Chapter 952: paladins
In the Western Continent, the Church of the Suffering God has a great influence, but its scale is not large.
This church is rich in paladins. There are always powerful warriors who summon divine power with a sense of compassion in their chests, and then become priests. However, they lack priests, because most spellcasters are relatively calm and rational people.
Calmness and reason often mean indifference and selfishness. In the world of spellcasters, "people are not for themselves, and the world will perish" is common sense. If you can not harm others and benefit yourself, you can already be regarded as a first-class moral model. Obviously, in such a group, if you want to breed willingness It is very, very difficult for a pastor of the Church of the Suffering God who suffers and sacrifices for others.
Probably no more likely than an old-fashioned lottery to hit the jackpot and drive the car home.
Moreover, even if there are pastors, the pastors of the Church of the Suffering God often do not live for many years-the responsibility of the pastor is to preach, and what will be the consequences of spreading the teachings of the Suffering God among the people? As you can imagine.
There are roughly two kinds of regions that can tolerate the mission of the Church of the Suffering God. One is that, like Mulanda, it is always facing the threat of monsters and needs to unite all forces to survive; the other is that there is no strong force like the Southern Islands. Lord, the sky is high and the emperor is far away.
In the mainland of the Western Continent, the number of pastors of the Church of the Suffering God is so few that they may be able to count with two hands—perhaps a little handicapped, and a slight loss of a finger or two will not hinder the completion of this work.
So even Wang Tuhao, who has traveled all over the world and made friends, can only help Panda to contact a few paladins.
The group of paladins was a group, a teacher, with three students.
The teacher's name is Tom, and the students are Jack, Mark, and Clark.
These names are common, as common as the white radish in a poor man's field. Panda felt that these names should be just pseudonyms - it is normal for clerics, especially paladins, to use pseudonyms. Because they always get into trouble in the process of being chivalrous and righteous, using a pseudonym can avoid being found out, and it will save family members or relatives and friends.
Old Tom's hair and beard are completely white, and his body is clearly showing twilight. Anyone with a little eyesight can see that he is not far from the end of his life, and now he can start the countdown to death. But his eyes are still bright, his footsteps are still steady, he can still fight, and he is not much worse than when he was young.
"The body of immortality" is the ability that the clergy will inevitably have after stepping into a high-level, strong beliefs and long-term divine power scouring, so that unless they really die, no matter how old they are, they will only be superficial, internal The situation has remained almost at the peak level.
From the divine power emanating from Old Tom, Panda could clearly tell that the other party was a high-level paladin. Maybe a little worse than himself, but it is enough to protect Shiwa Village and several nearby villages.
Among his three students, Mark is a priest, and the other two are paladins. The three boys are not very old, and the oldest Jack is only twenty-four-five. Naturally, at such an age, they would not have strong strength. They were only at the beginning level - but at least it would be no problem to clean up a dozen skeletons, or to deal with two or three zombies. Even against a powerful undead, as long as you are cautious and delay the time to help the villagers retreat, you can still do it.
Among the four "similars", the one that Panda cares most about is the youngest paladin Clark.
Thirteen years of age is really an odd number for priests - priests must be able to invoke divine power with their own beliefs, which means that they are generally not very young, after all, most children are not yet called Above is the "belief" thing. Can anyone who can become a cleric before the age of 20 be called a strong willed person, and it can be called a miracle to become a paladin at only thirteen years old!
Seeing this little boy with a tender face but firm eyes, Panda couldn't help but think of a later character in the game.
"Sorrow of Mercy" Kent, the legendary paladin of the Church of the Suffering God, during the total battle between heaven and hell, he has been committed to protecting ordinary people from the war, and has suffered countless injuries. Every time he recuperates for more than half of his wounds, he can't help helping others, and then falls down again and continues to recuperate.
That's where his title came from.
Of course Clark wasn’t called Kent—unless he was a Kryptonian, but as mentioned earlier, clerics, especially paladins, are accustomed to using aliases. Even if there are not as many as Mr. Lu Xun’s pen names, three or five aliases are normal— You can tell by looking at Panda himself, he is one of those who rarely use pseudonyms.
He became a cleric at the age of thirteen, and he was a blue template at a young age. Panda couldn't help but guess that maybe this Clark was the future "Sorrow of Compassion" Kent?
He chatted with Wang Tuhao privately about this matter, and Wang Tuhao said, "I have thought about this for a long time, so I found several life-saving props for him."
Panda agrees with this - even if Clark is not a "compassionate wound" in the future, an excellent boy who became a paladin at the age of thirteen is worthy of such vigorous training.
Of course, this is all in the future.
The most important thing at the moment is to hand over the affairs here in Shiwa Village, and then go to the grassland to persuade the bear people to support Aiwei Yin's plan and avoid a possible war.
The panda called several village chiefs and told them that they were going to try to prevent a war, and leave the matter here to Tom and others. Looking at the four old and young clergymen, the village chiefs were very worried. But they didn't say anything. Instead, they wished the panda a successful trip.
After a few months of getting along, the people in these villages have already understood what kind of person this paladin Pande is - in order to protect this area, he has hardly even slept for a day!
Such people will not deceive them!
After handing over the matter here, Panda thought about it, contacted Roland first, told him about it, and then rushed to the castle of the local lord - not to make trouble, but to tell the other party and go to the grassland to find a solution. With the war stopped, missionary work can only go so far.
Some chubby viscounts were so frightened that they almost **** their pants at first when the panda suddenly broke into the castle and rushed in front of him, but when he learned that the panda was leaving, he was immediately ecstatic. Not only did he not care about the panda rushing into the castle, but instead Said that he would send soldiers to help Tom and others protect Shiwa Village.
After so many years, the lords of course also know how to get along with the clergy of the Church of the Suffering God. Unless everyone really tears their faces, it is best to be nice to the lords, so that at least they can reduce their risk of going out and being stabbed. possible.
...But there are only a few lords who are really willing to do this. If the panda's deterrent power was not too strong, this Viscount would also not take the people of Xiwa Village seriously.
The world of nobility is like this, if you don't put a knife in front of them, they probably won't put humanity back into their chests.
However, often when it came time to put the knife in front of them, most of the paladins of the Church of the Suffering God would simply push the knife forward a half-foot, and it was clean.
After finally solving everything, Panda thought about it carefully and felt that there should be no problem. He immediately set off back to the city, and then took the human cannon and headed to the prairie.
The most important thing is just beginning.