Chapter 38: Stupidity and Madness

What kind of character is Joshua to friends and companions?

There may be a thousand different answers to a question, but there is no doubt that they all have one thing in common, and that is reassuring.

Whether it is the resentful muttering of the weapon, or the praise of the people with a little fear, behind the superficial complaints, there is an incomparable peace of mind, Joshua's existence is like a mountain, as long as it exists, there is no need to worry about the coming of the storm, he seems to be high, but in fact it is full of warmth - in Moldavia, no one can hear the slightest rumor about the lord, this is not only because of the strength of the lord himself, but also because he does not have any black spots.

As a friend, comrade-in-arms, Joshua's reliability goes without saying, he advocates order, sticks to his duties, and does not lightly promise, but he must do it when he says it, and it is indeed the most reassuring thing to have such a person fighting side by side.

So, what kind of existence is Joshua for the enemy?

There is only one answer: monsters.

Stubbornly straightening its body, Helm did not retreat or curl up, it looked up at the unscathed steel giant high in the sky, its body flashing with lines of light like runes.

What other answers could there be? Any being standing opposite the warrior would silently agree to this answer: the near-indestructible body of steel, the incredible power of the mountain-shifting monster, the regeneration rate comparable to that of the undead monsters, enough to destroy the normal attacks of the city's mountains...... Even in long-range combat, Joshua can use fist wind, nuclear fusion flames and other means to attack, and not to mention close combat with him, this is the worst option.

Without talking about anything else, let's just talk about the last existence to fight him in close quarters, Saruka. The Demon Lord is not a weakling, and the worm demon who is proficient in all kinds of changes has a variety of forms and different fighting styles that make everyone feel tricky, but even if it chooses to fight Joshua at close range, it can only be completely crushed, or even have no power to fight back—now Saruka's ignited body is still falling towards the bottom of the world with no end in sight in the Blood Moon Abyss, and it is only a single encounter, its bones are shattered, and its body is completely distorted and deformed.

But is Joshua really invincible? Helm didn't think so, and the Serpent-Eyed was convinced of it, even though its fighting style and attack were restrained by the warriors from start to finish, it didn't feel that the Iron Giant was invincible.

Joshua has weaknesses that can also be destroyed, as evidenced by the effectiveness of the Black Dragon King's attack by Keano, and the surprise attack of Saruka can also break through a layer of armor, and the Iron Giant, although it seems to be indestructible, can still be destroyed in fact, and the mutual attack between him and the Dragon King has torn himself and the other party apart, which has exposed all kinds of vulnerabilities in his body structure, and Helm has written them down thoroughly.

But it's not strong enough.

The Iron Giant is agile and quick in short range, but it is difficult to dodge at medium and long distances due to its large weight, and the fluctuation of gravity transmitted by the speed of light also makes it difficult for him to surprise him...... When it comes to sheer speed, the Giants do have weaknesses.

But the devil is not strong enough.

The Warrior doesn't seem to have resistance to special types of attacks at the moment, and he does have an unmatched adaptability to the usual energy and physical attacks, but is the same true for special seals, curses, and psychic strikes? If you want to defeat such an invincible giant god on the battlefield, you may not need to face the enemy head-on, you just need to retreat back into the abyss, and plan a large soul sacrifice curse to weaken the opponent and make it difficult for him to fight.

But Helm was not strong enough.

Yes, not strong enough.

Helm saw the fragile structure in Joshua's body, analyzed that the warrior was not agile enough, and guessed that the Iron Giant was not resistant to certain special attacks...... But so what? It can't take advantage of these obvious flaws! The serpent clenched its teeth anxiously, Helm was better at single-handedly suppressing the entire world than fighting one-on-one battles with the strong, its attacks were enough to sink half of the continent into scorched earth, but it was useless to some of the strongest, it saw through everything, but it could not attack the opponent's weaknesses, could not exploit the opponent's flaws, and did not even have the opportunity to try to attack from the enemy's weak points - because the warrior was facing it, and Helm had no chance.

High in the sky, Joshua had roughly finished dissipating heat, and he began to walk towards the giant snake, the speed was not fast, but the oppressive force was comparable to that of the entire heavenly dome and turned into a sea of pressure. He is moving forward, and no one can stop him.

The blazing wind slapped back and forth against the serpent's body, causing the flashing energy lines on the surface of the demon maharaja's body to hum, and Helm watched Joshua walk in the flamelight, and the closed snake pupils on its body began to gradually open, and each snake pupil began to flicker with a different light—dim, bright, scorching, cold, full of vitality, full of ignorance and dead silence...... Millions of different lights began to surge around the serpent's body, making it seem as if it were an aggregate of light

"Goliath, Lord of the Abyss."

Helm whispered in an ancient demonic voice, and the hot gas that erupted from the serpent's throat ignited the atmosphere around it, and the boiling heat echoed around it.

"I am not afraid of life and death, I am not afraid of pain and torture, I am willing to serve my people, there will be no peace, even if I will sink forever - I only fear one thing: the hope of my people is cut off from my hands, and there is no future to speak of."

Helm recalls when he was defeated by Goliath, who was neatly defeated, but instead of being killed, as was customary in demonic wars, he was left alone. At that time, the gluttonous demon who was not yet the demon king didn't even glance at the defeated of this subordinate, but what it said did not make the eye demon angry, but made it willingly become the other party's subordinate.

"The Sixth Abyss is too small, Helm, I'm going to conquer other worlds and take everything I want from them, whether it's fire, soul, or hope of reviving the Sixth Abyss, I won't let it go."

"It's not that I'm merciful to spare your life, there are thousands of people in the world, I can't do it myself every time, I need a subordinate who charges for me, and you're just right."

The former Demon King stepped the serpent's head into the dirt, and it stepped on Helm's head and said so, Goliath's tone was vicious, and his every move showed contempt for Helm, but this was the right of the winner to the loser in the demon battle, but that word of hope made Helm, who was waiting for death in the dirt, slightly stunned.

Wish? What a wonderful, such an unbelievable thing, when did the devil need this thing, and when did he have it? This stupid demon has defeated itself well, but does it really think it can revive the abyss? It's stupid, it's crazy.

Hey, funny guys.

Above the sky, Joshua was still walking unhurriedly, and he could see that the Iron Giant's joints were still a little red, and Helm's Star Blaze, although it did not cause obvious damage to the warrior, did slow down his movements, and the Demon Lord noticed this, but it still couldn't find any possibility of defeating the other party.

Yes, it has no chance, according to calculations, it does not even have a 1 in 100 million chance of winning, rather than expecting it to defeat the iron giant alone, it is better to expect the Black Dragon King to come back from the dead, Saruka to heal from his injuries, and the three of them to join forces to besiege it.

However, not everything needs to have a 'chance' to act.

Joshua's walking speed became faster and faster, the influence of the star's blaze on him became weaker and weaker, and the light on Helm's body became brighter and brighter, and thousands of different categories, different attributes, and different qualities of energy converged on the giant snake's body, and it suddenly circled itself into a huge ring - the demon lord gave up his snake-like physical form, but completely turned his legendary body into a simple ring-like energy structure, and countless points of light of different colors began to move in this ring energy structure, Their speed kept increasing, and after a few seconds, they turned into a rapidly rotating stream of light, turning Helm into a ring of energy that shattered space, and the fragments of the world vibrated and fell around it like scattered multicolored crystals.

There is nothing else left to do.

In the next moment, the stream of light that Helm had transformed into soared into the air, rushing towards him in Joshua's surprised eyes, it had turned into light, it was a pure energy aggregate, its speed was the speed of light, nothing could stop it.

- Even if the battle is lost, Helm still has to take the initiative and fight for an almost zero chance of victory.

This is the 'stupidity' and 'madness' of the devil.

The aura incarnated by the Demon Lord spun rapidly, advancing at the speed of light, it shone with a dazzling light, illuminating half of the Blood Moon Abyss, and countless colors melted into white at this time, but this white was not pure and warm white, but a fiery chaotic, indescribable white, it pounced on Joshua, as if it wanted to hit head-on.

- It was about to succeed, everything happened in 16.67 microseconds, which is the time when the light crossed five kilometers, that is, the distance between Helm and Joshua, and it was impossible for any creature to react in such a short time, which was a sure blow.

But four hands stretched out, and the silver light flickered gently, and an invisible barrier blocked between the advancing aura and Joshua.

The light was great, and the entire abyss of the blood moon seemed to be illuminated, and for a while, the light released by the blood moon was obscured, but Helm was not shocked by this scene, it had not yet reacted - it was blocked.

The warrior stared at the aura incarnated by Helm in front of him, the time was too short, he didn't understand what the other party was planning to do, but it was absolutely impossible to make a legendary powerhouse give up his form in order to launch an attack, so Joshua used the most prudent defense to resist the opponent, and the power of steel was condensed into countless crystals with an absolutely smooth surface, no matter any light, any energy entering the cloud-like barrier composed of this crystal would be refracted and displaced, and it was completely impossible to cause him any damage.

And the reason why he was able to react was not that the warrior's reaction speed exceeded the speed of light, but that he had been prepared for a long time - after losing to Pope Eagle in the battle, Joshua has been thinking about how to fight against this incarnation of light, although so far he has not figured out how to fight against the incredible ability that can change the speed of light, but he has thought of corresponding countermeasures for other ordinary attacks, and Helm's Star Blaze also happens to be among them, and the impact of this incarnation aura is no exception.

At the moment when the other party turned into an aura, Joshua directly set up a defense without thinking, this is not instinct, but a predictive answer obtained from rich experience, and every move of the demon lord was detected and seen through by him, just like now.

"Courageous."

A whisper of praise, for the sake of courage, Joshua did not have any intention of talking nonsense, the silver flame light lit up at his arm, and continued to accelerate, forming a terrifying chainsaw stream, the warrior appreciated Helm's decisive attack, but he did not intend to understand the other party's intentions, Joshua condensed the power of steel and the mass wave that was enough to shatter the mountain, he wanted to directly cut off the demon lord's still accelerating light flow body, and completely cut off all hopes and possibilities of the other party.

But suddenly, at the bottom of the dark and silent abyss, a faint star lit up.

The Blood Moon Abyss is a world of destruction, before it is destroyed, the entire continent is floating in the air, even the fallen rocks will float in the sky, and then be absorbed by other islands, one empty island after another is bred by thousands of unique races and civilizations, but no matter what race or civilization, there is great awe for the bottom of the world.

They said it was the end of all things, they said it was a dark and bottomless abyss, no one had ever been there, no one knew whether it had an end or no end—but now, a dim star had risen rapidly from the abyss, and it rose vertically, with a gray pillar of light, which pierced through all the darkness, dyeing the dark and bleak world with a hint of color, it was like a sharp sword, exuding an incomparable momentum, and at this moment, even Joshua could not help but be slightly distracted, However, Helm did not take advantage of this opportunity to attack, and could not be one of them, and it was actually attracted by the point of light.

In the next moment, they all knew what the point of light was.

That's the demon Saruka, the Lord of the Worms.

"Shhh————!!h

Rising rapidly, an inhuman roar came out of its mouth, Saruka's body had been roughly regenerated, it had transformed into another fluid creature, and it was now flying rapidly towards the sky, the sound was left behind it, the air burned and burst into thunder, it was seriously injured, but it was not without the strength of a fight, and the insect demon desperately wanted to return to the battlefield.

The Star zoomed in as quickly as it crashed into Joshua—not that the warrior couldn't react, but how could he have the strength to deal with Saruka as he wrestled with Helm at this time? All this happened in a thousandth of a second, and it could only be seen that the swirling stream of light finally broke through Joshua's barrier and crashed into the opponent's chest, and the insect demon lord who hit the warrior's back also changed into a strange form like an octopus, firmly binding the four arms of the iron giant, preventing him from launching a counterattack.

One hundred-thousandths of a second later.

A supernova lights up in the center of the Blood Moon Abyss.