Once the wheels of destruction are on track, everything that happens next will be as uncontrollable as a wild horse running wild.
Babel province, capital, suburbs.
Because of the large amount of external magic brought by the cracks in time and space, clouds, haze, and endless winds and lightning spread outward from the center of Babel Province. Although the inexplicable element attenuation phenomenon slowed down this phenomenon in other provinces, As far as the area from the capital to Sapphire Harbor is concerned, the momentum has not stopped, but is getting bigger and bigger.
The original light rain in Babel Province has now turned into a heavy downpour. Everything is hidden in the endless rain curtain and darkness. Ordinary people cannot carry out any activities in this situation. Even if they stretch out their arms, they cannot see clearly. Where.
However, on the outskirts of the ruins outside the city, a group of golden light was shining. The light was bright and dark, as if it was beating with the breath.
This is the core of the half-dragon's chest. The originally active half-dragon is now lying on the ground like a docile cat or dog in the dark rain. The rainwater around it has evaporated into mist due to the high heat, and under it On the back, there is a human being holding a book and flipping through it.
Sitting on Hei's back, with the rain falling from around the red vindictive mask, Joshua was flipping through a book about the history of elves and stone demons in this world, and beside him, many of them had already been read, or Books still unread lay on display.
The top leaders of Babel Province still attached great importance to this unimaginably powerful warrior. Joshua simply made a request. Within half an hour, almost all the books that met the requirements and could be collected were placed on the His side.
Afterwards, most of the high-level officials went to plan disaster relief, because many elves hiding in their basements had their houses collapsed by the stone demon and could not escape. Now they were in urgent need of help. The downpour flowed into the basement along the cracks in the rocks. If not as soon as possible, Rescue, maybe all the refugees who survived within a few hours would return to the mother tree.
For this reason, Rolanda volunteered to help these elves go to the rescue. Originally, the elves did not have much expectations for this blond man in civilian clothes, but the paladin can detect all life within a few hundred meters in an instant. The aura still shocked them, but not many were surprised by the brute force that could easily tear apart the broken rocks and roof beams on the ruins and rescue people.
After all, he is the companion of the volcano dragon master, how could he not have anything special at all
Behind Joshua, Ying and Rin were talking quietly. The silver-haired girl's firefly-like pupils shone with misty fluorescence, while the black-haired boy's golden eyes also shone brightly. Due to the excessive excess of magic power, the two of them Meishenji felt that the energy in his body began to activate. While feeling a little panicked, the boy and girl felt that their power had increased. The conversation between them was to exchange mutual feelings.
But the soldier didn't pay attention to this. He frowned and flipped through the ancient books in his hands. Joshua devoted himself to it.
"This world once had a splendid magical civilization. The wars from the First Dynasty to the Third Dynasty were marked by countless active magicians. However, by the Fourth Dynasty, which was the last dynasty, only the elite were left among the elves. Even if an archer knows a little magic, it's just a trivial spell that doesn't matter."
"And about three hundred years ago, a meteorite crash in Tenge Bay may have been the first time stone demons came to this world, and the one more than two hundred years ago was the first large-scale invasion."
Muttered to himself, Joshua's voice was a bit puzzled, and his face looked very hesitant: "But this doesn't make sense. If the gradual decrease of magicians is the interference of the Chaos Evil God in the world, just like the Famine Evil God's intervention in the world of Kallis If we turn everything into a desolate wasteland as we did, then the arrival of the stone demon and the decay of the elements will not match the time."
It can be said that the decay of elements has been an ongoing problem since the elves have clearly recorded history, and no matter how much the signs of the emergence of stone demons and chaos are pushed forward, they can only stop at the time period three hundred years ago.
There is only one conclusion - the increasingly thinning elements of this world have nothing to do with magic and chaos, but have other reasons.
However, although he knew a lot about the continent called Ilgona, Joshua still didn't know much about the huge magic circle and the stone demon in the sky, and the elves had not yet laid eyes on it. Crossing the sky, they had no idea where the Apocalypse Array came from and what connection it had with the Stone Demon. This made the warriors who originally wanted to find some targeted information helpless.
This group of elves spent three hundred years and still knew nothing about the origins of their enemies.
And just as Joshua was sighing, a white holy light lit up in the distance. It kept getting closer and finally came to the side of the half-dragon.
"Joshua, do you have time?"
It was a steady male voice. Loranda's tone was slightly tired. He raised his head and said to the warrior sitting on the dragon's back: "Can you accompany me for a walk in the city?"
After thinking about it, Joshua thought it was okay. Since he couldn't get more information from the book for the time being, he might as well go for a walk around the city.
So he jumped off the dragon's back and walked with the paladin to the capital of Babel Province.
The entire journey was silent.
Passing through the suburbs and on the edge of the city, the two of them walked silently among the ruins in the center of the capital. The place was full of broken flesh and rubble, and the remains of countless elves and stone demons were scattered everywhere. The rain washed away the blood and internal organs, making the stinking smell worse. Strange, weird, and boring.
Joshua was naturally unaffected. He had experienced countless battlefields, even the orc battles in the northwest plains. The smell in the pile of corpses when he first woke up was much more disgusting than here, but Loranda's expression was different. It turned out to be more gloomy, even attracting the soldiers' attention.
This is not the look that a Paladin should have... But as long as you know his future, it is not surprising.
After noticing the warrior's gaze, Loranda's expression gradually returned to normal. He sighed slightly, and then spoke to Joshua in a low voice: "Seeing the miserable appearance of this world being invaded by Chaos always scares me. "
Raising his brows, Joshua knew that the paladin in front of him was by no means a timid person, and he must have a reason for saying this.
Sure enough, after being silent for a while, Loranda stood there. He looked around at the ruins and spoke slowly to the warriors: "I am not afraid of death, nor am I afraid of fighting. Fighting with the warriors of Chaos is the meaning of my life. One, my existence is to protect mankind, this is the consciousness that I must have as a Paladin and as one of the next generation successors of the Pope."
"But every time I fight Chaos, I can't help but think, what will happen if I fail?"
When he said these words, Loranda's face was covered with a layer of black mist, and his voice was in a trance: "My companions will be slaughtered, and my hometown will be ravaged, just like here."
As he spoke, the paladin stretched out his hand and pointed at the ruins in front of him. Under the power of the holy light, Joshua could vaguely hear the wail of resentful souls. It was caused by the death of countless elves at the hands of the stone demon, but the warrior was keen. I noticed that most of the resentful souls were quickly disappearing, as if they were being called by something in the distance.
But now is not the time to focus on that.
"In the battle against chaos, there is no room for failure. Even if there is a slight possibility, we cannot relax!"
Now, Loranda's expression seemed to contain deep-seated hatred and anger, and his voice seemed to be forced out of his chest: "All Chaos should die, no one left, no one left, but why? Why, Lord Godfather? Doesn’t he completely destroy the Plague Land? He is a legendary strongman and a god walking on earth, so doing this is nothing!”
The Plague Land, like the Sealed Land of Moldavia, is an area that seals Chaos. Just like the Radcliffe family has been exterminating the God of Desolation all year round, those places also require a large number of manpower to encircle and suppress the monsters in them from time to time.
Does this expression indicate that he lost some comrades in the battle with Chaos
Without the other person saying anything, Joshua could almost guess what happened just by looking at the other person's expression.
A paladin who was dedicated to protecting mankind began to doubt the meaning of his battle after his comrades died one after another. He began to regret, question, and resent all the causes of this matter - Chaos, and the strong men who did not eradicate it completely. .
In other words, he didn't know why ordinary knights like them were required to undergo training when the legendary strongman could destroy the Plague Land with one blow - even if it was to adapt to Chaos as an enemy, he shouldn't risk such a big risk. risk.
Joshua thought about this for a while, and then said slowly: "I have a guess about your doubts, but I'm not sure."
"Loranda, I wonder if you have ever heard of the legend that the world originated from the light of existence of the primordial fire?"
"...I think I've heard of it."
The Paladin was stunned for a moment, and he frowned. There was no creation myth among the Seven Gods, and even the sages had not said so. Loranda had a vague feeling that she had heard of this somewhere, but he Still a little hesitant: "But I don't remember very clearly."
But how could Joshua care about the other party's hesitation? He was just describing his guess. The warrior raised his eyes and scanned the dark world in front of him. Then he raised his right hand and lit up a red light, which was originally shrouded. The ruins of the city in the darkness suddenly appeared under the light. He said calmly: "Look, the flames ignited and released the light. The tangible world was born under the light - but flowers need to be attached to the soil to bloom. Ping also needs to float in the river."
"The burning of flames naturally requires firewood, and the operation of the world can never be an eternal cycle. The initial fire burns chaos and creates the world. So for the world, what do you think is the best firewood? What?"
There is no need to say the answer. As someone who once became the King of Burning Souls, burned Chaos, and reshaped the world, Joshua naturally knows the answer to the question, and he believes that the people in front of him can also detect it.
After hearing Joshua's words, Loranda remained silent for a long time, and his heart was full of turmoil.
What the warrior said, Pope Eagle also said to him, but it was only a few words and no detailed explanation. Now, Joshua told him his guess. After both sides confirmed it, the Paladin discovered , I actually found a possible trace of the truth.
A startling hint of truth.
"Just as people need food and fire needs firewood, if a world of order is to be maintained, it can only rely on the burning of chaos as its source."
He whispered to himself softly, with a slight tremor in his voice. The Holy Knight recalled the truth that the Pope calmly told him in the temple on the Seven Sacred Mountains: "The fire had fallen thousands of years ago. Without these The cancer serves as a source of firewood, and the fire on Mycroft’s continent has been extinguished long ago.”
"Really? It seems you also know something."
With a laugh, Joshua could see that the other party had already noticed some truth. He had already guessed about this truth, but now the words of the paladin confirmed it.
The two stood in the ruins of the city. The soldier extinguished the red ball of light in his hand, and everything returned to darkness.
But suddenly, there was a faint sound in the sky.
The sound was so slight that even Loranda didn't notice it. The Paladin was frowning and thinking. Only Joshua was keenly aware of this.
The world's stranglehold on space is weakening.
But how is this possible
Joshua turned back and looked at the endless black clouds and lightning in the sky. Behind it, ten huge light spots were slowly appearing. The white light reflected an arc of light in the warrior's pupils, red. There was a hint of caution in his eyes.
Others always think that he is a reckless man who knows nothing about fighting, but how can a reckless man be truly invincible? He has always been more sensitive to the outside world than most people.
"More stone demons are coming?"
Since he did not sense an extreme crisis, although Joshua prepared Loranda and himself to fly to evade, he still had the energy to think about this problem: "Or should I give that magic circle another try?" Light cannon?"
The soldier had a vague feeling that things were not that simple.
The ten light spots in the sky appeared for a period of time, and then gradually disappeared. After that, the magic power in the space became stronger and stronger, and the purple magic thunder rolled endlessly among the clouds. They danced wildly, and then crashed down to the earth, sending out a There was a continuous deafening roar, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier. There was also a hint of chaotic power in it, which made people feel upset.
This is no longer ordinary rain. If this rain continues, there is no doubt that it will turn into a natural disaster called flood.
In the heavy rain, Joshua stared at the sky.
What is the purpose of this chaos
In the suburbs, the half-dragons and divine machines were happily talking to each other.
But countless huge shadows slowly emerged from the darkness.
(End of chapter)