Chapter Twenty-Six: The Paladin
"Fifteen years ago, when I was still studying hard at the low-level warrior academy, I used to be the pride of my parents and teachers, and I was a typical example of how other people's children are so outstanding."
"I was just ten years old, I mastered more than ten basic combat skills, and successfully entered the black iron rank, known as the pride of the academy, the future hero, I am always surrounded by the lovely girls who admire me, take a walk in the academy, and then 'accidentally' show my genius ......"
"'Class B, that genius? He's only mastered continuous counterattacks, right? If you work hard for another ten years, maybe half of my level. 'Casually comment on those ungifted fools, and then enjoy the longing eyes and praise of the lovely schoolgirls, I thought that those days would last forever, and when I grew up, I would become a big hero and marry Bai Fumei until that day......"
"'Divine talent? What is the offer of admission to Holy Light College? Become a glorious paladin, I'll go, I'll go'"
At that time, I had been longing for the glittering paladin for a long time, and when I was ecstatic to receive the admission letter, I vaguely ignored the worried looks of my parents.
"Paladins of glory? It looks glamorous, but in fact, it is only the beginning of a nightmare......"
"Graduation equals unemployment? How is it possible, I'm a genius knight I have seen in the Paladin Academy once in ten years!! Look at my holy light!! Look at the glory charge!! ”
"I'm sorry, we are all devout clergy, what we need are talents who can preach and preach, not murderers who fight and kill, our department has twelve people, and it has been overnumbered to twenty-four, all of whom graduated from the Paladin Academy, so it stands to reason that they are still your seniors, why should they give you a place?
"I....I'm going to be a freelance adventurer."
"I'm sorry, but as a blessed priest, you are obliged to repay the Church of Light for your cultivation with your labor, and the Seventh Holy Church lacks a volunteer to clean the altar and toilets...... However, volunteers are not paid, and the Light will reward you for your efforts. Don't worry, it won't be long, three years will pass quickly. ”
I still remember the look in the old pastor's head. "Sample, new here, huh? Old man, I have been mixed for 20 years, and I didn't turn right until my hair turned white. ”
"I... I'm going to be a free adventurer, so I can!! ”
Of course, but I didn't expect that to be the beginning of the nightmare......
Three years later, I finally became a freelance adventurer. Weishenme is three years later? If you don't want to be hunted down by the Templar Church, how can you save three years of volunteer service...
Well, seeing that my juniors have become the backbone of the team of old birds and adventurers, while sighing, I am not discouraged, I am confident, with my silver level strength, soon, I will become a star in the eyes of everyone again.
But soon, the harsh reality hit me in the face.
"Don't? Weishenme, I am a paladin of the silver rank who would like to be a member of your group of bronze warriors, you should be happy. Don't... It's because I'm a paladin again. ”
The thief on the other side nodded.
"Paladins talk a lot of nonsense, there are many precepts, can you tolerate the undead, half-demon teammates, can you communicate with the gray organization, can you shut up when the loot is distributed? We adventurers often have to do unclean work. Can you guarantee not to talk nonsense in the adventure and obediently obey orders. ”
Of course not! The Templar doctrine clearly stipulates that all lost property will be returned to its original owner, and if the original owner cannot be found, it should be handed over to the public, so how can it be used as spoils of war for private distribution, as for the undead and half-demons? Evil Chaos! We are inseparable from you!
Well....the road is not the same, don't let me join the adventure team, I will form a team myself....
The team was still smooth, the adventurer's guild and tavern were full of paladins and priests who couldn't find a team, and soon, our "Shining Land" team was on a successful journey.
But......
"What's the deal with not being paid? That's not waiting to starve to death. ”
"Didn't the mentor teach you when you went out on an adventure? We are all knights who serve the Light and the public, and the nature of the adventures of the priesthood can only be regarded as a journey to accumulate experience, and it is our duty to help the people in trouble, and since it is an obligation, how can we receive payment? ”
"I can't make money, I'm a dry fur adventurer, I'm going to starve to death!!"
The senior smiled mysteriously, he did have a way, and this was also the old way for paladin adventurers not to starve to death.
It turns out that we can't really get paid, but if it's a gift to the Templar Church, we can keep a third of it as our return, but ......
"Since it's a donation, naturally it can't be too much, but if you kill an ogre race, you will give a copper plate, which is only enough to buy two black breads, not enough for me to buy medicine." By the way, two-thirds of the copper plate must be paid to the church......"
"That's Haode, you haven't encountered the goblin's commission, that's the most fatal?"
"Huh?"
"Donations can't be valued, let alone valued, donations, donations... If you encounter a stingy goblin, it's a good thing not to donate, donate a half-ton heavy stone, you have to carry it back and cut it into three pieces, and hand over two pieces... As a senior, I remind you that if the goblins really give you engineering supplies that look good, they will be thrown away as soon as possible, and they will either be experiments that can explode and use you for experiments, or simply bombs, or use you for experiments."
"By the way, you have to be careful of the fishmen, last time I helped the fishmen clean up the coastline, the fishmen donated a lot of stinky muddy fish, on a hot day, it stinks halfway, and the smell can be smelled ten miles away... I washed under the waterfall for three days, and I still remember the way the pastor girl looked at me with contempt when I was collecting donations. ”
The addition of the pastor's companion, although it was funny, I couldn't laugh, but I wanted to cry inexplicably
"And the half-sheep man, it's just a cheat, those stingy things, they actually use wool as a reward, or Lungen's!! Can you imagine the feeling of grabbing a handful of wool in one hand, walking a few steps, and counting it again, so as not to miss a few and not be able to turn it in......"
"And the same kind of paladins, everyone is poor, but they don't pit each other, that time I met a ......"
Soon, the consultation became a meeting of complaints from my companions, and I became more and more hopeless about my future career as a paladin.
“… At least, the paladin is golden and very feminine!! ”
But soon, reality hit me hard again.
"Do you have a house? Is there a mount? Do you have savings? ”
I live in a public dormitory, which is full of men covered with stinky sweat, naturally cannot be used to get married, there are mounts for the church to accompany them, but how can I afford to raise war horses, I can only ride them when I fight, at that time, during the war, the forage public reimburses ...... As for savings, hehe, hello sister, sister zaijian.
After being hit several times, I finally met a simple and lovely girl, she didn't care about my poor conditions, and was willing to fall in love with me!
"Ah, how beautiful and kind she is, she is my goddess."
When the strange thing is that we hold hands at most, take a walk together, and have a deeper relationship, she always refuses.
At the time, I was very strange, but I tried to endure it, after all, she was so pure, but five years later, I was thirty years old, and I couldn't bear it anymore, so I asked hard.
"Huh? Isn't a paladin a knight of the gods to abstain from lust for life? ”
"I'm X!! We are paladins, not monks (the few warrior monks who take an abstinence vow will stay away from women for the rest of their lives)! ”
It took me a lot of effort to get her to figure out the difference between a warrior monk and a paladin, but then there was a desperate answer.
"That's... I'm sorry, I just wanted to talk about pure spiritual love before I came to you, I can't promise you, can we still be friends in the future? ”
"Friends?! Friend, your sister! I'm 30 years old!! My classmates have a dozen children. ”
That night, in the dormitory full of smelly men, I cried a mess, but my colleagues sat silently beside me and comforted me.
"Do you know Aru? That genius paladin of Lucca? ”
I remembered the winner in life, his girlfriend, beautiful and rich.
"What do you want him to do? I don't think I'm sad enough. ”
"He's **, he has transformed the black knight of Chaos's minions, and his white rich girlfriend is a demon, just to get close to him in order to make him **..."
"How many are these? In advance, many people in the church also had suspicions, weishenme such a haode woman would look for a paladin, and also gave him a warning, but he didn't believe it, no, probably, he himself knew, but he deceived himself and wanted to enjoy a happy life more. ”
"Heh, everyone is numb, the women they go to find will basically be rejected, the people who come forward on their own initiative are basically problematic, and the Templar doctrine prohibits everyone from spending money to solve physical problems. Even solving it yourself is an evil act that is expressly forbidden...."
"We are human! It's not a brute! Two days ago, the love affair of the two paladins in Xishan was exposed, and they were excommunicated from the church, they are all my comrades-in-arms, and I went to see them off, but, it seems, they are very happy, and they can be together in the future...... But they're all men! It turns out that they are all normal people who like women! If you hold it for a long time, something will really happen! There are more and more fagwits in the church! ”
"Actually, I'm starting to think that men can barely accept it..."
"Actually, so am I, why don't we try? …”
Ever since the sudden appearance of the speed dating "couple" that day, I have been completely desperate and alive like the walking dead...
"Want to leave the Templar Church? Not a paladin? You don't have any other breadwinners.,Two years old.,It's not easy to start over.,The only one who can seamlessly change jobs is the Black Knight.,Are you sure you want to try? ”
When I was desperate for life, and even sent to the dangerous underground shijie, I didn't refuse, what is the danger, at least I can stay away from the more and more around me!
But here, the turning point of life suddenly came.
"Nanxiang Law School? Recruit short-term trainees and recommend jobs? Paladin Admission Without Examination! Is this true? ”
"Try it, it can't be worse anyway."
I entered Nanxiang with a fluke mentality, after all, I am old and slow to learn things.
But soon, I found out that the power of the law they taught was actually not much different from the power of my holy light, and the silver light of the law was a subordinate concept of the source of order like the holy light, and many skills and abilities could be easily converted, and it was extremely quick to get started.
Moreover, they really do the work!! No, it's not a job, it's that I haven't graduated yet, and I, an old guy, am actually being fought over by more than a dozen family units.
"Sheriffs, policemen, judges, and other judicial figures are all well-known upper-class people in society! I'm a useless old fellow, and I also have a day when the dead wood is in spring! ”
"We don't have annoying churches and gods to serve, we believe in the law, uphold justice and fairness, but we, too, are human beings, and we also have to eat, our academy from Nanxiang, dealing with criminals and villains, it's easy, just don't go to be a sheriff and other public officials, all kinds of security work can be easily trusted, and the same camp of order, just knights will never commit crimes, strictly abide by oaths and secrets, and win the trust of employers, and promotion is proper and fast."
Back then, the teacher spoke generously on stage, but I didn't believe it because I had experienced too much.
"But then, everything changed!! As the teacher said at the time, after graduation, I worked in a large chamber of commerce, and as long as I worked at the front desk for 20 days a month, I drove away those soft eggs who made trouble and maintained law and order, and my monthly salary was 10,000 gold coins, 10,000 gold coins!! That's more than 200 times that of a paladin! You don't have to be exposed to the wind and rain, you don't have to risk your life!! ”
"What, you say paladins can do it too? Fool, a paladin is a knight who serves the gods and the Holy Light, how can he accept a hire! ”
"And, soon, after saving up to buy a house, I found the love of her! I also bought a cute little dragon horse, with red dragon blood, which travels thousands of miles a day, and can breathe fire and hurt people, and I am finally a knight, not an infantry who sends his mount to the church. ”
"Some time ago, I told my comrades in the past about the latest news, and they all came running. Now, everyone has graduated from Nanxiang, some have become city garrison officers, some have become city managers, some have become justices, and those two paladins, after making money, actually became their own bosses, married a wife, and had a son!! ”
"Brother Paladin, come and be a just knight, the seamless transfer will keep all Liliang aside, everyone is still fighting for order, and the Templar Church will definitely be happy to see everyone's transfer. After all, they don't have much money to support you. ”
"Who is stronger in learning order? Underground Sulfur Mountain to find Lan Xiang, learn jishu first and then pay the fee, will use the Holy Light to enter the school without examination, and the first month's salary will be used as tuition. There is no charge for the trial for one month. Our slogan of Nanxiang is to study hard, work hard, get promoted, and get a salary increase together, and marry Bai Fumei! Mom doesn't have to worry about me not being able to find a job anymore, and I can be a big boss. ”
"It's just a propaganda slogan? Are you still worried that you won't be able to find a job? Let me do the math for you. Every city needs police, sheriffs, every business needs security personnel, every government needs the justice system, what a job opportunity. You, the pioneer of the law, the ** of the times, are still worried about not being able to find a job? Come to Nanxiang, Baojiao Baohui. Graduating from the Templar College is equal to unemployment, and we in Nanxiang can be employed before we graduate! ”
The above is all the content of a leaflet, and the person who signed the money is the sleepless judge of the Supreme Court of the Sulphur Mountain City....
"Hey, you've gone too far. Archbishop of Holy Light Old Bill is said to have fainted on the spot when he saw the leaflet, and almost hung up with a cerebral hemorrhage!! ”
Yes, I'm digging into the corners of the Church of the Light, or blatantly digging in.
Of course he will vomit blood, although it is a propaganda advertorial I wrote, but it is all true and credible, and all the sore spots of the Templar Church and the clergy,
After all, I used to be a paladin, and many of these examples were based on real people... An inexplicable heartache resonated and made me secretly think "Fortunately, I'm not an unlucky paladin anymore"
At this point, I laughed at Adam's question about whether it was too much or not.
"What's too much, when I personally handed the leaflets to those chengguans, they were overjoyed!!"
Of course, they are glad that they were not allowed to be completely integrated into the judicial system, but now they are allowed to practice the power of the law, which is equivalent to my judicial system and the city of Brimstone completely accepting them.
They have proven their loyalty with blood and hard work, and it would be too impersonal for me to turn them away.
“…… You let all the Knights of the Holy Light of Chengguan be reorganized into the Knights of the Law? I haven't told the news to Old Bill yet, I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on. ”
"I said, I still sent someone to report the news directly!"
"My lord!! You're vomiting blood again!! This is the twentieth time this month! It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, and I can't control it. Let's go back to Shijie on the ground. ”
"The archbishop is not good. A lot of paladins and priests saw the flyers, and they all said that they were going to Nanxiang, but we couldn't stop them!! ”
Archbishop of the Holy Light continued to spurt blood......
Listening to Eliza's report to the bishop when she learned of the collective conversion of the chengguan, she was first surprised, and then vomited blood directly, and Zuihou also staged a farce, I smiled proudly.
"I want your old boy to retain his strength when something happens, and to preach in fear after the war. If the tiger doesn't eat people, you should be a sick cat, you deserve it! “.