Chapter 21: Imitation and Learning
Just as the Flame Demon Syndicate was engulfed in the silver light that poured out from the depths of his spirit.
In the world of Mycrove, Joshua has broken off the spiritual connection with the distant side.
"It's like the last time I was paid for my weapon."
Talking to himself, the warrior closed his eyes, and then beside him, Hotaru said, 'Wait master, what are you talking about?!' With an exclamation, he stretched out his hand and rubbed the silver-haired girl's brain, telling the other party to shut up and stop talking.
"Don't let me down, my 'First Saint.'"
— a few days later.
"Are you ready?"
On the outskirts not far from the main city of Moldavia, the grass had begun to sprout, and now it could be seen that the ground was scattered but full of vibrant green, and in an open plain, Joshua packed his bags and asked the two behind him loudly.
"Ready, master!"
As soon as the warrior's voice fell, the black dragon girl responded loudly without hesitation, and she could hear that she was very happy now: "You can go at any time!" ”
As he spoke, the black body morphed in a violent flash of magical power, transforming into a majestic and huge black dragon, which stretched its wings in the wilderness, and then raised its head and let out a loud roar that shook the mountains in the distance.
"Don't get too excited."
Seeing that his mount was so excited, Joshua was also in a good mood, he patted the front paws of the black dragon, and then turned to look at the other girl: "Number Three, are you ready?" ”
"Ready...... ready"
With the slow fluctuation of the magic power, the magic projection of No. 3 slowly appeared on Joshua's side, unlike Hei, who was elated because he had finished a painful workout and was rarely able to go out for a spin, the girl looked a little confused at this time, and she said softly: "Do you really want to take me with you?" With my body, I feel a little shy......"
As he spoke, Number 3 looked at Joshua's right hand, where the warrior was carrying a silver steel box with dense runes flowing with purple-blue brilliance.
"Of course, in order to ensure that my mental state is not distorted like last time, I need your help to monitor all mental changes."
Joshua replied as a matter of course, "If it's just a projection, the power of calculation is not enough, so you must bring your body with you this time." ”
"That's right...... But in that case, wouldn't the city be able to monitor it? ”
"It doesn't need to be so tightly monitored."
Joshua didn't care about No. 3's rather practical worries, he jumped casually and came to the top of the black dragon's head. Standing between the two corners of the black dragon, Joshua explained to the AI girl who was also floating in the air and standing beside her, "Everything is in order, without any conflicts and contradictions - of course it's good. But you have to take into account the type of city. ”
"The prosperity of Moldavia depends on the adventurers who go to the Great Ajax Mountains and the transcendent cultivators who admire my power, and the contradictions between them should not be solved by ordinary people. As long as there are no criminal acts and influences on ordinary people, those adventurers and cultivators want to fight privately, let them be, that is their way of life. ”
Saying this, Joshua seemed to recall something, and showed a nostalgic expression: "Whether it is a man or a woman, as long as they want to fight, let them divide the winners and losers, otherwise anger and annoyance will accumulate in their hearts, and it will cause more trouble." ”
“…… Well. ”
Of course, No. 3 didn't understand Joshua's logic and explanations very much, but she knew that Joshua's method, which was more like an adventurer than an aristocracy, should indeed be better than her rigid monitoring and defense.
Even artificial intelligence understands that in the face of floods and people's hearts, what is needed is to dredge rather than block.
The three of them were already ready, and after the black was confirmed, they had already begun to prepare to take off, and the projection of No. 3 floated in mid-air like this, raising her height as the dragon flapped its wings and took off, she looked at the suitcase in Joshua's hand with strange eyes, and muttered: "I'm there now, and here again, this feeling is so strange......"
She rarely looked at her own body from such a projection perspective, after all, most of the time, the violet rune crystal was placed in the central room in the deepest part of the lord's mansion, and only a few people around Joshua could enter there.
These scattered thoughts finally disappeared in the wind, and under the instructions of their master, the black dragon that had risen into the clouds urged the method that had just been learned, and began to accelerate violently in a long dragon roar, and suddenly, the inhabitants of Moldavia looked up, and they saw that there was a black dragon shadow that broke through the clouds in the whistling room, cut through the sky, and flew like a black meteor to the end of the horizon.
Its purpose was to be located in the northeast of the empire, around a fortress in the mountains.
That is, the location of the mist of God's misfortune.
A few days ago, after communicating with the old Pope Iger, Joshua had planned to travel to the site of a mist of misfortune to explore the mysteries of the soul. To that end, he even asked Emperor Israel a few days ago to find out where to find out where the Mist of Doom was that had not yet been challenged.
"To be honest, it's been so long, and most of the mist of divine misfortune has been broken by an endless stream of challengers, making this world have a group of inheritors of ancient inheritance."
Israel was not surprised by Joshua's sudden inquiry, and at that time he said to Joshua on the other side of the communication circle in a somewhat helpless tone: "These people who have gained strong inheritance and power are stirring up storms in the empire at this time, and after many people return to their hometowns, they will have conflicts with the original nobles and official forces...... However, the Mist of Doom around the Bolin Fortress has so far not been successfully challenged, and it is still expanding, and I even had to order a crystal wall to block it from the hills. ”
"Be careful, Joshua, it's not an ordinary mist of divine mist, it's not a level of existence at all compared to other imprints."
Turning his mind back, Joshua stood on top of the black dragon's head, flying rapidly towards the northeast of the empire.
"During this time, the Boundless Heaven Realm has become more and more unstable, but even so, the divine imprint that falls from it is at most a second-class existence of the Gods and Gods of the Glorious Era."
It was dark above the clouds, flying at supersonic speed, and Joshua clasped his hands in front of his chest, looked straight ahead, and thought in his heart: "But even if it is a second-rank, it is also a powerful god, and it should be slightly weaker than Xingzheng." It is already obvious what kind of existence can pull a clear gap with the second-class gods. ”
"That's the Lord God."
Did the mark of a presiding god fall prematurely because of some accident? So who exactly? Master of the seas, Mother Earth? The god of the storm, or the lord of the rivers? Joshua didn't think about it so much, he just felt very happy that when he needed it, he was able to find a main god-level god mist of divine mist. Compared with ordinary gods, the secrets contained in the souls of those gods who once worked side by side with the sages to create the glorious age of the Glorious Age are more worthy of exploration.
The speed of the black was very fast, the clouds and the earth were thrown behind as if they were flying, the endless mountains and lakes were stretched into lines, and the violently bursting air formed a ring of sonic boom clouds behind the black dragon. With such haste, Joshua and his party soon arrived at their destination, the perimeter of the Bolin Fortress on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains.
"Is this the Mist of Doom?"
Stamping on his feet, motioning for the black to stop flying and descending slowly, Joshua saw his target as soon as the clouds fell: a pale sea of mist that spanned several valleys and was restrained between the mountains by a thin wall of water.
It's like a real ocean. There was no color, no words other than white, and the sea of white fog like an empty sky was churning among the mountains at this time, and huge waves tens of meters high were tumbling, as if intending to break through the crystal wall set by Israel. It has engulfed several mountains, putting all the creatures in them into its dreams, whether plants or animals, insects or birds.
This is the last remnant of the fallen Elder Gods, the legacy of their souls, the mist of the 'Divine Doom'.
Standing above Black's head, Joshua looked down at the sea of fog, he had already seen a similar scene in Moldavia, where the god of the rivers was located. Obviously, the fog around the fortress of Bolin was far greater than that of the god of the rivers, and the soul of Sinur shrouded a lake at most, while this one could envelop several peaks and the surrounding valleys.
"It's beautiful."
Looking at the sea of fog churning inside the crystal wall, the warrior said with emotion, he stretched out his right hand, grabbed the void, and suddenly, the sea of fog was surging, and a few scattered thinking particles broke away from the fog mass where he was originally and flew into Joshua's hand, he looked down at the white luminous particles that were flying in his palm, and his eyes were solemn.
How to describe it? Even if a thousand years have passed, there is not the slightest decay and weakness of the soul, even if the spiritual core and thinking center have long been destroyed and defeated in the battle, and the divinity and body have long since disappeared, but this residual soul is still full of vitality, so that after falling from the boundless heaven into the Mycrof continent, it can turn into a divine mist that can engulf everything.
There is no other adjective than extreme, perfect, and incredible, and this is perhaps the most perfect form of 'Soul Extreme'.
For Joshua, the Mist of Doom itself was the best target for reference. He raised his hand and continued to gather the thought particles that had spilled into the air around him, the smallest units of thought of the gods contained mysteries, which the warrior carefully observed using the Steel's Vision.
After a while, in the rather curious eyes of No. 3, Joshua sent the mist in his hand back to the sea of fog below, there is no doubt that this is indeed the realm that his soul warrior has not yet reached, these thinking particles will basically not have any loss except for attacks with nuclear fusion or even above the level, they can be called indestructible, if converted into muscles, at least it is the level of his current reduced material body.
However, he did not come here today to feel the power of the pioneers, nor did he want to imitate the power of these gods. Although with Joshua's legendary control and the power of the force of steel, he could easily use the surrounding mist of divine mist as raw material to transform his soul into almost equal texture, he had no intention of doing so at all.
What Joshua wanted, was to find.
Find ways to find those gods and elevate their souls to where they are now.
Does it make sense to feel that other people have strong muscles and bodies? No.
Is there a difference between the strong muscles that have been cultivated through genetic modification and those who have honed their strong bodies step by step?
Although many people will feel that there is a difference, in fact, there is none. The strength obtained through external force is also strength, and it is no different from the strength obtained by hard work.
The problem is that the level of the former will always stay at the moment after the transformation is over, and unless he finds a better imitation object, there will be no room for improvement. He shied away from all the hardships, the hard work and the most precious experience. He never knew how he could get it. If the man's strength is gone, then he will revert back to weakness and fall into the mire from the sky.
And the latter has put in a lot of effort and time, the process of his gaining strength is the most valuable treasure in itself, he has tempered his will, knows how to become stronger, even if he loses this power, he can stand up again, and then climb the ladder to the sky that has been forged for a long time, return to the clouds, and become strong again.
And he'll find his way to something stronger, farther and farther.
Naturally, Joshua did not intend to be a former. He is strong.
So he ignored the fact that he was within reach of his surroundings and grabbed a handful of god-level thinking particles, and instead carried the box and stepped on the top of the black dragon's head.
"Down, black."
He narrowed his eyes, a twinkle in his gaze: "Don't stay. ”
"Let's go inside and have a look."
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An ancient city suspended in the sky.
The blue sky above, the endless sea below, the wind howling, a dozen huge black tornadoes like the giant pillars supporting the sea and sky, slowly moving between heaven and earth, and a magnificent and majestic, as if the ancient city of art is located in the center of these tornadoes.
Huge towers, sharp spires make up the main body of the city, and countless rotating gears and runes are the base of this ancient city, and the huge magical energy obeys the orders of alchemy machinery and runes, forming a translucent position, which isolates all gravity and external winds, so that the city can be smoothly suspended in mid-air even in the tornado.
This is a self-disciplined city, with the light of the runes flickering, you can see that the streets of the city can move automatically, pedestrians only need to stand on it, they can be automatically carried to walk, although it seems ancient, but in fact it contains extremely advanced technology.
And this is a city that combines history, technology and art, but now it is mostly in ruins. Towers and buildings collapsed and cracked, the remains of rubble and gears littered the streets, and even traces of something burned to ashes could be seen.
Time seems to stand still, the devastation caused by the war thousands of years ago is still untouched, and even as the tornadoes rage in the sea and sky, this huge floating city still hangs calmly and lonely in the middle of the sky, maintaining silent calm.
And just when it all seemed like it was going on forever.
A black dragon, carrying a human and an artificial intelligence, suddenly appeared in the sky above the city.
So time began to run.