Royal Mage Association of the Imperial Capital, Office of the President.

"Listen to your request, I can probably guess your purpose."

Behind the table, it only took a tenth of a second for the newly Universally Rising Legendary old mage to distinguish the consistency of the space-time coordinates and the remaining fluctuations, he raised his head, looked at the young man in front of him, frowned, and said, "You want to go to the abyss?" ”

"yes." Joshua replied dryly, "I want to go." ”

"Nothing in this world can stop you." Nostradamus shook his head slightly, and he said helplessly: "You can do it as long as you want, but I still have to make a statement." ”

As he said this, he leaned back in a comfortable armchair, then stretched out his right hand and rubbed his forehead, as if to recall something: "The abyss is very dangerous—for anyone, not just legends, even gods have to be careful in it. ”

Because it was a dead world, in that time and space that was decaying and dissipating little by little, anything incredible and dangerous could happen, and even the immortal and immortal powerhouses could easily fall into it, just like the two five-colored dragon kings who disappeared many years ago.

"Listen, Joshua, Barnier and William are two masters I know, that time and space fluctuation has Barnier's handiwork, they directly took the initiative to go to the abyss, and it is impossible for the two legendary mages to enter the other world without the slightest preparation."

After thinking for a while, Nostradamus also planned to try to continue to persuade the warrior, but sure enough, Joshua was so unmoved that the old mage who wanted to use his rich life experience to educate the other party could only shut up, and he shook his head with some regret: "Forget it, I can't stop you - that's right, the aura is the same, and the teleportation target of that space-time fluctuation is the sixth layer of the abyss." ”

"In any case, if you really want to go to the abyss, then be careful, it is not the same as the normal world, it is a place where the wreckage of all things gathers, and all the dangers are in it."

"Thank you." On the other hand, in the face of the old mage's slightly nagging advice, Joshua did not feel impatient, and he even showed a smile. After a brief thank you to Nostradamus, the warrior bowed his head and said in a deep voice to the object he was carrying: "Let's go, remember to lead the way when the time comes." ”

And the flame demon syndicate in a half-human high transparent cylindrical crystal jar looked at the two legendary powerhouses in front of him discussing how to go to the abyss here, and felt that something bad was going on in his heart, but most of its strength was sealed, and it had no possibility of breaking free from this 'cage', so it could only curl up into a slime-like mass like escaping reality, praying - well, it is a demon, and it is not easy to pray for anyone.

Joshua's actions were always vigorous, and under the perception of Nostradamus, the legendary warrior who walked out of the company and his black dragon mount left neatly with the imprisoned fire demon, and the old mage didn't even see a trace of thought in this person's actions, he seemed to have determined his actions and even the trajectory of his life a long time ago, and since then, he has always carried it out without hesitation.

Slowly getting up from the large chair covered with soft cashmere cushions, Nostradamus came to the window of the Royal Mage Guild's company, and he watched the back of the warrior like this, until the other party left the city, left the imperial capital circle, and his breath left his perceptual range, and then he said softly to himself: "It is always difficult for humans to understand each other. ”

The old mage knew this for a long time, just as the nobles could never understand him, and he could never understand the nobles.

A commoner has become a strong man because of all kinds of 'accidents' and struggles, so it is natural for him to join the upper class, become a part of the aristocracy, become the new upper class, and then in order to maintain his own position and the privileges of his descendants, and then block the upward channels of other commoners.

How foolish.

In this multiverse full of darkness and evil, they hold the inheritance that can make most people become transcendental, but they do not do their best to think for everyone in the world, but instead single-mindedly suppress their own kind, ignore the countless threats and horrors in the multiverse, and focus on the current one-third of an acre of land, sealing off the possibility of the future for the meaningless inheritance of small rights. This short-sightedness, this aristocratic thinking logic, the old man cannot understand.

This is only the simplest part of the logical conflict, in fact, all the conflicts are enough to write another two million words of paper, the logical conflicts in all aspects of humanity are endless, just like the old mage is not so able to understand the means of raising the offspring of Israel, just like he has never been able to understand Joshua's mode of action.

But the difference between these two people is not annoying.

It is precisely because of these differences that human beings are interesting.

Unlike the nobles, Nostradamus appreciated them, so he was willing to help them.

Actually, it's not all for this reason. With this in mind, the old mage looked away from the window, smiled and sat back at his desk, then closed his eyes and thought into the void.

More importantly, he wanted to see what kind of storm this young legendary warrior would stir up in the long-dormant abyss of the multiverse in the near future.

At the same time, accompanied by the terrible wail of the Abyss Magic Guide Book, on the uninhabited grassland on the outskirts of the imperial capital, Joshua once again forcibly opened the Book of Ibonn with brute force, forcing it to open the summoning space-time rift leading to the abyss.

Dead silence, oppressive, the atmosphere full of sulfur scorching and rich radiation toxins instantly gushed out from the narrow space-time channel, and the abyss with relatively high air pressure continuously sprayed a huge amount of poisonous gas, making the surrounding large spring green grassland suddenly scorched and withered, although the fire demon contained in the jar could not sense the changes in the breath of the outside world, it still subconsciously squirmed its highly toxic radiation body, wanting to drill back into its 'hometown'.

And neither the warrior nor the black dragon girl standing beside him looked indifferent, this bit of sulfur aura and toxin in the abyss was not worth mentioning to them. With a wave of Qiao Siya's hand, these breaths overflowing with chaos and death suddenly dissipated like natural enemies, no longer surging, and the withered yellow earth instantly returned to verdant.

"Let's go." He said so, and then carried the fire demon and took the lead in stepping into the space-time rift - halfway through, Joshua seemed to be a little disgusted that the passage was too small, so he kicked it, and suddenly the space-time rift obediently expanded by more than half.

It doesn't feel any different from inside a volcano.

After the space-time rift expanded, the black dragon girl followed behind the warrior with a happy face, and she thought with some excitement: No wonder the master only took me out to play this time, I will definitely be able to envy Dead Hotaru and Rin when I go back!

When a person, a dragon, and a demon all disappeared into the space-time rift, this inconspicuous passage quickly closed, leaving no trace in the Mycrof continent.

[Confusion breeds destruction, and anxiety pours despair.

—Abyss Diary, Vol. III, Chapter XVII. 】

When Joshua stepped over the rift in time and space and stepped on the gray-black earth made of black gravel and poisonous humbin, he couldn't help but tremble slightly, and the warrior's body flashed with faint silver arcs up and down, it was the 'power of steel' that was responding to the existence of something, but it wasn't until the black dragon girl also stepped through the space-time passage and the crack closed that Joshua nodded slightly, and then closed his eyes.

Time regressed in his brain, light and shadow intertwined in his mind, and countless visions, or images of the past, flickered in his consciousness.

The world was frozen in a winter 7,000 years ago.

At that time, the black gravel was still fertile earth, the poisonous earth was still full of jungles and grasslands, and at the top of a hill unknown to Joshua, he looked out at a city not far away—a spectacular city formed by spiraling metal spires and translucent pipes like cobwebs, and built by the intelligent life of hexapods with carapaces. The top of the metal minaret submergs into the clouds, and the pipes are shuttled back and forth in the pipes, connecting every corner of the city like blood vessels.

At this moment, the world is still thriving, all kinds of creatures that warriors have never seen before live in the vibrant grasslands and jungles, and the civilization of the insects is integrated with nature, they use the heat of underground magma to drive huge steel machines to work, and build one magnificent hive after another, everything is so stable, everyone is full of hope for the future.

At the same moment, the dark tide in the middle of civilization is surging, several insect powers in order to compete for the leadership of the world, do not hesitate to provoke wars in every corner of this peaceful continent, they use proxies to fight each other, and frantically carry out an arms race, one after another terrifying war machines are manufactured, and then loaded on the most advanced weapons, world war is about to break out.

So the time freezes here. At this time, civilization is still not extinguished, there is still hope for the world, the land is fertile, the jungle is verdant, the air is refreshingly scented, and unknown birds are flying in the sky.

This scene of their peaceful life has been engraved in the history of this world by the power of steel, and it will not be extinguished.

But Joshua stared at the world, his gaze guided by the resonance of the power of steel, through the entire paused illusion, looking at the 'future' that this frozen world would never come, that is, the 'past' of this land seven thousand years ago.

Whistling warheads fell, huge mushroom clouds rose up in spiral spire cities, solid metal buildings festered and fell like melting ice cream under the scorching heat, countless high-strength glass pipes were blown away by the terrifying shock wave, turning into crystal chips flying in the sky, countless insects were killed in an instant, and the remaining ones also died in the heat and poison, and the originally prosperous cities turned into huge lava craters.

Thick black clouds were formed out of thin air in just a few seconds, thunderclouds rolled, lightning storms raged, thick pillars of thunder rained down, and violent currents killed all living things, destroyed all high-precision metal objects, and completely wiped out all the remnants of civilization, and not even a single speck of microbacteria could survive in this land overflowing with the smell of ozone.

The strange plague spreads, death spreads in silence, there is no dazzling light or shadow, there is no thrilling process, the end of a city is just a few coughs, and in the second morning when everyone is bedridden, there is no living creature other than microbacteria in the metal spire, and there is no longer a single shuttle in the once busy pipes.

Thousands of insects died in a sudden, mutually destructive war, their civilization and the world were destroyed by their own hands, the survivors hated, but they didn't know who to talk to, the survivors were uneasy, and the destruction of the wasteland made all of them silent.

They can only struggle to survive, in the world of their own destruction from generation to generation of painful multiplication, a thousand years have passed, two thousand years have passed, the world continues to degenerate into the deepest part of the multiverse, they have also mutated into what they never imagined, and in the third millennium, the bottomless abyss has added a new layer, and in the almost endless demon category, a new member has also appeared.

All this happened in a short thousandth of a second, a short time that could not even allow people to do anything, but for the warrior, he watched the destruction of a civilization from the sidelines.

Joshua opened his eyes, and his gaze was still bright, like a flame.

For these illusions, the warrior did not hate or like them, he raised his head and stared at the barren wasteland plain in front of him, which was a common sight in most of the worlds in the abyss, Joshua clasped his hands on his chest, silently scanning the world, the scene of seven thousand years ago overlapped with seven thousand years later, he seemed to understand something, but shook his head again.

Joshua van Radcliffe. Legendary warrior, Surrogate of Steel, heir to the Sage.

The King of Soulburners.

Knowing the past and destruction of a world is the duty of the Soul Burning King-World Bearer, no matter which world he goes to, no matter which corner of the multiverse he goes to, things will not change, the still thriving world will show off and show him the most prosperous side of civilization, while the destroyed world is a lament, reappearing with the scene of its own destruction, warning all civilizations that still exist.

Joshua suddenly remembered the words of the god of might.

Don't have pity. The words spoken by the hardened God of Justice not long ago reproduced in his heart. Do not have mercy, because this is arrogance, in the face of the destruction and doom brewed by wisdom itself, no one, not even God, can speak of mercy and salvation, and the still alive human beings only need to carefully learn the lesson and admonish themselves.

They're already demons.

Still, even so, the warrior could not help but think of the sage.

The kind boy who wants to save all beings, the young man who grows up to seek peace by forceful means, the sage who quietly watches the development of civilization and watches over the world.

In the final scene, an old man stands in front of the endless passage of time and space, he stands before the world and all beings, leading the gods against the endless evil.

He. Joshua couldn't help but think. If it was him, if it was a sage, if it was this person who also held the power of the Soul Burning King, what would he think?

Don't know, so curious.

Joshua had never been so curious about a person, so he wanted to try to experience the idea of a long-lost existence on the other side of the multiverse.

The sage once traveled to the Abyss and obtained the prototype of the Azure Orb.

So, the warrior also has to go to the abyss once.

"Syndicate, come out."

Throwing out the crystal jar he was holding in his hand, Joshua lifted the seal and released the fire demon, and the syndicate, who was in pain because he was stuffed in the jar, immediately turned into a red light and burst out, and the black viscous body that originally looked like a soft mud monster immediately ignited a raging fire, turning it into a pure flame humanoid.

It stands to reason that the Fire Demon should run away as much as possible at this time, out of the control of the warriors, but it couldn't help but refrain from doing so, and respectfully knelt in front of Joshua's death, waiting for the other party's next order.

"This is the sixth abyss, the Molten Sea Hell." Scanning the surrounding land, the warrior quickly analyzed the abyss he was in, and he calmly gave an order: "I'm here to find someone this time - you are more familiar with the abyss, and when the time comes, lead the way and find other demon territories." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Even though he already knew that the other party was actually a human and not some kind of demon lord, the fire demon still called Joshua according to the habit of the abyss, and at the same time, its simple mind was also surging with some careful thoughts, so it was willing to obey the other party's words.

Of course, the warrior could see the thoughts of a mere fire demon, but he didn't care, and after letting the fire demon set off to explore the path first, Joshua turned his head to look at Hei, who had already run out a few hundred meters and was looking around curiously, and snapped his fingers.

And hearing the voice of her master's permission, the black dragon girl suddenly let out a cheer - with an astonishing wave of magic power and a huge roar that shocked the body and mind, a giant black dragon with a height of thirty or forty meters with ten floors appeared on the gray and black wasteland like this, and then let out an excited dragon groan.

"Ang ————————"

When the black dragon chanted, Joshua didn't know when he was already standing on top of the black dragon's head, the battle armor transformed by the power of steel appeared around his body, covering him all over his body in an instant, under the helmet of the dragon's head, two scarlet points of light could be seen flashing, and the warrior stroked the strong and sharp dragon horns of the black dragon beside him, and chuckled: "Let's go." ”

- Nostradamus doesn't know the Abyss.

The warrior thought so. The most he knew about the abyss was nothing more than some literature, or the brief communication when summoning demons, which was too superficial.

But he's different. He had been to the abyss, and he had been there many times, and he knew how to move around the abyss, and he knew how to find people in the strange world of the abyss.

It's as high-profile as possible.

He stood on top of the dragon's head, his helmet hiding his smile.

There's no need to be so cautious. Even if it is a dead world, it is also a world, as long as it is strong enough, it is no different, ordinary people can walk their dogs on the Microf continent, and he, as a legendary powerhouse, can walk dragons in the abyss.

"Follow the Syndicate, whatever you want, run as you want." So said the warrior.

When the black dragon heard this, he immediately let out an excited dragon roar, and with the roar, a burst of hot red storm with a huge amount of fire elements suddenly appeared in front of it, and it swept across the earth, blowing away a large area of wasteland, forming a sky full of smoke and dust, and the dragon stepped through the smoke and dust like this, and began to chase the conspicuous flame figure in front of it and began to run rapidly.

Joshua's journey into the abyss has officially begun!