What bad thoughts can a paladin have?

Chapter 109 The Unknown Darkness

In the dark cave, Ren held a shield and cautiously explored forward. The inextinguishable torch in his hand could only barely illuminate the three-meter range around him.

Angelica and Leolina couldn't help but raise their hearts as they watched the torches moving in the distance.

In the entire cave, apart from the sound of Ren's footsteps, there was no other sound, and the silence was like a ghost land.

The suffocating atmosphere lasted for a long time, until it was suddenly broken by a sudden scream.

Ren looked towards the source of the sound, and with the light of the fire, he could faintly see a little bit of cold light falling towards him in the dimness.

That is the cluster of arrows shot by the enemy in the dark!
Facing the rain of arrows, Ren squatted halfway, raised the spiked shield obliquely above his head, and put most of his body under its protection.

"Dodododo!"

In the next moment, Ren felt his right hand holding the shield sink suddenly, and a series of impacts came from the shield.

With the protection of the shield, Ren passed through the wave of arrows unharmed.

Even if there are a few slipping through the net, the smooth arrows made of stone can't break through the +1 enchanted full body armor peeled off from the bald priest on Ren's body!
After seeing a wave of arrow rain from the other side, there was no movement again. Ren carefully poked his head out from behind the shield, and shouted loudly in the direction of the arrow rain:
"Stupid underground creatures, thanks to your hard work, you didn't even hurt Grandpa's hairs! If your original master, the mind flayer, saw this scene, he might be so angry that he would make your brains into food! Come on, you guys! This group of eggless idiots has the ability to fight me one-on-one, and maybe they can relax my muscles and add some fun to my boring adventure trip!"

Under Rennes' loud voice, the taunt skill of up to 12 points was fully fired.

"This guy's mouth is so poisonous!"

Seeing a series of extremely vicious words against the stone-blind barbarians and [God of Discord] believers spewing out from the paladin's mouth, Leolina covered her lips with her hands in surprise.If it were me, I'm afraid I'd be so angry on the spot that I couldn't fly up!
Sure enough, the next moment, bursts of angry shouts erupted from the darkness.

"Damn bastard, how dare you despise the bravery of our stone-blind barbarians!"

"Boy, I'll twist your head off, take out your brains, and give it to the great mind flayer as a sacrament!"

"High Priest, please allow us to kill that bastard!"

Since these stone-blind barbarians all spoke the lingua franca of the mainland, Ren heard the meaning of their words clearly, so he decided to add fire to them.

"A group of idiot slaves who have been ruthlessly abandoned by their masters and dream of returning to their master's arms. How did that majesty fall in love with you group of brainless fellows!"

In the distant past, mind flayers, or illithids, once built a huge empire that spanned multiple worlds, and enslaved countless races through their psychic talents.There are many human beings among these enslaved people, including the ancestors of the stone blind barbarians.

The mind flayers used powerful psychic powers to change and distort the minds of these enslaved people, and gradually converted the beliefs of these groups, eventually forming the worship of illithids as blasphemous creators.

Over time, these enslaved humans spontaneously developed a fanatical cannibal culture, honoring the cannibalism of mind flayers eating their brains.The illithids ordered their worshipers to kidnap other intelligent creatures as sacrifices, and then let the believers dispose of the dead bodies after sucking the victims' brains.

In the end, with the joint efforts of the githyanki, gray dwarves and other enslaved races, the rule of the mind flayers was completely overthrown, and the huge territory of the mind flayer empire also fell apart.Some humans who worshiped mind flayers fled to the Underdark.

In later years, generations of lightless life forced these human believers to learn to rely on other senses to survive.Over time, their eyes and eyelids gradually withered and closed, leaving only empty eye sockets covered by skin, and finally degenerated into today's stone blind barbarians.

For the stoneblind barbarians, mind flayers are still their faith, and they don't plan to serve the illithid masters again all the time.

Rennes taunted the spirit suckers wantonly. To them, it was even more hateful than slandering the [God of Dispute]. Even the originally calm stone-blind barbarian high priest became angry at this time.

"High Priest, please give an order!"

Behind the huge rock, the stone-blind barbarian chieftain covered in scars and tattoos maintained his last trace of reason, looked at the high priest of the tribe, and gritted his teeth.

"For the tribe, for the great God of Discord, and for our master!"

Following the words of the chief, all the warriors of the stone blind barbarians drew their weapons.

As a believer of [God of Dispute], when faced with provocations, he did not flinch. Otherwise, he would be considered as lacking the courage and guts to defeat the enemy.

The god of war and chaos allows his believers to use tactics when facing the enemy, but encourages believers to attack directly, but if they do not respond positively to the enemy's provocation, they will lose the attention of this god and gift.

The high priest of the tribe, Quarako, the priest of [God of Dispute], sensed the expressions of the tribesmen, hesitated for a moment, and nodded in agreement.

"Go, let the heathen who dared to blaspheme our Lord and God pay the due price!"

With the permission of the high priest of the tribe, more than a dozen stone-blind barbarian warriors who had already suffocated their stomachs roared loudly and rushed towards the paladin in the dark. The middle is like walking on the ground.

Although he couldn't see the enemy rushing towards him, Ren could perceive the enemy's actions by hearing.

Plan pass!
The corner of Ren's mouth raised slightly, and he opened his mouth to spit out a syllable lightly, activating a ring of magic [detect evil].

In order to make up for the disadvantages of being a human being in a dark and lightless environment, Rennes prepared this spell for himself before entering the copper mine.

Through divine magic, in Ren's perception, bright red light spots are swarming towards his position!

15 meters!
Ten meters!

Eight meters!

After calculating the distance between the opponent and himself, when the stone-blind barbarian warrior who rushed to the front came to five meters from Rennes, the paladin who was standing still finally made a move.

"Go!"

Ren roared, then raised the shield in his hand to his chest, and strode towards the stone-blind barbarian in front!

——Heavy Shield Slam!
With one blow, the stone-blind barbarian fell backwards howling as if he had hit an indestructible rock. The companions behind him couldn't dodge in time and were knocked into rolling gourds.

After a successful blow, Ren threw the inextinguishable torch in his left hand upwards vigorously, then rolled and jumped to hide behind a rock not far away, and blocked the barbed steel shield in front of him by the way.

This set of movements can be described as smooth and flowing, obviously the paladin had already made sufficient plans in advance.

At this moment, Miss Ranger and the female mage came out of the hiding place one after another.

Angelica threw a few plant seeds in Ren's direction, and then cast [Entanglement].

The wildly growing thorny vines sprang out from the ground, binding more than three quarters of the enemies in place!

Then the super-magic scepter in the hands of Leolina, who was pretty and frosty, exuded a heart-pounding light.

The female mage pointed the scepter lightly at the flame from the inextinguishable torch, and a huge fireball instantly formed in front of her, and then blasted towards the enemies trapped in place like a shooting star!
——Extremely effective fireball technique!

boom!
The blazing fireball fell on the middle of the stone-blind barbarian warriors in the blink of an eye, and the sudden eruption of flames engulfed all the four stone-blind barbarians in the center.

After the fireball shrank slightly towards the center, it immediately exploded with a more violent posture, and all within a five-meter radius were instantly engulfed by the fiery flames!

"what!"

Amidst the flames raging, the howls came to an abrupt end.

With the blessing of the supermagic scepter, the damage of Leolina's fireball is fixed to a maximum of 36 points. Except for the tribal chief who is a warrior and a female stone blind barbarian who is an inaugural barbarian, the damage of the stone within the range is fixed. All the blind barbarian warriors were killed in one blow, and even Priest Quarako, who was the high priest of the tribe, was blown into disgrace and seriously injured!
"Kill them!"

Suffering such a heavy loss, only a handful of six people escaped unharmed, and Quarako's nose was going to be crooked!
With such a big loss to the tribe, his right to speak among the three priests will also be greatly reduced!
Before the other party could react, Ren had already thrown the red-hot shield into the dimensional bag, and took out the enchanted long sword.

The paladin started his charge and rushed towards the remaining enemies. He jumped halfway through his inertia, and a [Jump Slash] slashed towards Quarako's head!

During the battle, it is Ren's instinct as a player to kill the caster first!
"clang!"

However, Renn's unstoppable jump was stopped by the tribal chief with a weapon in the blink of an eye. However, the blow of the paladin still made his tiger's mouth crack open, and traces of blood protruded from his eyes, nose and nose.

Seeing the opponent's melee class directly rushing into the crowd, Quarako, who had escaped, clenched the [God of Dispute] holy emblem in his hand, and was about to cast a magic spell.

At this moment, accompanied by a faint sound of the bowstring, an arrow flew out from the darkness, instantly piercing Quarako's right shoulder.

But Miss Ranger's support has arrived!
Quarako, who was severely injured by the arrow, couldn't help but let out a scream, and his spell-casting movements were also deformed due to the severe pain.

Concentration check failed, spellcasting failed!
"it is good!"

Ren yelled loudly, and launched a white-hot strike. The long sword in his hand instantly slashed twice, forcing back the stone-blind barbarian chief. The mage hit the throat of the stone blind barbarian with a single shot.

The opponent dropped his weapon, clutched his neck in pain, and fell to the ground staggeringly.

After killing an enemy with one blow, Renn let out a low shout, and took a step to cut across the situation!
- Take advantage of the trend!

——Strike hard!
——Holy Slash!

Seeing the sword light coming in front of him, Quarako's face changed drastically, and he subconsciously wanted to raise the mace in his hand to block.

However, the arrow wound on his right shoulder made his movements lag for a moment.

With a shrill howling sound, the four-foot long sword passed the priest's neck in an instant.

An ugly head soared into the sky!

"High Priest?!"

Seeing that Quarako was killed, the stone-blind barbarian chief's face twitched violently, and then he made an unexpected move.

He dropped the giant ax in his hand, turned around and was about to flee into the depths of the cave!

However, before he could take a few steps, Miss Ranger bent his bow and set an arrow, and an arrow pierced his heart.

As the tribal high priest and the chief were killed one after another, the fighting spirit of the remaining three stone-blind barbarians fell to the bottom in an instant, and they were quickly killed by the three of Rennes.

However, when cleaning the battlefield, all three of Rennes turned bitter faces.

What a poor man!

This group of stone-blind barbarians are so poor that their weapons are nothing more than poorly crafted stone crossbows and stone spears, and their armor is limited to a piece of animal skin that barely covers their body. The only thing they found on the chieftain was a +1 mithril chain. Jiashan, it can be regarded as a little bit to make the three of them feel better.

Since the caster's armor will affect the speed of casting spells, this +1 mithril chain mail shirt fell into the hands of Miss Ranger, and she happily wore it on her body.

In addition, Ren also found a scroll from the dead stone-blind barbarian high priest. Although the text on it was written in the common language, due to the weird grammar, Ren felt that Some dizzy.

"Let me come."

Leolina walked to Rennes and said:

"After simple training in deciphering documents, I should be able to understand the meaning."

Hearing this, Ren breathed a sigh of relief, and handed the scroll to the female mage.

After carefully reading the text in the scroll, the expression in Leolina's eyes gradually became serious.

"The priest named 'Quarak' wrote in this scroll that in this temple, a powerful force is growing, which can be used as the last resort of the Ebon Society, but more evil is needed to nourish it."

The female mage read word by word:

"He mentioned the 'Faceless Man' in this scroll, and he hoped that the other party could provide more worms, and said at the end that the goal of the Ebon Society will be achieved, and the sealed Kyuss will return, Ascend to God, become the No.13 new god, and open up a new era for his believers!"

(End of this chapter)