Soul of Searing Steel

Chapter 830: Is It All My Fault?

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

If things had played out like the game in his past life with Mycroft and the rest of the galaxy, both scenarios would have been identical before Starfall Year 855.

The difference between the two worlds was probably the innumerable players in his past life, while this Mycroft world had a certain count named Joshua van Radcliffe who used the system to level up meteorically, rising to Legend within a brief few years.

When he compared the two timelines, Joshua was sure that he did not change the world much before even after he killed Nono, the Black Dragon and stopped the Abyssal draconic armies.

It was in the end, when he changed the tides in the Battle of the Holy Mountain, killing the leader of the Pestilence Cult, reigniting Mycroft’s Flame, heading to Stellaris to protect the Midgardians from the Void Mother, as well as restoring life Kronos… those were the acts that changed the galaxy drastically, providing Joshua with many precious data and clues.

Even so, it was not fundamental change—even trivial to the Multiverse.

However, he proceeded to slay Helm the Demon General, seal Mycroft the Steel Python, kill Fattrovi the Time Turner, sealing and obliterating the main body of the Black Fog as well as destroy the Evil God of Wither—those would undoubtedly severely affect the future.

Whether it was Legendary demon, powerful fallen Steel Serpents or a manipulator of time whose individual power claimed control over a world, they could grow to affect dozens of worlds, even the entire galaxy. Aside from that, the main body of the Black Fog was a powerful foe comparable to Evil Gods that needed Mycroft civilization to go out in full force, its very existence affecting the state of the galaxy.

And amongst those he had destroyed, the most mysterious was the Evil God of Wither.

Until now, the souls of the nine Legends who previously sealed it had yet to awaken.

Joshua lowered his head. Although Lothram (the Unnamed Technician) displayed recent prominence in his healing, it would have taken a longer time until the nine Legends were to be revived. But before that, everyone was still not sure about why the Evil God of Wither was restrained by such an unusual seal of enveloping it in a world.

But now, Joshua had a bold guess: there was another vital role in Wither’s existence apart from being used by the Sage as a research sample to convert Order and Chaos, a role which could be the ‘suppressor’ of some terrible thing.

And it was not baseless conjecture.

Joshua began to theorize what toils the world would face if it did not have a transcendent warrior such as him, and if the world of Mycroft had no Player or Foreigner.

Exhausted, the Empire would fight to the last drop of blood in the war against the orcs. Then, after the war, the struggle between old and new nobles would gradually escalate—after Israel had barely ensured the Imperial Family’s safety with his few remaining years, the seven children that survived him would compete for the throne, with the nobles using that reason to wage widespread war.

Meanwhile, the draconic plague, the cultists and the fanatics of the Earth Mother’s temple would invade the world one after another, painting the distant south in ash. The various West Mountain kingdoms would be left fleeing, just as the Eastern Plains would be destabilized by the returning murloc tribes. Each faction would face several opponents at once, just as their opponents would attack each other.

The very name of the game ‘Continental War’ was taken from the fact that there was not a single place where war did not reach over the land. Even when the Abyss invaded, the various factions that had been fighting each other exhaustively set aside their difference to combine forces also led to war, with the demons of Chaos being their foe.

Without any players—without Joshua, most Legendary champions would die halfway through, or sacrifice themselves for the sake of the world. Igor, the most powerful force of the continent who could face the Pentashade Dragon God directly had perished before the Abyssal invasion to prolong the world’s Flame Seed. It moved the hand of the Seven Gods, prompting them to act on several occasions despite their original rule to ‘leave mortals to mortals’.