Bang Bang Bang!

As the words fell, applause came, and Benedictas stepped out of the shadows, nodded to Anduin and smiled, "I must retract my previous evaluation, Anduin, when you answered the question of exposing Jayhain, I didn't think you were a good lord, completely inflexible, and didn't understand the importance of stabilizing the townspeople. ”

Seeing that everyone was on guard, the archbishop stopped understandingly: "Now, I want to apologize to you, I have once again mistaken you. Just as you are different from the corrupt priests, you are also different from the regular lords, and you take a pro-people route, it is no wonder that Masheif will change so quickly, after all, a nobleman can always impress these low-end laborers when he lowers his profile, and I have to say that your means of buying people's hearts are very clever. ”

Anduin frowned: "Not everyone is like you, who is bright on the outside and dark on the inside. ”

Benedictas waved his hand, smiled and said, "Okay, don't discuss this issue, you have to stay away from this land after all, it's just a waste of time to talk about this, it just so happens that there are no outsiders now, we can talk openly and honestly, I want to invite you to be my assistant and work together to promote the arrival of twilight." ”

"I refuse."

Anduin's answer was very crisp, but the archbishop shook his head repeatedly: "Don't be busy making decisions, I want to tell a story of my own, and after listening to it, it will not be too late for you to answer." ”

Without waiting for Anduin to speak, Benedictas began to tell himself: "When I was young, like you, I was determined to pursue the light, and I showed my talent early, and I was taken in as a student by an archbishop, and I understood the true meaning of the Light.

"To tell you the truth, I really enjoyed the time when I was concentrating on the Holy Light Divine Technique, the teachers were friendly, my peers were respectful, many women admired me, and I was surrounded by compliments, of course, I did not immerse myself in it, but after a little success, I chose to travel, just because I found that the church was too utilitarian, and I only ran for profit from top to bottom, which was diametrically opposed to the true meaning of the Holy Light that I agreed with."

As he spoke, the smile on the archbishop's face disappeared, and he turned to a little loneliness: "Sadly, when I look back, I find that the people in that church are the purest, they are all utilitarian, but they are fighting for the future, and the other churches I have come into contact with are all more or less hidden, even the temple in the center of the empire. ”

Benedictas stared at Anduin with a strange smile: "Can you imagine a respected bishop secretly imprisoning many children for his sexual pleasure? Can you imagine a pastor who usually has a simple style of work takes advantage of his power to make a lot of money? Can you think of a church that is supposed to educate the world, but instead plots to kill the local lords and install puppets to rule one side?

"You can't!"

The archbishop's voice echoed in the darkness, and Anduin saw that he was angry, and thought about it but did not speak.

Benedictas sighed: "I have traveled many places, I have seen too much darkness, I once thought that I could use the holy light I have learned to awaken these sinking/fallen priests, but every time I try, without exception, I fail, I don't care about being ridiculed, but I can't forget the last failure." In a small church, I was fortunate to find like-minded pious pastors who were just as cynical as I was, and who wanted to change the rotten status quo.

"All of us preached together, gradually infecting the local population, attracting more and more believers to be sincere and good, we were immersed in joy, but we did not see the butcher's knife quietly raised by the local lord, and one night, the church was destroyed, and no one was spared except me, I went incognito to find out the situation, and wanted to expose it to the Holy See, but the result was ignored, and then I realized that since the lord dared to do it, he had naturally taken care of everything."

Anduin guessed in his heart that it was the archbishop who was in the way of his wealth, and then Benedictas made a concluding statement.

"I was kicked out of the church, and I was disheartened by the Light, I felt that all the teachings in the Bible were just empty words, but I did not give up the pursuit of the Light, I planned to find it and destroy it, but it was too difficult, only becoming a Pope was possible, fortunately, by chance, I came into contact with Twilight's true meaning, and realized that I didn't have to do it myself, just push Twilight to last, and let the Light disappear on its own."

As the words fell, the archbishop looked at Anduin again: "Anduin, you are still young, you don't know how sinister this world is, you don't know how depraved the Holy See is, come to me, let us work together to destroy those who claim to be holy but sanctimonious!" ”

At this moment, the townspeople all looked nervously at Anduin's back, if Anduin chose to agree, then their fate can be imagined.

It's just that they didn't see Anduin's expression, not only were they not affected by the words, but their tone was also surprisingly flat: "I'm sorry, Archbishop Benedictas, your heartfelt words seem to me to be just the self-evasion of the incompetent, you have no way to change the status quo, you simply choose to go along with it, you keep saying that you want to destroy the Light, in the final analysis, it is just to satisfy your desire for revenge." ”

Anduin, no matter how Benedictas's eyes changed, continued to count without hesitation: "You yourself said that becoming a pope would make it possible to contact the Light, but you eventually abandoned this path and turned to Twilight, obviously, even you yourself consider yourself a coward, so you are no different from those who claim to be holy but sanctimonious.

"I think, maybe it's the first church, which invisibly makes you a utilitarian person, you want to change the world, but you don't have a perseverance, you look for the next church again and again, to put it bluntly, it's just to give up again and again, the last failure, probably because you thought you had found a shortcut to the south, but unfortunately you were blinded by surprises, completely ignoring the local situation, the so-called decisive way of wealth is like killing your parents, I think that the lord is wrong, but you must also have something wrong."

"Enough!"

The archbishop roared angrily, interrupting Anduin's counting, and although he was a little irritable, his eyes were unwavering: "Anduin, I will always keep these words in my heart, and when you truly see how dark this world is, I will return it to you as it is." ”

Benedictas raised his scepter, his eyes indifferent: "Don't you want to save these townspeople?" Now, I'm going to give you a glimpse of the real darkness! ”

Then, under the horrified gaze of all the townspeople, the archbishop recited a melodious incantation, and the light that lingered around him was no longer gentle, but surging like a flame, as if in the next moment it would turn into a fire of punishment and burn them to ashes.

Anduin realized that this was the [Sacred Fire] that could only be mastered at the archbishop level, and the reward for the task of collecting cards in the fifth stage was this powerful ability.

Listening to the commotion and screams coming from behind him, Anduin did not sit still, he suddenly raised his scepter and launched the magic [Silence] with crystal energy, and then the archbishop's voice suddenly suffocated, although the difference in strength failed to make his previous achievements undone, but also let Anduin see the hope of breaking the situation!

If you can't finish reading the incantation, the sacred fire will not be able to start, Anduin seized this opportunity, and began to brush up the silence extremely crazy, anyway, there is no limit to the number of times the skill can be cast, the price is just a mana crystal, and now he can say with a lot of money, you don't lack anything, but there is no shortage of mana crystals!

Benedictas spent the next five indescribable seconds, and every time he tried to confide in the incantation, an unknown force would suddenly interrupt him, at first he thought it was Anduin who had cast a divine spell to silence him, but after being interrupted several times in a row, he denied the idea, because no one had ever been able to activate this ability continuously.

【Boom Boom ......】

A certain system let out a rampant laugh, and Anduin made persistent efforts, gritting his teeth and ruthlessly, spending four hundred oceans to exchange for [Prince Varana]. Suddenly, the elven prince of the Lost Empire appeared at Anduin's side, and without saying a word, launched a magical attack on the archbishop.

The second mate of the mage and the orc captain were both at the peak of the third order, and they were inferior to the fourth-order powerhouse Benedictas, but his move completely interrupted the spell casting action of the holy fire, making the archbishop flash aside in some embarrassment.

"Anduin, your abilities are amazing!" Benedictas couldn't help but sigh, "Not only artillery, but also blood elves can be summoned, I saw a few extra pairs of footsteps on the beach last night, presumably it was also your handiwork, come and join our camp, sooner or later you will regret being with the Light." ”

"I'm sorry, it's because the Holy Light feels that there are too many people like you in the Holy See, so I hereby send down a legacy for me to purge the corrupt and filthy." Anduin's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he naturally pulled the banner of the Holy Light, "And you are the first!" ”

"Hahahaha!"

Benedictas seemed to hear the joke, and with a wave of his hand in laughter, he used strong silence to get the second mate of the mage, Anduin saw this, and immediately summoned a large number of followers, and if he couldn't fight alone, he would fight in groups, his biggest advantage was not anything else, that is, there were many people!

Suddenly, more than a dozen figures of various kinds appeared in front of Anduin, including humans, goblins, bull-headed ship doctors, and ghosts and ghosts.

Although the archbishop is a fourth-order powerhouse, he is a human after all, and he has no capital to confront cannonballs head-on, so he can only weaken the impact power with holy light in a hurry, but he still let his chest be hit by cannonballs, which immediately set off a thick dust mist and obscured his vision.

The townspeople hiding behind Anduin did not dare to come out, watching the archbishop disappear, thinking that Anduin had won, but a voice came faintly from the dust and mist: "Anduin, I really appreciate you more and more, your ability is far beyond my imagination, I hope you can persevere, until the time is desperate, I will welcome you in the twilight." ”

For some reason, Anduin felt that the archbishop had the idea of retreating, and sure enough, a terrible dragon roar suddenly came, and Benedictas also showed his figure, with blood hanging from the corners of his mouth, but his eyes did not dim in the slightest: "The people of the Explorers' Guild are here, and it is time for me to leave, although I have not fulfilled my greatest wish, but I have finally gained a little." ”

Then, he threw a necklace to Anduin: "Thank you for helping me get rid of Seriona, this string of holy light diamonds, which I have worn since I became a priest, now I will completely shed my disguise, it is of no use to me, so I will give it to you as a thank you gift, I hope that the pure light of the diamonds will inspire your faith." ”

As the words fell, Benedictas closed his eyes, and then his body burst with bright light, making it impossible to look directly, Andu, for fear of deception, directly let all his followers stand in front of everyone, fortunately, the archbishop did not have the idea of ending up together, but completely abandoned the faith in the Holy Light, and became a person and a ghost.

At this time, he was still wearing a white robe, but his holy posture was gone, but he revealed a thick dead air, and with that wrinkled withered face, he was no different from the walking dead.

"At this moment, I have shed the shell of the Holy Light, and I have also thrown off the shackles of Twilight, and from now on, I will travel the world as a priest and strive for Twilight to live forever."

Benedictas looked at his gloomy palm, showing a nonchalant look, he looked deeply at Anduin before leaving, his smile was still kind and calm: "I'll be back, Anduin, I hope that the next time we meet, we can talk about faith again." ”