In this world, people with incredible talents occasionally appear. They make incredible efforts, have incredible strength, and then achieve incredible achievements, and finally leave their own mark in history. name.
Such people are called heroes or fanatics.
And Loranda the Fallen is undoubtedly such a person.
Loranda Glamorgan is one of the most talented paladins in the nearly thousand-year history of the Church of the Seven Gods.
He was born into a prominent aristocratic family in a kingdom in the Eastern Plains. When he was young, his parents sent him to the church for refuge due to political struggles. However, when he fell from the clouds into the mud, he did not give up on his life, but relied on himself. His talent and hard work gradually come to the fore.
At first, as a junior priest, he was unknown and rarely appeared in front of everyone. Instead, he silently tempered his strength and completed the tasks assigned by the church. He was like a young lion, training himself to fight. Skill.
But Joshua knew that three years later, in the year 835, which was called the Year of Pioneering, Loranda would walk out of the Holy Mountain in the Far Sea and carry out a crusade against cults throughout the entire Mycrof continent, whether it was the empire or the Far South. Be it the eastern plains or the western mountains, or even the islands on the Brilliant Sea to the Tempest Ocean, he has been seen fighting bravely.
At that time, the person who appeared in front of everyone was no longer the silent and determined priest before. Instead, he was holding a cross hammer and a square heavy shield, wearing a pure white armor, burning with righteous anger, and fighting with helplessness. The force of obstruction crushes any paladin who dares to stand in the way of the evil ones in front of him.
Players who were lucky enough to have fought with him all said that Loranda was reliable. Under the surging enthusiasm of the Paladin, the uninterrupted gain power spread to the team with the aura, and even enveloped the entire battlefield. The enemy had not even taken action. It was difficult for them to make progress, but they were like a fish in water, seemingly with divine help.
Because of the successful eradication of cults in various places, Loranda's name has spread all over the world due to many people praising his achievements. Some people who have been harmed by cults even suggested that the church should honor Loranda's name. Coupled with the word "holy" that only the most outstanding clergy of each generation can add, at that time, everyone thought that he would advance to legend and become the next generation of pope, or the grand leader of many knights of the church. .
At this time, the new king of the kingdom where Loranda was born even directly announced that his father, that is, the previous king's verdict on the paladin's parents was wrong. He publicly apologized and immediately built a hero monument for him.
But at this time, Loranda, who had experienced many battles, no longer cared about these things. He rejected the king's request to invite him to become a knight to protect the country. Instead, he returned to the Holy Mountain in the distant sea to sort out the gains over the years and express the anger in his heart. Precipitate and temper your soul in order to enter a higher realm.
It only took him less than ten years to go from the silent and determined junior priest, to the paladin who was burning with rage to eradicate the cult, and finally to the indifferent and worldly Saint Loranda.
Even players didn't have much negative comments about Loranda. Such a stoic priest didn't have any black spots. At that time, Joshua also admired characters like the Paladin very much, who could continue to fight for decades. Sticking to one's heart and not being shaken by fame and wealth is indeed a warrior worthy of respect.
However, the development of things was not as beautiful as everyone imagined.
Time passed, and several years passed. Just when everyone felt that Loranda, who had already advanced to the ultimate level, was preparing to hit the legendary realm, a piece of news that exceeded everyone's expectations appeared.
On the Holy Mountain in the distant sea, the old Pope Saint Igor died unexpectedly. After being closed for several days, the Holy Mountain unilaterally issued a notice announcing that the Solar Knight Loranda had fallen and betrayed mankind, and launched a comprehensive wanted manhunt. The former paladin did not give any explanation. With some wrinkles already appearing on his face, he fled all the way back to the kingdom of his birth and the graves of his parents.
After leaving a sigh, the former paladin disappeared, disappearing from the eyes of all those who wanted to hunt him down.
Some people have said that they have seen the figure of Loranda in the abyss, a knight wearing a gray paladin armor full of scars, who is fighting a large group of demons on the Blood Sea Plain. Others say that he is in the shadow plane. In the depths of the cave, he saw powerful priests holding sunset war hammers dealing with several shadow dragons, but no one knew whether these things were true.
After that, no one saw Loranda again, and no one paid attention to this matter.
Because the seal of the Gate of the Abyss has been opened.
In any case, this legendary figure had a less-than-legendary end. The historical truth was hidden in the turmoil of folklore. No one knew the true story of the incident, and the truth about Loranda's fall also changed with time. The passage was covered in dust.
After all, what follows is a series of wars that leave no time to breathe. As Joshua, who knows the name of this world called "Conflict Continent", he understands this better than anyone else.
Starting from the death of the old Pope Saint Igor and the fall of the Solar Knight Loranda, the era of abyssal invasion has officially begun.
Of course, today's Loranda has not yet fallen, and he has not even started his own adventure to destroy the cult, but all the stages have been set, the actors have come on stage one by one, the hero has drawn his sword, and conspiracies are everywhere.
"I remember that he was really good at playing."
After finishing his recollection, Joshua had other thoughts running through his mind: "Then again, what exactly did he do back then to be declared corrupt by the Church of the Seven Gods?"
Not many people know the news about Loranda's fall in her previous life. Among the top leaders of the Church of the Seven Gods, it is also a top secret among the top secrets. Players can only rely on a few words to explore the secrets.
Some people speculated that Loranda killed the old pope, his adoptive father, but let alone how an extremely willing paladin killed a legendary cleric, no one could even find a reason for Loranda to do it. , as long as he can advance to legend, he will immediately be the next pope, and with Loranda's qualifications, it is only a matter of time before he becomes a legend, and it is impossible for him to do such a stupid thing.
As for the other so-called black history deeds, they were nothing more than being too cruel to the cultists and not treating them as human beings at all - but in fact, what Joshua did at first was even more excessive than Rolanda. Thinking of this, the soldier couldn't help but feel Recalling the deeds of those cultists in remote villages, he shook his head, feeling that those people who said they were cruel were really hypocritical.
In fact, there are not many memories related to Loranda in the warrior's memory. At that time, their entire team was cheering for the opening of the Abyss dungeon. Except for some paladin admirers, not many people cared about this matter.
Forget it, there is no point in thinking about this kind of thing. Joshua gave up thinking and turned to look at the old priest in front of him.
Ever since Artanis advanced to gold, the complexion on his face has improved a lot. Although the white hair on his head and the beard on his chin have not turned black, you can tell that the hair has become tougher just by looking at it with the naked eye.
"It seems that you also got the key."
In the doubtful eyes of the old priest, the soldier sighed with emotion.
In the endless disputes on the Mycroft continent, only by reaching the gold level can one be considered to have touched the door to the historical stage, and the power of glory is the key to the door.
In Joshua's eyes, Artanis's body was filled with a layer of holy radiance that was different from the holy light. It was some kind of power related to life. There was no doubt that the experienced old priest was trying to stabilize his golden realm. , has already touched the edge of the power of glory, but he doesn'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 is almost impossible to cross. Only by mastering it can it be regarded as the first step to control your own destiny. Regarding this, The soldier was not going to tell him that sometimes, it was better to take that step himself.
After chatting with Artanis for a few words, Joshua continued to take Hotaru, Rin and No. 3 on the road back to the main city.
The essence of level advancement on the Continent of Disputes is actually to gradually convert one's body and soul into extraordinary materials. According to everyone's preference, the direction of advancement is different. For example, what Joshua is taking now is Strengthened in terms of pure strength.
In fact, because he has killed too many chaos monsters, his body has now reached an incredible level with the addition of the Azure Orb and the Chaos Guardian profession. The average golden peak cannot compete with him at all. There was no way to completely break through his defense.
The golden pinnacle, the power of glory, Joshua took a deep breath, and thinking about it carefully, he finally got the ticket to the world stage.
This step took the world's number one in his previous life five and a half years, but it took him nearly six years. This was because the world's number one was a mage, and he was a warrior.
Of course, Joshua in 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 ultimate intention.
The fluctuation of killing intent is the name that Joshua gave to his power of glory. Its essence is to strip off part of the soul 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. There are many people who use the power of glory to use soul power. That’s why the old dwarf Moria directly pointed out that Joshua is a soul burner. However, Joshua is definitely the strongest soul burner in history. By.
Now in the warrior's body, the depths of the soul abyss that accommodate the soul are full of black soul fragments, and his own soul is hanging high in the sky, shining on these fragments like the sun, melting them bit by bit. Transformed into a force of pure destruction.
While thinking and walking, Joshua returned to the Lord's Mansion, and at this time, news from Nostradamus also came.
Like Artanis, he also wanted to remind the warriors that one of the most powerful paladins of the younger generation in the Church of the Seven Gods was coming to the North. After expressing his gratitude, Joshua stopped paying attention to such issues.
Time passes, late April.
Looking towards the north from the main city of Moldavia, you can see that the sky is extremely clear, with a layer of almost transparent white clouds floating on the blue sky. The golden sunlight shines directly down, covering the entire Ajax Mountains and Black Forest. It shines as magnificently as a fairyland.
This is a rare good weather in the North. All the farmers took the opportunity to carry out the second round of sowing. The plants are growing well, especially this year with the purification and fertility of the sunvine. It will definitely be a bumper year.
And Rin's advancement was completely completed after the divine boy rested for a few days.
He has gained enough experience through the Book of Ebon. Unlike Firefly, Joshua doesn't know whether it is because Rin's physical fitness is naturally better, or because the last time he fell asleep due to an accident, this time Rin was in When I advance, I will only occasionally feel that I am low on energy. Other than that, there is no other special feeling at all.
Sitting in front of the steel core wood desk, Joshua listened to Rin standing aside and reporting messages and news to him one after another.
"Master Moria has now led a team from the dwarf gathering place and will come to visit soon."
The young man with black hair looked down at the document, summarized the main points, and then told Joshua one by one. After reading for a while, he was a little surprised and said: "Here is Miss Claire's letter, which expresses his feelings for Joshua." Thank you, Master. She said that she has now planted all the sun vines, and she is waiting to see when they are all purified, and then she can return to the far south... There is also a small box inside, which seems to contain something."
"Take it apart and take a look."
Hearing this, Joshua couldn't help but be curious: "Let's see what it is."
"OK."
Nodding, Rin simply took the box out of the envelope and opened it.
A ring appeared in front of the master and servant.
"It turns out to be the Twin Snake Rings of Fire..."
Joshua, who had completely forgotten about such a thing, picked up the women's ring in his hand, shook his head and sighed, "Although it is indeed my thing, what is the use of this thing... Why don't you keep it yourself? Originally I gave it away with no intention of getting it back.”
Saying this, the warrior quickly made a decision.
"Hotaro, here you go."
After saying that, he handed the ring in his hand to Yingying who was sitting in the corner reading a book.
"Thank you, Master..."
After hearing Joshua's words, Yingying immediately put down her book and took the ring, but then she also became a little worried and said: "But Master, I can't bring other equipment. As long as I have a divine machine, all the external equipment can be used." The equipment will be automatically discarded."
4000. I’ve been really stuck recently... I couldn’t think of a chapter name so I just wrote it casually.
(End of chapter)