On March 15, the day after Talos regained his supernatural powers, the Evelyn Palace operated as usual, without much hype about Talos' activation of the bloodline or a banquet for him to return to the professional community.

At this point, Talos is reading the physical test report that Brenda has just sent with Emma.

The accidental activation of the Immortal Whale bloodline and the promotion to the first-order bloodline knight did not allow the young Naga to meet Sandra's questioning and exploration, although he didn't know what the specific reason was, but Talos preferred to understand that the broad-minded Black Sea Lord didn't mind his son keeping a little secret.

This somewhat relieved him, and Talos couldn't imagine what reason Sandra should be looking for to prevaricate when he asked why.

In the eyes of the Black Sea Lord, who has really been in charge of the Black Sea for nearly thirty years, his little thoughts and tricks on the side of the road are not much different, and they are destined to be full of loopholes.

However, Leonhard gave Talos a grounding order, and he was not allowed to leave the Evelyn Palace for half a step without an order.

"Don't leave Evelyn Palace for even a foot until you can control that desire, and I don't want to receive a summons from High Priest Finrod one day, because his son suddenly went berserk in the streets, and flayed two innocent Naga alive!"

Talos couldn't utter a word of rebuttal, and in a way, Leonhard's fears weren't unreasonable—he did come close to becoming a monster under the mercy of Gluttony.

And Talos also knew what Leonhard really cared about, once this abnormal behavior of "choosing people and devouring" was exposed in public, it would definitely attract the attention of the Sea Fortress.

Being targeted by the elite paladins of the Sea God Temple is definitely not good news, even his status as the youngest son of the Black Sea Lord cannot make the group of paladins who have engraved the belief of the sea goddess in their blood open to him.

- Paladin is one of Sainz's most special professions, a part-time clergyman while serving as a bloodline knight, and is involved in two major career systems.

Each paladin is a bloodline knight carefully cultivated by the temple, with a devout belief in the gods.

When the belief is pious to a certain extent, and their words and deeds are confirmed by the canons and holy laws, and they can sense the gods, the gods they believe in will give them divine power seeds to help this group of bloodline knights open up the meditation space, so as to obtain the ability to release divine magic.

A bloodline knight who masters both bloodline and divine power is a paladin, which is the principle that every temple of Sainz walks with.

The most critical point is that after Talos really understood the soul fire, he did have a concern or two about [gluttony].

When the bloodline of the Immortal Whale was activated and promoted to the first bronze rank, Talos finally received another piece of information from the soul fire.

This time it's a bit informative.

First of all, there are three ways to grow the soul fire, refining the soul, absorbing faith, and [gluttony].

The problem lies in the three ways to grow the soul fire.

Soul fire is a special flame ignited by the sublimated soul, and the essence is a surprisingly high level of energy, which is the basis for its ability to refine the soul and faith.

However, the power of faith is too magical and advanced for Talos at this stage, after all, even the gods above are vying for it.

The gods manifested miracles in Sainz, built ecclesiastical temples, sowed glory, and united in sending oracles against all heresies that preached non-divine beliefs......

Everything is for faith.

If we take a closer look at Sainz's history, it is not difficult to find that the many wars that have swept across continents and races throughout history have hidden the same root cause - faith strife.

In contrast to the mystery and importance of belief is its complexity, and the power that originates from the beliefs of the minds of higher intelligent beings is not as pure as it seems.

Even for the most devout saint in the world, there is still a distraction in the faith born of his prayers.

A little distraction may not be nothing, but when tens of thousands of beliefs are stacked over the years, that power is extremely terrifying, enough to corrode the mind and reason of any fifth-order professional!

To make matters worse, Talos's collected beliefs based on extreme emotions and fame were not pure, and in terms of quality they were simply not comparable to the beliefs of the gods.

This means that there are more distractions attached to it.

Even after the soul fire calcination, there were still a lot of distractions absorbed by Talos.

As for refining the soul......

There will only be more distractions in the soul than faith, not less than faith.

These distracting thoughts that have accumulated over time have created [Gluttony].

Talos didn't know how the gods dealt with the distractions hidden in the depths of faith, and the method of soul fire was to divide these residual accumulated distractions into seven primordial desires - [Gluttony] was one of them - and then stripped out in some special way, taking the place of the ontology to bear the erosion of faith.

However, before Talos had enough ability to strip distracting thoughts from his body, the more he borrowed the power of soul fire to improve his strength, the more distracting thoughts precipitated in the soul fire, the more distracting thoughts he had, the more walls his desires became, and [Gluttony] also rose.

When the power of [Gluttony] accumulates to a certain level, Talos will usher in the counterattack of primordial desire and the riot of soul fire, just like last night.

——This just confirms the saying again: there is no free lunch in the world.

Talos should be glad that the soul fire has absorbed three waves of faith in a row and has grown a lot, and what he devoured was the snake, chicken, beast gall that happened to have a positive effect on the activation of the bloodline, so that the bloodline of the Immortal Whale could be activated in advance by mistake.

Otherwise, without the stimulation of that pain, his soul would have sunk in desire, becoming a monster dominated by [gluttony] and only devouring flesh and blood.

What an unsolvable cycle, Talos thought depressedly.

The death condition of the soul fire being extinguished and death limited Talos to borrow the power of [Gluttony] or refine the soul and absorb faith to maintain the soul fire.

Leaving aside this fatal condition, things are equally gloomy.

After tasting the speed of using soul fire to increase strength, no one will give up this shortcut, even if they know the consequences of it.

So is Talos.

From the Black Iron Fourth Order to the First Order Bloodline Knight, without the help of the Soul Fire, the young Naga might have taken the ten years required by a normal Naga, but with the help of the Soul Fire - through overeating, refining the soul and absorbing faith - it only took a little more than a month!

Talos can't give up his soul fire anymore!

The only thing to be thankful for is that the seven primordial desires precipitated by distracting thoughts will not awaken the second before one is stripped out, otherwise Talos would not have dared to imagine the scene where [Gluttony] and [Greed] would have controlled his sanity at the same time.

"Gluttony, jealousy, laziness, anger...... It's all right, but what should I do when Yinyu fights back?"

PS: That's why there is no heroine.