Chapter Twenty-Three: Bernard
Roland looked at the madman in front of him, and there was a rare look of nervousness on his face.
Bernard the Skinless, whose full name is Bernard. The Whooter of Stiegler had been a brilliant Caral robber a hundred years earlier, and was part of the Serco Safinn group.
But what sets Bernard apart from those brainless guys is that he's a very clever robber.
Generally speaking, street robbery is actually a very low-risk job. They will pick on passing caravans and bring them to a halt while flexing their muscles. At this time, the caravan had to let the mercenaries escort it, and let the elders among them come forward to negotiate with the representatives of the robbers.
If the robbers are sure that the other party has a certain level of strength, they will talk nonsense and evacuate directly; If you are sure that you will not be able to defeat the mercenaries, you will leave without saying a word. If the robbers choose the former, the mercenaries must give 10% of the commission to the robbers as a thank you for their face.
It's already a kind of legalistic rule. Unless the difference in strength is too great, neither side will go to war - after all, if the cargo is accidentally damaged in the middle of the battle, it is not a good thing for either side.
The robber needs the tacit understanding of the mercenaries, and the mercenaries also need the presence of the robbers. As the Templars, the gods of contract, mercenaries had a target of tasks they had to complete each month, and merchants were profitable - if there were no robbers, who would pay for a mercenary to accompany them?
It is the threat of robbers that will give mercenaries something to do; And it is precisely because of the mercenary's sensibility that the robber can at least get a little money without having to work hard. Many years have passed, and the two professions have long formed a tacit understanding, and neither will break this mutually beneficial and win-win situation.
However, Bernard is different from them. He's a very smart. But at the same time, he is also a greedy robber.
Because of the unclear relationship between the robbers and the mercenaries, the robbers in Carlar will be officially attacked. And Bernard was based on the national conditions of Carral, with a very clear attitude to sneak attacks, guerrillas and traps to obstruct the mission of the mercenaries many times, not only harvested a lot of wealth, but also hit the prestige of the God of Contract, and was officially rewarded by Carral.
After receiving official acquiescence. Bernard intensified his ransacking of the hidden church in the mountains of Carral and sold the heads of the priests to the druids at a high price. Soon, Bernard was blacklisted by the gods and given a degree of permission to plunder legally, even buying a small amount of troops. Prepare to arm your own bandits.
However, Bernard's greed overwhelmed his brilliant mind. During a routine raid, the defeated mercenaries were pursued by Bernard's bandits, and he even crossed the border in Karar with a fever. This led directly to the arrest of Bernard himself.
Fortunately, before being executed, Bernard was able to regain his IQ in time.
He passed bribes. The way to bribe the local bishop. He disfigured his face and swapped identities with another disfigured prisoner. But the bishop later repented and left Bernard in the deepest part of the dungeon and never bothered to do so. Even his name was crossed out of the warden's register, and his daily food was not his share.
Had it not been for the locked room in which Bernard led to the sewers, which also happened to be the cramped room used in the local prison to dump corpses and household garbage, he would have starved to death or died of thirst. But even then, Bernard was subjected to daily starvation in order to survive by eating food scraps, dirt, excrement, and rotting corpses of other prisoners.
In the darkness of complete darkness and silence, his sanity gradually crumbled. Only when the sweepers opened the skylight above his head and dumped the garbage downwards would a faint light shine over his head. Later. Bernard even lost the concept of time.
Then, he went crazy.
But at the same time. Bernard's perception had improved exponentially, and he had even faintly heard the whispers of dusk, but the voice never came back after he had mockingly scolded the priest as an old and foolish priest.
Before the death of his body, Bernard had already experienced the death of his social status and had begun to be forgotten. If nothing else. He would have died in obscurity in the rancid and damp sewers, until he was reduced to bones, and no one would have noticed his existence.
What changed his fate was a druid textbook. The book is called "The Father of Gaia Tells Us" and was published in 897 in the Apsaric calendar to listen to the holy texts of the Patricks.
Bernard, who had gone mad, accidentally regained some of his sanity through this book, and became a druid without any guidance or education, and received the holy name of the Deerhelm.
Reason and madness intertwine in Bernard's psyche. Relying on the protection of Gaia's father, Bernard regained more and more reason, but with the fall of Gaia's father, Bernard's rising soul suddenly fell to the bottom.
Bernard went crazy for the second time. This time, no one could redeem his soul again.
He ripped off the skin from his body, broke off the antlers from his head, shouted the name of Higgs, and scribbled the holy book with his antlers as a pen and his own blood as ink, and filled it with blasphemy against nature, the gods, and the world.
As expected, Bernard destroyed the prison where he had been imprisoned for more than a decade, and sacrificed all of them to Higgs, who had a snake in his eye, and gained extraordinary powers.
As a boss who can show his face for a moment in the trailer of Lost Christmas, Bernard's strategy is no worse than Marco's. The only good thing is that this product is lonely, and there is only one boss in the capital, so players will be in a better state when they face him......
In Roland's impression, Bernard was even much stronger than Jupiter IV. After all, there's a version between the two.
Roland was very sure that he must have been calculated. Although Bernard does not have the ability to die as a cruel priest like Marco, he is immune to almost all divine arts, and at the same time has a considerable degree of immortality, which is simply Roland's nemesis.
If you can find this thing to deal with yourself, that person must know you well.
But...... Who exactly?
Roland was sure that he should not have revealed his real name in front of many people.
But......
Roland's eyes grew cold.
At this time, Bernard should be far less strong than he was later.
Besides, Roland is not a player now, but a voter who also has a boss template.
Even if he was restrained, Bernard's blasphemous tooth had not yet been obtained, and he could not do anything about Roland. At most, it's just dragging Roland here.
"Rest in peace......"
Roland prayed in a low voice, and a silver-gray halo gradually ignited from Roland's body.
Let's try Bernard's current strength - (To be continued.) )