A certain sword soul's infinite journey

"……yes?"

Lin Yi turned his eyes and looked at the huge flaming face indifferently.

"Then why was the sailboat heading away from this trench in the first place?"

"Of course it's because you haven't solved the problem I left behind at that time." Hephaestus said with a smile, "Now that you have solved it, I will naturally tell them the correct space node!"

The correct spatial node...

It means that what they knew at the beginning was the wrong space node?

Lin Yi frowned, and asked calmly: "Let me take the liberty to ask, if I haven't solved the problem you left, where will this sailboat go?"

"It's also where I am." Hephaestus said with a smile, "But it's about ten kilometers deeper than my current location!"

...meaning straight to the magma layer?

Lin Yi's cheek muscles twitched slightly.

At the same time, Hephaestus seemed to be afraid of Lin Yi's misunderstanding, and then he explained: "Don't worry, there is another space node I transformed there, and those magmas will only make you feel uncomfortable for a while as a punishment for failure. Definitely not for long!"

In words, he didn't worry at all that the magma would endanger Lin Yi's life.

Lin Yi frowned slightly. He didn't know whether it was Hephaestus who was testing his strength, or the gods in this world were so powerful that they could ignore the magma, so that Hephaestus acquiesced to Lin Yijue. Cannot be killed by lava.

Lin Yi's thoughts turned like lightning, and he sneered as he looked at the huge flaming face that seemed to be explaining.

"Yeah, I won't be killed by magma, and maybe your sailboat won't either, but these messengers of yours are about to be buried in the sea of ​​magma fire, don't you think I'll let go of the previous suspicions and save these dead for you?" Poor Abandoned Believer?"

"of course not."

Hephaestus shook his head, and said lightly: "If that scene really happened, I think they would gladly die for me..."

Lin Yi frowned: "Just for such a ridiculous reason?"

Hephaestus fell silent, and said calmly after a long time: "It's not ridiculous, forging is my right, they are just using their lives to maintain my theocratic right... Besides, these people are dead people, and I put them to death. Saved from the brink of death, they should give everything for me because of emotion and reason.”

"..."

Lin Yi's brows stretched, and Jun's face showed a smile that was not a smile: "Interesting, it sounds like you and your believers still have a story, how about it, are you interested in telling me?"

"As long as you are interested in listening to..."

Hephaestus seemed to think of something funny, and opened his fiery red lips: "Your Excellency Lin Yi, do you think Nuta's appearance looks familiar?"

"...Nuta?"

"It's the blond man who received you under my order."

"Of course I know it's him!"

Lin Yi frowned, and Nuta's face appeared in his mind, and then he accurately removed the red spots on his face, only then could he see a familiar outline from the handsome eyebrows...

"Phillips?!"

Lin Yi blurted out in astonishment that Phillips was one of the few Amazons he was impressed with these days, because she was appointed by Queen Hippolyta to be responsible for the personal safety of little Diana. One of the fighters, but also a powerful female fighter in Paradise Island who can squeeze into the top ten.

But such a standard Amazon female warrior is so similar to the messenger of Hephaestus, the god of fire, especially those eyes, which are almost carved out of the same mold!

Lin Yi asked his doubts.

Hephaestus smiled and explained without hesitation.

"This begins 1000 years ago, when Ares, the god of war, bewitched the son of Zeus, the human hero Hercules, thus provoking a war between humans and the Amazons. This war lasted forever. It's been a long time, but in the end, mankind defeated the Amazons under the leadership of Hercules and enslaved all the Amazons..."

Having said that, Hephaestus paused for a moment, and then said with a smile in a tone that men can understand: "You have lived in Paradise Island for so many days, you should have seen the beauty of the Amazons, the Amazons enslaved by humans I don’t need to say more about the consequences for the clansmen, right?”

Lin Yi: "..."

Seeing that Lin Yi understood what he meant, Hephaestus went on to say: "After the death of Hercules, these Amazons finally found an opportunity to launch a rebellion under the leadership of the current Amazon Queen Hippolyta. , liberated all the Amazons from slavery, and took all the babies born with men."

"But they have been hurt by human males during the long-term enslavement, so they are only willing to accept female babies to become new Amazons. Therefore, those male babies are naturally abandoned by the Amazons. I don't want to see such a tragedy happen, so They were exchanged on the condition of forged weapons and equipment."

Hephaestus recounted this past lightly.

Lin Yi frowned when he heard it. He didn't know much about the DC world, but he had seen a lot of movies. Both Zha Dao and Nolan's movies were good, but the comics were limited to Batman and Superman. Wonder Woman really doesn't know much about it, so she can't judge whether what Hephaestus said is true or false.

However, although Lin Yi doesn't understand the background of Wonder Woman's story, he understands human beings, so hearing the story told by Hephaestus feels so real.

Because humans are capable of such things, even the Amazons...

"So, these messengers are the baby boys that the Amazons wanted to abandon?"

"Yeah, the Nuta you saw is actually the imperial guard of Paradise Island, Phillips' brother. It's a pity that the same people have different fates. It's just because of the difference in gender that the two brothers and sisters have such different fates. It's really embarrassing. Sigh!"

There was a hint of emotion in Hephaestus' tone.

Lin Yi heard it quite strangely. He had heard similar remarks before, but they were basically the opposite...

Suddenly, there was another tremor in the cabin, and the huge flame face suspended on the table dissipated into countless streams of flames, and began to twitch as if the signal was interrupted.

Lin Yi released his perception in an instant, only to find that the Shenxing sailboat had entered a radiant passage, which should be the transformed space node that Hephaestus said.

Lin Yi's eyes lit up, and he quickly closed his eyes, carefully perceiving the radiant passage outside and the way the Shenxing sailboat passed through the nodes of space.

If he can learn this method, maybe he doesn't need to borrow the Shenxing sailboat, and he can directly tear open the space node and travel through the DC world with his body.

No matter how bad it is, you can also imitate the Shenxing sailboat to refine a prop with the same function, so that it will be much more convenient when you are active in the DC world in the future...

That's right, after discovering that this world is DC, Lin Yi had an omen in his heart. This is definitely not the last time he will travel through the DC world, and he needs to make more plans for the future.

The process of traveling through space nodes seems to be very long, but it seems to be only a moment.

After this long moment passed, Lin Yi finally opened his eyes, with a hint of enlightenment in his eyes.

The flames suspended on the table were finally no longer abstract, and the streams of flames combined to form a giant face of flames when the signal was good, and issued a majestic buzzing like Huang Zhong Dalu.

"Welcome to my place, I am waiting for you inside the volcano!"

As soon as the voice fell, the floating giant face of flames scattered into a stream of flames, completely eliminating the escape.

Chapter 6 Thirty Hephaestus

Walking out of the cabin, what came into my eyes was a vast expanse of white clouds.

Lin Yi frowned, and walked quickly to the edge of the deck, only to be surprised to find that this three-masted sailboat, which had just completed a diving feat, was actually floating in the sea of ​​clouds at this moment!

...As expected of Hephaestus, the god of fire and forging!

The entire means of transportation that shuttles through space nodes has to take into account water, land and air.

A trace of emotion rose in Lin Yi's heart. At the side, the blond man Nuta leaned over nervously. The flame tattoo between his eyebrows radiated red light, helping him resist the severe cold at an altitude of [-] meters.

"Honorable Your Excellency, the Shenxing Sailing Ship is about to descend, look..."

"Don't ask me, this is your ship, you have the final say."

Lin Yi said lightly, his body also floated up in the silver light while speaking.

Seeing this, Nuta quickly lowered his head, and the other men in black did the same, sending the honored guest off the deck slowly.

After leaving the Shenxing sailboat, Lin Yi did not land immediately, but first observed the terrain under his feet, and saw a mountain range stretching for hundreds of miles on the mainland.

Due to the high altitude, the peak of the mountain range is covered with white snow, and a shocking dark red color is dotted in the white snow. If you look closely, it is a huge and extremely active volcano.

The entire mountain range is the base of this volcano. Dark red magma fire rains from the mountain pass, and countless yellow gunpowder smoke spreads from the edge of the mountain pass, rolling and spreading along the mountain...

No wonder they want to place the Shenxing sailboat on the sea of ​​clouds, the place under their feet is really not a good harbor!

Lin Yi scanned the active volcano below, and suddenly felt that the scene from this angle seemed familiar. After carefully looking through his memory, he found that he did recognize this place.

This should be Mount Etna on the east coast of Sicily, Italy.

The name of Mount Etna comes from the Greek word Atine, which means roughly the same as the classic saying "I ignite" of an anime protagonist. Mount Etna is the highest active volcano in Europe, even though its specific height is constantly changing due to crustal activity. Changes have taken place, and the altitude of the peak has always remained above 3200 meters.

At the same time, Mount Etna is located in the Mediterranean volcanic belt. It is one of the most active volcanoes on the planet, and it has not stopped even in the 21st century. The forge and hermitage of the god Hephaestus.

Of course, this is Lin Yi's speculation based on the earth in his previous life.

In this world, the cause-and-effect relationship is likely to be completely opposite-it is precisely because Hephaestus chose this place as a hermitage that Mount Etna erupts so frequently.

While guessing, Lin Yi fell fearlessly towards the scorching crater where the yellow smoke was billowing.

As the altitude decreased, the temperature of the air began to rise rapidly, and when it reached the edge of the crater, black smoke began to rise from the only boot on Lin Yi's body that was not equipped with the system.

In desperation, Lin Yi had no choice but to put on a full set of galaxy armor, and fell into the volcano amidst the silver light.

Entering the interior of the crater, you can see countless dark red magma boiling and bubbling in the center. The surrounding volcanic rock walls are surrounded by layers of spiral stone steps, and countless scorched stone gates are dotted among them.

Lin Yi turned his gaze, and quickly locked on to a door in the middle of the spiral stone steps.

It was a giant metal gate that was two or three times larger than other stone gates. It was engraved with many patterns and pictures with plots. At a glance, it probably told a story of a god standing in the middle of volcanoes and magma. , bringing the story of flame and metal to everyone...

Well, it's definitely Vulcan himself!

Lin Yi landed decisively in front of the huge metal door. Before he could knock the copper ring on the door, the little black cat on his shoulder was already very impatient, and directly swung a giant tiger paw made of black mist and slapped it in front of him. on the giant gate.

As a Qiongqi who likes coldness and darkness, the little black cat already hated high temperature, and after a battle with the Balrog in Middle-earth, this dislike became even more serious.

"Om-"

The pitch-black tiger's claws collided with the giant metal door, emitting a long buzzing sound like the ringing of a golden bell, and dark red ripples circulated endlessly on the surface of the giant metal door, dispelling all the power attached to the tiger's claws. go.

The little black cat looked at the motionless metal giant door in front of him with some surprise, and then looked down at his little paws with fan pads, a hint of excitement suddenly appeared in the ice-blue pupils.

In the next second, the tiger claws transformed from the black mist slapped towards the giant door like a storm.

Countless deafening bangs merged into one piece, continuously reverberating in the hot crater, shaking up dark red magma sparks and yellow poisonous smoke mixed with sulfur.

The dark red ripples on the giant metal gate were also constantly trembling, showing signs of being unable to hold on.

Just when these dark red ripples began to show intermittent signs, the heavy metal door suddenly opened, and a pitch-black tiger claw got in through the gap in the door, and slapped the person who opened the door unexpectedly on the chest.

With a bang, the figure that hadn't been seen clearly was thrown backwards like a shell out of the chamber, knocked over a pile of unidentified utensils, and then heavily inlaid on a black stone wall .

The little black cat was stunned, looked at its little black paws with pink pads, and at Lin Yi, who was beside him with twitching mouth corners, then put it down as if nothing had happened, and squatted on Lin Yi's shoulders again.

Lin Yi twitched the corner of his mouth. Seeing that the giant metal door was about to close again, he quickly reached out to support the giant door and walked quickly into the room.

It can be seen that this place should have been a mineral storage room full of stone boxes and cabinets, in which countless gold, silver, black, blue, and even dark red unknown precious minerals were stored.

But at this moment, the storage room was turned over, and countless precious unknown minerals were dumped on the ground, and some were even mixed together.

Just as Lin Yi was looking at the indoor scene, a dark red-skinned, burly figure quickly got up from the rock wall and jumped at the dumped minerals without any scruples. Gold threads, like hands made of lava, separate the mixed minerals at the speed of dancing afterimages.

During the busy time, Lin Yi and the little black cat didn't care at all.

Lin Yi was a little embarrassed, and turned his head to stare at the little black cat.

The little black cat is not afraid at all, and the backhand is a dazed and sluggish cute face, trying to pass the test with cuteness.

Lin Yi was successfully countered by this cute expression, ruaed the little black cat's head, and then planned to take the pot that knocked over the minerals to his own head.

After determining the priority of responsibility, Lin Yi finally had the time to look at the dark red figure in front of him.

He is about [-] meters tall, with a dark red complexion, his whole body is covered with piles of tendons, and his arms are even more muscular, as thick as the waist of an ordinary man. It can be said that he can run a horse with his arms and stand with his fists. people.

Of course, there are still some doubts about the latter sentence.

Because this guy's fists are quite unusual, from the fingers to the elbows are all lava inlaid with dark red gold threads, and when they are swung, they emit a powerful heat that can evaporate and boil water vapor.

Sure, this guy must be Vulcan Hephaestus himself!

Because the gods of DC are basically of this urine nature, and they like to embody their power and authority on their arms. This is the case with Zeus, the king of the gods, and Artemis, the goddess of hunting.

Even the demigod Diana, whose appearance is the same as that of a human being, did not escape this habit. Her pair of guardian silver bracelets that would emit energy ripples after a collision were the products of imitating the arms of the gods...

Oh, the guardian silver bracelet was made by Vulcan, so it's all right!

Lin Yi complained in his heart, and looked at Hephaestus's side face along Hephaestus' arm.

I don’t know if I don’t see it. I was shocked when I saw it. No wonder Hera would throw Hephaestus off Mount Olympus because of his appearance. If he gave birth to such a thing, it would be difficult to accept him. It is the fact of my own flesh and blood.

Because this guy's appearance is indeed of the horrible kind.

The upper half of his face was like that of an underdeveloped hominid, with thick brows and small eyes, a short and high nose, which almost stuck tightly to the part between the eyes.

However, compared to the lower half of his face, this upper half of his barely human face can only be regarded as insignificant.

I saw a huge mouth occupying the entire lower jaw. The dark red lips were thin and long, with sharp and short teeth like beasts growing inside. If you didn't pay attention when closing it, you might be able to bite the lips. through.

Looking at such a face that seemed to have fallen the same way after a volcanic eruption, Lin Yisi thought about it, and could only use the word 'wonderful' to describe it. Even a clay doll made by Zeus would probably be three points more handsome than him...

After evaluating the appearance of Hephaestus, Lin Yi put away his exuberant desire to complain (offend), looked at the little dark red giant who was still busy in front of him, and couldn't help feeling a little guilty in his heart.