Chapter 2: Temple Armament
The knightly class was divided into two parts, one for the Knights Templar and one for the Templars, and the two regiments together numbered less than fifty people.
At its peak, the Knights Templar alone had over 30,000 Templars and 100,000 Templars.
However, with the advent of gunpowder weapons and the waning of divine authority, more and more Templars and Templars were depleted over the course of two hundred years, and no more troops were replenished. Knights and samurai suffered too much damage in the face of thermal weapons, and were often engulfed in artillery fire and bullets before they could even make close contact with the enemy. In this era of rampant thermal weapons, there is no strong enough to ignore the damage caused by thermal weapons, and individual martial arts are simply insignificant.
Now these knights and samurai are orphans adopted by the church, and they have no place to go when they leave here.
Rosie silently walked to the training ground of the knight's class, picked up a knight's spear from the ground, stepped on the horse with his legs apart, and held the knight's spear around his waist. This is the most basic frame for a knight, and it requires almost all muscle groups of the body.
"Little Rosie, aren't you sleepy? The bearded Alex had a brown beard, and except for his eyes and nose, he was a fluffy mass, and he couldn't see his expression at this time. He is the head of the knight class, and is said to be the hereditary Knight of Glory, the Knight of Glory is one of the titles of the peak combat power of the Templar Order, but in this era of the end of the magic of the gods, it is no longer seen that the Knight of Glory can be burned with platinum battle qi that can ignite the sky.
Rosie glanced at him, but her body didn't move. Such a shelf may not seem very useful, but it actually adds an all-round quality.
The prayer in the lower left corner of Rossi's vision changes to four other attributes, which are Strength, Constitution, Agility, and Spirit, which are 1.17/1.09/1.20/1.05. Every 0.05 of these values gives Rossi a very noticeable sense of enhancement. He hadn't figured out the pattern of the numbers yet, but there was certainly nothing wrong with making them more and more.
"Knight Alex, why don't we use a gun? It's the kind of weapon that fires bullets?", Rosie ignored Alex's previous question and threw a question at him.
The more than thirty knights who were training around him, along with a dozen or so samurai, all pricked up their ears. They had always wanted to ask the knight, but they never had the courage to say it. Alex seems to be a very reckless and very honest old man. Only those of them who have lived in the knight's class since childhood know that Alex is simply a beast in sheep's clothing, and he always has a way of making unruly people miserable. Questioning the church's decisions is a form of unruliness.
Alex's face turned slightly red, and he just wanted to reprimand Rosie, but he remembered that this kid was a member of the priest's class, and he belonged to the clerical position, and it was not under his management. He looked at the condensed gaze around him, and couldn't help but sigh slightly, "What has been passed down for thousands of years can't be cut off in my hands." Besides, we don't need to use gunpowder weapons, this is not the Age of Light, our existence is only to protect the Church from thieves. "You must remember that the whole world, whether it is the republic in the east or the federation in the west, even our own empire, does not want an armed church armed with gunpowder weapons...... This topic is not allowed to be mentioned again in the future, at least not without my permission. ”
Rosie pursed her lips, I'm afraid the last sentence is true.
The "Age of Light" is a general term for the Church's most glorious period, along with the "Age of Glory" and the "Age of Darkness".
As Alex said, there is no room for a powerful religion in the world, let alone a religion with deadly armed forces. The history of the world has made it clear more than once that once a people are armed with faith and weapons, it is a catastrophe for the whole world. During the Age of Glory, the Church went on several crusades, and countless fanatical believers went to the battlefield with their bare hands, picking them with their fingers, biting them with their teeth, beating them with their fists, and kicking them with their feet. They gladly went to death, even to the point of glorifying death.
Since the beginning of the new era, all countries and forces have been trying to suppress the church as much as possible.
They cut off the church's income, confiscated the church's property, and made up all kinds of jokes to scandalize the church and its senior leaders as much as possible.
The most famous is the Archbishop's obscenity case 17 years ago, which caused everyone to know and the reputation of the church was also dealt a heavy blow.
In fact, in Rossi's view, the main reason why the church has failed to become what it is today is that it lacks a smart and courageous leader. Confucianism in the other world also went through many changes, and finally overthrew the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone. The so-called change, to put it simply, is to take the initiative to change the system to cater to the rulers, so that self-worth can be reflected.
If the Church had known how to change, instead of having the strongest force become the Pope, perhaps the situation would have been much better. In the previous era when one person destroyed a country, it was true that the strongest force was needed to be the leader, but at present, it is necessary to have a person with rich political skills to control the power. But obviously, the church is not aware of the problem, or it is aware of it but there is nothing it can do to change it.
"Kill!", Rossi's waist sank, the muscles of his arm holding the horse spear suddenly contracted, and he stabbed forward violently, and the knight's spear, which was more than three meters long, poked fiercely at the wooden target brushed with tung oil. The tip of the spear shattered a few pieces of sawdust, leaving an inch-long white mark.
Rosie took a deep breath, mustered up all his strength, and quickly withdrew the spear in his hand to his waist and clamped it, and then stabbed it out. He had a feeling that he might be able to increase his strength a little more today.
I don't know if it's the unique nature of this world, or the benefits he brought after crossing, his strength attribute has grown rapidly, and there is no bottleneck. As a former modern person, he understands very well that the so-called increase in strength is nothing more than the proliferation of muscle fibers after tearing. More muscle fibers lead to more strength, but this increase is limited, not infinitely grown, and takes time to settle.
But he does not have this kind of restriction, today the muscle fibers are torn, tomorrow can be proliferated, and soothe the pain after the tear, and stabilize the slightest increase in muscle fibers.
Watching Rosie keep stabbing out his spear, Alex smiled slightly, and then raised his face and roared, although no one could tell that he was putting on a straight face, "Rosie, this kid knows how to work hard, you bastards are still lazy, get back to your place!"
A moment later, the entire training ground of the knight class shook the sky.
I don't know how many times it was stabbed, but Rossi felt the spear in his hand getting heavier and heavier. Before, the spear was kept at the same level as the body, but now the tip of the spear is lowered. He was covered in sweat, and his sackcloth clothes had long been wet, and it was very uncomfortable to stick to his body. He gasped for breath, his movements getting slower and slower, and at the moment of the last stab, he suddenly felt a stream of heat quickly squeeze out of his chest, flowing through his body with the circulation of blood.
The Strength stat has been increased by 0.01 again.
For 1, 0.01 is only one hundredth, but the overall strength has increased by more than one percent. There wasn't an accurate fist testing machine here, and he didn't quite know how strong his punch was, but it wasn't much weaker than an adult.
Putting the knight's spear back on the ground, he stepped aside and sat down, gently tapping the muscles in his legs and shoulders to relax them.
The moon was already hanging in the air, and the surroundings were gradually quieting, and everyone followed Alex to kneel in the open space and begin the last lesson of the day, which was prayer.
Knights and samurai also need to pray, and there are special divine arts in the magic system that are used to assist knights and samurai, which can maximize the combat effectiveness of knights and samurai. There are also powerful offensive magic techniques, such as the Spear of Victory, the Pure White Sword, etc., but unfortunately, with the advent of the end of the law era, although these magic techniques have not been lost, no one can use them.
The lack of a prayer level, or the inability to reach a higher prayer level in the era of the end of the law, is the main culprit of the inability to use these attack spells.
Even so, daily prayer is still mandatory. Because among the magic that can still be used, there are two more that can be used to increase the combat power of knights and samurai.
Chapter 7 of Divine Arts, Strength Oath, can increase the caster's strength by 10%~50% depending on the prayer level.
The ninth chapter of the divine arts, the uplifting battle song, can weaken the negative effects on the body according to the level of prayer.
Under the white moonlight, a group of people prayed devoutly, hoping that God could hear their voice and send down miracles again, so that God's apostles could once again walk freely on the land.
Rossi also knelt in the clearing, closed her eyes and prayed.
This is a troubled world where human life is inferior to dogs, and only strong strength is the only way to ensure one's own life. He has always believed in a truth, that is, there is a reward for what you give.