Chapter 559: The Lost Sixteenth Doctrine of the Steel Soul

——Act 1——

A story from more than a thousand years ago.

Atrus stood on top of the tower, holding the [Ancient Gear] in his hand, somewhat lost in thought.

Fina stood behind him, her hand on his shoulder.

The two looked at each other.

They looked at each other in silence.

Narrator:

A thousand years ago, the [Black Pearl] was decomposed into the [Ancient Gear], and the messenger from Ys yearned for adventure.

It was also from this day that the gods that existed in ancient times were destroyed by Atrus.

Until five hundred years ago, that year, Atrus's footprints disappeared under the long river of history, and that year, the world changed.

All you can see next are hand-painted drafts.

Atrus left footprints in every corner of this land, killing monsters, killing gods and saving the world. He is an unknown hero.

For some reason, he was labeled as a "red-haired sex maniac" with red hair. In his later years, he went to the Far North and then disappeared.

But in the next hundred years, there are still legends about him all over the world.

In the small town of Qibel in the Blue Sea Country, the red-haired boy who suppressed the ancient monster was him, but he was accompanied by a girl named Aita, who looked almost exactly like Fina in the Gemini Goddess.

A red door appeared in the picture.

Inside the door stood a child.

The child stepped out of the door and came to this world from the Border Prison. This was the birth of the evil demon.

——The first scene·End——

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Huo Liuli: “…”

She always felt that what she had just seen was just a prologue, so she called Li Nuo, but the line was busy.

At this time, an employee at home knocked on the door.

“Come in.”

“Miss, about your father’s memorial service…”

“I will take care of it, you find a few people for me.”

Huo Liuli turned around, her eyes clear and firm.

“I need a few experts in history, and preferably people who study theology, get them to me as soon as possible.”

An hour later, Huo Liuli moved the video to her own RV, and all the historians she called were crowded in the car.

Huo Liuli replayed the first scene.

Historians and theologians pointed out two key points in this scene, one is the legend of Atreus, and the other is the hypothesis that the demon appeared five hundred years ago.

"Does it mean that there are still doubts about these two points?" Huo Liuli was puzzled.

A scholar pushed his glasses, which were as thick as bottle caps, and said: "Atreus does exist, but the appearance of the demon five hundred years ago is actually only recorded within the Church of the 'Soul of Steel'."

This information was said by Tia when he was talking nonsense with people in the city of Belia. The later stories about the demon came from the academic research of the late Pope of the city of Belia.

In fact, they are all real historical events.

Huo Liuli picked up the goblet, glanced out the window, and drank the red wine in the glass in one gulp.

"Keep reading."

...

-Act 2-

This is a warm little town.

The opening announcement pointed out that the city had been destroyed by war more than a hundred years ago.

The story came to the eve of its destruction.

A sturdy warrior returned home and put the bounty on the table.

His child was lying on the bed. The little girl looked pale and looked like she hadn't had a full meal for a long time.

The city was hit by a plague. The outside world blocked the city's entrances and exits. Only the father, a soldier, could go out of the city to do some deadly work to earn cheap bounties.

The soldier lowered his head.

The money was not enough for them to eat. Because the plague was rampant, the merchants outside raised the prices to an unbearable level. The rats in the city were more valuable than people.

"If this goes on... people will eat each other."

The soldier murmured and saw his child's lips move.

"Dad."

"Hmm..."

The girl opened her eyes and forced a smile.

"I had another dream... In the dream, you took me to the beach..."

"Hmm."

The father touched the child's forehead, feeling the biting cold with his big hand, and he picked up the purse.

"I, I'll go and exchange some food for you."

"Okay."

The door closed.

The little girl was the only one left in the room.

She looked at the window.

There was a boy sitting there.

"Who are you?"

"Me?"

The boy was only twelve or thirteen years old, about the same age as the little girl.

"Don't worry about who I am. You are too sick to speak."

The girl shook her head.

"There is no way... The city is sealed off. The outbreak of the plague is too terrible."

The boy jumped off the windowsill, sat next to the girl, and asked with a smile: "I can help you solve it."

Girl: "Can my father and I have enough food?"

Boy: "Is that your wish?"

Girl: "Yes. If possible... I hope everyone in the village can have enough food."

Boy: "Then, the contract takes effect."

The boy left here and found the garrison outside the city. The city was sealed off to stop the virus, but the plague would spread out with the monsters lurking in the city.

"Massacre the village."

The boy appeared in the garrison's room and told the soldiers who managed the place with a naive look.

"Massacre the village?"

"Kill everyone and the virus will stop."

The answer given by the boy was brainless and rude.

"You can wear the clothes of the soldiers of the enemy country, so that the problem is not on your side."

The boy clapped his hands, and the military commander's mind was controlled by him.

In this way, the agreement between him and the girl would be fulfilled. If the girl, her father, and the whole village were all dead, they would not be afraid of starvation.

…

Huo Liuli pressed the pause button.

"I read about this incident in a textbook."

She looked at the group of scholars behind her.

"In the small town of Meria, one hundred and twenty-seven years ago, a plague of rat monsters broke out, and then disappeared overnight."

A scholar solemnly told the story on the screen in front of the TV.

"The truth behind that massacre was to cause a war..."

The cold history and the truth behind it seemed to be slowly emerging on TV.

"Only one little girl survived in the village. The girl's father was a warrior and he hid her in the cellar and survived."

"But the girl was already dying when she was found. She seemed to know that her father was dead. When she was dying, she didn't forget to ask others if a little boy of her size had survived..."

"Regarding the report from the military area, someone did see a little boy coming in and out."

Those scholars used "unofficial history" to piece together the story on the screen.

Huo Liuli bit her fingertips and her pupils swayed.

"Later...all died?"

"All dead."

"No one is left, and the plague in that village... has not been solved."

"Who is that little boy?"

"have no idea."

Huo Liuli didn't understand why Li Nuo and the others wanted to film this thing. The actor who played the little boy was a believer in the "Soul of Steel", and the rest were played by villagers from Cross Village. The scene was rebuilt using computer calculations, and the painting The quality is very rough, but such a rough thing actually reflects the past events in history.

She canceled the pause button and continued watching TV.

The next story should be the massacre of the village.

On the screen, a tall and thin man stood next to the little girl's bed.

He has a pair of amber snake eyes, like a monster.

Phil picked up the rotten apple from the table, took a bite, chewed and asked, "I've eaten your food. I can complete a commission for you, tell me."

The girl was puzzled: "Brother, what do you mean?"

Phil: "I'm a witcher, not a big brother."

Girl: "Well...it's nothing. I just hope the plague will end soon."

"Okay." Phil stood up. He took out his knife from his waist and walked out of the house.

That day, the army suddenly slashed at the people, and a guy with amber snake eyes used a magic called [Seal of Yaksi] to restore the consciousness of these manipulated guys.

On the same day, he killed the source of the plague, a monster that spread the curse.

By the way, all the businessmen who raised prices were slaughtered.

All kinds of tomato juice are running around on the screen.

In a crudely crafted picture, the whole story ended abruptly.

His name is Phil.

He's a witcher.

A week later, Phil left the village, and the girl who had basically recovered chased him out.

"Big brother... you, are you leaving?"

Phil waved his hand, said nothing, and didn't want to stop.

The girl shouted and asked: "Where will I find you when I grow up!?"

Just listen: "Soul of Steel!"

——Act 2·End——

…

Huo Liuli and others outside the screen were silent.

"Keep watching..."

She wanted to see what shit Li Nuo and the others were going to shoot.

…

——Act 3——

The Kingdom of Obsidian had a famous mercenary organization more than a hundred years ago.

They disappeared during an operation. It is said that at that time, there was a tide of beasts, and the group of monsters blocked these people on the mountain.

Many people have died.

The corpses were piled up together. Most of them were killed by the strong attack of the monsters. The bodies were all broken into pieces. It was pity that these guys didn't even have a grave in the end.

Bardock is their leader. At this moment, he is upset and doesn't understand why the monsters appear here and why those monsters attack them.

His lieutenant, a man named Fanny, sat across from him and cried as he told the truth.

"I saved a kid not long ago, and he said he wanted to repay me."

"What kid?"

"It's not important... I was just joking, telling him that we, a group of people who lick blood from the edge of a knife, just hope not to die in the enemy's fire net."

Bardock suddenly grabbed Fanny.

"Is that child only twelve or thirteen years old?"

"Yes, a boy." Fanny was a little flustered. He had never seen Bardock so excited.

"Damn it!" Bardock said through gritted teeth, "That's a fucking devil!"

Then, Bardock told a story. When he was a child, he heard from his family that a child once appeared in his hometown.

The village chief at that time didn't like outsiders, so he gave the child a small amount of money and asked him to leave.

The boy asked the village chief, what is your wish?

The village chief said that his dog died recently and he wanted a loyal pet to look after his home and courtyard.

That night, a man-eating dog appeared in the village chief's house. All that was left of his family was their bones. The village chief went crazy, but the man-eating dog stayed by his side, as loyal as a knight. .

Fanny: "The legend of the devil?"

"Yes..." Bardock said: "Later I heard that a kid who called himself the 'Evil Devil' appeared in the world. People's description of him was very similar to the devil that the old people talked about in my impression."

At this point, Fanny was stunned. He realized that he had killed all his brothers by talking nonsense to the devil.

"We... will be killed by the monsters, just because I have communicated with the devil..."

Fanny pulled out the dagger and wanted to cut his throat, but a big black hand grabbed the blade.

"Wells, don't stop me!"

The big black man named Wells crushed the blade of the dagger with force, and blood flowed on his black skin. Because it was too dark, it was basically invisible.

"I can communicate with those monsters."

Wells stood up, put on sunglasses, and walked out of the cave.

"I will save you, even if it costs my life."

Half an hour passed.

Bardak decided that he couldn't sit and wait for death. He took his brothers out of the cave and prepared to support Wells.

Since we are brothers, let's die together!

"Yo~man!"

Wells sat in the middle of the grass and sang Rap in front of hundreds of monsters.

"Wells..."

Bardak, Fanny, and all the brothers who were still alive were dumbfounded.

Wells turned his head and explained, "Hey, brother, I am the son of the wizard of nature. So, brother, I can communicate with monsters, man, they are all my brothers now. You damned brothers, come and meet my brothers!"

The monsters fell down one after another, meaning to meet Wells's brothers.

"No, no, no..." Bardock couldn't accept the scene in front of him. He looked at Wells and asked, "You... Why can you communicate with monsters?"

Wells: "Because I am a believer of the Soul of Steel!"

--End of Act III--

...

Huo Liuli turned his head: "Is this also a historical event?"

A scholar with a wig said, "There is indeed a mercenary named Bardock. I remember it seems to be from the Blue Sea Country a hundred years ago..."

Someone followed up, "The first mercenary group in the Blue Sea Country. Later, they died unclearly and were swallowed by the beast tide in the mountains. When they were dug out, their bones were not complete."

Huo Liuli refilled a glass of wine, holding the glass, the red wine looked like blood.

"So the story on the screen is true..."

"Fanni existed. He was the only mercenary who survived. He has gone crazy." A scholar said, "That incident was later published in a gossip magazine about thick black studies. When Fanni met a little boy in a mental hospital, he went crazy and shouted, 'Give me back my brother's life.' Well... I have also studied his symptoms."

"That little boy..." Huo Liuli paused: "Evil?"

No mistake, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

No one said anything.

What Li Nuo and his team filmed was very strange. In the feedback of what happened in history, the protagonist seemed to be the evil demon, but behind each theme was the steel soul.

"Keep watching."

...

--Act 4--

The protagonist this time is Nanami.

The scene is very simple. It can be seen that it was shot anywhere in Cross Village, so more substitutions are told by the narration.

She stood on the land full of scorched smoke, looking at the dilapidated city walls and countless corpses, her eyes full of confusion.

"It's my fault..."

"It's my fault..."

"It's all my fault."

The war happened strangely. The neighboring country was a big country, the northern empire, and she was just an ordinary village girl in the Obsidian Country.

The big country in the north suddenly started a war.

Many people died.

The missiles tore everyone's body apart, the mushroom cloud blocked the sun's rays, the hearing seemed to disappear, and the world became silent.

There was no desire to survive in the girl's eyes, as if a dead person was looking at the gray sky.

But everything started out very boring.

That day, the girl saw a handsome little boy in the forest.

The boy asked her for some water, and to thank her, he said, "I can fulfill one of your wishes."

The girl thought about it and said, "I don't need anything."

Boy: "So, clear everything?"

Until the day the war broke out, the boy appeared in front of the girl again. He said with pride, "I just want to try conquering the world recently. Because of the contract with you, I plan to use the war between the two countries to see what humans will become."

The girl didn't understand, she shook her head in fear: "I don't understand."

The boy asked her to look at the artillery fire in the sky and said, "Clear everything, isn't this what you need, my friend."

Girl: "Why do you want to do this..."

Boy: "Well, I understood a doctrine called the Soul of Steel not long ago. It says that everything is up to you, so I'll give it a try."

Back to the present, the girl stood in the devastated city and walked out tiredly.

She wanted to find out the truth and wanted revenge, so she kept looking for the so-called "Soul of Steel" for the rest of her life.

She searched and searched, but couldn't find it, so she decided to commit suicide.

On the day she jumped into the sea, at the moment of death, she suddenly heard a voice.

"You have found the 'Soul of Steel'."

--Act 4, End--

...

This time everyone was silent.

This time everyone didn't need to communicate.

About a hundred years ago, an inexplicable war between the Obsidian Kingdom and the Northern Empire became the fuse for the rise of evil.

The background of the story in the movie is this war.

250,000 lives were wiped out that night.

Life is as thin as paper.

Life is impermanent.

If what the movie said was true, then the evil was behind the war.

Huo Liuli realized that the evil that was forgotten in history and now plunged the sky into darkness might be more terrifying and twisted than everyone imagined.

"Miss, are you still watching?"

A scholar asked her.

Huo Liuli pressed the switch.

"Keep watching."

...

-Act 5-

In the library, a man wearing glasses sat on the sofa, drinking coffee elegantly.

"It's amazing."

The man's glasses reflected the handwriting in the book, and the narration was describing his elegance, as if this man enjoyed the privilege of being a director.

"In the past hundred years, almost all the disasters on this continent are related to you."

"No, no, no... Sir, what you said is not accurate."

The boy stood in his room, his back to the light source, and his whole body was almost in darkness.

"Sir, when I came to this world, I didn't remember anything in my mind. A little robot gave me a doctrine that reminded me that I was actually a demon."

The boy appeared behind the man with glasses, with an evil smile on his face.

"Sir, I remember that before I became a demon, I was also an adult, founded a mercenary organization, and even helped many people. But later when I remembered that I was a demon, I realized that what I did before was so boring, and now I am just returning to my nature."

"Controlling other people's lives, is this your nature?"

"Life is nothing to you, sir."

"Heh, what do you mean?"

"You give birth to children at the speed of rabbits. You don't care about time, place, or who the object is. You just mess around day and night. You should understand this fact. History tells you that the creatures who are best at slaughtering and getting women pregnant can stand at the top. In terms of murder and sex, you humans are indeed experts. Why do you take life seriously?"

The man with glasses looked at the child, and there was no emotion in the depths of their eyes.

"Is this the answer you got after hundreds and thousands of years of existence?"

"Rather, it's what I saw." The boy did not continue the topic, but said: "Okay, sir, I want to start a war and harvest greater fear, so as to make this world colorful. Do you want to be my companion?"

This scene is a must-read story in the textbooks of this world, the devil and the scholar. Once a scholar was invited by the devil to harm the world together. The devil promised him wealth and glory, but the scholar was unmoved.

The scholar was cursed with malicious intent. As a punishment for him, he could never see anything outside the book with his eyes.

But the person who played the scholar on the screen at this time was called Soren Lee.

Few people know that there are four founders of the "Soul of Steel" doctrine, and he is one of them.

Sorren closed the book and put it on the table.

"Even if I reject you, you can't be malicious to me."

"Sir, you are too confident."

"No."

Sorren took off his glasses, his eyes were firm.

"Because I believe in 'Soul of Steel'."

--The fifth act, the end--

...

--The sixth act--

The scene returns to the prologue.

Nanami takes off her hood and faces Atreus.

"We are looking for ways to solve the problem. We have been looking for ways to defeat the evil."

Atreus saw that three people walked out from behind Nanami. They were the demon hunter Phil, the son of the nature wizard Wells, and the scholar Soren Lee.

The narrator narrated that these people all chose to save the world because of their belief in the Soul of Steel.

Atreus: "..."

Note: In the game, Atreus basically says "...", and this feature was retained by Li Nuo and others in the movie.

"Atlus Christine, an adventurer active on the stage of history, it is the will of the Steel Soul that tells us that we need you this time."

"..."

"Our opponent is a high-dimensional demon, and we need the power of faith of the Gemini goddesses and your brave power. The evil demon has activated the [Black Pearl] and is ready to destroy the world. The only ones who can destroy the [Black Pearl] are you and the Gemini goddesses of the ancient country of Isu."

Nanami stretched out her hand and smiled with a shallow dimple.

"Join us and save the world again."

Atlus shook his head, meaning that we alone are not enough, and the opponent is too powerful.

At this moment, the boy and girl sitting on the roof turned their heads.

Nanami suddenly frowned.

"Who is this person..."

Li Nuo is the boy, and he looked at everyone in confusion.

"I am..."

Sauron suddenly had an epiphany: "In the 'Soul of Steel' doctrine, there is a demon hunter mentioned. He is God's enemy, but when God wants to save the world, His enemy will temporarily help as a friend. That demon hunter has a strange elemental power."

Phil nodded: "Yes, I am one of God's enemies. He has my shadow."

Phil thought acting was very fun and acted very seriously.

Li Nuo immediately threw out the blue fire.

"I, I actually have a blue flame on my body. Am I really a demon hunter!"

Li Nuo added words to himself temporarily.

"God told me that I am actually a warrior of light. So that's it. I am a warrior of light."

This scene was NG dozens of times. Li Nuo had to say that he was a warrior of light, otherwise he would always make trouble.

Cha Bai was stunned for a moment and immediately remembered the lines.

"So you are, you, you are the Warrior of Light!"

Wells, the black man, was delighted when he saw Chabai, who had white hair and white skin.

"Hey, such a white woman, are you the legendary 'white-haired witch'?"

Chabai pointed at herself and put on a clumsy expression of "I see".

Nanami is an idol, the kind who has acted in dramas. Chabai has been with Li Nuo and Maljie all day long, but she still can't act. She doesn't have that talent.

"Yes, really, I am the white-haired witch."

Narrator: Just like that, several people blessed by the "Soul of Steel" are ready to end the pain brought by the evil demon, and standing behind them are the twin goddesses, the followers of the Soul of Steel, and the craftsmen who were forgotten near the Tower of Dam...

--Act 6, End--

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The RV where Huo Liuli is is frighteningly quiet.

After a moment, she asked the scholars behind her: "What do you think?"

"It was pretty reliable in the beginning, but how come it became..." in the sixth act

"It became like a stage play."

"Yes, a stage play!"

"But it feels weird to turn a stage play into a movie."

Huo Liuli also felt something was wrong, so she called Li Nuo again, and this time the call went through.

There was a lot of noise on Li Nuo's end.

"Friends, what did you shoot in the end!"

"Wait a minute." Li Nuo shouted anxiously: "Die! Why is there only meat in Sauron's food!"

After a while, Li Nuo answered the phone.

He asked, "Have you watched all the previous ones?"

Huo Liuli: "Yes, I have. These are things that have happened in history. You added your own roles and rewrote the tragedy created by the evil demon. Is that what you mean? But I still want to ask, what's the matter with Steel Soul? Is this a stage play or a damn church advertisement? You guys went to Belia City-State and all of you believed in religion? Please, my friend, that church..."

Li Nuo: "WWE is actually about two parties opposing each other. The evil demon is one party, so the one that can oppose the evil demon must be a gimmick."

Huo Liuli was stunned, she understood!

"The confrontation between the two most terrifying things is full of highlights... full of gimmicks... This is what you call a stage play."

"The good show has just begun, my lady."

Huo Liuli frowned slightly, she got out of the car immediately, walked to a corner where no one was and stopped.

"Good show?"

Li Nuo licked his lips and smiled happily.

"WWE cannot do without fighting. What you just saw was just a plot foreshadowing. It was crudely made and could be processed a little more. But what follows is different. It is a very exciting visual feast."

"You...wait a minute. I thought you were going to wait for the army to arrive before joining in!"

"It's too late."

In the past two days, Li Nuo has become more and more aware of the inseparable relationship between the awakening of the evil and the doctrine of the "Mechanical Cult" through interpreting historical documents and other materials.

The sixteenth article of the Steel Soul doctrine is blank. Li Nuo and his team left it blank to create suspense.

If the sixteenth article is to be filled in now, it should be: No matter whether it is intentional or not, you must find a way to clean up the mess you have caused.

Now tens of thousands of believers have taken their positions nearby.

The players are reciting the script.

The Tower of Dam is not far away.

"Our god is already planning to take action."

Li Nuo glanced at Malger, who was sleeping on the ground.

Huo Liuli: "God? Take action? How? What are you going to do? No, what is the Church of Steel Soul going to do!?"

In front of Li Nuo was a tablet connected to Tanggula Mountain, and Brother Ting on the screen was preparing for his part at any time.

"Anyway, just wait and see the final film."

Li Nuo hung up the call with Huo Liuli.

"Brother Ting."

"Yes."

"Can the nuclear bomb be used at any time?"

"Yes."