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This is an abandoned manor. The prosperity of the past has disappeared. The ruins tell the story of the former prosperity and the current desolation. Looking around, the originally fertile fields have been covered by ice, snow and withered weeds. The low houses and granaries
Most of them collapsed, and the fences and walls showed signs of breakage and damage everywhere.
There are ghouls and ferocious beasts wandering in the wilderness, as well as terrible undead. This is the case in this terrible world. If the dead are not buried in a proper way, they will turn into terrible undead at night, carrying with them all the evil spirits.
The nostalgia for life and the hatred for the living will wander in the wild forever.
It was still daytime at this time, and a huge noise erupted in the manor.
"Bang!" The sound of heavy objects hitting gold and iron resounded throughout the empty manor, followed by the roars of beasts and the shouts of humans: "Come on! Beast! Taste my power!"
"Be careful! Afu! Don't be impulsive!" Another voice yelled: "Teresa, it's heading towards you!"
"I know!" the calm female voice responded, and then she shouted: "Frost!"
"Beautiful, look at me now! Holy Judgment!" A white light flashed, and the beast roared in pain.
This finally gives a glimpse of the whole picture.
On a deserted and ruined field, three humans were fighting around a huge beast.
The leader of the human was wearing a full-body plate armor, holding a large square shield in one hand, and a standard one-handed paladin sword in the other. He had blond hair and blue eyes, and there was sweat on his forehead. The white light belonging to the power of the God of Justice was constantly flashing.
, he struck his shield hard with his sword: "Come on! Beast!!!"
"Clang, clang, clang!" The sound of gold and iron clashing made the monster extremely irritable.
The tall white wolf knight, wearing chainmail and breastplate, took the opportunity to attack the monster's right wing. Each of his attacks caused huge damage to the monster.
"Ryan, be careful of its stinger!" A little further away, a sorceress wearing a black leather outfit and holding a staff moved while muttering a spell in her mouth.
The stones on the ground and the collapsed walls began to combine under the guidance of the sorceress's magic, gradually forming a two-meter-tall golem made of stones and wood. The surface of the golem was covered with thick frost.
Under the command of the sorceress, he staggered and rushed towards the monster.
The complete picture of the monster was also displayed in front of the three people.
This is a huge creature with the appearance of a lion. It has a ferocious jackal-like face, fiery red mane, huge tusks and wings covered with spikes. Its most special thing is that its tail is very long.
, with a barb at the end.
This monster is the manticore that makes people talk about it!
Even among the creations of Chaos, the Manticore is considered extremely ferocious. Because of its innate stubbornness and aggressiveness, the Manticore will fight any enemy for its territory. Faced with the giant eagle that accidentally enters the territory, the Manticore will
The response of the eagle, even the dragon king, and the manticore is the same: they will roar towards the enemy and engage in a bloody and brutal fight. You and I will fight to the death until one survives. And if the enemy is not far larger and stronger than you, such a fight will be difficult.
The winner is often the manticore. They will stand on the cliff and roar, showing their strength and determination.
"Damn it, I didn't expect the manticore to be so difficult to deal with!" Paladin Alfred moved sideways cautiously, looking for opportunities to attack.
The manticore is so agile that it can always easily dodge the paladin's attacks and retaliate immediately.
The professional characteristics of the paladin are slow movement, low attack ability, and good defense. Facing the manticore's attack, Alfred always had a situation where he couldn't use his strength.
Because that beast's tail was so annoying, and the sting soaked in green venom was always dangling next to his head, constantly trying to find opportunities to pierce his helmet. When Alfred
After the helmet was deformed by the stinger and flew off, the paladin had to carefully step back.
The manticore's poison is so poisonous that it seals the throat upon seeing blood. For ordinary people, poisoning basically means death.
"Afu, do you want to withdraw?" Ryan shouted from the side. He carefully dodged the piercing stinger. When he saw the manticore spread its wings and wanted to take off, Ryan just hit him with a heavy hammer.
It fell back to the ground: "Don't force it, you have reached the conditions for a glorious retreat!"
Glorious retreat, one of the doctrines of the Righteous Church.
In view of the fact that paladins often like to be passionate and risk their lives for the sake of justice, the God of Justice formulated this doctrine. When the enemy's strength is three times or more than three times our strength, retreating is not a shameful thing.
, but a glorious thing, called a glorious retreat.
Since this doctrine was promulgated, the death rate among paladins has been greatly reduced.
"No, I haven't used the Holy Shield technique today!" Alfred shouted.
"Okay, it's up to you." Ryan stopped talking.
Holy Shield, together with Holy Light, is known as one of the two magical skills of the paladin. Alfred, who has advanced from a paladin to a temple guard, can use Holy Shield once a day. From Justice
The divine power of the god will allow him to continue fighting in a basically invincible state for a short period of time (almost six seconds).
Although Holy Shield is not invincible in an absolute sense, it is enough to deal with manticores.
The manticore swooped towards Ryan, splashing a lot of dust and snowflakes. Ryan rolled away easily, then rushed forward violently, hitting the manticore's front paw with a hammer, and then immediately dodged the manticore's poison.
Stab pursuit.
"Ice Spear Technique!" Teresa immediately condensed a long ice spear in the air. The ice spear cut through the sky and roared directly towards the manticore.
The manticore suddenly dodged away, and taking this opportunity, the ice golem immediately embraced it.
Seeing this, Ryan began to accumulate strength.
The manticore struggled with all its strength, and its sharp teeth and claws soon caught the demon that Theresa had temporarily summoned to pieces. Its slender tail swung wildly, and the poisonous stinger at the end of the tail could hit the demon's body with every blow.
A hole was punched in the surface, and gravel was scattered everywhere.
Soon, the connection between the golem's arms and head was damaged, and it was about to lose control of the manticore.
But this is enough.
"Frost Nova!!" the sorceress yelled, and a large amount of frosty mist suddenly spurted out from the inside of the ice golem. The manticore was so frozen by the biting mist that it screamed and struggled to break free.
The control of the golem is only under the control of the sorceress. The golem tightly hugs the manticore and does not let go.
Gradually, the manticore's body became stiff, and the golem completely turned back into stone and wood under the manticore's fierce attack regardless of the cost.
"Holy shock!" A white glow emerged from the paladin's sword. Alfred struck hard, and his sword left a huge wound on the manticore's back.
Immediately afterwards, there was Ryan's attack. The war hammer in the White Wolf Knight's hand erupted with golden light and hit the manticore hard on the head.
Skull-crushing blow!
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" By dint of the critical moment, the manticore, feeling extremely dangerous, finally managed to get out of the freezing state. It turned its head and received a heavy blow from Ryan on its shoulder. With the help of the great strength of the White Wolf Knight, it slammed towards
It pounced on Alfred, and the poisonous sting on its tail went high over its head, directly piercing the paladin's Heavenly Spirit Cap.
The old strength was gone, but the new strength was not born. In addition, the paladin itself was not a flexible profession, Alfred immediately activated the magic.
A golden ring enveloped Alfred, and countless golden runes revolved around the paladin. The manticore's ferocious attack was completely blocked by these mysterious energies. No matter how hard it tried, it could not break through the perimeter.
of golden protective energy.
With the protection of the Holy Shield, Alfred immediately used life-threatening tactics. Every move of the paladin was risking his life, and he didn't mind that his moves were always open. His long sword
Every swing left a deep bone-visible wound on the manticore's body. Soon, the manticore's movements slowed down due to excessive blood loss and excessive injuries, and it entered a dying state.
Ryan chuckled to himself.
Holy Shield is such a rogue. When Holy Shield is turned on and in an invincible state, the paladin will use this method of play to maximize the value of Holy Shield, so many people jokingly call the paladin in this state
For "Long Live Charge".
There was no need for him to take action because the battle was over.
Teresa arrived. The sorceress stood outside the maximum attack range of the manticore and stretched out her staff to release the terrible frost. The monster was slowly frozen into a whole ice sculpture. Alfred first
A sword cut off the manticore's head, and Ryan arrived. He swung his psychic blade, and the manticore's tail was separated from its body.
"Done! We have kept the body of this thing very complete, and Ms. Dietlind should pay us a good price!" Lane said with a smile.
"It's done!" The golden ring surrounding Alfred also disappeared. The paladin put away his sword with a smile, put his shield behind him, and stretched: "I haven't seen you for many years. I didn't expect you to have changed, Ryan.
You have to be so strong.”
"How can I be your friend if I'm not strong?" Ryan complained casually, then put away the war hammer: "But you have become stronger, Afu."
"That is, how can you deserve the title of 'Sledgehammer' Ryan's friend if you are not strong?" Alfred laughed.
The two men looked at each other and felt a deep understanding of each other.
Only the sorceress standing aside rolled her eyes and thought, wouldn't it be disgusting for these two men to brag about each other?
"Ahem, okay, we have completed the kill. The manticore has fallen. It's getting late. Go back early. Ryan? Alfred... Fred?" Theresa tried her best to look pleasant.
.
Although the sorceress didn't like the paladins, Alfred was Ryan's friend and childhood playmate, so she felt the need to make excuses.
"Speaking of which, Ryan that you would ask me to do this really... surprises me." Alfred sat down directly on the ground, panting: "This... is good, it has granted me a wish.
.”
"A wish?"
"Well, actually, when we entered the city, this Ms. Nora stopped us once in the street." Alfred smiled self-deprecatingly: "But she has no way to pay the fee, even if we have given the bottom line.
, so even though it's sad, we have to tell her that we can't do this. You know Ryan, manticores are not the kind of ghouls or goblins that we can deal with easily. We can't risk it.
Risking your life to do something that doesn’t cost you anything.”
"The children are surrounding us, begging us to help Ms. Nora, but we can't do anything. This feeling is really uncomfortable." Alfred said with waning interest: "Occasionally I think, as paladins, we can't do anything."
Shouldn't we help the strong and help the weak? But I have encountered this kind of thing several times."
"Oh, Ah Fu, you have to know that manpower is limited and precious." Ryan also sat down when he saw this. The man looked at the dim sky and sighed: "If justice does not have a price, then does justice itself have no price?
Is there any value at all? If you don’t respect order, does the existence of order still have meaning?”
"I also know this, and if the price is not paid, the power of the paladin can easily be used by people with intentions..." Alfred quickly recovered. He stood up and wiped the snow and mud under him, recovering.
With a cheerful expression: "It's almost done, let's go back!"
"You go back first! I still have something to deal with." Ryan said that he still had something to do: "It's my personal matter, so you don't want to get involved."
"Personal matters? What do you want to do in this abandoned manor at night?" Teresa felt very confused, her beautiful face was full of strangeness: "And why do you have to be alone? Didn't we agree
Do you want to face it together?"
"This is different. This is my personal matter. I need some private space, okay?" Ryan shook his head, obviously not wanting the two of them to continue to participate.
"you……"
"Okay, okay, Ms. Trovik, since Ryan doesn't want us to participate, let's go back first!" Alfred came out to relieve the situation, and the paladin's words gave the sorceress a step down, Theresa
He glanced at Ryan with some reluctance, and spoke softly with his red lips: "Then will you come back for dinner tonight?"
"No." Ryan shook his head and walked towards the depths of the manor. The sorceress reluctantly used the space ring to put away the body of the manticore, and returned to Mjordenhaven with the paladin.
The interior of the manor is very dilapidated. It can be seen that after the manor was abandoned, few thieves or scavengers visited it. Perhaps they were also deterred by the manticore. Ryan walked through an uphill path towards the collapsed manor.
Walking to the manor house.
This kind of manor is very common in Nord. A typical manor has a large house or castle, surrounded by fields, farmhouses, pastures and woodlands. In most cases, the manor is self-sufficient. Some remaining daily necessities can be exchanged with other manors.
To carry out trade to complement the deficiencies, a manor usually has ten or more households of tenants, which are dedicated to supplying the life and production of the manor owner.
The situation of the tenants depends on their situation. Some tenants will have more shares and partial property rights, while some tenants are no different from serfs - they not only need to pay 70 to 80% of the harvest, but are also responsible for arranging and taking care of the manor owner's daily life.
and life.
Charlemagne was born as a tenant farmer. When he was a child, this founder of the human empire herded cattle, farmed, chopped firewood, and forked dung. The great founder of the human empire was not only not ashamed of it, but was deeply proud of it. From being a tenant farmer to
The emperor's story has deeply inspired generations of poor farm boys to bravely embark on the road of adventure.
However, the big house that appeared in front of Ryan had been severely damaged. There were various large holes in the doors and walls of the big house, and the roof had completely collapsed. You could vaguely see the smashed furniture and floors on the second floor, and the snow had also fallen.
Entered the interior of the big house.
"It really meets the definition of an abandoned manor. It will take a lot of effort for Ms. Nora to move in again." Ryan snorted twice.
In fact, as long as the monsters are cleared away and relatively safe, Nora can rebuild this manor with the help of the Church of Life. As for the tenants... there are many farmers who cannot survive without land, and they want to recruit some tenants.
It's not a difficult task, as long as we can keep them fed and not freeze to death.
This is not the point, the point is...the ruins of the ancient saint are here! (To be continued)