Chapter 121: The Break (I)
Finn recited the vow in one breath in front of everyone, and then quietly looked at the old priest standing in front of him.
The Marshallese priest opened his mouth, but was speechless.
He felt his cheeks burn a little, after all, he had forgotten the oath, and the words of the Apocalypse Knight's oath to the god of justice and the dragon of judgment were the foundation of the Templar's teaching.
The canon in which this vow is recorded has been lost for a long time, and Pope Medrus himself has not mentioned it, and over time the clergy have chosen to remain silent.
Unexpectedly, Finn brought up this matter at this moment, and he couldn't refute it.
"Remember who made this vow first?" Seeing that the Marshallese priest was slow to speak, Finn asked him softly again.
“…… St. Anthony. After a moment's hesitation, the old priest replied truthfully.
"Yes, St. Anthony, the first Knight of the Apocalypse in history." The young paladin nodded, "You may have been to his church a few days ago. ”
The Marshallese priest was silent.
St. Anthony's Cathedral is the religious headquarters of the Church in honor of the first Knights of the Apocalypse in history, and is home to Pope Medrus and several high-ranking procurators of the Inquisition, where he left Hurengel the other day.
The old priest had a short temper, but he was not stupid, and he could hear that Finn was sarcastically mocking him just now.
"Can I see this as a formal break?" He closed his eyes, lowered his forehead to steady his mind, and after a while raised his gaze to look at Finn.
"You can." Finn looked him in the eye, his tone flat, but not arrogant, "If the dominant tenets within the church have decayed into this, then I'd rather not be with you anymore." ”
"Well, good." The Marshallese priest nodded with a sneer, "Very good......"
In an instant, the pupils in his eyes changed.
"My lord, be careful!" Sensing the change in the old priest's eyes, Arroyo immediately turned his head and shouted at Finn.
It was too late, and the next moment the Marshallese priest had already roared and picked up the warhammer on his shoulder and rushed towards Finn. His tall and muscular body and deafening voice were like an angry bear, and the magical flame granted by his natural ability rekindled on the heavy blunt instrument with a "boom", and the old priest of Hurengel was like a burning chariot running over the young paladin who only had a bladed sword in his hand.
The flames on the hammer raised the air around him by a few degrees, and Finn could feel the scorching air rushing towards his pavement.
He held his breath and stared directly at the heavy warhammer that the Marshallese priest had smashed into his face, his eyes flashing in front of his eyes, and the silver arc of light rose from his hand again, and a metallic tremor followed by a mid-air between him and the old priest.
The staggered sounds of silver swords and war hammers were so sharp that if you were there you could imagine how much brute force the two sides used to knock each other's weapons together, giving the illusion that the air was about to be shattered.
Finn's strength was still as terrifying as his attribute value reflected, the hammer in the hand of the Marshall priest was as fierce as his violent temper, the young man and the old man held a sword and a hammer and bounced away with their respective bodies in opposite directions, and the holy emblem bracelet in the old priest's left hand was raised at this time while both sides were retreating.
He was ready to pray for divine magic.
However, another sharp arc of light broke into the corner of his eye, and the old priest immediately stopped praying, picked up the hammer and slammed it in that direction, and Raymond's curved sword collided with the heavy blunt object in his hand with a second deafening sound.
After the sound, Raymond gripped the hilt of the curved sword with both hands, and took a few staggering steps to the side before regaining his footing.
At the same time, the Marshallese priest also took two steps back to stabilize his footing, and then angrily turned his gaze and glared at Raymond and shouted, "Get out of here, or you are also a heretic!" ”
After the words fell, he waved the war hammer in his hand and pointed at the latter, but obviously he didn't expect Raymond's temper to be much better than him, and then he heard the future sword saint glaring at him and yelling back: "Fuck you heresy, I saw an old dog biting people indiscriminately!" ”
As soon as his words fell, not only was the Marshallese priest dumbfounded, but even Finn was speechless for a moment.
Although the Marshallese priest was a little bad-tempered, Finn knew that he was also a highly respected figure within the church, and that he had made a non-negligible contribution to the human alliance in the future Demon Tide War, and the Violet Kingdom even erected a marble statue in Hurenger's square during the post-war reconstruction to commemorate the old man's stubbornness in the frontline battlefield until the last moment of his life.
In the original plot of the game, his life's exploits and the spiritual legacy left behind after his death are understandable, and Finn actually does not hate this old priest with a temper like an active volcano in his heart, but only regrets and pathos for the other party's still deceived beliefs.
But then again, he didn't hate the Marshallese Priest, but he did almost hold back his laughter just now, after all, for the first time in his life, he saw the old priest's face look as wonderful as it was now, and it stinked like a pit that had been thrown a fireball scroll...... Uh, bathroom.
The expression on the face of the Marshallese priest was really stinky at this time, and the only thing he wanted to do at this time was to smash the stunned young man in front of him with an arc-shaped sword, but he knew that he could not be completely carried away by anger, so he had to constantly warn himself in his heart of the danger of impulse, and the two rows of teeth in his mouth were ground as if they were about to eat people.
After Raymond broke into the fight, Arroyo and Arya then stepped out with weapons in front of Finn.
The Young Thief and the Elven Maiden didn't understand the rules of the Templar, but they believed what they saw, and chose to side with Fein, believing that the decision they had made was the right one.
All of a sudden, the situation was at a stalemate.
The Marshallese priest grinds his teeth and examines the young people who are united. At this time, the elven girl with both scimitars and crossbows suddenly caught a glimpse of a weak light shining on the young paladin behind her, and immediately turned her head in surprise and said, "Finn, on you?" ”
"Huh?" The young paladin was stunned.
Hearing Arya say this, he lowered his head and was about to examine his body, when suddenly he felt a tremor like an electric current rush up from the depths of his heart to connect to his mind, as if something resonated with his soul.
At that moment, he subconsciously closed his eyes, and the dark color brushed over his vision. Half a second later, he raised his head and reopened his eyes, and a ray of light like the dawn of dawn shot into the darkness, as if he had inadvertently broken into a vision, and the scene in front of him instantly became a vast wilderness.
The young paladin surveyed the strange wilderness in shock, and soon spotted a holy white dragon crouching in front of him, and saw a man in golden armor standing on the dragon's back with three pairs of light wings.
He remembered that the white dragon was none other than Tiagos, the dragon of judgment, and that man was none other than Gazteth, the god of justice.
The god of justice stood on the back of the dragon, looking down condescendingly at a man standing in front of him, and the three ancient knights of the apocalypse, St. Anthony, Hagia Sophia, and St. Drummond, stood solemnly on either side of the god and the dragon.
The man standing before the god of justice and the dragon of judgment bowed his forehead humbly, grasped the hilt of a long sword with both hands, so that the tip of the sword was pointing downward, the handle of the sword was tapping against the center of his brow, and swore an oath in a deep and powerful voice.
"By the blood of God and in the name of judgment, I hereby make this vow, which I will fulfill in this life unto death. I will not be arrogant, I will not be arbitrary, I will not save when I die, I will not use cowardice as an excuse to escape, I will not sacrifice my responsibilities for the sake of stealing my life; I will be humble and self-disciplined, discerning right from wrong, giving the most sincere aid of good, giving the most heroic blow to evil, and taking glorious sacrifice as a penance of atonement and the sublimation of the soul; I am the sword of the order of the world, the shield of the Great Wall of civilization, the clouds and stars that protect the sun and the moonlight, and I will always remind myself that my backbone must be as strong as a sword, and my heart will be as strong as a shield. From now on, I will give my life and glory to eternal righteousness, as I do today, and this life will be! ”
Finn listened to the vow as he stood behind the man, and could confirm that the oath was exactly the same as he had read before the Marshallese Celebrant a few minutes earlier, except for the tone of the oath.
After the oath was completed, the man standing in front of the God of Justice and the Dragon of Judgment seemed to sense Finn's presence, and he put down the sword that had been knocked on his forehead and turned around. The moment the man turned around, Finn recognized the other person as the fourth Knight of the Apocalypse, along with St. Anthony, Hagia Sophia, and St. Drummond.
In a stunned trance, the Knight of the Apocalypse named Dejia nodded at him and smiled, his eyes projecting a look of trust and encouragement, like a kind father looking proudly and approvingly at his own heir.
Finn blinked inexplicably.
At that moment, he didn't call the game system, but the familiar stats panel appeared on his retina, and a horizontal bar in the talent column on it shattered into a dense line of data particles at an astonishing speed, and then began to quickly reassemble new words, quickly printing the first word from left to right.
That word is shown as "Inherit", which means inherit.
The particles that have come back together are marked with a small dot after "Heritage", and the remaining word is revealed.
"Enlighten" - This is the suffix of the previous word, which stands for enlightenment.
His talent awakened at this time.