Chapter 17 Where to put the ring?
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This kind of person is called a hero or a fanatic.
And Lolanda the Fallen, is undoubtedly such a character.
Lolanda Glamorgan, one of the most gifted paladins in the nearly 1,000-year history of the Church of the Seven.
Born into a prominent aristocratic family in a kingdom in the Eastern Plains, he was sent to the church by his parents for refuge due to political struggles as a child, but he did not give up on his life after falling from the clouds to the mud, but gradually rose to prominence with his talent and hard work.
At first, as a junior priest, he was unknown and rarely appeared in front of everyone, but silently honed his strength, completed one task after another assigned by the church, and exercised his fighting skills like a young lion.
But Joshua knew that in three years, in the year 835 of Starfall, which was called the Year of Pioneering, Lolanda would go out of the Sacred Mountain of the Far Sea and carry out a cult crusade on the entire Mycrof continent, whether it was the Empire or the Far South, the Eastern Plains or the Western Mountains, and even the archipelago from the Bright Sea to the Stormy Ocean.
At that time, it was no longer the silent and determined priest who had appeared in front of everyone, but the paladin, armed with a crucid hammer and a square heavy shield, wearing pure white armor, burning with righteous fury, crushing all the evil people who dared to stand in his way with unstoppable force.
Players who were fortunate enough to fight with him all said that Lolanda was reliable, and under the surging enthusiasm of the paladin, the uninterrupted buff power spread to the team with the aura, and even wrapped the entire battlefield, and the enemy was struggling before he could make a move, while they were like a fish in water, as if they had divine help.
Because of the successful extermination of cults in various places, Lolanda's name spread all over the world because of many people who praised his exploits, and even some people who had been deeply harmed by cults suggested that the church should add the word "holy" to Lolanda's name before the saint that only the most outstanding priests of each generation can add, at that time, everyone thought that he would advance to the legend and become the next generation of popes, or the grand master of many knights of the church.
At this time, the new king of the kingdom where Lolanda was born even directly declared that his father, the previous king, had wronged the sentence of the paladin's parents, and he publicly apologized and immediately built a heroic monument for him.
But at this time, the battle-hardened Lolanda no longer cared about these things, he rejected the king's request to invite him to become a knight protector, but returned to the Sacred Mountain of the Far Sea, sorted out the harvest of these years, precipitated the anger in his heart, and tempered his soul in order to step into a higher realm.
From the silent and determined junior priest, to the paladin who was burning with rage to eradicate the cult, to finally the mundane Saint Lolanda, it took him less than ten years.
Even if it is a player, there is not much negative evaluation of Loranda, a priest with such a pure heart and few desires does not have any black spots, and Joshua at that time also admired the character of the paladin very much, who can stick to his heart for decades and not waver for fame and fortune, this is indeed a warrior worthy of respect.
However, things are not as rosy as everyone imagined.
Time passed, years passed, and just when everyone thought that Lolanda, who had already advanced to the extreme, should be preparing to attack the legendary realm, a news that surprised everyone appeared.
On the Holy Mountain of the Far Sea, the old Pope St. Eagle died unexpectedly, and the Holy Mountain unilaterally issued a notice after being closed for several days, announcing that the Solar Knight Lolanda had fallen, betrayed mankind, and launched an all-round wanted pursuit, and the former Paladin did not give any explanation, and he fled all the way to the kingdom where he was born and returned to the kingdom where he was born, before the grave of his parents.
With a sigh, the former paladin vanished, disappearing from the eyes of all who wanted to hunt him down.
Some people have said that they have seen Lolanda in the Abyss, a knight in the scarred gray paladin armor fighting a large group of demons on the Blood Plain, and others say that he saw in the depths of the shadow plane a powerful priest armed with a sunset hammer fighting several shadow demon dragons, but whether these things are true or not is not known.
After that, no one ever saw Lolanda again, and no one paid attention to it anymore.
Because the seal of the Abyss Gate was opened.
In any case, the legend has a not-so-legendary ending, the truth of history is hidden in the chaos of folklore, no one knows the true course of events, and the truth of Lolanda's fall has been sealed over time.
After all, what follows is the continuous war that makes people no longer have time to breathe, and Joshua, who knows the name of this world called [Continent of Discord], understands this better than anyone else.
Starting from the death of the old Pope St. Igor and the fall of the Solar Knight Lolanda, the era of the Abyss Invasion officially began.
Of course, now Lolanda has not fallen, and he has not even started his own adventure to exterminate the cult, but all the stages have been set up, the actors have all taken the stage one by one, the heroes draw their swords, and conspiracies are everywhere.
"I just remember that he was really good at fighting."
Ending his memory, Joshua's mind swirled with other thoughts: "Then again, what did he do back then to be declared depraved by the Church of the Seven?" β
In the previous life, almost no one knew the news of Lolanda's fall, and it was also a top secret among the top secrets in the upper echelons of the Church of the Seven Gods, and players could only rely on a few words to find out the secrets.
Some people speculate that Lolanda killed the old Pope, his adoptive father, but not to mention how a desperate paladin killed a legendary-level priest, everyone can't even find a reason for Lolanda to do it, as long as he can advance to the legend, then he will be the next pope immediately, and with Lolanda's qualifications, it is only a matter of time before he achieves a legend, and it is impossible to do such a stupid thing.
As for the other so-called black historical deeds, they were nothing more than being too cruel to the cultists, and they were not treated as human beings at allβbut in fact Joshua was more excessive than Lolanda's, and when he thought of this, the warrior couldn't help but recall the practices of the cultists in the villages in the remote areas, and he shook his head, feeling that the people who said they were murderous were really pretentious.
There were no memories of this in the warrior's memory, and at that time their entire team was cheering for the opening of the Abyss Dungeon, and not many people cared about it except for some admirers of Loranda.
There was no point in thinking about this kind of thing, and Joshua gave up thinking and turned his head to look at the old priest in front of him.
Since Atanis advanced to gold, his complexion has improved a lot, although the white hair on his head and the beard on his chin have not turned black, but just by looking at it, he can see that his hair has become tougher.
"Looks like you've got the key, too."
In the old priest's puzzled eyes, the warrior sighed.
In the endless strife on the Mycrof continent, only when you reach the gold level can you touch the door of the historical stage, and the power of glory is the key to the gate.
In Joshua's eyes, Atanis's body was flowing with a layer of holy brilliance that was different from the Holy Light, which was a certain power related to life, and there was no doubt that the old priest had already touched the edge of the power of glory before stabilizing his golden realm, but he didn't know it yet.
There is a huge gap between gold with the power of glory and gold without it, it is a gap that can hardly be crossed, only by mastering it can it be regarded as the first step in mastering one's own destiny, about this, the warrior does not intend to tell him, sometimes, it is better to take that step by himself.
After chatting with Atanis for a few words, Joshua continued to walk on the road back to the main city with Hotaru, Rin and No. 3.
The essence of the level advancement on the Continent of Discord is actually to gradually transform one's body and soul into extraordinary materials, and according to each person's preferences, the direction of advancement is different, for example, what Joshua is walking now is to strengthen in terms of pure strength.
In fact, because his body had killed too many Chaos Monsters, he had now reached an incredible level with the bonuses of the Azure Orb and Chaos Guardian classes, and ordinary golden peaks could not match him at all, or even completely break through his defenses.
The pinnacle of gold, the power of glory, Joshua took a deep breath, and after thinking about it, he finally got the ticket to the world stage now.
This step, it took five and a half years for the world number one in his previous life, and it took him nearly six years back then, because the world number one was a mage, and he was a warrior.
Of course, the Joshua of this life cannot be compared.
It took him 17 days to go from the silver level to the gold level, and it only took him almost half a year to go from the gold level to the gold peak.
And now, he is about to enter the realm of extreme will.
Killing intent fluctuation is the name that Joshua gave himself the power of glory, and its essence is actually to strip away a part of the souls of all the lives he killed, and then use the remains of these souls as fuel to release incredible destructive power.
This is not a rare ability, and there are many glorious powers that use soul power, so the old dwarf Moria will directly point out that Joshua is a soul burner, but Joshua is definitely the strongest soul burner ever.
Now the warrior's body, the depths of the soul abyss that contained the soul, were filled with black soul fragments, and his own soul hung high in the air, shining like the sun on these fragments, melting them little by little, transforming them into pure destructive power.
While thinking and walking all the way, Joshua returned to the Lord's Palace, and at this time, news from Nostradamus also came.
Like Atanis, he was reminding the warriors that one of the most powerful paladins of the Church of the Seven was coming to the Northlands, and Joshua did not pay any attention to such issues after expressing his gratitude.
Time passed, late April.
Looking south from the main city of Moldavia, you can see that the sky is crystal clear, with a layer of almost transparent white clouds floating on the blue canopy, and the golden sunlight shining down directly on the entire Ajax Mountains and the Black Forest is like a fairyland.
It was a rare good weather in the Northland, and all the farmers took the opportunity to carry out the second round of planting, and the plants were growing just right, especially this year, with the purification and fertility of the sun vine, it was definitely a good year.
And Rin's advancement was also completely completed after the god machine boy rested for a few days.
Got enough experience through the Book of Ebon, unlike Hotaru, Joshua didn't know if it was Rin's physical fitness that was naturally better, or because it was really because of an accident last time that caused him to fall asleep, this time Rin was advancing, and when Rin advanced, he only occasionally suddenly felt that he was short of energy, and other than that, there was no other special feeling at all.
Sitting at the steel-core wooden desk, Joshua listened to Rin stand by and report messages and reports to him.
"Master Moriath has now led a team from the dwarven gathering and will be visiting soon."
The black-haired boy looked down at the document, summarized the stalks, and then told Joshua one by one, and after reading it for a while, he was a little surprised: "Here is Miss Kleel's letter, which expresses her gratitude to your master, she said that she has now planted all the sun vines, and is waiting for when all the sun vines will be purified, and then she can return to the Far South...... There was also a small box inside, which seemed to have something. β
"Take it apart and take a look."
Hearing this, Joshua couldn't help but be a little curious: "Let's see what it is." β
"Okay."
Nodding, Rin simply took the box out of the envelope and opened it.
A ring appeared in front of the eyes of the master and servant.
"It turned out to be the Twin Snake Ring of Flame......"
Joshua, who had long forgotten that there was such a thing, picked up the women's ring in her hand, then shook her head and sighed, "Although it is indeed mine, what use do I want this thing to have...... Why don't you stay by yourself, you didn't plan to come back when you sent it out? β
Having said this, the warrior quickly made a decision.
"Hotaru, here you go."
After speaking, he handed the ring in his hand to Hotaru, who was sitting in the corner reading a book.
"Thank you host ......"
Hearing Joshua's words, Hotaru immediately put down the book and took the ring, but then she was also a little worried: "But master, I can't bring other equipment, as long as it is a god, all foreign equipment will be automatically discarded." β
(To be continued.) )