Chapter 557, Renard's Death
The paladin artifact, the Holy Avenger, shone with layers of light in Renard's hands.
Ever since the weapon fell into Renard's hands, Renard has understood his mission.
Kill Sham, and end Bane's legacy once and for all.
So Renard stealthily entered the Salian shogunate, and through his friendship with the siblings Ebud, Ammon, and Tsavrok, he successfully infiltrated the secret place of Fort Santil with the help of the Ammun Shadow Thief.
Aaron didn't care about Shim's canonization, but Aaron hoped that Sham's initiative to become a god, because this was the key to Aaron's struggle for the [strife] priesthood.
Renard is different, he is going to die.
It is impossible for a normal mortal to harm a god, even a newborn one.
Renard can, because he is the son of the Bal God, and Renard can, because he holds the artifact "Holy Avenger" in his hands.
Fu Zor mysteriously disappeared the moment he was canonized in Sham, and Disma was drawn to another place to fight the three Bode siblings, and the hundreds of Bane priests present were all drained of all the power of faith.
You only get one chance.
Reynard did it, and was relieved when the blade broke through the shield of Sham's divine power and the sound came from the flesh.
The goal was accomplished, and he could calmly go and die.
Until the black fist gripped the Holy Avenger.
Bane, the true god of tyranny, the head of the three gods of death, bursts out of the body of Sham in the form of a young human bodybuilder!
The skin of Cham's chest blossomed and was torn, and the newborn god of tyranny and hatred, the weak divine power of Scorching Hell saw his father's resurrection with his own eyes, and the son of Bane opened his mouth, and then like a deflated ball, the god's torso deflated.
"My child, stupid fellow." Bane's countenance is arrogant and evil, both masculine and feminine, and his newborn body is perfect: "The more you inherit me, the closer you will come to me, and the closer you draw to my throne, the more you will become me." β
"Now that I'm back, and you've completed your mission, sleep in peace." Bane's toned wrist took Marchekidd's artifact bayonet from Cham's hand: "Be me, that's the greatest meaning of your existence, and I'll give you a decent funeral." β
The whole time, Bane didn't even look at Renard.
Cricket Bal Divine Son, unworthy.
Bounced off the Holy Avenger, Bane looked at the more than 300 priests in the audience who had fainted because they had been drained of the power of faith, sighed slightly, and a tear fell from the corner of his eye.
They are all faithful believers!
Without you, there would be no Bane, my god of tyranny!
Tears slid down his eyes, Bane waved his hand, and the priests whose faith had been drained were once again drained of energy, their vitality was all drained by Bane, and more than 300 lives made up for the need to ascend again.
These are all necessary sacrifices, and they are the price of helplessness.
Bane memorized their names one by one.
God will erect a monument for you.
The clergy of Strife has been taken away, the clergy of bureaucracy has been withdrawn, and now Bane's remaining core clergy is fear and hatred.
This is not good news for Bane, but these two priesthoods alone are enough for him to return to his powerful divine powers!
Even though I have fallen, I am still the king of tyranny! The head of the three gods of death!
Bane calmly ascended to heaven, his perfect human male body wrapped in pale flames, and he was about to return to his kingdom.
"Wait!"
Renard frantically slashed Bane's shield with the Holy Avenger's sword, and within seconds, Thom's legendary paladin emptied all of his reserves of the Holy Slash, and with each blow he had the power to open mountains and seas, slashing the entire throne hall tremble.
But Bane still didn't look at him.
After burning Baal's divinity to the fullest of its sublimation, Renard no longer had enough strength to break Bane's shield of divine power.
As a mortal, facing the gods has almost no chance of winning.
"Wait! Don't leave! Renard shouted hoarsely: "The battle between us is not over yet!" Bane, Bane!! β
"You give me back!!"
Only the rising black and white fire answered Renard.
"Don't you understand?" A voice sounded from behind Renard, and Aaron Salian, the general of Cormier's conquest, held the [Strife] priesthood in his hand, and said coldly: "Bane resurrected with the help of Sham, the father was reborn in the body of his son, all the efforts of Sax so far have been in vain, or rather, all his efforts all along have been just a lie, a lie that Bann made him believe that he can become a god." β
"What did you say?" Renard's eyes widened, as a paladin, he rarely thought so much.
"Bane's remnants of power constantly hint at what Shalm should do, that he wants Shim to inherit his position, to inherit his priesthood, to inherit his throne." Aaron coldly watched Bane's ascent from below: "Bane is much more dangerous than Sham, I originally pinned my hopes on supporting Sham, an enemy who is a little immature and inferior in strength and wisdom to Bane, but as a result, Master, you brought Bane back to life." β
"I bring Bane back to life?" Renard shook his head vigorously, and he grabbed Aaron's collar excitedly: "Impossible! Don't you see what I'm doing? Aaron! I'm trying to kill Him! I'm killing Him!! β
Aaron turned a blind eye to Renard's fierce reaction, he shook his head and walked from behind Renard to the front: "Do you think that you can weaken Bane's power and prevent him from resurrecting by constantly chasing down the Divine Son of Bane and removing Bane's heirs from the kingdom one by one?" β
"The answer is, completely wrong."
"The more you destroy the Son of Bane, the more Bane's will and divine power will be concentrated on Cham, you think you are preventing him from resurrecting, in fact, you are helping Bane resurrect!"
Aaron's voice exploded in Renard's ears like a bell being runged.
"No, it's impossible!" Renard shook his head vigorously, his face pale as paper: "This is the conclusion that I have put in an unknown amount of effort, the way to end Bane's tyranny once and for all!" β
"So, Renard, my senior." Aaron patted Renard on the shoulder: "You haven't really gotten out of Barr's control for a day, you haven't really been yourself, you're going to break up with Miss Lysa, you're going to run away, you're trying to kill Bane, you think you're going to end tyranny by eliminating all the Bane Gods, you're going out on adventures, you're getting the Holy Avengers, all of these are what Barr wants you to do." β
"Honestly, Renard, I used to wonder, who the hell is the Son of Killing?" Aaron put his hands behind his back: "I have doubted Disma, I have doubted Samir, I have doubted Anomin and Charlotte, I have even doubted Alice!" β
"But the only thing I ever doubted was you!" Aaron pointed at Renard: "Before you start killing the Son of Bane!" I never once doubted you! It wasn't until the Battle of Baldur's Gate that I had to believe that you, the Holy Samurai of the Oath of Consecration, were actually the Son of the Bal Gods!! β
"Whew~Hmm~Whew~Huhuhu~" Renard's gasping became more and more rapid, and the legendary paladin threw the Holy Avenger and threw the weapon that killed the gods on the ground: "Then why don't you stop me?" β
"Because, you can use the Holy Avenger to break the shield of the divine power of the Sham, and you can also use it to break mine." Aaron had a hint of guilt in his eyes: "I don't dare bet, who knows if it's Renard or Barr who is holding the sword?" β
"Uhhhh!!h
The Broken Paladin opened his mouth to the fullest, his eyes closed, and he clasped his face with his ten fingers, his nails scratching red marks along his skin, holding himself with both hands like a homeless man in a snow country, rubbing the ground to keep warm, and screaming in despair.
It's cold!
Why is it so cold in June?!
Because it's fake! It's all fake!
Fake !!
"What the hell did I become a paladin for?" As if grasping at the last straw, Renard stared at Aaron and asked, "Is it because of Barr's will?" β
"I don't know." Aaron shook his head: "I can't tell if Baal affected you all, or only at certain times, I'm going to deal with Bane now, you should think about what you should do next." β
With that, Aaron was about to leave.
Renard grabbed his arm: "Wait. β
"Even if you use the power of the four evil gods, even if you have that magic sword, even if you have controlled the priesthood, you are not a true god after all!" The university dean smiled sadly, his blonde hair was rapidly turning gray, "How are you going to deal with a Bane who is about to regain his powerful divine powers?!" β
"I have taken away His [strife] priesthood." Aaron was calm: "There must be a battle between us, don't be afraid, it's a big deal I'll ask the four gods for help, and Shar can do it." β
"Heh~hehe~" Renard laughed loudly, he shook his head vigorously: "It's always dangerous to make a deal with the evil god. β
Thom's legendary paladin reached out to his chest as if he was about to endure great pain, and Renard pulled out a white-gold ball of light: "This is for you." β
"What is this?"
"This is the light that Tom gave me." Renard laughed miserably: "He gave me the power to kill Bane's Divine Son, and it also seals the divinity I gained after hunting many Bane's Divine Sons, take my power with you, Aaron, this will allow you to fight Bann for a few rounds." β
"You've become a bit unscrupulous in your ends, Aaron." Renard is growing old fast, and he has stripped himself of the source of his power, and thus of the bond between himself as a paladin and the multiverse: "I don't want you to be that kind of person, don't make a deal with the evil gods, Aaron, accept my power, isn't that what you want?" β
"Senior......" Aaron pursed his mouth, his pupils vibrated and he was faintly moist.
Renard is no longer a paladin.
But Renard was still a paladin.
"Hehehe~ Okay, I don't blame you." Reynard's eyes, which had been bright, gradually dimmed, and some of the things he insisted on in his eyes, the things that he had fought for all his life, were disappearing: "The belief that he has been holding on to all his life has been turned out to be a lie, and the cause he has fought for all his life is a wrong feeling, can you understand?" β
"I'm a paladin, but I don't have anything left to protect."
"This time, let me really make a decision of my own volition." Renard's body is declining, decaying, and diseased, age spots appear on the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, and his voice is getting older and older, but it is the same as when the two of them first met: "Take it!" Aaron Salian! β
Turning into red dust, floating alone.
The paladin dispersed in front of Aaron.
"Isn't there a lot of things worth protecting!! Aaron wiped the corners of his eyes and yelled vigorously, "I can do it, I ......"
He suddenly understood.
Of course, Renard had met Eboud and Saffrok, and he didn't want to be like them, he was a paladin, a white knight who made a vow of selflessness and justice.
Aaron clasped his fingers tightly, clutching his palms bleeding, gritted his teeth and glanced at the ball of light floating in front of him, realizing that Bane was already flying higher and higher.
Reaching out, Renard's power flew into his body.
The outer ring of the Golden Law shows a golden mask pattern.
Renard's face.
Pillars of golden light rose from the ground of Santil Fort.
Divine powers!
β¦β¦β¦β¦
As Bane ascended higher and higher, he returned to the time before his dead divine body, sighed slightly, and used the last remaining bit of divine power to merge his dead divine body with his resurrected body.
The power of the God of Tyranny was restored at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the Astral Plane once again offered a salute for the birth of a new god.
Sage form, demigod, god-like power, weak godpower!
Medium Divine Power!
Powerful Divine Power!
At the moment when Bane's strength was restored to his powerful divine power, a feeling of extreme emptiness came from the body of the god of tyranny, and Bane immediately covered his chest, spitting black divine blood in his mouth, covering his arrogant and evil handsome face in pain, and letting the divine blood spurt out of his eyes, nostrils, mouth, and ears.
After all, the loss of [Strife] and [Bureaucracy], although Bane restored himself to a powerful divine power, but it was limited to that, the broken crown of tyranny left Bane seriously injured, and the loss of the key priesthood made Bane's current combat power only return to the level of medium divine power!
This wound will never be healed unless He can take back Strife from Aaron's grasp!
Before Bane could catch his breath, the golden light pierced through the silence of the astral plane, and the roar of the Golden Rule Behemoth and the hungry call of Draconion followed.
Aaron is chasing after him again!
And he also has an aura in him that makes Bann feel extremely dangerous.
This kid! Bane clutched his chest, he knew what it wasβit was the power of Tom to die with him in the Holocaust of the Sage.
This sincerity cannot be contested.
The god of tyranny fled, he fled without hesitation, far, far away, escaped from the astral plane, fled to a corner of the kingdom and plunged into it, not even daring to turn back.
Aaron saw that he really couldn't catch up, so he had to give up, after all, a powerful divine power must escape, and Aaron really can't catch up at present.
It's really a shame!
He ran to Ciric's side instead.
The Chaos Trio has begun their assault on the City of Discord.
It's time to strip Cirek of his third and fourth crowns!
(End of chapter)