Elden Clergyman

Although when he first saw her, he did think that the other person was Lani. After all, whether it was the dress or the magical fluctuations, the person in front of him was very similar to Lani.

But after looking at it up close, he realized something was wrong.

The simplest and most obvious point was that the Lani he knew had four hands, but the 'Lani' in front of him only had two hands.

And on the back of each of his hands, there was a fragment that seemed to have swallowed up all the colors and was very familiar to him.

"Oh, it looks like you know Lani."

The strange wizard saw Lord's doubt and shook his head.

"Okay then, I admit it. I'm not Lani. My name is Lenara... Do you know her too?"

Lord shook his head. "No, I don't know her. I just know that she's probably in the academy right now, and her mental state is worrying."

The strange wizard thought for a while: "Actually, my name is Laelana, and I am Laelara's sister..."

"Does the Full Moon Queen have a younger sister?" Lord turned to look at Melina behind him.

Melina was silent for a moment, then nodded: "Yes, but I can confirm that the person in front of me is not Leilana."

After all, Leilana is currently working under her red-haired brother, and her profession is also a magic knight, which does not match the person in front of her at all.

"Tsk."

Seeing that the top account failed, the strange witch curled her lips.

"Alright, alright, I won't pretend anymore. My name is Reina, Witch Reina."

"I just woke up from this cave. As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw this strange crystal. I was still studying it when this thing next to me tried to attack me, but I dodged it, and then I became like this."

"Also, can you two explain to me what exactly happened here? What's the current situation in Lienia? And what have Laelana and Lenara done? From what you say, it seems like things aren't going well."

Lord shook his head: "I just arrived here, so I'm not very clear."

"alright."

Reina didn't dwell on it. After all, she could find out about this matter on her own. "If there's nothing else, I'll continue my research."

After the conversation and confirming that there were no other side quests, Lord started walking, walked past the person who called herself Witch Lena, and after moving forward for a while, he left the cave.

Looking further to the left, there is a dilapidated wooden house with a blessing inside.

Next to the blessing, there was a barefoot girl, leaning against the corpse of a wolf with a sad expression.

"Fader, what are you doing here?"

When she heard the footsteps, she raised her head and looked at Lord with angry eyes.

"Fader, what are you doing here?"

"I've already told Bai Ernan that I don't have a talisman. Are you still not satisfied? You've already taken away my companions. Isn't that enough?"

Looking at the angry woman in front of him, Lord thought for a moment and said sincerely.

"So, who is the Hundred-Eared Man?"

"What is a talisman?"

"Can you tell me about it?"

Letina: “…?”

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Chapter 37: Letina: There’s a cow!

Looking at the sincere man in front of her and confirming that he was not lying to her, even though she was still sad, Letina couldn't help but have a strange expression.

"If you're not here for the talisman, why are you here?"

"I don't know." Lord pointed behind him: "I saw a cave over there, so I went in, walked for a while, and when I came out, I was here."

Letina: “…”

Well, she could basically confirm that the other party was not the subordinate of the Bai Erman, because she was sure that the other party would not have such a subordinate.

"Then you'd better leave quickly." Letina lowered her head again and looked at the wolf beside her: "The men of the hundred-eared man may come back at any time. If they mistakenly think you are my companion, you may be affected too..."

After hearing her words, Lord thought for a while.

Bai Er, this name sounds a bit familiar...

"Well, let me ask, is the 'Hundred Ears' you're talking about the guy who wears a silver mask with a bunch of ears on it and likes to tell riddles to pretend he knows everything?"

"You know him?"

Letina looked up again: "Then you..."

"Oh, never mind. I'll just ask him directly."

After saying that, Lord touched the blessing, and then in front of Letina's dull gaze, his figure completely disappeared.

After a while, just when Letina thought she was hallucinating, Lord's figure appeared again, and his expression looked a little subtle.

"Well, I asked him about it, and he said he did it, but he only wanted the talisman. Everything else was done by the Faded Ones on their own initiative."

Lord Gang did go back to the round table and asked Baizhi.

The other party also readily admitted that he had sent his men to hunt down a girl from the Son of Platinum, hoping to get the talisman from her, but in the end it turned out that the girl did not have it.

It wasn't just the girl. In order to find the talisman, he also issued a reward, asking the Faded Ones to help him find the talisman in the girl's village. If nothing unexpected happened, everyone there should have been killed.

"You must be asking why I do this, and what is the Son of Platinum, right?"

Because he had dealt with Lord once, Baizhi had seen some of his problems and summarized how to deal with him.

"The Children of Platinum are artificial beings created by an ancient civilization. Therefore, they cannot receive the blessing of the Golden Tree... Do you understand what this means?"

If it was when he first arrived in this world, Lord might have shaken his head and said he didn't know, and asked Baizhi to explain.

But after experiencing the battle demonstration of the hybrid brother in Moren City and some popular science explanation from Markit, although there were still many things he didn't understand, he managed to figure this one thing out.

"The bad omen is simply because the horns that hinder the 'return to the tree' must be cut off regardless of life or death. Even if they barely survive, they will be treated as cursed for the rest of their lives..."

"And the hybrids don't even have 'horns'. They just have some extra parts on their bodies that don't belong to the 'blessing of the golden tree'. They are considered 'defiled' and can only become slaves..."

"As artificial beings, the Sons of Platinum cannot even receive the most basic 'blessing', let alone 'return to the tree.' Even their blood is silver. And according to the laws of the Golden Tree, for such beings, it should be..."

Lord raised his head and looked at Baizhi, and they both said the word together.

"Kill them all."

Maybe no one mentions this openly, but everyone does it, so you rarely see the Son of Platinum in the territory of the Golden Tree camp.

"Perhaps you think that Kalia's alliance with the Sons of Platinum is a sign of acceptance, but do you know one thing? In the past, magicians and the Sons of Platinum were completely hostile to each other..."

Baizhi shook his head.

"Personally, I have no prejudice against the Platinum Sons. To be honest, I am quite interested in the technology that created them, but now..."

He didn't know what he remembered and shook his head.

"Of course, if you sympathize with that girl, as a member of the Round Table, taking in a Platinum Son wouldn't be a big problem."

"What if I want to cover up more?" Lord asked.

"More... If you mean keeping them as livestock, or conducting research or something, I think there's no problem with that."

Baizhi looked at him, and seeing his serious expression, her tone also became serious.

"But if that's not what you mean, I advise you to give up the idea as soon as possible."

"The Sons of Platinum are inherently filthy beings. They neither receive the blessings of the Golden Tree nor deviate from the original intention of the Golden Law."

"I'm telling you this because you're one of my few comrades."

"otherwise......"

Baizhi shook his head and didn't say anything else. He just lowered his head and continued to study the book in his hand.

Then, after standing there and thinking for a while, Lord returned to the blessing point, and the look in his eyes when he looked at the girl in front of him also changed slightly.

In fact, he and Baizhi talked about more than just these conversations. In the middle, he also asked Baizhi some other information about the Sons of Platinum, such as whether they had done something particularly bad in the past that caused everyone to dislike them and even the Golden Tree was unwilling to bless them.

But the result was that, when faced with the race of the Sons of Platinum, even Baizhi couldn't name any notable evil deeds they had done, as if they had been wandering since the beginning.

Kill them here and there. They will be killed in the Golden Tree camp because they are not blessed. They will also be killed as materials outside the Golden Tree because their blood has the ability to hinder the blessing.

There is a big injustice at the border.

Although it was just a simple exchange, Lord didn't dare to say how much he knew about the Son of Platinum, nor did he dare to ensure whether there was any inside story behind the persecution of the Son of Platinum.

But after considering the hybrid brother in Moren City, Markit's Little Class of Evil Omens, and the current Son of Platinum, he was somewhat aware of the problem.

That is, this "Golden Rule" does not seem to be as pure as he originally imagined.

He originally thought that the Golden Law was similar to the First Fire of Dark Soul. It was necessary for all life and the foundation of everything, so everyone was vying to cultivate it.

But now it seems that the facts are a little different from what he thought...

Of course, this does not mean that Lord should completely deny the Golden Rule just because of its shortcomings.

He just felt like something was wrong.

But he couldn't figure out what was wrong...

"What are you thinking about?" The blue-skinned weirdo poked his head out.

"I'm thinking there might be something wrong with that Golden Rule."

"Aren't you a fader?"

Reina looked him up and down, then spoke with some confusion, "And it seems he's a Faded One of the Round Table Hall. How could he question the Golden Rule?"

"It has nothing to do with my identity. If there's a problem, there's a problem."

Lord turned to look at her and asked in confusion, "Aren't you studying those pyroxenes? Why are you here?"

Reina stiffened her neck and said, "Can't I just take a walk?"

In fact, for some unknown reason, when this person approached her, she felt a warm feeling. After he left, she felt a little cold, so she came over.

What branch line should be triggered?

Lord thought about it and didn't dwell on it. He turned to look at Letina on the side.

"Are you going to stay here forever?"

Letina didn't know why he asked this, but after a moment of silence, she nodded, turned to look at the wolf beside her, and said softly.

"I have nowhere to go, and Rob is dead..."

Then she saw Lorde come over and touch her Rob.

Then, Rob's body disappeared out of thin air, and a ball of pale ashes appeared in Lord's hand.

"Isn't this soul still alive?"

As he spoke, Lord rang the soul-summoning bell and summoned out Robert's soul.

But I don’t know if it was because his soul was damaged when he died, or because of the recognition effect of the soul-summoning bell, but in any case, after being summoned, Robert kept circling around Lord and didn’t even look at Letina.

This bell...

Looking at the soul-summoning bell in Lord's hand, the blue-skinned monster standing behind him seemed to be thinking about something.

As for Letina, her face turned green.

"What did you do to Rob?!"

Looking at Rob's intimate attitude towards Lord, she suddenly felt that Rob's death was not so difficult to accept.

"Um, this..."

Lord looked at the big dog being affectionate at his feet, and subconsciously reached out and stroked it twice. After stroking it, he realized something was wrong - this was not his dog!

The real owner is right in front of us!

"Some people say that I am more popular with souls. Maybe that's why..."

Letina's heart was bleeding.

But looking at the lively look of Robert beside Lord, Letina took a deep breath and clenched her fists.