Chapter 79 The cruel reality
"You, you, and you. You are more flexible. Go in and see what this priest is doing!" After Paladin closed the door, Harvey ordered the three soldiers with a gloomy look. Harvey couldn't help but wonder. A priest suddenly wants more than twenty prisoners! What does he want to do? It's not even possible to make Harvey suspicious.
But because of the instructions from his friend Kalechi, this Paladin is unfathomable. Don't anger him. That's why he didn't rush in with anyone to point the sword at Paladin and ask why. Only three subordinates were allowed to peek at what he was doing. It’s already very respectable. After all, they are not friends. Even the value connection of mutual use is very fragile. It is reasonable to turn against each other and deny each other.
But after Harvey waited for a long ten minutes, he felt something was wrong. Half an hour later after instructing another soldier to sneak in secretly. Paladin opened the door. "Captain Harvey, what's wrong with you? Why are you still waiting here? Do you want to come in and have a cup of hot tea?" "Father, can you see some of my men?"
Harvey realized something was wrong, but pretended to be calm and asked. However, in response, Paladin just shook his head hypocritically. Suddenly a bag of thirty gold coins was thrown over to Harvey. He said in an incomprehensible tone: "Take it well, captain, there are four more prisoners you gave me. I can't let you be wronged." After saying that, he smiled contemptuously and closed the wooden door. Harvey, who was left with an embarrassed expression, held in his voice for a long time before shouting in a low voice: "Let's go!"
Paladin, who stayed in the room, quickly dragged the twenty-four unconscious people into the basement. The clothes and armor of the four unlucky men were also pulled off and thrown into the backyard. As soon as they entered the basement, the light of the white phosphorus flowers blooming on the mountains of corpses next to them illuminated the gloomy basement a bit strangely. In this strange darkness, two blood-red eyes suddenly lit up.
Waves of low and wild voices came over. Paladin casually placed an unconscious woman on the cold floor, glared at the monster in the darkness and shouted: "Abrae! Come over and help quickly, don't you want to fill your stomach?" Sure enough, after hearing Paladin's words Reprimanding, the monster blinked its blood-red eyes, and its huge body walked out of the shadows. , it was Abel who had been imprisoned for a day.
Wait until Abel carried all twenty-four people into the basement. Paladin looked at the packed basement in front of him, pointed at a fat middle-aged woman and said to Abelly: "Take it and eat it. Don't bring the bones back." Abelly immediately let out an excited cry. With a loud voice, he lifted the fat woman onto his shoulders and disappeared into the church in a few moments.
Paladin closed the alchemy door very calmly and began to carve the Stone of Truth on the ground again to form a formation. Water, spread soil, light fire, blow wind. When the alchemy door of the basement was opened, Paladin walked out again. There is a stone of truth as big as a potato in my hand! Correspondingly, there were twenty-three more terrifying mummies in the basement. Shi Shiran returned to his room, which was also his alchemy platform.
Paladin locked the door behind his back, took out a scale and placed it on the stage. The thumb and index finger of his right hand were pinched together and suddenly opened, and a golden beam of light appeared between the two fingers. With just a slight stroke from Paladin, the Stone of Truth immediately split into two halves. You can even see the human face vaguely emerging from the cut hole. These are the results of the confinement of flesh and soul.
As a result, Paladin at this moment is like a financial manager, constantly measuring and cutting, so that the two separate stones of truth can be balanced on the scales. After that, cut a thumb-sized piece of the Stone of Truth from it and place it on the other side. Paladin has already made plans, fusing the light element will severely consume his life force. Then just separate the Stone of Truth into two pieces to absorb, one to increase life and the other to fuse the light element. Wouldn't it be enough to offset them two by two? The extra bit will increase your life, and you will be prepared for any trouble.
Satisfied, Paladin swallowed the extra Stone of Truth into his mouth. Suddenly, the Stone of Truth, which looked as solid as a stone, entered his mouth. It was as if it suddenly turned into water, instantly flowing into his stomach and spreading to his limbs. Indescribably comfortable and carefree. When the sky was bright and the sun was shining into the room, the pain of integrating the light elements still made Paladin miserable. After all, he shook his head and fainted on the ground again.
It was still in that dream, Paladin was sitting in the circle of gluttony, looking at the black baby in the distance. After touching it, there was no pain. The missing left arm was filled with empty chaos. Paladin was not only surprised by this, he was even more surprised by the black baby! At this point, this thing can no longer be described as a baby. As if he had grown up, a pure black boy sat opposite Paladin, with an intriguing smile on his face, and kept calling: "Feed me, feed me..." "Do you know me? Why did you eat one of my arms?" ? What's your name? Do you have parents?" "Well..." To Paladin's expectation, after he finished speaking these questions with no expected answers, the boy who had been feeding me over and over again suddenly clicked... nodded. The little hand gradually raised.
Paladin's pupils contracted violently! Because the black boy raised his finger and pointed at Paladin himself, and squeezed out the boy's slightly shrill voice: "You..."
"Hufufu..." Paladin suddenly turned over and sat up. The cold sweat on his head soaked his robe. Every time he saw this black monster, Paladin was enveloped in the purest fear. The feeling was really uncomfortable. But the next moment, something happened that made Paladin suddenly see the light of day and smile! Taking a closer look, he was surrounded by thousands of golden light elements!
However, the smile that just bloomed on Paladin's face did not last long, and suddenly fell down again. Because when he counted carefully, he discovered to his surprise that although the number of golden elements had increased, there were only 1,004! "That's all? This is the Stone of Truth for 11 people! Counting sixty light elements, it's at least about 1,500!" Paladin's face showed shock and solemnity. Suddenly he realized what he really wanted to do. The frustration on his face was clearly visible to everyone.
"The amount of elements for seven people is 420. I used to have 600. The total is just over a thousand. But there are still four people's share... 1004..." Paladin suddenly sighed deeply, mixed with He said with unconcealable loss and frustration: "After breaking through a thousand elements, can an ordinary person's life only provide one element? It's too harsh, simply too harsh!"
Paladin stood up angrily, with a look of frustration on his face as he said: "Aren't you asking me to use thousands of humans to refine the Stone of Truth? If this continues, if you want to become a truly strong man , one hundred thousand, one million elements! Not to mention a parish, even if I eat all the people in the Principality of Kasmi, it’s not enough!”