Compared to the so-called soul-burning gaze, Joshua was more interested in this system that had not appeared for a long time.
After all, this system is probably the only one who came to this world with him.
Joshua doesn't care where he comes from, because he knows who he is, and Joshua doesn't care where he is going, because his goal remains the same, but no matter what, the warrior knows where he comes from, and he will not It would be hypocritical to say that he has no sense of belonging to this land, and he would not deny that he has always been interested in magical things like the system. After all, it was it that gave Joshua his first pot of gold in this world.
It is one thing to be indifferent to the origin of the system, but it is another thing to be interested in its existence. In the past, he did not inquire about the system because he was not strong enough and did not need to care. But now, he has achieved Legend, in order to ensure that he has no weaknesses, he must find this mysterious system.
If you think about it, do it.
At this time, Joshua's spirit has sunk into the depths of his soul. He is chasing a wave in the dark, following the information given to him by the 'system' to track the opponent's whereabouts. The warrior must seize the tail of this system. , to find out its roots.
Unfortunately, he got nothing.
Joshua's spirit looked around the depths of his soul. This was the reflection of his subconscious, the manifestation of his will and soul. In an endless black space, countless mountains stood, and at the center of all the mountains, there was a mountain. The sky-reaching peak is like a pillar, connecting the sky and the earth. The warrior's spirit looks down from the sky, and he can't find any trace of the 'system'.
Warriors are not good at souls, but he still knows some of the most basic information. For example, if a foreign object invades the soul, then there will be abnormalities in the subconscious reflection. But now, no matter how Joshua examines his soul, He still couldn't find the difference for a long time, so there were only two possibilities.
The first one: His strength is not enough. The system itself has even surpassed him, the legendary powerhouse, and is a 'god'. Its form of existence cannot be discovered by ordinary observation methods, so he has gained nothing.
The second type: The system itself is part of his soul. Because it has existed from the beginning, there is nothing abnormal. Just like who can find a drop of water in the ocean? Even if it can be discovered, the energy consumed by self-examination will definitely be enough to bring down a legendary strong man.
Thinking of this, Joshua, who was sure that there was no way to find out the truth about this system for the time being, withdrew from the depths of his self-examination. He was not dissatisfied, because he didn't have much expectations from the beginning, not to mention that the system had been out of control since a long time ago. It didn't have much binding force on him. Joshua vaguely remembered that after he entered Jiyi, the system became a lot quieter and no longer issued tasks. Even the situation log had to be searched by himself, and Jiyi later updated It is a sign of collapse or self-dissolution.
Joshua's search this time was because he felt that if his strength continued to improve, then the system might really disappear completely, and then he would never have the chance to learn the truth behind the other party. But now that the matter has come to this, he has no choice but to Until next time.
Withdrawing his attention, the warrior looked back at the information still floating in front of him.
[Divinity·Soul-Burning Gaze]
[Just as people will sigh when they see mountains, sigh when they see the sea, and they will naturally be shocked when they see great things, during battle, ordinary creatures that look at you will undergo a shock judgment based on your will points. If they fail to pass, they will be shocked. and energy disorders.]
[—He closed his eyes, not out of indifference, but out of love.]
A powerful ability, no less than the advanced spells 'Death Gaze' or 'Petrified Eye'. But Joshua didn't feel much joy in his heart.
"Divinity..." He murmured to himself, then shook his head.
Since the battle with Mandalgar in the Blood Moon Abyss, Joshua has never tried to use his divinity, even when he faced the Ember Earth Sword and the endless shadows of death in the world of Grandia. For this One point, the warrior admitted frankly that it was a power he could not control. He was not sure that he could escape from the erosion of the source of divine power every time, and that kind of irrational state may not be suitable for a real warrior. It is a strengthening, but a weakening.
What's more, if Joshua doesn't get rid of it, there will only be two results - he will become a divine monster without reason, full of killing and destruction, or he will be completely dissolved by the endless river of divine power in the multiverse and transformed into it. Joshua didn't want either outcome, so he had been trying his best not to use his divine power.
But obviously, this thing is different from a muscle. If you don't use it, it doesn't mean it won't get stronger.
—Probably because he has killed too many demons, which conforms to the three divine qualities of 'fighting', 'killing' and 'destruction'.
Thinking of this, Joshua couldn't help but frown. Divinity cannot lie. Whoever obtains a divinity represents who is most consistent with this divinity. Those who can obtain the divinity of conspiracy will never be an upright person, and those who can obtain the divinity of justice will never be an upright person. The evil and mysterious person, every word and deed in the abyss is Joshua's true intention. He does not feel that there is anything wrong with him killing demons and destroying the fortress. His divinity also thinks so, so his synchronization rate is Just one point higher.
—It’s not a bad thing after all.
Although there is not much excitement, Joshua will not take this kind of thing to heart. The growth of divinity is not a bad thing, but he has not fully grasped its ability. What the warrior has to do now is not to struggle. Instead of focusing on small things like this, continue to accomplish your goals.
"Syndicate, where are we now?"
Standing on Hei's head, feeling the turbulent wind beating against the armor, Joshua asked the Balrog running desperately in front of the black dragon in a low voice.
At this time, the Balrog's whole body has completely changed. Because the original Balrog lived in the abyss, the black-red flames all over his body had an extremely blasphemous and filthy smell. Not to mention other toxic issues, the smell alone was very... It's pungent and disgusting, but the syndicate is completely different now.
The whole body of the Balrog is burning with golden-red flames. It is extremely pure light without any evil power. Except for the radiation poison brought by the body, the Balrog at this time is simply like a large torch lighthouse. , giving people a 'sunshine' feeling.
For the Syndicate, this is a matter of course - it was forcibly transformed into a sword, a scimitar, a spear and even a dragon hunting bow by a legendary strongman, and then filtered over and over again with the power of pure steel, even the abyssal ooze The monster will be purified into a celestial slime. It is a balrog that still has some poison left, entirely because this is its natural constitution. If it is purified, it will be burned clean, so it can survive.
"I don't know, Your Majesty, I have never been to this place." After answering Joshua's words honestly, Balrog immediately added without waiting for the warrior to continue asking: "But the Sixth Abyss is not big, so with us With such speed, I can reach its central area very quickly. Once I see the Styx, I will be familiar with it."
After hearing what the other party said, Joshua nodded. He believed that the Syndicate did not dare to lie to him, and the other party was right. Although the big devil could travel back and forth between the abyss, it was impossible to visit every corner of the abyss. , for a big demon with the strength of Balrog, if they don't want to be forced by the abyss lord to capture young men and stay on their own level, they can only wander around the Styx.
"Hooo." After hearing the conversation between the warrior and the Syndicate, the black dragon suddenly raised its head. As it ran, it wanted to say a word to its master - but it forgot that Joshua was standing above it, so why did it turn its head? There is no way to see it.
"Okay, I'll be on top of you... you say." Gently touching the other party's horns, Joshua signaled the other party to be more steady. He listened intently to the black dragon's roar, and then understood the other party's words.
The black dragon sensed the aura of the same kind.
"Same kind?" Even Joshua touched his chin in confusion. The gauntlet formed by the power of steel came into contact with the steel helmet, making a harsh metal friction sound. He turned his head and looked around, and said in confusion: "No The breath of the dragon... I killed so many people, how could I not notice it?"
Heilong himself was a little confused. He just felt a very familiar breath in his mind for a moment. It felt like he was walking on the road and suddenly recalled the smell of his hometown. It was like a dream. How did Heilong know that this was true? Fake? Faced with the soldier's doubts, it finally thought that this was probably an illusion, so it just whined a few times without insisting on its own opinion.
At this time, the warrior and the dragon group had just left the Gray Salt Mountains. Since they had been running on the earth, they did not notice it.
Among this huge mountain range, there are several peaks with extremely special shapes. It was as if something huge was walking through it without restraint, squeezing them out of the way and creating a path.
At this time, in the Sixth Abyss, in the center of the Molten Sea Hell, was the Valley of Tears Fortress.
With the transfer of information layer after layer, and the urgent communication from one demon lord after another, this giant fortress built of black iron and corpses, as tall as a mountain, was filled with the sound of hurried footsteps, in the dark and scorching heat. In the corridor, one after another high-level winged demon messengers speed up as much as possible, even fluttering their wings, and hurriedly send the information collected from other places into the communication circle that leads directly to the central hall.
There are dim runes flashing inside the magic circle. When each document is placed in it, the exact same part will be copied on the other end. This is one of the useful spells collected by demons from other worlds. The magic power fluctuations in the abyss are dead and decaying, and the general detection array is easily distorted and interfered with. Only this kind of magic can ensure the stability of long distances, and even transmit information across the world.
A hurried winged demon messenger holds a lot of information that has been sorted and classified by other low-level demon attendants, and walks hurriedly on the road leading to the communication circle. In the abyss, all kinds of demons are really There are too many of them. Many of them, such as the Corruption Demon and the Balrog, are existences that cannot use tools. They can only use simple voices to convey information, and their accents are also strange. In order to ensure that the correct information can be collected , there are many low-level acid demons and fire rock demons specially cultivated in the Valley of Tears Fortress to recognize the words of their higher-level counterparts.
Inadvertently, Winged Demon glanced at the contents of the document in his hand. This was not a big deal. After all, the devil's rules were not so strict, so it saw the few lines of small words written in distorted Abyssal language.
It immediately trembled, and then rushed towards the communication circle at a flying speed.
—There was an invasion of king-level demons, and the lords of the Black Sea Plains, Obsidian Sands, and Gray Salt Mountains were nearly wiped out.
another world.
In the sky, countless long fire lines streaked across the sky. They broke through the sea of clouds and finally connected with the earth. The solid rock from another world fell to the ground carrying countless ferocious invaders, bringing endless troubles to this strange world. Pain and disaster.
Under the sky that has turned blood red, wars are unfolding in every corner of the world. Countless creatures with scales on their bodies that look like lizardmen but have no tails and are stronger than lizardmen raise the spears and blades in their hands and roar. He fought against the seemingly endless black demons, but it was of no use. As hot meteorites fell from the portal in the sky, the forest ignited fire, and the lakes and seas boiled.
Cities are destroyed, civilizations are collapsing, wild animals howl and flee, and mountains are shaken.
And just as the hurried Wing Demon courier put the documents in his hands into the communication circle, on a battlefield burning with flames and black smoke, a demon that was not tall but rather short suddenly raised its head.
"The Beholder Elder Cassendi was seriously injured, and the Bone Demon Lord Crowdy was seriously injured..."
It lowered its head and murmured in a thick voice: "Twelve fortresses were destroyed, all demons along the way were killed, and no souls escaped."
"Most of my territory... was destroyed..."
The further it spoke, the lower its voice became and the more angry it became, until finally, the demon suddenly raised its head, sneered in a thick voice, and then cruelly crushed a scaly human head in its hand, with a light blue Blood spattered on its body: "Plundering war? Someone actually has an idea of our Sixth Abyss? Want us to start a war on three sides?"
This demon is only about two meters tall. Its whole body is covered with a smooth gray-black carapace. Apart from the two long horns, there are no other organs on its head. There are only densely packed, constantly rotating dark yellow pupils. It has no Mouth, the sound came from inside the body, and in the center of the demon's chest, there was a diamond-shaped crimson gem shining with evil light.
Seemingly irritated by the news, the demon's body slowly floated into the air. This battlefield was located in front of a huge scale city. When a demon was seen flying up, countless scale warlocks' spells and rain came. The arrows came at a rapid speed, but this strange-looking demon didn't panic at all. Hundreds of eyes stared indifferently ahead. Then, it raised its right hand, with long sharp fingers. Reach out.
A dazzling light lit up along with a shrill roar, and a crimson light roared through the atmosphere, and then instantly hit the team of scale casters in the distance. Immediately, with a violent explosion, a bowl-shaped energy shield It rose rapidly, spread, and swallowed up everything around it. After a moment, the energy shield shattered into points of light all over the sky, and whether they were scale people or demons, steel or soil, they were all completely burned into nothingness by the energy condensed to the extreme.
After seeing the result of the victory, it did not stop. The demon did not make any unnecessary moves. In mid-air, the carapace all over its body began to squirm, and then deformed into protrusions like bone tubes. In an instant, hundreds, thousands, or even Tens of thousands of them were exactly the same as the red light before, and even more concentrated energy beams were ejected from it, leaving complex afterimages in mid-air, bombarding the positions in front and the city in the distance.
"Run away!"
"It's unstoppable!"
"Your Majesty is angry!"
Suddenly, on the battlefield, both demons and scaly people let out identical howls of terror and screams of despair, and a series of dazzling light spots and energy shields enveloped the entire battlefield and city in an instant. Amid the violent explosions, , the solid city built by the scale people using rocks was destroyed by the terrifying impact and high temperature in just a few seconds. Some rocks and metals were even completely vaporized in an instant, and the burned-out artificial rivers and lakes turned into violent Water vapor rises, and the solid temple cannot last long even if it is protected by magic. After being hit by hundreds of rays of light, it slowly melts under the erosion of tens of thousands of degrees of heat, and then a line of golden magma can be seen. Rivers flow through the streets of the city, swallowing up any survivors.
Soon after, the city disappeared, leaving only ruins in a lake of lava.
The high-heat wind turned into a violent shock wave, passing through the messy battlefield. The tornado of flames danced on the earth. The bone tubes all over the body slowly retracted. This not-so-tall demon landed back on the earth. It closed its eyes. , no longer paying attention to the world in front of him that has been completely surrounded by smoke, flames, storms, terrifying demons, and shrouded in lava hell. The demon spirits are connected to the battlefield far away, located in another abyss.
"Goliath."
It said in the spiritual communication: "Your abyss, my territory has been invaded, and it is suspected to be a monarch-level strength, so I want to temporarily suspend the invasion here and go back to check the situation."
And a long time later, from the battlefield on the other side of the abyss, the Demon King's low response came.
"Go ahead."
"Teach those who dare to provoke our existence the heaviest lesson."
Sunday, I woke up late...
(End of chapter)