Travels of the Necromancer

I decided to withdraw my previous evaluation of Erwin. It seems that for any priest, faith will eventually overwhelm reason.

Regarding the selection of priests, the temple has a complete system.They set up academies in every city to teach writing, basic magic and martial arts for free to young children who couldn't afford tuition fees, but the most important thing was to promote the teachings of the Temple of Light.Among them, the more outstanding students will enter the intermediate college to continue their studies, and choose whether to become apprentice priests when they graduate, and only a small number of the best apprentice priests can get the opportunity to enter the Temple Advanced Academy.

There are also people who go to the major temples to participate in the priest trials and become priests directly, but no matter what method they use, one thing is certain-becoming a priest means dedicating themselves to the gods.Therefore, priests must abandon everything in the past, whether it is relatives, friends, partners, or status, career, honor, and even the name of the past must be forgotten, and the older priest must re-create a Christian name.Most people on the mainland believe in the God of Light, but not many people can accept such harsh conditions, so only the most devout or fanatical believers will choose to become priests.

In the commandments of the temple, priests no longer have any personal identity, but human beings cannot completely cut off their emotions and desires theoretically, so there are also some acquiescence phenomena in the temple, at least that's what the teacher said.

Erwin wants us to be as far away from the dining room as possible, in case something happens to us when he opens the stone box.But after deliberation, we decided to wait in the lobby outside the restaurant.

Alice and I supported a layer of wind and water magic barriers respectively. As a paladin, Oskar can also use light magic, but his magic power is not enough to support the magic barrier for a long time, so we let He saves the magic first.

The atmosphere inside the magic barrier was tense and depressing.Oskar held his long sword tightly, staring at the closed door of the dining room; Catherine held a rapier, guarding Alice who was maintaining the barrier; Ley was adjusting his crossbow, and Blaise was obviously folded in half. Crossbow became interested and kept looking at it, but couldn't step forward to study it due to the current atmosphere.

To be honest, I'm a little confused right now.On the one hand, I hope that Erwin can successfully destroy the contents of the stone letter and completely solve these things in Silvermoon Castle; on the other hand, I hope that he cannot break the seal of the stone letter, so I might still have a chance.

I don't know what other people are thinking in their hearts, but everyone has always kept quiet in tacit understanding, only hearing the "tick" of the clock in the hall.Time passed by, and there was still no movement behind the door, but the feeling of anxiety became more and more obvious.

"Oscar, even if you smash the hilt of the sword, it won't help him. If you make your palms sweat, it will only affect the battle." Finally, Merkel's calm voice broke the uncomfortable silence.He stepped forward and separated Oska's fingers holding the sword one by one, "And, you said you would trust him."

"I have always believed in it unswervingly." As the source of the anxious atmosphere, Oska let Merkel take away the sword in his hand, and smiled wryly, "But..."

A huge explosion interrupted Oska's words, and at the same time, huge coercion and chaotic magic waves impacted our magic barrier.Following Alice's exclamation, the outer water barrier shook and disappeared. I had to concentrate and maintain the wind barrier with all my strength.

"Erwin!" After the impact stopped, Oskar and Merkel rushed into the restaurant immediately.

The door of the restaurant has been washed up and down, and when we entered the restaurant, we found that the interior of the restaurant was even more messy.Erwin fell in the middle of the mess, his pure white robe was stained with blood, Oskar and Merkel were nervously checking his condition.

I looked around and finally found the remains of a stone box amidst a pile of wood chips that had been a table.My heart sank, and whatever was in it in the past was no longer there.

Erwin was seriously injured, his magic power was exhausted and he was directly impacted by magic elements. Although his life was not in danger for the time being, he remained unconscious.Oska is trying his best to treat him, but his level of healing skills cannot be compared with that of Erwin himself. He can only stabilize his injury, but cannot wake him up, so we have no way of knowing what happened in the restaurant.

After Oscar's magic power was exhausted, Alice continued to treat Erwin with water magic, but it also had no obvious effect.The others spread out and formed a circle to guard.

"Ley, I heard you used to be a member of the Silver Moon Mercenary Corps?" Merkel suddenly asked Ley while on alert.

"Yes." Lai was taken aback for a moment, then replied.

"Then do you know the origin of the name Silver Moon Mercenary Group?" Merkel continued to ask.

"Is it related to Yinyue County?"

"That's true. The founder of the Silver Moon Mercenary Corps was also from Silver Moon County, and they were good friends with the first patriarch of our family. They served together under the command of the Purple Wing Emperor at the beginning, and made great achievements in the establishment of the empire. But I don’t know why, but that regiment leader didn’t accept any rewards, but went to the Western Continent to become a mercenary, and never set foot in the Purple Wing Empire for the rest of his life.”

"When I was in the mercenary group, I never heard of this matter." Lai was a little surprised.

In fact, I was also surprised, Silver Moon is not a special name, so I thought it was just a coincidence that the name here was the same as Silver Moon Mercenary Group.

"The head of the group changed his name after he arrived in the Western Continent. I don't think he would mention his past in the mercenary group. You don't know, it's normal. I only learned about it by chance. of."

Keeping one's name incognito is naturally because you don't want others to know about your past. If that's the case, why do you want to name your mercenary group after your hometown?Is it because, as I thought before, Yinyue is not a special name, even if I use this name, it will not make people guess my identity, or is there another reason?But now I want to hear Merkel's words even more. I guess he won't mention the Silver Moon Mercenaries for no reason.

"Well, don't you think it's a bit strange?" But at this time, Blaise suddenly interrupted Merkel. Although he was talking to us, he kept staring blankly out of the window.

"Have you discovered something strange again?" Catherine asked.

"The clock in the hall has pointed to seven o'clock, but there is no sense of dawn outside."

I followed his gaze, and all the glass of the restaurant window was shattered by the violent impact just now, leaving only the deformed window frame swaying in the wind, making an unpleasant "creaking" sound.The cold night wind blows in unhindered, chilling my body.

Outside the window, it was still twilight, and even the lights on the other side of the lake that could have been seen were gone, leaving only an endless darkness.