Grandia World, Southern Heath, Night.

Joshua stood at the top of the mountain, looking down at the ground below.

Before his eyes was a continent shrouded in darkness, without lights, without torches, without the light of all civilization and wisdom, and the deep shadows swallowed everything, and the mournful howls of the dead could be faintly seen echoing in it.

Nearly ten days had passed since he arrived in this area, and the warriors had searched every corner of the land, shuttling back and forth in all directions, and along the way he had saved at least thirty survivors of the sanctuary, killed tens of thousands of dead, and liberated his power to 63%.

But it didn't make any sense, Joshua's brow furrowed so much that it almost stood up—the dragon-winged girl seemed to have disappeared, without a trace.

In the darkness, the warrior did not speak, and the sisters and brothers of the god machine, who had finally adapted to the environment of this world and were able to regain their human form, did not speak, both Hotaru and Rin could sense the rare anxiety in their master's heart, and they could understand this mood.

In fact, since the warrior came to this world, it has not been a month, and in less than a month, he has found the location of the inheritor, and determined the integrity of the inheritance of the sage, which can be said to be fast, but Joshua knows that he is obviously only a little short, and he can directly find his target, and after missing it, he will follow the clues to find it and gain nothing, and the comparison between the two will naturally feel uncomfortable.

The next moment, with a long breath and a fluctuating heart, Joshua regained his composure.

"Looks like she's out of the wasteland." The warrior muttered to himself, "Urbanny gave me her breath, and I also noticed that there was her breath on this land, but this breath suddenly disappeared as early as ten days ago...... I thought she was hiding underground, but now it seems that she has somehow shielded herself from hiding somewhere else. ”

Thinking of this, the warrior stood on the top of the mountain and looked around the sky, even if the other party was hiding and going to another region, then which side was it?

The devil knows, and you can only guess by luck.

But just as Joshua was about to turn Hotaru and Rin back into weapon form, and then stand them up, searching the side where the tip of the sword and axe fell, he suddenly sensed a faint but somewhat familiar fluctuation.

This couldn't help but turn the warrior's vision to the direction where the fluctuations came from, and let out a slightly surprised exclamation: "Silver realm? ”

The fluctuation just now was produced by a Black Iron Enlightenment Level 1 Dou Qi cultivator, who made his own energy penetrate his whole body, completely mastered his physical strength, and broke through the Silver Yao Ling Realm!

"That's fast."

Throughout the southern barren plains, Joshua saved a total of more than thirty survivors of the shelter, and each of them passed down a different breathing method, which blended the highlights of the two major cultivation systems of Dou Qi and Primordial Crystal Demonic Energy, so that it could not only be improved by absorbing the free energy in heaven and earth, but also advanced by absorbing the power of primordial crystal.

Most of these surviving people are not very strong, and it is precisely because their strength is not strong and their breath is weak that they will be ignored by the undead powerhouses who destroy the shelter, after they have obtained these breathing methods and the help of Joshua, they have indeed increased their strength and have some ability to fight against the undead, but within ten days, someone broke through and achieved the silver realm, which is really a bit surprising to the warriors.

This proves that his deduction is not wrong, and it can even be said that it was a great success!

Then, above the top of the mountain, a red arc of light leaped up, and then fell towards the earth, and the dim light drew a straight line in the dark world, and flew rapidly towards the eastern part of the southern plains.

At this time, in the ruins of a village in the southern wasteland, a pair of blonde teenagers and girls are standing in front of a newly repaired house, facing a group of slowly approaching dead figures.

"Crete, haven't you adjusted yet?!"

The heroic girl held an unusually sharp firewood knife in her hand, she wielded such a firewood knife, and quickly killed the group of weak dead in front of her - the southern wasteland was the fattest grassland in the entire Grandia continent twenty-seven years ago, and it was one of the largest gathering places of human beings.

But no matter how weak the shadow is, the girl can't stand alone, and with difficulty flashing the grappling of a ghost, she can't help but let out a roar: "If you don't adjust well, I'm going to die in front of you!" ”

At this time, the named young man on the side did not look in a good state, he leaned against the wall of the house with his eyes closed, as if he was about to drown, breathing briefly and rapidly, and under the bare skin around him, he could see the cyan blood vessels bursting out, and the muscles squirming wildly under them, bringing strength at the same time, but also bringing extreme pain.

"Larreal!"

The boy named Crete said intermittently, in a voice that was holding back pain: "Thirty seconds! Give me thirty seconds! ”

It can be seen that a large amount of blood is flowing in his veins, transporting the power seeds condensed in his body to his whole body, preparing for the awakening of the silver high-level fighting qi, Crete held the wood chopping axe on the side of his body with his hand that was no longer so trembling, and a fierce light flashed in his green eyes: "I'll be fine right away!" ”

But the girl named Lariel can't wait for his rescue.

Of course, it wasn't because Larrell didn't stop the dead - it was because there were red meteors flashing in the sky.

Joshua is here.

It was as if the sun had swept across the earth, and the shadows of the dead on the east side of the entire southern wasteland were emptied in an instant, and the young men and girls looked up at the sky in a bit of a daze, and they saw a familiar figure in the air above the village.

The figure who rescued them from the Dead and taught them how to practice.

"Your Excellency!"

Larrell and Crete hurriedly knelt down, their eyes filled with reverence—although they didn't even know Joshua's name, it didn't affect the warrior's status in their minds, which was equivalent to reinventing their parents, mentors, or even higher.

And Joshua saw that the muscles and blood vessels in his body still had not returned to normal, so he stretched out his hand and pointed at it.

A faint radiation of life energy shot out from his fingertips and sank into the young man's body, and after an instant, the young man was shocked to realize that the wriggling muscles and veins in his body had completely calmed down, completing this advancement!

"Well done."

After doing all this, Joshua looked at the ruined village, and he nodded with some appreciation: "In just ten days, a house has been rebuilt in the ruins, the general fortifications have been completed, and the strength has also advanced to silver...... Although this is because you have plenty of primordial crystals, you are indeed considered geniuses. ”

The warrior's gaze could see through all the secrets, and he could naturally understand that the reason why Crete advanced so quickly was not because his cultivation speed was too fast, but because he had enough primordial crystals in his hands.

The shelter village under him was breached by a group of undead knights led by a headless horseman in the mouth of a young girl, and only two people who hid at the bottom of the well survived, but these dead figures were not robbers, they did not plunder anything, resulting in Crete and Larreal, who were rescued by Joshua and taught the breathing method, had enough primordial crystals to practice.

Excellent inheritance, good talent, sufficient resources and daily hard combat, the four are mixed, creating this young man who advanced to silver in ten days.

"Get up."

Joshua let the two men get up, he didn't have the habit of letting others talk on their knees, and at the same time, the warrior's gaze pierced Cretan's flesh, staring at the seeds of power in his body.

This is a peculiar transformation - the power of magic energy from the original crystal, after the boy sucked it into the body, it was decomposed into the primordial elemental power and vitality by the breathing method passed down by Joshua, the vitality is used to enhance the physique, deriving fighting energy, and the remaining elemental power is accumulated in the heart of Crete, and his organs are demonized little by little, as long as the boy advances to the silver high level, then as long as Crete needs it, he can operate the life energy and merge with the elements at the heart again, restored to magical energy.

The breathing method that fuses the cultivation systems of the two worlds' warriors, if it is in the Microf Continent, it can only be regarded as an ordinary breathing method, but in the Grandia Continent, because of the incomparably excellent speed of absorbing the power of the original crystal, it is enough to be called the top batch of cultivation methods.

And most importantly, Joshua could see that this trace of fusion power seed in Crete's body was already a trace of similarity to the pure fighting qi in the Mycrof continent - and this resemblance was the essence of the most original source of steel power, even if it crossed different worlds!

"Let me try."

Stretching out his hand, Joshua mobilized all his energy, simulating this trace of essential power - in an instant, a dark silver light flashed in the palm of his hand, although this light was dim, but it was extremely thick, as if it carried an entire world.

Crete and Larreal, who had just stood up, immediately involuntarily knelt down again, their hearts were full of awe at the same time, but also felt a trace of inexplicable kindness, the young girl felt that the powerful man with black hair and red eyes in front of them, the mysterious teacher who passed on the method of cultivation to them, seemed to gradually begin to merge with this heaven and earth, and become one with this world.

64%，65%，66%，67%，68%，68.5%…… 69%！

In an instant, Joshua's power liberation level reached 69%

Therefore, a powerful coercion swept across the entire Southern Wasteland!

It was like a giant beast cruising in the sea, setting off boundless waves, and an indescribable majestic power fluctuation swept through everyone in this land, whether it was the survivors who sensed the familiar breath, or the scattered dead shadows, they were all suppressed by this force and could not move, and farther away, on the southwest side of the continent, in some still intact shelter points, some sleeping powerhouses and heroic spirits suddenly felt that their breath was stagnant, the energy in their bodies was circulated, and the feeling of palpitations could not be dissipated for a long time.

Farther away, in the northwest of the continent, in Gaitar, the capital of the Ulan Empire, an undead archlord turned his head sharply and looked at the skyline where the southern region was located.

"Sanctuary ......," it muttered to itself, "who is it...... Who can break through the Sanctuary at this time?! ”

And the source of the fluctuation.

Suspended in mid-air, Joshua's red eyes shone with a hint of metallic silver, which was the light of the power of steel, the power to carry, create, and encompass all things.

That is, the power he wants to wield.

At this time, Joshua, although the degree of power liberation has not reached 100%, but his strength at this time has surpassed the heyday of the Microf Continent, this is the power that has surpassed the peak of extreme intention and has not reached the legendary realm!

But just as the warrior reached the liberation rate of 69%, he abruptly stopped further advancement.

So, the coercion is withdrawn.

Joshua slowly landed on the ground, he ignored the Shenji sisters and brothers behind him, similar to 'Master, you just became so strong!' ''It feels stronger than when you're on the Microf Continent!'' Such an excited inquiry also ignored the adoring eyes of Crete and Larryl, and looked at his palm, which no longer shone with silver light, with great seriousness.

"The Power of Steel...... Is it being eroded? ”

The warrior muttered to himself in confusion and shock: "The power of the world's existence, the initial fire is shrinking?!" Who, who could do such a thing?! ”

Just now, just when Joshua's power liberation was about to break through the 70% mark, the fighting energy and vitality in his body were about to be sublimated into an energy closer to the power of steel, and he was breathing with the heaven and earth of this Grandia world, so the warrior sensed from the darkness that the essence of the existence of this world was being changed, and the power of steel, which was the basis of all things, was also being eroded.

In this world, there is no Steel Python similar to the world of Karlis and the world of Ilgena, and its existence is too short to give birth to its own will, so the essence of this world is very easy to change, or even erosion and corrosion.

In order not to be affected by this erosion from the source, the warrior decisively gave up the breakthrough.

And in the distance, to the northwest, in Gaitar, the imperial capital of the Ulan Empire, unsettling black clouds were surging, and black rain was falling.

A sevenfold aura of darkness loomed over the city, sustaining the never-dissipating fog and whistling dust tornadoes around it.

But at this moment, the fourth halo in the center broke away from the array of the sevenfold ring and began to gradually move towards the south, this deep dark vortex with a huge dark power, began to move towards the outside world.

It's as if some shadow is climbing out of the abyss.

Its target is the Southern Wastelands.

And its purpose is to destroy all resistance and hope.