This was the fourth day of Randall's escape.

The weather on the island was still so bad, like the day the Iron Fortress fell.

The Master of Martial Arts once said that perhaps because neither the Fur nor the Hokuriku believed in the relationship with the Storm Lord Talos, it angered the temperamental Storm Lord, and the entire Lunaris Islands were often visited by storms.

Winds, torrential rains, and thunder always come inadvertently and ravage everything on the island.

However, the creatures of Moonshadow seem to have long been accustomed to this stormy weather:

The wind made them as silent and tough as the mountains and the earth,

The rainstorm let them know that they need to train their martial arts as deep as ancient trees,

The thunder reminds them of themselves every day.

Perhaps it is the relationship between Moon Shadow Island and the 'favored' of the storm that allows it to maintain such a state of isolation and isolation from the world all year round.

But this state of calm and tranquility was finally broken.

The creatures on Moonshadow Island are too blind to believe in the storm.

When the storm came, when all the fishing boats stopped at the shore, the druids returned to their huts to meditate and appreciate the depths of nature.

Even the daily training of their group of Templars would be transferred to the interior of the Temple.

Some knights in charge of patrols will also relax their vigilance relatively in this weather.

It was hard for them to imagine that the Luskans would be able to launch an assault on their Iron Fortress in such a violent storm, even if the outlanders paid a lot of price for it:

Many ships ran aground under the rushing undercurrent.

And they, the Iron Castle, paid an even greater price for their contempt and ignorance.

At the beginning of the Luskan invasion of the Moonshadow Harbor, they did not decisively defend the harbor, but instead cowered in the iron fortress that they thought was safer, and watched the outlanders perform how to run aground under the storm.

However, after some of the Luskan warships successfully arrived at the harbor and landed at anchor, the advanced ship-based artillery of the other side completely destroyed the pride and dignity of their iron fortress.

The heavy fortress that used to make the Fu people kowtow and bleed in vain has become a cage for their group of holy warriors to rest on their laurels.

Randall saw more than just a powerful Templar being buried by a smashed stone structure, and then he became one with the earth.

Then, under the indiscriminate bombardment of the ship's artillery on the Moon Shadow Island, they failed to adhere to the initial defensive strategy, but led more than 400 paladins to charge towards the port of the Iron Keep under the leadership of the Martial Chief.

They thought that by cutting the anchors of the Luskan ships, the storm would send them back to the sea, where they would be brutally tested by Talos, the Lord of the Storm.

As a result, before this strategic goal was achieved, they were first tested by magic crossbow arrows and tortured by the development of civilization.

These despicable outlanders!

Yes, even in the face of the rangers' bows and arrows, whether it is the [Battle Reflex] specialty and the divine skill [Holy Light Shield] given by the gods on their Paladin Path, they can almost ignore the stray arrows on the battlefield.

Even if they didn't succeed in dodging and didn't use the shield of holy light, their heavy knight armor would be difficult to break through with ordinary bows and arrows.

Unless it's the kind of high-level rangers whose archery skills are extremely amazing, they can directly target the eye sockets, necks, and joints of their armor to block them.

However, magic bolts are different, and the magic effect on them can most likely break their shield of holy light, and then successfully break the defense.

In the face of the saturation shot of the outlanders regardless of the cost, their group of 'pedantic' holy warriors often had to fall in batches before they could charge in front of the enemy.

Randall was also shot by an arrow and fell.

He had thought he was going to die.

But when he woke up, he was already in a secret passage in the temple.

It's a shame to say that he, Randall, a Templar and a guardian knight, was actually saved by His Highness Edwina, whom he needed to protect.

Edwina is the youngest princess of the Candic dynasty, and at the same time the most special princess.

It is said that when she was young, her mother fell in love with a foreigner who came to visit the island of Moonshadow, and eloped with Queen Alicia despite her fierce objections, and has not been heard from since.

And Edvina is the child left behind by that mother.

Perhaps because of her mother, Queen Alicia was not very interested in Edwina.

When he was still young, he was sent directly to the Iron Castle as an apprentice to learn the ancient druid lineage.

But anyone with a discerning eye knows that due to the complicated relationship between the Hokuriku and the Fu people, Edvina is to some extent a proton who maintains the relationship between the two races, just like her mother back then.

It's just that his mother chose to resist when faced with her marriage.

Perhaps inheriting her mother's genes, Edwina was smart from an early age, but also rebellious.

She actually learned the knowledge of the druids of the three schools of totem, shapeshifter, and avenger at the same time.

Therefore, she can not only summon various animal spirits to assist her in reconnaissance and combat, but also often transforms into some small animals to play pranks.

At the same time, she seemed to be interested in the martial arts of their paladins, but she scoffed at the righteous teachings of the paladins.

It is precisely because of this that although she has learned a lot of slashing techniques of holy warriors, she has not been recognized by the god of justice, Tyr, to become a true holy warrior.

This shortcoming made Randall secretly relieved at that time.

At that time, he simply felt that if His Highness Edvina himself became a holy warrior, would he not need to protect him.

Later, on the contrary, in the naturally isolated Lunaris Islands, Edwina, who has a dual identity, will hardly suffer any life, but he, the guardian knight, often becomes a drag on the other party.

For example, when he was being physically punished for training, he secretly turned into a small animal and handed him water, because the punishment did not make it to dinner, and took him to dig the bird's nest.

He had asked Edwina if it was against nature to do so.

As a result, Edwina cross-examined:

"The true way of nature is the survival of the fittest.

"Blindly sheltering the weak is a stupid and shallow opinion.

"Chicks will need to jump from the treetops one day before they can really learn to fly.

"The ocelot also needs to hunt other creatures in nature in order to absorb nutrients and grow up.

"On the contrary, excessive accommodation and protection will only allow it to wither away quickly when the storm comes.

"Because it's never really experienced nature.

"True nature is realistic and cruel.

"I also need enough food to grow, so it's not too much to take two eggs, right?

"After all, what I know of nature is circulation and exchange.

"No one really has no need to give and help the weak, and those who do that are either gods of justice or fools.

"No, even the god of justice needs people's faith to give believers divine magic, right?

"I, Edwina, am the best example of this. ”

At that time, Randall wanted to refute her, and then told the other party loudly:

No matter what the others were, at least he Randall was willing to give her wholeheartedly and not ask for anything in return, even if it cost him his own life. ’

But for some reason, he always felt that that sentence was against his heart.

And words that go against his heart are contrary to the teachings of his holy warriors.

After all, even if you raised cattle and horses when you were a child, you have to give them enough forage before they are willing to follow you.

And is he really as selfless as he imagined, and he doesn't ask for anything in return?

Feeling the warm soft touch under him, Randall felt, perhaps, this is what he is after.

Probably.

I am not as noble and selfless as I think.

"Hey, Randall, hold on tight, don't sleep! You have to stay awake! Otherwise you open your eyes here and you're probably going to Batow's hell to report." ”

The rain was still falling, and a she-wolf carried a bloodstained paladin who was already delirious from the inflammation of the wound through the gloomy woods, and when she saw that the paladin on her back was about to slide down, the she-wolf straightened her hips, arched it back, and then spoke.

They crossed the strait of Uman Island through the secret passages of the temple and made their way to the island of Quines to the south, where they prepared to seek help from Cowell, the second largest city-state on the Isle of Moonshadow.

It was home to the earliest homes of the Kendic family, a city that occupied half of the southern island of Fenes and where the Frunes first settled, and its rocky shores and high wilderness were perfect and excellent places of trial for those with strong will and distance themselves from their neighbors, or for the druids who sought to believe in the temple of the wilderness.

"I... I am a holy warrior, and even if I die, I will report to the kingdom of God Tyr, my god. Randall retorted with some slurred.

"Heh, you didn't die directly on the battlefield, if you die now, it can only be regarded as your lack of determination to survive and seek your own death, do you think your god will take away your soul?" Edwina retorted.

"......" Randall was speechless.

One man and one wolf were silent for a long time, and Randall suddenly sat up and sat up, and then said solemnly:

"Your Highness, you can drop me down here, with our current situation, you can't reach Cowell at all with me behind your back. ”

But the other party's answer always made him speechless:

"If it weren't for you, a pedantic fool, who refused to take off this heavy tortoise shell, would we be in the situation we are in now?"

“... I am a paladin, and this armor has been blessed by my god Tyr, and I cannot leave it behind. ”

Randall's demeanor when he said this was very similar to that of the men in Blue Star who were forced to drop their hard drives by their girlfriends.

Edwina was not happy: "Tyr, Tyr, count for yourself how many times you have chanted the name of this god of justice in the past few days, if the god of justice is really the embodiment of goodness and justice, why haven't you seen him descend and drive away the group of Luskan bandits!"

Randall was also not happy: "Your Highness, this is our mortal war, and the gods cannot participate. Also, how can you be so disrespectful to the name of the gods!"

Edwina: "Hmph, fart, I don't know how many gods in those epic myths have ever interfered with the material plane. ”

Randall: "Your Highness... You're not..."

Edwina raised her proud neck: "I don't care, if you really think that the god of justice you believe in is reliable, then prove it to me! We are now in the crisis of the destruction of the country and the family, should his old man also send a team of divine envoys to lead the people of our Moon Shadow Island to quell the evil? Even if it is to avoid suspicion, a metal dragon who presides over justice is fine!"

"I..."

But just as Randall took a deep breath and was about to take the initiative to climb down the back of the princess and block the pursuers behind him, a blinding silver light flashed through the sky, and a thick billowing cloud of smoke and dust was raised.

Randall noticed that the she-wolf beneath him suddenly froze, and then he heard the princess murmur:

"Randall, I, Edwina, believe in you from today onwards..."

"???" Randall looked confused.

Rumble...

Suddenly, there was a tremor on the ground that sounded like an earthquake.

Edwina was also a little confused:

"It's just... Why is this righteous metal dragon... The way of advent... It's a little different from what I imagined..."

"What?... Metal Dragon?"

Randall was even more confused than she was.

PS: Templars are not channeled, but they are in the system, although they are rare.