To some extent, the young man in black robe is not a human being in the simple sense.
His rank in the holy court is just a monk who is not even a priest, and even his special background determines that he will never be able to advance to a higher rank.
But anyone with a certain status in the holy court would know that the black-robed youth and the eleven other monks with the same status as him cannot be ignored simply by their rank.
Because the identity of these people is the "Holy Son".
They are the children who were searched by the Holy Court on the Western European continent, and they are born with a much stronger affinity for the Holy Light than ordinary people.
When they were just four or five-year-old children who didn't understand anything, they were taken away from their homes by paladins and sent to the Holy Capital, where they were raised in the Central Cathedral, almost being taught by the Pope himself.
The Holy Court will require these children to chant the names of the Holy Father, the Holy Son, and the Holy Spirit day and night with the standard of ascetic monks, cultivate the most devout faith in a completely closed environment, and accept the baptism of the Holy Light at all times.
After such a day after day, these children's Holy Light Affinity talent is stimulated to the extreme, and when they become adults, they will become a qualified "container".
What they need to load is the power of a certain "sacred relic" with powerful power that is far beyond what ordinary people can bear.
The Eastern Expedition launched by the Holy Court in the name of "Holy War" has been prepared by four generations of popes for more than 80 years. In addition to a powerful army, it has also prepared many "holy relics" collected from all over the world.
They may be the bones of a saint in history, or a drop of blood of a holy lord that has been preserved through special methods, or divine objects used at a major historical moment, and so on.
These things may be just a precious historical relic in the hands of ordinary people, but in the hands of the Sons, they will become powerful weapons.
The way they use the Holy Light is different for everyone, but without exception, as long as these Holy Sons appear on the battlefield, they are enough to determine the outcome of the battle on their own.
It's just a pity that there are very few people who are born with the affinity for the holy light, and the holy son who can raise enough to control the "holy relic" is even a minority among the few.
For more than thirty years, a cardinal has been in charge of this task.
His knights brought back more than two hundred children with affinity for the Holy Light from all over the world, but most of them were like saplings struggling to grow under the strong sunlight, weakened before reaching adulthood and die.
In the end, when the holy war came, there were only twelve of these special holy sons who could join the expeditionary army.
The Holy Court naturally cherishes such precious battlefield resources.
Especially when the Holy Son incarnates into the form of the "Holy Spirit", he will frantically consume the power of the Holy Light contained in the "Holy Relic", so it is even more difficult to use it.
If it weren't for the corpse control technique of the second young master of the Dong family, if it was put into the front line, it would be a huge trouble for the Holy Court's Eastern Expeditionary Army. If the annihilation ends, I'm afraid Ji Thrush and the others won't see the secret weapon of "Holy Son" at this time.
Now, the black-robed holy son who fought against Ji Thrush and Ren Jianmo was baptized as "Anthony", and the "holy relic" in charge was the coffin of a certain Pope who had been buried two hundred years ago.
Anthony was ranked ninth among the Twelve Holy Sons. Although he was not the strongest, he was definitely not weak either.
Long before inheriting his holy relics, Anthony, like the other eleven holy sons who have survived to the present, had already lost the emotions, emotions, joys, sorrows, and joys that belonged to normal people.
He is like a real "box" without heart and soul, and the value of physical existence is to replace the "holy relic" as the carrier of holy light in the secular world.
He is not afraid of death and knows no pain.
He will only be like a precise and cold machine, using all his rationality to think about how to complete the task assigned to him by the Holy Court.
So when Anthony suddenly felt a pulling force on his body, pulling him down, his first reaction was to flap his wings of holy light and fly high into the sky.
Yet he couldn't move at all.
The young man in black calmly lowered his head, and saw a long arrow piercing obliquely from his back. The tip pierced his shoulder and got stuck in his flesh. There was even a long rope tied to the end of the arrow. , the other end of the rope is tied to a tree.
Of course Anthony knew that among the enemies was a marksman who was good at using bows and arrows.
However, Ji Xiaoniao has used intangible electric arrows since the beginning of the battle until now.
Even the Holy Son will inevitably form a mindset, thinking that the opponent's fighting style is like this.
According to Ji Thrush's previous actual combat experience, tricks like these, which are mixed with fiction and reality, are always particularly effective when fighting against enemies who can think.
This time too.
Ji Xiaoniao changed positions one after another, shooting several arrows from various angles in a very short time, adding a real arrow at a suitable position, and tied a rope behind the arrow.
The black-robed youth has the body of the Holy Light, and Ji Thrush's electric arrows are often difficult to break through, so in order to hit at a critical moment, he no longer spares his "inventory" and concentrates most of the electric energy in his body on this one and only one On the solid arrow.
Sure enough, even Shengguang has a limit.
The arrow tip broke through Anthony's holy light barrier and plunged into his shoulder.
"Second Young Master Dong!"
Seeing that it was done, Ji Thrush immediately yelled loudly:
"Help me out!"
This trick of putting the arrow on the tether was used by Ji Thrush when fighting against the double-headed dragon in the "SCP Containment Battle".
It's just that at that time, he had truth-based SCP items that were beyond common sense, such as bundled dragonsuo, so he naturally wanted to be as coquettish as he wanted.
But it doesn't matter, even if there is no binding rope, there are still many very practical substitutes in "Taohuayuan", such as the outdoor climbing rope made of three strands of carbon steel fibers that he is now tied to the arrow.
All that remains to be done now is to drag the black-robed youth from the sky before he can break free from the arrow.
Sure enough, as soon as Ji Thrush finished shouting, the living corpses that had been besieging the paladins started moving quickly.
The second young master of the Dong family, who was hiding somewhere, commanded his zombie mercenaries to surround him, grabbed the rope tied to the tree with all his hands and feet, and pulled it violently like a tug-of-war.
Hearing a loud "boom", the shining golden "Holy Son" in the sky fell down like a shooting star, and fell firmly to the ground.
The fall was so hard that Ji Thrush untimely rang out an old Internet meme like "the angel with the face on the ground", and the corners of his lips couldn't help but curl up.
While smiling, Ji Xiaoniao drew up his long bow again and shot three arrows at the black-robed youth who had just hit the ground.
The impact of the landing was too great, and Anthony could no longer maintain the power of the holy light on his body, but his opponent knew well what "killing you while you are sick", so the electric arrow shot at this time accurately hit him.
Anthony twitched all over.
He won't feel pain or experience fear, but he can't resist the damage of electric current to his body.
In the next second, a figure rushed out like a gust of wind.
It was Ren Jianmo.
Although he doesn't want to admit it, but he has always been a maverick, only when he is fighting with Ji Thrush, he has realized the tacit understanding that does not need words every time.
The two of them didn't even say a word just now, but just looking at the eyes of the curly-haired kid, Ren Jianmo had guessed exactly what the other was thinking.
The moment the black-robed youth landed on the ground, he flew out, flipped his wrist, and "Wanwusheng" turned into two long swords, and he was in front of the enemy in an instant.
"puppet."
Ren Jianmo said two words coldly.
As he spoke, he raised the knife and slit Anthony's throat.
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Compared with the previous round, this time the battlefield can only be described by the four words "a mess".
The electrical energy stored in Ji Thrush's body was almost exhausted, and "Paji" fell on his back to the ground, gasping for breath from exhaustion, while taking out an "atomic power box" from the space ring and opening it to recharge himself.
— Alas, if only I could find a collectible that would provide unlimited energy.
Ji thrush thought of the cowhide water bag that Binglao carried with him, which could hold a reservoir of water, and it made him envious and jealous.
Until then, the second young master of the Dong family who had been hiding in the corner ran out with Uncle Zhong and Zhu Zi.
"Hey hey."
Although Dong Jing was still wearing a girl's culottes, he intentionally walked in the square steps of a martial artist, walking up to Ji Thrush like an old man, and wiped his nose, "Isn't this young master amazing?"
"awesome!"
Ji Thrush gave a thumbs up, then raised his hand and drew a circle:
"I still have to trouble the second young master of the Dong family to clean up."
Although the corpse control technique of the second young master of the Dong family is sharp, the fighting methods of the living corpses can be described as simple and rough. After some raging, more than a dozen paladins and their mounts were torn to pieces. The visual effect is really real. A little too spooky.
Dong Jing curled his lips reluctantly, but didn't say anything, he just made a hand gesture and ordered the zombie army to clean up the battlefield.
Ji Thrush turned over and sat up from the ground.
He habitually searched for the figure of his big beauty Ren, and soon saw Ren Jianmo walking towards the cart parked outside the battle circle.
"Yes!"
Ji Thrush immediately jumped up and quickly chased after him.
Now, the two horses pulling the cart are the only living creatures here besides Ji Thrush and his party, but their reaction is very calm, and they have been standing obediently in the same place, seeing strangers approaching. How much restlessness or resistance is shown.
Ji Thrush and Ren Jianmo walked to the cart together.
There were two boxes, one big and one small, on the cart.
The big one is the mouth that Ji Thrush thinks looks like a coffin, it is empty inside, only a layer of delicate red velvet cushions.
And the small box is about the same size as a large suitcase.
It was placed under the coffin and covered so tightly that it was impossible to see what was inside.