The impact of Kluvien's death on Roland was far less than he expected.
Roland just felt a faint sadness in his heart - that's all.
Perhaps because he had not seen Kluvien's body, Roland had no real feeling about "never seeing Kluvien again".
Besides, we'll never see each other again - so what?
Many classmates from primary and secondary schools will never see each other again after graduation. Similar situations include childhood playmates who have moved to other cities, or friends and classmates who have transferred to another school.
No matter how enjoyable it was at the time, the probability of seeing it again in the future is infinitely close to zero.
So, there is no difference between death and death.
Perhaps it was because of his sister's deception when he was a child - "Mom and dad just went to a place where they can never come back". Roland has understood death in this way from a long time ago.
Roland just felt that he should be angry, and this anger was just based on moral inertia. Just like people habitually condemning some immoral behavior, they would naturally forget it after a few hours.
The more unpleasant feeling came from Old Joseph's arbitrary decisions.
Roland couldn't bear to have an uncontrollable unstable factor around him.
But at the same time, he didn't want to lose a rare martyr.
There were too few people with the potential to become martyrs. Before the sect was established, Roland really didn't have the time to travel around the world to recruit new members.
The most important thing is that if old Joseph can awaken his origin before his death, Roland has a way to change his job to a coffin bearer.
If the martyr is just a humanoid bomb, then the power held by the coffin bearer is enough to make the world crazy——
The coffin bearer can completely resurrect another person at the cost of his own life, as long as he has that person's body.
——Both players and NPCs.
This kind of resurrection is a complete resurrection. It is completely different from the cursed resurrection of the undead.
The resurrected person will return to the age when his vitality was strongest during his lifetime, but his strength is at its strongest in the entire life cycle.
Moreover, all attributes of the coffin bearer will be added to the resurrected person at a proportional rate.
Although in the game, this transfer of attributes has a time limit. After the player who serves as the coffin bearer is resurrected in the temple, the transferred attributes will return to the coffin bearer.
At that time, someone raised a question: If the NPC coffin bearer resurrects a player or NPC, do these transferred attributes have a time limit?
This issue undoubtedly has considerable discussion value.
But in fact, NPC martyrs are already rare due to the limitation of their characteristics, and basically all of them were blown up in the early stage of the resurgence of the plague, and the remaining ones have no possibility of awakening origin.
It doesn't matter even if the attributes transferred by the NPC martyr's resurrection have a time limit or simply cannot be transferred. As long as old Joseph can become a coffin bearer, it means that Roland has a third life.
After all, Roland has decided to use the opportunity for resurrection that every crow has in the White Tower.
Because only by truly "dying for the last time" and letting them see his body can everyone believe that Orlando is dead.
Only in this way can we ensure that Roland's future plans will not fail due to various strange reasons.
However, although this can completely make Roland fade away from everyone's attention, it also means that Roland no longer has other resurrection abilities.
Once you die again, you are truly dead.
In this real world, nothing is more valuable than life.
Therefore, after Roland discovered that Joseph Sr. had become a martyr, he gave up the idea of killing him.
However, this lesson also made Roland unable to trust him.
Even if he no longer has any bad influence on Roland's plans, Roland will not let him get complete freedom.
From Roland's point of view, old Joseph has now been equated with his own life. Even if he gets excited and dies together with the enemy during a certain mission, it will cause huge losses to Roland.
However, there is a way around this.
Just like Feynman's cute ice pick - just drive the ice pick from the bottom of the eye socket into the brain. Just pull it gently and everything will be solved.
This is the so-called frontal lobotomy. And Roland has a more sophisticated surgical method than ice pick therapy.
Although the memory of that year has been blurred, Roland still remembers that there was a time when he had a strong fear of the "ice pick".
However, Roland did not agree to take the medicine because of this.
He chose another way to fight this fear.
That is to understand it.
After a lot of experiments, Roland gradually gained a deep understanding of this thing.
Even though the memory of those days has been so blurred that he can no longer recall it, that skill was engraved in Roland's bones. It made him extremely familiar with the dull and inhumane surgical treatment of ice picks, completely eradicating his fear.
It might make poor old Joseph lose his passion - but so what's the problem?
Old Joseph is still alive, his body is still controlled by his soul, and his thinking is still controlled by his mind.
Compared to death, isn't this lucky enough?
"Ah, as you wish."
Old Joseph was stunned for a moment after Roland asked that question, and laughed inexplicably.
Roland didn't understand why he was laughing.
After getting the best answer, the silver-white holy fire trembled slightly and disappeared into the sword body, making the thin staff sword even sharper.
Roland stared closely at old Joseph's forehead. Under his strong expectations, familiar knowledge slowly flowed into his mind.
Although this was the first operation in many years, Roland's agility and perception were no longer as fragile and low as before.
"May all glory go to the mentor..."
Roland prayed in a low voice, and slowly retracted his right hand holding the staff and sword, and the breath that Old Joseph was holding relaxed.
But then, before Old Joseph even had time to react, a sword light flashed past in a subtle arc——
The holy fire condensed into an extremely fine point at the tip of the staff and sword, and drew a flat silver mark on Joseph's forehead.
If you can look from top to bottom, you can see that this mark is actually a sharp V-shaped scar. It is the deepest at the center, but it only penetrates the skull and does not damage any brain tissue.
The silver-white holy fire did not explode, but remained in the deepest part of the scar.
These holy fires came from the same god as the dark gray flames buried deep in Old Joseph's body, so they did not trigger the body's autonomous defense.
Before the dark gray flames had time to react, Roland instantly reset his attack movements in the continuous attack posture, and a vertical silver scar was carved on his old body in a quarter of a second.
On Joseph's forehead, the holy fire suddenly burst out in his brain, suppressing the dark gray poisonous fire to other places, but it did not hurt any part of his body, but gently wrapped the entire brain together.
At the same time, old Joseph lost consciousness.
——This is not for anesthesia, but to prevent old Joseph’s brain from permanent damage due to excessive anesthesia in the next session.
Roland took a deep breath and cut his wrist with the sword in his backhand. Blood immediately poured out, dyeing the white and shining sword with a hint of scarlet.
He retracted the sword blade casually, and the blood gushing from his left wrist formed an extremely sharp cone under the control of his consciousness.
Roland stabbed the scarlet fangs into old Joseph's eye sockets neatly and cut off something with his experience and touch. The sharp scarlet fangs completely melted into a drop of blood at the moment of success.
The actual surgical part was completed in two seconds.
The half-elf's blood did not seep into the brain too much under the package of the holy fire. Instead, it slowly flowed out from the cross-shaped wound along with the holy fire after the operation.
After the holy fire completely flowed out, the wound healed faintly, leaving only a cross-shaped scar.
"In that case, I forgive you."
Roland said softly to the old Joseph who was still in a coma.
"Your sins are cleared." (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for better novels and faster updates! For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net