Chapter 41: The Holy Avenger

There are many pedestrians coming and going in the town.

The city in the desert is called Hadar, which seems to mean 'the watchman in the desert'. This is an ancient oriental language, and it is estimated that many knowledgeable wizards do not understand it well. Walking in here gave Sauron a feeling of returning to the Western Regions in the Middle Ages. The mixed population was a bit like Jerusalem, with both desert and Western races, and they were trading with different accents. Eastern merchants are somewhat reluctant to enter the western continent, so many goods will be sold in cities on the edge of the desert.

When he came here, Sauron realized that he had forgotten a very important thing.

That is to learn the spell of 'knowing the language'.

Damn dialect!

Although there are many people here who master the common language, the mainstream language is still the oriental language, and it also has the dialect characteristics of the desert area. Now he doesn't have a language translation system, he can only understand a lot of words, and normal communication is more troublesome. Fortunately, he was just passing by here, and if he couldn't do it, he could only talk to a businessman who knew the common language.

The buildings in the city are the kind of dome-built group, and the most eye-catching one should be the desert temple.

That is the Church of Death.

The priesthood of death has always been an important field for the gods to compete for, so almost every pantheon has gods involved in the field of death. The desert temple in front of me is the church of Nephthys, the "Goddess of Wealth and Death" of the Eastern pantheon. Sauron saw the symbol of the ring of life floating on a golden bowl at the top of the temple church. This is a goddess of the chaotic and good camp. The priesthood extended from the realm of death is 'the patron saint of the dead', which also protects the dead. The kind of priesthood that is not disturbed.

Therefore, it is not difficult to deal with followers of this goddess.

The Eastern gods are outsiders from the ancient empire period. No one can determine where they came from, but the ancient empire once plundered a large number of people from other worlds. Then the Eastern Desert God System was born in this way. For a long time, the eastern desert gods have rarely intervened in the struggles of other gods. Even in the chaotic era of the Arcane Empire, they were just bystanders. The belief of these gods is limited to the desert area, and the eastern country is a blind spot for the belief of the gods.

Because of the influence of monks, Eastern countries tend to believe in 'nature' [Tao] rather than a specific god.

This Tao is a bit like the so-called 'Day of Heaven'.

But it is different from the way of heaven that people know. It is a way that is more inclined to spirituality, and the pursuit of monks is the sublimation of individuals.

If you have to use one word to describe it.

Sauron thought it should be the so-called—'Heaven and man are one! '

Anyway, so far he has no way to distinguish the difference between the spiritual transcendence pursued by the 'natural druid' and the 'monk'. In his opinion, 'the way of heaven' and 'nature' are basically the same thing, and Sauron is not the kind of person who is too rigid in the spiritual world.

There is a passage that goes like this.

It was a book written by a druid wanderer who traveled to the eastern country. The druid finally became a part-time monk and became a very powerful legendary powerhouse.

——"In addition to daily training, the practice of monks is mainly spiritual. They have a direct and mysterious connection with the spiritual world, and feel the mysteries of nature through meditation, so they do not need priests and gods. Traveling in the East In the process. I met many powerful monks. They don't know any spells at all, but they can master many magical abilities through practice. This ability does not come from the gods, nor is it any kind of arcane that I know. It is more like a gift of nature to practitioners.

I think this is another way of nature.

So I decided to join them. Find the mysteries deep in nature with the practice of monks. "

………………

Sauron temporarily found a hotel to live in, and then he was going to inquire about the news.

It is quite difficult to find a certain place in the vast desert, even he himself only knows the general direction, if no one has explored there. As the forerunner, Sauron may still need to dig a hole to go in. Because his next target, the 'anti-detection cloak', is in the underground ruins, and it's still buried deep in the desert. Exploring such subterranean ruins is not like finding a random dungeon cave to venture into. It's more like an archaeological excavation discovery.

The specific operation can refer to the excavation of the Egyptian pyramids by European predators. The first batch of underground ruins that were opened up in the past were almost all passages that adventurers paid to hire people to dig.

The geographical environment of the desert does not allow for thousands of years to leave an entrance for the latecomers.

Sauron wanders in this desert city, where you can see adventurers from the east, and monks embark on a journey of practice every year. Visiting the Druid church on the other side of the mainland and learning from other professionals are their daily practice. As long as the number of monks is close to the east, the number of monks will increase, but most of the monks still grow hair. Only those who are prepared to strictly abide by the monk's precepts, or those who have made the [Poverty Vow] will shave their hair off.

"Violence."

"If it's not for justice, then it's meaningless!"

Sauron first turned around here, but when he was about to go back to the hotel to rest, there was a commotion in front of him, and then a loud and hoarse voice came from the front, which made him stop his footsteps involuntarily. A lot of people gathered in front of them. It seems that people like to watch the excitement. There are many people surrounded by three floors in front of them. Even the nearby guards were attracted, but they didn't intend to stop them, and the expressions on their faces seemed a little bewildered.

Sauron also walked over quietly.

Immediately, a paladin with a vicissitudes of life appeared in front of his eyes. From his face, he looked very young, but unfortunately, the wind and frost on his body was too heavy, making him look at least ten years older. This paladin was wearing worn-out silver armor with fish-scale gauntlets on his wrists. In front of him was a man dressed as a desert warrior. He held the scimitar in his hand like this, and he couldn't stab it even if he wanted to. If you want to pull it out, you can't pull it out at all.

The paladin's face made Sauron slightly stunned, and then he seemed to remember something, and his expression couldn't help changing slightly.

——"Justice trial!"

Facing the panicked desert warrior in front of him, a white light appeared in the paladin's palm. He suddenly let go of his palm, pulled out the two-handed epee from his waist, and pointed it at the enemy in front of him.

A blood-red light emerged.

An aura representing evil emerges from the man standing before the paladin.

This blood-red aura startled everyone else, and anyone with a bit of knowledge couldn't help backing away, because the desert warrior in front of him looked like a man with bloody hands.

"It's Sand Bandit! He belongs to Skeleton Sand Bandit!"

A businessman next to him seemed to remember something, and then said in an angry and frightened voice: "They ransacked the passing businessmen, and never left anyone alive."

A paladin doesn't care about other people around him.

He stared at the man in front of him, and said in a low voice: "A week ago, you attacked a caravan from Oasis City and killed 27 innocent people."

"You should pay for the crimes you committed!"

The paladin held the heavy giant sword in both hands and slashed out. The desert warrior in front of him waved his sword in a rather embarrassing way to block it, but the whole person flew out directly.

boom!

His body hit the wall behind him, and he couldn't help but spit out a trace of blood.

"justice!"

"By force or by law."

The paladin swung his giant sword again and said in a low voice, "But the law here seems to cover you, so I can only rely on force to uphold justice!"

A faint aura appeared on the two-handed giant sword he was holding, when the paladin swung the sword again.

Click!

There was a crisp cracking sound.

The Sand Bandit in front of him was directly cut off with his scimitar, and was instantly killed by his sword.

——"Breaking evil and slashing!"

The paladin glanced at the others, paused for a moment as he passed Sauron, but quickly looked away.

He didn't recognize Sauron.

He came to the corpse of Sand Bandit, leaned over the corpse and whispered a few words in a special language, then glanced at the guards with stiff expressions around him, picked up the corpse with one hand and walked out of the city.

The others didn't understand what he just said.

However, Sauron couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the strange language, because he was very familiar with this passage.

This is very old language.

Even where it came from can no longer be studied, but the translation roughly means this.

——"In the name of justice, avenge the weak!"

………………

In the paladin's creed, there is a very important sentence.

——"sympathize with the weak and protect women and children."

I'm afraid that even Sauron himself didn't expect that his words actually made the young paladin he met in the City of Fortune embark on the path of becoming a 'Holy Avenger'.

However, it seems that he has not completed his test, because the real Holy Avenger is not what Sauron sees now. But from him, Sauron has seen that he has completed a lot of practice, because the holy avenger also has the test of [ascetic practice]. The truly formed holy avengers are all close to the legendary level of strength. Although the sword he swung just now is very powerful, it is still far from the avenger in Sauron's memory.

And his weapon is not an imitation 'Holy Avenger', but an ordinary two-handed giant sword.

This means that he has not yet obtained the real qualifications!

The paladin left alone.

No one dared to stop him. The city guards just looked at the corpse of the sand robber held by the paladin with livid faces, and then sent him away from here.

Every city has dark corners.

The goods looted by desert bandits still need a place to get rid of them.

Sauron watched the leaving figure of the paladin, his eyes seemed to move a little, and then quietly followed.

……………(to be continued ~^~)