Chapter 9: The Fist of Leaping

"Control the speed at which the light moves, this is my 'Radiance Field'."

The seventh abyss, in mid-air, Eagle said calmly, and then he kept silent and continued to fight.

How does this work?

And after hearing Eagle admit it himself, Joshua even felt that his thinking center was a little stagnant, controlling the speed of light? Does Eagle really understand how shameless his abilities are? Does he want to be shameless? Is this man really a legend, not a god from somewhere? When everyone else was still playing with mud and controlling energy to affect matter, this self-taught guy who was self-taught by observing the initial fire had actually started to build a house and delve into the cosmological constant? The style of painting is wrong, right?!

- A god who walks on earth.

For some reason, Joshua suddenly remembered the title that Eagle had had, whether in his previous life or in this life, he felt that it was just an honorific title for the strongest person recognized as the strongest in the Microf Continent, but now it seemed ...... I'm afraid it's just an ordinary description, not even an exaggeration. He even thought of the fact that he had almost defeated the three legendary dragon kings of Eagle in his previous life, and his evaluation of them in his heart instantly increased several times: he could almost defeat the old Pope, which was no longer strong enough to describe, but extremely strong!

"No...... My thinking is being influenced, and the microcurrents are scattered! ”

After thinking for a long time, Joshua suddenly woke up, and he found that he was actually starting to get distracted, which was unimaginable for the original warrior, but the fact is that because the microelectronic flow and optical fiber that transmit messages in the brain-thinking center are chaotic due to the change in the speed of light, Joshua's thinking began to become chaotic - this has nothing to do with will, it is completely a physical mental attack, Eagle crossed the tight defense, and directly disturbed Joshua's nerve knot.

Iger's attack was still not over, and Joshua felt that his body was still growing abnormally, because the material particles that made up the body began to be unable to maintain a too tight structure, and just around the warrior's body, on the earth of the seventh abyss, in the glorious realm of the old Pope, the rocks on the ground crumbled into gravel, the magma in the ditch began to boil, and a hot wind blew across the cliff, which actually turned the entire cliff wall into powder, and the entire material world began to collapse due to the change of the speed of light, Only the colorful spectrum in mid-air remained stable and bright.

- It's not going to work like this, you have to find a way.

Even though his mind had begun to drift uncontrollably, Joshua struggled to get up from the ground, even though the ground had now crumbled into a cloud of dust, and half of his body was sunk into the dust. Groups of information kept flowing through the warrior's mind, and he did come up with a lot of useful things.

First of all, the old Pope's ability to influence the speed of light has a scope—that range is where the light shrouds the pure white scepter, the so-called 'Radiant Realm'. It began with a little more than 100 square kilometers, but now it has shrunk to only 30 square kilometers, and within this range, there is a noticeable collapse of the material. If this is the limit of his ability, then Eagle should soon end this attack because he can't hold it up.

Secondly, there is the limit, Iger's ability to control the speed of light has a limit, if he can directly reduce the speed of light to zero instantly, or accelerate it to several times the original, then let alone Joshua, there is nothing in the material universe that he can't destroy, even including the material world itself. In fact, through the personal experience of the soldiers, the old Pope's control of the speed of light is about one-fifth, and the limit peak time is extremely short.

In the end, Eagle needed to control the speed of light with all his might, and he couldn't launch other attacks while controlling the speed of light, otherwise, with Joshua's current state of barely controlling his body, a random stream of high-energy particles could make him half dead.

But even so, the power of the old Pope Eagle can be said to be extremely powerful - within the Radiant Realm, he is the master of all things!

In addition to this, there are many bits and pieces, such as why Eagle wanted to set the battlefield in the Boundless Realm where there is nothing in the first place? This made the warrior have a conjecture in his heart, but it was not perfect, but now he had no time to refine any ideas, the nuclear fusion in the furnace of the heart of the melt core had begun to appear fundamentally disordered, and it was about to stop, and Joshua would not have a chance if he didn't try again.

Therefore, in the next moment, Joshua made the most decisive choice.

"Boom!"

Boom Rumble Rumble!!!

Suddenly, a violent explosion suddenly appeared on the earth of the seventh abyss, but this explosion did not produce flames, nor did any energy release, the only thing that appeared was a silver mushroom cloud that was rising rapidly.

A mushroom cloud composed entirely of Steelpower dust!

"Whew!"

In mid-air, Iger, who had been staring at the area where Joshua was all along, suddenly pressed his head in pain, and even the colorful spectral aggregate behind him appeared in a snowflake-like garbled code as if it had been in poor contact, and a pure light shot out of his eyes, and even his entire head began to glow, as if it was running to the extreme.

And because of the rise of the dust mushroom cloud of the power of steel, the area originally controlled by Eagle was suddenly compressed from more than thirty square kilometers to five square kilometers, and the phenomenon of material dissociation also stopped temporarily, and at this moment, the skeleton of a giant that was completely composed of skeletons and steel nerves, and looked like a skeleton, suddenly broke through the smoke and dust, strode out of the mushroom cloud, and jumped rapidly towards the mid-air where the old Pope was!

Just now, Joshua relied on his last bit of control over the steel force that made up his own shell, and without hesitation, he skillfully self-detonated - he completely lifted the high-density degenerate material form of the steel force, expanded it, and turned it into the tiniest micron-sized dust structure, which exploded and spread towards the outside world in a way that had no law to speak of! In an instant, more than 100 billion trillions of trillions of dust clouds collided, rising, combining, and moving dust cloud structures appeared in the realm of the speed of light controlled by Iger!

In the Boundless Heaven and the Void, there is no matter, only a relative vacuum in a sense, if Eagle must treat all the matter in his realm equally, then the Void is indeed the best place for him to exert his strength, and where there are other substances, he will be distracted and cause a decrease in control!

Seizing that this might be the only weakness that Eagle had, Joshua neatly abandoned the armor and flesh that had condensed most of his strength, intending to interfere with Iger's interference in the Radiant Realm, and attacked with the strongest bones inscribed with the divine pattern - now it seems that his guess was right, and Igor did temporarily lose the ability to control the speed of light.

"It's decisive, but it's ......"

In mid-air, in the face of the sudden attack, almost a giant skeleton Joshua, Eagle forcibly suppressed the flow of garbage information that was constantly spreading in his mind, he temporarily gathered his spirit, stretched out his right hand holding the scepter, and once again controlled the speed of light to affect the magnetic field, forcibly pressing the warrior from mid-air to the earth, splashing a large amount of dust, the old pope laughed: "But it's still not fast enough." ”

No, you're wrong.

Once again, because of the loss of the ability to control the magnetic field, he was pulled down to the earth by his heavy mass, but Joshua who stood up again did not have the slightest disappointment, at this time, he did not have any steel power armor on his body, not even flesh and blood, only thick steel god pattern bones, and under the protection of ribs, the furnace of the heart of the melt core was on the verge of extinguishing, but it poured almost all the remaining energy into a crystal ball located below him-

Psionic Jump Engine!

In an instant, with the infusion of energy, the crystal began to shine, and a one-dimensional psionic beam shot out violently in the direction where Eagle was, although because of the different worlds, the psionic beam could not fly at the speed of thought like the world of stars, but this was exactly what Joshua wanted!

In the next moment, the leap began, the leap ended—it was faster than light, and with the ripples of time and space, a huge steel skeleton appeared in front of Eagle before he had time to react, and the fiery energy burst out, igniting the already fragile air molecules into bright plasma, and at this time, Joshua threw a punch that infused all his strength, all his mass!

Bang!

But the disappointing thing is that the punch didn't hit Iger, but a thin wall of light. Although Eagle didn't have time to react to Joshua's leap, as the strongest of the legendary powerhouses, he was enough to defend in the time it took the warrior to throw a punch.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

The shattering of each wall of light produced a huge tremor and thunder in mid-air, and within the Radiance Domain, all the matter that had become fragile due to the decrease in the speed of light shook in unison, and then completely shattered into ashes, and the mountain peaks were like fragile sand towers, which were reduced to nothing under the wave of shockwaves, but the punch finally stopped—as the pure white staff was raised, the faint light flickered, and Joshua's iron fist returned in vain after shattering the nine layers of the wall of light.

However, this was not without effect, with a dull crashing sound, Eagle and the light sphere spectral aggregate behind him were blasted directly into the thick clouds of the seventh abyss by Joshua's power, and at an unknown distance of many kilometers, only a huge circular void could be seen appearing in the clouds that shrouded the entire heavenly dome. And because of the loss of the 'observer' and the gaze of the old pope, the glorious realm that originally shrouded Joshua's body disappeared in an instant, and with a burst of distortion and restoration of space, the changing speed of light was restored by the world back to its original appearance.

"Hoo ......"

Knocking Eagle into the air and destroying the Radiant Realm, Joshua fell from mid-air to the ground and lay flat on the ground, at which point the Molten Heart Engine in the center of his chest reignited and his brain returned to normal functioning. The series of actions and reactions just now seemed simple, but in fact, it took all his strength, no matter which step went wrong, he had no chance to break Iger's speed of light realm, and he would be defeated without any defense.

As for now......

"I really didn't expect you to ...... this trick"

With the warm light once again enveloping the earth, Iger, who was sent flying along with the shield belt, slowly descended from the hole in the clouds, he landed on Joshua's side, but did not continue to attack, but looked at the warrior with emotion and said: "Whether it is the difficulty of using dust to interfere with my vision and control field, or the sudden teleportation ability, it is beyond my expectations. You know, ordinary space-time spells are completely ineffective in my realm. ”

Of course, the physical constants have changed, and how does the teleportation spell work, that is, the psionic energy transition relies on the psionic space, not the material universe, so it can operate normally. Joshua silently said in his heart, he wanted to get up, but because the energy furnace in his chest had just been restarted, and the energy was seriously insufficient, he didn't force himself, but continued to lie on the ground.

There is no doubt that this time he challenged Iger, he failed, running out of energy himself, and Eagle clearly had spare energy. Joshua was still happy to admit that he had failed, after all, he didn't think he could beat Eagle in the first place, he just wanted to know how strong he was. But he really didn't expect that the old Pope's strength was far beyond his expectations, so that he didn't show much strength at all, and was forced into a desperate situation by the Radiant Realm.

At the same time, Eagle removed the seven-colored spectral orb of light behind him, and Joshua canceled the form of the Giant of Steel. As the steel bones on the ground disappeared without a trace, Joshua's tired figure slowly sat up from the ground, he looked up at the old Pope, and shrugged: "I really didn't expect it...... Your Majesty is really hidden. ”

"Because I can't meet an enemy who needs me to use it."

The light flashed in Iger's hand, and the pure white staff disappeared in an instant, and he stood with his hands in his hands, looking at the seventh abyss, which had been destroyed in just a few seconds: "The last time I encountered the siege of the dragon kings, it was a good opportunity, but since Israel and the natural mentor were there, there was no need to use this trick. ”

After saying this, the old Pope came to Joshua's side, and he stretched out his hand, and the warrior was stunned for a moment, and then stood up by Iger's hand. The old pope smiled contentedly, "In the face of you, ordinary attacks are meaningless, which gives me a reason to use all my strength...... And you quickly found the weaknesses in the Radiant Realm, which gave me a direction to continue my research. ”

"The gap in hard power is still too big." Joshua was not discouraged by Iger's words, he just fell into thought. This time, he relied on Iger's unexpected psionic energy leap to break through the maintenance of the Radiant Realm, but next time there would be no such good conditions, and the other party would definitely be wary of this. But halfway through his thoughts, he noticed the angry and funny expression of the white-haired old man on the side: "Joshua, you just want to beat me now?" ”

"That's what I'm working for."

The warrior did not hide his thoughts, he also glanced at the Seventh Abyss, and found a number of ice demons trembling, his tone was the same: "Although the battle itself is pleasant, what is the point of fighting without the purpose of winning." ”

"There's no need to push yourself so hard...... Even if the gods are returning in a few decades. ”

Eagle didn't continue on this topic, he raised his head and looked at the sky and clouds that had been disturbed by his attack with Joshua, and the old pope said calmly: "With my talent, I have spent decades studying, day after day in the center of the Great Temple, with the assistance of the best resources to study the most precious existence in this world, the 'Initial Fire', to reach this point...... Even if Joshua is a genius and ten times better than me, it is impossible for you to surpass me in less than two years before you have just advanced to the Legend. ”

"Don't look too far, Radcliffe's Joshua, don't always look up at the stars, look to the future, don't always think about the rise and fall of the world, pay attention to the earth under your feet, and the present in front of you, seemingly ordinary things."

Speaking of this, the old pope closed his eyes and said lightly: "Because you are a legend and an immortal existence, but those things are not...... You have enough time to get stronger and then surpass me. I believe that day will come eventually, and sooner than I thought. ”

When he said this, Eagle seemed a little lonely, but soon, this loneliness disappeared.

Joshua was silent and did not reply to Eagle, and the old man felt that he seemed to be talking a little too much, so he changed the subject: "The exchange is over...... I'm going to go back to the Holy Mountain, Joshua, are you ready? ”

“…… Stay here. ”

Eagle's curiosity was all at once: "Why?" ”

Joshua turned his head to look in the other direction, the steel force dust that was drifting away because of his self-detonation, and said in a rather calm tone, "Resource recycling." ”

……

Instead of waiting for Joshua, who was collecting the Dust of the Power of Steel, Eagle left the Seventh Abyss first and returned to the Sacred Mountain of the Far Sea, after all, unlike the warriors who let go of the shopkeeper, the old Pope was a very dutiful leader of great powers, and he had to deal with many affairs every day.

And it is not difficult for Joshua to recover the steel power dust, he only needs to fly around the area where the dust is located, and all the steel power aggregates within a radius of thousands of meters will be brought back into his control, and this collection range will increase with the increase of steel power, in less than ten minutes, he will collect almost all the steel power dust, and then it will only take a few days to recondense it into a super-dense degenerate substance to return to its full state.

Regarding the old Pope's words, Joshua actually thought about it seriously. He felt that what the other party said was right, he was indeed too anxious, and in the face of the evil god that would come in a few decades, his pursuit of power was a little crazy...... Of course, this is not wrong, because this is his way of life, and Joshua is very happy with it and has no intention of changing it.

"At least one thing Eagle is right."

After making sure that he had not missed the slightest thing, and had collected ninety-ninety-nine percent of the Steelpower dust, Joshua began to prepare to enter the void and return to the world of Mycrof, and he thought to himself, "It's time for me to rest and enjoy life." ”