Chapter 17: Darcy's Funeral

System Prompt: You have completed the Large Hidden Dungeon: Temple of War with 90% perfection, congratulations on reaching level 32

System Prompt: You are the first player to complete this quest, Strength +10, Endurance +10, Constitution +10, Dexterity +10, Spirit +10 Fighting Energy +100

System Tip: Large Hidden Dungeon Temple of War is closed

Is the so-called 90% perfection because of Darcy's death? Cecil couldn't help but think when he saw this prompt. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The five of them quickly escaped from the Temple of the God of War and floated up from the depths of the Lake of Clarity. After stepping back into the Forest of Clarity, everyone found that the ferocious and brutal crocodile just now was like a deflated ball, languishing. Not only can there be no lord-level crocodiles, even elite-level crocodiles are difficult to find, and the level of brutal crocodiles has also dropped significantly, and some weak brutal crocodiles have even dropped to level 25 or less. It seems that with the disappearance of the blasphemy array in the temple below, the monsters that have been strengthened in the Forest of Clear Light have become weaker than the original after losing their strengthened power. This is the so-called state after the chicken blood has been drained.

Because the three mentors were injured, the five of them were relatively slow, and they walked for 2 hours before they walked out of the Chengguang Forest, and when they passed through the temple, they happened to meet the mentor-level figures of many temples, because the great priests of the major temples detected that the legendary figures of the blasphemous sect who were rushing here were quickly evacuating here, and the sky-high golden light when Kratos left and returned to the astral boundary caused huge energy fluctuations, and almost all the observation magic balls of the temples in the royal city were directly shattered. The gods and the kingdom's legends all thought that it was the Temple of the God of War that had made a big announcement, much earlier than they thought. Soon a large number of high-level forces were sent here to support, and they happened to meet Cecil and his party.

The three mentors happened to be picked up by the large army, and the high-ranking priest and priestess of the Temple of Life who accompanied them immediately treated the three. He then asks Cecil and Andy about what happened at the temple, but neither Cecil nor Andy is good at words. In the end, it was Antonio who endured the injury and explained the ins and outs of the matter to everyone. Everyone sighed, especially some people in the crowd who had a good relationship with Duke Elt, and they couldn't help but cry when they heard Darcy's death.

The group quickly returned to the royal city, and everyone had to return to their respective temples to report the situation, and Collins and Cecil returned to the Temple of Dawn after saying goodbye to everyone at the crossroads.

Upon their return to the Temple of Dawn, Cecil and Collins were quickly summoned by Archpriest Alonso, who gave a detailed report of the mission to Archpriest Alonso. Alonso's facial expression didn't change after hearing this, but he turned to Cecil.

"Cecil Paladin, just now I received a revelation from the Lord of the Dawn while praying, he has explained to me that you have taken up the profession of the Temple of War part-time, and said that it was with his permission, and here I would like to congratulate you on obtaining the power of the Spellbreaker profession. Hopefully, you can promote friendship between the Temple of Dawn and the Temple of War. ”

Cecil felt that he couldn't cry or laugh, there was no king of the God of War Temple, and only the imperial capital of the Illuk Empire had a God of War Temple in the entire Lovalan Continent, and that Temple of War was very mysterious, even if he was a player in his previous life, even if he spent most of his time in the Arrow Imperial Capital, he had never had any interaction with this God of War Temple, and now that he is far away from the El Rok Empire, it is estimated that he may not have the opportunity to go to that God of War Temple in his life.

Although he was complaining in his heart, Cecil didn't dare to say anything, and pretended to be very serious. The Grand Priest Alonso didn't say anything more, and let Cecil go, but Collins somehow didn't go, and it seemed that he had something to say to the Grand Priest.

It was already the middle of the day when he came out of the Temple of Dawn, and when he was busy, he didn't feel that as soon as he was free, a sense of sleepiness immediately invaded Cecil's brain nerves, after all, he hadn't slept for more than a day since early yesterday morning, and after a fierce battle, his body had reached its limit. When he got home, Cecil collapsed on his bed and fell asleep.

As soon as he got up the next morning, Cecil got a report from the old butler that someone was visiting, and Cecil hurriedly invited someone in, and it turned out to be Andy. It turned out that the Elt family was going to hold a funeral for Darcy today, and the archmage Antonio asked his disciple Andy to find Cecil and take him to Duke Elt's family cemetery to attend the funeral.

The two of them didn't have anything to say on the road, and Cecil knew that the dragon warlock was a man of few words, so he didn't take the initiative to talk to Andy, but soon Andy took the initiative to talk to Cecil

"Thank you for saving me, I know that if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have been killed."

Cecil was surprised by Andy's thanks, and hurriedly said, "It's nothing, this is how it should be, isn't it my duty to protect others from interrupting your spells?" Your teleportation skills are so powerful, isn't it because you didn't move a single step of duty, and after all, we were all saved by Darcy. ”

Hearing Darcy, Andy was clearly in a state of sadness. Cecil had to find something to talk about on his own

"By the way, Andy, will you stay in the Soloran Kingdom forever?"

"No, I will say goodbye to my teacher tomorrow, travel around the world, increase my knowledge, improve my strength, and then I will return to Kabrada."

It seems that the experience in the game is similar to that when Cecil entered the game, Andy was already a second-order archmage. But Cecil, the background of his dragon vein sorcerer, was only now known.

The two sides quickly reconciled with their own arrival, and then the four of them quickly walked to the cemetery of the Elt family.

Darcy's corpse has been shattered by Vallotte's blow during the Battle of the Temple of War, and the equipment will disappear with the death of the natives in Lovalan's setting (unless exploded by the player). So the Ayrt family had to find a set of civilian clothes worn by Darcy to make his clothes mound.

Many people came to the funeral, the Duke and Lady of Elt and his four sons and three daughters all attended the funeral, and the small lords under the duke, the nobles who knew the duke well, no less than three or four hundred people came. Rochester, the High Priest of the Temple of the Brave, even came, and Rochester presided over the funeral to highly commend Darcy's piety and loyalty, but these things no longer seemed to Cecil. For a dead man, glory has nothing to do with him.

Cecil found that the Duke of Elt's family seemed to have an inexplicable hostility towards him, and Cecil guessed that they might have taken their anger on Darcy's death, and that a son so promising and hopeful had died just like that, and that it was to save an insignificant man. It's hard to accept this fact anyway, so even if Duke Elt's family has a prejudice against him, Cecil can accept it calmly.

Cecil also unexpectedly discovered that Baron Kuresta who came to his house that night to withdraw from his marriage, the baron should belong to the same system as Count Cassikud, and he should not have a deep relationship with Duke Ayrt, I don't know why he came here. There was also a young woman beside him, with long blond hair, beautiful and heroic, but there was a faint sadness on her face. Could this woman be his former fiancée, Talis? Cecil kept comparing the image of this girl with the image of the little girl in his memory, but he had not remembered it for too long.

With Cecil's burial, the Grand Priest of Rochester finished reading the eulogy, and the funeral was nearing the end, and after everyone had paid their respects, some people who had a relatively little relationship with Duke Elt had already said goodbye, while others were by Duke Elt's side to comfort the grieving Duke of Elt and Mrs. Elt. Cecil didn't pay attention to all this, but still stood in front of the tomb and deeply remembered Darcy, if it wasn't for Darcy's provocative skill, then the dead person should be himself, and the person who got the god of war reward to achieve the lawbreaker should be Darcy, with Darcy's excellent template talent, with the huge background behind Darcy. Once Darcy takes on a part-time job as a lawbreaker, he will have an infinitely bright future. But Darcy did not consider this, and still firmly chose death, perhaps this is the belief of a knight.

The Duke and the others gradually left the place, and there were fewer and fewer people, Cecil took a look. Baron Cassikud and his daughter had not even left, and the baron was obviously accompanying his daughter, who stared at Darcy's tomb silently, without saying a word, and seemed to be pinning infinite thoughts.

As soon as Cecil considered whether he was going to say hello to the baron, his mentor came over: "How about it, boy, come with me for a drink." ”

Cecil saw that the teacher invited him to drink, and wondered if the teacher had something to say to him. So I went to the tavern with Collins. The two of them walked together to the dilapidated downtown area, in this chaotic place where bastards, hooligans, thieves, and mercenaries gathered, Collins was like a fish in water, and as soon as he entered the street, almost everyone greeted him, and it seemed that the teacher was still very famous in this area.

The two of them went straight to the tavern that Collins frequented and asked for two glasses of barley wine, although this barley-fermented wine was not as good as his favorite Tsingtao beer, but after such a long time, Cecil still felt very comfortable when the cold barley wine came to his mouth.

Collins and Cecil talked for a long time, and Cecil found that his mentor was well-informed, and he was very familiar with what he had seen and heard in various parts of Lovalan. Cecil is also familiar with the basic setting of the continent of Lovalain. However, when it comes to some details, Collins has to give him popular science, and Cecil is amazed at the depth of his teacher's knowledge.

After three rounds of drinking, Collins began to ask Cecil, "Boy, do you know today why your ex-father-in-law and your ex-fiancée went to Darcy's funeral?" ”

Cecil was shocked, although the marriage contract between Baron Cassikud and his own marriage and the divorce was not a secret, but not many people knew about it, and the teacher actually knew, which showed that his mentor was still very concerned about his news.

Collins ignored what Cecil was thinking, and continued: "Because your fiancée has always liked Darcy, Darcy was actually a probationary knight of the temple before joining the Temple of Heyronis in the official examination, and the teacher of both of them was that kid from Roinert. Of course, you have your own reasons for being divorced, but Talis and Darcy are also in love. After the divorce with you, the two of them made a lifelong decision, and if Darcy was not dead, the two of them would probably have a wedding when they came back this time. ”

Cecil was shocked to hear this secret, Darcy pried his fiancée away, but lost his life to save himself, it seems that the goddess of fate is really capable of playing tricks.