Chapter 93: A New Patronus
At this moment, the knights' temples in the entire territory of Bakaria, all provinces, and all towns were abnormal at the same time.
For the past thousand years, Torion, the patron goddess of knights, has been intermittently connected to the priests, as if something had been forcibly interfering with their connection with the god of knights.
The intermittent nature of the charisma has caused the promotion method of the Holy Grail Knight to be lost.
Even so, the Bakarians did not abandon their faith and still made chivalry the core belief of the entire kingdom.
In the hundreds of large and small temples throughout the Bakaria region, the prayer halls are as usual filled with the uniform evening prayers of the priests. But the archbishop of the Knights' Temple in the Knightly Temple of King Bakaria, dressed in a pure white robe with gold trim, opened his eyes in shock, for he found that from that moment on, a new response came from the kingdom of God to which his spirit was connected.
Standing in the middle of the northern part of the temple is the statue of the god of knights, a statue of a knight wearing full body armor. A full-face helmet with tapered visor, winged shoulder armor, chest armor with a large cross relief, a standard standing stance, and a typical cross sword with both hands folded.
It looks majestic, but for the past thousand years, all the statues of the Knights' Temples have been like dust, and the armor that should be white and flawless has always had a dull hue.
Legend has it that the bright eyes, which can be seen through the cracks in the helmet, are always as if they are asleep and cannot be opened.
However, at this moment, the eyes of the idol were opened!
The statue that was supposed to be carved out of marble shone with a clear golden light in its pupils!
"Ah, look at the gods!" the guardian knights of the church immediately noticed the change.
At this moment, all the priests and believers who believe in the god of knights feel that something in their minds, or a certain memory, and impression is undergoing an extremely exaggerated shift.
The memories of Torione seem to be sealed in the dust, slowly leaving them, as if something is coming, peacefully entering their spiritual world, and inheriting everything about the knight god Torion as the inheritor, taking over everything.
The knights subconsciously raised their heads and were surprised to find that the huge idol in the temple was deforming and changing color:
The original silver-white statue of the knight god is turning a bright red color that resembles a flame.
The height of the idol did not rise, and the knight who had been standing on the pedestal began to spread his legs, and a fiery red thing was rising from his crotch - it was a fiery red war horse, which stood up proudly and raised a pair of front hooves.
The idol has changed from holding two swords to showing off his might, holding the cross sword high in his right hand and holding the reins of his horse in his left hand.
It was noticed that the waist of the knight seemed to be a little thinner, and the proportions did not look like a man's waist.
In the temple, tiny clouds of dust whirled and trembled strangely, and even slowly levitated, flying in front of the idol's hooves, as if the dust kicked up by the horses' hooves.
The priests and knights opened their mouths wide, completely unsure of what expressions to use in the face of this shocking change.
They wanted to ask if there was a god who had usurped Torion's priesthood. Yet the air was still filled with the sacred familiar to the Bakarian people, as if someone was chanting the Eight Virtues of a knight from the top of a tall building in the distance.
Everyone has a sense of trance, as if they are in the great sanctuary known as the top of knights thousands of years ago, solemnly issuing their knightly vows in the presence of thousands of paladins.
The pioneers of the knightly path smiled with relief in mid-air, looking at everyone with far-reaching eyes.
Suddenly, all the priests who believed in the god of knights, knights who had taken knightly vows, knight apprentices, and even mortals who believed in chivalry echoed in their minds with a high-spirited sense of sacredness.
And it's - a female voice!
A female knight dressed in red armor with only a pair of azure eyes appeared in the spiritual sea of all the Bakarians: "O mortal who believes in the way of knights, I am the new god who inherits the legacy of Torion, the god of knights you believe in, the Red Knight!"
"Ahh
Behest?
So, is Torion ......
"It all started a thousand years ago...... "The Red Knight did not rely on himself to be a god, as a high being, and did not explain the questions of mortals, but told the ins and outs of the matter.
After the Red Knight's explanation, the knights learned that their Patronus had been seriously injured in the Great War between Order and Chaos a thousand years ago.
The injuries of the gods have never been so simple.
This requires a lot of faith, and only believers who believe in the gods and are willing to sacrifice the spiritual energy overflowing from their souls can slowly repair the injuries of the gods.
It's a pity that during the days when Torleon was recuperating from his injuries, the mortals of Bakaria did not have a good time. Suppressed by the combined efforts of the Northland barbarians and orcs and other races, Bakaria's territory has shrunk by nearly half compared to its peak. As Torion's miracles became less frequent and less powerful, more and more mortals turned their backs on their belief in the god of knights and converted to Sigmar, the god of light.
This also led to the acceleration of Torion's fall.
In fact, ten years ago, Torleon could not hold on.
At this time, a weak divine spirit from the other world received Torion's call and crossed the endless void to the Kaos continent. She acceded to Torion's request, inherited Torion's kingdom of God, and took on the responsibility of protecting the kingdom of Bakaria.
These are the events of God Torion in his last days. But as a foreign god, it is not easy for me to enter the world of Kaos, and I must be approved by more than half of the gods of order, neutrality, and chaos, otherwise I will be besieged by all the gods in this world. ”
"In the Kaos world, the gods of the chaos system have the upper hand, so their request is to hold a bloody competition with the new mortals of all races as the contestants. 100 contestants, and in the end only a maximum of 10 can be lived. ”
"Shhh
Nine deaths and one life, how cruel is this!
When many knights heard this, their hands trembled, not out of fear, but out of anger at the cruelty of the Chaos Gods.
The Red Knight continued: "It was brutal for the eight Bakaria warriors who were forced to participate in this contest. They had to represent me without their knowledge. As a matter of convention, I will only be accepted as the new god of this world if at least one Bakarian breaks into the top ten. ”