Destiny Thief

Chapter 181 Branding
After that, Old Hugo became a member of the "Song of Ashes" mercenary group. He was not retired from the list of combatants until he was injured by an arrow in an escort mission before the Sixth Eta War. It came down—Heinrich was deeply surprised when he heard Groh say that old Hugo was actually an extremely powerful ascetic.

He recalled some details of the impression.In this church in Afron, the members of "Song of Ashes" are only him, Biden and Victor, and Victor joined five years ago. The retired mercenaries from the Land Legion came to Afron after the sixth Eta War. Due to the death and withdrawal, only a few members of the earliest members of the mercenary regiment are left. Si is one of them, but this old friend fell in today's brutal battle.

Right now, the only person who fought side by side with old Hugo was himself.

Heinrich remembered that Old Hugo's combat profession was a heavily armored warrior, and he was used to a sword skill that was not common in the Kingdom - unlike a soldier like Biden, Old Hugo didn't like to hold The shield, the weapon he uses is a two-handed sword, which always hits the ground heavily when it is retracted.

Although the old Hugo did not explain his sword skills to others, Heinrich can still roughly guess that this is a type of power storage and discharge skills. As for the origin, he has used some familiar sword skills In contrast, it is somewhat similar to the barbarian style of the bitterly cold place in the extreme north, and it is also a bit like a lost classical knight's epee technique.

But old Hugo is actually an ascetic?
Heinrich, the leader of the "Song of Ashes" mercenary group, suddenly remembered that since he first met old Hugo at the "Golden Sword and Oak Leaf" tavern, in the past ten years, he has been together again. I have never seen this old mercenary get drunk, he is not obsessed with feasting and feasting like Victor, and I have never heard that he has any family members, and no one from afar has come to him—mission empty During the interval, he always looked out of the crowd and dull, keeping a distance from most members of the mercenary group.

Ascetic?

Glo saw the middle-aged man stretching out his hand to caress his chin in a daze, staring at a bunch of violets in the garden in the backyard, with his eyes dazed. He was about to cough lightly to remind him, but he saw Heinrich turned around. .

He nodded, expressing his commitment.

Victor in the cathedral was dejected, but he still stayed by the side of old Hugo, the "ascetic" and made noisy noises like an annoying fly. The old man closed his eyes and stood still. Without saying a word, he looked like a lifeless stone sculpture.

Victor almost knelt down and kowtowed to beg his grandpa to sue his grandma—in the past, when faced with this kind of situation, he would usually act hard when he was soft, but the strength of old Hugo [Supernatural Realm] was in front of him, and he wanted to After thinking about it, I never came up with the kind of bold idea of ​​hitting a stone with an egg.

He had no choice but to put the sterling silver cross back into his arms. There were two pockets on the chest on the inner layer of the coat. He casually placed it on the left side of his chest - he gradually came to a guess that maybe it wasn't this. There was something strange about the object itself, but it was the old Hugo, the church's magic stick, who had tampered with it before his eyes.He decided that when he left the church, he would throw this annoying gadget into the trash.

Victor planned this, but as soon as the idea came up, before he had time to be complacent, he felt a cold feeling in his chest, as if there was no temperature metal sticking to the skin.He stretched out his hand to touch, and the sterling silver cross in his arms suddenly disappeared.

He pinched himself hard, and the pain in his flesh told him that it was not an illusion—his fingers touched the skin of his chest, and in the fur, he lowered his head, and by the bright lights in the hall, he noticed an astonishing phenomenon fact!

On the left chest, where the heart was before, there was only a striking red mark like a brand mark, and there seemed to be a little more holy power in his heart, body, and blood flowing up and down his body. .

"Old Hugo, what have you done?"

Victor's voice suddenly had a hint of high-pitched anger.He has never had the idea of ​​joining the Holy Glory Church. He is still nostalgic for those coquettish dancers, charming warblers, and by the way, there is also the beautiful maid Miss Monica. He made a wish during the New Year, He hopes to marry a domineering woman with a gentle personality this year, but once he joins the church, all his expectations are destined to come to nothing.

The priests dedicate their whole body and mind to the Lord of Holy Radiance. Marriage is an untouchable taboo for people in the church.

Seeing that his sex/blessed life has come to nothing, Victor wished he could smash the old Hugo's face into pieces with a punch, his chest rose and fell sharply, like a fully opened bellows, panting heavily with a "huhu" .

"Victor, this is the power given to you by fate, and it is also your responsibility."

"Go to hell with power, hell with responsibility."

"You can't escape. Also, I want to explain one thing, no one forced you to join the church."

Old Hugo opened his eyes in his doze, his cloudy eyes seemed to gradually become unreal, like a night sky full of stars, but the flickering light far surpassed the brilliance of the moon. He looked at the furious Wei Wei in front of him. Kedo said calmly.

"So, I can still be as free as before?"

Hearing what the old man said, Victor rolled his eyes and asked.

The old man nodded.

His face finally eased a bit, feeling that the extra power in his body didn't bring him the slightest discomfort, on the contrary, he faintly noticed that his power level had improved—Victor didn't know it, His own power has become a pure holy brilliance attribute.Unlike the divine power of the priests, this power is highly similar to that of ascetics.

After thinking about it for a while, Victor slowly calmed down. After a while, he suddenly saw Heinrich entering the hall from the corridor outside. Beside the captain, there was a young man.The two walked side by side, and there was a sense of almost equal status in each other's expressions. He couldn't help but glanced at the young man, wondering what his identity was.

However, immediately after that, he knew it immediately—under the introduction of the leader, he knew the young man's name and his origin: the sword master of the city lord's mansion, and a legend in the circle of Afron nobles. , the only outsider of the Escud family to hold this position for a hundred years.

(End of this chapter)