【Time】Section 3 Joshua (I)

On a piece of predynastic ruins in the pine forest south of Miller, there is a craft in a completely different style from the stone pillars and statues, a sculpture made of ice, which did not exist two days ago. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The surface of the info sculpture is crystal clear, reflecting the sunlight pouring down from the gap between the branches and leaves, it is in the form of a man in a robe, his hands are stretched out in front of him, as if trying to grasp something, if you approach the sculpture and look inside, you will see a frightened blonde youth completely wrapped in it.

Joshua had been frozen here for two days.

Two days ago, he was rescued by the god named Jack and gained new power because he awakened in his sleep, he caught up with the son of the god Hades who had to be stopped in his mission, the third prince of Oden, Chloe Arryn, who thought that his strength would be different after being boosted, but he suffered another setback, if it weren't for the god of the goddess Bella, Koyales, who froze him with an ice arrow and saved his life, he would have been taken by the black shadow of that guy and became part of his undead power. Now Joshua felt that he only had his brain to operate, his limbs and head were frozen to the point that he could not move a bit, and in the middle of this ice, he did not feel the cold, as if the ice that had frozen him was just to prevent him from moving. He watched motionlessly as the moon and the sun rose twice, thinking of all the spells he could use, but his hand was sealed, and he couldn't use them. His stomach began to growl, and this was when he realized that he might not be right to think that only his brain could function, but that the hunger pang was very real. There was still a lot of food in the mana pocket on his body that could be used to satisfy his hunger, but at the moment he could only close his eyes and imagine with his mind that a freely moving hand reached into the pocket, took out the food and brought it to his mouth, but when he opened his eyes, there was nothing.

Ever since he came to Miller, he has been repeating failures. After losing the battle against Salder, his plan to get reinforcements from Oden, and stopping the son of Hades from failing again, he thought that he would be able to win with all kinds of information and truth, but in reality he was just talking about it, allowing the villain to continue to go unpunished, ironically saying that even if he had information, he could not change his defeat.

"Damn, I, who knew the conspiracy behind this war, played a vital role, but at the moment I was trapped in such a place and couldn't help anything, obviously the son of God who symbolized freedom, but I could only be bound as a caged bird. Joshua was unwilling to say in his heart, he wanted to use the power of the wind, but he felt that the holy weapon called the hurricane heart core in his body was also frozen, and he couldn't use it at all.

"If only I could do psychics...... Joshua thought to himself. He learned from his father that his mother, Arya Cross, was a member of the Church of Light, and knew the kind of spiritual arts related to blood and blood in the church, and he had half of the church's blood in his body, so it stands to reason that he should also be able to use spiritual arts, but he had never been trained in spiritual arts, and he didn't know how to do it.

Joshua began to recall all the details about his mother in his head, trying to find traces of spiritual magic in his previous life. He remembered the smell of his mother's breakfast she had made every morning, the pride and relief she had when she looked at him, and her body lying in a pool of blood...... Thinking of his mother's death, hatred came back to his heart, but it couldn't help him break the ice that held him back. He continued to think about it, finally remembering what happened to him when he had snuck into the Forest of Death as a child.

When Joshua was seven years old, his father, Bennison, was conducting research at Kingdom Church in Lori while his mother had made him breakfast and went back to bed. Instead of attending a priest's lecture at a church in a nearby town, Joshua sneaked into the Forest of Death, which his parents had forbidden to enter. Joshua got lost not long after he wandered around the forest, he didn't know how to get back, the whole forest was full of gloomy winds, and he began to regret not listening to the advice and ran in. He remembered that he had been walking in the forest for three hours, but he still couldn't find his way, and just as he was helplessly in despair, he realized that something in the grass behind him was suddenly coming at him. When it came to him, he realized that it was a giant bear with three eyes, its sharp claws that seemed to tear him to shreds in an instant, and that its fanged mouth would have no trouble swallowing him whole. Joshua was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, holding his hands on the ground and retreating as he shouted "help", he knew that their family lived in such a deserted and remote place, his father was in the city, his mother was sleeping at home, and no one else would be there, but the feeling of helplessness could only make him cry with a glimmer of hope. The moment the bear's claws fell, Joshua saw a figure in front of him, and then heard a bang, and the bear limped away. Joshua looked at the figure in front of him, and he saw that it was his mother, and he didn't know how his mother could find his whereabouts so quickly, but he was more concerned about what was wrong with the bear than this, so he asked his mother, "Mother, how did the bear monster run away?"

"Maybe it hit the tree with its claws. His mother replied nonchalantly.

"But ......"

"Joshua, promise me that you won't run around without saying hello in the future!" Joshua looked at his mother's serious eyes, and knew that he would inevitably be criticized, although his mother usually didn't scold him much.

"I ...... I'm sorry......" Joshua lowered his head and whimpered, but he found that his mother had suddenly taken him in her arms.

"It's great that Joshua is okay......"

Reflecting on that event, Joshua now believed that his mother must have used psychic magic to drive the bear away, and now when he thought back to how he felt in his mother's arms, he could detect a change from his usual. He thought back to what his father had said about spiritual magic that was related to blood and worked from the body. So he combined his father's teachings with the sensations he had learned from his mother, closed his eyes, felt the flow of blood in his body, felt the unusual power in his blood inherited from his mother, and he imagined that power as a myriad of small whirlwinds that caused a whirlpool in his body, and then spread out all over his body, trying to rush out of his body through his pores. He felt the power spreading out from his body, and then his mind thought about breaking through the ice that sealed his movements, and he found that his body began to change- The muscles of his whole body began to harden, then expand, then harden, and then expand, and he felt that he had become twice his original size, and then cracks began to appear on the surface of the ice cube, and he felt that his limbs could move a little bit, so he slammed the force, and the ice shattered in an instant, turning into ice picks that exploded in all directions, and several ice picks pierced into the trunks of the surrounding trees.

After successfully breaking free from the ice, his body immediately returned to its original state. Joshua tried to use the magic he had used again, but no matter how much he thought back to what he had felt, he couldn't reproduce it. "Maybe it was just a mistake?" Joshua thought.

"It's time now!" Joshua used a spell to float himself into the air again, then sped off toward the battlefield.

After driving for a while, he suddenly heard several roars from the sky, and he knew that it was the roar of a dragon, which must be the mount of the Knights. He thought that Nasard had absorbed the power of Dorag before, Dorag was a dragon demon god, able to manipulate dragons, the knights' dragon control skills were far worse than him, and calling dragons to fight would only kill themselves, plus Nasard's obsidian stone had the ability to control thoughts, when the two were combined, summoning the dragon at this time was simply increasing the enemy's combat power. "Oh no, gotta stop them!" Joshua thought as he sped up again, his whole body feeling like he was flying in the air. But the dragon was flying much faster than he was, and he saw the four huge figures skim over his head and fly forward.

By the time Joshua arrived at the battlefield, it was already late. He heard Salde's voice coming from the sky, "You still want the dragon to help you, so that you can see what the real 'dragon mastery' is!"

He saw that the four dragons had just landed on the ground, and he opened his bloody mouth and unwittingly bit off the bodies of the knights who had summoned them, swallowing them in the stomach, and then spewing fire into the surroundings, burning everything in all their hearts.

"Damn!! York's roar shook the sky, almost drowning out the dragon's roar, he fell to his knees, his hands pounding the ground, what he had feared before had happened - dragons had never been friends with humans, they could not willingly fight for humans and become mounts of humans, humans had never really controlled dragons, and the so-called "dragon mastery" was just a joke that made them conceited, and they should have realized it since the mount of the former deputy head went berserk a few years ago.

"Commander!! it's time to act! If you wait so cowardly, how many more comrades do we need to sacrifice!" Marshall roared at Danke, no one in the Knights had ever dared to speak to Danko like this before, they all knew that Danke was absolutely powerful, and they respected Danke's every decision, but now that he had lost six knights at once, and the four-haired dragon was raging, Marshall could no longer follow Danke so silently. He doesn't care how many enemies have any follow-up moves, he doesn't care if he can control his sanity or not, he doesn't need reason at the moment, he just needs bloodthirsty rage, he just needs to cut all the enemies who stand in his way.

"I know. Danke's right hand suddenly clenched the hilt of his sword, and his vulture-like eyes released a murderous aura, and he disappeared from Marshall's eyes in an instant, and when Marshall found him again, he found that Danko had swung his sword and split the ghoul Roy in half from head to toe. Danko's eyes shone blood-red, and he slashed the draugr around him with cold and decisive determination, and from a distance he could only see all kinds of stumps flying around. Marshall felt the darkness from Danke's body at this moment, looking at his posture of killing the enemy, looking at his strange and terrifying eyes, he felt that Dan in front of him was not a human, but a demon, but now what they needed was a demon who could kill the enemy, if he could, Marshall hoped that he could also become such a demon.