Uplifting Journey

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

That is the paladin who travels around, constantly punishing evil and killing demons, especially the paladins who believe in the god of justice and courage.

In the face of evil threats, the existence of paladins can always stabilize people's hearts. They are the strong shield standing at the forefront of the battle line, the sharp sword hanging over the devil's head, and the objects worthy of relying on.

But in daily life, except for the truly innocent in desperate situations, people always avoid paladins like snakes and scorpions, especially those with relatively young faces.

Because the inexperienced, young and reckless paladins are always unable to tolerate the existence of even a little bit of evil, they use the spell to identify the aura of the camp with one hand, and wield a big sword with the other hand to perform evil slaying, making everyone flee.

In this world, from the lowest commoner to the king at the top, who hasn't had evil thoughts? And how many people have never practiced it once?

Who didn't do some immoral things among the businessmen who lend money and control prices? Who didn't force out some tragedies among the tax collectors?

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

Under the magical magic of detecting good and evil, good and evil, and chaos, there are very few beings who can emit pure aura. If a paladin dares to use the magic of detecting evil in an ordinary town, he will definitely be killed. The dense red light spots blinded the eyes.

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 the sword in his hand.

But reality is not black and white.

The sacred flame can easily incinerate demons with powerful chaotic magic power like sparks thrown into fuel, but it cannot kill demons parasitic in human desires.

Rejected, hated, stabbed in the back by the person he just saved, even so, Arthur never wavered in his faith.

Not long ago, Arthur participated in an operation to hunt down the heir of the evil god. The cunning target seized the human skin of a gang leader, and began to use all kinds of evil methods to develop the power of the gang in his hands for blood and soul.

Gang leaders directly controlled by the heirs of evil gods, gang members indirectly controlled, family members involved in the members, other people living with gangs, and official forces that have transactions with gangs.

Even all the people within the sphere of influence of that gang have benefited from the various actions of the heirs of the evil god, forming an airtight network, making it difficult for Arthur and the paladins to investigate.

Officials always say that they are just, because without taxation, society cannot be maintained, and without transactions or compromise, city management cannot be stabilized.

The poor don't care about justice or evil, they only care about whether they can work and whether they can get money for their next meal.

The gang members are even more enthusiastic. The rules in the dark have always been like this. It is naturally good to lead them to a higher place and bring more benefits.

After the cunning target noticed the arrival of the paladin, he did not dare to escape from the exposure, and he worked hard to bind and coerce more forces and people into his chariot.

Fighting, sneak attacking, drugging, kidnapping threats, pretending to deceive, begging. All conceivable means have been used. A group of paladins who are harassed all the time even lost their lives in the begging of the miserable innkeeper. residence.

Everyone has their own reasons for maintaining the status quo and hindering the paladins, but the paladins can't point their swords at everyone.

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

Relying on silence and thick plate armor, the paladins squeezed away the supplicants all the way. Relying on magic and sharp eyes, they traced the evil atmosphere bit by bit in the labyrinthine city.

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

The power of the heirs of the evil gods is very strong, even in places like the main plane, where the elements are extremely inert, they can change the local celestial phenomena, and they are ready to completely destroy or even destroy half of the city.

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

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

Arthur's power is not much stronger than other paladins, but the holy flame ignited by devout beliefs is the nemesis of all evil. No matter how powerful the evil god's heir is, his chaotic magic power will be ignited by the holy flame, just like sparks Like falling into fuel oil.

But after killing the heir of the evil god, the process of leaving the city made Arthur feel extremely tormented.

The gang that has lost its leader has completely lost order, and there is chaos in its sphere of influence.

The remaining gang members fought for power and profit, and unorganized gangsters also took advantage of the chaos to plunder, and even civilians who lost their jobs and incomes were gradually involved.

The collapsed order caused the city's port to lose its manpower and caused a series of chain reactions. Businessmen who were anxious to get angry blocked their doors and made troubles seeking compensation. A certain church that had interests with many forces also expressed dissatisfaction—although they Previously, he took the opportunity to gain a lot of money and followers by purifying the evil god's heirs.

Only the ruler of the city affirmed the achievements of the paladins, but he also urged them to leave as soon as possible - the ruler has a lot of power at hand, which is also shameful, and the existence of the paladins makes him timid, unable to better control the city.

Arthur can bear all these reactions and rejections, but what makes him feel tormented is that even the newly sensible children in that urban area know who is destroying their barely better life, attacking the sanctuary with stones and dung balls. Samurai.

But Arthur, who was trying to stop the crime, could not find a way to make the situation better. He found that his existence and efforts would only make the city more chaotic.

Arthur, who stopped in the urban area, used Detect Evil on the ordinary crowd staring at him with hateful eyes. He watched the red evil auras of different shades one after another and remained silent——

Using the matched magic to swing the great sword, he can incinerate all the targets identified as evil, but are these evil people really evil?

Most people are the same as him before he became a paladin, only limited by knowledge, environment, identity, wealth, and power, and have no more choices.

Something must be wrong, we should look for a better way.

After escaping from the city like a bereaved dog, Arthur, who had been thinking for a long time, failed to come up with any results. He found more experienced paladins for advice, but in addition to relying on faith, the old paladins also It 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 expressed the doubts in his heart, but apart from sharpening his self-improvement and spreading faith, he also failed to learn the solution to the plight of the paladins.

So, under a kind of secret guidance, Arthur set his sights on Tallinn City, the holy place that gathers all the knowledge of the entire plane, and prepared to go to this holy city of knowledge to find the answers to the questions in his heart.

A devout paladin can rely on a strong body that has undergone all kinds of tempering to resist various negative states, including hunger and thirst.

The young paladin Arthur, who is not popular in most areas, travels alone while punishing evil. Being penniless for a long time, he can only occasionally obtain some fruits and prey in the wild to maintain his body functions.

Thanks to his body solidified with multiple magical effects and the pure white magic armor with its own purification ability, after a long journey accompanied by hunger and thirst, Arthur, who was approaching the holy land of knowledge, Tallinn City, did not look sluggish and dirty, and he was still in good spirits His gaze was firm, and he, who was wearing bright white armor, did not drag down the image of a paladin.

The paladin, who didn't know what kind of knowledge he was chasing, just walked on the road leading to Tallinn City step by step. The seemingly heavy but flexible metal boots made a muffled sound when they stepped on the seamless, cement-like road. ring.

Pedestrians who heard strange footsteps around turned their heads and looked over. After recognizing Arthur's profession and armor pattern logo, they all changed their faces slightly and unconsciously speeded up. Unknowingly, a crowd appeared around the young paladin. Circle unnaturally wide voids.

Arthur didn't show the slightest negative emotion because of this, he was already used to this scene, with a helpless smile at the corner of his mouth, he walked forward on his own.

But not far from the city of Tallinn, Arthur, who was looking straight ahead with his head upright, suddenly moved to the side, and stopped on a figure in a strange black long coat with a hood.

The super intuition praised by various senior paladins made Arthur aware of some abnormalities in that figure. After quietly looking at the man in black and the beautiful sharp-eared woman walking side by side, he silently He completed a round of prayer in his heart, and activated the solidified magic "Eye of True Sight" in his eyes.

Close to the vision of the gods, Arthur can see the brilliance of 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.

Arthur, whose pupils were shining with holy light, blinked, and saw a huge crimson city wall—it was a part of an unimaginably huge creature facing him sideways.

It was a phantom representing the life essence of the silver-haired man in black, a huge, ferocious, terrifying red dragon phantom with magical power like an abyss.

Arthur was almost retched by the huge magic power that blocked his senses, and Arthur felt his throat dry with cold sweat streaming down his forehead. After swallowing, he slowly raised his hand, and squeezed the hilt of the big sword behind his back to stop it. The body trembled instinctively.

Arthur, who froze in place, didn't know whether he should pull out his weapon—it was a terrifying existence that had never been seen before, far stronger than the heir of the evil god, and 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 makes it a classic villain in the bard population. The story of it as an evil character waiting to be crusaded has been sung for a long time among many races.

Arthur doesn't know what will happen if he pulls out his weapon here to identify the red dragon. He is not afraid to challenge the evil enemy, no matter how powerful it is, but if the battle really happens, the surrounding area will be destroyed. people will inevitably be affected.

But if the red dragon is allowed to continue walking, it will enter the densely populated holy city of knowledge.

Although there are many capable people and strangers hidden there, and the Church of the God of Knowledge is powerful enough, if this unusually strong red dragon launches an attack in the city, the immediate losses and casualties it will cause are immeasurable.

"Even if it's a demigod red dragon, it won't offend the God of Knowledge for no reason." Arthur, hesitating in his heart, tried to convince himself, "My strength is not enough to control the consequences of starting a war, so I can't provoke it here , I should speed up and notify the Church of the God of Knowledge first.”

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

"Paladin?" Cheng Bin, who had read some information from other passers-by's soul activities, stopped and turned his head to look at the person who had been staring at him since just now.

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

Why do you say that?

Cheng Bin raised his eyes slightly, and looked at the young man's upper back.

A strange life with a pair of white broad wings, surrounded by holy white light, appeared behind the young man like a phantom.

In Cheng Bin's eyes, a translucent illusory human-shaped angel appeared, which was not noticed by anyone else. The female angel in a plain white robe looked at the young man with pity, then raised her head and revealed a ray of light towards Cheng Bin. Smile.

"I greet you on behalf of the source of the holy light, please guide this young man."

Hearing the melodious whisper in his ears as if hallucinating, and seeing the kind request in the angel's eyes, Cheng Bin frowned, and turned his gaze back to the young paladin who was holding the sword hilt again.

"Lacey," Cheng Bin said to the elf who was looking curiously at him, "Go to that city first, anyway, you two are very interested in the things in the city."

Lacey looked at the young man in armor holding his sword hilt and staring at him, and then at Cheng Bin, with a hesitant look on his face, but the next moment she was caught by the slime mother Aiwei in her body. Forcibly twisting his body, he stepped forward and accelerated away.

Arthur's face changed slightly when he saw the man in black leave - he could tell that the Misato woman seemed to be controlled by some monster or evil spirit from her body, and her body movements were stiff and unnatural as she accelerated forward. .

Cheng Bin, who had no idea that he had been blamed, watched Ivy leave with Lacey, then turned and walked towards the vigilant Arthur.

"The real name of this paladin's soul, the source of the holy light, is really willing to spend money in order to test me. This sincerity is not small."

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