holy flame

"Knight, now you have two choices. One is to become a low-level skeleton or zombie with tattered limbs, or the other is to become an undead knight who is almost the same as a living person."

In the eyes of the necromancer, Samuel had no way out, and if he moved, he would end up in the same end as the failed undead warrior just now.It's just that he is a living person, and after becoming like that, it is impossible to continue to be alive and kicking.But to the necromancer's surprise, the answer Samuel gave him was to throw the buckler at the scavengers!

The round shield wrapped in a layer of silver light flew out suddenly, and the laughing scavenger had no time to dodge, and the already corrupt body was instantly smashed to pieces!The necromancer's reaction was fast enough, and he immediately conveyed the attack order to the skeleton archers.And after Samuel threw out the round shield, he quickly bent forward and picked up the long shield that the undead warrior fell to the ground because of his fall.

The long shield, nearly ten centimeters thick, was indeed heavy enough. Samuel had to slow down a bit in order to stabilize his center of gravity when he picked it up.Immediately, three arrows were shot in the left shoulder, right leg and waist.Although the holy court's well-made leather armor and chain mail gave him a certain degree of protection, the three arrows were as deep as flesh. The only thing that was fortunate was that they did not hurt internal organs and bones.

"Holy!" Ignoring the pain caused by the arrow wound, a silver flame ignited on Samuel's body again. He held up a long shield to protect most of his body and rushed into the skeleton archer.Skeleton archers are still skeletons, and their fragile bones are not much better than ordinary skeletons in the face of charging knights.The shattered bone stick was burning with silver flames, and while flying around, it turned into gray-white ashes...

After the skeletons came the zombies, but the necromancers obviously hadn't had time to give these guys orders.They just gathered here to act according to their instincts. If they were ordinary humans, their instincts would tell them to attack, but when they faced Samuel, or Samuel who was burning with silver flames, their instincts told them to run away.Because there are too many companions around, and the speed of the zombies is too slow, they can't run too far, but in a short time, it also gave Samuel a relatively loose gap!

Still pushing the shield to the front, Samuel squeezed a way out of the gap!But when the necromancers reacted and wanted to stop the counterattack, it was already too late. The panting knight pinched one of their shriveled and emaciated companions like a chicken.

Although the necromancer was still alive, he was more or less affected by the death energy. The silver flame on Samuel's body was burning so that the little mage in his hand screamed.

"Put him down, we'll let you go." The zombie group separated, and a guy wearing a mage's robe, but the robe was as tattered and dirty as the costumes of the zombies came out.He was limping, and the muscles on his face were stiff and distorted, a bit like the Alzheimer's plus stroke patient Samuel had seen in his previous life.

"..." Samuel was silent, the credibility of necromancers is not very good.And now the cave exit must be full of all kinds of undead, and if he takes the waterway, even if he takes the hostage, once he is poisoned, he will definitely die-some poisons are useless to the necromancer who works with death every day, but for ordinary It is fatal to humans.

Especially now that he has been injured by an arrow, although the corpse poison on his shoulder has been purified by the silver flame, the blood cannot be stopped.The knight's hemostasis magic must touch the wound, but his wounds are all behind his back... Continued blood loss will also make him wait to die.

While Samuel was thinking, a sudden sharp pain came from his chest. It turned out that the necromancer crushed the magic scroll while Samuel was distracted.Samuel slammed the mage back, and cut off his neck with a sword from behind!There was a snow-white bone spear stuck in his chest, because the bone was hollow, and blood was bubbling from the end of the bone spear left outside!And this thing can't be pulled out by itself, because the other side of the bone spear has a barb, and when it goes in, it will be a small hole as thick as a finger at most, if you pull it out hard, you will bring out a large piece of meat, and may even scratch the internal organs.

I'm really going to die here now.

The zombies swarmed up, Samuel broke off the exposed bone spear, and instead of sitting still, he fought with the sword in his hand!The blood dyed his white leather armor red, and as he moved, it sprayed and mixed with the black blood of the zombies.

Samuel's sword was broken, and he supported his body half-kneeling on the ground with the short sword. Through the faint silver flame on his body, he could see the bright red runes on the ground—or those zombies stopped attacking?Hit a circle.He returned to this undead transformation array again.The undead is the dead, so can the dead brain allow him to have normal emotions?Now that he has a normal brain, he still can't understand what feelings are, let alone after death?

I don't want to live a heartless life anymore.

Closing his eyelids weakly, Samuel slowly fell to the ground...

Opening his eyes again, Samuel originally thought that what he saw would be the distorted face of a necromancer.But in fact, what he saw was the strong style of the Holy Court, with the ceiling of the frescoes of angels.A little monk in a white robe was sitting on the head of his bed, dozing off bit by bit.

"Excuse me, what is this place?" Samuel raised his upper body and wanted to ask the little monk, but he heard a clatter.Bowing his head, he found that his hands and feet were tied with thin silver chains. This seemingly fragile chain Samuel knew how powerful it was. This was a special chain of divine power made by the Holy Court. Even real angels and demons could not Break free easily.Now with such a thing to tie him up, it's obvious that they think he's dangerous.But since he wakes up not in a prison, and has someone to take care of him, the situation is not too bad.

The little monk immediately jumped up: "Hello, Lord Samuel, this is the church in Julian City. I am Jay. I am glad to see you wake up. Do you need something to eat?" He said, while Help Samuel upright the pillow so he can lean more comfortably.

"Julian City? Has Black Bear Fortress come to help? How long have I been asleep?"

"Yes." Hearing Samuel's inquiry, Jie was a little excited, "You saved the entire city of Julian, thank you very much, Lord Samuel! You were sent here three days ago, when You were seriously injured. And..." Jay looked at the chains on Samuel with guilty and conflicted eyes.

Samuel nodded, smiled at him and said, "I know what happened to me, so I can understand. Can I have a bowl of hot soup? I'm really hungry."

"Of course! Of course, please wait a moment."

Jay saluted Samuel, then ran out quickly.About 10 minutes later, the little monk who came back brought not only hot soup, but also Julian.

"When we found you, your blood was almost running out. At that time, everyone thought you had become an undead. You are a fateful guy." Seeing Samuel, this was the first sentence Julian said.

"Thank you for the compliment." Samuel replied vaguely while drinking the soup.He didn't feel hungry when he first got up, but after eating a little food, the feeling of hunger "awakened" immediately, and his whole stomach began to twitch and spasm.But Samuel knew he couldn't eat too much, and he couldn't eat in a hurry.So he resisted this absolutely uncomfortable feeling, and slowly drank his cream soup bit by bit, "Julian, help me find Ben's son in Julian City."

"It has been found, the little guy is lucky to be alive. He is 15 years old and his name is Eric."

Samuel nodded: "Does he need anything?"

"He wants to come with us."

"How is his ability?"

"Not bad. Although he is not very old, he can already be regarded as a successful hunter."

"Then let him follow." Samuel nodded. Most people in this era are relatively precocious. Although Julian called Eric a little guy, 15 years old is actually a grown man.And being able to be called a successful hunter by Julian, it is obvious that his ability is really good.

"If such a dangerous thing happens again in the future, I will never leave you again."

"If you follow me this time, then both of us will die."

"I'd rather die with you."

"If necessary, I will choose to live alone."

"It's... so ruthless~" Julian clutched his chest, feeling extremely painful.

Samuel lowered his head to drink the soup without even giving him a look...

Another three days later, during this period, the leading general of the Black Bear Fortress and the city lord of Julian City both came to visit Samuel, but they all looked worried when they saw the silver chain in Samuel's hand.Even though Samuel still looked like a normal human being, even if he was only slightly eroded by the power of the undead, according to the practice of the Holy Court, he would still be sent to the stake.Although these two people are nobles, they are both kind-hearted. If Samuel is a hero who lures away the undead alone, it would be too sad.

On this day, a team headed by the red-robed priest came to Julian City sent by the Holy See. Their task was to find out the truth about the undead siege incident, appease the people of Julian City, and deal with Samuel's situation.The first thing they dealt with was the matter of Samuel. The red-robed priest and his entourage prepared a simple purification ceremony in the great hall of the Julian Church that afternoon.And I don’t know what they thought, but some people were allowed to come to watch the ceremony—of course, it’s not allowed to be idle, and most of the people who were allowed were reinforcements from the Black Bear Fortress and prominent people in Julian City, plus Samuel’s entourage.

Samuel changed into a sackcloth in the room. He was barefoot and had loose hair. The only decoration on his body was a diamond-shaped pendant tied with an ordinary leather cord and flowing silver liquid inside.But this is a kind of Eucharist, and it is him who the knights can use the magic.Every time Samuel touched his chest with a magic spell, he was actually touching this pendant.Led by the little monk who took care of him and another priest he didn't know, Samuel walked into the cathedral.

The first thing he heard were a few exclamations, after all, his face was too shocking.

Taking a quick glance in the crowd, Samuel saw a strange man with short black hair and black eyes beside Julian and Barn. Samuel guessed that he was probably the Eric that Julian said.But judging from his precocious appearance, it is really hard to believe that he is only 15 years old.

The priest was urging him to move on, and Samuel nodded to several of his entourage and started walking again.

"Your face is a little red, little guy." Julian said to Eric jokingly.

"I just can't believe that Lord Samuel looks like this." Eric, who was pointed out, blushed even more. Although the sadness of his father's death was still there, a country boy suddenly saw how he looked like. Such a person, even if he doesn't have strange thoughts, can't help but blush.

"I understand, I understand~" Julian shrugged, "but remember, our adult is a thorny ice rose, and there are countless bees and butterflies around him, if you want to join, Be careful with your enemies~”