There are a lot of pedestrians coming and going in the town.

This desert city is called Hadar, which seems to mean 'the watchman of the desert', which is an ancient language in the East, and it is estimated that many learned wizards do not know much about it. Walking in here gave Sauron the feeling of stepping back in time to the Middle Ages in the West, with a mixed population that was a bit like Jerusalem, with desert and Westerners and trading with different accents. Eastern merchants were somewhat reluctant to enter the western continent, so many goods would be sold in cities on the edge of the desert.

When he arrived, Sauron realized that he had forgotten something very important.

That is to learn the 'Fluent Language' spell.

Damn tongues!

Although there are many people who have a lingua franca, the main language is still oriental, and there are dialects of desert areas. Now he doesn't have a language translation system, and he can only understand one or two words a lot, and normal communication is more troublesome. But fortunately, he was only passing through here, so he could only talk to a businessman who knew the lingua franca.

The buildings in the city are the kind of domed people, and the most striking thing is probably the Desert Temple.

That's the Church of the Grim Reaper.

The priesthood of death has always been an important area of contention among the gods, so almost every god system has a god involved in the realm of death. The desert temple in front of you is the church of Nephthys, the goddess of wealth and death, the oriental god. At the top of the temple church, Sauron saw a golden bowl with the emblem of the Circle of Life floating on it, a goddess of the chaotic good camp, and the priesthood extended from the realm of death was the 'patron saint of the dead', the kind of priesthood that protected the dead from being disturbed.

Therefore, the followers of this goddess are not considered difficult to deal with.

The Eastern gods were outsiders from the ancient imperial period. No one knows for sure where it came from, but the ancient empire once plundered a large number of people from other worlds, and then the Eastern Desert God System was born. For a long time, the Eastern Desert Gods rarely intervened in the struggles of other gods, and even in the chaotic times of the Arcane Empire, they were only a bystander. The belief in these gods was confined to desert areas. As for the eastern countries, it is a blind spot for the belief in the gods.

Because of the influence of the warrior monks, the Eastern kingdoms are more inclined to believe in 'nature' [Tao] rather than a specific deity.

This Tao is a bit like the so-called 'Heavenly Dao'.

But it is not the same way of heaven that people know, but a way that is more inclined to the spiritual, and the pursuit of the warrior monk is the sublimation of the individual.

If you have to use one word to describe it.

Sauron thought it should be the so-called 'Heaven and man are one!' ’

Anyway, he still has no way to distinguish the difference between the spiritual detachment pursued by the 'natural druid' and the 'warrior monk'. In his opinion, 'Heavenly Dao' and 'Nature' are basically the same thing, and Sauron is not the kind of person who is too attached to the spiritual world.

There is a passage that goes like this.

It was a book written by a druid wanderer who traveled to the East. This druid's last part-time warrior monk became a powerful legendary powerhouse.

- "In addition to the daily training, the practice of the warrior monks is mainly spiritual. They have a direct mystical connection to the spiritual world and feel the mysteries of nature in a meditative way, so they don't need priests and gods. During my travels to the East, I met many powerful warrior monks. They don't know any magic at all, but they can master many magical abilities through guò practice. This ability is not from a deity, nor is it any kind of arcane that I know, it is more like a gift from nature to a practitioner.

I think that's another natural way to do that.

Therefore, I decided to join them and use the practice of warrior monks to find the mysteries of nature. ”

………………

Sauron found a hotel to stay in for the time being, and then prepared to inquire about the news.

It was quite difficult to find a place in the middle of nowhere, and even he himself only knew the general direction, if no one had explored it. As a forerunner, Sauron may still need to dig a hole in it. Because his next target, the 'Anti-Detection Cloak', is in the underground ruins, and it is still buried in the underground ruins deep in the desert. Exploring this underground site is less like venturing into a dungeon cave and more like an archaeological discovery.

This can be done in the light of European raiders digging up the Egyptian pyramids. The first batch of underground ruins opened back then were almost all passages dug by adventurers who paid for money.

The geography of the desert also does not allow for the return of entrances for those who come after them for thousands of years.

Sauron roams the desert city, where adventurers from the East can be seen, and every year warrior monks embark on a spiritual journey, visiting the Druid churches on the other side of the continent, and learning from other professionals. As soon as they got close to the East, the number of warrior monks began to increase. However, most of the warrior monks still have hair. Only those who are prepared to strictly observe the precepts of a warrior monk, or those who have made a vow of poverty. will shave off their hair.

"Violence."

"If it's not for justice, then it's meaningless!"

Sauron first circled the place. But just as he was about to go back to the inn to rest, there was a sudden commotion ahead, and then a loud and hoarse voice came from the front, which made him stop his steps. There are a lot of people gathered in front of them, and it seems that it is people's nature to love to watch the excitement, and there are many people surrounded by the three layers in front of them. Even the nearby guards were attracted to it, but they didn't mean to stop it, and the expressions on their faces seemed to be a little overwhelmed.

Sauron also quietly walked over.

Immediately, a holy warrior with a face full of vicissitudes appeared in front of his eyes, and from his face, he vaguely looked very young, but unfortunately the wind and frost aura on his body was too heavy, making him look at least ten years older. This paladin was dressed in shabby silver armor, equipped with fish-scale gauntlets on his wrists, and in front of him was a man dressed as a desert warrior, and the scimitar in the opponent's hand was held in his hand like this, and he couldn't stab it if he wanted to, and he couldn't pull it out at all.

The paladin's face made Sauron stunned for a moment, and then he seemed to remember something, and his expression couldn't help but change slightly.

- "Righteous Judgment!" ”

Facing the desert warrior with a somewhat panicked face in front of him, a white light appeared in the paladin's palm, and he suddenly let go of his palm, pulled out the two-handed heavy sword at his waist, and pointed it at the enemy in front of him.

A blood-red glow emerged.

The man standing in front of the paladin had an evil aura on him.

This blood-red aura startled everyone else, and anyone with a little knowledge couldn't help but retreat again and again, because the desert warrior in front of him looked like a man with bloody hands.

"It's a sand pirate! He's a skull sand thief! ”

A merchant next to him seemed to remember something, and then said in an angry and frightened voice: "They ransacked the merchants who passed by, and they never left any alive. ”

The paladin didn't care about the others around him.

He looked at the man in front of him and said in a deep voice, "A week ago, you attacked a caravan from the city of oases and killed twenty-seven innocent people. ”

"You should pay for the crimes you have committed!"

The holy warrior slashed out with the heavy giant sword in both hands, and the desert warrior in front of him swung his sword rather wolfly, but the whole person flew out directly.

Bang!

His body slammed into the wall behind him, and he couldn't help but open his mouth to spit out a trace of blood.

"Justice!"

"Either by force or by law."

The holy warrior swung his giant sword again, and said in a deep voice, "But the law here seems to protect you, then I can only rely on force to uphold justice!" ”

A faint gleam appeared on the two-handed greatsword he clutched, and the paladin slashed down with his sword again.

Click!

A crisp cracking sound sounded.

The sand thief in front of him was directly cut off by the scimitar and was killed under his sword in an instant.

- "Destroy the evil spirit!" ”

The paladin glanced at the others, pausing for a moment as he skimmed Sauron, but quickly looked away.

He didn't recognize Sauron.

I saw him come to the corpse of the sand thief, leaned over the corpse and whispered a few words in a special language, then glanced at the guards with stiff expressions around him, and walked out of the city with one hand to lift the corpse.

None of the others could hear what he had just said.

However, when Sauron heard the strange language, he couldn't help but be stunned, because he was familiar with this passage.

It's a very old language.

It's impossible to know where it came from, but that's what it translates.

- "In the name of justice, avenge the weak!" ”

………………

In the creed of the Holy Warriors, there is a very important sentence.

- "Sympathize with the weak and protect women and children." ”

I'm afraid that even Sauron himself didn't expect that his words would really make the young paladin he met in the City of Fortune embark on the path of becoming a 'Holy Avenger'.

It didn't look like he had finished his test, though, because the true Holy Avenger wasn't what Sauron saw right now. But from him, Sauron had seen that he had completed many practices, for the Holy Avengers also had the test of asceticism. The truly formed Holy Avengers are all close to the strength of the legendary level, and although the sword he swung just now is very powerful, it is still far from the Avenger in Sauron's memory.

And his weapon is not a replica of the 'Holy Avenger', but an ordinary two-handed greatsword.

This means that he has not yet obtained the real qualifications!

The paladin left alone.

No one dared to stop him, and the City Watch just looked at the corpse of the sand thief that the paladin was carrying in one hand, and then looked away from here.

There are dark corners in any city.

The goods looted by the desert bandits eventually need to have a place to get out of their hands.

Sauron watched the departing figure of the paladin, his gaze seemed to move slightly, and then quietly followed.

……………… (To be continued) R466