What bad thoughts can a paladin have?

Chapter 15
"I found a little clue from his family emblem," Ryan's eyes overflowed with tears, "he is my distant cousin Siri Dooku, the only one in our family who has the talent of a mage, so in the sea After Grand Master Tres returned to the Western Continent, he became his mage apprentice, and gradually lost contact with the family. Before his death, my father told me to find him. But I didn't expect to find him here It appears that he died in the Phandalin mines along with Archmage Hyteles."

"A tree is as tall as a tree, but its leaves fall back to its roots; people travel thousands of miles, and their homeland is buried, this is a proverb in the Eastern Kingdom." Ren bowed deeply to the two, "You two, if time permits, please let me take Dooku The remains of my cousin are buried."

Perhaps it was infected by Ren's expression, or the specialty [Persuader] played a role, the gray dwarf brothers looked at each other, and finally Thorin the Rockbreaker agreed to his request.

"I'll give you 10 minute."

"Thank you, Your Excellency."

In order to express his gratitude, Ren even used the honorific title "Your Excellency".

The gray dwarf brothers gradually walked away in the darkness. In order to see the dark surroundings clearly, Ren lit a torch and stuck it on the ground beside him.

Looking at the remains of the mage in front of him, Ren said softly:
"I'll let your bones have a resting place in exchange for the equipment left on your body. It's a good deal, isn't it?"

Soon, Ren dug a hole of more than two feet on the not-so-hard river bed, gently put the remains of the unknown mage into it, then filled it with soil, and finally made a hole on it. Simple markup.

"In return, if I can come back alive, I will hold a purification ceremony for you, in the name of my paladin Andre Ryan." Looking at the extremely simple tomb in front of him, Ryan's expression was solemn And holy, said softly, "May your soul be reincarnated smoothly and not fall into the hands of demons."

Most mages believe in the power of magic, and most of them are classified as pan believers in terms of their level of belief in gods.

After the death of devout believers and fanatics, their souls will be personally taken back to the Kingdom of God on the upper plane by the gods who send out alien servants, while the souls of pan-believers and unbelievers are not treated so well.

The River Styx is the final destination of the souls of these people.

Their souls will wash away their sins and memories in the River Styx, and then reincarnate.

This process is long and painful, and it is extremely dangerous.

Because in the lower plane where the River Styx flows, whether it is the devils of Baator Hell, the demons of the bottomless abyss, or the demons wandering on both sides of the River Styx, they all covet these souls.

Because the soul is the most precious wealth and the strongest currency in the lower planes!
The god of death, who is in charge of the priesthood of death, also has a headache in the face of these bold and lingering guys.

If one is not careful, the guys from these evil camps will steal or snatch some souls away and sell them for a good price.

Cleric professions such as paladins and priests can perform purification rituals to purify part of the sins in the soul and speed up the pace of reincarnation.

Of course, such a ceremony is expensive, and the total value of the required materials is at least a hundred Golden Eagle coins.

If Ren can achieve his plan, then the hundred Golden Eagle Coins can still be paid easily.

After making the promise, Ren just looked at the items left by the unknown mage, a pair of boots and a necklace.

The surface of the boots was covered with dust and became dusty.

After wiping off the dust, Ryan found that the boots were a pair of suede boots, and a small spider was embroidered on the inconspicuous place above the heel of the boots.

This is a pair of leather boots called "Spider Steps", which can make the wearer immune to the effects of "web binding" and "slowing down", which can be regarded as a low-grade magical wonder.

Ren didn't say anything else, and decisively replaced it.

The necklace is made of a string of pearls, with a faint blue gemstone the size of a little finger in the middle, exuding very weak mana fluctuations.

The sapphire feels extremely warm to the touch, as if waiting to be ignited.

Ren wore it around his neck, and his mind suddenly cleared.

In his mind, a simple spell model gradually emerged.

It was a ring of evocation spell [Magic Missile].

This evocation spell allows the caster to create three flash missiles made of magical stances, each of which is guaranteed to hit, and can cause 1D4+1 force field damage to the designated target.

Magic Missile can be regarded as the leader of the damage department in the first ring of spells. Like [Mage Armor], it is a spell that every spellcaster must learn.

The reason why it is necessary to learn spells is because the damage caused by magic missiles is force field damage.

Because there are very few ways to avoid force field damage, it was also dubbed "noble force field damage" by players back then.

This string of sapphire necklaces allows Ren to cast magic missiles once a day. Not only that, but it also has a special power that can add an additional 1D4 psychic damage to each flash missile.

In other words, it directly doubled the damage of the magic missile!
This is a huge improvement for a first-level spell.

It took nearly a quarter of an hour to bury the corpse and equip two pieces of equipment. Fearing that the gray dwarf brothers would become suspicious, Ren didn't dare to delay any longer and chased after him with a torch.

Seeing Renn catching up, the two glanced at him and didn't say much.

In silence, the three of them walked through the long mine tunnel and soon came to the end.

A ruined temple.

Entering the temple, I saw six broken marble columns lined up on both sides of the road, and at the end of the road was a statue of a dwarf sitting on a stone throne about nine feet high.

The dwarf statue has a long beard that falls to his knees, and a mighty stone hammer rests in his right hand.The eyes on the statue were made of large, secret-enchanted emeralds, which shone silver and emerald green in the gloom.

"Watcher of the Wordless, Keeper of the Silence, Your Majesty Dumathoin!"

The two gray dwarves gave a slight salute to the statue as a sign of respect.

Dumathoin, medium divine power, one of the nine ancient gods, the god of the father of the dwarves "Moradin", the backbone of the dwarf pantheon.

His priesthood includes [wealth of the earth], [ore], [mineral], [gem], [mining], [exploration], etc., so miners of any race are his believers, at least they are pan believers.

After all, not everyone can afford to anger this majesty.

Even the gray dwarves in the Underdark region, in order to mine minerals, maintain some superficial respect when facing the statue of the crowned god, even if there is a relationship between the crowned prince and the main gray dwarf god Ladug. hostile relationship.

(End of this chapter)