What bad thoughts can a paladin have?

Chapter 22
Ren stared fixedly at the glass test tube in his hand, looking at the hideous worm, his arms trembled, and great fear gushed out from the depths of his heart.

Maggots of Kyuss...

Keyworth...

Keyworth, a taboo name.

Among the many known taboo names, Kyuss is the only real name that is the most famous, the most despised, and the most frightening for the Worm Walker.

Yes, the ancient evil, the Wormwalker.

The name signifies the coming of destruction and disaster.

"The rise of the nations has not yet happened, and the floating city has not fallen from the sky, have the traces of the ancient evils appeared? Why is the order of this expansion piece different from the memory..."

Ren muttered palely.

Scholars of forbidden lore claim Kyuss, an evil figure long lost to history.

The era when he walked on the earth was one of the most evil eras in history. At that time, human beings had not yet established a real kingdom, immersed in profane arts, and served dark gods.

Kyuss, a high priest of the evil gods, claims that the end is approaching, and even the gods can't help.

His words brought him into exile, but instead of weakening like the other exiles, he became a prophet, and even attracted a following who believed in his words and deeds.These followers regard him as the spokesperson of the gods, and firmly believe that they will be blessed by Kyuss, so that they will be sheltered in the doomsday that he prophesied.

Soon after, Kyuss discovered the ruins of a lost civilization, and learned from the ruins the rituals of human sacrifices performed under the rule of the six-armed tyrants.

After ordering the believers to rebuild the city in the ruins, Kyvos' ambition urged him to seek a more powerful force, to surpass mortals and legends in some way, and become a true god.After studying the related rituals of sacrificing the living, Keyworth's thinking gradually became clear.

If one wants to transcend the mortal body and become a god, then a large number of living beings must be sacrificed.

Thus, his followers became the price Kyuss paid.

On a bloody night, he initiated a ritual, ordering his loyal priests to gather his followers and slaughter them all, before Kyuss himself slew them all.

As the ritual proceeded, Kyvos's body melted together with the foul obelisk stones. At the same time, he gained divinity, but lost it in an instant.

In the end, Kyuss became an existence that was neither a mortal nor a god—an ancient evil.

And at the moment when Kyuss turned into an ancient evil, he was sealed in the prison by the gods with divine power.

If Ren's memory is correct, the ancient evil, Wormwalker Kyworth, broke the seal and descended in the Bauhinia Business Alliance after the great route was opened.

When the alliance found out and ordered the legendary powerhouses exploring the Dead Flame Islands to rush back quickly, it was already a step too late.In less than a month, the Wormwalker and its minions: the undead and the mutants, have destroyed three large cities, eight small and medium cities, and tens of hundreds of villages and towns. died in the disaster.

Although the Worm Walker was finally suppressed, the Bauhinia Business Alliance was also greatly hurt, and directly became the bottom of the four countries in the Western Continent. It could not even compare to the Howling Tribe Federation in the north, which had been fighting with the orc tribe all year round.

However, when the Worm Walker descended in the Bauhinia Alliance, Ren and his guild concentrated most of their energy on the northern part of the Western Continent.

The orc tribe once again set off a "battle of glory", fighting against the Howling Tribe Federation.

In order to obtain more foreign aid, the Howling Tribal Federation opened up many unique occupations that belonged exclusively to the Federation, and disclosed a small part of its big killer [Secret Bloodline Ceremony], in order to attract adventurers (NPCs) and god descendants Orcs (players) join their side against the orcs.

Players have almost no resistance to such faction confrontation tasks, and most of Rennes' guilds are melee occupations, so the attention to the Bauhinia Business Alliance will inevitably drop a lot.

Even a high-level guild like Renn only knows the approximate time when the Worm Walker will arrive and the impact it will cause, but nothing more specific.

There is no way, when the expansion pack [Dance of Demons] was launched, the entire four countries of the Western Continent were in chaos. Either the evils revived, the orcs invaded, or the evil gods descended, and the evils were broken.

Basically every ten days and a half a month, a big news will break out.

Every day is a big melon. As a player who eats melons, who can remember exactly what each melon looks like...

"If I had known that I would travel through time, I wouldn't have focused so much on leveling back then. It would be good to collect more information."

Ren scratched his hair in distress, with a depressed expression on his face.

"However, fortunately, what I encountered was only the maggots of Kyuss, not some Kyuss offspring, Kyuss family members, etc., indicating that only signs of awakening have begun to appear."

It is also sealed, the awakening of the ancient evil is not the same as the evil.

The movement of the evil breaking away from the seal is even smaller, but the movement of the ancient evil being born is huge. As the ancient evil, Worm Walker, Kyuss began to recover, [Evil Omen: Worm Infestation] also triggered.

It started out as adventurers occasionally encountering mutant centipedes or clusters of centipedes in the wild, then it became daily, every 12 hours, and finally every hour.

As the seal is gradually broken, the power of the evil omen will gradually become stronger.

The insect creatures encountered by adventurers have also gradually changed from centipedes to sandworms, centipede monsters, and finally even rare purple insects in the dark regions will appear on the surface for food.

That is a giant insect weighing 3000 pounds with a challenge level of 12!

Recalling the relevant knowledge about evil things, Ren's expression gradually calmed down.

"It's okay, there's still time."

Back then, it wasn't that he and his teammates had never killed ancient evils and gods, and they knew the process of their breaking and coming.

At first, it was just a shock.

After all, whoever it was, as a low-level adventurer, would be shocked if he suddenly found traces of ancient evils.There is no other reason, the strength gap between the two is really too big.

However, if a sealed ancient evil like Wormwalker wants to break the seal and descend to the main material plane, it needs to go through a ritual called "Evil Omen Recovery" to accumulate strength.

And this process has always been long, with a time span ranging from one year to several years.

Ren, who had calmed down, took a deep breath and said softly:

"In this life, as a paladin, since I know the news of the revival of the ancient evil, I can't ignore it. Before it is completely broken and descends on the main material plane, I must accumulate enough power to bring the ancient The impact caused by the arrival of evil things is minimized!"

After making such a decision, Ren just felt a lot easier in his heart, and he also had a deeper understanding of the way of the paladin.

Not long ago, didn't he just say the oath of vengeance he made - to find a strong enemy and have nothing else to do.

The Black Knight has dedicated his life to challenging and destroying greater evils.

Now is the time to live up to your vows!
(End of this chapter)