Over the years, Joshua has seen many strange things, including various magic books and magic books.
Summoning monsters and bringing misfortune is simply commonplace for these books, the basis of the foundation. In fact, whether it is about killing people to absorb life and souls, or beguiling people to seduce people into signing contracts, even the entire book will change. He has seen girls or tentacles fighting with people, but no matter what - a book can actually take the initiative to run away from people. This is the first time he has seen it in so many years.
In the hall, Joshua and Yingying looked at each other, and then the warrior took a step forward and continued to reach out to grab the parchment book with a light brown cover.
But strange things continued to happen - the book trembled, and then took a step forward and hid a little further away.
Frowning, Joshua continued to step forward and reached out to grab it, but somehow the reaction speed of the book was just as fast. Just as the warrior walked forward, it also flashed and ran into the room. corner.
“…”
His expression darkened completely, and Joshua stopped playing around. His eyes became cold and he narrowed his eyes slightly: "What's going on?"
The soldier's voice had no fluctuations, as if he was serious: "Can you hide? The speed doesn't seem to be slow. It seems that Alfonso has indeed bought a genuine product. This kind of book is indeed not a mortal thing."
After he finished speaking, his feet trembled slightly, and the soles of his feet vibrated rapidly. His whole body suddenly accelerated to the point where it could surpass the sound, and sprinted towards the book. The warrior stretched out his right hand, breaking the atmosphere, and sending out white shock waves. At the same time as the mist was released, it made a sharp and harsh noise.
At this time, even this strange book couldn't react. When the strong wind was about to hit the body, it seemed to want to escape, but a big hand as strong as a steel bar and iron pliers reached out and grabbed it firmly. its body.
After using a little strength, Joshua successfully grabbed the magic book.
Around him, although the floor was not broken under careful control, the tables and chairs were overturned by the shock wave brought by the previous supersonic speed. And the strange thing was that this book had been struggling and seemed to want to escape. When the strange book fell into Joshua's hands, it no longer struggled. Instead, it lay quietly in the warrior's hands like a real book, completely unable to see the lively look it had before.
This reminded Joshua of some cunning animals in the forest, who would pretend to be dead.
"This is really strange."
Raising his eyebrows, Joshua said to Yingying, who was straightening the tables and chairs and arranging the furniture, "Why does a book have the power of its own initiative?"
"...could it be said that it is an object with self-awareness like us?"
The silver-haired girl thought for a while, and then came to a conclusion happily: "Are they the same kind?"
"Probably not."
The warrior shook his head, as if he didn't agree with the answer. He looked at the magic book in his hand, glanced at it a few times and said: "No trace of the soul was found. It was probably an instinctive reaction, or it had been written long ago. Automated reactive measures.”
But what exactly is the reaction that causes a book to wander
This kind of thinking was fruitless, so Joshua simply gave up thinking about this problem. He directly held the spine of the book with one hand and the cover with the other, preparing to open it and take a look.
But another strange thing happened
This book cannot be opened.
Stunned for a moment, Joshua tried back and forth several times, but the result was the same every time—he couldn't open the book, as if it had been locked, and he couldn't turn a page.
This time, he couldn't help laughing, but after laughing, Joshua frowned again.
The magic book that cannot be opened is actually quite normal. After all, the magic book originally records the life experience of a certain spellcaster at the ultimate level or even above. In addition, it also records Containing all kinds of terrible forbidden magic, or recording information about the evil god's corruption, these books even have many seals on them, and it is not easy to open them.
After all, the Book of Ebon was the Great Magic Book that destroyed Ares Fortress and summoned several Terraria Abyss Worms in its previous life. It has some strange features that are difficult for ordinary people to understand, which is normal.
- But Joshua was too lazy to care about these messy things - He took a deep breath now, and then the flames of fighting spirit began to flow all over his body, a powerful shock wave was released, and the power of steel gathered in the body of the warrior, transforming into Invisible power surged into his hands.
The body of the golden powerhouse has initially been combined with energy, and it can explode in an instant with powerful power that has nothing to do with physical fitness. At this time, Joshua didn't believe that he couldn't open this book!
But before he could take action, Yingying's slightly panicked voice came: "Wait, Master, don't use force here!"
"Master, stop it!"
Rin, who had been cleaning up the tableware with the maids before, now hurried back. He looked at Joshua, who had a calm face but a vindictive light shining all over his body, and said hurriedly: "Don't mess around in the house, Master. Whatever happens, you should go outside!"
Even No. 3 couldn't calm down. Her projection appeared in mid-air, and she also persuaded: "Yes, Joshua, the movement caused by your actions is too great. This book does look extraordinary. If you want to If you want to open it up, let’s try it in a more spacious place.”
"… Right."
Since everyone said so, Joshua would not forcefully open this strange book in the Lord's Mansion. In fact, the soldier also realized that the essence of this matter was not that he could not open the book, but that he could not open it. It's a question of whether he can use all his strength in his own home... The new lord's mansion has just been built, how can he use all his strength like before!
Therefore, Joshua took a breath and the fighting spirit dissipated from his body, then took the magic book in his hand and walked outside.
Hotaru and Rin also exhaled, and together they pushed the trolley where the core of No. 3 body was, and followed the warrior all the way.
Soon after, the four of them arrived at the outskirts of the main city.
Now, the snow on the extremely cold ice fields has gradually melted, and on the endless white plains, there are now black earth and patches of green grass. However, Joshua did not pay attention to these scenery at this time. All his attention was Focus on the parchment in your hand.
The brown cover, the name written in strange words, the texture of sheepskin... except that it can run on its own, it is obviously just an ordinary book, but why can't it be opened
The warrior shook his head.
Then the next moment, he burst out with all his strength, and the red fighting spirit was burning. Joshua must open this book today!
boom!
The aftermath of the huge force blew away the remaining ice, snow and black soil around him, and the extremely powerful impact swept across all directions. Except for the small piece of land under Joshua, a large area of land centered on him was destroyed. A layer of it was scraped off, and smoke and dust spread everywhere, engulfing the soldier's figure.
The impact gradually subsided and the smoke dissipated.
And in the gradually falling dust and mist, a voice came.
"If you can't open it, it won't break."
Frowning deeply, Joshua, who was standing on the only intact ground, looked at the undamaged book in his hand and muttered to himself: "I didn't even think about opening it just now, I just wanted to open it." I just tore it into pieces to prevent it from causing bad consequences again. I didn’t expect that it would have no effect... It seems that this book is really related to the abyss demon or evil god. Even if the ultimate mage really appeared in front of me, his magic shield Not that tough."
The power of the golden strongman can reach levels unimaginable by ordinary people when it explodes with all its strength. The gate of the main city of Moldavia is a huge solid block of steel, which is integrally shaped by the black steel furnace of the rune dwarves underground. It weighs about 4,500 tons. When pressed down by such a behemoth, even a solid piece of iron will be crushed into a discus and sink into the ground. However, Joshua can break it with one hand when he explodes with all his strength. Lift.
But even a burst of power of this level cannot tear open the book - so there is no doubt that this cannot be a crazy book written by a powerful magician, but a book of evil gods that must come from chaos and demons. .
"The material of the book itself is not mysterious, it is just pure sheepskin and ape skin."
Joshua didn't intend to use brute force now. He squinted his eyes and carefully checked the material of the book: "The back cover is made of human skin patches. It is indeed an evil book... It seems to be what I thought. What is special is not the book, but the things recorded in it.”
In this world full of magic and fighting spirit, holy light and demons, words are also powerful.
Legend has it that at the beginning of ancient times, the [Rune] born from the primordial fire claimed to have the power to reproduce all phenomena in the world, and the [Inscription] that appeared on the Origin Steel had the ability to make people's wishes come true.
Not to mention these, even the ancient dragon language, high elf language, and the initial common language of mankind have magic-like power, not to mention the words passed down by the evil gods wandering in the void.
Text soaked and infected by the power of chaos, written on even the most fragile mortal objects, will become extremely difficult to destroy. This is why the Church of the Seven Gods has a holy light specially used for purification. That is precisely to target these products of chaos that are extremely difficult to destroy.
"The existence of the evil god cannot be known to ordinary people. The more people know about it, the more people will become the carriers of the power contained in the evil name. These eroded beings can also gain forbidden power through sacrifice and corruption. , but the evil god will also take advantage of this opportunity to spread his power to this world."
Gently repeating what he knew about the evil god through the old butler a long time ago, Joshua couldn't help but have a deeper understanding of this sentence. He thought of the fallen black dragon that he killed, and in the end it The corpses were eroded and turned into invisible monsters: "For these terrifying existences, their power can reside in everything. Even a simple record in a book is an extremely powerful force. If you know the evil god, you will be If too many people are eroded, it might really be possible for those monsters to invade directly."
Looking at the book in his hand, Joshua nodded slightly, and said to himself: "I roughly understand that this book probably only contains some information about the evil god and gained forbidden power, so it has some instincts. The reaction is that it stays away from me just because I have the power of order that is enough to destroy it."
"Rin, take this book."
"Eh, me? Okay."
The black-haired boy standing in the distance was stunned for a moment when he heard his master's call, but then he immediately ran to Joshua's side and took the book from his hand.
While handing the book to Rin, Joshua's aura suddenly began to decrease rapidly. Before, the warrior's existence was like a blazing volcano, extremely hot and eye-catching, but now, at best, it is The size of a match - in the daytime when the sun is a little brighter, even if you look carefully, you can't see it at all.
And just when Joshua's breath completely disappeared into nature, although the book in Rin's hands was still unsettled, it no longer had any momentum to break away, even if the warrior was standing next to it, is also like this.
"Come and open this book."
Joshua asked, looking very interested.
Rin did as he was told - although the black-haired boy was a little skeptical. His master had been unable to open it before with all his strength. He was just a divine machine. Is this possible
But in fact, he opened the book quite easily, just as easily as an ordinary person flipping through a book.
Sure enough it opened.
Joshua looked at this scene and thought to himself: "As long as it's not me."
At this moment, time and space fluctuated.
In the distance, in a jungle in a mountain range, a white-haired old man stopped his measuring work.
Nostradamus, who was looking for a suitable site to build a mage college in the North, raised his eyebrows. He turned back with some confusion and looked behind him.
"Is this... the breath of the abyss?"
The old mage murmured to himself: "How come, the breath of the evil god is just that, why does the breath of the abyss appear in the North..."
In the void, a huge roar came, as if some evil and huge monster was traveling through the narrow passage of time and space and came to this world.
As the Book of Ebon unfolded, bursts of strange black-red mist filled the air from its pages, shrouding the surroundings and releasing terrifying pressure.
"Boom!"
The sound of huge footsteps came almost immediately.
Tear it apart.
A sharp claw appears.
Under the erosion of the black mist, the fragile time and space was torn apart.
The extremely vicious aura spread, and a huge crack opened in time and space. Two huge red lights lit up in the black fog. A huge and terrifying humanoid monster stared at the world coldly from the other side of the crack in time and space. .
However, it saw Joshua standing in the black mist, in front of the rift in time and space.
There was also a red light flashing in the warrior's eyes, and the corners of his mouth were raised with a calm smile.
This monster was stunned.
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(No shadows, how many times have I told you, Queen, don’t go into the shadows! The joke comes from dota2)
Originally I wanted to divide it into two chapters, but I thought about merging them together, and then I just finished it now. Originally, I finished the first half at noon...
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