Chapter 13: The Flame That Belongs to One Man 7300
Compared to the periphery, the center of the Black Forest is no different, if you have to say, it is probably that the environment is more dull than the periphery, the miasma is more intense, the chaos magic is more powerful, and the demonic beasts that live here are stronger.
This is a very normal phenomenon, in other words, it is probably the heat island effect of magic power, because the closer you get to the center of the Black Forest, about all kinds of high magic materials, special magic plants and all kinds of high-level monsters that covet this environment and linger gather together, and their aggregates even form a strange magic gathering effect, so that 80% of the magic power of the entire Black Forest is concentrated in this core area that is only about 20% of the total area of the Black Forest.
And the reason for all this is because the remains of the evil god [Abundance] are located in the Black Forest, that is, the Microf continent, and even the center of the entire world.
"How powerful are the evil gods?"
Slowly flying in the air towards the middle of the Black Forest, looking at the increasingly otherworldly and sinister environment around him, Joshua's heart couldn't help but raise such a doubt: "For more than a thousand years, its wreckage can still affect the entire continent, giving birth to countless monsters, and even affecting the ecosystem and magic cycle of a world. β
But this doubt was immediately answered by Joshua himself.
It's a power that can't be measured, can't be described in numbers.
Is Fullmetal Python strong? Very powerful, although he has not fought before, Joshua clearly understands very clearly how terrifying the steel python that holds the authority of a world is in its own world, they dominate everything, dominate everything, and if they want, they can even make the sea and the sky turn upside down, and make the continent float - but only within the world.
The steel python is the will of the world, and the reason and wisdom of the will of this world come from the order and civilization that exists in the world. The Cyborda Monoconda holds the authority to destroy the world, but it will never be able to exert its full power, because its order, that is, wisdom itself, comes from the countless races that multiply on its body, in the words of Joshua's previous life on Earth, then the Cyanoconda is not a simple Gaia, it is a mixture of Gaia's will and the human subconscious community, that is, the mixture of Alayya's consciousness.
It is impossible for ordinary people to exert their full strength, because excessive force will damage the muscles, overload the internal organs, cause damage to the body, and shorten the lifespan, the same is true for the steel python, they have authority there, but it is impossible to play 100%, and even use it carefully, so as not to affect the race that lives on their body.
It is precisely because of this that the steel python Siboya will be seized by Fatrolvi, this may not be because of the other party's laziness, but the steel python has long realized that he does nothing, and the civilization in his body may be the best, and this too negative attitude has led to everything happening.
Joshua has the confidence to resist the full onslaught of a Steel Python of the same level as Karlis, but with a Steel Python of the level of Mycrof and Xinghai, he may not be able to catch it, but this is not completely without opportunities, because the opponent's weaknesses are obvious, and the warrior believes that he can grasp these opportunities, and he thinks that as long as he does not make mistakes, then even if he can't help these world wills, the other party can't help him.
But evil gods are different. This may be the hybrid of this Gaia and the subconscious of the race, mixed with the wreckage of the world, the product of liberating 100% of the bondage, which is very different from the Steel Python.
They are not afraid of self-destruction, because they have long since perished, and they are not afraid of losing their wisdom, because they have long been foolish and chaotic.
They are already the spokesmen of death and the end, and naturally there are no constraints, as long as everything is reduced to nothingness and chaos.
Because of this, they are far more powerful when they die than when they are alive.
Thinking of this, Joshua's face was slightly gloomy, and he recalled the contaminated Steel Python Microf, the other party's black-red scale armor and the crimson eyes that were eroded to the point of invisibility made him hard to forget now - if the Steel Python Microf had not been sealed, then the chaotic power flowing through its body would have been enough to erode the entire world and give birth to a new evil god.
At that time, what should this evil god be called? Does the Sage and the Steel Python's curiosity about the transformation of order and chaos represent a series of mistakes starting from the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Ground?
Just as the warrior was frowning and thinking, suddenly, a small spatial crack cracked open on his side, and a platinum vine pierced through it, making a somewhat distorted voice: "Legend of the Northlands, do you want to go to the 'Fountain of Chaos'." β
"Fuji mother? You're talking about the boiling Chaos Magic Center? β
Hearing the other party's words, Joshua nodded, and he said calmly: "That's true, according to the rumors of adventurers, you live near the Fountain of Chaos, right?" I and the other Legends of Humanity are ready to pull out the cancer that has been stuck in the world of Microf once and for all, and this is also in our agreement. β
"I know. For the last hundred and thirty years, it has been me and the Platinum Ancient Dragon who have been working together to block the magic in the Fountain of Chaos and prevent it from spreading. β
Fujimu replied, in a normal tone, as if answering one thing as a matter of course: "If you are really determined to eradicate the Fountain of Chaos, then it is better to do it as soon as possible, the longer it stays in this world, the more pollution it causes." β
According to Fujimu's slightly scattered words, Joshua probably knew the progress of the other legends at this time. In addition to him, who specializes in destroying and ploughing the land at a speed like a slurch, the fastest nature mentor is only halfway done now, so for most of the day, the human legend located in the inner side of the Black Forest may still be the only one, and Fujimu doesn't mind talking about the 'Fountain of Chaos' in detail during this time.
"As you know, the Fountain of Chaos is the source of the aura of chaos in the entire Black Forest, and even in the entire world."
The voice of the White Vine Mother came from behind the spatial rift: "According to your words, it is the place where the remnants of the evil god fall, and Colorado and I have been able to achieve legend thanks to fighting it day after day. β
At this time, Joshua had come to the area very close to the center of the Black Forest, and he could already see the white-gold mountain not far away, and the source of chaos surging beside it.
From that white-gold peak, Joshua sensed a trace of heterogeneous steel power, which was the life force that promoted the vigorous growth and division of all things in nature and accelerated their reproduction, and on the other side, in the filthy spring of chaos, there was also a strange force, which was the same to promote the growth of life, but there was no limit, so that it would not end after reaching its peak, until it reached the end of self-destruction.
If it were an ordinary life, in such an extreme and terrifying environment, it would have long been overdeveloped because of the terrifying rich energy, so that the tissue system of the whole body became cancerous, and it is not strange to grow a few more hands and feet, and the monster is even more prone to all kinds of mutations - the warrior now finally understands why there is an endless stream of new demonic beasts in the Black Forest every year, he originally thought that it was a mutation caused by the survival of the fittest in the general environment, but now it seems that it may just be a rapid mutation caused by the magic of chaos.
"This is the chaos that makes people 'prosper' and then 'perish'."
Watching the materialized Chaos Force Aggregate react in front of him, Joshua looked down at it and slowly said to himself, "How much in line with the definition of the Glorious Age, and Mother Vine, you still have the Prison Sky Dragon, if you didn't choose to cooperate with us humans this time, you would also fall to this point." β
In this regard, the legendary Warcraft did not defend or say much, it just withdrew its tentacles and closed the spatial rift.
And Joshua didn't care about this, he slowly descended from mid-air to the ground in the center of the Black Forest, and felt the chaos magic around him up close, and the steel power left behind by the platinum ancient dragon.
There are countless types of evil gods, and the powers they hold are never the same.
The evil god [Famine] born because of loneliness and hunger, the evil god [natural disaster] born due to unstoppable destruction, the evil god [Plague] born by the self-greed of civilization, and the evil god [Doomsday] born due to self-destruction - the power and origin of these evil gods are very clear and simple. What the Famine possesses is the terrifying devouring power that gnaws at the world. Natural disasters possess terrifying disasters that are enough to destroy the world and destroy civilization. The plague god is like an out-of-control greed, spreading throughout the multiverse, and the apocalypse, not to mention, symbolizes destruction itself.
But none of these are the most powerful evil gods. Because in the former McCrove world records, the ranking number is the first, the most dangerous, and the evil god known as the strongest evil god, named [Abundance].
Everyone who hears this name can't help but be slightly stunned - whether it is famine, natural disaster, plague, or magic, the names of these evil gods sound extremely ominous, and they also represent their sad fate, but abundance is not a bad thing, why can it be the name of the evil god?
Joshua stood between the completely alienated, wriggling inky black forest, he stretched out his right hand without changing his face, and in the palm of his right hand, a faint spark appeared.
This spark seems to have been born from the void, from a trace of undetectable condensation and explosion, and after an instant, it quickly spread into a fist-sized golden fireball, the fireball burned steadily, releasing majestic light and heat, and the terrifying heat even made the surrounding Black Forest emit a burning 'sizzle' sound, like a tiny star.
Joshua held the sun in his palm as if it were insignificant, and then slowly pushed it into the distance and withdrew his hand. Instead of controlling the fireball, he let the chaotic forces around him eat away at it.
And in the next moment, something that was natural but chilling happened.
The magic of chaos invaded this miniature sun the moment Joshua withdrew the protection, and suddenly, the originally stable burning star began to emit dozens of times the strong light and high heat before - this light is so dazzling, as if it is the last glory of the person before death, and in fact, it is also the case, after the blink of an eye of strong light, the miniature sun that could have been burning stably for a long time expanded rapidly, turned red, and then just like that, turned into a thin and fragile red giant star with a diameter of about 1.8 meters.
Joshua can even see that in the center of this miniature 'red giant', there is a little bit of white dwarf material remaining, it is cooling rapidly, and its brightness is also rapidly decreasing, maybe in tens of seconds, the bright 'white' dwarf star will turn into a bleak and dead silence, and it stands to reason that even if the universe is gone, it is impossible to be born of a cold 'black' dwarf.
This is exactly the final outcome of the steel power he used to simulate the stars, under the influence of the power of the Abundant Evil God.
Abundance, prosperity and splendor are very close to the roots of the words in the McCrof lingua franca, and the power implied by the evil god of abundance is the barrenness after abundance, the decay after prosperity, and the bleakness after glory. It represents the abrupt weakening and extinction of a thing after it has reached its apex.
If the earth civilization, after realizing communism and moving towards the Datong society, suddenly was completely destroyed because of a superweapon war, then such a fate may be closer to what happened to the Abundant Evil God when it was born, and similarly, there is also the Mycrof civilization itself, which created the glorious era after the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrifice Ground, undoubtedly standing at the highest peak of history, and then the sudden abyss and the invasion of the evil gods directly destroyed it.
Even the Black Tide in the Black Forest itself can be regarded as some kind of confirmation - the demonic beasts have multiplied to the extreme in it, and then they rushed towards the fortress of civilization and ushered in the final destruction.
"The birth of the evil god [atmosphere] is because the abundant evil nerve passed through its homeland, and its power overflowed, and even caused a star to directly turn into a red giant, destroying the galaxy's ecosystem, and the remnants of atmospheric life dissipated worthlessly in the cold universe without any electromagnetic waves after finally having civilization."
Recalling the remnants of another evil god that he had recovered in the underground of the Northland, Joshua shook his head as he walked through the Black Forest: "This kind of reincarnation is really sad and disgusting. β
Evil gods do not only destroy order and civilization, their existence will also create new evil gods, and between the evil gods, it may not be a monolith, at least according to Joshua's guess, if the atmospheric evil god encounters the abundant evil god, then no matter how big the difference in strength between the two sides is, and what kind of environment the two sides are in, the atmospheric evil god should not hesitate to attack the other party.
After all, they are just the corpses of the world, and the undead of chaos are irrational, and there is a similar relationship, maybe natural disasters and doomsday, but all this is just speculation, Joshua's current cognition of the evil god comes from the ancient memory illusion and the narrative of the steel python, and he came here to understand each other better.
Pushing away the Black Forest, which was about to solidify into a black stone statue, Joshua walked on the dirt that had almost turned into chaotic asphalt, and came to the true center of the Central Black Forest, where before him was a hill formed by the remnants of countless white-gold ancient dragons, which released the gentle power of steel and sheltered the world around him. On the other side of the hill, the power of chaos is spreading uncontrollably, and there is an indescribable terrifying aura flowing in the atmosphere, which distorts the elements, distorts the magic, and even distorts itself, forming a vision that is like a spring, constantly surging and dissipating towards the outside world.
As the embodiment of the power of steel, the ancient dragon may not be able to face the unshackled wreckage of the world head-on, and it cannot face the evil god head-on, but its strength is enough to compete with the remaining limbs of the evil god, so that the central Black Forest of Nuoda will not really turn into the world's largest chaotic alien world.
And Joshua is also the embodiment of the power of steelβnow he can even be regarded as the embodiment of the world, in a sense, he can even be said to be a cut above the ancient dragon, and the remnants of the chaotic power of the abundant evil god are like a breeze blowing in his face, and he cannot harm him at all.
As Joshua walked, a circle of glowing words appeared under his feet, the words were dark red, like blood mixed with ink, they turned in circles, and naturally appeared, defending the warrior against the chaotic forces around him. If a great magician who was proficient in runes could see these words, he would be shocked and inexplicable, because these simple words did not exist in any language in the world, they were a type of rune, but they had never appeared in the world.
In fact, it was the rune that belonged to Joshua, and it belonged entirely to his 'authority over the world'.
Since deciding to embark on the path of 'I am the world', Joshua's incarnation and body have undergone a series of changes, and the words surrounding her and feet are not very important...... These special words, to put it bluntly, are similar to the runes that are unique to each world and can attract magical power, if the world in Joshua's body has life in the future, then they can dig out the essence of the world from these runes, so as to grasp all kinds of authority, and develop their own fighting spirit, magic, magic and even all kinds of abilities.
But it's too early to say this, these runes are now just the 'aftermath' of Joshua's own strength and communication with the Microf world, after all, today's warrior is the prototype of the world in terms of personality, and he is located in another world to release his power, so he will naturally have all kinds of visions.
Speaking of visions, Joshua had to recall another very important existence, but he had long forgotten, but could not really forget.
That's the system.
Just a few months ago, when Joshua was still a giant silver cocoon, he sensed the system itself that had disappeared for a long time and could not be found no matter how much he searched, due to the loss of information caused by the rapid collapse of his own particles. This is a very normal thing, after all, at that time, Joshua's self-will was about to be erased by his own power, let alone a system that he couldn't find it, but was too lazy to find it?
At that time, the vision looked similar to the present, a circle of extremely strange holy words that were completely different from the basic runes of the Microf world slowly emerged from Joshua's body, and then erased by the loss of information caused by the collapse of the degenerate matter, at that time, the warrior almost understood the nature of the system, and why it was difficult for him to find the reason for it.
Because the system is, to put it bluntly, part of his own soul.
It's just that this part is an alienated and modified part, there is an incredibly powerful power, and without Joshua knowing it at the beginning, his soul, this special 'organ', has sublimated a part of it, forming a special transcendent module, which can accelerate the absorption of the power of other lives, and then strengthen Joshua's own power faster, in a sense, it may be a piece of azure orb that he carries with him.
It can be said that even if Joshua didn't have the Azure Orb and didn't inherit the legacy of the Radcliffe family, then his rapid development would not change much. It's just that this transcendent structure is not stable, and it will be distorted with the progress of Joshua's own strength, and when Joshua advances to the gold level, the overly personal soul will cause the system to appear for the first time, and when it is extreme, there will even be all kinds of abnormalities, and it will disappear directly after the legend, and even the basic identification and achievement reporting functions have been obliterated.
In the first essence sublimation after Joshua became a legend, the system did not even have the last remnants left, and it was directly wiped out, because Joshua's soul had been built into a faster-than-light information network in his body, and this completely inhuman alienation did not give the other party any space to hide.
As for the source of the system, Joshua, as always, did not care.
Whether it came from the sages, from the Cybora Microf, or from the last gift from the world where Earth was located to him as a wanderer, it didn't matter, did it? He is already so powerful that he can leave his name in the multiverse without any help from existence, no matter who, what existence, or for what purpose he has given him such help, the current other party should be enough to be relieved, and even laugh.
This is the best reward that a warrior can give to this help.
With that in mind, he took another step forward.
"Legends of the Northlands, aren't you going to wait for other legends?"
And just as Joshua took a big step towards the Fountain of Chaos, beside him, the spatial crack opened again, and a platinum vine that was obviously thicker than before appeared, and the slightly puzzled voice of the vine mother sounded: "You plan to explore the Fountain of Chaos alone?" Or are you planning to recover the remnants of the evil god alone? It's too dangerous, and there's no way I'm going to help you. β
I haven't lived enough. The subtext of Fuji Mu is so simple and straightforward that Joshua can even directly hear the voice of this legendary demonic beast too loudly, which can be said to be very simple and straightforward to understand, after all, demonic beasts are different from humans, and they act completely according to their own inner thoughts.
"I don't need your help, I'm enough."
Joshua approached the Fountain of Chaos, and he felt that the chaotic aura around him was getting stronger and stronger, it was different from the family of the Famine Evil God, different from the projection of the Cataclysmic Evil God, different from the mother beast of the Plague Evil God, and it was a completely different level of strength from the remnants of the weak atmospheric evil god, that was the remains of the strongest evil god known to the sages, the [Abundant Evil God], even if most of its body was completely wiped out in the multiverse void by the sages, the little remaining 'bloodstains' even said' 'Minced meat' is enough to bond the current Mycrof Continent, and the remaining power can even give birth to an existence like the Black Forest.
It was once so powerful that even if it passed by, the aftermath was enough to cause a series of stars to self-extinguish, but now.
But that's about it.
"In the last few years, I've dealt with the evil god projection and their families, and what you've seen and heard in the past few hundred years may not be as much as the news I got from a year of cruising in the other world."
It seemed to be a slow step, but in fact the speed was far beyond that of ordinary people, and circles of intricate runes appeared under Joshua's feet, resisting the chaotic forces that were getting deeper and deeper around him, and could even directly urge the prosperity and decay of certain things. Even if Fuji Mu no longer dared to continue to follow his footsteps and close the spatial rift, he also whispered to himself, "I know, it is left to me, unlike those of you who have entities, have been born, and have the ups and downs of power. β
As he spoke, Joshua had come to the vicinity of the pitch-black source of chaos, and his eyes widened to observe with the naked eye the endless filth in front of his eyesβan indescribable, dirty, obscure fog that had eroded all existence, and even carved out dense beehive-like caverns in space, which swallowed gloomy and desperate mist, completely sucking out the evening light of the current McCrove world.
And this is the manifestation of the power of chaos power on the outside of the world, compared to the black tide of liquid chaos magic that is ten thousand times dirty in the fog and absorbs light, there are thousands of indescribable phantoms and illusions in it, which seems to be the shadow of the destruction of countless worlds, the illusion of the destruction of countless civilizations, between the intertwining of light and shadow, the rich evil god does not know how many thousands of years of existence, how many billion years of existence information stirred, for the first time in the past thousand years may be the first naked eye to look at its existence to show its own results.
The stars are expanding, the galaxies are dimming, tens of millions of stars are extinguishing one after another, and even a long black field is pulled out in the world's galaxy - it is the darkness that roams among the stars, called prosperity and destruction, it shuttles through the multiverse wantonly, sowing seeds called despair and chaos, countless worlds are dimmed under its songs, and countless chaos is also born in resentment.
Joshua stood in front of the source of chaos, boots condensed by the power of steel licked by the corrosive magic of darkness, but unable to lick the slightest bit of debris from the silver-glowing, near-immortal matter, the warrior stared at the chaotic mana gathering in front of him that was only one step away from him, and he knew that beneath this black lake was his target, the last remains of the Abundant Evil God in the multiverse.
"I am immortal, and I am the world yet to be born. I am 'my order'. β
If I can't even cope with the power left behind by the remains of the evil gods, how can I kill them one after another in the future, purify their existence, and turn them into my own martial arts and merits?
Thinking about it as a matter of course, Joshua jumped into it.
The light of the setting sun faded rapidly in his world, everything around him instantly turned into darkness, everything was engulfed, everything was covered, it felt like a person staying at the bottom of the lonely 10,000-meter abyss, with no sound, no light, no touch, no material world existing, possessing, and being able to perceive everything.
It's like the chaos of nothingness before everything is born.
And just when everything seemed to be forever dark, forever silent, suddenly, in the dark abyss, there was a faint sound.
A little silver fire, lit up in the depths of the abyss.
It is the fire of order, the fire of existence, the fire that distinguishes between life and death, hot and cold, light and dark.
It's Joshua's own, the flame.