It's not the protagonist, what does it matter if you are trapped in the Shura field

Chapter 664 The Knight King of False Faith

"Stop!"

Fao, standing on the high platform, suddenly ordered the knights to cease their actions.

In addition to the four kings, civilians from the Dark Families were also brought up. It seemed that the original intention was to make the kings watch helplessly as their people who still supported them died before their eyes, and then suffer the same execution.

“Stop the killing,” Fao said to Lovi, “or I will order all of these people executed immediately.”

Luo Wei stood there coldly, sword in hand.

“I have no relation to these people and don’t know them at all. Are you mistaken about using their lives to blackmail me?” He looked up. “Do you think I care about their lives?”

"So what exactly are your reasons for supporting a dependent state?"

People always need a reason to act.

If it wasn't to help the weak, and it wasn't for any vested interest, then what was it that made him fight so resolutely, swinging his sword without any hesitation?

"...It can't be because of the Queen of Marusir, can it?" the adventurer said.

He said it with a trembling smile, but the Darkmoon Knight and the Demon God Astaroth behind him were all stunned. This...

Why would the princess still... when she clearly intended to commit indecent acts...? No, no, I can't think about it too much.

Just then, Lukiran, who had burst through the ruins, lunged at Lovi. Blood was already stained his forehead, and he gripped the corrupted holy sword, bringing it down fiercely on Lovi.

"I absolutely will not allow it!!"

The holy sword flashed by, and Rowe simply followed its trajectory to suppress the opponent's weapon to the ground. The enraged Lukiran gritted his teeth and headbutted him, but Rowe used the force to knock him into another Templar Knight, denting the latter's visor.

tease.

This extreme humiliation caused Lugilan's entire body to radiate divine light, and he brandished his glowing holy sword to suppress Lovi.

"Why?! What reason do you have to stop us?! We are fighting for our beliefs!"

"Faith," Rowe didn't even bother to look at him, glancing up at the platform, "is this how you convince yourselves?"

"what!"

"Just because you have a level three god's holy sword, you think you're a god-like being who saves the world? Aren't you taking yourself way too seriously?"

With a surge of black light emanating from his sword, Lovi suppressed his opponent, while Lugiran, wielding his sword with both hands, struggled to kneel on one knee.

But he still held on with all his might.

“Even I know there are problems within your organization. Don’t tell me you, as one of them, were completely unaware and never suspected anything.”

"!!"

"So what are you pretending for?" Luo Wei glared at him coldly, slashing through his stance with a single sword stroke and completely suppressing him.

Lukiran stepped back a few paces, gripped his holy sword again, and charged forward.

"What a joke!! The glory and beliefs of the Knights Templar cannot be dishonored! As a member of them, I will surely become a paladin who influences the entire continent in the future!"

"..."

"What, speechless now?!" Lugiran's blade slashed repeatedly at the opponent's sword. "We are the absolute justice, the rightful conqueror! I am the strongest!! In a war like this, what reason do you have not to stand on the side of justice but instead support those treacherous Dark Families Kings? Tell me!"

"Because this is someone else's country."

"!"

Lukiran's pupils trembled violently.

It was as if everything he had built in the past shattered in his eyes with that one sentence, his pupils shrinking to points and swaying, even his breathing stopped.

But the next moment, intense killing intent and hatred surged in his eyes.

"I am a fearless Templar Knight! I uphold the glory of my beliefs!! I will—"

Rowe's sword pierced through his chest.

“I have seen blond adventurers who wield holy swords with unwavering conviction, but your conviction is not even a hair on their head.”

"..."

At his cold words, Lukiran's eyes lost their color and he collapsed to the ground.

Luo Wei turned his head back to look at the platform, and the others learned from the conversation that he had so firmly chosen his side.

The Knight of Dark Moon lowered his head in shame, clenching his fists and shedding tears.

Such a simple truth, yet it takes someone to remind people of it now. They have experienced so much struggle and despair that they have almost forgotten the reasons for their conviction.

No—perhaps it's precisely because someone hasn't forgotten that he's on their side.

King Marusir charged toward the other side of the drawbridge to defend his last shred of dignity—

The King of Caias preferred to be taken hostage rather than betray the country's intelligence, yet he remained unyielding in the face of the true enemy.

The queen prayed to the gods day and night to save the country, even sacrificing her life to an evil god.

"Please, please listen to me... A black tide is rising from beneath the city, members of the royal family are dying one after another, we've done everything we can, but the people don't believe us..."

But many people have forgotten that, chronologically, the Dark Families were misunderstood by the people as being brewing disaster because they were being manipulated by a behind-the-scenes force. When they actually took the initiative to use this power, it was entirely to repel the Templar Knights who had come uninvited to occupy their country.

Luo Wei knew very well that if he were in this position and faced with the survival of his country and needed to rebel, he would also spare no effort and would rather use any means to destroy his opponent.

This is precisely the kind of trick that the Third World is accustomed to using.

They exploited Icarus's loyalty to the goddess of mechanics, the people's complacency after the disaster, and now they've taken advantage of these countries' desire to protect their nations.

So, who is the victim forced to resist, and who is the accomplice who came by agreement? On the surface, both are at fault, so the situation is obvious.

So what reason would he have not to stand on the side of the Dark Families?

There was no need for a third or fourth path; the answer he found lay hidden beneath the seemingly mutually exclusive contradictions, even though he genuinely didn't care about the lives of the people here.

"Hehe... Hahahahahaha!!"

Fao, who was on the high platform, suddenly burst into laughter.

As if reading his thoughts, his gaze deepened: "I was wondering why you, who should have turned yourself in, would suddenly appear here. It seems you had planned this all along, didn't you?"

"So you already have people in the Adventurers' Guild," Rowe said calmly, "and the Church of Law, too."

“To be honest, I don’t care about any of that,” Fao said in a cold tone.

Gray mist surged from the battlefield, as if the moment had arrived. An extremely powerful and ominous aura exploded violently not far away, and the divine light of the Dark Sun collapsed into space, crackling and popping. Crackling... crackling and popping!

The Dark Familiar Kings, who were pinned to the high platform, all showed expressions of shock.

"What...this is impossible!? We clearly haven't done it yet!?"

Amidst the violent tremors of the wind, Luo Wei also looked in that direction. The light and shadow made the world's colors shift between black and dark red. A fleeting shadow was projected onto the earth, and a figure slowly rose from it. From that figure, Luo Wei sensed a divine pressure nearly equal to his own—

A first-class god.

Or rather... a being possessed by the divine power of a first-level god...

The figure wore a crown of dark sun and a blood-red battle robe. It looked up in confusion and bewilderment, with red and black light and shadows emanating from its body, continuously tearing the earth apart.

This scene even carried the aura of Gui Wuhai, and that figure always made people involuntarily guess that it belonged to a certain legendary figure—

The founder of the Dark Familia.

That... "Dark Prince".

"You...we clearly didn't initiate the final ritual!! How is this possible!? How could that ancestor..."

The statements of several Dark Familiar Kings proved Lovi's conjecture.

This is likely the Dark Familia's last trump card: using the power of the Dark Sun to recreate the figure of the Dark Prince. But this force is clearly on their side. Could it be—

Fao held something aloft in his left hand at this moment.

It was a mirror shimmering with stars, which almost instantly created a sea of ​​stars in the sky upon activation, and countless chains wrapped around the Dark Prince who was standing still, releasing a dazzling brilliance.

“Do you think I don’t know your ritual?” Fao said, holding up the mirror of stars. “You should be thanking me for completing the final step for you.”

The power of the Starry Sky of Destiny and the power of the Dark Sun clashed against each other. The chains were sometimes wrapped with the scorching sun and sometimes burst with brilliant starlight. This clash of divine power was not something ordinary people could get close to. Adventurers who were nearby, as well as the demon god Astaroth, the Dark Moon Knights, and the Templar Knights, were all blasted away.

Luo Wei stood still.

It wasn't that he lacked the ability to stop it, but rather that intervening at this moment could lead to unpredictable consequences from the collision of the three divine powers, especially with Gui Wuhai's power also at play below.

This also made him suddenly understand the whole picture of the Third World's plan—to create a Dark Prince born from the Sea of ​​No Return and possessing the power of the Dark Sun by using the Dark Families, and then have the Knights Templar use the artifact of the Starry Sky of Destiny to control him and use this power for their own purposes.

This is not some kind of omen of fate.

Luo Wei had guessed wrong; this was clearly a supreme artifact directly from the Starry Sky of Destiny, far more powerful than the Fate Phenomenon.

Gui Wuhai was brought in by the Third World six months ago. From that time onward, they began to create conflict, causing the people's trust in the royal family to collapse. Then, they introduced the Knights Templar to create conflict between the Dark Families. Everything was planned.

The fact that Fao pulled out this mirror at this moment indicates that they had been cooperating with the Third World from the very beginning, which is why they were fully aware of the movements of the Dark Families.

The so-called "Nighttime Journey" was nothing more than an experiment to weaken the power of the Dark Families and to prepare for the birth of the Dark Prince.

That's inhumane.

"Hehe... Hahahaha!!"

The starlight overshadowed the Dark Sun God's might, which was trapped in the Sea of ​​Nothingness, and controlled the "Dark Prince" who had just been born there. Fao couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"With this power, sweeping across half the continent would be a piece of cake!!"

Whether it was the Darkmoon Knight lying on the ground watching this scene, or the four Dark Familiar Kings on the high platform who had been waiting for this moment for who knows how long, their expressions were filled with fear and confusion.

All that they prepared for this... it was unbelievable...

Seeing the Dark Prince, who had been brought into the fold as their last resort, and the Knights Templar standing on the same side, they felt a deep sense of despair on their faces.

Just then, an uncontrollable burst of laughter suddenly erupted from the field.

"Haha...hahahaha..."

Everyone looked in that direction and found that the person laughing was Luo Wei, who had been standing there the whole time.

“What?” Fao looked down at him with displeasure. “Are you paralyzed by this power?”

"No, no, no..." Luo Wei covered his head with one hand, unable to catch his breath from laughing for a moment. "I just couldn't help myself when you said that sweeping half the continent with this would be a piece of cake. I didn't expect you to have such a good sense of humor."

"What did you say?"

Luo Wei stood up and slowly turned to him with a smile.

"Guess why I didn't stop you during that process? Although there was indeed some risk, I was just curious to see what you could possibly produce after all that fiddling around."

"?"

Luo Wei didn't explain in detail to him. The Dark Prince, who was being controlled by the other party, did indeed have the divine power of a first-level god, but in Luo Wei's opinion... he was no more than the same as the goddess of mechanics, Icarus, back then.

Hmm... Although Vimir isn't here, he's not the same person he used to be. His divine core has been developed to at least the third level, yet he can't even deal with a projection that doesn't even have a divine core and only carries residual divine power.
You are not without fault.

That's incredibly disrespectful to those who are at the level of a first-tier god.

His cold gaze swept over Fao on the high platform, sending a chill down his spine. Having witnessed the previous scene, he subconsciously believed that this black-haired swordsman was capable of resolving the situation.

"You think I only have this shadow?" Fao waved his hand from the high platform. "I have five thousand Templar Knights here! I can also mobilize another seven thousand from all over the world at any time!!"

"The Knights Templar, is that it?"

Luo Wei looked at him with pity. "Then I need to remind you that a certain force on the continent that is preparing for the war of gods has just sent troops to the southwest of the continent. It's hard to guess exactly where, but I remember it was somewhere further southwest of the Narrow Sea. Your headquarters wouldn't happen to be there, would it?"

"What did you say?!"

"Do you have seven thousand men?" Luo Wei didn't answer his question. "We only brought three second-level gods with us. You should be able to handle it, right?"

"who are you!!?"

Fao roared from the high platform, unable to believe it was real—a second-level god?! What a joke!!

Luo Wei stood on the ground and slowly unveiled the disguise of his face, which was covered in writhing flesh.

"I am Rowe Brook, the chief swordsman of the Fifth Princess of the Lion Garden Kingdom and the runner-up of the 9th Elite Tournament of the Blues."

"!!"

what! ?

Before anyone could react with surprise, Luo Wei, who had revealed his identity, coldly looked at the Knight King Fao, who was standing there dumbfounded.

"From the moment you become associated with a certain power, the Knights Templar will only have one outcome: disappearing from the map of the continent."

(End of this chapter)