The mage arrives

Under the illumination of the white magic light, the owner of the bald head walked in front of Gordon and Sigrid.He is a monk.Perhaps the word monk is too casual, to be precise, he is a monk.

Monks, like clerics, are clergymen of firm faith.However, priests have to spread faith, manage churches, and teach believers, while monks basically don't need to do these things.They usually live a poor and lonely life in a remote monastery, using penance to sharpen their will and their belief in gods.

In addition to self-cultivation, monks will also participate in some social activities, and they are not isolated from the world.In particular, some monks from the Good God Church will carry out some activities to slay demons and eliminate demons and promote justice.

Moreover, there is another important difference between the monks in this world and those monks that Gordon knew on Earth: monks do not need to be bald.

And the very tall monk in front of him, wearing a light blue sackcloth robe and bare feet, has a bald head not because he has to do so as a monk, but because Because he made a practice oath to the gods.

The so-called practice vows are monks swearing in front of the gods to show their firmness and devotion in their hearts.The most common practice vows are the vows of poverty - the practitioner will maintain a poor life of simple food and light food, linen and short clothes all his life.In addition, there are oaths of whipping, oaths of innocence, oaths of silence, and so on.From this point of view, monks are more similar to those Hindus on earth.However, the happy children of Asan still have such wonderful vows as walking backwards and not cutting their nails for the rest of their lives.The monks are incomparable no matter what.

The monk in front of him obviously took some kind of "hairless vow". Not only did he keep a big bald head, but he even shaved his eyebrows completely.And Gordon can see with the help of magic light.The other person's face appears to have been coated with some sort of wax-like clear coating that completely seals the pores and prevents the hair from growing back.

"I just don't know if all the hair on this big man's body has been shaved..." Gordon thought with all kinds of mischief.Then he immediately realized that it seemed extremely inappropriate for him to have such an idea.As a normal man, it is understandable to imagine that a certain cute girl is completely naked.Just thinking about how this kind of big and thick guy takes care of his body makes him feel sick...

"Mr. Mage, your guess is correct. The tragedy in front of you is indeed the result of an evil and strange creature."

"Sorry, you are..." Gordon kept a distance from the opponent, and was ready to fight at any time.In this dangerous ancient ruins.Suddenly, a familiar guy appeared to talk to him.In such a situation, as a mage who is cautious by nature, he will naturally remain on guard.

The tall and strong monk in front of him is not a character to be trifled with at first glance. From his strong muscles and thick joints, it can be seen that this is a guy who has completely honed his body into a fighting machine.Although monks do not wield any weapons, they do not wear any protective armor other than a cloth robe.But only relying on his fists and physical body.It can also unleash a powerful combat power.

And for the caster, an elite monk.It is more difficult to deal with than a high-level fighter.

Thanks to the perennial penance, monks will have very good magic resistance.Coupled with the sensitive skills and the speed of the wind, it is simply the nemesis of mages.

This kind of professional innate restraint made Gordon have to be cautious about the monk in front of him.

Seeing Gordon's question, the tall monk said suddenly, "Ah, I'm sorry, Mister Mage, and Miss Knight, I was too focused on tracking monsters and neglected basic etiquette."…

He raised his arms and clenched his fists together, then bowed to Gordon and said, "I am Clivesi of Maplebrook, monk of Heim."

The name of the monk is slightly different from that of ordinary people. Crevisi is the name, and Fengxi is the name of the monk's monastery.However, it is usually enough to call it "Clivesi", and it is not necessary to use the full name.

Heim's main priesthood is guardianship, and he can be regarded as one of the famous benevolent gods.So Gordon was a little relieved, he was not so wary anymore.

The off-white metal glove worn by Crevisi has a pattern of a vigilant eye drawn on it, faintly exuding divine power.This further demonstrates his identity as a Helm monk.After all, in this world, there are very few people like Reinas who are favored by two gods at the same time and who can use weapons to disguise themselves as paladins of another faction.Usually, based on the weapons and equipment used by a priest, it is possible to roughly judge the opponent's good and evil alignment.

However, out of caution, Gordon quietly used a "detection camp" spell on Clivesi.

Judging from the magical aura reflected back from Crevisy, this is indeed a genuine, lawful and good-aligned Haim monk.

But after casting the spell, something unexpected happened.Gordon originally thought that he could complete this faction detection without anyone noticing, but who knew that after the spell was applied to the opponent, although it succeeded, a flash of light visible to the naked eye erupted.

The monk said to Gordon with a serious face: "Mr. Mage, although I can understand your caution, it is not a friendly act to use detection spells on others quietly."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Crevisy. But your magic resistance is impressive."

"Your spellcasting ability is very impressive. Being able to successfully cast spells on me already shows that you are a great mage."

After this little spell confrontation, the distance between the two of them has narrowed a bit.Together with Sigrid, the three continued to explore the horror scene left after the carnival last night.

Crevisi knelt in front of a female corpse, stretched out his cold metal glove, and pressed down on the other's round and tall chest.It's not that he has any idea of ​​desecrating the corpse, but is using the unique ability of a monk.To sense the movement of life energy in the corpse.

Because of the rigorous physical training and spiritual practice, monks use energy much better than most physical combat professions.Except for those beginners.Almost every monk will use "Qi" to strengthen offensive and defensive capabilities, physical fitness, and detect the surrounding environment.

Because of their professional characteristics, monks have a very metaphysical theory about the special ability they have mastered—qi, which is probably spirit, potential, nature, the world, the universe, something that people don't understand.But in the eyes of a mage like Gordon. "Qi" is actually the source energy of life.It's just that it is a special source energy application method developed by monks, which cannot be explained and learned with clear theoretical knowledge, so it seems very mysterious.

But compared with other physical combat occupations.The monk's "Qi" is indeed a great advantage.Because only monks can actively use source energy without awakening power.

Gordon saw clouds of white energy clusters slowly oozing out of Clivesi's metal glove.Then converge into a line.into the corpse.

As non-professionals in autopsy, Gordon and Sigrid could only quietly wait for the monk to finish all this.

After about 10 minutes, Clivesi withdrew his hand.

He said in a rough and deep voice: "The life energy in this woman's body was suddenly withdrawn at the moment when it was at its most vigorous and active. This is the reason for her death."…

Although the monk confirmed his speculation, Gordon was not at all happy.Because the truth of the matter is still hidden in the darkness, which makes people elusive.

"It seems that it really did it." The monk sighed.The voice trembled a little.

The female knight asked: "My lord monk, do you know who the murderer is? Can you tell us the truth? Maybe we can help."

Gordon sighed secretly.Although it is a good thing that Sigrid has a warm heart and a sense of justice.However, his main purpose was not to come to Vesula Mountain to hunt down some mysterious monster.Delaying work in order to help this monk is not a wise choice.

But Clivesey seemed to be an honest man.After Sigrid asked, he told everything he knew.

"It's a long story, Mr. Mage, and Miss Knight..."

"I'm Gordon, she's Sigrid, just call us by first name."

"Okay then, Mr. Gordon, and Miss Sigrid." The monk nodded and said, "I'm a monk at Maple Creek Abbey in Dagger Valley, but I haven't stepped into Ferre in the past 20 years. Pause. For a goal, I stayed in the desert across the sea for 20 years..."

Daggerdale is located in the Green Gap Province northwest of Freydon.It is indeed not an easy task for this monk to travel across the entire empire and across the ocean to the desert area of ​​the southern continent for 20 years.

"At that time, all the monks in Heim in the entire Green Gorge Province - including Fengxi Monastery, established a monk group called the Fist of Vigilance. Its purpose was to respond to Heim's call and eliminate the entrenched Dangerous creatures in the ancient ruins along the banks of the Evergreen River in the Green Gap Province. Everything is going smoothly. No matter how powerful and dangerous the creatures hiding in the dark depths are, they are under the iron fist and divine power of our monks. They were killed one by one. But in the end, we encountered a truly terrifying enemy."

Crevisi took out a stone slab from the old cloth bag at his waist.Judging from its material and fineness, it seems to be quite old, at least thousands of years old.

"This is a slab we found from the ruins where the enemy lived. Mr. Gordon, you should be able to understand the text on it."

The characters on the stone slabs were imprinted with silver, but due to the age, most of their luster had been lost, and they looked dull and black.However, the integrity of these Neisser texts is still well preserved.

It seems that the terrifying enemy mentioned by the monk is another scourge left by the magic empire of Netherdulan... Why do I say "again"?

Everything has two sides.With their astonishing wisdom and arcane power, the great arcanists of the Magic Empire created a brilliant civilization, but they also left irreparable wounds on the world.

Judging from the records on the slate in Clivesi's hand, the ruins he mentioned were once the laboratory of a Nesser great arcanist.

The monk took out another stone slab from his cloth bag.He pointed to the pattern on it.To Gordon and Sigrid: "This is what that creature looks like. Its official name is unknown, but we call it the 'Seven Sins.'"

Slate, with simple and clear lines.An extremely ugly monster was drawn.It has a disgusting body like a coelenterate with countless tentacles growing on it.Among them, on the seven thickest tentacles, there are human faces with different expressions and expressions.

Such twisted, disgusting, and completely violating creatures of nature can only be born with the power of arcane magic combined with the madness of a mage.

"According to the information found in the ruins by the monks, this Seven Sins is a man-made creature created by a great arcanist of a magic empire. That great arcanist wants to study the desires and emotions of intelligent creatures. Whether it can transform For the real source energy, the Seven Sins were created. This monster can absorb the seven desires and negative emotions of greed, lust, gluttony, jealousy, laziness, arrogance, and anger. Transform them into their own nutrients and grow.”…

"The Seven Deadly Sins? If you put it in the game, such a monster setting would be quite impressive!" Gordon secretly said, "However, the appearance of this monster seems a bit familiar..."

he remembered.He seemed to have seen similar monsters during the battle to annihilate the pirate Bellamy.

The guy was disguised as a vulture and followed the pirate as Bellamy's pet.In fact, it was a parasitic creature attached to Bellamy's body, absorbing its spiritual energy to live.

However, the monster was very cunning and escaped from the battlefield in time, only to be wounded by Gordon.He remembered the last direction the monster flew to.It is Mount Vesula.

Could that be the so-called Seven Sins?This monk came to Weisula Mountain just to chase it?

Although Gordon already had a rough inference in mind.But out of politeness, he didn't intervene, and quietly listened to Clivesi finish his story.

20 years ago, Crevisi's monks fought against the Seven Sins and finally failed.The monk group came out in full force, sending a total of 78 monks.But the power of the Seven Sinners is even better.In that battle, it almost killed the entire Fist of Vigilance monk group, including the head, two deputy heads, and the four elders.Clivesey is the only survivor.

The Seven Sins are cunning, powerful, and most importantly, capable of manipulating the minds of intelligent beings, amplifying their desires and negative emotions.Even monks who are proficient in magic resistance and honed their minds to be extremely tough cannot resist this powerful power that even surpasses the legendary mind mage.

However, although the fist of vigilance was almost wiped out, it also beat the Seven Sins to the point of death.The seven human faces growing on its tentacles—the key to the seven desires and negative emotions that the Seven Sins control—were all crushed by the iron fists of the monks.

The Seven Sins left the ruins, fled all the way south, crossed the sea of ​​stars, and finally entered the desert area of ​​the southern continent.In order to avenge the companions of the Fist of Vigilance and to fulfill his duties, Crevisi dragged his seriously injured body and crossed the sea southwards to the desert area.

Fortunately, his body was exceptionally strong due to his rigorous practice and training, and he was not worn down by injuries and fatigue from the journey.

Relying on the monk's unique "Qi Sen" ability, Clivesi pursued the Seven Sins.And the Seven Sins also hide everywhere by virtue of their cunning and parasitic abilities.

"I wandered in the desert of the Muland Empire for 20 years, just to catch that twisted and evil monster that shouldn't exist in the world. But I didn't know until the beginning of this year that that guy had actually left the Southern Continent a long time ago. Hiding in the Sea of ​​Stars. I was deceived by that damn thing for ten years!"

What Clivesi was referring to should be the ten years when the Seven Sins transformed into vultures and hid among the Bellamy Pirates.

Although I was cheated once severely, and even wasted ten years.But in this long chase, the monk still holds the initiative.Because the injuries suffered by the Seven Sinners back then were too serious, and they lost almost all their abilities, so they couldn't fight against the monk at all.

Even though the Seven Sins were parasitic on Bellamy's body, using the desire of "gluttony" to control the great pirate, and took the opportunity to absorb life energy and repair the injury, the effect was not significant.After ten years of hard work and accumulation, he was injured again by Gordon's two dissociation rays, and had to flee.

And Clivesy, after finding out that he was deceived.He immediately left the Muland Empire, followed various clues, and finally entered the Vesula Mountain.

"20 years. The sacrifice of 77 brothers... such a huge price, I will not let that evil creature exist in the world again!" Clivesi clenched the metal gloves and made a loud clang.

It seems that this monk has made up his mind to have an understanding with the Seven Sinners in Mount Weisula.

Judging from Gordon's original experience, the situation of the Seven Sinners is not very good, and their strength is far from the same as when they killed 20 monks in one fell swoop 77 years ago.If at its peak, the Seven Sins were comparable to a legendary School of Mind archmage.So now, it is at most equivalent to a middle-level mage with four or five rings.

With the strength of a monk like Clivesi, there is no doubt that he can easily defeat the Seven Sins.

but.The premise is that he can find the cunning creature hidden in Mount Vesula as soon as possible.And judging from what happened last night, the Seven Sinners have obviously recovered a bit, and have the ability to manipulate these adventurers to engage in mating activities and stimulate biological instincts.and absorb energy.complement itself.

Gordon speculated that maybe the monster found something inside the Weisula Mountain ruins, and quickly recovered from its injuries.After all, the Seven Sins are man-made magical creatures from the era of the Netherdulan Magic Empire, and the Vesula Mountains are the relics of the Magic Empire.Compared with contemporary people like Gordon, the Seven Sins are obviously more able to dig out things of value to themselves from the mountains.

If Clivesi doesn't hurry up, the Seven Sinners will find something in the mountains again.Or continue to manipulate the adventurer and absorb energy.Strengthen yourself, and things will become more and more difficult.

However, it was Clivesi's destiny to hunt down the Seven Sins, but it had nothing to do with Gordon.He still has things he needs to do and has to do.

"Mr. Crevisy, I admire your persistence and perseverance, and I sincerely hope that you can find and kill that evil creature. However, my companion and I may not be able to help you."

The monk nodded and said: "I can understand. Every adventurer who enters Weisula Mountain has his own reasons and goals. I can't ask you to help me chase the Seven Sinners for no reason. But there are some small things, I think the two should be willing to help."

Heim's monks are not fools who talk about it.Since Clivesey said it was a small matter, it must not be a big one.

"If it doesn't affect my original plan, I am willing to provide help within my ability." Gordon said.

Clivesi took out another polished round black stone from the cloth bag, which was about the size of an apple, with a cloud pattern engraved on it.

"This little thing is called the 'Cloud Stone', and it is a special communication tool used by our monks. If you find traces of the Seven Sins on the way, you can use this stone to notify me. I will definitely do it as quickly as possible Come."

The cloud stone is a remote communication tool similar to the messenger brooch.However, the communication brooch relies on arcane power, while the cloud stone uses the "Qi" mastered by monks to communicate.

The user only needs to speak to the cloud stone, and the Qi stored in the stone will transmit the language to the monks within the communication range through a special method.

However, only monks who have mastered "qi" can sense and understand the message sent by the cloud stone.So the scope of application of this gadget is too narrow.

Clivesi wanted to stay in this open space, hoping to find more information about the Seven Sins from the corpses.But Gordon had no interest in being a monster hunter, so he bid farewell to the monk and moved on with the female knight.

The roads in the mountains are intricate and confusing, and it is easy to lose your way.Fortunately, Gordon has a very detailed map, so there is no possibility of turning around like a headless chicken.

As for the other adventurers, most of them just choose a path to advance at random, pinning everything on luck.

In order to avoid falling into the remaining magic traps from the past, and to save energy, Gordon and Sigrid did not rush on their way.However, because they have a detailed road map, the progress of the two is not slow.Along the way, they overtook team after team of adventurers.

Although I don't know where Rufa who kidnapped Vinia is in the mountains.However, according to this momentum, Gordon believed that he would be able to get ahead of the opponent soon.And since Lufa snatched the key of the blue wind, his destination must be the wind element tower in the red zone.

So Gordon only needs to reach the Wind Elemental Tower in front of Lufa, and he will be able to wait and catch the mage of the Arcane Federation. (.)