Soul of Burning Steel

Whether Joshua could feel the fear, no one knew.

But at this time, the moods of Priest and the others fluctuated greatly, from extreme fear to extreme joy, and they have gone back and forth seven or eight times.

"Are we alive now? It feels like we're going to die anyway."

Standing by the observation deck of the Acrafa hub, the caster said to himself with a numb face—it was not surprising that this question appeared, because he really couldn't figure out whether he was alive or dead.

From the very beginning, everyone was very excited when they saw the natural force of the natural teacher appearing in the high places of the sky, because no matter who came, it proved that the powerhouses of the Mycroft world had received their signal, Get here as fast as you can.

But then, when they saw countless tentacles of chaos erupting from the depths of the ground, showing a hideous and terrifying posture of destroying the world, everyone's hearts immediately sank to the bottom of the valley. Looking at this posture, it seems that even the legendary strongman can't get it Well, what's more, can the Acrafa hub where they are located really resist the erosion of these chaos before the arrival of the legendary powerhouse?

Soon, the prepared counterattack of the Acrafa hub, and the two incidents of the counterattack being disintegrated by the weakened wave of the weakened evil god, once again made the elite team and Sur feel ups and downs, and performed a perfect 360-degree rotation. , and the sweeping attack carried out by the natural teacher once again brought hope to everyone.

Four gigantic tentacles extend into the planet's ground, and the battle between order and chaos seems to have reached a fever pitch.

However, after a short moment, the four tentacles pulled out in a hurry, as if fleeing a disaster.

—— Chaos is so terrifying that even a legendary powerhouse is afraid of it!

When Priest saw this scene, he was overwhelmed with all kinds of complicated emotions. He didn't think that the legendary powerhouse would dare to face the evil god, but the facts proved that facing the source of chaos inside the planet, perhaps the ordinary legend It was indeed not the opponent... But he didn't see any traces of chaos erosion on the tentacles that were pulled out, which were as huge as mountains.

why? He obviously didn't have the upper hand.

He knew the answer soon enough.

Because the world barrier was completely shattered in a bang, the Moldavian resident, the student of the Winterhold Champion Academy, the member of the Empire's Foreign Exploration Department, and the Earl of the Northland, Priest Omni felt that his teacher The violent and trembling breath.

By the way, there is also a giant void beast that is almost half the size of the planet and is constantly struggling.

"My teacher..." After everything was explained, the young soldier couldn't help moaning, "It turns out that you are here..."

"The Seven Gods are above..."

Watching this scene, the crystal ball that the cleric kept playing with fell to the ground. He was dumbfounded as he watched the huge stars in the sky fall straight down at an unimaginable speed. The bright flames were even more dazzling than the sun. Light up the whole world.

The knight sat on the ground, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and watched in horror that September in the sky was disturbed by the sudden appearance of the star, spinning and descending crazily in an unusually terrifying trend, flying in the void.

"Wow!"

Su Er rolled her eyes, as if she wanted to faint directly, but since she fainted once before, she was still very conscious and could only wake up crying without tears, and then hugged Prius who had long been numb Special hands——As for the alchemist, he poured himself a bottle of courage potion that claimed to be able to face the dragon's power, but it was obviously useless. How can the pressure that is approaching from the sky be comparable to that of a mere dragon? The alchemist suspected that he would not be of any use if he vomited, but in order to block his mouth that could not help making noises, he kept pouring potions on himself.

There is only the repair beam of light, which is about to move around in the hall, wriggling its own beam-like form, as if it wants to fly directly into the sky, but soon, the only one who is relatively sober among the crowd, Purui Sturt immediately took control of the Akrafa Hub, issuing perhaps the loudest order he'd had in a while.

"The full defense system is on-don't care about what can be far away, everything is overloaded!!!"

And at the same time that the Acrafa hub, which faithfully followed the instructions, wrapped itself in seven or eight layers of shields of the Void Battleship level of the Era of Glory.

Accompanied by the Cancer and the Iron Giant, they crashed down with an unstoppable momentum.

The planet shakes.

First of all, it is the matter that explodes.

With the back of the Void Cancer as the contact point, a large amount of soil, seawater, and rock formations that hit the edge are like squeezed butter, gasified in the terrifying frictional heat, boiled, and then flew out of the atmosphere, and more substances were Like the ripples splashed by water waves, while spreading the waves in other directions of the planet, they are directly thrown into the icy vacuum.

Immediately afterwards, the torn fragmented atmosphere and shock waves.

In an instant, all the trees on the surface of the planet were destroyed. The high-heat shock wave mixed with the earthquake that turned the soil into water waves, distorted, and ignited the entire world. This force broke up the entire atmosphere and turned it into a ball floating in a vacuum. Irregular clouds and mist, the evaporated sea water continuously increased the size of this cloud and mist, and even condensed into balls of water balls in a vacuum.

Finally, there is the division of the planet.

The crust shattered, and the mantle did not become a prototype. Under the impact of the extinct star, a planet collapsed like this. It can be seen that countless small pieces of material debris were thrown away at a rapid speed, and those large pieces of the planet's crust were also quickly disintegrated. Will catch up to... no.

Although both the atmosphere and the small pieces of ground disintegrated and collapsed with the violent impact, the large crust of the sealed world was not completely broken, and was thrown into the vacuum, turning into a group of asteroids, accompanied by layers of dark Most of the matter is absorbed by an inexplicable force, maintaining the original state, maintaining the existence of a planet.

But at this time, the battle between Joshua and the Great Khan seemed to make the two of them not notice this.

At this time, the materialized body of the furious Great Khan's soul began to gradually become thinner, and it was as huge as half a planet. At the same time, Joshua felt as if an invisible syringe was inserted straight into his brain with a painful and uncomfortable medicine.

Although it is said that Joshua has no brain at this time, and his whole body is covered with "immortal units" that can be used for calculation and thinking, but this feeling is roughly the same as described in human language. The disgusting feeling of a person is like being rooted into the cortex by a seed, infiltrated into the flesh by a fungal spore to grow, the invisible hammer of the soul strikes and strikes every computing element that the warrior can use for thinking, and in a sound Amidst the dull knocking sound, there was something huge and abnormal being forcibly nailed into his soul.

It's the Great Khan.

It is the soul of the Great Khan.

Eight-legged fungi were not originally eight-legged.

As a special variant of some kind of zombie fungus, their souls were born due to the natural rich environment of their hometown, and their self-awareness was born very early because of the independent thinking organ of the soul.

At that time, the eight-legged fungus was just a race that parasitized on small insect creatures such as ants and bees.

All the process is long, difficult, and reasonable. With the unity of wisdom and instinct, the eight-legged fungi quickly ensured the continuation and existence of their own civilization community. Taking the short life and death as an advantage, the eight-legged fungus generation after generation A generation evolved rapidly, grew bigger, and made their bodies and souls more complex and closer to magic. Soon, in the biological history, it was not long at all, and it could even be said to be a short million years. The thinking ability that can be called wisdom was born, and the thick mushroom body that is complex enough to use magic power was born.

After that, not only insects, but also reptiles with more complex brains, and mammals can also become the targets of their parasitism and control.

This is the beginning of the shepherd civilization.

Eight-legged, Void Cancer? No, this has never been the body of a shepherd. For a shepherd whose body lives and dies, only the soul remains immortal, it is the soul that can truly represent their essence.

But now, the Great Khan, who has already achieved the achievement of materializing the soul and possesses the spirits of twenty-four giant void beasts at the same time, has decisively rushed his soul into Joshua's spiritual sea. .

Eat brains? control nerves? This is something that shepherds stopped doing a long time ago. If it wasn't for a body that can move smoothly in the material world and express emotions, no shepherd would insist on maintaining his weird bacteria column, but Directly occupy the bodies of other low-intelligence creatures by the method of soul erosion.

Great Khan, too.

Fighting in the material world is not what it is good at. It has to start directly from the spiritual aspect to completely erode this powerful enemy!

In the vast dark spiritual sea, Joshua's soul incarnation lives in the center, quietly watching countless mycelium spores rain down from the sky, eroding the entire spiritual space.

He doesn't seem to be in a hurry, even if all the spiritual space is occupied, it means that his soul has lost its residence.

"Fungus, so that's the case. It's a hostile creature like the plague god's mother civilization and Herras."

The soldier murmured to himself, somewhat understanding why the other party was able to control so many void behemoths. As for parasites, he has nothing against them. Just like humans eat cattle and sheep, parasites' parasitism is just another kind of food. For this, he smiled slightly: "I want to eat my soul!" ? It’s still quick thinking.”

"Is this your soul? Ancestral star devourers, you have been corroded by fear, that's why you have never walked out of this lost galaxy in such a long time."

In the sea of ​​spirits, the vibration of the Great Khan's soul resounded in the countless wriggling hyphae. This vibration ignored the language and directly inserted the meaning of the words into another soul. This powerful eight-legged fungus said in a cold tone: "Short , thin, shallow, not worth mentioning, even the leader of my group is better than you in terms of soul."

This is indeed the case - the great Khan's soul is so huge that it can manifest in the spiritual space as huge as a void behemoth, and Joshua's soul incarnation is only as big as the giant steel giant. The size of a mere human.

The soul will not lie, the difference in size is the difference in strength.

But Joshua wasn't angry about it... He didn't need to be angry either. The soldier shook his head indifferently, then grabbed the point of interest in the other party's words and asked: "Ancestor, the long time, and the Lost Galaxy?"

"Your views on this galaxy of the world seem to be very strange, can you explain in detail?"

When he said this, Joshua didn't seem to have the slightest sense of urgency. Naturally, the spiritual space moved extremely fast, and he didn't have to worry about the evil god waking up during this time. Secondly, he seemed to have a plan in mind, and he didn't seem to be concerned about the gap between the two souls. worry.

——As long as you explain it well, then it's not impossible to spare your lives in the future.

The Great Khan naturally didn't know what was going on in Joshua's mind, it just didn't understand Joshua's lack of resistance, so - even if the soul was weak, as the master of the sea of ​​spirits, the warrior should have used various The local advantage hindered his erosion, but for some reason, the other party remained motionless and allowed himself to be eroded... It is worthless not to talk about this kind of news, even if it is to maintain the other party's inaction, the Great Khan feels that telling the other party this It's definitely not a problem to order news that everyone outside knows.

"You who have been isolated from the world for at least 12,000 years, have you completely forgotten the galaxy outside and your once glorious identity? You don't even know the galaxy you are in... It's really sad."

Laughing at Joshua's ignorance, but even so, the Great Khan's tone is serious and respectful when he speaks of the ancestral civilization and the catastrophe of the multiverse at least 12,000 years ago. The splendor and generosity of the former ancestor civilization, praise the virtues of the other party to promote unenlightened life, even the shepherds have obtained huge benefits because of the ancestor civilization, they will not forget this kindness, so remember all this in the Heart.

"The ancestral civilization blocked the army of the World Eaters, blocked all the World Eaters in its own world galaxy, and did not let half of the World Eaters leave... So although everything happened very suddenly, all outside civilizations The prototype survived and developed into what it is today."

Speaking of this, Great Khan let out a cold snort: "But don't think too much - what we respect is the original ancestor civilization, not the guy who has been huddled in this lost galaxy and hasn't made any progress for thousands of years! "

While talking, the Great Khan eroded the spiritual space as much as possible, but in the process of eroding, it found in confusion that Joshua still had no thought of 'resisting' at this time, but lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

"Ancestral civilization... How does it sound like a combination of the Sanctuary Alliance and the Era of Glory? Maybe there are a few other shadows of void civilizations that are not as advanced as the Era of Glory and the Sanctuary Alliance, but are still considered powerful..."

Joshua's soul incarnation muttered to himself, seemingly lost in thought: "The World Eater is the evil god. That so-called war, if there are no accidents, should be the last battle of the year."

However, one happened 1,200 years ago.

One occurred at least 12,000 years ago.

Is spacetime dilation?

But it's too long...

The Milky Way was moved to the edge of the multiverse, and the gap between civilization and the outside world was more than ten thousand years due to the expansion of time and space. Joshua raised his head and looked at the mycelium in front of him.

For these shepherds, for these civilizations of the galaxy in the outer world, more than ten thousand years have passed since that war. The old wars have become dusty myths, and the old myths have become fragmented ancient rumors. Time' is the strongest force in the world, covered up by the greatest illusion, no one knows the specifics of everything that happened back then.

This is a kind of 'seal'.

Joshua suddenly understood the meaning of all this.

Yes, this is a seal—far stronger and more reliable than all magic circles, far more reliable and reliable than all suppression. This is a prison called time, a seal called years!

The effect of space-time expansion makes the millennium in the Mycroft world become ten thousand years in the outside world, turning the galaxy of the multiverse upside down and turning the world around. In this short thousand years, the starfall civilization that grew up from the remains of the glorious civilization has just taken a step forward. , but the evil gods of the outside world have been preparing for thousands of years, and are about to embark on the next trip of destruction to tour the world.

"We turned out to be a sealed civilization."

Joshua suddenly realized. He raised his head, looked at the pitch-black spiritual sea above the sky, and whispered to himself: "Under this trick of manipulating time, it is only now that I realize this... brilliant, too clever. This This kind of seal moisturizes things silently, neither the sealed person nor the bystanders can see anything wrong."

Talking to himself, the warrior is not talking, he can only hear the sound of hyphae erosion in the spiritual sea, and the Great Khan naturally cannot understand Joshua's psychological changes at this time, and can only attribute it to "shocked by the truth" powerlessness to resist'.

"Wait, why... I have been eroding for so long, and it seems that I haven't occupied much space in this spiritual sea"

But gradually, even the Great Khan gradually realized something was wrong: "How big is this spiritual sea?! Impossible, how can such a weak soul have such a large spiritual space?!"

At the same time, a laughter that seemed to be suppressed, but finally became more and more bold came from the center of this spiritual sea.

"Haha...hahahahaha!! Sealing with so many means, even distorting time."

Looking up at the black high sky, Joshua seemed to be able to see the infinite stars of the multiverse outside at this time, he laughed loudly, and laughed happily and heartily.

"Take the galaxy out of the multiverse and place it in a corner on the edge to compress time... It turns out that 'He' is also afraid!"

The Great Khan couldn't understand what the weird guy in front of him was laughing at. It was just disturbed by the laughter, so it impatiently stretched out a column of mushrooms, ruthlessly towards Joshua's position. Hit it hard.

It knows that this move is useless, no matter how weak Joshua's soul is, it has the power to move freely in the spiritual space, so it is too lazy to strangle the opposite soul, but erodes the spiritual space wholeheartedly, from the root Cut off the source of the warrior's soul everywhere.

But soon, Great Khan discovered that something was wrong.

Joshua didn't dodge the mushroom column that was pulled down with all his strength, nor was he shattered by the blow.

The warrior raised his hand and stretched out his index finger. With a soul volume that was not stronger than that of an ordinary extreme powerhouse, he blocked this spiritual blow that was far beyond the ordinary legend and could bombard his entire soul into powder.

"To be honest, your soul is indeed very powerful. I guess that even the spiritual teacher William is not as good as you in terms of pure soul strength, and his skills should be similar. He must be a match against you in a battle with you, and you will meet a good talent. Maybe that bard will lose to you, everything is possible."

Stop laughing, perhaps because in his own spiritual space, the thoughts in his heart are directly translated into words, Joshua shook his head: "It's a pity, since the last time we exchanged ideas, William never played this kind of mental game with me again. I don't know his current strength."

While talking, the soldier picked a bit casually, and immediately, the fungus pillar of the Great Khan broke from the root, and then was crushed by an inexplicable force, turning into milky white soul light, dissipating in this darkness, silence spiritual space.

"I don't actually have a soul—to be precise, my thinking organs are powerful enough to fight and think at super high speeds without a soul. It's just for the convenience of incarnation, so I shape a little soul for you to see."

Looking at the Great Khan, who seemed to have sensed something was wrong, and was constricting his soul power to prepare for an attack, Joshua smiled indifferently: "From the very beginning, I was invincible without a soul, let alone , you still have a lot of things you don’t know, for example, my spiritual space is called ‘Soul Abyss’ by others.”

Having said that, ripples began to appear in the spiritual space around the warrior, with Joshua at the center, the pitch-black, silent spiritual sea, suddenly began to set off violent winds and waves, and everything began to twist and shake violently. With endless howls and screams, roars and wailings, accompanied by the sound of desolate and heroic horns that seemed to come from afar, the endless sea of ​​undead, the bones of souls, passed through the distorted space like this, out of thin air Appeared everywhere above the spiritual sea.

Boundless, inexhaustible--the number cannot be counted, but even the smallest estimates exceed millions of millions.

The deep and dark spiritual sea is no longer as calm as it used to be. In the deep bottom of the darkness and emptiness, countless voices of existence can be heard praising and singing. They are old people, children, men, women, human beings, and others. Beasts, they praise, scream, curse, sing, they sometimes moan, sometimes scold, sometimes whisper, sometimes chuckle.

The wreckage of countless beasts, humans, alien races, and chaotic monsters are flying in the air, hovering, soaring, and cruising. They roll, jump, expand, and shrink, like a nightmare within a nightmare. The sea of ​​spirits hovered and mixed together, they condensed together, and finally turned into the most naked hatred, the strongest killing intent, and the most undisguised malice.

And Joshua stood in the midst of endless malice. He stretched out his hand and stroked the skull of a wrecked monster, not paying any attention to the stinky blood and its wailing, and all the undead bowed down when they approached him. Worshiping, as if bowing down to the human being who killed them, the giant god who destroyed everything.

Huge eyeballs composed of countless wreckage, broken weapons, blood, skulls, burning metal, icy wind and sand, damaged city walls and fortresses, magma and other things full of destruction and death appeared behind the soldiers. , at its pupils is a star that has been swallowed up in half and lost its star core. The hollow star is spinning, releasing a breath of death.

Stared at by the huge eyes of the dead, the Great Khan felt a cold feeling spreading deep in his soul. Now, he must admit that he really underestimated the ancestor Star Devourer in front of him.

How many lives did he kill and how many existences did he destroy to have such terrifying evil thoughts lingering in the depths of his soul?

The question was left unanswered.

Because Joshua's last voice echoed in the midair of the world.

"For example, I actually know the little trick of 'mass-spirit transformation'."

The lingering sound disappeared, and the humanoid Joshua dissipated into patches of silver mist.

And the next moment, in the dark and huge depths of the spiritual sea far beyond the Great Khan's imagination, something seemed to be slowly rising.

Accompanied by the rapid descent of the endless black sea water, Joshua's spiritual space finally revealed its true shape - it was a bottomless and endless black abyss, and at the bottom of the abyss, there seemed to be some crimson abyss. Things are tumbling, and a giant god's hand that covers the sky and seems to be able to hold the whole world is stretching out from the depths of the abyss. It ignores all weak and useless counterattacks, and grabs the Great Khan directly. The transformed fungal body.

Puff.

Accompanied by a ridiculous sound, the giant god held it in his palm and pinched it gently, just like a person carefully pinching a sparrow in his palm, careful not to pinch it to death.

The eyes of the dead stared silently at all this.

Now.

Who is afraid?

Calvin is serious... Yesterday's update, today's update, let's see if I can write it tonight.

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