What bad thoughts can a paladin have?

Chapter 54 Running under the Sunset
Watching the green dragon spray a few mouthfuls of poisonous dragon breath towards the burning town, then turn its head and disappear into the sky, everyone seemed to be choked, unable to speak a single word.

After a long time, Sodick waved his hand wearily.

"Let's go, go back first, and then discuss what to do."

The group returned to the camp in silence.

A heated debate broke out among the merchants as to what to do next with the caravan.

Some merchants have the idea of ​​retreating, hoping that the caravan can return to Fanlin Town first, avoid the sharp edge of the dragon, and wait until the situation stabilizes to go on the road again;

Some people think that the danger is dangerous, but obviously the target of the giant dragon is not them. Maybe they can pass through quickly while the dragon is not paying attention to the caravan, as long as they enter the [-]-kilometer road around the city of Lahal. range, then they are safe.

Even the giant dragon dare not face the soldiers of the human empire.

Of course, dragons above the old age are not within the scope of the above discussion.

The existence of those old dragons and above is not something that a small and medium-sized city like Lahal City can compete with.

"enough!"

Sodick slapped the table irritably, without the smile that halflings usually have on his face.

He jumped up on the table, and said with a gloomy face:

"What's the noise! ​​Didn't I have someone notify you a long time ago? No matter what, the caravan can't and won't stop. Who ordered our batch of goods must be clear to everyone. Delayed Who do you think can take up the responsibility for that person? If you are not afraid of implicating your wife and children afterwards, then you can go back. I, Sodick, will never stop you, but none of the caravan guards Don't even think about taking it away! I, Sodick, said it!"

Everyone understood that without guards, the merchants wanted to return to Fanlin Town by themselves.

But what everyone knew better was that these guards were recruited by Sodick, and they only obeyed the orders of the halfling.

In some major decisions, they can't command these stubborn guys at all.

Not even money can open the way.

With the halfling's extremely strong final decision, no one in the caravan mentioned the matter of returning. The big guys silently packed up the goods and vehicles, and continued along the increasingly dilapidated road.

Among them, Ryan did not express a single opinion.

He was just a hitchhiker, he shouldn't have been, and he wasn't qualified to dictate the caravan's internal decisions.

All follow the main force on the line.

But what puzzled him even more was that the vicinity of Fanlin Town was mostly plains, and there were no large mountains around. How did this green dragon come here?

Speechless all the way.

At dusk, the caravan finally arrived near the village attacked by the green dragon.

Sodick personally took a few guards to the village to investigate, and Ren and Angelica also followed.

"This……"

Standing on the hill and looking down, everyone's eyebrows were involuntarily frowned.

As far as the eye can see, it is a village exuding blood and scorching smell.

——In the village, there are ruins everywhere, ashes and residues everywhere, and charred and killed corpses everywhere.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, vultures and crows uttered ear-piercing chirps, hovered over the village, and swooped down from time to time, landing on the corpses to feast on.

The whole village has long lost the breath of life.

The thick smoke formed by the burning flames, mixed with the scorched smell of burnt corpses, shot straight into the sky.

The impact of this scene is enough to shake the mind of an intelligent creature.

Everyone turned their heads away one after another, unable to bear to look directly.

That's horrible!
"Go, go in and have a look, see if any survived by chance."

Sodick took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said these words.

"Let's go, we will follow."

Ren patted the pale Angelica, and said in a concentrated voice:
"In the eyes of paladins, corpses should not be desecrated like this!"

If these corpses are not buried, the resentment of the dead will be entangled on them, and the negative energy gathered will eventually transform the corpses into undead creatures such as skeletons, zombies, ghosts, etc., thus threatening the safety of travelers passing by.

It would be fine if he didn't see it, but now that he saw it, he couldn't just sit idly by.

This is not in line with the way of a paladin, let alone the morality in Ren's heart!
The dead should be buried in the ground for peace.

Looking at the silent back of the paladin, the girl gritted her teeth and followed.

If she wanted to stand with Ren, forever and ever, then one day, she would have to face what he faced.

Since we have to face it sooner or later, it is better to start now.

Under the setting sun, the girl ran as hard as she could, just to catch up with the boy, to stand with him, or to shelter him from the wind and rain.

…………

"My lord, there are all corpses, there are no living people."

Delite came to Sodik's side and reported.

"Although I guessed it a long time ago, in my heart I still..."

If a halfling has read some classics of the Eastern Continent, then he knows that there is an extremely apt metaphor for his mood, which is called "a rabbit dies and a fox is sad, and things hurt its kind".

"Everyone, go help that paladin," he sighed, apparently with a heavy heart, "do some good deeds that we can do, and when we cross the River Styx after we die, the group of boatmen on the River Styx who want money may It will cost less money, too.”

"Yes, my lord."

The captain of the guard responded, and then said:

"Also, the guys who stored the grain in the granary didn't move at all. Instead, they looted all the valuable things in the village."

"Isn't it normal for a dragon to be greedy for money?"

The halfling obviously didn't take this humble information to heart, and motioned Dwight to help.

Ren's strength of 16 points is considered to be at the level of a strongman among ordinary people, and digging a few large pits for burying corpses is also easy.

What's more, with the help of the guards now, these guards who came to explore the village with the halflings, except for a rogue who acts as a scout, are all fighters and barbarians in the melee profession, and the minimum strength is 18 points. There are also a few people whose strength attributes have broken through the limits of mortals and reached the extraordinary.

Not to mention, a few barbarians who disliked the slow speed directly turned on the berserk mode, turning into a small excavator, and the speed was even faster.

In this way, in less than an hour, several deep pits with a radius of one foot and a depth of two meters were dug out.

Everyone put the found corpse into the pit together, and Ren took out half of the stock of high-concentration holy water and sprinkled it on the corpse. After a few prayers, the deep pit was filled with soil.

After doing all this, everyone looked at each other and smiled, only feeling that the distance between each other has shortened a lot.

At least those who can do this are not from the evil camp, are they?

Ren looked at the prompt that popped up suddenly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Attention: Your actions have shifted your camp towards the good camp."

(End of this chapter)