Under Edlan's almost nonsense intimidation, the old ministers were dumbfounded one by one. And the fact is that if we don't develop more Paladin professionals who can effectively fight against the undead, how useful can these soldiers be at most?

So after the angry departure of a few old ministers who were embarrassed by their bad faces, the meeting broke up unhappily.

After the meeting, Edlan and the other small circle got together and continued to talk about opening the Paladin class to civilians.

"You're going a little too far......," Tirio patted Edlan on the shoulder, "but I like it! We warriors who really go to the battlefield, those civilian officials who hide behind, how can they know the danger of the battlefield, their understanding of war is still stuck in a romantic knightly duel picked up by throwing a white glove!"

"Poof-" Princess Kalia was also amused by the changed temperament of Tirio, who herself was a victim of chivalric novels, and if this hadn't happened, she probably wouldn't have thought that the reality she saw was nothing more than a beautiful thing that many people had whitewashed. "Go ahead and do it, I've already given you the supreme commander of the Tirisfal Glade anyway...... However, if you can't hold this place, you should also flee quickly, I have already lost one brother and I don't want to lose another. ”

Facing Kalia, who revealed her true feelings, Adlan was also quite moved, "Well, don't worry, I'll take care of it." ”

So, after a night's rest, at noon the next day, Adlane ordered the last three ships to be taken out of the dockyard and handed over to Kalia, so that they could take refuge in the Kingdom of Stormwind with some of the funds they had brought from the treasury.

Before leaving, Kalia handed over almost all the soldiers she could control to Adlan, but she took the dozen or so paladins with her, because if she went south to the Storm Kingdom, she needed to spread the profession of paladin, after all, the Northshire Monastery and the Cathedral of Light are both places where the cultivation of the Holy Light is strong. And the Storm Kingdom can get a huge increase in combat power, which is a win-win thing.

"Sister Kalia, you...... I have to remind you that you can learn from Benedictas the Way of Light, the practice of a deep priest, but don't get too close to that person, and be careful not to be tricked into getting into some strange organization...... Don't ask me why, you won't believe it if I tell you now, but please believe me, don't make deep friends, protect yourself, and you will see the truth in the future. ”

In Benedictas's capacity, Edlan's statement was almost suspicious slander, and although Kalia was puzzled, she didn't say much, everything had to be determined by her own eyes.

Then Adelan also gave the staff that he was originally going to give to Lisa to Kalia, for no other reason, maybe this staff was not gorgeous in Adelan's eyes, and there was no status symbol of the staff, but after it was handed over to Kalia, the symbol formed by the magic flame that never went out, and the flame could be seen burning in the Stormwind Kingdom, which may become Lordaeron's last flame of hope, a symbol of indomitable will.

Kalia and her party left in a sea ship, taking with them the hope of Lordaeron's recovery, and Edlan stayed, stopping in the occupied area to defend the place with a determined attitude.

......

Along the way, Adlane feels that he has come to this point with the help of various "big brothers", but from now on, he should not be able to get the help of "big brothers" in a short period of time, he has to rely on himself, if you use the game as an example, it is now really out of the novice village.

On the second day of Kalia's departure, Edlan made a new development plan, first of all, he ordered the closure of the large Holy Light Shield, which was becoming more and more ineffective to maintain, because this thing consumed too much spiritual power of the caster, and this was not a spell node, let alone a place with strong magic power, with the current level of human beings' use and development of Holy Light energy, it was simply unreasonable to maintain such a large and large spell for a long time.

No, all the priests in Anaheim City took turns to fight, and it couldn't give everyone a good rest, and several of the priests even fainted due to excessive energy consumption, and if they didn't stop, would they kill all those precious priests?

Secondly, if they have been relying on this thing to survive, then what is the point of them staying here? Edlan wants to be able to train a team of paladins who dare to fight, not such poor creatures who are all huddled under the shield of the Holy Light and waiting to die. After all, if these refugees, these soldiers, and even these clergymen were to change their mindset in times of peace by such a comfortable environment, then this place would become a second Sulama City, and its inhabitants would inevitably become a group of "addicts".

Then, Edlan started a big competition for the whole army, including the militia, and the prizes, Kalia left so many treasures and equipment from the Lordaeron Kingdom, which was enough for those guys who couldn't see the end except for city defense and daily training. Of course, the best reward for those civilians is to be able to become a paladin, and be canonized and presided over by the lord himself.

Moreover, the army has always respected the strong, and many people will not be convinced by the other party's bullish titles, victorious records, etc., and always feel that their troops are the strongest, and they have not directly compared who knows who is powerful. This is an effective and healthy competition within an organization. What's more, Edlan decided to make this a regular event held every year, and the top three winners could also be awarded new ranks directly by him, and other outstanding performances would be rewarded, and all civilians in the city were invited to watch together.

So, it was a good time to use this big event to distract civilians who were a little nervous about the large Light Shield being turned off and have more confidence in their army.

After all, the focus of Arthas's attack now is not on the Tirisfara glade at all, but all the way east and then north to Quel'celas. So this rare opportunity to cultivate his own power, if Edlan doesn't grasp it well, wouldn't it be a joke that he still wants to go on an expedition to Mount Hyjal or something in the future?

So, now let's compete first, let these guys from various units become obedient and obedient completely, and re-establish a set of their own order, and then plant the seeds of the Holy Light to them, if they awaken the power of the Holy Light, they will be trained to become paladins directly, and if not, then continue to be honest as a big-headed infantryman.

As for how to plant, Adelane doesn't know, but Lisa Whitemayne has been personally mentored by Alonsos Fao, and among the priests, unlike Adelan, who is formed by skill, she is a serious hard-working person and a patron of the Light, so she is still very reliable.

For example, Adelan discussed with her, and she planted the seed of holy light for Marcus without saying a word, and Marcus also lived up to expectations, and after learning a lot of basic martial arts taught by Adelan, he became the first civilian warrior to turn into a paladin in Anaheim City.

In fact, since the Holy Light has become the main official and civil belief of the human race, the human inhabitants on the continent of Azeroth have a strong adaptability to the Holy Light, like Edlan, just plant a seed, and he doesn't have to worry about the rest, those Tangram creatures can't wait for everyone to believe in them and fight for their bright cause. Therefore, if it weren't for the ruling class in order to better serve this super power, it is estimated that in the Second War, tens of thousands of paladins would have been able to see the spectacular scene of the charge.

With a good foundation of faith, a mass base, and now a successful example of Marcus, this gives great confidence to the apprehensive low-level soldiers! They are all gearing up for the first Anaheim Cup martial arts competition to begin in a few days.

Not only soldiers participated in the competition, but also militia groups. In the eyes of those natives, Lord Edlan whimsically arranged different levels of people into different competition areas, such as what weapons and equipment or martial arts routines are good at using among the soldiers, which is outrageously detailed, which makes it difficult for the Archons led by Edwin Van Cleef to deal with these things and waste a lot of time, but fortunately, in those days, Edlan waved his hand and gave almost everyone outside the city defense and other necessary institutions a holiday, which made them deal with a little less.

It's just that I didn't expect that later, this small event, with Edlan's growing influence, will become more and more golden.

While the event was being prepared, Adelan sent Vanessa and other Assassins out to thoroughly scout the Undead Barrier and even sneak behind enemy lines if possible to see what was going on in Andohar. Edwin also admitted this arrangement, after all, he also saw that his daughter was not the material for the path of the Holy Light.

For the dagger that Edlan gave to their father and daughter, he naturally won a lot of favor, and Edwin also played a set of MI7 stealth skills in his spare time for a long time, but was complained by his "disobedient" daughter who grew up, the movement was too slow, and the posture was too strange.

This made Edwin, who had been busy with political affairs, embarrassed for a while.

Then, Edlan began to use the normal training time to start giving lectures to the militiamen who were still a little afraid of the undead, telling them the characteristics of the undead, how to deal with them, etc., and even he specially led the team out and found a group of wandering zombies and skeletons near the city to train them, and gradually cultivated the confidence of these militiamen.

After all, no matter how loud the slogan is shouted, without the support of experience and technology, it is absolutely impossible to rely on a bloody war, and why soldiers should be trained is not only their fighting skills and obedience to commands, but also the training of psychological quality is also very important.

Soon, a few days passed, and the competition was held as scheduled. Overall, this tournament is not a good competition at the level of Adelan, but in this era of lack of entertainment, civilians even set up markets privately and gamble happily.

As a result, a young man named Herrod stood out from the ranks of regular soldiers and won first place, which was not surprising to Edlan, who knew about this guy as early as when he looked at the final list. Herod is a weapon battle boss in the "Later Generations" Scarlet Monastery, and it may not be a coincidence that he appeared here, perhaps it was at this time that he was discovered by the higher-ups of the Scarlet Monastery and absorbed into the organization.

But Edlan also learned some of his past after learning about him, in the battle this young man was indeed very brave, exterminating bandits, killing orcs, killing the undead, he rushed to the front line, but it seems that his captain is a jealous and capable guy, has not reported his merits, until the fall of the undead barrier, after these people escaped, some of the comrades who have been with Herold have been holding grievances for him, and told these things.

And during this time, Herold's performance in Anaheim City is also remarkable, he always works hard to complete all kinds of dirty work, even Marcus praised him a few words, and this wonderful final made Edlan more intuitive to understand this strong guy who is one year younger than him.

"In my capacity as General of the Kingdom of Lordaeron and Supreme Commander of the Tirisfard Glades, on behalf of Her Royal Highness Princess Kalia, I grant you the reward you deserve, come forward, warrior. At the time of the award, Edlan awarded Herold the rank of direct flight from Private to Knight Lieutenant, along with a set of Knight Lieutenant equipment and a Royal Guard two-handed sword, "Congratulations, Warrior. It's a bit of a rush, but I ask you, are you now willing to be baptized by the Light to test whether you are qualified to be a paladin?"

The sudden words made the award ceremony suddenly become dead, everyone knew about Edlan's new policy, since Marcus has not been able to obtain the example of directly becoming a paladin from a civilian, so their eyes are fixed on the person who has just received a 100 gold reward and promotion, suit, Weapons and other enviable winners of transformation rewards, after all, at this time, people are on a high platform, and they have won such an honor, and now this is another challenge, whether they can succeed in becoming a paladin, this is an unimaginable thing for all ordinary soldiers.

Those civilians also know this, so they are looking at him, to see what kind of choice the warrior who has just won the award will have, because such a young man will care more about face, and the choice will definitely be chosen, but the result will be very tested, if he fails, will he collapse in front of everyone, if he succeeds, will he have any pride in the future, and it will be difficult to discipline in the future.

But Adeline didn't think about it that much, don't look at him doing so much now, he feels very relaxed, he can't wait to use one minute as ten minutes now, because the scouts he sent out have not heard a word back so far, and according to the patrol report, they used the engineering telescope to see the undead in the distance moving away in a strange way, because the patrol did not dare to go too far, so they could only detect part of the situation, after they confirmed that there was no longer a single undead monster within a radius of twenty kilometers from Anaheim City, Edlan felt that something was wrong。

It is estimated that Arthas had recklessly led his elite troops to join up with the undead of Andorhar, snatch the ashes of Kel'thugad from Uther, and then kill Quel'Sellas in one go, but now it seems that the new king of the Death Knight may have been deflated by Uther's tactics in terms of tactics, otherwise he would not need to mobilize his death army from the Tirisfaring Woods to help in the war.

Thinking of this, Adelan even wanted to use his 2,500-strong regular army and 5,000-strong militia to harass the rear of Arthas, so as to relieve Uther's pressure. But in the end, he gave up, because the rise of Arthas could not be stopped, even if it was as strong as Uther, and without an artifact, he could only become a thing of the past...... Edlan was distressed, and although he had thought about today's scene for a long time, he still wanted to struggle a little.

But since the elite scouts he sent out, including Vanessa, there was no news back, and since he discovered the abnormal movement of the undead in the Tirisfal Glade, he understood that Arthas, who could control so many undead, was as strong as in "history", how to resist at this time? Except for letting Illidan get the Eye of Sargeras and bombard the Frozen Throne according to the "Hereafter", which greatly weakened the power of the Lich King, Edlan found that he couldn't think of any other way for mortals to solve this matter.

Besides, with Arthas's ability, it is normal to attach his spirit to the body of some undead monster and then observe the place he wants to observe, so maybe this is still a trap for him and the Holy Light Monastery? Moreover, under Arthas's control and sublimation, the combat power of those undead can soar at any time, and when the time comes, I am afraid that I will not be able to stop a wave of undead frenzy by bringing out this group of militia-based troops......

"I-I do!" Herrod's excited voice interrupted someone's distraction, he was even a year younger than Edlan, maybe the war would make him mature faster, but this was also the time when young people were most impulsive and loved face.

So it was not surprising to get this reply Edlan, he turned back to Lisa who was watching the ceremony, the two had already communicated, and Lisa Whitemayne, the priest of the high priest of the Anaheim Chapel, baptized the young man, which was quite high.

Lisa was holding a very ordinary cross staff, so ordinary that Adelan couldn't even name it, but when she began to extract and condense the holy light energy into the staff, the staff that shone with golden light even made Adelan, who was watching up close, lose his mind for a moment and thought that this was the famous prayer staff of the "afterlife".

The small golden beads of light gently floated out from the head of the staff that gathered surging energy, and the small beads of light spun and flew in the air like a mischievous forest fairy, drawing several circles, and then stopped, as if he had found a pious believer kneeling on one knee in front of "himself", and as if he had found some fun toy, he turned over, and the small bead of light flew into Herod's eyebrows.

"Congratulations, the test passed...... In this way, grant you the power of the Light. Lisa's voice was so light that everyone present could hear that she was like a spokesperson for the Light, bringing the blessings of the Light to all.

Then, as if attracted by something, the condensed light on the staff in Lisa's hand began to spread out into the sky, as if a small "rain of light" had formed around Herrod's body, and the "raindrops" fell lightly, on the top of his head, on his shoulders, and on his hands that were clenched into fists......

Slowly, the "rain of light" disappeared, and Herold raised his head in confusion, looking at the high priest who was presiding over his baptism, he obviously felt that the energy in his body began to change, but he didn't know how to use them, so he was a little overwhelmed.

But Lisa left Herold with an apologetic smile and drifted away, and the next person who appeared in front of him, Edlan, who was wielding the sword of the Brotherhood with a red sword, asked solemnly, "Herold, are you willing to be a knight and abide by the eight virtues of knighthood, humility, honor, sacrifice, valor, mercy, piety, honesty, and justice?"

"I—I do!" Herold finally realized his situation, he was about to be canonized as a knight!

"Don't be too quick to agree, I have to explain to you that even if you become a paladin, I don't have the right to incorporate you into the Knights of the Silver Hand, but I have established a new Lordaeron Knights in the name of the General of the Kingdom of Lordaeron, the Supreme Commander of the Tirisfard Glades, and the authorization of Princess Kalia, if you are willing to join this new legal organization, you will swear by me......

Herold nodded like a chicken pecking rice, it has come to this point, how can he still refuse, it's just that it's not the Knights of the Silver Hand, it's just an organization that works for the kingdom, and it's just a different title, "I do!"

Edlan nodded, and began to read the oath solemnly, and as he read it, Herold repeated it aloud—

"I swear to be kind to the weak"

"I swear to be brave against rape"

"I swear to fight all mistakes"

"I swear to fight for the unarmed"

"I swear to help anyone who asks me for help"

"I swear not to hurt any woman"

"I swear to help my brother knight"

"I swear to be sincere with my friends"

"I swear that I will die for what I love"

When Herrod's last proclamation was repeated, his face may have been flushed with anticipation from excitement, but he knew what was next, and he didn't look up, but tried to calm his breathing, waiting for the ceremony to finally come.

"I hope that you will abide by the Eight Virtues in the days to come, and fight for the Light, for the Kingdom, and for the people......" Edlan tapped Herold on the left and right shoulders with the back of the wide Brotherhood Sword, "In this way, I canonize you as a paladin in the name of Baron Anaheim." ”

The applause and cheers rang out, and the civilians and other soldiers had only been with Herold for a relatively short time, but this did not prevent them from being happy and congratulating this young man who always took the initiative to help civilians and did all kinds of dirty work.

In such cheers and congratulations, Herold felt as if he had reached the pinnacle of his life, but after the ceremony, Edlan poured cold water on this somewhat fluttering young man, "Boy, you will learn how to use the paladin's martial arts with me from tomorrow, in addition, you will have to spend a long time meditating every day to realize the Holy Light, I promise that this will make you unforgettable for the rest of your life." ”