"Fifteen years ago, when I was still studying hard at the low-level warrior academy, I was once the pride of my parents and teachers. I was the example of how other people's children can be so outstanding in front of the villagers."
"At just ten years old, I have mastered more than ten basic combat skills and successfully entered the Black Iron rank. I am known as the pride of the academy and a future hero. I am always surrounded by lovely school girls who admire me.
, walking in the academy, and then 'accidentally' revealing my genius..."
"'That genius in Class B? He just mastered continuous counterattacks, right? If he works hard for ten more years, he might be half as good as me.' Comment casually on those idiots who have no talent, and then enjoy the admiring looks and praises from the cute school girls.
, I originally thought that such days would last forever. When I grow up, I will become a great hero and marry Bai Fumei. Until that day..."
"'Magic talent? Admission notice from Holy Light Academy? Become a glorious paladin, I'll go, I'll go'"
At that time, I had longed for the glittering paladin. When I received the admission notice, I was ecstatic, but I vaguely ignored the worried expressions of my parents.
"The glorious Paladin? It seems glamorous, but in fact, it is just the beginning of a nightmare..."
"Graduation equals unemployment? How is that possible? I am a genius knight that the Paladin Academy has only seen for ten years!! Look at my Holy Light!! Look at the Glory Charge!!"
"Sorry, we are all devout priests. What we need are talents who can preach and preach, not murderers. Our department's twelve-person staff has been over-staffed to twenty-four. Everyone is a Paladin.
Those who graduate from the academy are technically your seniors, so why should they give up their place to you?
"I... I can become a free adventurer."
"I'm sorry, as a priest who has been blessed by the Holy Spirit, you are obliged to repay the Holy Light Church's training for you with labor. The Seventh Temple lacks a volunteer to clean the altar and toilets... However, volunteers are not paid.
The Holy Light will reward your efforts. Don't worry, it won't take long, three years will pass quickly."
I still remember the look in the old pastor's head when he turned his head. "Young man, are you new here? I've been working for twenty years, and I didn't become a full-time official until my hair turned white. You're just a kid who doesn't know what the world is like.
Just get through it."
"I... I'll be a free adventurer, that's all right!!"
Of course, but I didn't expect that that would be the beginning of the nightmare...
Three years later, I finally became a free adventurer as scheduled. Why three years later? If I didn’t want to be hunted down by the Holy Church, how could I skip the three years of voluntary service...
Well, seeing that my juniors have become the backbone of the team of veterans and adventurers, while sighing, I am not discouraged. I am confident that with my silver-level strength, I will soon be
Will become a star in everyone's eyes again.
But soon, the cruel reality hit me hard.
"No? Why, you should be happy that I, a silver-level paladin, am willing to become a member of your group of bronze warriors. Could it be...that it's because I am a paladin?"
The thief opposite nodded.
"Paladin talks a lot of nonsense and has many disciplines. Can you tolerate undead and half-demon teammates? Can you communicate with gray organizations? Can you shut up when the loot is distributed? We adventurers often have to do dirty work.
Can you promise not to talk nonsense during the adventure and to obey orders obediently?"
Of course not! The doctrine of the Holy Church clearly stipulates that all lost items will be returned to their original owners. If the original owners cannot be found, they should be handed over to the public. How can they be used as trophies and shared privately? As for the undead and half-demon? Evil Chaos! We and you are at odds with each other!
Okay... If I don't agree with each other, I won't be allowed to join the adventure team. I will form my own team...
The team formation went smoothly. The Adventurer's Guild and the tavern were full of paladins and priests who couldn't find the team. Soon, our "Glory Land" team successfully embarked on their journey.
but……
"What's the matter with not being able to receive payment? That's not waiting to starve to death."
"Didn't your mentor teach you when you went out to take risks? We are all knights serving the Holy Light and the public. The nature of adventures for priests can only be regarded as travel to accumulate experience. It is our obligation to help people in trouble. Since it is
Obligation, how can we receive remuneration?”
"If I can't make money, I, the stupid adventurer, am going to starve to death!!"
The senior smiled mysteriously. He did have a way. This was also the old way for the Paladin adventurers to avoid starving to death.
It turns out that we cannot collect remuneration, but if this is a donation to the Holy Church, we can keep one third as our own reward, but...
"Since it's a donation, naturally I can't take too much. But if you kill an ogre clan, you'll be given a copper plate. It's only enough to buy two pieces of black bread. It's not enough for me to buy medicine. By the way, I have to pay two-thirds of the copper plate.
To the church…”
"That's fine. You haven't met the goblin's request. That's the most important thing, right?"
"kindness?"
"Donation cannot be calculated on how much, let alone whether to donate or what to donate... If you encounter a stingy goblin, it is still a good thing not to donate. If you donate a half-ton stone, you have to carry it back and cut it into three pieces and hand over two
As a senior, I would like to remind you that if the goblins really give you engineering supplies that look good, they must be thrown away as soon as they violate the doctrine. They will either be exploding experimental items and be used for experiments on you, or they may simply be used for experiments.
Is it a bomb, or are you being used as an experiment?"
"By the way, be careful of the fishmen. Last time we helped the fishmen clean up the coastline, the group of fishmen donated a lot of smelly mud fish. On a hot day, the smell started to stink in the middle of the journey. The smell can be smelled ten miles away...
..It caused me to swim under the waterfall for three days. I still remember the contemptuous look in the eyes of the priest girl when I was collecting donations, as if she was looking at something dirty."
Although the pastor's companion's addition was very funny, I couldn't laugh. Instead, I felt like crying for no reason.
"There are also satyrs. What a cheat. Those stingy people actually use wool as payment, and it belongs to Lungen! You can imagine, grabbing a handful of wool in one hand, walking a few steps, and counting.
To avoid the feeling of missing a few and being unable to hand it in..."
"There are also paladins. We are all extremely poor, but we don't want to cheat each other. I met one that time..."
Soon, the consultation turned into a meeting of complaints from my companions, and I became more and more desperate for my future career as a Paladin.
"...At least, the Holy Knight is shining with gold and is very popular with women!!"
But soon, reality hit me hard again.
"Do you have a house? Do you have a horse? Do you have any savings?"
I lived in a public dormitory, which was full of smelly and sweaty men. Of course, it couldn't be used for marriage. There were mounts provided by the church, but how could I afford to raise a war horse myself? I stayed in the church and could only ride it during wars. At that time
, during the war, the fodder was reimbursed by the public... As for savings, haha, hello, sister, goodbye, sister.
After being hit several times, I finally met a simple and lovely girl who didn't care about my poor conditions and was willing to fall in love with me!
"Ah, how beautiful and kind she is, she is my goddess."
The strange thing is that when the most we hold hands, take a walk together, or have a deeper relationship, she always refuses.
At that time, I was very strange, but I tried to endure it. After all, she was so pure. But five years later, I was already thirty years old, and I couldn't bear it anymore, so I bit the bullet and asked.
"Ah? Paladins are not knights of gods. Do they have to abstain from sex for the rest of their lives?"
"I
I spent a lot of energy to get her to understand the difference between a monk and a paladin, but what followed was a despairing answer.
"Um... I'm sorry. I just wanted to have a purely spiritual relationship so I came to you. I can't promise you that. Can we still be friends in the future?"
"Friend?! Friend, your sister! I am already thirty years old!!! My classmates have a dozen children."
That night, in a dormitory full of stinky men, I burst into tears, but my colleagues silently sat beside me and comforted me.
"Do you know Eru? The genius paladin of Lucca City?"
I think of the winner in life, his girlfriend, who is beautiful and rich.
"Why mention him? You think I'm not sad enough."
"He has fallen. He has transformed into the Black Knight, a minion of Chaos. His white, rich and beautiful girlfriend is a devil. She only came close to him to make him fall..."
"Which number is this? Beforehand, many people in the church had already suspected why such a good woman would find the Holy Knight, and also gave him a warning, but he didn't believe it. No, probably, he himself knew it.
It’s just that I’m deceiving myself and want to enjoy a happy life more.”
"Oh, everyone is numb. Women who go to find them on their own will basically be rejected, and women who approach them on their own initiative will basically have problems. The teachings of the church prohibit everyone from spending money to solve physical problems. Even solving them by yourself is an evil that is explicitly prohibited.
Behavior…."
"We are human beings! Not beasts! Two days ago, the love affair of two paladins in Xishan was exposed and they were expelled from the church. They are both my comrades in arms. I even went to see them off, but it seems that they are
I'm very happy that we can be together in the future... But they are all men! It turns out that they are all normal people who like women! If you hold it in for a long time, something will really happen! There are more and more gays in the church!"
"Actually, I'm beginning to think that men can barely accept it..."
"Actually, me too, how about we give it a try?..."
Ever since the speed-dating "couple" suddenly appeared that day, I have been completely desperate and living like a zombie...
"Want to leave the Templar Church? Become a Paladin? You don't have any other skills to support your family, and you are old. It's not easy to start over. The only one who can transfer jobs seamlessly is the Black Knight. Are you sure you want to try it?
?”
When I despaired of life and was even sent to the dangerous underground world, I didn't refuse. Danger was nothing, at least I could stay away from more and more gays around me!
But here, a turning point in life suddenly came.
"Nanxiang Law School? Recruiting short-term training students, recommending jobs? Paladin admission without examination! Is this true?"
"Try it, it can't get any worse anyway."
I entered Nanxiang with a lucky mentality. After all, as I get older, I learn things more slowly.
But soon, I discovered that the power of law they taught was actually not much different from my power of holy light. The silver light of law, like the holy light, is a subordinate concept of the source of order, with many skills and abilities.
They can be easily converted and get started quickly.
Moreover, they really offer jobs!! No, they don’t offer jobs, they haven’t graduated yet. As an old guy, I am actually being competed by more than a dozen employers.
"Sheriffs, police officers, judges and other judicial figures are all well-known members of the upper class of society! I, a useless old guy, will one day turn out to be a dead tree!"
"We don't have annoying churches or gods to serve. We believe in laws and uphold justice and fairness, but we are also human beings and we also need to eat. Our academy from Nanxiang can deal with criminals and villains easily.
It's easy, even if you don't work as a public official such as a peace officer, you can be easily trusted in all kinds of security work. Moreover, they belong to the order camp, and the justice knights will never commit crimes, strictly abide by their oaths and secrets, and are trusted by their employers, so they can be promoted.
It’s just really fast.”
At that time, the teacher spoke generously on the stage, but I, who had experienced too much, didn't really believe it.
"But everything changed after that! As the teacher said at the time, after graduation, I took a job in a large chamber of commerce. I only had to work at the front desk for twenty days a month to drive away those softies who made trouble and maintain public order.
, the monthly salary is actually 10,000 gold coins, 10,000 gold coins! It is more than 200 times that of the Paladin! There is no need to be exposed to wind and rain, and there is no need to risk your life!!"
"What, you said the Paladin can do it too? Idiot, the Paladin is a knight who serves the gods and the Holy Light, how can he accept employment!"
"And, soon after saving money to buy a house, I found the one I loved! I also bought a cute little dragon horse with the blood of a red dragon. It could travel thousands of miles and breath fire to hurt people. I was finally a knight.
Instead of leaving your mount to the church's infantry."
"Some time ago, I told my former comrades about the recent news, and they all came over. Now, everyone has graduated from Nanxiang. Some have become city guards, some have become urban management, and some have become generals.
Judge, those two gay paladins, after making money, actually became their own bosses, married a wife, and had a son!!"
"Brothers Paladin, come and become a Knight of Justice. Not only will you retain all your strength through seamless transfer, but we will still fight for order, and the Templar Church will definitely be happy to see everyone transfer. After all, they don't have much money to support them.
You guys."
"Which company is better at learning the power of order? Go to Nanxiang in the Underground Sulfur Mountain. You will learn the skills first and then pay the fees. Those who can use the Holy Light will be admitted without taking the exam. The first month's salary will be used as tuition. There is no fee for the one-month trial. Our Nanxiang
Xiang's slogan is to study hard, work hard, get promoted and get a raise together, and marry Bai Fumei! Mom no longer has to worry that I can't find a job, I can also be a big boss."
"Is this just a propaganda slogan? Are you still worried that you can't find a job? Let me do the math for you. Every city needs police officers and sheriffs, every business needs security personnel, every government needs a judicial system,
What a huge employment opportunity this is. You, a pioneer of the law and a son of the times, are still worried about not being able to find a job? Come to Nanxiang, where we will teach and teach. Graduating from Shengtang College means being unemployed. We in Nanxiang have not graduated yet.
You can get a job!”
The above is all the content of a flyer, and the person who signed it is the supreme judge of the Supreme Court of Sulfur Mountain City, Sleepless Man...
"Hey, you have gone too far. It is said that Old Bill, the Archbishop of Holy Light, fainted on the spot after seeing the flyer and almost died from a cerebral hemorrhage!!"
Yes, I am poaching the Holy Light Church, or I am doing it blatantly.
Of course he will vomit blood. Although this is a soft propaganda article written by me, it is all true and credible, and it is the pain point of all the Holy Church and the clergy.
After all, I was once a Paladin, and many of the cases were based on real people... I felt an inexplicable heartache and couldn't help but think to myself, "Fortunately, I am no longer an unlucky Paladin."
At this time, facing Adam’s question about whether it was excessive or not, I laughed.
"What's wrong? When I personally handed the flyers to the urban management officials, they were so happy!!"
Of course they are happy. In the past, they were not allowed to be completely integrated into the judicial system, but now they are allowed to practice the power of law. This is equivalent to my judicial system and Sulfur Mountain City completely accepting them.
They have proven their loyalty with blood and hard work, and it would be too merciless of me to turn them away again.
"...You want all the Holy Light Knights in the city management to be reorganized into the Law Knights? You haven't told Old Bill this news yet. I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on."
"I told you, I'd better send someone to report the news directly!"
"Sir! You're vomiting blood again! This is the twentieth time this month! It's going to rain, and my mother is getting married. I can't control it anymore. Let's go back to the world above."
"The Archbishop is in trouble. Many paladins and priests saw the flyers and said they were going to Nanxiang. We couldn't stop them!!"
Archbishop Holy Light continues to spurt blood...
I smiled proudly when I heard Eliza reporting to the bishop that when she learned about the collective conversion of urban management officials, she was first surprised, then vomited blood, and finally staged a farce.
"I want you old boy to retain your strength when something goes wrong, and to preach while people are in panic after the war. If a tiger doesn't eat people, you'll be treated like a sick cat, and you deserve it!"
