Chapter Twenty-Three: The Paladin's Choice
Joshua, who is being intrigued, is now watching Robzek's dreams. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It was a desolate and rotten land.
A thick yellow-green fog filled the gloomy air, and the ground was like a swamp, full of dark green mud, and around the mud, there were many withered and corroded tree remains, and countless twisted and terrifying chaos creatures roamed in such an environment.
This is the Plague Lands, these are the families of the Plague Gods, they are all in different forms, but none of them have the form of normal creatures, even the most normal Chaos creatures, they are like a mass of flesh made of countless internal organs and cysts, their bodies are covered with waving tentacles and knots, and they are swaying with a viscous rancid liquid.
And there is a team, in such an environment, constantly slaying these disgusting and disgusting monsters.
The holy light flickered, and the giant hammer that slashed through the atmosphere like a meteor sturdily blasted a Chaos monster into a ball of flesh, and then was burned into a cloud of black smoke, and under the leadership of the leader, this powerful team of young paladins was sweeping away all the chaos monsters around it with a thunderous force.
And Joshua was not surprised to find that the leader was obviously Robzek when he was young.
At this time, Robzek was still a little confused, although he was still slaying the Chaos Monster neatly, he could probably see that this powerful paladin was a little absent-minded, he may be wondering why he came to the Plague Lands, and why his strength returned to the Golden Level.
But the priority was not to think about these things, but to slay the evil completely, and the fighting skills he had cultivated over the years were perfectly put to good use by Robzek, who wielded a giant hammer and easily killed several powerful Chaos monsters, and the Holy Light scorched the juice from these monsters, and did not drench any of them.
The battle was coming to an end, and it was a perfect crusade, with not a single knight injured and all the monsters killed.
But if you don't check it for a while, a certain young paladin seems to have been exposed to this liquid because the holy light is not strong enough to purify the monster's thick juice in time.
The thick juice on most monsters is actually harmless, just ordinary body fluids. At most, it was just a disgusting stench, but this time the thick juice was different, it contained an incomparably evil chaotic power, and in just a few minutes, the young paladin who had won the lottery showed signs of lesions all over his body, and translucent tumors bulged on the surface of his body, in which a thick reddish-brown mucus flowed, making a drumming sound.
The paladin, who was only in his twenties at most, endured the pain with extraordinary willpower, and then used all his strength to stabilize the spread of the lesion on his body with holy light and divine magic, and then, in a voice that had become hoarse from intense pain, he prayed to his companions around him, "...... Save me, Captain Robzek, I don't want to die yet, my mother is still waiting for me......"
-- There's no help.
With just a glance, Joshua could see that the paladin in front of him had been impregnated with the power of chaos, if it wasn't for the plague land, it would be possible to suppress the evil disease, but they were in the home field of the chaos force, and the evil disease had a steady stream of power support, which could basically sentence this young man to death.
Robzek could see this, too, and he knew something even more terrifying - if the paladin's body was not quickly 'purified', then there was a good chance that other paladins would also be infected by contact, and the young man's body would transform into the next Chaos Monster.
The power of Chaos was so strange that it was difficult for them to guard against, and in order to get the corrupted paladin out, they would definitely have to touch each other's bodies, which was too risky.
"Give it a try! Ollie is still saved! ”
"Yes, we are not far from the stronghold, as long as we quickly teleport back to the Great Temple, Olita will definitely recover!"
The other paladins around him were begging Robzek's men to show mercy, believing that they would be able to stabilize their friend's condition, so that when they returned to the Grand Temple, the church hierarchy would be able to cure the disease once and for all, and although it would leave a little root of the disease, at least the knight would not need to be burned by the light to the point of no bones.
But the silver-haired paladin didn't hesitate.
"A pleasure."
Speaking softly, ignoring all the young knights' requests, Robzek simply twisted the other man's neck neatly in the stunned expression of the young paladin named Ollie.
"That's the only thing I can do for you, and that's all I can do."
The paladin, who had lit a blazing flame in his hand and remembered everything, whispered to himself, "I'm sorry, little Ollie, your mother would be very sad indeed. ”
"So, I can't grieve the other sixteen mothers."
Although he was apologizing, there was not the slightest apology in Robzek's tone, his hand that burned the young paladin to ashes did not even tremble in the slightest, and the paladin's expression and will were extremely firm: "I have already experienced despair, because of a moment of tolerance, soft-heartedness, carelessness and luck, none of the seventeen young paladins present returned to the temple alive, and I was only lucky enough to teleport back to the Grand Temple during my near-death experience and was healed by the Pope." ”
"It was the most regrettable mistake I remembered for twenty-five years, tossing and turning every night and not being able to sleep for a long time."
The companions around him, one by one, died because of the chaos plague, and he was in despair and pain, but he had to take the remaining people to keep solving the chaos monsters that attacked him, but even after countless hard battles, he was still alone in the end, and he was extremely lucky to survive.
This kind of thing, once in a lifetime is enough.
"So, rest in peace, at least this time, your companions won't die from it."
He said this, but the young paladins around him did not feel that they had been saved, and one by one they raised their swords angrily and aimed them at Robzek, their eyes full of irrepressible anger.
"Sure enough, it's a dream, a true paladin should face the pain of sacrifice, and the loss of his companion is sad, but it's not an excuse to vent his anger, let alone aim his weapon at his companion."
Looking around at these young knights, Robzek said lightly, feeling the hatred and anger in those eyes, his tone did not waver in the slightest: "You should have come to relieve your companions, but now I have done it for you...... Although it is a dream, let me teach you now what it means to respect your elders. ”
"First of all, the first point, don't take the initiative to raise your sword against your elders."
-- Well done.
Seeing this, Joshua nodded, Robzek is indeed very likely to be able to take the initiative to clear this trial by himself without the help of others, however, those young paladins are obviously the test created by the mist of divine doom, their strength is definitely different from the real paladin, if Robzek is not careful, it is very likely that the ship will capsize again.
"That's pretty much it, and the characteristics of this mist have been figured out."
Next, even if he accidentally fell into a dream, Joshua was confident that he could clear the level quickly, and he turned his head to look in the direction of the black mist on the other side: "Next, it is to go to the Mage Guild and get rid of the box of Erebos." ”
Making a decision, the next step is action, the warrior's gaze seems to be able to penetrate the surrounding black fog, quickly find the range, and then, he walks towards the gate of the Royal Mage Guild.
Along the way, the black fog gradually churned, no longer as calm as before, Joshua's behavior of throwing Moore and Robzek out obviously angered this mist of divine misfortune, but after all, the two did not leave the dream, plus the divinity of the warrior, so it did not take the initiative to attack.
The whole body of the Mage Association is composed of special spell clay and cement, so he is not afraid of the corrosiveness of the black mist, and there is not even a trace of erosion on the entire building, after entering the Mage Association, Joshua found that the concentration of the black fog is another layer higher, and a dull pressure comes, he is keenly aware that the black fog is a little closer to him, and the diameter of the transparent cover on the side of the warrior was about five meters in diameter, but now it is only four and a half meters.
"The closer you get to the body of the god's seal, the higher the concentration of the fog will be, and the repulsion of my divinity will be canceled out."
It was easy to understand, and Joshua didn't stop because of this kind of thing, following the path that Brandon and Nostradamus had taken him before, and he quickly passed through the halls and corridors shrouded in black fog, and entered the spiral staircase that led to the underground laboratory.
Along the way, the black mist surged, and in an eerie silence, only the footsteps of warriors echoed in the empty corridors, and Joshua listened intently, but did not hear the breathing of the creatures around him, and there was no sign of other life fires burning in his vision.
It seems that almost everyone in the Mage Guild has escaped, except for the group closest to the box of Erebos in Underground Lab 2.
On this way, there was nothing to say, because of the protection of spells, all the important things in the Royal Mage Guild were not corroded by the black mist, only some scattered documents and warriors turned into powder and mud, and after a while, Joshua came to the door of the second underground laboratory of the Royal Mage Guild.
At this time, the shield around the warrior was already less than half a meter, and the thick black mist was already surging like liquid ink, like a tide, if it weren't for Joshua's ability to judge the range and the surrounding environment through his mental eye, he wouldn't be able to see the direction clearly at all, and naturally it would be impossible to find the target.
"Looks like this is it."
Muttering to himself, the warrior walked straight in.
In the door, there were seven faint flames of life flickering, it was obvious that they were the seven mages who studied the box of Erebos, their life flames were so weak that they seemed to be dying at any moment, and they were only kept alive by a few flickering runes, which Joshua could faintly perceive. Except for one old mage, the other mages had painful expressions, as if they were being tortured in a dream, and the probability of passing the trial was very low, and the old mage should be the Hasselblad in the mouth of Nostradamus, who seemed to be similar to Robzek, and had found a solution to the dream trial.
And in the center of the entire research room, there is a huge shield made of white crystal, and there is a trace of small cracks on this shield, and endless black mist is from this small crack, like an undersea volcanic eruption.
There is no doubt that the center of the shield is the source of this incident, the box of Erebos, but Joshua is too lazy to pay attention to him now, the purpose of the warriors entering the black fog is to save people first, at least to ensure that these mages do not die in the corrosive mist.
He can solve the matter of the Divine Mist at any time, but he doesn't know how long it will take, and any of these seven mages, if he dies while he is solving the matter, it will be a trouble, so Joshua walked towards these seven people, preparing to take them away first and throw them out of the mist.
But just halfway through, the warrior stopped.
He turned his head and looked in the direction where the white crystal cover was, Joshua narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice, "With such a faint divinity, it can still condense consciousness?" ”
"Worthy of ...... The god of luck can also have such good fortune even when he has fallen. ”
Just when the fighters were talking to themselves.
A large, muscular, double-headed black shadow loomed into the white crystal shroud.