This knight is too perfect

Chapter 76: Firebringer Promotion Ceremony
"…The greatness of 'fate' lies in its 'control' over all living beings. Therefore, if you want to truly experience 'fate', you must understand what 'control' means. For example, if I want to actually touch fate, I should find a way to completely control a person and let his fate be firmly controlled by me like a puppet."

In this way, I can truly feel the existence of "fate" and praise its greatness. "——"Mora's Notes - Notes after watching "Weaving Fortune Gold Coin""

Rhine spent two hours and finally finished reading the "Extraordinary Notes" in his hand.

After reading the contents of the book, Rhine felt a strong sense of discomfort.

He instinctively rejected the messages and emotions conveyed in the book.

Just because of the content in the second half of this book.

In order to verify her idea, Ms. Mora captured hundreds of mortals for so-called "control".

And what she called control was not what Rhine thought at the beginning, the kind of inductive control that used various hints or other means to induce mortals to make choices.

It is control in the 'physical sense'.

For example, such a scene is recorded in Mora's notes.

She wanted the experimental subjects to show her dog-like loyalty and actually change their fate.

This guy actually transformed the experimental subject's body into a 'dog', literally a 'dog'.

This transformation process is not only inhumane, but also full of blood and terror.

For Rhine, who has normal values, such behavior is undoubtedly unacceptable and extremely repulsive.

But Mora in the notes did not have the slightest objection to this.

She also boasted again and again in the book that she had realized the true meaning of "destiny".

It was also from this time that Rhine truly felt the horror of the 'forbidden poison recognition'.

He believed that Mora should have had relatively normal outlooks at the beginning, just like other normal extraordinary people.

But in the case of long reading of forbidden knowledge.

Her cognition was gradually polluted by the "forbidden knowledge of poison" and eventually twisted into a complete monster.

In this way, Mora, who seemed to be controlling fate, eventually became a monster controlled by fate.

Faced with such an absurd ending, Rhine couldn't help but sigh: "No wonder Teacher Fergus said that the most important thing for Beyonders is to maintain restraint. Blood-eating rituals and forbidden knowledge..."

"There are indeed too many temptations in the extraordinary world, and these temptations have a strong attraction that makes people flock to them."

“If they cannot maintain self-control, then those Beyonders who have been walking in the Beyond for a long time will one day be completely lost in this foggy world and become monsters that are neither human nor ghost.”

After saying that, Rhine put the extraordinary notebook aside and began to write his own thoughts after reading the notebook.

When he finished writing, Rhine immediately put down his pen and stopped looking at it.

Because he needed to ensure that what he just wrote was his first impression after reading the Extraordinary Notes.

Only in this way can Lilysa test whether he has been infected with the forbidden poison.

Although Rhine thought that he was not affected by the "forbidden poison recognition" at present.

But he cannot guarantee that this so-called "self-perception" is objective.

Therefore, it must be left to a third party to judge.

After doing all this, Rhine immediately began to observe his current situation.

【Name: Rhine】

[Extraordinary Occupation: Fate Knight (Shadow Raven Knight)]

[Extraordinary Rank: Black Iron]

[Holy Light Quality: 2/2]

[Life Essence: 2/2]

[Soul Essence: 2/2]

[Elemental Essence: 2/2]

[Desire Source: 2/2]

[Netherworld Essence: 8/8]

[Destiny Essence: 15.5/15.5]

Because it absorbed the source of destiny contained in part of the 'Extraordinary Path of the Firebringer' and the 'Extraordinary Notes'.

Rhine's current fate essence limit has reached '15.5'.

This has already exceeded the halfway mark of the upper limit of Destiny Essence required for him to be promoted to the Bronze Rank Firebringer.

However, the "30-point limit of destiny essence" is only one of the necessary conditions for promotion to Firebringer.

At present, Rhine does not know what the complete Firebringer promotion ceremony includes.

But thanks to the gift sent by Haley, Rhine was lucky enough to know one of the conditions, or an extraordinary ceremony.

This extraordinary ceremony is both demanding and not too demanding.

Because the content of this ceremony is to 'change the fate of at least 100 mortals, and the fate of at least one Black Iron-rank Extraordinary Person, and collect the fate essence of these people within the next month to condense a Fortune Gold Coin'.

If we only consider utilitarianism and not humanity, then it is not difficult to complete this ritual.

After all, killing a person or saving a person who is supposed to die can be considered a change in their fate.

There is no doubt that if you choose the former, this is undoubtedly the most efficient method with the highest success rate.

Because Rhine could have chosen to kill more than a hundred innocent people and more than one Black Iron-rank Extraordinary to ensure that he could complete this "Extraordinary Ceremony". But even without the Knight System, Rhine would definitely not choose to do so.

Because Rhine has always believed that the strength of extraordinary people lies in their ability to control the powerful force in their bodies.

But once this power gets out of control, the person using it will become its slave.

It is hard to say whether this power is a gift or a curse.

It's true that Rhine is eager to become powerful.

But this must be based on the premise that he can control this power himself.

It's like everything Rhine is doing now is to get as much power from the 'Knight System' as possible.

But Rhine is not just pursuing power, but he is also willing to do things that are in line with the "perfect virtues of a knight" from the bottom of his heart.

So sometimes Rhine even wondered.

After all, it was because he had the knight system first that he had his almost perfect chivalrous character.

Or was it because he first had this pursuit of "perfect character" in his heart that he naturally acquired this "knight system".

Although Rhine has thought about the reasons many times.

But his answers were surprisingly consistent every time.

That's the answer to this question, it doesn't matter.

Because no matter which answer he gets, it will not change his yearning for "perfect character".

He just wanted to do it in his mind.

And it would be good for him to do so.

So that was done, that was all.

Under this premise, the shortcut of completing the promotion ceremony by "killing innocent people" was undoubtedly abandoned by Rhine from the bottom of his heart.

If Rhine, who gave up this shortcut, still wanted to complete the promotion ceremony of the "Fire Bearer", he could only choose a path like "salvation" or "help".

But Rhine knew very well how difficult this road was.

Because sometimes successful redemption does not mean that the fate of the redeemed has changed.

Many times, what you think is salvation is nothing more than a temporary escape from the abyss for those who are being saved.

When you let go, they will return to their original state.

And this undoubtedly has nothing to do with changing your destiny.

Not to mention using their destiny essence to condense the 'Fortune Gold Coins' needed for Rhine's promotion.

Thinking of this, Rhine sighed immediately.

"It is not easy to maintain restraint while exploring Feifan."

"The bronze rank promotion ceremony alone is already so complicated and demanding. I dare not imagine how difficult the promotion ceremonies for silver, gold, and even the legendary emerald will be."

"But the more this happens, the more valuable self-control becomes..."

Having said that, Rhine stood up and walked to the window of his room, looking at the bustling night scene of Adrian Harbor with bright lights outside.

"…And the more precious something is, the more we should protect it, right?"

"After all, there are no natural saints in this world. There are only ordinary people who stick to their original intentions again and again in the face of countless temptations."

After saying that, Rhine lowered his head and looked at the knife in his hand, which originally belonged to Fergus.

"Teacher, you were almost crushed by the weight of life, but you not only redeemed your soul by sacrificing your own life, but also taught your students a final lesson, which is to always respect life, exercise restraint, and stick to your heart."

"How could your students easily forget the truth you have taught them with your life and soul?"

"So students will certainly try to become as powerful as possible, but all of this must be based on restraint."

After saying that, Rhine put away the knife in his hand and made a decision.

He will use the most difficult and hardest way to try to complete his bronze promotion ceremony.

Even if it takes him more time and costs more.

But Rhine had no complaints.

Because this is the only answer he gave after following his own heart, and it is the path he chose.

Although this road is destined to be full of ups and downs and thorns, Rhine still feels sincerely satisfied with it.

Because he was sure that this road would eventually lead to an endless abyss of despair.

He can still stand calmly at the edge of the abyss and tell his former self in a firm tone that he has never had any regrets.

Because no matter if it happens a hundred times, a thousand times, or ten thousand times, he who follows his inner voice at this moment will make the same choice at the same node of fate and lead to the same... future full of abyss.

Since the process will not change and the result will not change, what is there for him to regret?

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