Praise of the Light to the Dark Knight

Et Gaya spent 20 years in the Temple of the Dark God. To some extent, belief is an illusory thing. Although he was exiled because of this, he was considered a qualified Dark Knight in the past 20 years. He never violated the law. Passing the precepts, he is a model of the behavior of the dark knight in all aspects, and he has made great achievements in missions, and it is not just for the purpose of being beaten by the teacher.

Of course he knows what a crying woman's face represents. Even if he doesn't look through the history books of the temple, he can find it in any book that records the creation myths of the Diana continent, even in the textbooks of the colleges—and the history departments of various colleges can find it. of students have recited this important test point——

The Goddess of Annihilation. According to legend, when the two gods of light and darkness created all things, they were responsible for helping them destroy failed creations. After witnessing all the haze, they wept sadly at the dilapidated world, usually appearing in the form of a woman.

But if the face of the weeping goddess appears anywhere other than a history textbook illustration, something is definitely wrong!Because even if you don't understand the myth, you can tell what she is doing directly from the name of this goddess - annihilation.

The crying expression of the goddess seemed to have some kind of magical power. Etjaye stared at the half-opened eyes on that face for a while, and felt flustered, and hurriedly looked away.

He asked: "Does the Goddess of Annihilation still have believers?"

"Yes, there has always been, but it has always been very small, and the sense of existence is also very weak. Almost everyone except the historians of the college has almost forgotten the existence of the Goddess of Annihilation." Yalan's holy light ability recovered very quickly, as if he Then there will be another storm of holy light. After checking the demon's body, he burned it completely with holy fire.

Etgaya backed away slightly from the flame of the holy light, then pulled up Yalan, and sighed: "It's incredible, I always thought that the big devil who is full of footwashing water and dedicated to destroying the world only exists when the imagination is exhausted." It doesn’t make sense, you said they believe in a goddess who is in charge of destruction, so after their beloved goddess destroys the world, wouldn’t they be finished too?”

"You misunderstood." Yalan smiled and shook her head. "The goddess and her followers never wanted to destroy the world. It was order. What they wanted to destroy was the existing order."

"Order?" Atgaya blinked, slightly unable to keep up with his train of thought.

So Yalan explained more bluntly, pointing at Et Gaya, and pointing at himself: "We, the temple and the temple, light and darkness go hand in hand, whether it is the virtues that our temple pursues, or your Shadowmoon Temple's millennium Such as guarding in the dark night, this is part of the thousands of years of order in the Diana continent, and we are the defenders of order."

"Understood, next time you can put it more simply, they want to overthrow Diana's two biggest core beliefs."

Yalan affirmed, "Yes, after the destruction of faith, it will be the turn of secular power."

This sounds ridiculous!

Etgaya couldn't help laughing, "Oh? They still want to destroy all countries one by one? Human empires, duchies, and tribes of the highlanders in the north, woodland barbarians in the south, plainsmen and even the orc tribes who are eyeing tigers. ...My lord, this ambition is not small, can I finish my dream tonight, do I have to save some to continue dreaming tomorrow?"

"They don't have to do it themselves. As believers in God, we don't interfere in secular politics, but ordinary people will take us as their belief, as their spiritual support and even their constraints. When the spirit of the whole continent collapses and the mind is in chaos, peace will naturally end. Already." Yalan didn't mean to be joking at all, he stared at Et Gaya, under the heavy gaze of those green eyes, Et Gaya also felt a little bit unable to laugh.

"You mean..."

"At the very least, which two countries want to go to war now, they have to report to the Temple of Light in writing to show their justice, and if the spiritual leaders of the whole continent fall, and people no longer have a common creed, then Confusion in thought will lead to real war. We spread the teachings of light and lead people to use methods other than killing to resolve disputes, but you don’t think that there are no more fights among human beings, do you?”

"Even for a lord's fiefdom, if he has many sons, he can break his head when he inherits it." Etgaya raised his forehead, "Then, shake the position of the two sacred temples as the leader of the faith, and then take the opportunity to provoke the struggle of various countries ?But--"

His expression was quite puzzled: "What good will it bring them in troubled times?"

This time, Yalan smiled gratifiedly: "Of course you can't see what troubled times can bring to them, because you are not a wicked person."

Etgaya covered his eyes and waved his hands again and again: "I can't tell whether you are praising me or scolding me. I am an 'evil and despicable dark knight' in the eyes of the world. God knows what I was thinking a few days ago was very simple. Only then can the teacher be happy and not be beaten, tell me now that I am involved in a big conspiracy that is trying to cause turmoil in the whole continent, I can't bear it!"

"You will get used to it. Normally, our temple handles similar big conspiracies every day, but experience tells me that not every big conspiracy can be implemented in the end, and most of the conspiracies die in the heads of their conceivers , so we are often busy in vain, but thanks to the God of Light, I like to be busy in vain." Yalan grabbed Atgaya's arm, pulled his hand from his own face, and continued:

"Besides, Priest Siyue once told me that you are the next commander of the Dark Knights he prefers, and you will have to get used to these things sooner or later. Shadow Moon's daily tasks are no easier than those of the Temple."

Under the palm of his hand, Et Gaya showed a face of extreme shock: "My teacher said that?"

"Yes." Yalan replied firmly.

"When, why don't I know!" Et Gaya had mixed feelings in his heart, and he didn't know what to say at all. Did Priest Siyue really think that way?Judging from the waywardness of His Excellency the Great Priest, is it really not a random joke?

Yalan nodded affirmatively again: "Yes, he said it, he said it 20 years ago."

20 years ago?That was when he was just taken back to the temple as a piece of junk!And if Etjaye remembers correctly, the dragon of the great priest at that time took him all the way back to the temple, and the first thing he did was throw him into the bath tub, and while the terrifying dragon washed him, he used the sound that could be heard throughout the temple. Roaring loudly:

"Oh my god, this little kid is dirty and smelly, and he is severely malnourished and looks like a mummy. He really doesn't like the dragon!"

Perhaps it was because of being deeply trapped in this tragic memory, which made the facial expression too tragic, Yalan couldn't help smiling and patted the top of Et Gaya's head, comforting: "It's nothing surprising, the great priest is indeed expressing emotions... What is lacking, you have to know that people are always flawed.”

Atgaya sighed deeply: "Then what he lacks is not 01:30."

The symbol of the Goddess of Annihilation appeared in this weird mage tower. Even though it was very likely that it was a conspiracy to let the temple go to waste and eventually die in the head of the creator, even if there was even a little bit of threat, Yalan would not Will not muddle along.

The tranquility of this continent is hard-won and needs to be cared for carefully. Any possibility of destroying it is not allowed.

"We should check carefully whether there are any clues hidden in this tower first. After all, the female necromancer doesn't seem to be obediently cooperating with the interrogation." Atgaya decided to temporarily forget about his teacher.

The owner of the Mage Tower has been sealed with magic, branded as the God of Light, and pitifully carried away. Therefore, the tower defense system that relies on her mental power has completely collapsed, and there are slight magic turbulence in some places. , fortunately there is no serious problem.

Yalan asked Et Gaya to follow him, he said: "Fortunately, the magic level of the tower master is really mediocre. If this is the tower of an archmage, losing the master's control will be more dangerous than having the master. But you still follow carefully." Me, if you smash the ceiling all the way like we did when we went up the tower, it will be really dangerous."

"There will be a mechanism?" Et Gaya drew out his sword vigilantly.

Yalan pushed down his sword forcefully and said, "No, you will smash through the tower, and we will be flattened by a big stone."

The more you investigate carefully, the more you will feel that the spellcasting level of the master here is really...not flattering.No wonder there was no danger in this battle—the danger was only aimed at the other four, and there was no surprise for Et Gaya and Yalan, let alone danger.Generally speaking, when a mage is mentioned, an image of doing research, reciting spells, and delving into magic knowledge every day will appear. At least, a qualified mage always has his research room and library, but there is no such thing in this tower.

…but there are many rooms full of clothes and jewels, more like a court lady's mansion than a mage's tower.

Etjaye unceremoniously picked up all kinds of jewelry and stuffed them into his pockets. When he couldn't fit, he came up with the idea of ​​the space magic circle on Yalan's clothes. Have you been there, imperial power struggle?"

"Yes." Yalan sighed quite pitifully, but his movement of stuffing the jewels in his hands was no slower than that of Et Gaya, "I think I basically know who this is, she was probably ten years ago" The evil mage kidnapped the Duchess of Bergman whose life and death are unknown. More than ten years ago, the previous generation of Leo Kingdom was fighting for power. After getting the title, he participated in the struggle of the princes for power, and his only daughter, the Duchess, was arranged by him to marry the eldest prince at that time, the most hopeful person to inherit the throne."

"It's a pity that it is the third prince who succeeds."

"Yes." Yalan looked at the hairpin in Leo's royal court that was popular more than ten years ago in her hand, "the eldest prince and princess were poisoned to death together in their bedroom on their wedding night, and it was the lady's personal maid who did it. Well, His Excellency the Duke has always been acting, and the camp he really chose is the camp of the third prince."

"... No wonder this lady chose to annihilate the goddess." Etgaya just sighed, without any other thoughts.

The undead creatures in the tower were all consumed in the battle just now. In the duchess' bedroom, they found a diary and the only spell note that they had been looking through for so long.

——Obviously this lady is not a qualified mage at all. She obviously did not learn magic because she loves magic. For real mages, such as Anlei, even if they travel, they don’t need to wear cosmetics, and spell books must never be thrown away. .

In this way, she was able to build such a complete mage tower, which is enough to show that she is far more than the only believer in the Goddess of Annihilation.

"Wait a minute!" Ya Lan suddenly whispered, "There seems to be someone else here, pull out your sword!"

There was an aura that didn't belong to the two of them hidden in the room.