Ascension journey - 397

On this continent, or in many planes, there is a kind of person who is most popular with the people, but also the most disgusted by the people.

That is the paladin who walks around everywhere, constantly punishing evil, slaying demons, and eliminating demons, especially the paladin who believes in the god of justice and courage.

When faced with the threat of evil, the presence of paladins can always stabilize people’s hearts. They are the strong shield standing at the forefront of the battle line, the sword hanging on the head of the devil, and the object worth relying on.

But in daily life, except for the truly innocent people who are in desperate situation, people always avoid paladins, especially those with younger faces.

Because the young and reckless paladins with insufficient experience cannot tolerate the existence of even a little bit of evil, they identify the magic of the camp’s aura with one hand, and use a big sword with the other to use the evil slash, so that everyone flees.

In this world, from the civilians at the bottom to the king at the top of power, who has never thought of evil? How many people have not practiced it once?

Who is the businessman who controls the price of lending and has not done anything wicked? Who did not force some tragedy from the tax collectors?

Who in this world dares to touch his own heart and say that he has never done a bad thing in the usual sense? Even the peasants will have evil thoughts and harm because of the small details of water and land, let alone those with extraordinary power or status.

Under the divine art of detecting and discriminating good and evil, and chaos, there are very few lives that can emit pure aura. If a paladin dares to release the divine art of detecting evil in ordinary towns, he will definitely be The dense red light flashed blindly.

Arthur is such a paladin who believes in the god of justice and courage.

He firmly believes that justice will defeat evil, and he firmly believes that injustice can be wiped out with a big sword in his hand.

But the reality is not black and white.

The sacred flame can easily incinerate the demons with powerful chaotic magic power like sparks, but it cannot kill the demons parasitic in human desire.

Rejected, hated, stabbed back by someone he had just saved… Even so, Arthur never wavered his faith.

It’s just… Not long ago, Arthur participated in an operation to hunt down the descendants of the evil god. The cunning goal captured the human skin of a leader of a gang organization. He began to use all kinds of evil methods for the blood and soul to develop the gang in his hand. strength.

Gang leaders directly controlled by the descendants of the evil gods, gang members indirectly controlled, family members and relatives involved in the members, other people who depend on the gang’s life, and official forces that trade with the gang…

Even all the people within the gang’s sphere of influence benefited from the various actions of the evil god’s children, forming an airtight network, making the investigation of Arthur and the paladins difficult.

Officials always say that they are just because they cannot maintain the operation of society without collecting taxes, and the management of the city cannot be stabilized without trading or compromise.

The poor, no matter what is righteous and evil, they only care about whether they can work and whether they can get the next meal.

Gang members are full of enthusiasm, and the rules in the dark have always been like this. It is naturally good to be able to take them to higher places and bring more benefits.

After the cunning target noticed the paladin’s arrival, he did not dare to escape from the exposure, and he tried to bind more forces and people onto his chariot.

Fighting, sneak attacks, drug administration, kidnapping threats, disguising fraud, pleading hardships…every conceivable means are used by people, a group of paladins who are not harassed all the time, even in the begging of the miserable innkeeper Lost a place to live.

Everyone has their own reasons to maintain the status quo and hinder the paladin, but the paladin can’t point the sword at everyone.

However, these dirty methods can only delay the time for the paladins to find their targets.

Relying on the silence and thick plate armor, the paladins squeezed all the way to stop the supplicants. Relying on the magic and sharp eyes, they traced the evil atmosphere bit by bit in the labyrinth-like city.

The brave and fearless paladins finally defeated the extraordinary who blocked them because of money and power, forcibly through the siege and squeeze of countless civilians, and rushed to find him before the heir of the evil god completed the blood sacrifice ceremony.

The power of the evil god’s children is very powerful, even in places with extremely high elemental inertia on the main plane, they can change the local celestial phenomenon, and prepare to completely or even destroy half of the city.

But the light of justice that represents the most fundamental of every living being, based on survival and hope, is invincible.

In the ceremonial field where bones, blood and souls gathered, Arthur pierced the body of the evil god’s heir with a great sword carrying holy flames.

Arthur’s power is not much stronger than other paladins, but the holy flame ignited by devotion and sincerity is the nemesis of all evil. No matter how powerful the power of the evil god’s heir is, his chaotic magical power will be ignited by the holy flame, just like Mars. Like falling into fuel.

But after killing the descendants of Cthulhu, Arthur felt extremely tortured in the process of leaving the city.

The gang that lost its leader completely lost order, and there was chaos within its sphere of influence.

The surviving gang members fight for power and fight everywhere, unorganized rogue criminals also take advantage of the looting, and even civilians who have lost their jobs and income are gradually involved.

The collapse of the order caused the city’s ports to lose manpower and caused a series of chain reactions. Businessmen who were anxious to get angry one after another blocked their doors and made trouble to seek compensation. A certain church that was involved in the interests of many powers also expressed dissatisfaction—though they Earlier, I took the opportunity to obtain a lot of money and believers by purifying the evil spirit’s heir spells.

Only the ruler of the city slightly affirmed the achievements of the paladin, but also urged them to leave quickly-the ruler has a lot of power on hand and it is not visible. The paladin’s existence makes him shrink and cannot control the city better.

Arthur could bear these reactions and rejections, but what made him feel torment was that even the sensible children in that city knew who had ruined their barely well-being lives, attacking the holy with stones and dung balls. Warriors.

But Arthur, who worked hard to stop the evil, could not find a way to improve the situation. He found that his existence and efforts would only make the city more chaotic.

Arthur, who stopped in the city, used the detection of evil against the ordinary people who looked at him with hatred. He looked at the red evil aura of different shades and remained silent–

Using a matching magical technique to wield a big sword, he can incinerate all targets identified as evil, but are these people with evil luster really evil?

Most people are the same as him before he became a paladin, but limited by knowledge, environment, identity, wealth, and power, there is no more choice…

There must be something wrong, and we should find a better way.

After escaping the city like a bereaved dog, Arthur, who had been thinking about it for a long time, failed to come up with any results. He found more paladins with more experience than him to ask for advice, but in addition to relying on faith and persistence, the old paladins also You can only teach some workarounds that do not violate the rules, and there is no way to solve the problem fundamentally.

Arthur prayed to the gods and talked about the doubts in his heart, but apart from honing his self-improvement and spreading his faith, he also failed to learn a solution to the plight of the paladin.

Therefore, Arthur, under a kind of secret guidance, turned his gaze to the sacred place of all the knowledge of the entire plane-Tallinn City, ready to go to this sacred city of knowledge to find answers to the questions in his heart.

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A pious paladin can rely on a powerful body that has undergone various trials to resist various negative states, including hunger and thirst.

In most areas, the young paladin Arthur, who is not to be seen in most areas, punishes the evil while walking alone. He has been penniless for a long time and can only occasionally obtain some fruits and prey in the wild to maintain his physical functions.

Thanks to the body that solidified various magical effects and the pure white magic armor with its own purification ability, after a long journey accompanied by hunger and thirst, Arthur, who approached the sacred place of knowledge, Tallinn, did not appear to be sluggish and dirty. He was still in good spirits. With a firm gaze and wearing a bright white armor, he did not drag down the image of a paladin.

A paladin who doesn’t know what knowledge he’s chasing, just walks along the road leading to Tallinn. The seemingly heavy but handy metal boots make a dull sound on the integrated, cement-like road. ring.

The pedestrians who heard the strange stepping around turned their heads and looked around. Then they recognized the Arthur profession and the armor pattern. Their expressions changed slightly and speeded up unconsciously. The young paladin appeared unconsciously. Circle unnaturally wide gaps.

As a result, Arthur did not show any negative emotions. He was accustomed to this scene, and he walked forward with a helpless smile on the corner of his mouth.

But not far from Tallinn, Arthur’s straight-up gaze suddenly moved to the side and stayed on a figure wearing a black weird long dress with a hood.

The super intuition praised by the various paladins predecessors made Arthur notice some anomalies in the figure. He calmly looked at the man in black and the beautiful pointed-eared woman walking next to him, silently. He completed a round of prayer in his heart, and activated the curing magic “Eye of True Sight” in his eyes.

Close to the vision of the gods, Arthur can see the brilliance of the elements and magic, and break all kinds of blind spells, and even see through the fog of time and space, and discover the truth hidden behind various things.

With a flower in his eyes, Arthur, whose pupils were shining with holy light, saw a huge crimson city wall-it was a part of a huge creature that was beyond imagination facing him.

It was a phantom that represented the essence of life of a man with silver hair and black clothes, a huge, hideous, and terrifying red dragon phantom with an abyss-like magical power.

Almost being retched by the huge magic power that blocked his senses, Arthur, with a cold sweat on his forehead, felt his throat dry. After swallowing, he slowly raised his hand and pinched the hilt of the big sword behind him. The body’s instinct trembles.

Arthur, who stood frozen in place, didn’t know whether he should pull out his weapon-it was a terrifying existence that had never been seen before, and was far stronger than the heir of the evil god. It was very likely that he was only one step away from the gods. Powerful demigod.

As the source of many disasters, the red dragon’s desire for destruction and destruction has made it a classic villain among the bard population. The story of its role as an evil character waiting to be conquered has been sung in many races for a long time.

If he draws out a weapon here to reveal the identity of the red dragon, Arthur does not know what will happen. He is not afraid to challenge the evil enemy, no matter how powerful its power, but if the battle really happens, there will be a large area around him. Of people will inevitably be affected.

But if the red dragon is allowed to go on, it will enter the densely populated city of knowledge.

Although there are many capable people and strangers hidden there, and the Church of the God of Knowledge has enough power, if this extremely strong red dragon launches an attack in the city, the immediate loss and casualties caused are incalculable.

“Even if it is the demigod Red Dragon, it won’t anger the God of Knowledge for no reason…” Arthur, who was hesitant in his heart, tried to convince himself, “My power is not enough to control the consequences of starting the battle. I can’t be here. To provoke it, I should speed up and notify the Church of the God of Knowledge…”

But just as Arthur slowly let go of the hand holding the hilt of the sword, he found that the handsome man in front of him with silver hair and black clothes had stopped, and slowly turned around and stared at him with his red eyes…

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“Paladin?” Cheng Bin, who had read some information from other pedestrian soul activities, stopped, turned his head and looked at the person who had been staring at him since just now.

He knew that the young paladin noticed that he was not accidental, but was deliberately arranged by some existence.

Why do you want to say that?

Cheng Bin raised his gaze slightly and looked at the upper back of the young man.

A peculiar life with a pair of white wide wings, surrounded by holy white light, is like a phantom behind the young man.

In Cheng Bin’s eyes, a translucent illusory humanoid angel appeared. No one else noticed. The woman in plain white robe looked at the young man with pity, and then raised her head to reveal a ray of light to Cheng Bin. Smile.

“I greet you on behalf of the source of light, please guide this young man…”

Hearing the melodious whisper like an illusion in his ear, and seeing the kind request in the angel’s eyes, Cheng Bin frowned and turned his eyes back to the young paladin who was holding the hilt again.

“Lacy,” Cheng Bin said to the elf who was looking curiously around him, “Let’s go to that city first. Anyway, you two are very interested in the things in the city.”

Lacey looked at the armored young man who was holding the sword hilt and staring here, and then at Cheng Bin, with a hesitant expression on her face, but the next moment she was caught by the slime girl Ivy in her body. He twisted his body forcibly, stepped forward and accelerated away.

Arthur’s face changed slightly when he saw the companion in black leaving-he could see that the Miri woman was like a monster and evil spirit dominating her hands and feet from her body, and her body movements of accelerating forward seemed stiff and unnatural. .

Without knowing that he had been caught in a scapegoat, Cheng Bin watched Ivey and Lacey leave, he turned and walked towards the vigilant Arthur.

“The real name of the paladin’s soul…then what the source of the light is really willing to pay for me in order to test me, this sincerity is not small.”