Chapter 22: Mark the Deceived
Roland had no idea of clashing with Mark from the beginning.
Although the name Marco first appeared in the ears of players, it was after the separation of the Ring of Ashes and the Ring of the South Wind that he became known to some high-end players as the leader of the Ashes. But in reality, the day he became famous was much earlier than that.
At that time, Roland specialized in the study of Mark in order to get the profession of the Ash Disciple.
In the beginning, the Abandonment was not a title as it was later, but a single reference to Mark.
At that time, Marco's name was not Marco.
It only took him three months to obtain the Seven Rings Divine Technique from the goddess of war, Sivir, and advanced to a silver-level glorious priest, because of his talent is really outstanding, he was personally invited by Sivir to serve as a district bishop in Zursa Province, which can be said to be young and promising.
However, no one knew that before he became the priest of the goddess of war, he was a loyal follower of the god of fire and hammer, the god of pain and deception, and the goddess of life, and that he had never been lower than the silver rank before betraying them. When he used a pseudonym to enter the temple of the goddess of war, his other three names were wanted by each of the three temples with different powers.
It's incredible. When the priest advances to silver, the nature of the soul will change, and he will get closer to his god in order to live longer.
No one has ever been able to achieve higher attainments by converting to other gods after the Silver Rank, let alone the Three Pillars of Neutrality, Evil, and Good. Roland, who investigated here, also felt incredible, this product was simply official. But he vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
At the time, Roland speculated that Marco's miracle might have another reason.
After Roland finally found out Marco's first name, it came to light. The hardships of his life and the blood of his story even made Roland not know whether to laugh or cry.
Marco started out as a commoner and opened a blacksmith shop in his family. His family was very gifted, but he suffered from a peculiar illness in which his whole body gradually weakened, and his strength and constitution gradually weakened with age until he died.
Roland, of course, knew it was muscle atrophy, and there was already a fairly effective treatment at the White Tower at the time.
However, Marco's family is in the remote mountainous area of Karar, and the news is closed, and they have not even heard of the name of the White Tower.
In their small place, because there is a natural iron mine, the people of the town are fanatical about the god of fire and hammer.
Marco, who was still young, showed an amazing talent. In terms of attributes, Marco's innate perception is more than three, more than three times that of ordinary people, and he is very sensitive to divine arts.
Sensitive, he could even see the aura of divine magic when he was born, and by the time he was eleven years old, he surpassed all the priests in their town to become a glorious priest of the silver rank.
When the priest progresses to the silver level, there will be an opportunity for them to speak directly with the gods, so Marco's question is naturally how to cure his family's illness.
At that time, the White Tower was at odds with the gods, and the god of the furnace and the hammer did not have the slightest idea of their family moving to the White Tower for healing, and for some reason, the god of the furnace and the hammer was not very connected to their hometown, and under the interference of Kalal Druid's Stonehenge, even his age could not be felt.
As a result, the god of the furnace and the hammer regarded him as an ordinary terminally ill priest, and casually lied to him that he could be saved as long as he exercised his body and maintained his faith, in order to earn more faith power during this time. Even because he thought that Marco would die soon, he didn't even give him the position of the town's chief pastor.
Marco didn't care about those positions, he was still very young, he believed the words of his gods, and then went back to tell his father who was beginning to get sick with great interest.
His father just smiled wryly and remained silent.
Since then, his father has worked harder and harder.
So, on the day his father became a bronze priest, his heart finally stopped.
Before he died, his father told him that he had been deceived. Not only faith, but also exercise could not cure this disease, because his grandfather was a warrior of the silver rank, but he still died on the day he was forty years old.
Deeply aware that he had been deceived, Marco angrily knocked down the idol in the temple that night, and then fled with his family.
On the way west, his sister fell ill and in despair, he was deceived into the religion by the priest of the God of Pain and Deception, and worshiped with all his heart. His mother tried to stop him to no avail, so they were cheated out of all their money and luggage, and he even thought that his sister's illness was cured. Since then, he has never returned home to serve the Queen of Pain.
It only took him two years to become a Silver Rank priest this time. Impressed by his potential, the group of priests who believed in the Queen of Pain confessed to him about the initial deception, sincerely invited him to join him, and told him that the technology of the White Tower was enough to cure their family's illness.
Marco hesitated painfully for a long time, and then decided to join the group. He even cheated and robbed, and in half a month, he made up enough money for travel and medical expenses.
But if only I had known two years earlier.
After two years of delay, his sister could not be saved, and her mother died of hunger and poverty.
When he returned, he saw two tombstones. The two of them didn't even have a coffin, and the shallow corpses stenched of decay.
He knelt in front of the tombstone all night, and then the next day he was angry with the priests of the Queen of Pain, and slaughtered the clergymen who had cheated on money in one day.
He was cursed by the furious Queen of Pain, and the cultists of the whole country of Karar hunted him down. By this time, his illness had begun to kick in, and he was cursed by the Queen of Pain, and every day his muscles atrophied at a rate visible to the naked eye, and then began to rot after that.
He ends up hanging with rotten flesh and meets a priest of the goddess of life in his most desperate moments. She used her magic to relieve his pain for a short time, and became his friend. It was the happiest time since Mark betrayed the god of fire and hammer, and the man inadvertently mentioned to him that the goddess of life could even resurrect the dead.
After hearing this, Marco took it to heart, and he checked with many priests of the goddess of life, many of whom had seen the miracle of the resurrection of the goddess of life.
Under the infinite nostalgia for his relatives, it only took him half a year to advance to the silver level this time. His existence even directly alarmed the goddess of life, and her holy daughter personally came and performed a divine descent.
But in the face of Marco's inquiry, the goddess of life could only shake her head.
The resurrection of the Divine Technique of Life is limited to the Witch who can save the soul and the believers of the Goddess of Life.
In the case of his family, the souls of all his family members would appear in the kingdom of the gods of the furnace and the hammer after death, and in a betrayal like his, I am afraid that his family has been tormented for many years.
The Goddess of Life said that her priest was weak in combat, and that she had always been in the camp of the harmless one, unable to take the initiative to provoke a war and not be able to help him reclaim the souls of his loved ones. Then the goddess of life apologizes for mentioning another wish, and Marco is silent for a moment, and then asks that he can be cured of his illness.
The goddess of life agreed.
But as soon as her saint was gone, Marco fled from the temple of life, and sold his faith and soul to the warlike and powerful goddess of war, hoping that she would teach him a lesson about the god of fire and hammer.
After he became the Silver Rank, he received a desperate message from the Goddess of War: the god of fire and hammer was the secret line that the goddess of war had planted in Karar - his correct priesthood was the god of weapons, the servant of the goddess of war.
So Marco finally went completely insane.
His soul was divided into four parts, and after devouring each other, he managed to condense into a complete and terrifying personality with his own transcendent will.
Mark changed his name to "Mark" that day, which means the deceived in Carral's slang.
Considering all the gods as his old enemies, he abandoned his status as a priest to study the culture of the ancient Dyud, and eventually developed a new class with his extraordinary talent, one born specifically to deal with priests. He vowed to pull all the gods down from the throne, or at least to make them feel less good.
He became a priest of the silver rank for the fourth time, and combined all the remaining powers from before, all of Marco's attributes even surpassed the ordinary gold rank.
He then went to his homeland and killed all the worshippers who believed in the gods of fire and hammer in the most brutal way. The goddess of war was furious, and led a team with one gold and three silver to encircle and suppress Marco, who had just entered the silver rank with a new class.
Marco showed the power of his new class in that war. He was able to easily interrupt the release of the divine magic, and the invisible and illusion effects generated by the divine magic were seen through by him at a glance, and the enhanced abilities were dispelled by him layer by layer, and finally he killed all the enemies above the silver level.
Abandoned the grace of the gods four times, and finally chose the path of hostility to all the gods—and thus he was called the renunciation of the gods.
Such a great hardship that can be described by Long Aotian made Roland, who was watching his story at the time, cry and laugh, and scolded the screenwriter Zhong Er.
In the later battle of Marco, the information provided by Roland played a great role. With his support, the Peace Council easily dealt with him, while the other guilds basically watched various priests and defenders explode in an instant.
However, in this era when even silver could be used as a magistrate, and gold was basically the highest force of the principality, Roland did not dare to clash with him head-on.
The name of Marco's robe is [Human Will], and he uses the divine language of a priest and the blood of a gold-level priest to write blasphemous words against the gods, so that all the magic below the golden level is invalid, and the effect of the magic above the gold level and below the highest spire is reduced by one-third - even if the immunity effect is only to the gold level, it is also a very practical and high-end equipment in the era of the seventieth level cap.
After all, Detection Divine Techniques and Curse Divine Techniques rarely exceed the Gold Tier.
Although there were no very important divine techniques in those days, the death magic of the crows from low to high was notoriously disgusting. In order to stop the various low-level instant death spells of the Death Raven, this dark purple rare level robe can be sold for a legendary price.
Of course, in that era when high-end priests could wave their hands to summon heavenly fire, and a single attack could trigger more than twenty summaries, this robe was indeed useless, but in Roland's current era, it was basically synonymous with invincibility.
Marco's most terrifying equipment was not his robe, but the steel whip in his hand. It was also because of his reminder that the crows began to use multi-knotted weapons one after another.
That weapon is called Mark's Godless Order. Heartbroken Hand], a golden legendary-level xenomorph weapon of the nine-section whip type.
Not to mention the other attributes of this weapon, just one of the attributes is disgusting to the defenders of the major guilds.
Marco will make a judgment based on the perceptual attribute for each blocked attack, and if there is no tongguò, it will randomly explode an internal organ, and if it is blocked, it will also cause a little damage; At the same time, in the case of a priesthood, the probability of judging a guò drops threefold.
In other words, no matter how high the perception attribute is, as long as you are a priest, at least two-thirds of the time you will not pass the judgment. For the vast majority of guardian classes, the perceptual attribute is not their primary attribute, and even a considerable number of defenders are less likely to judge the pass than the priest.
The most terrifying thing is that if you use a shield or the like to block at close range, then when Marco's nine-section whip passes over the defender's shield, the defender will have to make nine judgments, and each judgment that does not pass will explode an internal organ regardless of the constitution. At the speed at which the horse could reach the pinnacle of the seventy-level supreme spire, the defenders and priests would be dead in thirty seconds of battle.
As a result, the crows who could make multiple instant judgments for each attack opened their minds and practiced multi-section weapons from scratch.
There are those who practice whips, those who change their boxing techniques, and even those who practice three-section sticks...... The most famous at the time was a Death Raven of the Peace Council, who was the first pioneer among players to get the class. It took him half a month to learn the nine-section whip, and he took the whip that Marco dropped, and he was in the limelight at that time
Three days after that, the official patch was released that limited the number of times the instant death decision was triggered per second, and the craze gradually faded.
It was from that time that Roland learned a good whip technique, including the fancy evasion of dodging the glimpse at the beginning.
It was precisely because Roland knew Marco's horror deeply, and understood that he was by no means a few people who could be killed by a few people in this era, that he never believed that Claude could defeat Marco.
From the very beginning, none of his plans defeated Mark. In the history of that world, Marco didn't encounter a bottleneck for the first time until the Golden Rank Peak Awakening Origin. If the history of this world hadn't changed, even if Roland had a system to assist in leveling, eighty percent would not be able to catch up with Marco's progress before he hit a bottleneck.
What's more, this is an ancestor who overstepped the level and killed people.
When Roland reached the Golden Rank, he would have already changed his druid's profession to a priest, and at that time, even if Roland Origin Awakened, he would not dare to provoke him casually.
However, Marco's combat power is terrifying, which does not mean that he does not have weaknesses.
Marco is more accustomed to being crushed by force than the Wind Whisperer. Although his theories and charisma have attracted a considerable number of supporters, it is undeniable that at this time period, the ashes without a think tank are not enough for the whole brain.
Compared to Marco, Roland is more wary of the Wind Whisperers. That man didn't die until Roland crossed over - in many cases, one of the most important measures of a boss's strength was how long he lived. It's like the kind of shady people who live for a long time and are always moving, and often belong to the most dangerous group of people.
After watching the ashes go one by one, Roland left with the small barrier set up with his own blood and returned to Pars.
He cut off Pars's head and hung it around his waist, wiping the blood from the axe and then activating a coil and hoisting himself from the canopy.
Roland took out his throwing axe, slit his fingers, and smeared a very small amount of blood on the winged tree, cutting six blood paths. In this case, in Marco's natural perception, there should be six people here who are very alive but deliberately hide their aura.
Immediately afterward, Roland stood on a bloody high place, and after throwing Pars's head down, he greeted Claude with the false voice he had learned at the beginning of the Internet deception on Earth, imitating the voices of others.
The reason why he didn't greet Kruvien was that in addition to Claude, as an apolologist, he must know the upper echelons of the temple, which was likely to be part of the bait tactics, there was also a very important reason, that is, Roland saw that Claude, the old man, was definitely old and mature.
Sure enough, hearing a completely unfamiliar voice greeting him, Claude was slightly stunned for a moment before reacting, and even wanted to ask Roland about Roland's plans while cooperating with him.
After all, he had already been beaten once by Marco's heartbroken hand, and although the weapon was not as unsolvable as it would be in the future, Claude's internal organs were already cracked.
If Marco had been fooled away, Claude would not have been able to defeat them with his half-crippled body.
Then Roland dispelled both Marco and Claude's doubts with a sentence from another voice - to be precise, only Marco was dispelled, and Claude's doubts deepened.
That's what Roland calls "The Windwhisperer", "Base 19", and Marco's druid name.
This has a technical term in social engineering terminology called pretexting. Roland won Marco's newcomer with the news that only insiders in the Ring of the South Wind might know, and it was because of these three sentences that ordinary people would never know that Marco would not hesitate to believe Roland's words, and then was scared away.
The moment he saw Roland appear, Claude relaxed, and at the same time he figured out a lot of things.
Or rather, think you've figured out a lot of things.
For example, why when I first saw Roland, he was stabbed in the back when he was in the stubborn oak lock; Or how Roland suddenly disappeared from the crowd - it was different from what Claude had thought at first, it was not Marco's whip that captured him, but someone else who used winding to save Roland; In addition, Roland's body is obviously wearing a black robe, but he can use natural magic, as well as his knowledge of the secrets of the Lightless Trace and the Shadow Pterodactyl, and his knowledge of the organization to which Marco belongs, etc.
- Claude is sure that the shadow pterosaur is real. Because the goddess of war also recorded this event, but not as detailed as Roland said.
He was also going to enter the Lightless Trail at the last minute to dodge. It's just that when he met Roland, he entered the Trace of Light some time in advance, and thus met Marco who was out on patrol.
In Claude's mind, these fragments are tightly knit together.
If Roland is part of some secret group of druids who have been hunting down the rebellious Druid Marco, then it's understandable.
Claude guessed that Marco was indeed defeated by the decoy tactic, and his base was indeed copied, but the decoy was not Claude as he thought, but Roland.
Roland started out as a decoy. But when Claude and his party were walking in the direction of the shadow pterodactyl, out of pity and exploitation, Roland thought of an idea at this time.
He commissioned his partner, the man who had rescued him with the Winding Technique, to stab him in the back. Then Roland managed to break into his own team.
Immediately afterward, Roland tried to persuade them not to stay in the matte path for a long time, but to enter the lightless trace. Eventually, after discovering traces of Marco's movements, his partner rescued him from Marco's field of vision.
Then Roland went to report that their organization had destroyed Marco's base, and then came over to cooperate with Roland to intimidate the side.
To be able to know Claude's name, the first to speak must be Roland. But Claude thinks that the people who came after him should all speak in their own voices.
Because Marco could find the ability of Claude and the others outside the vision of the Trace of Light, in Claude's mind, he should have sensed a few strong people in the tree, so he fled.
After that, Roland, who had poor combat ability, did not chase after him, but came over first to deal with the follow-up work - such as soothing people's hearts or continuing to deceive.
So Claude's "good acting" is not referring to Roland's voice change, but what he said before about Doyd or something, and Claude really believed it for a while...... Looking back now, Claude can't help but sigh that he is really old.
But speaking of which, he didn't want to blame Roland. Because Marco was indeed their mortal enemy, and he was too old to care about anything. Anyway, the result is good, and that's enough.
But then again, seeing that Roland is not very old, but whether it is his brain, appearance, ability or even face, he is first-class and good, and old Claude can't help but feel a little bit of love in his heart.
But he didn't know that the result of his guess was more than eight streets away from the truth.
…… Therefore, reasoning is such a thing, and if there is no definite evidence, don't take the result of the deduction as the truth, otherwise it must be a wrong step and a wrong step.
Just like Claude at this moment.
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It's been a week since I started to send the book, and the update has been restored to two times a day.
This chapter is a 6,000-word chapter, two in one. For the sake of reading convenience, I won't dismantle the ten strings......