V3.Chapter 41

There are many pedestrians in the town.

The city in this desert is called Hadar, which seems to mean 'watcher in the desert'. This is an ancient language in the East, and it is estimated that many learned wizards do not understand it. Walking in here gave Sauron a feeling of returning to the Western Regions in the Middle Ages. The mixed population was a bit like Jerusalem, with both desert and Western races, and they were trading with different accents. Eastern merchants are somewhat reluctant to enter the western continent, so many goods will be sold in cities on the edge of the desert.

Coming here, Sauron found that he had forgotten one very important thing.

That is learning the 'Language' spell.

Damn dialect!

Although there are many people here who master the common language, the mainstream language is still the oriental language, and there are dialect characteristics of the desert area. Now he doesn't have a language translation system, and he can only understand one or two points of many words, and normal communication is more troublesome. But fortunately, he just passed by here, and if he couldn't do it, he could only find a businessman who knew the common language to communicate.

The buildings in the city are the kind of dome-built ethnic groups, and the most eye-catching should be the desert temple.

That is the Church of Death.

The priesthood of death has always been an important field for the gods to compete for, so almost every pantheon has a god involved in the field of death. The desert temple in front of you is the church of Nephthys, the goddess of wealth and death in the Eastern pantheon. At the top of the temple church, Sauron saw a golden bowl with the emblem of the ring of life floating on it. This is a goddess of chaotic good camp. The priesthood extended from the field of death is 'the patron saint of the dead', which also protects the dead. The kind of priesthood that is not disturbed.

Therefore, the followers of this goddess are not difficult to deal with.

The Eastern pantheon is an outsider from the time of the ancient empires. No one has been able to determine where it came from, but the ancient empires once plundered a large number of people from other worlds, and then the Eastern Desert pantheon was born. For a long time, the Eastern Desert Gods seldom intervened in the struggle of other gods, even in the chaotic era of the Arcane Empire, they were just a bystander. The belief in these gods is limited to desert regions. As for the Eastern Kingdom, it is a blind spot for spiritual beliefs.

Because of the influence of the monks, the Eastern Kingdoms are more inclined to believe in 'nature' rather than a specific god.

This Tao is a bit like the so-called 'Tao of Heaven'.

But it is not the way of heaven that people know, but a way that is more inclined to spirituality. The pursuit of monks is personal sublimation.

If I had to use one word to describe it.

Sauron thought that it should be the so-called - 'Heaven and man are one! '

Anyway, so far he has no way to distinguish between the spiritual detachment pursued by the 'Natural Druid' and the 'Monk'. In his opinion, 'the way of heaven' and 'nature' are basically the same thing. Sauron is not the kind of person who is too rigid in the spiritual world.

There is a passage that says this.

It was a book written by a druid wanderer who traveled to the eastern kingdom. The druid's last multi-tasking monk became a very powerful legendary powerhouse.

- "Apart from daily training, monks' practice is mainly spiritual. They have a direct and mysterious connection with the spiritual world, and feel the mysteries of nature through meditation, so they do not need priests and gods. Traveling in the East During the process, I met many powerful monks. They don't know any magic at all, but they can master many magical abilities through practice. This ability does not come from gods, nor is it any kind of arcane I know. It is more like a gift from nature to practitioners.

I think this is another way of nature.

So I decided to join them and use the monk's practice to find the mysteries in the depths of nature. "

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Sauron temporarily found a hotel to stay, and immediately prepared to inquire about the news.

It is quite difficult to find a place in the vast desert, even he himself only knows the general direction, if no one has explored there. As a forerunner, Sauron may still need to dig a hole to go in. Because his next target 'anti-detection cloak' is in the underground ruins, and it is still the underground ruins buried in the depths of the desert. Exploring this kind of underground ruins is not like finding a random dungeon cave and venturing into it, but more like excavation and discovery like archaeology.

For specific operations, refer to the excavation of Egyptian pyramids by European predators. The first batch of underground ruins that were opened up back then were almost all the passages that adventurers paid for people to dig.

The geography of the desert also does not allow for the entry of newcomers for thousands of years.

Sauron wanders in this desert city, where you can see adventurers from the East. Every year, monks embark on a journey of cultivation, visit the Druid Church on the other side of the continent, and learn from other professionals. It's their daily practice. The number of monks from the East began to increase as long as they were close to them. However, most monks still have hair. Only those who are prepared to strictly observe the precepts of monks, or those who have established it. Just shave off your hair.

"Violence."

"If it's not for justice, then it's meaningless!"

Sauron first turned around here. However, just when he was about to return to the hotel to rest, there was a sudden commotion in front of him, followed by a loud and hoarse voice from the front, which made him stop his steps. There are a lot of people gathered in front of them. It seems that people's nature loves to watch the fun. There are a lot of people in front of the three floors and the three floors. Even the nearby guards were attracted, but they didn't mean to stop, and the expressions on their faces seemed a little overwhelmed.

Sauron also walked over quietly.

Immediately before his eyes, a paladin with a face full of vicissitudes appeared. From his face, he looked vaguely young, but unfortunately the wind and frost on his body was too heavy, making him at least ten years older. The paladin was wearing worn-out silver armor and fish-scale gauntlets on his wrists. In front of him was a man dressed as a desert warrior. The machete in the opponent's hand was held in his hand like this, and he couldn't stab it even if he wanted to. I can't even pull it out if I want to.

The face of the paladin made Sauron stunned for a moment, and then he seemed to remember something, and his expression changed slightly.

- "Justice!"

Facing the panic-stricken desert warrior in front of him, a white light appeared in the palm of the paladin's palm. He suddenly released his palm, pulled out the two-handed epee from his waist, and pointed it at the enemy in front of him.

A blood-red light appeared.

The man standing in front of the paladin appeared with an evil aura.

This blood-red aura shocked everyone else, and anyone with a little knowledge couldn't help but retreat, because the desert warrior in front of him looked like a person with bloody hands.

"It's a sand thief! He's a skeleton sand thief!"

A businessman next to him seemed to remember something, and then said in an angry and frightened voice: "They robbed the past merchants, and they never left any survivors."

The paladin didn't care about the others around him.

He stared at the man in front of him and said in a low voice, "A week ago, you attacked a caravan from Oasis City and killed twenty-seven innocent people."

"The crime you committed should be paid for!"

The paladin held the heavy giant sword in both hands and slashed out, and the desert warrior in front of him waved the sword in an embarrassed manner, but the whole person flew out.

boom!

His body slammed into the wall behind him, and he couldn't help spitting out a trace of blood.

"justice!"

"Either by force or by law."

The paladin swung the giant sword down again and said in a low voice, "But the law here seems to cover you, so I can only rely on force to maintain justice!"

A faint aura appeared on the two-handed greatsword he held, when the paladin swung the sword down again.

Click!

A crisp crack sounded.

The sand thief in front of him was directly cut off by the machete, and was instantly killed by his sword.

——"Break the evil!"

The paladin glanced at the others, paused for a moment as he passed Sauron, but quickly looked away.

He didn't recognize Sauron.

I only saw him come to the corpse of the sand thief, leaned over the corpse and whispered a few words in a special language, then glanced at the guards with stiff expressions all around, lifted the corpse with one hand and walked out of the city.

No one else could hear what he just said.

However, when Sauron heard the strange language, he couldn't help being stunned, because he was very familiar with these words.

This is a very old language.

It's impossible to even tell where it came from, but the translation roughly means this.

- "In the name of justice, avenge the weak!"

………………

In the paladin's creed, there is a very important sentence.

- "Sympathy for the weak and protect women and children."

I am afraid that even Sauron himself did not expect that his words actually made the young paladin whom he met in the city of wealth embark on the road of becoming a 'sacred avenger'.

It doesn't look like he's done his test yet, though, because the true Holy Avenger isn't what Sauron sees now. But from him, Sauron has seen that he has completed a lot of practice, because the Holy Avenger also has tests. The real holy avengers are all close to the legendary level of strength. Although the sword he just swung out was very powerful, there was still a big gap between the avengers in Sauron's memory.

And his weapon is not an imitation 'Holy Avenger', but an ordinary two-handed greatsword.

This means that he has not yet obtained the real qualifications!

The paladin left alone.

No one dared to stop him, the city guards just stared at the corpse of the sand thief held by the paladin with one hand, and then watched him away from here.

Every city has dark corners.

The cargo looted by desert bandits eventually needs a place to go.

Sauron watched the figure of the paladin leaving, his eyes seemed to move a little, and then he followed quietly.

………………(To be continued)

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