This is a plane called Grace, dominated by humans, who occupy the most territory in the entire continent, but elves, dwarves, and orcs have all established their own empires.Here are the most numerous true gods in a plane that Amon has ever seen, and there are endless gods of various races.The major empires also had their own state religions, but they also recognized polytheistic beliefs, and each god was responsible for a part of his or her own priestly beliefs, and even formed many scattered god systems within the plane.There are also the largest number of churches here, which generally take a certain area as the main body of faith, and continue to cultivate believers and sacrifices, and preach outwards.According to Amun's view, this place probably belongs to the later stage of the War of Faith, the plane has gone through the battle of unification, and some of the forces supported by the true gods have obtained the biggest cake and become the state religion of the empire, gaining the greatest resources and believers.But in the same way, the coexistence of multiple gods was also recognized by the Empire, which allowed the spread of faith and the absorption of believers to a certain extent.During this period, the main contradiction within the plane has changed from the war of faith unification to the friction of the church and the collision of faith areas.The secret struggle between the true God and the church and all kinds of intrigues became the main theme of this stage.It is not until the churches test each other's bottom lines and divide invisible territories and vague unspoken rules in the constant friction and dark war that they will usher in a period of relative stability.If the Wharton plane completes the battle of unification, there is a high probability that it will also pass through this stage.And Amon's host this time is a devout disciple of the sun god Pero, a paladin with good strength.He was an orphan of the war decades ago, and his parents died in a war accident when he was born, but fortunately he received help from the neighbors around him, and although he was hungry and fed, he barely survived.The year his fate changed was when he was ten years old, when the Helios Church opened an orphanage in his city, and he was recruited.There, he saw the most of his peers, was also tested by the church, and, because he was in good health, was trained as a knight.He is a man who has endured hardships, and naturally knows how to seize opportunities, he gets up earlier and sleeps later than others, not only to study and study hard in doctrine, but also to temper his body and exercise his knightly skills.He is a dedicated person, and because of his concentration, he has been tempering himself with an almost ascetic attitude for eight years.Because of his focus, he spent eight years igniting his life energy and awakening his fighting spirit.Later, because of his devotion to the sun god Pero, he entered the monastery, successfully perceived the holy power, and became a paladin.From that day on, he had the qualifications to go out and take on the mission, and showed his strength and tenacity in the subsequent fight against evil and heretics.He may not be the strongest or the smartest, and he lacks flexibility and intelligence, but he has an indomitable persistence and unending tenacity.He once chased and killed a demon summoned by a cult god, tracked in the mountains and forests for nearly a year, countless days and nights of eating and sleeping, and countless near-deaths, he killed the demon and cleaned up all the evils before returning with the demon head.At that time, he had even been excommunicated from the church because everyone thought he was dead.It was for this reason that he was received by the top echelons of the church and placed on the list of key trainings.Perhaps, if there is no next thing, he may go higher and see farther.If there was no next thing, he would still be the most devout believer in Perot and keep his soul clean.However, together there is no if.Because of a mission, he returned to the city where he was born and raised, still small, but much more prosperous over the years, and here he saw his former friends and neighbors, and he used his salary to buy furniture and food for the orphanage.He talked to them, although he was a little more raw and cowardly, but it still allowed him to find the memories of the past, the present and the past seemed to overlap in front of his eyes, even if he was as tough as him, he unconsciously moistened the corners of his eyes.Of course, he came because of the mission, so he naturally still had something to do, and it seemed that there were evil god believers in this city faintly.And his mission is simple, find these evil god believers, and then kill them!
But as the investigation deepened, he found that things did not seem to be simple, the cultists of the evil gods here had infiltrated the upper echelons of the nobility, and some people were constantly obstructing his investigation in order to cover up the matter.He sensed the seriousness of the situation and did not hesitate to signal to gather the other paladins.And when a few days later, paladins from other regions gathered in this small city, they began a large-scale magic to detect evil.In this plane, the most powerful and sharpest weapons in the hands of the true gods are undoubtedly these paladins.They have mastered the power of knights, possess combat power that is not inferior to ordinary knights, and at the same time have devout beliefs, are protected by the holy power bestowed by the true gods, and can use divine magic.Their combined use of detection evil can even envelop the entire city, and with the power of the true gods, all evil will be shrouded in spiritual light, and there will be no hidden danger.And they, as long as they kill the evil.Originally, the knight thought that this mission would be the same as before, but when this large-scale detection evil descended, he was stunned.He discovers that the entire city is shrouded in evil aura, even the little ones in his orphanage and the neighbors who once took care of him.At this time, these people also looked frightened and dazed.The truth is revealed, it is the ruler of the city, an elderly noble baron who cannot face death calmly, he longs for youth and vitality, he wants to prolong his life and obtain a strong body.As a result, the followers of Naraku, the god of death, found him and made a sacrificial summons for him, and a Blood Duke descended on the place, giving the elderly baron the ability to draw life from blood.And the baron was not carried away, he did not rush to plunder the population and do that kind of stupid thing of bloodsucking and killing, but on the grounds of large-scale testing of qualifications, he took a part of the blood from the bodies of most of the inhabitants of the city.It's like a blood test, it doesn't hurt anyone's life, and he can regain his youth.It seemed like a good plan, and it succeeded in deceiving the eyes and ears of the church, but there are no impermeable walls in the world, and his anomaly eventually attracted the attention of others, especially his sons.As a nobleman who feared death and believed in it, the baron was destined to die for his soul.But this city has been drained by his blood, and the evil people have been contaminated, but he is facing extinction because of his own selfishness.The path of the paladin is to kill when he encounters evil!!
And the people of this city may be innocent, or they may be excusable, but the detection of the aura under the evil has already doomed their fate.It was a massive massacre, and before the paladin could react, his companion was wielding a butcher's knife.He watched as his hair was killed in front of his eyes, and watched as blood splattered out of his body and stained the ground red.He saw that the aunt who had helped him went out of business in front of him, and before she died, she still stretched out her hand hard, and there was a trace of longing in her eyes.It was the look in his eyes that he saw hope, but he didn't do anything but watch the glimmer of light disappear, and then he died.He also saw a little girl, a little guy he had known in the past few days, a little guy from the orphanage, who was smiling very brightly, and her eyes were extremely pure, but now she had been decapitated, and the splattered blood and the tossed head seemed to mock something he felt pain that he had not felt for a long time!
He's confused!
According to the doctrine of the true God, these people seem to deserve death because they are tainted with evil.But are these innocent people really evil?
Really damn it?
Even after death, the soul is not accepted by the kingdom of God?
The paladin was confused, he walked the streets of the city in despair, looking at the chaos and carnage, he began to reflect on what he had done?
This is the beginning of the collapse of faith, the questioning and confusion of one's past life.It is this kind of confusion and questioning that gives the Rainbow Dao a little bit of light, inconspicuous, but it happened to be captured by Amon.So, he ushered in the arrival of the Lord of Nightmares.Frankly speaking, when he just came, Amon was still a little confused, because the trigger pattern of this advent was different, and the knight did not have too much resentment and unwillingness, but was at a loss and helpless.A group of familiar people died in front of him, and because of the disaster he brought him, it had a huge impact on the paladin's outlook on life.In his world, in the process of his upbringing, in his cognition, he never thought that there would be such a conflict that he could not understand.Everything he once insisted on, everything he believed in seemed to be out of order in reality.Even, his wish, that is, Amon's task, is not to stop the killing, but to penetrate his own heart, to understand what is right and wrong, okay, it is completely a child's idea.The world of children is divided into right and wrong black and white, and the world of adults is more gray than black and white.The so-called detection of evil is, to put it bluntly, to use divine power to discern whether the other party is contaminated with evil breath, nothing more!
This magic is a tool of mechanical feedback, and you can't expect it to subjectively distinguish between right and wrong, while the true God can, but it is impossible for them to go back to everyone's past.As for the path of the paladin, it is even more ridiculous, it is cut when it meets evil, it is a very awesome slogan, but the slogan is blown and cannot be completely taken seriously!
A perverted murderer can't be a filial son?
Conversely, a filial son can't be a perverted murderer?
If it weren't for the Nightmare Lord's ability to read the paladin's thoughts and thoughts, Amon would have thought he was joking with himself.As for how to untie the knot in this person's heart?
Let him know that in addition to black and white, there will be gray areas in the world, which really hurts Amun's brain.Of the three planes, it was in this that Amon consumed a lot of brain cells.In the end, he did not lead him to question the belief in the true God, but to question the church under the faith, and to question the misinterpretation of the doctrine by the priests.Doctrine is propagated by the true God, but in the process of propagation, there will inevitably be interpretation, extension, dialectic, and development.Even the beliefs and teachings propagated by the same true God are generally similar in different planes, but when studied in detail, they are all different.And what Amon did was to make it clear to this paladin that it was not the true God who was wrong, or that there was something wrong with the teachings He preached, but that you, the mortals, had misunderstood.Amon is even planning to guide this bewildered paladin to form a true paladin order, and to defend their ideas and the spread of correct teachings.If needed, it's okay to help transform the church, or just split a church.Of course, this is all in the future, and whether he can do it or not depends on his personal experience.It was also when Amon pulled the paladin out of the whirlpool of questioning life, this time the task was completed, the plane turned into stars and hung in the Rainbow Dao, and Amon had another dimensional Dao marker.