Soul of Burning Steel

After hearing Joshua's words, the two legendary mages looked at each other with strange expressions. Afterwards, William coughed and said with some hesitation: "Well, Joshua, although it is said that when the ancient dragon woke up from a deep sleep, It will indeed cause an earth-shattering vision, attracting the attention of countless worlds... But this time, it is obvious that you took the initiative to wake it up earlier, right?"

"Although it's not that I can't understand your urgency to fight against Gu Long, I have to say that your behavior just now was indeed a bit weird—at least not like your normal behavior."

Barnier is still manipulating the runes on the test bench to calculate the coordinates of the world where the ancient dragon lives. A huge rune light screen several meters high has condensed in front of him, and countless information flows fall like a waterfall. The rune controller has no Turning his head, but turning his back to Joshua, his tone this time was not as casual as before, but a little warning in a serious tone: "Although William and I have not known you for a long time, your deeds It has been circulated among all the legendary powerhouses that you were indeed decisive in your shots in the past, but you were not reckless... This time it is a bit different."

But Joshua couldn't help being slightly taken aback when he heard the words of the two legendary mages. It wasn't until now that he realized that he had acted a little too aggressively in an inexplicable state of mind.

"Your mind has not reached its limit."

At this time, it was William who spoke, and he also turned his head, but his tone was not as serious as Barnier's. The master of mind smiled and said relaxedly: "This is normal, but all minds have loopholes, although Your heart barrier is very strong, but just like glass and diamonds, the hardest is also the most fragile. Your heart is the crystallization formed by high pressure and heat deep in the ground, hard, sharp, like a blade Blade, but it's too easy to go to extremes... I don't know whether this is your nature or some other influence, but it should be enough to address this issue."

For the two legendary mages, Joshua's current situation is not surprising. All legendary powerhouses have more or less eccentricities, and they also have the capital of willfulness. Being addicted to war is not a bad habit, but because of their years of experience as elders, they can't help but want to mention a few words about fighters and impart some life experience.

"... I have been taught, thank you."

Hearing this, Joshua couldn't help but frowned. He turned around and stopped disturbing the work of the two legendary mages, then hurriedly passed through the central corridor of the experimental airship, and walked towards the exit in midair.

And in the middle, Hill and Fina, who happened to be in the experimental airship for the past two months and have been conducting experiments on the blood of ancient dragons with Barnir and William, also appeared on the side of the corridor. They saw After seeing Joshua with a serious expression, without thinking about anything else, he greeted them with a smile and raised his hand as usual—but the strange thing is that Joshua seemed to ignore the two of them at this time. He continued to walk towards the front exit with a frown, ignoring the two people's greetings.

"...What's wrong with Joshua..."

"Did he not hear us?"

"How is it possible? He is a legendary powerhouse. Last time we went to the Great Ajax Mountains for experiments, he heard the breath of the rock dragon lurking deep underground through three mountains—it was impossible not to hear it!"

Facing Joshua who had disappeared around the corner and didn't respond to their words, Hill and Fina were also puzzled, and the elf druid couldn't think of a reason: "It's strange— —Earl Radcliffe looks scary, but he should not be a person with any pretensions... Could something have happened?"

Not to mention the Dragon Knight party who planned to ask Barnier and William, at this time Joshua had already stepped out of the experimental airship in the Great Ajax Mountains, and came to the cold high-altitude haze wind in the early spring of the Northland. The cold wind that was enough to freeze frost could not touch his body at all, and he was deflected in another direction by the powerful stand shield tens of meters away. Joshua looked down at the mountains and the entire Northland. Mountain peaks, ice fields, rivers, cities and villages were all in his sight. His eyes could reach the edge of the horizon, and he could see the caravan airship flying in the distance. Moldavia is now thriving because of him, gradually becoming the northernmost economic center of the continent.

The existence of a legendary strong man can change many things. Powerful strength can reverse the course of the world and reverse the tide of fate. As a strong man, Joshua has changed the history he once knew and the past he has experienced. He can no longer predict the future of Husband's world, and this is exactly what he wants.

But if it was him who changed...

"What a headache, how did those guys manage not to be affected?"

Suppressing the thoughts in Zhu Zhu's mind, Joshua's eyes were a little distracted. He looked up at the sky, and the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Field in the void had been firmly established by several legendary powerhouses headed by Yigel together with other major forces. The surrounding area of ​​Fairy Township has ended its millennium-long ring circle operation. Seeing this scene, Joshua felt a little relaxed for some reason, and his eyes became more focused again: "Fortunately, I have already made preparations."

In the next moment, Joshua's figure disappeared, and only a long arc of light could be seen cutting through the sky, reaching the main city of Moldavia.

The main city, the top floor of the Lord's Mansion.

Number 3 sat on the battlements at the edge of the tower with a bored face, her legs dangling in the air, and she kicked her calves in a 2/4 beat. Miss Artificial Intelligence's transfigured costume today is a white dress and brown leather shoes. If a normal girl wears this, she may feel a little cold, but for magic projection, temperature is meaningless. Although it seems to be lazy, in fact, No. 3 is watching all the unstable elements in the whole city. Through the optimized cloud algorithm, she has been able to ignore the data of most normal people and concentrate her computing power on those Go up to guys who look like they're going to cause trouble, and monitor their every move in real time.

But suddenly, the sharpest alarm sounded in No. 3's mind. She noticed a red arc piercing through the clouds in mid-air and reaching the Lord's Mansion. Blowing away, the artificial intelligence girl who instinctively recognized this light as some kind of extraordinary blow stood up subconsciously, trying to set up her most powerful magic shield to defend, but after a hundredth of a second, she realized Come here, that is the trail left by the master of this city, Joshua van Radcliffe.

"Joshua? Your sudden landing will scare many people..."

Because she stood up, No. 3's magic power projection fell from the edge of the top floor of the Lord's Mansion. It looked like a girl committed suicide by jumping off the building. She approached Joshua who had already landed on the top floor of the Lord's Mansion, but still turned her back, and then complained rather dissatisfied: "If you have to land a little harder, the top floor of the castle will be crushed by you... Wow! "

In the middle of speaking, No. 3 suddenly exclaimed, because Joshua suddenly turned around at this moment, and pressed his hands on her shoulders. Feeling the soldier's heavy hands, the girl's words began to tremble: "Jo... Joshua , what are you doing? Wait, what's wrong with you?"

Although she lost her composure for a while because of Joshua's sudden action, No. 3 quickly recovered her normal tone. She raised her head to look at Joshua's face, and was surprised to find that there was a strange look in the soldier's eyes. red light. Although the people in the Radcliffe family were born with red pupils, the red light is not pure red, but some kind of divine radiance from the depths of the soul: "Your eyes are shining—that The light is weird, but it has an inexplicable sacredness and majesty!"

"The situation is urgent."

Joshua spoke at this time, with a heavy tone, and he said in a word: "But I have guessed that this moment will come... On the 3rd, didn't I ask you to help keep some information last time? Now it is time to use It's about time."

"So fast? Has it reached this point?"

Although she was still a little surprised by Joshua's abnormal behavior, when No. 3 heard that she was going to use "that thing", she understood and was very surprised. She had probably guessed Joshua's state at this time Le: "Okay, let go first, I will retrieve the information right away."

Hearing this, Joshua silently let go of the hand on No. 3's shoulder, and the artificial intelligence girl rubbed her shoulder and sighed: "I didn't believe you would get there so quickly...but the plan couldn't keep up." Variety."

"indeed so."

Joshua replied that he saw No. 3 closing his eyes, releasing a hazy violet light all over his body. Under her control, a huge flow of information was raised from the rune crystal of the main body, and then gathered on the girl's chest. After a while, No. 3 opened her eyes again, her face was slightly pale, and on the chest she held in both hands, a group of fist-sized silver lights that seemed to be beating like a heart were releasing steel-like light.

The girl silently handed it to the soldier, and Joshua took over the steel power that he had given to No. 3 at the beginning. He held it in the palm of his hand, and his whole body began to look like San Hao, with a hazy silver light flowing. This mass of steel contained a huge amount of information, and it took even Joshua a lot of time to fully digest it. After a long time, the soldier let out a long breath, and said in a low voice: "Based on comparison, the erosion has already reached this serious level in less than a year."

"Joshua, what's wrong with you?"

Slowly approaching the warrior, No. 3 stood by Joshua's side with her hands behind her back. She poked her head out and asked in a low voice, "You're a little rude today—you weren't like this before."

"It's my fault. Inadvertently, the influence of divinity has begun to manifest."

Completely integrating the light cluster of steel power in his hand into himself, at this moment the red light in Joshua's eyes became silent, and then gradually replaced by silver radiance. The soldier was silent for a while, and then said in a slightly tired tone: "After I discovered that the power of steel can store all my own information, I had such an idea in my mind, that is to store some of my key thoughts The logic is simplified into an algorithm similar to artificial intelligence, and then stored in your ontology. It is a benchmark that can always determine my own spiritual changes. Through you, I can review my own thinking changes at any time, so as not to be careless Bewitched by evil gods or other legendary powerhouses without realizing it."

"I didn't think it was necessary before..." No. 3 shook his head and sighed.

"Now it seems that it is necessary. I must be careful. The most terrifying thing about demons and evil gods is not the destructive power, but the ability to corrupt people's hearts without knowing it. I have always been vigilant against this, and I have done a good job. Prepare for the worst. The funny thing is that for so long, the enemy has been unable to defeat me, neither demons nor evil gods have corrupted my mind, but my divinity—I am changing myself.”

At this time, Joshua, through the logic of his previous thinking stored in the No. 3 body, quickly noticed some subtleties of the gradual transformation in the depths of his soul. Comparing one by one, he found that his general direction has not changed much, but his personality has indeed become more radical than before.

Although the fighters in the past were aggressive, they didn't always attack people when they encountered them. Although lunatics and belligerents sound similar, they are two different things in the final analysis. If others are unwilling, then Joshua will not force them to do so.

But this time... I met that ancient dragon.

Thinking of this, Joshua took a deep breath. This breath swallowed almost all the free energy around the lord's mansion and even above the main city of Moldalvi, and even temporarily formed a death magic field. And this action calmed him down a little.

After seeing that ancient dragon, Joshua felt the desire in his heart... no, it was not a desire, but a strong, natural instinct, an irresistible impulse that made him want to kill Kill the opponent, and plunder everything from the opponent. He wanted to swallow that ancient dragon's skin and cramps, even the flesh and bones.

Killing, destroying, fighting, evolving... The impulse from nowhere is transforming his soul.

Because of the frantic killing of millions of void monsters in the star world, some of Joshua's characteristics are merging unconsciously, and divinity is growing in his body, as if cheering their holders Step by step to confirm the truth they represent. The divinity truly recognized him and regarded him as the representative of all killing and destruction, fighting and evolution in the world.

It recognizes him and wants him to be it.

No one has ever been able to reach this step so quickly. When No. 3 learned what Joshua was worried about at the beginning, he also felt unbelievable—because according to what Ogel and Xing Zheng said at the beginning, after reaching this step, the It was a prelude to ascension to the gods, but the former ascension to the gods needed hundreds of years of savings to barely touch that barrier. But the artificial intelligence girl doesn't know that at the far end of the multiverse, there is a civilization that worships the warrior in her eyes as a true god, and his belief has begun to spread on a planet-by-planet basis. An honor that cannot be obtained.

The inevitable coincidence has caused the current situation.

The killing in the world of stars and the faith he gained in the world of stars, for Joshua, are just what he should have done and the rewards he should have received, but it is because he regards all this as ordinary. The cognition of things perfectly meets the conditions of divinity. Seeing the performance of the warrior after the ancient dragon this time is a sign of some kind of subtle influence: Joshua completely ignored the fact that the other party is also an intelligent life. The next time they meet, they will fight to the death with that mighty behemoth.

As a pure fighter agent, this kind of thinking is understandable. But he's Joshua, a human Joshua van Radcliffe, and there's something wrong with that.

"I'm not in a good state recently. On the 3rd, I need you to be by my side all the time, and I need to always confirm that my thinking is not wrong."

With No. 3, Joshua slowly walked into the lord's mansion. He came to the second floor and entered a room he rarely entered. Joshua sat on his big chair, frowned and closed his eyes. Said in a somewhat tired tone: "Thinking about it carefully, the challenge to Igor is also—how could I not understand the strength of the old pope? Even if he doesn't rely on the speed of light field, he can defeat me with his strong strength. It's just time." It'll just be a little longer."

Then, he was silent for a while. Joshua recalled William's words. William's title is the master of mind, the controller of the heart, and he is the strongest spellcaster in the field of psionic energy and mind in the world. His perception of his own spirit is strong enough, but not strong enough, and has not reached the limits of his own mind.

"Is it the ultimate soul... Indeed, I still lack this. Even if I reach the legend, I have not yet become the most perfect form."

Leaning his back on the back of the chair, Joshua muttered to himself. He knew that before he went to find the trace of the ancient dragon, he might need to consult some people. Otherwise, before the next battle, the current self may lose control at any time, and he is completely an unstable bomb. God knows if he will attack his comrades when he rises.

And just when Joshua was thinking about how he should be able to resist the erosion of his divinity and reach the limit of his mind, he suddenly felt that a pair of hands wrapped around his neck from the back and hugged his head .

"Okay, Joshua, don't worry too much."

A gentle and gentle voice came from behind the soldier. No. 3 stood behind Joshua. She whispered into his ear in a calm and gentle tone, "This is the first time I've seen you so worried. Even in the face of the evil god's apostle and the natural disasters brought down by the evil god, you have never shown such an expression."

"Such a terrifying enemy can't make you lose face. Does facing your own instinct make you feel scared?"

"No, it's just..."

Joshua originally wanted to explain, but then, he closed his mouth. The soldier stretched out his hand and released the girl's arm that was holding his neck. He stood up and said with a light smile, "I didn't expect that I was comforted by you. I really didn't expect that I would have such a weakness."

"Thanks, number three."

"What's there to be thankful for... In my eyes, you have never changed."

Let go, No. 3 shook his head, the artificial intelligence girl floating in mid-air stared at Joshua's back, but didn't continue talking.

No matter what other people think, Joshua is in my eyes.

You who saved me from the dying world of Karliss.

Always the same hero.