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King: "No, I can't use the Holy Slash now that I've broken my oath. I have to use it quickly."
As the king spoke, he raised his two-handed sword, Pathfinder.
The ability of ordinary warriors to use various weapons comes from long-term training. The same is true for paladins, but paladins have another characteristic, which is that they can obtain the ability to use weapons from their gods.
For example, Typhon is very good at using a two-handed sword. No matter whether a Typhon paladin has received relevant training before becoming a paladin, he will definitely gain the ability to use a two-handed sword skillfully after becoming a Typhon paladin.
Wang's sword-raising movements suddenly underwent a qualitative change from his previous random swings. It looked as if he had been practicing using a two-handed sword for decades.
The Pathfinder is like an extension of his arm.
The little girl who was defined as an empty shell by Lily was not afraid at this time, probably because the king's actions revealed a sacred aura.
She asked doubtfully: "Are you...going to kill me?"
Wang: “Yes.”
"What did i do wrong?"
"You did nothing wrong, but the leader was wrong. He used forbidden technology to transform you. Now you will bring destruction to the world, and countless innocent people will die because of you. So we must eliminate you. Don't blame us, blame the leader who did all this."
As the king spoke, Typhon's scales appeared again on his holy emblem.
Probably because Kailin didn’t know how to explain and just chopped it off.
The old lady screamed, "This is wrong! You don't know how miserable she was before! The pain she suffered left an indelible mark on her soul! 'That child' allowed her to be reborn and live a peaceful life."
Flint: "Forgetting suffering is itself a betrayal of the past. When we forget suffering, we also lose the opportunity to gain courage and hope from suffering. We do not praise suffering, but we praise the courage and hope that suffering breeds.
"As Kailin's messenger, I believe that forgetting suffering is no different from giving in to suffering."
Old Mammy: "Are you going to make everyone an ascetic?"
Wang: "Of course not. It is not shameful to escape. What is shameful is to escape by means that will bring countless pain and sacrifice."
Typhon's scales almost overshadow Cailin's emblem on the king's holy symbol.
In order to fight back, Kailin made Flint's holy emblem glow!
"Wait a minute!" the old lady shouted, "Go read the memories left by the leader! Then you will understand why he did this!"
King: "I am not interested in understanding the reasons of a great evil who has caused the deaths of millions of innocent people. If what I do is against fairness and justice, let Typhon take my power."
As soon as she finished speaking, the girl, who looked weak and helpless, began to split her body and grew tumors one after another.
She - or should she be called it now - swallowed up the old nanny who had been begging for mercy.
The king shouted out Typhon's name and struck out with a sword of the deepest and purest kind.
Chapter 376 The Leader's Memory
The Holy Slash instantly burned half of the monster's body.
Xiao Bai asked in confusion: "Wait a minute, I suddenly remembered, isn't this thing created by positive energy? Why is the Supreme Saint Slash so effective when it hits it?"
Wang: "Because the radiant damage of the Holy Slash is different from the positive energy damage that Flint channels. You can think of radiant damage as getting sunburned after being in the sun for too long."
Xiaobai: "So you mean the scorching rays similar to the big wave?"
"Not quite the same. The Scorching Ray is basically fire damage, while the main energy source of the Radiance is light..."
Xiaobai was full of questions.
At the same time, Flint wielded five flails and beat the monster wildly.
Lily interrupted and tried to explain to Xiaobai: "The light is a kind of light radiation, while the flame is mainly heat radiation..."
Xiao Bai had more question marks on her face. She looked back and forth at the two of them and asked, "Is it true that fire damage will set the target on fire, but light damage won't?"
"No, no." Two mages from the same mage tower denied it together.
Wang: "The light will still ignite things, as long as it reaches the ignition point, it will burn. Sometimes the light damage will even cause flash fire."
Lily: "But fire damage basically starts from a point and gradually spreads. It will flash but not suddenly..."
Flint killed the remaining monsters, and while wiping the flail heads of the five flails, he said, "What are you explaining? Just tell him that the radiant damage is basically caused by the priest..."
Wang: "Solar Ray is also a radiant damage, generally considered a variant of Hellfire Ray."
Flint's beard twitched. "Well, how about this? Radiant damage usually comes with blinding. How about this?"
Wang, Lily: "Oh, indeed."
At this time, Nini came out of the church: "There is a magic device on the altar inside. Do you want to destroy it? After all, you just claimed that you would not care about the reasons why the big devil did evil..."
Wang: "But, if it is the leader's memory, we can dig out information by understanding the memory, which may be useful in the future."
As he spoke, the Paladin King strode towards the monastery with the Pathfinder drawn.
Nini quickly took a step back to make way.
The interior of the church has been renovated, and the sunlight shines through the stained glass windows and falls on the ground, forming gorgeous patterns.
Wang looked at the pattern carefully and found a person holding a book hidden inside.
He stopped to look at the pattern more carefully, and Lily came in unexpectedly and bumped into his back.
"What are you doing!" the girl asked, covering her nose.
Wang pointed to the floor and said, "There is a person reading in the painting."
Lily pushed Wang's back and said, "Don't stop because of this. After you become successful and famous, what's wrong with bragging about yourself?"
The king shrugged and walked towards the magical device on the altar.
The installation was quite large, occupying almost half of the altar. In order to accommodate the installation, the holy emblems and statues on the altar had been removed, leaving only a base that had not been completely smoothed out.
The king turned back to Flint and said, "Flint, can you recognize whose holy emblem this is?"
The dwarf entered the monastery and craned his neck to take a look. "How can I tell what holy emblem it is from a pedestal that is only a mound of dirt left?"
Wang shrugged. At this time, Lily was already checking the device. "It looks like a very ordinary memory sharing device. This is a memory crystal... Wait a minute, the crystal has been cut, and some memories should have been removed. This is the memory that is selectively shown to others."
Wang pointed to the chair in the device: "I can sit on it and see the memories in the crystal, right?"
"The memory compiled in the crystal." Lily corrected, "I think it will mislead you."
Flint: "As I recall, pre-treatment lowers a person's IQ, right? Is this the leader's educational device, used to ensure the loyalty of those whose IQ cannot be too low?"
Wang: "It's possible. So it's a bit dangerous to read the crystal directly, but we have Franka."
Air Jellyfish was looking at the stained glass in the monastery's dome. When he heard his name, he looked down and asked, "What's wrong with me?"
Wang: "We need you to read the memory on this crystal. This should be considered a part of the soul. You should be able to absorb it."
"Indeed, this thing has some residual emotions, but I can only absorb the evil part of it. There is not much evil in this crystal, but more sadness and helplessness."
Wang: "Then you will be responsible for absorbing my negative emotions. I want to go in and see what's going on."
As he spoke, he unlocked the chair, sat down on it, and leaned back on the backrest.
Lily: "I object to this. What if you are polluted by the emotions inside? Since Furu can sense good and evil, it means that there are quite a lot of souls left inside. I think we can take it back to the floating island, build a memory extractor, extract the memories inside, and put them on the crystal ball for viewing."
Wang: "How long do you think it will take for the technology on the floating island to produce that thing?"
Lily: “This…”
The king thought for a moment and looked at Flint: "Dwarves are very stubborn, why don't you give it a try?"
"What?" Flint was shocked. "Is this what a human would say? What if I become sympathetic to the leader?"
Wang: "Kaylene will be happy."
"Oh, Cailin's horns, he will be happy indeed. If I do something extraordinary, he will be even happier. But... never mind, it's better than you being influenced. We dwarves are indeed very stubborn and have good mental resistance."
Xiaobai: "Then you never resisted the mighty might of the mountain once, but the king resisted twice."
Lily: "God's Might is different from this. God's Might is to force you to obey. This kind of influence is more gentle and more corrosive to the mind. It cannot shape loyalty to the leader all at once, but it will plant the seeds of trust in him."
She paused and added, "Oh yes, it's a bit like your 'Counterspell'."
Flint stepped forward and patted the armrest of the chair: "Let me do it. If something happens to me, Kailin will cover me. He is like this. Most of the time, he is unreliable, but you can trust him when it matters."
Wang stood up and gave his seat to Flint.
Lily started to operate the machine directly: "It's about like this..."
The mechanical memory crystal began to spin, and the light became noticeably brighter.
A blue light also lit up on the backrest that Flint was leaning on.
He closed his eyes and mumbled, "Hmm, the memory is starting to come back... where am I? Wait, the fire... it's so hot! Damn it, why is there such a big fire!?"
Flint's forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat.
Wang: "Calm down, this is just watching the bishop's memory. Tell me, what did you see? Except for the fire."
"I saw... soldiers! Soldiers were burning and killing, chopping off the heads of women they had played with, and kicking children's heads like balls."
Wang: "Do soldiers have coats of arms?"
"Yes, it's the emblem of Shallow Water City!"
Wang said confidently: "That should be the border friction between Qianshui City and Yisongzuo more than 50 years ago. The soldiers of Qianshui City relied on their strong strength and often crossed the border to rob the grass and valley."
Lily: "It seems that the leader is still a war orphan."
"That's not the reason for him to destroy the world." Wang shook his head. "Look for any valuable intelligence."
Flint: "I saw a poor man with burns all over his body, and he took me into a cool cellar. I felt relieved... Wait, someone whispered in my ear that an ugly appearance makes a beautiful heart more attractive."
"Brainwashing has begun." Lily whispered, crossing her arms.
Chapter 377 Should I Say Sure Enough?
The king seemed to have not heard Lily's words: "So the leader is a war orphan during the period of frequent civil wars among the River Kingdoms? And then he was saved by a kind-hearted person with severe burns?"
Lily: "The kind-hearted man with severe burns might be an illusion. After all, the crystal has been modified."
At this time Flint said, "Wait a minute, he took a nap in the cellar, and then someone came to rescue him. It seems to be Isonzo's soldiers, flying the flag of a noble, but I don't know which noble's flag it is."
Wang: "You can try to generate some evil thoughts and let Franka absorb them, so that we will all know what kind of flag it is."
"I am the pastor of Kailin. It would be terrible if I had evil thoughts! The scene changed again. The soldiers refused to treat 'me'. Damn, they asked me for money. If I didn't have it, they wouldn't treat me."