It is not easy to fight against the god of hunting - Marat.

There are no allies in this world for no reason, and with the water of life in Sauron's hands, he is a little more sure of asking the eldest princess to make a move. However, the premise of everything still depends on his next plan, and he has prepared a lot of things to deal with the God of Hunting. There are even things that have to come at a price.

Before the actual implementation of the plan.

Sauron also had a rather important thing to do, and that was to go to the Wilderness Gobi to meet some people.

The attitude of these people is the key to all of Sauron's next plans, if they are willing to help Sauron, then Sauron does not need to activate the backup plan, but if they are not willing to help Sauron, then Sauron can only rely on the backup plan to deal with the god of hunting, Marat.

These people are the Holy Warriors!

Sauron's attitude towards the Paladins has always been complicated.

As a figure in the orderliness camp, he was very appreciative of the paladin's behavior in maintaining order, but because of the opposition between good and evil, Sauron had a violent conflict with the paladin in terms of his methods and ways of doing things.

For so long.

Sauron had always avoided the obvious confrontation with the paladins, and on several occasions he had even favored the other party's help.

For example, where is the core material of the Holy Avenger!

As well as against the vampire gods, although Sauron's goal was to solve a dangerous enemy once and for all, it is undeniable that he also saved the lives of those holy warriors.

Sauron traveled to the Desert Gobi to meet them, and from here they could quickly reach their place of cultivation by passing through the Elven Forest and following the route of the Eastern Trade. Sauron needed to meet them and test the attitude of these paladins towards him before considering making a small request.

This little request is to borrow the Holy Avenger!

That's right.

Sauron wants to use the power of the Holy Avenger to take down the god of hunting, Marat!

As one of the most powerful weapons in the material plane, the Holy Avengers completely crushed all of Sauron's equipment in all aspects of their abilities.

But this weapon was not in his possession.

Anyone who is not a holy warrior takes possession of this weapon, and it will lead to endless trouble!

Sauron was able to use the Holy Avenger.

Although the process is a bit painful, it is also very mentally damaging. But it is undeniable that with the power of the [Versatile Hand], Sauron can use the Holy Avenger to sustain a battle.

Against the vampire gods, the most powerful weapon in the material plane has proven its power!

So, when deciding to deal with Marat, the god of hunting, Sauron's mind immediately popped up with this weapon. If you can fight with the Holy Avenger, then Sauron's chance of victory can be increased by at least 20%, and this weapon can be said to have a unique advantage against Marat, the god of hunting in the [Chaos and Evil] camp. Its great lethality is combined with Sauron's explosive ability, if it can get the help of other powerful people. It may even be possible to play again with the crushing advantage of the last battle.

With the Holy Avengers in hand, Sauron's booking plan can be cut in half.

Even, it is possible that he does not have to go to great lengths to provoke conflicts between the God of Hunting and other gods, as long as he avoids being besieged by the believers of the Hunting Church, and finds an opportunity to kill the God of Hunting head-on.

But!

Sauron couldn't figure out the attitude of the paladins towards him, and he couldn't be sure if they would lend him this most important relic, so he secretly provoked the conflict between the Hunting Church and the Suffering Church in advance.

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The sky is full of wind and sand.

Sauron's figure appeared outside the Gobi Desert.

With the Sage Holocaust on the horizon, routes to the eastern realms have become dangerous, and terrible climate mutations have buried many passing merchants. As a result, not many people have crossed the vicinity of the Desert of Death for the time being.

The Paladin's secret base cannot be easily approached.

If you run into a brain-pumping guy and throw a 'Detect Faction' spell at Sauron, then the rest will be awkward.

Do it?

Do you want to borrow the Holy Avenger?

Hands-off?

What if the other party has to attack Sauron, the evil guy?

So.

The wisest choice would be to find someone Sauron had met before, so as to avoid a direct conflict. Paladins also know how to be polite. If someone who has been in contact with it in advance appears, the other paladins should no longer cast faction-detecting spells on Sauron. In terms of workaround, these paladins who lived in seclusion near the Gobi were much easier to get along with than those in the Church of Radiance.

Those just can't hold sand in their eyes!

Who to look for?

The ideal target would naturally be His Excellency the Warden, who had a high position within the Paladin.

However, Sauron was not familiar with him. So his first target should be the young paladin he had seen in the City of Fortune. If you can connect with the Holy Avengers through him, and then find a way to lend the weapon even at some cost, then the rest of the matter will be much easier.

Get!

This is a bit of a troublesome question.

But. Sauron's current access to manpower was no longer what it used to be, and he quickly learned of the paladins' movements.

Arendelle.

Now that they have obtained the important parts of the Holy Avenger, the most important thing for the paladins at the moment is naturally to repair this weapon. However, there are very few people in the entire material plane who can repair this weapon, and one of the most powerful artifacts in the material plane is not a joke. Even the most skilled master smiths in the human realm have no way to repair the Holy Avenger even the slightest. Because this weapon is an artifact, it has a residual powerful divine power on it.

In other words, it must reach a level where it can wield divine power in order to repair the weapon.

Look at the entire material plane.

There are very few people who can do this, not only to be able to use divine power, but also to have a very high level of proficiency in magic weapons, and to be able to find out only those few people with a broken finger.

The eldest princess of Arendelle!

There is no doubt that the eldest princess is very powerful as a divine warlock, and she is also the only person in the entire north who can easily mobilize divine power.

Secondly, the eldest princess, as a high-level legendary caster or above, has a very high-end understanding of alchemy enchantment.

The part found in the Dark Regions is the Eye of Tyr.

This thing is also an artifact-level material, but it is not just casually inlaid on it, the complicated process involved in it, and the price it needs to pay, is enough to make anyone think twice. In order to restore an incomplete artifact to its peak state, the amount of divine power required to be consumed alone can make Sauron have a toothache just thinking about it.

So.

Not surprisingly, the Paladin's progress in repairing the Holy Avengers was not progressive, as the eldest princess of Arendelle was simply not willing to expend her precious divine power to help them.

So things have dragged on until now.

……………… (To be continued......)