Soul of Searing Steel

Chapter 482: Not a happy ending

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And at the moment the man made his decision, heaven and earth fell into the darkness of ignorance.

In the pitch-black chaos, the crystal wall light film of Grandia's world dimmed in an instant. The undulating light was frozen in place like frozen sea water, and the bottomless darkness also infected the interior of the world in an instant. Every corner of the place condenses the atmosphere, everything, and even time and space, and sinks into silence.

In the void, a wave of indescribable nothingness is rapidly spreading towards the world of Grandia - a world that has lost fire, lost light, and lost everything should not exist in the first place. It is a part of them, the multiverse. This is the cycle. The death and rebirth of the world will repeat in order and chaos, rotating in flames and nothingness.

However, there was another layer of light that blocked them all.

Layers upon layers, a huge sacred circle composed of countless complicated patterns, gears and runes, enveloped the completely extinguished world of Grandia. Its existence is so huge that no matter what observation method is used, it can only Seeing a part of it, this magic circle was so huge that it covered the entire world. It had been silent for thousands of years and was left by the sages. It was finally activated due to the death of a world. It operated in an orderly manner, taking all the world under it into its bag and dominating it. Every corner of it.

And now the center of the world.

Joshua, holding the original fire.

In the darkness, everything stopped, leaving only the sound of breathing rising and falling in the place illuminated by the flames. It was surrounded by this darkness and coldness that the warrior decisively made that decision.

The choice between the world of Grandia and the world of Mycroft, Joshua did not need time to choose at all. This is not cold or heartless, it is just how everything should be. He is exactly Coming to save the Mycroft Continent, how could it be possible to make another decision

As for the world of Grandia.

This is a civilization that has been reproduced by the descendants of one hundred and thirty thousand sinners. In this world, there are heroes with courage and cowardly betrayers. Just like other worlds, there are all kinds of people among all living beings. There are endless things.

It's not because it originated from betrayers, so they chose to give up. Warriors sneered at the idea that the descendants of sinners are still sinners. If the descendants of betrayers are willing to take up the sword and wash away the shame of their ancestors' cowardice with their own blood, then why Not giving them this chance? The reason why Joshua knew all this but still made this choice was because he clearly knew what his goal was, so he felt regretful but not guilty.

Since the rebirth of a world requires the death of a world, so be it.

Arrogant or not, I choose to bear everything and am willing to bear everything.

Let it be over.

The small fire that was held in Joshua's hand, as heavy as a world, sparked a little spark in the warrior's mind, and with the lighting of this spark, countless small lights suddenly lit up in the darkness that filled the entire continent. The golden light was dotted like stars. They flashed with blurry and magnificent colors, and then gathered together, rushing toward the fire in the warrior's hands like a tsunami.

The souls of all living things were like a silent ocean tide, rushing towards the small flame. Along with this endless tide of light, four points of light of different colors flew towards Joshua from outside the world. Come and submerge yourself into his body.

White means the light of fire, the origin of all existence.

Silver means order, judgment of sin and the end of evil.

Colorless means nothingness and also the beginning, holding the key to rebirth and destruction.

Cyan means unlit fire, the source of possibility, and hope that has not yet happened.

And in the end, there was a blazing, warm fire.

Surrounded by countless pale golden soul lights, the initial fire did not burn fiercely, nor was it overwhelmed by them. This mass of fire was indescribable, unobservable, and could not be determined except for its existence. It took Joshua slowly. Slowly rising, it broke through the darkness and silence, and then merged with the sacred formation that enveloped the entire world.

next moment.

In the multiverse, most civilizations that can observe the void will be shocked to discover a fact.

That is, above the endless sea of stars, there is a golden-red galaxy spanning the extremely long void, connecting the two dim stars on the other side of the sea of stars.

The Mycroft Continent is naturally the same.

In the boundless heaven, the sleeping gods opened their eyes.

On the Holy Mountain in the distant sea, there is a white-haired Pope gazing at the starry sky, his heart agitated. In the center of the Eternal Lake, there are two elves touching the seeds of the World Tree that seem to be about to sprout, and then they raise their heads in confusion.

In the dry and hot desert, the high priest was teaching children. The middle-aged man who had just succeeded pointed to the starry sky and patiently described the meaning of each star. However, the red galaxy disrupted all his steps, wandering in the wasteland and various places. The wandering knights between the cities also looked at this scene thoughtfully and let out inaudible sighs.

In the mountains, under the earth, in the murloc tribes in the deep sea and in the ruins of ancient races living in the depths of the earth, there are strong men who raise their heads and look up at the sky. The swordsmen carrying the holy sword and the people living in the sky. The mages in the tower were shocked by this scene. As a result, kings and emperors from various countries postponed all their itineraries and plans and turned their gazes to the sky.

"That is… "

"That's the fire, and the soul."

In the Temple of Stars and the like, the dragon-winged girl's incomprehensible murmurs were heard by the Pope. Eagle answered the other party's questions, and then looked at the fainted inheritor with pity. He already knew that time and space What decision did the soldier on the other side make in the end

A heavy, arrogant choice that bears the lives and souls of hundreds of millions of people.

Akhar Aliyev, the founding emperor of the Central Empire, did not dare to make this decision, nor did Star Saint Cynthia Morningstar dare to make this decision. Even the sage, the sage who formulated all this, did not decisively make the final decision on his own. Instead of leaving everything to future generations in an extremely irresponsible manner.

They all hesitated.

Joshua didn't.

The galaxy is speeding, sailing in the void at the speed of thought, and the red fire drags out a long strip of light in the multiverse, allowing countless worlds to appreciate this magnificent scene, even the light mist brought by the great demonic tide It's also incomparable.

In the light of the fire, the man who controlled the navigation of the galaxy saw his destined past and future.

Joshua Van Radcliffe, the turning point of this man's fate, was that in the cold winter of 831 Years of Starfall, his father, who had the inheritance, died in battle in the Sealed Land, and he, who knew nothing about it, could only Dragging his body seriously injured due to the war, he returned to Moldavia alone. This man was burning with anger. He endured the invasion of the black tide and the attacks of betrayers. After a hard battle, he finally took back the remaining family knights. own territory.

The originally cheerful man became cold and silent because of the death of his father and the old housekeeper. His uncle's betrayal made him even more wary. A year later in the summer, the fateful Joshua finally found his wife in the family cemetery. The vague inheritance breaks through the golden realm.

Then, the man who held a black giant ax and killed several golden monsters and even destroyed the mountains where they lived became famous. The name 'Joshua the Mountain Destroyer' spread throughout the surrounding territories, and the Moldavia Territory began to develop rapidly, but what followed was the disaster of the wild dragon.

This was another arduous battle. Facing the mad dragon army led by the entire White Dragon Nest, even the four northern leaders joined forces to resist. The only way was to forcefully break through the dragon nest and kill them. The leader of the two leaders, Bai Long, a man who had withstood the training of countless wild gods, naturally refused to let go of the leader of the raiding team. After a hard battle that could be said to be paved with flesh and blood, they finally defeated the enemy and calmed down the enemy. A dragon disaster.

But almost half of the territory was destroyed, and the family's hundreds of years of operation was almost brought back to its original shape.

The man with scars all over his body, confused and at a loss, faced the great wave of evil in the gradually repaired ruins.

He breaks through his ultimate will, the pope abdicates, the era of great development, the turmoil in the Central Black Forest, the emperor's death, and the civil war in the empire. It seems that it is fate. Every time the times change, men will usher in an extremely cruel fight and battle, and The cultists, the Jiyi Warcraft, the rebels and the Central Army, and he also defeated powerful enemies time and time again and won bloody victories.

The battle did not destroy him, but the continuous hardships and the gradually expanding hidden wounds finally destroyed him. He exhausted his life and soul again and again, so that the soldier's life was short.

Before dying, he stared at the inheritance orb in his hand that only lit up slightly but had no reaction, and then showed a complicated smile to his divine butler.

"The Radcliffe family has burned."

He said softly in a hoarse voice: "Look for the next successor."

A few days later, in the northern part of the empire, within the territory of Moldavia, news spread throughout the entire empire that the current head of the Radcliffe family, Joshua the Burner, was looking for someone to inherit the inheritance. .

Everything is as it should be.

Holding the dragon-hunting sword and gun in his hand tightly, the warrior closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he saw another illusion.

The dragon-winged girl who was running around in the apocalypse finally reached the point where she had no way to escape. Faced with the endless army of undead encirclement and suppression, she finally felt a glimmer of enlightenment in her heart.

What's the use of continuing like this? Death is unavoidable. Even if you continue to rely on the robe to escape this time, you will still turn into an undead when your life span runs out.

But what is the meaning of such a life? Nothing has changed, nothing has been accomplished, simply running away is just killing the time left by fate.

Therefore, the awakened girl took out all the holy stone seeds in her body and set off the largest 'fireworks' in the world. The price was that several kilometers in radius were razed to the ground, the ground collapsed by tens of meters, and The girl herself was thrown away by the aftermath of the explosion, and although she was protected by her robe, she was still unconscious.

People from the four holy cities discovered the unconscious girl. She was very famous among the survivors as she was being chased by the shadow of death. The girl was received by the city lord, an old man whose whole body had been transformed by machines and magical devices. From his mouth, the girl learned about the current difficulties of the four holy cities.

There are countless heroic spirits sleeping in the Tomb of the Saints. With the help of these uncorrupted heroic spirits, even the endless army of dead shadows can be resisted for a long time, and during this period of time, they can send out The elite team went to the Getar Plateau to destroy the place where the dead shadows originated.

"It's just that awakening these sleeping heroes requires too much energy."

The old man sighed, the terrifying energy demand was enough to make the survivors desperate even if he squeezed his old bones dry.

"Energy?" The girl with a strange expression touched her strange robe that she had never worried about energy, and whispered to herself: "I have plenty here."

So, a few days later, the army of heroic spirits and the army of dead shadows launched the first frontal war in twenty-seven years in the wasteland under the Getar Plateau. The dragon-winged girl also unexpectedly met the emperor from a thousand years ago. .

"That's the teacher's robe..."

Looking at the girl in front of him who was very similar to the Star Saint, he didn't know whether it was fate or accident. The old knight put down the spear in his hand and no longer had the desire to fight. With a touch of loneliness, the old knight told the girl something A heartwarming story from thousands of years ago, and the cruel truth behind all the facts.

And maybe something went wrong, for example, everything was too heavy to be believed, and it was impossible to make a choice. In short, at the end of the story, the world was still not redeemed.

One hundred and three thousand survivors live in the dim light of the Prime Fire, patiently waiting for the future, when 'certain people' of fate will come and give them the salvation they have been waiting for thousands of years.

Everything is as it should be.

Joshua opened his eyes.

He has arrived in the world of Mycroft.

The flames, carrying endless golden light flow, poured into the world. The sacred magic circle spread and merged into the surface of the world that released a faint light. The warrior knew that all this was over, and all the souls of the world for thousands of years would be destroyed. It will be completely integrated into the gradually dying Mycroft Continent and become part of its life cycle, and the souls of the first 103,000 sinners will be submerged into the deepest melting core of the continent together with the flames of a burning world. , extending its life.

It can be seen that Mycroft's light film gradually changes from dim to bright, and it can be seen that the surface of the world, which was originally full of cracks, begins to quickly heal every wound.

As one star goes out, another dim star regains its former glory.

In this silence, the world that was originally on the verge of death regained its vitality and could last for thousands of years.

Joshua watched all this, his heart calm and without any disturbance.

At this moment, a voice whispered something to the man who changed everything.

The soldier replied indifferently: "That's enough."

He seemed to be talking to himself or communicating with some existence. He shook his head and said, "It's all over."

"The number one hundred and three thousand is originally an imaginary number, and there is not a single coward among those who are still alive. The betrayers have paid the price, so those who are still alive should continue to live."

"I fulfilled my promise and now I have to fulfill another one."

In Joshua's hand, there was still a trace of a very weak flame that seemed to be extinguished immediately. There seemed to be thousands of people sleeping in it. He said softly: "I said, I can't sit idly by and ignore it. I can't ignore it." To help... that's my promise."

He suddenly laughed: "And you will help me, right? Sage?"

"certainly."

A being that was fused together with four colors of light calmly said in a voice that only Joshua could hear: "Since, this is your choice."

"Then of course I will help you, my successor."

As a result, the strong men on the Mycroft continent saw another scene.

Shortly after the Flame Galaxy disappeared, another red light lit up above the sky.

In the void, the warrior stood on the light film of the world. He patrolled the worlds and found his goal.

It was a world full of ashes and devoured by famine, where cold winds surrounded the oceans and condensed the seawater, and where sand filled the sky and suffocated everything.

Holding the flame in his hand, Joshua stretched out his hand to this world that has been on the verge of end for a long time, with only the last embers left.

"I will fight against all chaos."

Arms swell.

"I will save all innocents and punish all evil."

A metallic light is released.

"In the face of my enemies, my mind will never forgive, and my rage will never be extinguished."

Thousands of miles tall, an unimaginably huge six-armed giant stands in the void. The strongest and most determined will pouring out from the depths of the soul forms the flesh, blood and bones of this giant, which is beyond the limit. The legendary power surges around the giant.

"I'm Joshua Van Radcliffe."

The light of the flame gradually ignited.

"I will bear everything, save everything, punish everything."

Porcelain-like cracks spread across the giant's body.

"This is my oath."

The ash giant, whose body was filled with sparks, started to move.

The Burning Soul King opened his lava-like eyes.

Four cities, countless remaining gathering places, and tens of thousands of survivors flashed through the flames in the hands of the ash giant, and then expanded as the warrior's body expanded. The flames finally turned into an entity shrouded in light, like A small continent, embraced by warriors.

The giant's six arms carried this almost impossible burden. Little by little, without trembling, he 'walked' towards the world full of ashes. The four-color light illuminated his path forward, turning into The strength that sustains him.

Finally, he came to this world. Before the world called Kallis, he raised the last remnants of a world in his hand, as well as the last survivors in it, and gently put them in.

A fragment of a continent, accompanied by the power of fire, descended on this world of ashes.

The gentle light penetrated the gloomy sky, dispelling all shadows and darkness.

The rotten and dry wind gradually began to gain warmth, and the dead and decayed land was reborn. Under the light of this light, green grass spread on the earth, and new buds bloomed on the old trees that had dried up for a long time, filling the sky. The flying red sparks swept across the entire world, covering the entire world. No matter whether it was plains, valleys, rotten swamps or frozen oceans, no one was left out.

Flames burn chaos, bring the world back to order, and revive the desolate world. This is the power of the guardian of the world, the [King of Burning Souls].

However, this time, the flame is enough, even if it can only burn for a few decades, the future is in the future.

Everything now has an ending that is not too perfect.

I know, some people must ask, why the strongest evil god Fenghuo can only burn for a thousand years, how can the world of Grandia be burned for so long? Do you still have enough time to take the Kallis world away with you

Do you think how much of the remains of the evil god will be left after being destroyed by the sage? How big would it be? If the sage hadn't suddenly remembered that he needed to burn firewood, and no particles could be left behind, then it wouldn't be the evil god's body at all. At most, it would be the blood splashed on the sage's hands.

This is the official explanation.

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