Chapter 19: The Tribulation of Civilization

Joshua believes that it is more important to go to the Abyss Nirvana Land first to have a look, and to search for traces of evil gods in the middle of the way, rather than to eliminate the demons that have begun to destroy themselves on a large scale.

As for the twelve abysses that Joshua searched before, it was actually not called a search at all, it could only be said that he walked around the world of Microf, and going deep into the abyss and patrolling its surface were completely different concepts.

In this case, if you want to choose to go deep into the abyss, it is naturally necessary to find a guide.

If it was Joshua a few years ago, then he would choose to use the Book of Ebonn to summon a demon, and then persuade the other party to be willing to help him explore the abyss...... Summon a few fish that slip through the net.

But now, it's not so troublesome-

Joshua looked at the time, and then locked the place where the avatar descended in his territory, Moldavia, the Northland, and then the warrior strength was condensed and the body was directly shaped in the southern city.

Soon, Joshua, dressed in the costume of an ordinary wasteland wanderer and wearing a black cowboy hat, walked slowly through the residential area of Nancheng District, slowly approaching the gathering place of single-family residential buildings on the edge of the city.

Nancheng District is where the magic energy factory and factory workers, and a large number of civil servants of the lord's mansion live, unlike the eastern plains, because the magic energy factory is directly under Joshua's nose, and no one dares to cut corners in the purification circle, coupled with the ancient times when Joshua's own steel power that is spilled out spontaneously purified, the pollution of Moldavia is almost none.

From time to time, you can hear the sound of babies and children crying and playing in the houses on both sides of the streets of the southern district, descendants of many residents who settled in Moldavia a few years ago and married and had children there.

Hearing the voices of these children, Joshua couldn't help but nod slightly, these children are the future of civilization, and it also means that the first wave of baby booms in Moldavia is about to be born...... Soon, not only his territory, but the entire Mycrof world will usher in a wave of extremely rapid population growth since the Dragon Calamity.

Population growth is exploding...... Perhaps this is also a potential contradiction? Because of the evil omen, the warrior couldn't help but be a little sensitive, but this idea was quickly put behind him.

- When this group of children grows up and becomes the driving force and burden of the world, it will be at least ten years later, and in ten years, he will not be able to kill an evil god, and the disaster will not be wronged.

Thinking of this, Joshua soon came to a small single-family building.

Before he could reach the door, Joshua could hear a clear laughter coming from inside the house, and he could smell the sweetness of frosting mixed with the aroma of cake, which made him blink.

Then he started knocking on the door.

Soon, the laughter in the house was interrupted, and a young girl could be heard hurrying, 'Coming, who is it?' I could hear someone talking to myself in confusion, wondering who it was, but anyway, the door soon opened, and the dragon maiden Lisa appeared in the door with a cheerful and energetic face.

Then she saw Joshua.

The girl's expression froze in an instant.

"Huh...... Huh, old, teacher? ”

Joshua took a serious look at what Lisa was wearing at this time, it was normal, but the most important thing was the graffiti on her face, which was full of characters and small animal images with a black pen, making the originally delicate and cute dragon girl look ...... Very funny.

It seems that these little guys usually have a lot of fun in their daily lives, have a lot of fun, and have a lot of activities.

"Hello, Lisa, came without notice, a little abrupt." Joshua patted the opponent's shoulder, sensing the opponent's strength, and the warrior said with appreciation: "Very good, you have made great progress recently, you are working hard." ”

"This, thank you teacher for the compliment......" In response to this compliment, Lisa first raised her eyebrows excitedly, and couldn't help showing a smug expression on her face, but then, she quickly got out of the way, and then asked cautiously: "Teacher, what is the matter with you coming this time......?"

Usually, when Joshua tested the strength level of her and other classmates, they were asked to go to the Lord's Mansion or to the venue of Wintercastle Academy, and rarely came out to visit in person, but this time Joshua's arrival could be said to have caught Lisa very off guard.

Could it be that today the teacher is going to go on a surprise mission to test her adaptability to various unexpected situations? It is indeed the teacher's style, and it is also very reasonable, but fortunately, my daily training has not been reduced, and my combat effectiveness is maintained at the peak at any time.

It's just that it looks like the plan to get Mr. Syndicate drunk today is going to be canceled. The dragon girl thought with some chagrin, "It's hard to get it......

However, just when the girl was ready to take on the task of taking on the master's mission and was ready to fight for three hundred rounds with the golden peak demonic beast or puppet that God knows where, she heard Joshua say this.

"Borrow your syndicate." The warrior said so, and then raised his hand - a bewildered, seemingly a little drunk, and his face was also covered with graffiti, the fire demon was lifted on the back of the neck and appeared in his hand, Joshua nodded slightly at Lisa: "I will pay you back soon, don't worry." ”

Then, Joshua vanished with the Syndicate.

Hey.

Lisa had an unresponsive expression.

But soon, she got to the point.

Mr. Syndicate...... My family's?

Suddenly, the dragon girl stood at the door of her house, and even forgot to close the door, so her face was a little red and she smirked.

At the same time, Joshua was in the basement of the lord's degree, kindly asking the syndicate, who had been awakened by most of the wine, about the depths of the abyss.

Ever since the Syndicate changed the nature of his life and became a dragon-like life, he had become him, and had the perception of most ordinary flesh and blood life—as long as the former Flame Demon's body was not too damaged, then he would always be able to maintain the state of 'dragon man mimicry', and even have the ability to have children.

Naturally, it makes sense to be drunk.

Naturally, Joshua didn't care what Lisa and Cindy did during the day, but he was naturally empathetic and would finish asking his questions as soon as possible and let the other party go back.

However, during the time when the syndicate was a fire demon, he actually didn't travel to many worlds and see many things, at that time, he was just eating and drinking, beating little demons, and taking his little brother to fight with other Extreme Lords...... As an individual, the Syndicate didn't know much information at all, and even his intelligence was interfered with by the powerful radiation energy at that time, and he couldn't think smoothly.

But Joshua didn't want the information from the Syndicate's own memories in the first place—he wanted the information from the Firedemon Bloodline.

When he first met the Syndicate, Joshua had just entered the legend, and it was very difficult to parse valuable and understandable information from the basic bloodline information of a life, but now, Joshua can not only parse, but also write a hereditary 'bloodline' for other lives, and even put the trademark of his Radcliffe family on this inheritance, determine the warranty date and product number.

In other words, Joshua was able to create a large number of originally extremely noble and powerful 'bloodline' families at will by mass-producing bloodline inheritances. It's just that doing this kind of thing is thankless, and it will affect the potential of the race, and Joshua doesn't plan to do that.

Soon, in the midst of the Syndicate's bewildered expression, his mouth opened on its own, and he began to automatically repeat the legends and materials that had emerged from his bloodline.

It didn't take long for Joshua to learn a lot of valuable information about demons and the abyss.

- Most of the demons of the race reside in the first hundred layers of the abyss.

Eighty percent of the known demon clans live in the first 100 layers of the abyss, and there are more than sixty kinds of most common demon clans, all of which converge in this area, conquering each other, encroaching on resources, or teaming up to go to the living world to snatch souls.

And the remaining twenty percent are basically scattered in the abyss world of about 100 realms and 300 layers...... And under the two or three hundred layers, except for the basic number of intelligent demons, there are basically no wise demons who will go, and most of the people who inhabit and wander there are unwise demon beasts.

Why? The answer is simple.

Because at the top of the abyss are the worlds that have recently been destroyed and fallen into the abyss, and the further down they go, the sooner the world will be destroyed, or the greater the impact when it is destroyed, in any case, it means that there is basically no life in that kind of world, even demons can't bear it.

These worlds are not as good as even the dead world—at least the dead world still has matter, and this wreckage world, even matter has begun to decompose, and the entire world is a calm and unmoving sea of hot ions, as if heat death, exists, but is meaningless.

There are even many hometowns of ancient demon clans, which are located in those worlds below the three hundred layers of the abyss, and the fire demons are said to be this kind, their mother world, even the wreckage no longer exists, so the powerful fire demon clans will be scattered and spread all over the many worlds of the abyss.

The world of Chronos is located on more than five hundred layers of the abyss, and that world, if it weren't for the existence of the ancient dragon, would have cut off all vitality a long time ago, and even decomposed itself, turning into pure particles of steel into the cycle of multiverse reincarnation, but even with the help of the ancient dragon and Joshua to rekindle the flames, the current world of Chronos would be much earlier than returning to normal.

Around the world of Kronos, most of the worlds have long since turned into a chaotic void, and only the strongest world barrier is still slowly dissociating, so that the corpses of these worlds still maintain a dim shape like stars.

According to Yue Wai, the land of abyss nirvana is located in the dark realm of more than nine hundred layers of the abyss.

The meaning of more than 900 layers is not as simple as numbers...... Because there is a steady stream of abyssal worlds that self-decompose, collapse, and completely remove themselves from the abyss, even if other worlds that have recently perished join the abyss all the time, the rate of increase and decrease of the two is very similar.

Maybe a few decades later, the current Abyss Nirvana Land will be more than a thousand layers, or seven or eight hundred layers, but the meaning it represents will not change, that is, it is the lowest level of the abyss, where countless debris are piled up.

"Legend has it that the River Styx flows from the lowest part of the abyss, the unknown 'source', and then spreads throughout many abyssal worlds."

In the basement of the Lord's Mansion, the syndicate was still instinctively rereading the knowledge in his bloodline, but it was obvious that at this point, even the ancient fire demons of the past generations, and even the inheritance of the fire demon kings were uncertain, and he said in a tone of hesitation and speculation: "The existence of the River Styx is so mysterious, 'I' have tried to follow the tide of the River Styx to explore its roots, but even if I have traveled through hundreds of worlds, I cannot trace it upstream...... My strength, even among kings, is considered strong, and I can even threaten several abysses, but there is still an unpredictable distance from the source of the abyssal Styx. ”

"I keep this memory in my blood, my blood, be in awe of the River Styx, and stay away from all the existence and things that come from the River Styx, and the darkness hidden in it is far from a mystery that we can explore."

……

After complimenting the syndicate's recent efforts and finally returning to the realm of extreme intent with 'Extreme Intention', Joshua urged the other party a few words, and after being careful not to be overtaken by Lisa, he simply let him go back.

It was his fault to disturb the daily entertainment of the juniors, and Qiao Siya naturally wouldn't bother too much.

It's just that in the Syndicate's Fire Demon Bloodline Inheritance, some information is very interesting.

'Styx', an existence that is so common that it is easy to ignore, is now related to the Nirvana of the 'lowest part of the abyss' for the first time.

Moreover, according to the syndicate, although the demons do usually guard against each other, they will not fight most of the time, because they all know that the other party as a demon has no oil and water at all, so only if they need to expand their power, such as Goliath, the gluttonous demon king like the Lord of the Sixth Abyss, will go to attack and co-opt other demon groups.

But every once in a while, at least, not for a long time in the Demon Inheritance, a huge abyssal bloody battle would break out between the many demon clans.

Originally, whether it was the Flame Demon Monarch who recorded the inheritance, or the Syndicate himself, they all felt that this kind of thing was not a big deal, it was not a strange thing for demons to compete for territory with each other, and the outbreak of war was just a normal consequence of the full outbreak of the demon's ferocious nature, and once the demons started a war between each other, it would definitely continue until the demise of one side, and the collapse of several or even dozens of abyssal worlds.

But the causes and ends of the war ...... Because it's so confusing, no one knows about it.

"Is this catastrophe destined to happen, or is it that I ignored the feelings of the people at the bottom after crossing over, and changed everything too quickly, which is why all this happened?"

Joshua couldn't help but whisper to herself.

Himself, since he crossed over to the world of Mycrof, all he thought about was to 'save the world' except for fighting.

From beginning to end, everything he did was to save one world after another, whether it was fighting or destroying, his purpose was incomparably noble and great, and naturally no one could blame him.

However, due to the fact that he was a nobleman from the beginning of the time, and because he continued to travel through other worlds and help one race civilization after another, he did not have time to understand the thoughts of ordinary people, nor did he have time to live the life that ordinary people should have.

He is more like a god than a human, just the seven gods watch the reincarnation, and he entered the world to destroy the chaos, as for whether the impact is good or bad, he has not thought about it, and now it seems that the results will naturally outweigh the disadvantages, but Joshua is not sure whether his actions will induce some disasters that have been lurking in advance.

But everything is relative.

Not to mention Lisa and the Syndicate, even Ivan and Priest have a colorful daily life, and even legendary powerhouses like Israel, Nostradamus and Eagle also have their own private lives, and even the Elven Empress has an unreliable scandal with the natural mentor.

However, it is also because of this that they interact with the world itself, they are in this era, so they are caught in this era.

And in the eyes of pure Joshua, everything is clear.

The world of McCrove is now in a fierce moment from the late feudal era to the rapid transformation of industrialization, and even near-modernization.

The mere change from agriculture to industry would bring about great turmoil.

Think back then, how many people died because of this turmoil in England, the first industrialized country of the earth? Coal ash covered the skies of London, the air was polluted into a grey fog, and countless low-class civilians became the fuel of industrialization, with an average life expectancy of no more than thirty-three years...... How similar is this situation to the current industrialization of magic energy by Microf? This inevitable sacrifice is also befalling this continent.

And because of this, with the progress of civilization, industrialization, and the sacrifices brought about by the changes of the times, the repression, rebellion, despair and outbursts will also intensify, and on the earth, they have caused several revolutions to be born around the world, and the results of these revolutions and disputes have given birth to the prototype of modern society.

But is this kind of 'success' really inevitable?

Of course not.

This is the catastrophe of civilization - if it is overcome, it is nirvana rebirth, and if it fails, it is self-destruction.

The Mycrof civilization in the Starfall Era, perhaps because of the existence of unknown evil gods, is ushering in its own 'catastrophe' in advance.

At this time, Joshua, after knowing the current situation of the abyss and the location of the land of Nirvana, has basically gathered all the information to go to the bottom of the abyss, if he wants to find the traces of the unknown evil god now, and explore the mysteries in the mouth of the star herder civilization that are enough to defeat the evil god, he can set off immediately.

The only thing that made Joshua hesitate now was whether or not to interfere with the self-development of Microf's world.

Although he really didn't intend to meddle, and he didn't feel that he had the ability to meddle, Joshua came from a great time after the Third World War - his very existence, his memory itself, represented a 'standard answer', and if guided by his experience, he might not need to defeat the evil god to survive this civilizational catastrophe.

It's just that if you don't have the experience of the transcendent power world, can you use it in the transcendent world?

What is the difference between the practice of the legendary powerhouse wantonly interfering, transforming civilization, and judging the future of the world by personal experience?

Extraordinary power, representing the power of miracles, legendary powerhouses, but also the crystallization of miracles, their existence, in order to find the possibility from the impossible, to use this power in civilization itself can self-evolve, solve the problem, is it too wasteful?

These are very arrogant questions - or rather, the transcendent power itself is the power of arrogance, and holding it is destined to usher in such a choice.

In the dark basement of the Lord's Mansion, the lights were extinguished, and Joshua was alone, sitting in his seat, although he was sitting casually at the moment, the majesty and majesty were like the gods sitting on the throne.

In the lightless darkness, the man closed his eyes and fell into deep thought, and beside him, bright silver fires lit up one after another, like planets, revolving around the warrior - you could see that rows of esoteric and intricate silver lines that were completely different from the runes of the Microf world began to spread around, and the light particles flew everywhere, and the entire basement, whether it was armor or weapons, walls or beams, was all ready to move, as if it was about to 'live'.

In the absence of Joshua's deliberate control of his own power, his power spontaneously affects the world around him, and the pure power of steel activates everything and gives all things the initial spirituality.

His power has reached this point, and the mere outflow of existential power can change the world, give birth to life, create a race, and give birth to infinite possibilities and futures.

“…… Civilization. ”

The warrior slowly opened his eyes, and in his eyes that shimmered with silver light, a little dark red fluctuation could be faintly seen, and Joshua whispered to himself, "It's really complicated. ”

- An unknown evil god.

What is your name?