Riding and Slashing

Chapter 328 The Evil Eye
In the camp of Payne Village, Roland had already returned to the lord's side.

"...In other words, you have obtained the seal of the Knights of the Dawn...I think you should form a new Knights of the Dawn, Sir Roland, I am happy to provide you with financial help."

Li Ang suggested to Roland.

"No, I've figured it out, it doesn't take money to rebuild the New Dawn. Of course, I do need a place to put these guys in."

Roland turned the 'Bright Choice' onto his sword hilt.

Li Ang nodded: "Let's stay in Lion Lake City. When we regain Lion Lake City, this will be your residence. But before that, we have to kill the Devourer... You should know about these heretics, right? "

The two knights who know the most about heresy are the two knights of dawn and dusk. Li Ang thinks that Roland probably knows some information.

"Master Leon, the 'Devourer' is recorded in the Temple of Justice. Its name is Egrem, which means 'Evil Eye'. We believe it is a demon from the abyss, not a species of this world."

Roland did know a lot of information.

Years ago, Egrem once appeared on the Buckley Continent, and the Knights of the Dawn once fought against it.

That was actually when the Kingdom of Pendor had just fallen.

At that time, the Barclay Empire and the Bacchus Empire had just fought a war that lasted for several years in order to share the cake of Pendor, and they were in the stage of recovery after the war.

The protracted war has caused many conflicts in Buckley's country, and various weird sects have emerged everywhere. Although the official belief of the Buckley Empire is Astalia, the goddess of justice, but at that time, they believed in the goddess of darkness Eredar or other evil gods. More people than believe in Lady Justice.

Because the goddess of justice has not come to the world for hundreds of years, but some evil gods can actually bring strength to believers...

At that time, there were many people who called themselves believers of the Goddess of Darkness and searched for fresh lives everywhere. They would peel off the skin of people and use a portable mobile altar to offer the skinned and bloody people to their gods.

However, those believers used flesh and blood as sacrifices at that time, not to gain power, but to summon a powerful warrior—the heretical supplicants at that time called themselves 'summoners'.

In fact, these 'summoners' themselves are not sure whether those sacrifices were really enshrined to the Goddess of Darkness...

But what is certain is that they can indeed summon a terrible creature from the altar-the demon.

Those are real demons, with red skin, sharp horns on their heads, and bat-like fleshy wings on their backs—they have nothing to do with humans, nor are they depraved, and their red skin is not because of peeling skin, but itself.

This kind of demon has been recorded in various places, and its qualities are different.

The summoned demons range from big to small, and the small ones are less than one meter in height. Although they are ferocious, their combat effectiveness may not be as good as Anson's when he first entered the battlefield.

But the big one is more than two meters high, powerful and extremely ferocious, and it is no problem to fight ten against one.

The most important thing is that this kind of demon can be controlled by the person who summoned it - it is said that this probably sign some kind of soul contract.

This led to a gradual increase in the number of summoners, and more and more people who believed in the Goddess of Darkness. Everyone wanted to summon this kind of powerful thug who only obeyed his own words.

The skeletons and demons appearing all over the place quickly plunged the entire Buckley Continent into panic. This panic has seriously affected the post-war recovery process of the Buckley Empire, so naturally it can no longer sit idly by.

So the Knights of Dawn came out in full force, and various legions also began to hunt down the followers of the Dark Goddess, and identified them as heresies.

In fact, this is the main reason why Buckley didn't participate at all when the Bacchus Empire broke the agreement and suddenly sent General Osa to invade the Pendor Continent; it was also the reason why Buckley didn't take the opportunity to send troops when the Bacchus Empire collapsed—not because he didn't want to share a share Soup, it is true that Barkley himself was in chaos at that time.

Buckley's official cleansing of heretics continued for several years.

In the past few years, in order to resist the army, some heretic believers began to intensify their evil rituals, and finally summoned an extremely terrifying warrior-the demon giant warrior.

This is the official name of the Buckley Empire. It is said that they are some demons with strange power, extremely tenacious vitality and inhumanity.

At that time, some scholars in the Knights of the Dawn believed that this was the source of evil summoned from the abyss, and perhaps it was true.

This kind of summon is very powerful, even ten dawn knights may not be able to deal with one demon giant warrior.

Since then, the heretic believers gathered a large army with the heretical supplicants and demon giant warriors as the core, and began to confront the Buckley Empire head-on.

But during a ritual summoning of a demonic giant warrior, a heretic priest made a fatal mistake.

The summoning didn't fail this time, but there was something wrong with the summoned creature.

The demon that finally walked out of the altar did not have the hard skin of an ordinary demon undead warrior, nor did it have the huge bat wings that marked its identity. It is the sacrifice itself.

However, the skinned corpse revived again.

But everyone knew that this was by no means the sacrifice.

Because its big gray eyeballs are extremely frightening and palpitating, exuding a silent coercion all the time, and the whole body is surrounded by a gloomy black mist.

It was also from that day that it had a name that spread throughout the continent: Egreme, which means "ghostly eye".

Immediately after Egrem woke up, he brutally killed the high priest who summoned it.

The unlucky heretical supplicant was pinched through the skull by the devil's claws, and his brain was sucked out, and his soul was probably sucked out as well.

Maybe he wouldn't become a fallen person without his brains. Anyway, the high priest didn't become a fallen person. He only left a brainless corpse.

At the same time, most of the heretic believers who were relatively close to each other were attracted by the black mist and the sound of spells emanating from Egrem's body, and automatically tore off their flesh in a very short period of time, turning into a figure with Egrem. Rem's almost identical bright red flesh.

It was also the first group of fallen people recorded in historical records.

Only some believers who were far away at that time managed to escape.

The scary thing about Egrem lies in its ability to assimilate.

The black mist and spells on it will make people lose their minds like drugs, unable to extricate themselves, and even make people gather around it spontaneously.

Soon, a group of bandits, slave traders, or some rascals gathered around it. These people were willing to indulge in the spell of Egrim, and gradually degenerated into skinless creatures that did not belong to humans at all.

Then a large number of fallen people began to rampage Barkley.

Some heretic believers who survived the disaster and still had kind thoughts in their hearts were awakened. They took the initiative to tell the nearby villagers about the incident, and asked the villagers to find the Knights of Dawn to fight against this powerful demon that was completely uncontrollable.

At the same time, miracles also appeared in the Temple of the Goddess of Justice—Astalia issued a decree to the Knights of Dawn, asking them to eliminate the evil on the earth, otherwise the Goddess of Justice would not be able to set foot on the earth.

As a result, the Barclay Empire intensified its efforts to clean up heresies, and the Knights of the Dawn began to use force to purify them at all costs, and began to implement cremation. The discovered heresies will also be burned to ashes with fire, so as not to produce new fallen people.

The struggle against the heretics and Egrim lasted for several years, and the Barclay Empire sacrificed a large number of warriors for this, and also lost the best chance to conquer Pendor and Bacchus.

After countless battles, the heretic believers were finally driven out of Buckley and fled to the continent of Pendor.

The Knights of the Dawn also claimed that they killed Egrem, and said that when he died, the sky was filled with black mist, and various wailings continued for several days.

This made the Dawn Knights suddenly become the messengers of justice, the incarnation of the goddess, and their status and prestige reached the top in one step.

But after the disappearance of Egrim, the Knights of the Dawn gradually became arrogant and cruel-they didn't want the cleansing operation to end, because it would give them many privileges...

As a result, the purification of heresy by the Knights of the Dawn gradually turned into the exclusion and persecution of other beliefs.

In the end, it intensifies to the point where they can do whatever they want with any blasphemous excuse, until they themselves are exiled.

"In other words, this is a devil from another world, and it was the first to create the fallen... But the three prophets can also create the fallen, what is their relationship with Egrem? I remember... the three prophets I know you."

Li Ang thought of the three prophets again, and remembered that when Roland dealt with the three prophets, one of the female prophets recognized Roland.

"The Three Prophets do know me."

Roland nodded: "They were originally priests of the Temple of Justice. When I first became a Dawn Knight 30 years ago, I received a mission to capture them. At that time, I led a team to hunt them down, but they suddenly disappeared. To say that they What is the connection with Egrem... They stole a law code kept in the Temple of Justice. This code is said to be found from the body of the priest who accidentally summoned Egrem. We call it the code of heresy .”

This is very important information, and Li Ang cheered up: "The heresy code? What is written in that code?"

"I don't know...it's a taboo thing, and it's also evidence of heresy. Only the heretic judge, that is, the head of the Knights of Dawn can read it."

Roland shook his head: "But..."

His expression became a little weird, as if he didn't want to say anything.

"but what?"

Li Ang looked at Roland's tangled expression.

"However, I know that many people have peeked at the Codex of Heresy."

Roland sighed and said to Li Ang.

"Huh... well, I now understand how the Dusk Knights came into being..."

Li Ang also sighed.

"Why didn't you destroy the heresy code?"

Lisa Dilan suddenly asked.

Roland didn't answer, he obviously didn't know.

Li Ang gave an answer: "If you think about it on the bright side, you need to have a deeper understanding of heresy in order to fight against heresy. But if you think about the bad side... there is a code of heresy, and there is a basis for judging heresy, Everything that can make the Knights of the Dawn do "righteousness"—anyway, any excuse for "blasphemy" can be written in the heresy code. This is the basis for the Knights of the Dawn to obtain privileges. They can Using heretical codes to counteract the decrees they want, of course such a good thing cannot be destroyed.”

Lisa Dilan suddenly realized.

Roland also sighed silently again.

Indeed, if you want to define not washing your hands before and after meals as heresy, then write a "Decree of Ereda, Goddess of Darkness: Do not wash your hands before and after meals" on the heresy code.

The reverse operation is actually equal to custom decree.

If someone is dissatisfied, turn over the code of heresy-you see, everything you do every day matches the teachings of heresy, who is a heretic if you are not a heretic?

"Let's talk about Egrem... How did the Dawn Knights kill it?"

Seeing that Roland was a little uncomfortable, Li Ang changed the subject, he wanted to find out the weakness of Agram.

"There is no record of this, and we don't know..."

Roland shook his head.

"There is no record? How could it be?... Then, did Egreme do anything special?"

Li Ang frowned.

He felt that the Dawn Knights' killing of Egreme was probably a lie, otherwise they would not have recorded the process of killing Egrem.

At least record the hero who killed the demon, right?

If such deeds are not recorded, it can only prove that the Knights of the Dawn did not know how Egreme disappeared—otherwise they would have compiled a biography of the demon slayer.

"Agrem has something special. From the records I know, Egrem will actively seek out those who are greedy or have evil intentions, and those with evil intentions will be assimilated by it as long as they approach it The more sinful a person is, the easier it is to be attracted to Egrem. At the same time, Egrem likes to devour the souls of those with high martial arts skills, turning them into powerful "ghosts of the fallen", so Egrem is also called 'The Devourer'."

Roland replied firmly: "This has been recorded in many documents, but I don't know what method it uses to attract those people."

This statement is more credible. The three prophets actually attract greedy people. After all, flies do not bite seamless eggs.

However, most people should have seams...

"When the Dawn Knights fought it head-on, did anyone suddenly become a fallen person?"

Li Ang began to think about whether the soldiers would suddenly turn against him if they wanted to fight Egrem.In other words, will the brothers who died in battle suddenly become fallen and turn to deal with their own people - this is the most troublesome.

"There is no record of this either... I'm not sure. But maybe there is, or else it wouldn't take several years for the whole country to solve Egreme. It is said that the entire Barclay Empire was destroyed in devastation at that time."

Roland thought for a while and gave a guess.

Li Ang and Lisa Dilan shook their heads together. Obviously, they both felt that the original Egrem hadn't been dealt with.

"If it is said that anyone with evil intentions will be assimilated by it as long as they get close to it... then no one will be able to kill him..."

Lisa Dilan sighed: "Who doesn't have any evil thoughts?"

Yes, who has no evil thoughts.

Several people were silent.

"Well, since the Knights of the Dawn claim to have defeated Egreme, let's let the Knights of the Dawn take the lead. After all, they have always claimed to be the messengers of justice, and they must have no evil intentions..."

Li Ang touched his chin and began to look at the map.

"Dawn Knight? Are you talking about us?"

Leonard swallowed: "Your Excellency Li Ang, although we are not afraid of death, I think we are definitely no match for that thing..."

"No, I mean the Dawn Knights who have been chasing and killing Sir Roland...Of course, if nothing else happens, they are also chasing and killing you."

Li Ang smiled at Leonard and said, "You are traitors in their eyes."

"You mean, the Dawn Knights have come here? They took the initiative to deal with Egrem the Devourer and save the common people? I don't think they are so great now..."

Leonard shook his head in disbelief.

"They should arrive in these two days, and they really came here on their own initiative - when I first got the information about the appearance of the Devourer, I had already reported the secret to Guangxiao Bay, and I sent someone to inform them that they have been The traitor Roland who was hunted down is in Lion Lake City..."

Li Ang told Roland about his 'informant' in an open and honest manner: "And now that you have the seal of their chief, I guess they will come here soon..."

(End of this chapter)