This is a dwarf with a hideous face and a gloomy face. Generally speaking, dwarves have a short stature and thick facial features, and they seem to give people a rather honest feeling at first impression, but this dwarf's eyes are small, deeply sunken in the eye sockets, as if there are no whites of the eyes, only two dark eyeballs emit an eerie light, this dwarf also has a hooked nose rarely seen in his race, and it looks almost like a cold-blooded animal such as a snake or a scavenging lizard and a dwarf cross.

However, in addition to this somewhat different appearance, the few deep old scars on his face, and the only three fingers left on his left hand, also showed that this dwarf, like other kinds, was also a true warrior who had been through a hundred battles.

And next to this dwarf was a young man from the West, or the Shenzhou ethnic group, although he was a whole head taller than this dwarf, but he was cautiously half-squatting beside him with a begging and anxious voice and expression, as if he was afraid that his overlooking gaze would make the dwarf unhappy, looking at Mu Qinyi's eyes, his face also showed a trace of unbearability and anxiety, and hurriedly said to the dwarf: "This is absolutely impossible." His Excellency the High Priest has already said that this woman is an important hostage and must not be allowed to be harmed. We're just using the cage in this stronghold to suppress the clergy, she's the priest of the water elemental god, don't you dwarves also believe in the earth elemental god, and it's a close belief to each other......"

"Hmm—" The dwarf gave an inexplicable expression, as if he had suddenly remembered a funny and violent thought, and the muscles on his face and a few scars twisted together into a strange and hideous smile. "Bring out the great earth elemental god again, and bring out your high priest, I heard that you Westerners are very grouped, are you afraid that I will really rape this woman?"

The young Shenzhou man next to him wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied, "E... This one... No, it's because this young lady does have a very important identity..."

"Okay. For the sake of your high priest, I will not do anything to her for the time being. The dwarf's twisted smile twitched. "You high priests are one of the few human beings who would make me feel good. His fists are really powerful, and if he could have done it a little more quickly, like last time he smashed the temple guard's brains out of his nostrils, I would have liked him even more. By the way, I also like your fighting habits in the West, each move has a very interesting name, and the last time he fought off the temple guard, he used something like 'dig out your heart like a tiger'. The action described in the name is very vivid and I can't wait to use it for someone......"

"Well, this ...... Cough... To be liked and recognized by the Golden Stone Commander, I think the High Priest will be very happy..."The young Shenzhou man was quite embarrassed, so he could only nod his head again and again.

"As for the elemental gods, they are the great beings of you, whose little head full of black hair can never be fathomed. Don't speculate on their relationship with your short-sighted eyes and ridiculous habits, there will be no alliance-like connection between them. If it weren't for the fact that I still have to rely on you to get in touch, I would have broken your neck just now when you were talking nonsense. The dwarf's gaze swept over the young man's neck, and the cold sweat on his forehead suddenly became even more dense. "Also, as long as I want, whether this woman is a priest or not of the water elemental god, I will deal with him as I would any other human woman. ”

"Yes, yes...... But... But..."

In the cage, Mu Qinyi quietly listened to the conversation between the two people, his expression seemed to be calm, but under the faint crystal light, the blood on his face had faded clean. This dwarf spoke casually, without any deliberate murderous aura and tone, but the naked eyes that fell on Mu Qinyi still made her clearly understand that this was an existence of a 'wicked person' in a far more ordinary sense.

No matter how evil a wicked person is, he is still a human being, but this dwarf has seen it with a more indifferent and indifferent eye than the cook looks at chickens and ducks, and with a hint of condescending desire and anger to kill and take away. This is a malice that is worse than pure animal nature, Mu Qinyi can be sure that the person who dies at the hands of this dwarf, or a woman, will definitely not be as simple as dozens or hundreds.

And what disturbed her the most was this seemingly simple prison, the fence in front of her gave her an unusual sense of depression, this was not a simple feeling, but a real spiritual level of suppression, she only felt funny There are countless layers of wet cotton soaked in ice water pressed in her mind, heavy and drowsy, but cold without the slightest vitality.

From the words of the dwarf and the Shenzhou man, it can be seen that this is a special cage specially used to hold clergy, and it seems that it is indeed very effective now. Such a cold and heavy sense of shackles made her almost unable to extend her perception, to touch the ubiquitous laws of heaven and earth, and she could no longer feel the ubiquitous aura of the water element before, which was what made her the most uneasy now

Calm, calm down. This is just a short man who can only be regarded as a barbarian among the European barbarians. Mu Qinyi kept silently reciting to herself in her heart, trying to calm down. She didn't expect that it was just a momentary curiosity about the Shenzhou ethnic group before, and finally inexplicably fell into the hands of such a cold-blooded and barbaric alien. It seems that the water behind this Divine Race and the Church of Vengeance seems to be far deeper and more dangerous than she thought before.

In order not to drown silently in this deep water, every opportunity must be seized. Just feeling the eyes of the dwarf in front of him, Mu Qinyi understood that he must not put all his hopes on the face of that high priest, Mr. Qiu.

What's more, since she escaped from the village with that wild Taoist priest at the age of fourteen, she understood that every turning point was to rely on her own hands to grab it little by little and pinch it in her hands.

"Shut up. Western boy, I'm tired of your voice. If you start chattering any more, I'll break your neck and have them send a fourth liaison again. ”

The dwarf outside the fence yawned, a little lazily and impatiently, using such a sentence as the end of the argument. Even if the young man in Shenzhou was still full of anxiety, he immediately stopped talking and didn't dare to speak anymore.

"All you have to do is go back and tell you the High Priest that we're ready to start working, and that's it. It's better for them to move quickly so they don't miss something crucial. As for what they promised us, we'd better get them all ready, or we'll get them ourselves. Your High Priest's fists are powerful, but the fists of others can't stop the axes and hammers of the warriors of the earth, right?"

The young man looked at the dwarf in a daze, and after taking a few breaths, he suddenly turned and ran towards the road he had come from, the sound of hurried and messy footsteps fading away in the empty corridor.

In the dusty, empty stone prison, only Mu Qinyi and the yin dwarf were left looking at each other through the fence. The dwarf smiled gloomily, stretched out his wide scarlet bear-like tongue and licked his orangutan lips, and was about to turn around and leave, when he suddenly saw Mu Qinyi inside also smiling at him.

Although there is still no blood under the light of the crystal, Mu Qinyi's smile is still gorgeous and moving, and it is even more provocative.

The dwarf was stunned, and then the pair of eyes that had no whites began to shine with a hint of danger.

At this time, Feng Yinqiu and Gawain were eating at the Guardian Hand's stronghold, and they had already packed their bags and were ready to leave here to find the legion leader associated with the Guardian Hand.

Because of the unique doctrine of the Guardian Hand, in addition to some noble mages who find them in the way, this church is generally very popular among the world, especially the merchants who need to travel to various places, and they are eager for the powerful and relatively inexpensive guards of the holy warriors under the Guardian Hand, so even the Northern Legion, which originally forbade any church, also allocated a small building on the edge of Ashdale Town to them as a stronghold.

There weren't many people in the stronghold, but any paladins who arrived here were quickly hired by the caravan. This area close to the Northern Legion is relatively safe, but once you head southeast into the relatively humid and warm hilly terrain, not to mention the bandits, bandits, goblin tribes, and even ogre tribes, some roaming monsters can be very deadly. The root law fluctuations caused by the damage of the beast god after the Divine Fury War and the turmoil of the demon net have made the natural environment of the entire continent return to the barbarian era thousands of years ago, and it is even more dangerous. It was in this environment that the belief in the Guardian Hand began to flourish.

Feng Yinqiu played with the thin paste and tubers in the wooden bowl, a little speechless and a little admired. The hand of guardianship is also considered a big business, and there are no too strict rules and precepts, at least there are no restrictions on food and drink, but generally the more high-ranking people in the church, the more simple they are, this kind of thin paste and tubers are used by poor people to satisfy their hunger, and generally those who have a little wealth will not eat it, but Gawain is a similar thing for three meals a day, and he has never wasted a little.

However, as a guest, Gawain specially sent someone to the tavern to buy a barbecue, but the chef skills of the specially supplied guards and dwarves were really enough, and a ball of pineapple-sized meat balls was charred and hard, or it was probably done on purpose, so that people couldn't tell what kind of meat it was. Fortunately, Feng Yinqiu's teeth and appetite were exercised quite well, and he ate the meat and gruel together effortlessly.

"Lord Gawain, there is a warrior who has visited us for the fifth time this month. I hope that we will guide him on the path of protection. ”

An old priest who was over half a hundred years old walked into the lounge at the back, bowed deeply to Gawain, and reported: "This warrior's patrol team encountered an ice bear wandering out of the mountains not long ago, and his comrades died in the battle with the giant bear in order to cover the youngest him, and he also killed the giant bear at the last moment. He hopes to join the Guardian Hand Church and realize the essence of guardianship, so that he can protect more of his companions..."

"But the Northern Legion stipulates that we cannot spread the faith here, and we are not allowed to accept new Catholics. He could only officially join by going to the cities of the South. Gawain sighed.

"But this warrior is a regular soldier of the Northern Legion, and he can't leave the legion garrison for the time being..."

"Then it can't be helped. The Legion's upper echelons allowed us to be stationed here only unilaterally because of the demands of the caravans, and I have just received a warning from the new commander that we will not accept the Legionnaires into the Guild. Go and tell him this, and if he can get the approval of his superiors, we can accept him as well, or else let him go to the city to the south himself. ”

"It's... I understand... I'll tell him. It's a pity, but this is a young man who really feels the meaning of protection and life. The old priest nodded, sighed, and muttered with some resentment: "These legion leaders are also really, aren't the warriors who know how to protect each other stronger? They always ban this church and that church, why don't they simply establish a church of their own? For example, the god of war, the god of the army, or something......

"That's right. Why isn't there a god of war?" asked Feng Yinqiu suddenly. He hadn't seen the temple of the god of war in Osstar before, and he didn't pay attention to it at the time, and at this time, the old priest said that he felt strange by the way. In the Zhengyi Sect, there are also gods who are enshrined in the priesthood of soldiers and killing, and there are many gods on the continent of Europe, but there is not a single god related to war.

Gawain turned his head and looked at Feng Yinqiu with some strange eyes, and said: "War is just an outward manifestation of other deeper contradictions and conflicts, perhaps out of the survival instinct of resource competition, maybe it is a disaster caused by greed and desire through distorting the system, or even maybe it is just the product of a simple conspiracy of politicians." Even the orcs who advocate fighting, only because fighting is the release of their beastly nature, and fighting is their most noble way of sacrificing to the beast god. In any case, there is no essence in war itself, how can there be a true god?"

"I just said it casually...", the old priest also looked very curious. "This guest from the Western Continent, do you have a god of war in the Western Continent?"

“... No... I was wrong. Feng Yinqiu spread his hands, and he also understood. The true spirit karma map of the Zhengyi Sect is only enshrined in the incense god position artificially fabricated by Zhang Tianshi in the past dynasties, of course, you can do whatever you want, but the real gods on the European continent are the true evolution of the laws of heaven and earth, even the humane gods of the secondary gods, they also represent the true existence of the essence of part of the world.

One of the differences between this true deity and a fabricated incense deity is that the belief in a true god based on true laws can attract people to worship and dedicate themselves to it, just like the old priest said about the soldiers who want to join the Guardian Hand Church on their own initiative. It is a call that faintly echoes the nature of the human heart. And the incense gods and spirits worshiped by the Zhengyi Sect are all artificially imposed duties, and many people go to worship to satisfy various selfish desires, such as promotion and wealth. Therefore, if you sincerely serve the gods and understand the law to which the gods belong, you will naturally be able to enter the path of Shinto, and the truly successful people in the Shenzhou Dao Gate will not believe in those incense gods.

Relatively speaking, the Five Elements Sect is somewhat similar to this European Divine Dao, the Five Elements True Essence Heaven and Earth True Spirit is the true body of the gods for those who practice the Five Elements Dao Method, seeking the roots of heaven and earth, and the cultivation instinct of sublimating oneself from the mundane is the same as the attraction of the gods on the European continent to people. However, after the split of the Five Elements Sect, seeking only one of the five elements is already a bit inferior from the doctrinal point of view, and this Euro Shinto also has some of the same meaning.

I don't know what kind of so-called god of vengeance is? What does Gawain mean when he said that he may become a tool of the devil.

Just as he was about to ask, he was suddenly slightly startled, and there seemed to be a faint noise outside, and at the same time, there were many rather heavy footsteps moving towards this place at the same time.

In the midst of the panicked footsteps, an clerk who was doing the registration work in front rushed in and shouted, "My lords, a group of dwarves have surrounded this place! They asked Lord Gawain and your friends to go out, saying that you had insulted them the other day. ”

"What's the matter, these dwarves are getting drunk and making trouble again?" the old priest frowned, and he could hear the commotion outside louder and louder. "Don't the people of the Northern Army care?"

Boom, the half-hidden door behind the clerk was kicked open with a strong kick, and even the clerk flew out and fell to the side, a dwarf with a blue nose and swollen face walked in with an axe the size of a fan, looking at Gao Wen and Feng Yinqiu, their eyes immediately lit up, and they turned their heads to the back and shouted: "Here, here!

Hula, a group of dwarves immediately gathered at the door, all of them looking at Gawain and Feng Yinqiu with a fierce look in their eyes.

Feng Yinqiu and Gao Wen glanced at each other, both a little inexplicable. Looking at the dwarf at the head again, the wound on his face is not light, and he seems to be a little familiar, but the two of them have not touched anyone since they came to Ash Valley Town, even if Gawain casually rescued a caravan guard from the dwarf two days ago, but the dwarf who fought was not the one in front of him at all.

"Huh, you're not the one... Did you get into a fight with that guy while watching the excitement?" Feng Yinqiu suddenly remembered that this dwarf was one of the dwarves who had been drinking in the tavern before and then heard the movement and came out to watch the excitement on the side, and mocked the dwarf who was stopped by Gawain, only to be beaten by the dwarf. "But what does it have to do with us, the dwarves of your own race who fight with you?"

"If it weren't for you, how could I have been injured by that bastard of the Furious Winds? All four of us were actually injured by that bastard of the Angry Wind Clan, this is a shame for the Blackstone Warriors! We will be the laughing stock of the clan when we go back!" The dwarf waved the axe in his hand and smashed a small cabinet by the door with a loud roar, and a large sour smell of fermented ale mixed food came from that mouthful. "That bastard of the Raging Wind Clan is gone, and your blood must be used to wash away our shame!"

Feng Yinqiu and Gawain looked at each other again, the dwarf's logic was a little confused, but for the dwarf who had been half-drunk all day, it seemed that this logic was enough. Before the two of them could open their mouths to defend themselves, the dwarf at the head swung his axe and rushed over with a loud shout: "Let's go up together!