Lusen straightened his chest: "Who said that? I sailed through the first trial without a hitch! I’m a Holy Knight in the truest sense."
"Then why did you co out so quickly?"
Lusen replied righteously: "Because I promptly failed the second trial!"
Audrey extended a slender finger, poking his face with a smile: "Co, let see how this person can have such thick skin. Failing, yet speaking of it so easily."
Lusen, feeling no guilt, said matter-of-factly: "If you knew what the second trial was about, you’d quit just like . Sticking around would just be asking for trouble, right?"
Lin Rui asked curiously: "What does the second trial test?"
"The first test of the second trial, the Path of the Holy Grail is arduous, filled with tests and tribulations that challenge each knight’s mind, body, and soul. To strengthen their beliefs, each knight vows not to sleep in the sa place two nights in a row and never gives up searching for the Path of the Holy Grail while alive. So, many knights lead lonely lives, with belief as their only companion."
After saying this, Lusen exclaid: "Is this a life a normal person can live? What’s ant by belief being the only companion? No comrades, no partners, who can stand that? More importantly, you can’t have a bed partner. I have to admit, without Amos, I’d be miserable."
Audrey instantly agreed and said: "Lusen, you’re absolutely right. Is this a life anyone can live? I don’t think anyone could complete the Path of the Holy Grail."
Lin Rui glared at them both, thinking that if this was all the Path of the Holy Grail entailed, he’d easily breeze through the trials.
Since Lusen didn’t know what the later challenges were either, Lin Rui asked: "What did the first trial test? How did you get through so quickly?"
Lusen, holding his sword and shield, said casually: "I don’t know what it tested. There were a few stories, no hints. I figured it was all fake, so I did whatever I wanted and just went up and killed a few annoying pieces of trash. Then I passed."
"..."
"..."
Everyone was speechless, except Audrey, who took out fruit and sunflower seeds and curiously asked: "Tell us about the stories in detail."
"The stories were utterly uninteresting. I can’t even be bothered to rember them."
"Co on, tell us. I want to see how uninteresting they were."
"Alright. The first story was about two little kids, about four or five years old, fighting over a wooden sword. One kid poked a small piece of the other kid’s scalp with the wooden sword. Then, the injured kid’s father, a man in his thirties, went to the kids and slapped the other kid across the face while they were still playing together."
Audrey widened her eyes: "He slapped a four-year-old child hard in the face? Was he insane? And then?"
"And then? Then he went ho and beat up the kid’s grandfather too."
Audrey was dumbfounded: "And then? Did you kill him?"
"No, I’m quite fair, that doesn’t seem punishable by death, right? Besides, his wife and old mother knelt at the family’s doorstep, begging for forgiveness."
"So, who did you kill?" Audrey asked in surprise.
"The onlookers."
"What?!" Audrey’s voice suddenly rose: "I really can’t follow your logic. This adult hit a child, and you killed the bystanders, and passed?!! What kind of logic is that?"
"Because the bystanders kept chattering and chattering, getting on my nerves. They said the man did nothing wrong, and if it were them, they’d have also beaten the other child to death."
"If they think it’s reasonable for an adult to beat a four-year-old to death, then by their logic, it should also be reasonable for to kill them, right?"
Audrey hesitated: "Isn’t it a bit unreasonable to kill them just for being foolish?"
"That four-year-old didn’t even understand right from wrong and got beaten to death, is that reasonable? I used their own logic against them, and suddenly it’s not reasonable?"
Yuyu, instead, beca intrigued and said: "Lusen, you’ve successfully proved you’re not a vile person. What’s the next story?"
"The next story, a priest preached to the villagers, saying they must believe in the doctrine, and if they beca strong, they could leave the village and have a chance to mix with people from other villages, improving their inferior genes. Only by believing in their teachings could won beco tools for n from other villages, and n could X won from other villages."
Yuyu didn’t quite get it: "Is there a difference between the people of the two villages?"
"No, there isn’t."
"Is he crazy? What happened then?"
"Then a young knight interrupted, asking why becoming strong shouldn’t an making the world better and the village more prosperous?"
"Yeah, exactly," Audrey nodded repeatedly: "This ti, you must have killed that despicable priest, right?"
"No, I killed the bystanders again."
"..."
"..."
"Why this ti?" Audrey asked exasperatedly: "Was there anyone questioning the young knight’s righteous words?"
"Yes, soone said this young knight was uncouth and didn’t know how to show respect."
"No, just this self-deprecating, wretched individual, what’s there to respect? If they dared to spread such doctrine in the Golden Pansy Domain, they’d have their legs broken, right?" Yuyu was astounded.
"And there were a lot more laughable things. Soone else said the young knight was hypocritical and brainwashed, and once real life hit him, he’d see how laughable such ideals were."
"And others ganged up on him."
Yuyu cooled herself off with her pale hands, angrily saying: "If a village doesn’t even allow young people to have ideals, it will soon fall into dark and numb decay, devoid of any hope."
"Hehehe," Lusen chuckled, showing his white teeth: "So I killed them all. These kinds of people would imdiately beco demon’s minions if chaos descended. As the saying goes, it takes a decade to nurture trees, but a hundred years to nurture n. Once you’ve finally cultivated a young knight with ideals and aspirations, a pack of vile people attacks him like hyenas, jeering and sneering. I realized what it ans when they say the holy always encounters the vile, and the vile always makes excuses."
Lin Rui couldn’t help but give Lusen a thumbs-up: "Well done, you’re rightfully a Holy Knight. No wonder you passed the Holy Grail trial."
As Lusen was recounting his trial stories, a large number of knights had started coming out of the Holy Temple Hall.
And every knight that ca out, without exception, had passed the first test of the Path of the Holy Grail.
Everyone gained the trait [Holy Knight: Physical Defense 10%, Willpower 10%, immunity to the first control effect in battle, and immunity to spirit magic damage]
The immunity to spirit magic damage alone was enough to establish their dominance on the battlefield. They could withstand the bombardnt and steadily fight their way across the battlefield.
There was no other way to defeat them but to engage in close combat, Blood and Flesh Mountains and Rivers!
Lin Rui, very satisfied, began to count the numbers and soon realized a problem: "Huh? Why is the headcount not matching, missing four people. Who’s missing?"
Audrey imdiately lit up: "Lord, Violet! Violet hasn’t co out yet."
"Who else?"
"Also Knight King Richard."
"And Celestial Punishnt Fear Knight Loka!"
"Tailong, Celestial Punishnt Fear Knight Tailong hasn’t co out either!"
Lin Rui was quite pleasantly surprised, could it be that the domain was about to gain four epic-level unit types all at once?
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