Grandia world, southern wastes, night.
Joshua stood on the top of the mountain, looking down at the ground below him.
In front of him was a continent shrouded in darkness. There were no lights, no torches, no light brought by civilization and wisdom. The deep shadows swallowed up everything, and the shrill howls of the shadows of death could be vaguely echoed in it. .
Nearly ten days have passed since he arrived in this area. The soldier searched every corner of this land and traveled back and forth in all directions. Along the way, he saved at least thirty asylum seekers. The survivors have killed tens of thousands of dead shadows, and their power liberation level has exceeded 63%.
But it didn't make any sense. Joshua frowned until he almost stood up - the girl with dragon wings seemed to have disappeared and lost her trace.
In the darkness, the warrior did not speak, and the sisters and brothers who followed him, who finally adapted to the environment of this world and regained their human form, did not speak either. Both Firefly and Rin could sense a rare feeling in their master's heart. Seeing the anxiety, they all understand this mood.
In fact, not even a month has passed since the warrior came to this world. In less than a month, he has found the location of the inheritor and confirmed that the inheritance of the saints is intact. This can be said to be fast, but Joshua knew that he was just a little short of finding his target, but if he missed it and followed the clues to find nothing, he would naturally feel uncomfortable comparing the two.
The next moment, he took a long breath, calmed down his fluctuating mind, and Joshua regained his composure.
"It seems that she has left this wasteland." The soldier murmured to himself: "Urbandni gave me her breath, and I also noticed that there is her breath in this land, but this breath has been there for a long time. She suddenly disappeared after more than ten days... I originally thought she was hiding underground, but now it seems that she used some method to cover her aura and hid somewhere else."
Thinking of this, the soldier stood on the top of the mountain and looked around the sky. Even if the other party was hiding and going to other areas, which side was it
Only the devil knows, you can only rely on luck to guess.
But just when Joshua was about to let Hotaru and Rin transform back into weapon form, then stand them up, searching whichever way the sword and ax tip fell, he suddenly felt a faint, but somewhat familiar wave.
This made the warrior turn his vision to the direction of the fluctuations and let out a slightly surprised sigh: "Silver realm?"
The fluctuation just now was caused by a Dou Qi practitioner at the first level of the Black Iron Revelation, who allowed his own energy to penetrate his whole body, completely mastered his own physical power, and broke through the realm of Silver Shining Spirit!
"It's so fast."
Throughout the desolate plains of the south, Joshua rescued more than 30 shelter survivors. Each of them passed down a different breathing method. This breathing method combines the two major practices of fighting spirit and primitive crystal magic energy. The highlight of the system is that it can be improved by absorbing the free energy in the world, and can also be advanced by absorbing the power of the original crystal.
Most of the surviving people are not very strong. It is precisely because they are not strong and have weak breath that they are ignored by the dead shadow strongmen who destroy the shelter. After they obtain these breathing techniques and Qiao Xiu After Ya's help, his strength has indeed greatly increased, and he has some ability to fight against the shadow of death. However, within ten days, someone broke through and achieved the silver realm, which really surprised the warrior.
This proved that his deduction was correct, and it could even be said that it was a great success!
As a result, a red arc of light jumped up from the top of the mountain, and then fell towards the earth. The dim light drew a straight line in the dark world, and flew rapidly towards the eastern region of the southern plain.
At this time, in the ruins of a village in the southern wilderness, a pair of blond-haired boys and girls were standing in front of a newly repaired house, facing a group of slowly approaching dead figures.
"Crete, haven't you adjusted yet?!"
The heroic girl held a polished and extremely sharp hatchet in her hand. She waved such a hatchet and quickly killed the group of weak dead figures in front of her - the southern wasteland was the entire country twenty-seven years ago. The most fertile grassland on the continent of Tia is one of the largest gathering places for humans. Most of the resurrected dead shadows here are only at the level of ordinary people. It is precisely because of this that a girl with a certain amount of extraordinary power can sustain it for so long.
But no matter how weak the Dead Shadow is, the girl can't stand alone. She dodges the grasp of a Dead Shadow with difficulty, and she can't help but let out a roar: "If you don't adjust properly, I will die in front of you!"
At this time, on the side, the named boy looked really bad. He was leaning against the wall of the house with his eyes closed, as if he was about to drown, breathing briefly and rapidly, and under the exposed skin around him , one can see blue blood vessels bulging out, and the muscles are squirming crazily underneath them, which not only brings strength, but also brings extreme pain.
"Larel!"
The boy named Crete said intermittently, with a voice that was suppressing pain: "Thirty seconds! Give me thirty seconds!"
It can be seen that there is a large amount of blood flowing in his blood vessels, transporting the power seeds condensed in the body to the whole body, preparing for the awakening of Silver's high-level fighting energy. Crete held it with his no longer trembling hands. He picked up the wood-chopping ax on his side, and a fierce light flashed in his green eyes: "I'll be fine soon!"
But the girl named Larel could no longer wait for his rescue.
Of course, it wasn't because Lariel didn't block the shadow of death - it was because there was a red meteor flashing across the horizon.
Joshua is here.
As if the sun swept across the earth, the entire eastern side of the southern wasteland was cleared of dead shadows in an instant. The boys and girls looked up at the sky in a daze. They saw a familiar figure in the mid-air above the village.
The figure who rescued them from the shadow of death and taught them how to practice.
"grown ups!"
Larrel and Crete hurriedly knelt down, their eyes full of respect. Although these two people did not know Joshua's name at all, this did not affect the warrior's status in their hearts. It is equivalent to recreating parents, mentors, or even a higher role.
When Joshua saw Crete, whose muscles and blood vessels still had not returned to normal, he stretched out his hand and pointed.
A weak life energy radiation shot out from his fingertips and entered the young man's body. In an instant, the young man was shocked to realize that the squirming muscles and veins in his body had completely calmed down. Completed Advance this time!
"Well done."
After doing all this, Joshua looked at the dilapidated village and nodded with some appreciation: "In just ten days, a house was rebuilt among the ruins and the general defenses were completed. Also advanced to silver... Although this is because you have enough raw crystals, you are indeed considered a genius."
The warrior's eyes can see through all secrets, and he can naturally understand that the reason why Crete advanced so quickly was not because he practiced too fast, but because he held enough raw crystals in his hands.
The sheltered village under him was attacked by a group of undead knights led by a headless horseman mentioned by the young girl. Only two people hiding at the bottom of the well survived. However, these dead shadows were not robbers. They did not plunder anything, resulting in Crete and Larrel, who were rescued by Joshua and taught the breathing method, had enough raw crystals to practice.
The combination of excellent inheritance, good talent, sufficient resources and daily hard combat resulted in this young man who advanced to silver in ten days.
"Get up."
Joshua asked the two men to stand up. He did not have the habit of letting others kneel to speak. At the same time, the warrior's eyes also penetrated Crete's flesh and blood, staring and analyzing the seeds of power in his body.
This is a strange transformation - the magic power from the original crystal, after the boy absorbed it into his body, was broken down bit by bit by the breathing method passed down by Joshua into the original elemental power and Vitality, vitality is used to enhance physical fitness and derive fighting spirit, while the remaining elemental power is accumulated in the heart of Crete, transforming his organs bit by bit. As long as the boy advances to the level of Silver High After the level, as long as Crete needs it, he can circulate the life energy, merge it with the elements in the heart again, and restore it to magic energy.
The breathing method that integrates the training systems of the two world warriors, if it is in the Mycroft continent, it can only be regarded as an ordinary breathing method, but in the Grandia continent, it is extremely excellent in absorbing the power of the original crystal. The speed is enough to be regarded as the top batch of cultivation methods.
And the most important thing is that Joshua can see that this fusion power seed in Crete's body is already slightly similar to the pure fighting spirit in Mycroft's continent - and this similarity is the most powerful force of steel. The origin, the essence that will not change even across different worlds!
"let me try."
Stretching out his hand, Joshua mobilized all the energy in his body to simulate this trace of essential power - in an instant, a dark silver light flashed in the palm of his hand. Although this light was dim, it was extremely thick, as if it carried the entire world.
Crete and Larrel, who had just stood up, immediately knelt down involuntarily again. While their hearts were filled with awe, they also sensed a touch of inexplicable kindness. The boy and girl felt that the black-haired man in front of them The powerful man with red eyes, the mysterious mentor who passed down the method of practice to them, seems to have gradually begun to integrate with this world and become one with this world.
64%, 65%, 66%, 67%, 68%, 68.5%... 69%!
In an instant, Joshua's power release level reached 69%
Therefore, a powerful pressure swept across the entire southern wasteland!
Like a giant beast swimming in the sea, setting off boundless waves, an indescribable wave of majestic power swept over everyone in this land, whether they were survivors who sensed a familiar aura or scattered people. The dead shadows were suppressed to the ground by this force and could not move. Farther away, on the southwest side of the continent, in some shelters that were still intact, some sleeping strong men and Yinglingn felt their breathing stagnant, and the energy in their bodies circulated. After a while, the feeling of heart palpitations could not go away for a long time.
Farther away, in the northwest of the continent, in Gaitar, the capital of the Ulan Empire, an undead commander suddenly turned his head and looked at the sky where the southern region was located.
"Sacred Realm..." It murmured to itself in a deep voice: "Who... Who can break through the Holy Realm at this time?!"
And the source of fluctuations.
Standing in mid-air, Joshua's red eyes flashed with a trace of metallic silver light. It was the light of the power of steel, the power to carry, create, and encompass all things.
That is the power he wants to master.
At this time, Joshua, although the degree of power liberation has not reached 100%, his strength at this time has surpassed Mycrof's heyday in the mainland. This is a power that surpasses the peak of ultimate will and has not reached the legendary realm!
But just when the warrior reached the 69% liberation rate, he suddenly stopped further advancement.
Therefore, the pressure is withdrawn.
Joshua slowly landed on the ground. He ignored the Shenji siblings behind him and said, "Master, you have become so strong just now!" ''I feel better than when I was in Mycroft Continent! 'Such an excited inquiry ignored the admiring looks in Crete and Larrel's eyes, and instead looked at his palms that no longer shone with silver light with an extremely serious look.
"The power of steel... is being eroded?"
The warrior murmured to himself in confusion and shock: "The power of the world's existence, the initial fire, is shrinking?! Who, who can do such a thing?!"
Just now, just when Joshua's power release was about to break through the 70% mark, his fighting spirit and vitality were about to sublimate into an energy closer to the power of steel. He was fighting against the world of Grandia. Heaven and earth breathe together, so the warrior senses from somewhere that the essence of existence in this world is being changed, and the power of steel, which is the foundation of all things, is also being eroded.
In this world, there is no steel python similar to the Kallis world and the Ilgona world. Its existence is so short that it has not given birth to its own will. Therefore, the nature of this world is extremely easy to ** Vertical changes, even erosion and corrosion.
In order not to be affected by this kind of erosion from the source, the warrior decisively gave up the breakthrough.
In the distance, to the northwest, in Gaitar, the imperial capital of the Ulan Empire, disturbing black clouds surged and dropped black rain.
Seven layers of dark halo shrouded the city, maintaining the everlasting fog and howling dust tornadoes surrounding it.
But at this moment, the fourth ring of light in the center broke away from the array of seven rings and began to gradually move towards the south. This deep dark vortex carried a huge dark power and began to move towards the outside world.
It was as if some shadow was climbing out of the abyss.
Its target is the southern wilderness.
And its purpose is to destroy all resistance and hope.
(End of chapter)