Chapter 30 Final Choice 1
Starlight hangs above the wasteland.
Joshua looked up at the coordinates shining in the darkness, and was silent for more than ten seconds. Then he looked down at the vast wasteland in front of him.
This is a land that is extremely unfamiliar to the warriors. It is endless, desolate and silent, without any vitality. At the end of the earth is a black plateau hidden in the shadows, surrounded by sandstorms and black clouds.
The sun and the moon are all extinguished, and the starlight is covered by clouds. The world is dark and deep, and except for the purple lightning flashing in the clouds, there is no light in the sky. At this moment, the coordinates of the starlight suddenly fly up, and it extends to the end of the horizon, bringing out a silver winding line, leading to the top of the towering Gaital Plateau.
No matter how deep the darkness is, it cannot cover this light, because it is the last mark left by Akhar.
Joshua looked at this deep light path, and the coldness spread throughout his body, as if it was a dead end to the underworld, but even in the real underworld, the warriors at this time had no reason to retreat.
Shaking off the layers of high-density rocks condensed on their bodies, Joshua took the first step.
An unknown knight.
Although he still didn't know the name of the knight, the warrior understood from the bottom of his heart that he was a strong man worthy of praise and could bear all the glory.
Even if he destroyed the world and drove the infinite shadow to kill countless people, even if they didn't say more than ten words, the battle time did not last more than an hour, and there would be no change.
Every shot, every move, every gravitational wave change contains the knight's unwillingness and doubts, confusion and relief, and finally, the heart that faces everything calmly. With just a few fights, Joshua already knows better than most people what kind of person the other party is and what heavy truth he is carrying.
Now, he put down his burden, quietly turned into dust and died, taking everything from him himself.
Moving along the direction guided by the light path, Joshua suddenly found that his heart was calm to a little cold. He waved his hand, and the dragon hunting sword spear that fell into the distance turned into a stream of light and returned to his hands.
“It has always been like this.”
He thought indifferently: "This is the battle, it has never changed."
The battle with the powerful humans is completely different from the battle between the chaotic monsters and wild beasts. When the warrior stabbed the gun and closed his fists, what he wanted to smash was not a simple life, but the will of the other party. What he wanted to shoot was not only weapons and fists, but also his own beliefs and soul.
Every fight between the two sides is a collision of spirit and will, a battle between belief and persistence. The strength of the simple force can only determine the advantages and weaknesses. The soul can truly determine the victory or defeat.
Just like the previous blow.
The powerful gravitational change caused the earth and rocks within a radius of dozens of kilometers to fly out of thin air, and were sucked into the sky by the gravitational source condensed in the old knight. This endless rock of billions of tons will collapse and compress it under tens of thousands of times or even more terrifying gravity, which will firmly seal or completely crush it into it. The high-density rock that has solidified a layer of solidified in the warrior is proof of this.
Faced with such a powerful as astronomy attack that can change a terrain, Joshua's only way to deal with it is to abandon his body and transform himself into a life energy giant, and then imitate the self-destruction of the fusion star with the awareness of giving up his life, pushing the life energy in his body to burn and fusion, convert it into the purest heat, impact and light, and bombard it with all his strength.
He was almost at the end. At the last moment, Joshua was almost about to give up his body and used this last, most intense self-sacrifice strike to try to break through this invisible prison that was enough to imprison the star body.
If everything is really like this, then this is a battle that can make the warriors' blood boil to the extreme, with life and everything as a bet to see who can achieve the final victory.
But everything in the world cannot be perfect.
[Prison Star Heavenly Prison] is interrupted.
A spiritual fragment accompanied by terrifying gravitational fluctuations inform the warrior of the name of this move, which also indicates the ending of the knight. It is indeed a powerful skill worthy of its name. As long as it can withstand this move without death, the warrior can use the collapse to compress all the gravity, smash his tough "eggshell", and transform and sublimate his own life essence to the legendary realm.
But everything came to an abrupt end. After defeating all the means by Joshua, Akhar's last blow forced him to burn his life and soul to fight back.
He is too old.
The warrior clenched his fists, causing the wound that had not been healed to burst. Blood dripped down the ground, splashing a few dust. The crimson blood beads seemed to want to nurture something when they broke out, but in the end they turned into a drop of shattered blood and were absorbed by the dry gravel on the ground. The weapon in Joshua's hand seemed to sense the ups and downs in his master's heart, so he remained silent.
A thousand years ago, Akhar had been dead for a thousand years. If the Ulan Empire had not devoted all its efforts to find his imperial tomb, dug out his remains, and used the most profound spiritual secret technique to reunite his soul imprint that drifted across the continent, the old knight should have been completely destroyed. How could he recover into a heroic spirit and exert a holy land level attack? But even so, he came to the end. The battle with Joshua was his last persistence. The Prison Star Prison burned not the energy in Akhar's body, but his soul.
He had no spare time, and he did make every effort, but he was old, that's all.
The Knight who lost to time still did not get the most perfect ending.
And Joshua also came to the plateau.
The strong wind whistled, forming a whirlpool, causing the sand and soil to turn into sharp blades, tearing up everything that was involved. The black sandstorm in the Gaital Plateau was like the strongest city wall, a fortress that never fell, keeping all visitors away.
The light path formed by starlight passed through the sand and dust and spread straight to the center of the plateau. The soldiers did not stop, but instead accelerated.
He took a step forward, blurring the scene beside him, and the blazing wind was flowing around him, as if a red iron cone was rapidly piercing into the endless storm. The dark storm rolled over under the impact of this violent force and began to retreat. The great power of nature bowed to a person at this time, and could see that the originally huge storm vortex was split into two halves at a speed visible to the naked eye, retreating to both sides of the plateau like Moses splitting the sea, revealing the path of the middle warriors walking.
Joshua seemed to be a little dissatisfied. He raised the dragon hunting sword spear and shot the black sandstorm on both sides.
So the storm continued to retreat, and the energy source that formed this huge vortex was pierced by invisible life energy radiation, losing most of its power.
Soon after, the warrior slowed down, he raised his head and looked at the majestic city in front of him, which was the end of the guidance of the Starlight Road, his destination.
Ulan Empire, the imperial capital Gaitar.
At the other end of the black sandstorm is a magnificent city. This city is located between two slightly raised hills. There are six towering black towers engraved with countless runes. The city walls are completely made of polished square gray rocks. The solid fortress and arrow tower stand behind the city wall. You can see that four pillars of light that penetrate the sky and pierce the sky, stirring the black clouds in the sky into a huge bottomless vortex.
In this city, which can be called the origin of the Dead Shadow, there was no trace of the Dead Shadow. Joshua carefully sensed it and did not notice the deadly breath of silence, but he also realized that there were some strange auras in this city that were not sure whether it was dead or alive.
Naturally, no one opened the city gate, so before the warrior came to the city wall, he clapped his hands, and a hurricane blew by, and the solid wall seemed to be a castle made of gravel in the sea tide, easily collapsed into countless debris, and the gray sand and dust paved a road forward, allowing Joshua to enter the city without any obstacles.
In the city, there is darkness, noisy and strange noises coming, and you can see houses shrouded in shadows. The houses are located in an extremely neat manner, not like the layout of a city, but like part of some kind of huge formation. In the center of the city, there are four tall obelisks, surrounded by ruins of three stone tablets, and they are covered with dark luster. The light columns that penetrate the sky and the earth are initiated by them as the center and pierce the sky.
Joshua looked up at the obelisk, then looked down at the houses. The breath of neither life nor death and the noisy noise came from it. If it were some evil monsters, the warriors would not mind eradicating them.
But the result made him slightly stunned.
In each house, there were indeed wriggling strange monsters. Their bodies seemed to be a mix of mud and soil, bound in an almost sealed room. It seemed that they could sense Joshua's gaze. These monsters were not making noises, but trembling and closing their voices, not daring to continue speaking, and the warriors also saw through their essence in an instant.
It was a human being infected by the extremely deep dead energy of the underworld and completely alienated into some kind of strange existence.
Twenty-seven years ago, the doomsday changes occurred in this city, reversing life and death. The power of light and darkness conveyed the endless aura of the underworld to the entire world, awakening the endless army of dead shadows. The residents of the imperial capital who were closest to this power were transformed into such a strange monster by strangeness.
The noises made by them, these still-minded beings are wailing and praying in great pain. Ordinary humans may not be able to understand this alienated language, but to the point of Joshua, they can clearly understand the meaning of it.
Neither life nor death, the body turns into mud, and even if it dies, it will turn into a shadow of death. Therefore, what these existences pray for is not resurrection or death.
But rest in peace.
"Ah..." sighed softly, the soldier closed his eyes, and then he opened his eyes again and walked firmly towards the center of the city.
The fate of the world of Grantia has been entrusted to himself by the unknown knight, and the truth is right in front of him. Now Joshua will not stop for this.
So, at the next moment, the warriors were already standing in front of the remaining four obelisks.
In the center of the city is a huge square paved with white granite, seven obelisks built on it according to the rules, and the center is a high platform that is of unknown use. Now, with the death of Arman, the Dead Shadow Swordsman and the Old Knight, the three stone tablets have turned into ashes and dissipated, leaving only the remaining tower foundation here.
Joshua felt that the black light flowing on the four obelisks made him feel uncomfortable. The rotten steel power spreads with it as the center. It seemed that this was the center of corruption, so he took action and broke them all with the power of a spiral gun. There was no magic circle or barrier blocking it in the middle. The process was simple and it made people wonder if it was an illusion. After stopping, the warrior suddenly felt a lighter in his chest, as if there was a promise that had been fulfilled.
In the distance, in the direction of the four holy cities, the Dead Shadow Commanders who were entangled with the four holy cities lords suddenly froze in place. The caster who was driving the crystal puppet looked relieved. The mist humanoid muttered a soft sentence in a language that ordinary people could not understand. The expression of the summoner who could summon the ice bone dragon and various creatures in another world seemed a bit a pity, because he had the upper hand in the battle, and the archer holding the metal longbow shrugged and laughed freely.
The next moment, these undead strong men who carry the fate of an era will disappear with the wind and dissipate invisible.
"What's going on?"
Whether it was the old machine, the elves, the dwarf warriors, or the giants, they looked shocked and confused, but then, after thinking about something, they immediately looked in the direction of the Gaital Plateau, with surprise.
In the distance, four dark columns of light dissipated, and the black clouds, like vortexes, gradually returned to calm. The endless aura of dead silence was not spreading towards every corner of the world, but was piled up in its original place, making the capital of Gaitar, which had long been infected like the underworld, shrouded in darkness.
This darkness is like the incarnation of death and nirvana. It is bottomless, with no light or any sound in it. Whether it is the shrill sound of the wind or the wail of the monsters, it is swallowed by this darkness. Everything is like the world is still in the chaotic void.
But, a little light lit up.
The seven obelisks and the formation formed by the entire capital of Gaitar are not just these. The dust storms on the plateau and the cold wind in the barren plains are all part of this formation. The world and everything is included in it. This city is just the center of collecting and gathering everything.
And at the center of the center of this great array, a hazy light ball that has no shape or color suddenly appeared, except for its existence, which cannot be described in any language. It does not look transparent, but is not a physical body. While releasing light, it also expands and contracts like a living thing, as if it has life.
There was a hand that stretched out from the darkness and held the ball of light.
Joshua van Radcliff knew that this was the truth of everything. Whether it was the strange attitude of the Fourth Heir, the past of Urbandeni, the reason why the dead shadows slaughtered the living and destroyed the world or the fate of the world mentioned by the old knight, all the answers were contained in this mysterious light ball. As long as you master it, you can know everything.
So he held it without hesitation.
Chapter completed!