The legendary path of the abandoned half-elf

"Oh."

Arriving at the deepest point, the girl looked around but did not see Sunny's sword.

Chapter 39 The Memory of Sonny Hope

"Strange, where's the thing?"

Lorenno searched everywhere but could not find Sunny's sword. The big sister who was with him finally spoke again: "Stupid, the lower right corner is covered with dust."

After hearing the "system guidance", the girl went to a place covered in dust that had not been cleaned for a long time and swept it open with her sword. Finally, she found a wooden box. After opening it, an ordinary sword without any magic aura lay inside.

"Shouldn't this be a treasure? Why was it left here?"

[No one is available, Arnold, to touch it with your hands. 】

Lorenno didn't know why, but he obediently put his hand on the hilt of the sword. The moment he touched it, the sword emitted a dazzling light that enveloped Lorenno.

"!"

When the half-elf girl opened her eyes again, she found that she was standing on a gorgeous sports field and could not control her actions, surrounded by thick fog.

"Sister, what's going on?"

"Don't panic, this is a retrospective memory attached to the sword, so you can't move it."

Compared to the voice in her head, the old sister's voice that Lorenno heard now was more obvious. Before she understood what it meant, her perspective began to become clearer, and a tall figure handed "her" a long sword in front of her. , it’s exactly the one I just held, but it looks much newer.

"Sunny Hope, are you willing to become a paladin and swear to protect order and kindness?" the rude man asked.

Lorenno took the sword uncontrollably and said in a childish voice that she had never heard before: "I do."

The scene turned and "she" was covered in someone's chest. When the paladin raised his head, Lorenno was surprised to find that the person in front of him was Alice, but she was more immature than now. The girl was pushed to sit in front of the mirror. , what was in the mirror was not Lorenno and the priest, but two sisters who looked very much alike, the elder was gentle and the younger was lovely.

"Sister, look, this is my weapon!" the girl said, waving her long sword.

"It's very beautiful, Sunny, what are you going to call it?"

"...Starfire! Although there are many people who use this name, I will definitely add a prefix to it to become [Sunny Hope's Spark]!"

Only then did Lorenno react: "Is this the memory of Miss Sunny?!"

My sister said: "The unique spell-like ability in our blood [Recall the Past] has an effect similar to the third-level spell [Conversation with the Dead]. It can only read the memory of personal or important items, but it is more detailed than Conversation with the Dead, and can even be obtained from it. Knowledge, you can practice certain specialties faster.” (PS: It’s the elves in Divinity Original Sin 3 who eat corpses to obtain memories and spells, but here they are obtained through items)

"That's wrong, why do you know that I don't know." Lorenno didn't even know that he had such a magic-like ability.

"My bloodline memory told me."

So it turns out that I still have bloodline memory?Lorenno was shocked. She had just learned about this setting that seemed to come out of nowhere. The elder sister continued: "The reason why the two of us are separated is that the inherited memories from the elven bloodline are all in my half of the soul, which also leads to You can’t use the elven blood in your body at all.”

Dragons are born with high IQ and social experience. This is because dragons have inherited memories and know what to do from birth. Therefore, pure-blood dragons are difficult to tame and can only contract. Many races also have this ability. , but they are all weaker than dragons.

The scene changed again while the two were talking, and the sister stopped explaining: "Let's do this for now, the main event is coming."

Lorenno retracted his thoughts and focused all his attention on this uncontrollable body. He saw Sunny raising a long sword and pointing it at his teacher. The paladin instructor in front of him said: "Sunny Hope, you are very powerful. He is strong but his body is very light, so I came to learn the White Crow Sword Technique."

Many more memories of practice than usual began to enter Lorenno's mind. Sunny waved the long sword vigorously, and the scene continued to shift. The 7 or 8-year-old girl began to grow up. The battles she experienced with the long sword were simplified. The half-elf girl absorbed it, and for a moment she felt a bulging pain in her soul.

When the memory ended and thick fog rose around her, Sunny was already a slim 16-year-old girl. The blood-stained armor exuded a warm light in the sun. The long sword was still ordinary, but in fact it had been recast many times. Enchant with the priest of the Temple of Endless Light.

"It hurts……"

Lorenno screamed in pain at this time. Before she could digest the memory, the scene after the thick fog dissipated again made her forget even the pain in her soul——

Is this hell?

The devastation was not enough to describe what was now in front of Sunny.

The small houses were burned by flames. All kinds of devils spread their teeth and claws, catching up with the poor and tearing them apart. The few paladin could not stop so many devils. They could only block one and watch them kill them. Others have left limbs everywhere, order is gone, and kindness is gone.

Not only that, the incarnation of the Devil Archduke has arrived in the distance, laughing at the actions of the devils. Sunny took a deep breath, bandaged a paladin, and headed towards where he was.

Lorenno understood that this was the day that Lena said that Sunny and Bayer's incarnations fought.

"You can't go!" Suddenly, Alice, who was not usually neat and tidy, pulled Sunny, who was still moving forward with wounds all over her body, roaring angrily, her hoarse voice filled with tears, "You are not an adult yet! Let us go first!"

They were in ruins. They had run out of ammunition and food. The paladins and priests basically had no fighting ability. Sunny had been blocking them.

A calm and gentle voice sounded, and a face similar to Alice showed a peaceful smile: "But I am the only one who can defeat Bayer's incarnation, sister."

"Can't you be selfish? Eternal Light won't blame us for not defeating Bayer!"

Sunny looked tenderly at her sister, who had used up all her magic and was unable to move, and her friends in the temple. She knelt down and touched her face: "If the holy warriors are selfish, who is willing to protect this world?" .”

"That's not your responsibility alone..."

Alice lay on the ground, struggling to grab the iron boots of the paladin girl, and finally slipped away due to the blood. She could only watch her walking towards the raging demon. Sunny turned around and smiled with tears in her eyes, her golden hair stained with blood, her face Even so, she could not block the girl's beauty: "This is not my duty, but my wish, sister."

Looking back, every time Sunny took a step forward, her momentum would become stronger, and the demons began to notice her. The paladin girl waved her long sword and walked towards the direction of Bayer's incarnation, chanting the words to herself when she became a paladin. Declaration——

"I will protect defenseless people."

"I will fight against evil to the end."

"I would give my life to maintain good order."

The paladin girl looked at the avatar of Bayer who noticed this, pulled out the exquisite dagger given to her by Molly, and her voice became louder and louder: "I swear that I will maintain my chastity."

[Commandment: Chastity] requires her not to destroy her body.

She made a promise. This code of conduct from the Eastern monks would bring her great power, and her aura would become stronger. But Sunny did not stop and continued: "I swear, I will make myself Donate all your property to others.”

[Commandment: Relief] Let her not enjoy a wealthy life for the rest of her life.

"I swear that I will kill every evil thing I come across."

[Commandment: Punishing Evil] makes her never let evil things go unchecked.

……

More than a dozen commandments, large and small, turned into holy marks and wrapped around Sunny's body. If she survived, the conflict caused by these commandments would definitely cause her to lose the power of a paladin, but she never thought about going back alive. At level 18, she forcibly broke through to legend with the help of commandments. The aura that represented order and kindness attracted the hatred of all devils.

Bayer, who confirmed that Sunny was his target, did not confront the paladin girl head-on, allowing all the devils to abandon their prey and attack her. Sunny did not take action, and looked at herself in the distance with nostalgia for the last time. sister, and the direction of Molly, who is still unclear about the situation at the temple——

Then he raised the dagger and stabbed himself in the heart! !

The paladin closed his eyes and prayed, taking the crucial step after becoming a legend: "O order, oh goodness...O endless light, I am willing to sacrifice everything I have to destroy all the devils in front of me!!!"

With the last word blurted out, the paladin girl burst out with unparalleled divine brilliance. The stigmata formed by the commandments were entangled together and emerged from her back to become wings. Her eyes were shrouded in light, and the long sword "Starfire" and armor were dyed golden!

[Prayer] is something that legendary paladins must abide by throughout their lives. If the commandments are broken, professionals such as paladins and monks will lose their abilities, but if the prayer is broken, the legendary paladins will directly degenerate into nether creatures. Because precepts are constraints, and prayers are the persistence of one's heart. What Sunny promised is the strongest and weakest prayer, [Prayer: Sacrifice]!

Its conditions are very harsh. The legendary paladin who makes a prayer can only use it if he has no other prayers and has a protective heart when facing an enemy that is impossible to defeat. Therefore, most paladin with this expertise break through to the legendary level on the spot. .

It can enhance the legendary paladin's 5 professional levels and directly master many legendary specialties. When the enemy in front of him is destroyed, it is also the moment of death of the paladin. Even the 9th level [Full Resurrection] cannot save him, but with it, now Sunny is one of the most powerful paladins in the continent of Noir!

She was determined to die. The huge sacred domain directly collided with the domain of the devil Archduke Bayer. The devils in the domain were instantly wiped out. Bayer frowned and reached out to attack her. He held the alien god attendant for a short time. With (angel) power, she looked at the incarnation of the devil that was difficult to fight even if she reached the peak of the paladin. She had no idea of ​​​​avoiding it. She muttered something in her mouth. When she heard the whisper, Bayer's face suddenly changed.

Rolling and crawling, I wanted to run back and teleport, but it was already too late.

The Devil's Grand Duke Baier made an information error. Everyone thought that the paladin Sunny Hope was "a son of the dawn who is close to the son of the god of the dawn." Only she knew that her blood concentration increased by one with the level of the paladin. She reached the level of the Son of God a month ago, but she didn't have time to report it. As a Son of God, her strongest ability is to call the gods to possess her, which in layman's terms is called daddy.

Sunny, whose whole body was radiating light, looked calm and said the last words of her life: "Great Father God Lathander, please come to me."

9-ring magic [God is here]! !

Endless light instantly flooded Lorenno's vision.

Chapter 40 The blind cultist I met for the first time

Lorenno suddenly opened her eyes, and she subconsciously looked around. It took her a long time to come back to her senses. Looking at the ordinary sword in her hand, she suddenly felt a little hot to the touch.

"Sister, this can't be about that and that, just that and that..."

【Pale justice. 】

Pale Justice is an artifact great sword, its name means "Justice is pale and humble, but by no means powerless."

This sword was forged with only one purpose: to destroy evil.Although it is such a powerful weapon, Pale Justice has a rather mundane origin.

This simple sword was forged by a man named Reno, who spent 30 years perfecting the metal processing technology, so that he could create a flawless blade.

Just after Renault completed this simple weapon, he immediately dedicated it to the Church of Tyr.The priest who received the sword placed it on the altar of the monastery.He asked the brothers in the church to join him in praying to Tyr, wishing to give the sword divine power.Yet the brothers never touched the sword or even mentioned it.Ten years later, when other priests had given up on conferring divine power on the sword, Itami continued to pray silently.

Another 20 years passed, and Tire still showed no miracles.The visiting priest Heim mocked Idan for blindly believing in the sword.At this time, Itami suddenly stood up and walked towards the altar, gently taking the sword that had been dusty for a long time from the altar.

The priest of Heim asked Idan if you had finally regained your senses. Idan replied that he had always been sober, but he had asked for the wrong things from Tyr in the past. He said that Tyr had accomplished this a long time ago.

The priest of Helm laughed loudly at Idan's statement and told his bodyguard to draw his sword. The ornate weapon in his hand had a gauntlet inlaid with pearls, a blade engraved with runes, and a cluster of tiny rubies. .The priest of Heim smiled and said, your weapon is like the knife carried by ordinary soldiers, which is much inferior to ours.

Idan calmly held the hilt of the sword and swung the sword towards the weapon of Helm guard. Priest Helm's laughter quickly disappeared, and he could only stare at the guard's broken sword.

Itami said:

"Justice is inherently inferior and pale compared to vanity and superficial power. However, I expect Tyr to use lightning or fire to show his miracles on this sword. I should have remembered how this sword is What is put into his own hands... is due to simple love and humility. Justice applies to everyone, rich and poor, high and low, regardless of knowledge. Whether in the farmer's field or on the battlefield, justice is everywhere."

He took the sword to a local weapons shop and had a wooden, leather-wrapped gauntlet custom-made.He then handed the sword to a new paladin and taught him to always remember the potential for love and kindness in the human heart.

"Well, it won't be the same type of artifact as Pale Justice." Lorenno felt that this possibility was possible, and it was very high.

[I don’t know, I don’t care, I can’t use it anyway. 】

"That's right." Putting the long sword into the dimensional bag is less likely to be an artifact. After all, it is impossible for them to be put into a low-level dimensional bag.

Walking towards the direction where the two brothers were fighting, in Lorenno's mind was the scene of Sunny walking towards the Devil's Archduke alone. She asked herself with some confusion: "Sister, why does Miss Sunny not hesitate to fight for a stranger?"

[Probably because there are more than just strangers in Cardinal City who need her, and probably because there are always some people who have to stand up for others. 】

"Yes, Sister Alice was behind her at that time, and Miss Molly was still in the temple. If my mother was behind me, I would definitely do whatever it takes."

[Are you sure it’s not our mother who protects us? 】

While talking, the half-elf girl returned to the battlefield between brothers. Only a few wooden frames fell down, and the arrogant Kuchi Holly lay on the ground with his body separated. Gounod leaned on the chair with missing legs and asked Luo Lenno waved gently.

"Want to help?" Lorenno asked approaching.

"No, it's just a loss of strength, but you little guy is planning to stay here or go out. Originally, Sister Molly told me to tie you up and prevent you from going out, but now I don't have the strength to do so."

Gounod said weakly, secretly reminding the girl not to go out so that he could give an explanation to a certain red viper. Lorenno pretended not to understand anything, waved at him and walked outside: "Then I'll leave."

"Don't leave! I can help open the treasure house. You pick a few things before leaving!!"

After leaving the underground secret room, Lorenno entered the stealth state again, preparing to go to the territories of several other families to see if he could make military exploits. He was moving to the edge of the outer wall when he suddenly stopped again.

The charred figure from before was stepped on the ground by a woman. She bent down and used her slender inhuman fingers to pluck out the eyeballs and eat them into her mouth. She had a sick smile on her face, as if the eyes were very delicious.

Lorenno's alarm bell rang loudly, and just as he was about to retreat, the woman turned her head almost 360 degrees to look at her. The next second he saw the woman's appearance clearly, Lorenno was so shocked that he jumped out from behind the bunker and prepared to fight.

Even though she was much healthier, the half-elf girl still recognized her as the one who slipped through the net among the eyeless believers in Dogtooth Town. She should be an ordinary person, and no matter how strong she was, she was only a low-level priest. The woman turned around, her eyes bright and clear. Staring at Lorenno in a daze, he said, "I finally found you, my eyes."

Her eyes... aren't they! ! ! !

After hearing these words, the half-elf girl's eyes widened and she turned around and ran away. The Eyeless Man called Lorenno a sacrifice, so who would say that Lorenno was his own eyes? The answer is obvious——

That dead-eye tyrant actually possessed himself and came here in person!

Just after running ten meters, Lorenno rolled to avoid the magic acid splash behind him, and continued running without stopping at all. Although the false god was not a god, he still possessed a person who had just become a priest. His strength was at least mid-level, but She should be defeated, but she is still defeated. She is only a level 2 professional!

"Don't try to escape."

The woman spoke hoarsely and waved her hand to cast a spell. A huge fireball appeared behind Lorenno, causing a violent explosion under the girl's trembling eyes!

……

The Eyeless False God began to walk towards the three-meter hole that was blasted. It was impossible for a second-level profession to withstand the damage of the fireball spell. All she had to do now was to get her eyes, but the smoke dissipated and she was full of confidence. The Dead-Eyed Tyrant stood there blankly as if seeing something incredible——

"Lorenno" patted the dust on the broken light armor, took out the blank mask from the dimensional bag, put it on and walked out of the smoke. His gray hair gradually turned white from the roots, his short hair became longer, and his ears became sharper. , his golden eyes looked indifferently at the eyeless false god through the mask.

Dragging his two swords, "Lorenno" said coldly: "Forget it, just treat it as rehabilitation."

In front of this beholder, the half-elf turned into a real elf.

She is not Lorenno, but the sister who has not yet had a name. Lorenno's perception returned to 20 under the threat of the fireball spell, which represents the enhancement of the soul. As a part of the elf, she can finally come out to stretch her muscles. Currently, The time is very short, only... 20 minutes.

Chapter 41 The First Battle of the Nameless Elf

"……what are you."

The Dead Eye Tyrant asked through the mouth of a believer. He originally thought that Lorenno was a descendant of a certain god's son, so he dared to rely on prophecy to arrest her, but the current situation did not seem to be what he thought. , after all, no low-level descendant of divine blood can do what can only be accomplished by a 9-level spell such as changing from a half-elf to an elf.