most of the water vapor seeped into the ground, and then erupted out from time to time with the underground movement.

But no matter what the truth is, life has to reproduce, no matter how hard it is.

The gray corroded land was drilled with thousands of small holes accompanied by the sound of carapace rubbing, and densely packed abyssal worms crawled out of the ground, enjoying the long-lost acidic air. This scene is so amazing Disgusting, tens of thousands of gray and white fat maggots squirmed and stirred together, which would definitely make all intensive phobia patients faint on the spot, but the chaos did not last long. After a few seconds, there was a strange sound The sound of the flute—or the sound of the horn, these worms seemed to have heard the order, and began to scramble towards the acid lake not far away.

Not far away, a worm-shaped demon with six legs that resembles a praying mantis has just emerged from the ground. It slowly put down the weird bone flute in its hand, and silently watched the worms roll into the water one by one eagerly. Most of these worms were corroded by the acid liquid, but there were always a few out of thousands of worms that evolved a corrosion-resistant outer shell and acid-friendly internal organs through rapid mutation, and they happily absorbed the lake water. Then, with the help of the corpses of its own kind, it grows rapidly, crusts, pupates, and finally turns into crimson eggs floating on the water.

"The hatching success rate this time is good."

Looking at this scene, the worm-man demon thought in his heart: "120,000 worms should be able to hatch nearly a hundred devil eggs. It seems that the quality of these worms is very high."

While thinking this way, it bites the flute with its ferocious mouthparts, and makes a sound of the flute that contains magic power, driving away the abyssal beasts and monsters around it that intend to approach. As a herder, its duty is to drive away the abyssal worms Enter the acid lake to hatch, and then bring the devil's egg back. During this process, you must be alert to the surrounding beasts, because for them, the devil's egg is a great tonic that can promote their advancement.

Because in these devil eggs, there are pure soul fragments.

In various legends and records, demons always appear as soul grabbers and destroyers. They will occasionally invade a world, and then completely destroy it, plundering all the souls and resources in it, but never Most of the time, they repress their chaotic and evil natures, patiently making deals with worlds they are powerless to attack, and trading souls from creatures that crave demonic power.

Most of the middle and low-level demons don't know the reason, and even some powerful big demons may not be able to understand the reason, but as the closest subordinate of a demon lord, the worm-man demon 'shepherd card Sen' will know the truth of everything.

The reason for everything is because the abyss is a dead world.

What is death in a world? The elements collapse, and the power of steel dissipates? This is for sure, such a world has long been wiped out and returned to the void, but many worlds still have a complete cycle of elements. Although the power of steel is silent, it still exists, so why is this kind of world judged to be dead? This is the reason - the cycle of souls in this world is over.

Since the birth of life, the soul has appeared, and with the reproduction and death of life, the reincarnation of the soul has become stronger and stronger. Intangible and intangible power will circulate in the world, forming a huge reincarnation of the soul. Its power will be Let the newborn soul become stronger and stronger with each generation, and it is easier to master the mysteries of magic and fighting spirit. As long as the end does not come, then this cycle will continue to grow, because it is a symbol of a world's "alive", a representative of The flame of collective consciousness of civilization and life.

It is the power of fire, which forms a cycle called existence with the power of steel representing the world itself.

Destroying most of the life in a world in an instant can weaken the reincarnation, dim the flame, and even end it. The destroyed soul reincarnation not only fails to nourish the newborn souls and make them stronger, but also inhibits the newborn souls The birth of the newborn makes the newborns in the whole world become stupid and blind, even vegetative. Living in such a world, unless they keep plundering souls from the outside world, they will never have a future to speak of.

This is the reason why the abyss keeps invading the outside world, and even launches plundering bloody battles with each other. In a world where the stock of souls is fixed, only non-stop plundering can strengthen itself and maintain its own world .

The job of the herdsman Anson is to transform the plundered soul fragments into abyss worms, and then graze them. This kind of creature at the bottom of the demonic biological chain will spontaneously devour the soul fragments of the dead of the same kind, and then keep advancing. Those red devil eggs contain soul fragments that are enough to support the sanity of a little demon, and The soul fragments of dozens or hundreds of little demons can be fused into a complete soul that can support the mind of middle-level demons. In the process of devouring and plundering each other, the demons will become ferocious and cruel, and become abyss lords to attack other worlds. The best soldiers ever.

This is both the cycle and order of the abyss. Prey on others, or die.

--certainly.

The shepherd Anson thought of this, and the worm-man demon couldn't help but feel agitated and unwilling - the complete soul fused from the fragments can't compare with those who are complete through trading or other means, full of resentment and anger. Souls, those souls are the raw materials for the abyss lords to convert big demons like the Balrog. No matter how trusted a mere grazing insect demon is by the lord, it is impossible to know the steps involved.

If it can understand the mystery... then maybe it can also become a lord.

And when the worm-man devil's heart was churning with the devil's unique heart of betrayal and retaliation, a violent roar like lava burst suddenly sounded in its soul.

"Anson!"

The sound was so ear-piercing, and the power contained in it was so thick, that the worm-man demon put down the bone flute in his hand in an instant, knelt on six limbs, and quietly waited for the owner of the sound, his lord ,【Great Demon Carlo】, a corrupt demon with king-level potential gave further instructions.

——Could it be that I swallowed a part of the devil's eggs before and was discovered? The demon's simple mind doesn't have too many twists and turns, and the worm demon's thoughts at this moment were immediately sensed by the great demon Carlo, but what is surprising is that the corrupt demon lord, who is known for his tyranny and cruelty, did not punish him. His own subordinates continued to use its violent roar to give instructions: "Leave that sour lake quickly—the batch of devil eggs is gone! Leave quickly!"

Anson froze for a moment.

A grazing worm that specializes in hatching can increase the chance of worm hatching by half, which is a great asset for any demon lord. Even if they swallow some demon eggs, as long as it is not too much, most lords will not What kind of life-threatening punishment is used, at most, it is to tear part of their souls and let them spit out what they have swallowed, but this time there is no punishment, which still makes the worm feel incredible. It knows how much its lord is. Miserly, of course, it’s unbelievable, it stood up immediately, and then obeyed the command to abandon the eggs and quickly drill into the ground. Its specialized exoskeleton limbs and sharp body structure can quickly dig and move underground, just for a moment , it has already escaped into the ground at a depth of 100 meters, and the entrance of the cave is also buried in the soil.

Any demon may not be proficient in fighting or have much wisdom, but they must be good at escaping and hiding. Those who are not good at these two have been chewed by other big demons as snacks since the time of little demons. Even among the various races in the multiverse, the unique skill of digging the ground for 100 meters in an instant is regarded as the upper class, and it has escaped countless pursuits by this.

And soon after, the earth shook.

Looking down from the black sky of the Molten Sea and Hell, one can see a huge column of smoke rising from the edge of the Great Plain of the Black Sea, moving rapidly, and all the abyssal beasts and monsters along the way are running away in panic. These cunning and cruel monsters would try to take a bite or two even in the face of the giant dragon, but at this time they fled in embarrassment like a dog with its tail between its legs.

Boom boom boom!

Accompanied by the sound of hurried footsteps, it was already possible to see what creature was moving before the huge smoke, but what was strange was that the first thing that came into view was a humanoid Balrog about five meters high.

Judging from the size of the Balrog's body, it can be seen that its strength has reached the peak of the great demon, which is equivalent to the extreme state of the world. Its whole body is sprayed with flames of more than a thousand degrees, which are enough to melt steel. It turned into a rock, but at this moment it was running rapidly, the flames all over its body were suppressed by the strong wind in front of it, and dragged behind it, causing it to bring out a long tail flame.

It doesn't look very good. There has never been any Balrog running on the earth like this. They have always lived in the abyss volcano or in the hot and poisonous soup, absorbing the natural power to grow, and they rarely need predation. Advanced, only go to other regions when new support bones are needed.

What on earth could make a great demon-level Balrog run so embarrassingly? Not far away, many wild imps or mid-level demons wandering in the plain were suspicious while fleeing.

And then, the doubts were resolved - in the huge smoke column behind the Balrog, a huge figure appeared from the dust and mist, revealing his huge and ferocious body.

Golden red, like lava, dragon eyes like melting steel, raised high, as if it can penetrate the big horn of the sky, jet black, with layers of crystal-like carapace, covering its body like scales, red fire The elemental mist wrapped around its bony spurs and limbs, causing a terrifying explosion with every step it stepped on, causing the smoke to rise up into the sky.

A mighty black dragon. It has a string of golden crystal nuclei on its chest, above which are flashing light like the sun. Its existence itself has raised the temperature of the already extremely hot abyss by at least thirty degrees.

The black dragon followed behind the Balrog. Its speed could exceed that of the Balrog at any time, but it followed the other side obediently, not daring to pass. The fire elements surrounding the black dragon echoed with the Balrog's tail flames. Let the surrounding earth, which already contains strong acid and various combustible substances, ignite a large area of ​​flames, spreading like a flame nova.

Deep underground, the grazing worm Anson curled up nervously, its six limbs hovering in front of its chest, turning itself into a ball. The grazing demon's strong mental power is powerful enough to control hundreds of thousands of abyssal worms at the same time. He leaned out to observe the movement of the outside world.

It saw the running Balrog, which immediately surprised the worm, because the strength of this strange Balrog was no less than that of its lord of the Corrosion Demon, and in terms of personality, flames The Blazing Demon incarnated by poison is far stronger than the Corrupting Demon whose body is composed of high-concentration acid. The former can even defeat the latter. one-third.

No wonder the lord wants me to hurry up and hide. It thought silently. A new Balrog, this will definitely break the pattern of demon lords in the Black Sea Plain, especially the lord of the abyss at this level has already invaded the outside world with his core army. At this time, no one came to make adjustments. The result must be that one of the original demon lords of the Black Sea died, and the territory was inherited by the Balrog, or they all joined forces to kill this foreign stranger.

But then, a ferocious black dragon made its brain temporarily stop thinking.

——Devil Blood Black Dragon? Those five-color dragon demons who have only recently settled in the abyss? It is chasing and killing the Balrog?

Unlike, although this black dragon is not bad in strength, it is still far inferior to the big Balrog. The difference in size is nothing to Balrog, and it doesn't look like chasing. Instead, it seems to be... leading the way?

Leading the way for whom?

The grazing insect raised its head subconsciously. It wanted to continue to use its mental power to perceive this strange combination, but for some reason, Anson looked straight at the head of the black dragon.

Between the horns of that black dragon, there was a figure wearing black full-body armor. He had no reins, and he didn't need a rein. He just stood straight in the wind, letting the wind blow at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour. wearing his own armor.

The black figure seemed to have sensed that someone was watching him. He lowered his head slightly and looked towards the ground where the grazing insects were.

On the ground, Ansen froze, his hideous limbs trembling uncontrollably.

Thousands of voices echoed in the ears, as if thousands of undead were screaming. At this moment, the devil seemed to see a pair of scarlet eyes.

Then.

Darkness spreads.

And far away.

In the center of an underground fortress in the Great Plain of the Black Sea, a huge humanoid demon that looks like a black water element is slumped on its gray rock chair, with black bubbles rolling up and down all over its body, and it let out a painful roar. Countless bubbles containing sound waves rolled up from the core of its body, bringing out countless ear-covering wailings.

After about five minutes, the powerful demon slowly sat up from the seat. The stone chair under it had been corroded by its uncontrollable body just now. After a long silence, it murmured: : "Anson is dead..."

"What's going on, how did it die? Where did the violent mental shock come from... I've never heard that the Balrog has the talent of mental shock."

The demon's fear will only last for a short moment. After a while, an uncontrollable desire to destroy is immediately ignited in the heart of the big corrupt demon. Its precious herdsman died. This is a great loss equivalent to a severed arm. It roared It waved its hands made of high-concentration acid, wantonly destroying the structure in the hall, until after a long time, when it calmed down a little, it called out a few trembling mid-level demons outside the hall that was already full of potholes, He gave orders with a cold tone as if frozen in severe cold.

"Assemble my army," it said: "Notify the other lords around that the Balrog is too dangerous."

"Before fighting inside, let's kill outsiders first."

As the order was issued, demon armies belonging to the [Rotten Fortress] began to slowly gather, and armies belonging to other demon lords also moved out shortly thereafter, moving towards the northeast of the Black Sea Plain.

That was the direction in which the Balrog and the Black Dragon moved.

At the same time, Joshua, who had just glanced curiously before, had already left behind the trivial matter of being spied on. He didn't care about other people's prying at all. peep.

When many people came to the abyss, all they wanted was to be cautious, cautious, and more cautious, trying to hide their identities from being known by other people and other demons.

This is indeed true, if it is a long-term adventure in the abyss, even Joshua will do it, after all, it is too tiring and boring to fight all the way, and there is no way to enjoy the fun of adventure.

But it's different now. All he has to do is to look at the current situation in the abyss and find the two missing legendary archmages. At this time, there is no need to keep a low profile.

Standing on the black dragon, Joshua watched the scenery on both sides fly by. As the mount under his feet moved rapidly, he couldn't help showing a wild smile unique to drag racing. The man recalled some things about The experience of drag racing, but it is different from the previous life. Now, there is a whole huge abyss plain for him to run wildly.

The high-profile logic is simple. The higher the profile, the more demons will pay attention to him. Strong demons will challenge him, and weak demons will avoid him. Before the great lord of this layer of abyss takes action, his reputation will definitely spread throughout the entire abyss. The two legendary mages in this abyss will naturally know that he has arrived, and also know what kind of trouble their disappearance has caused, and then they will go back with him.

If there is a legendary demon lord or abyss lord to make a move, then let’s fight. Joshua can’t wait for it. If he is besieged, he can teleport back at any time with the book of Eibon in his hand. The power consumed is this abyss magic book, he can waste it at will.

"black."

Thinking of this, Joshua patted the dragon horn beside him, and said, "Spray a few mouthfuls of fire, like fireworks, how conspicuous it is."

"Roar!" With a deep dragon roar, Hei immediately understood his master's meaning. The dragon ran wildly while brewing for a moment, and then, a ball of hot golden flames was sprayed into the sky by the black dragon, and the warrior followed suit. With one finger, the flame formed a huge and eye-catching mark on the black and red clouds of the Molten Sea and Inferno Prison.

A strong arm bound in chains and holding a sharp sword.

It was the coat of arms of the hand holding the sword, the coat of arms of the Radcliffe family, it shone brightly above the sky, as if a sun showed its own existence.

Just like its owner.

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