Chapter 277 The Supreme Being Who Cannot Protect Anyone (4k6)

The golden hair ring represents power, the silver hair ring represents the moon, and the black hair ring represents the abyss.

Riding on the ice horse, Moon looked at the three goddess hair rings in his hands with a complicated expression.

He originally thought that the witch would not have a ring for him.

In fact, this is true. Witches do not know of such a custom.

So she never thought about it at all from the beginning.

As a result, Moen kept reminding her suspiciously.
"I didn't expect that I would end up causing one myself."

"It's really fate that makes people play tricks on me."

After a long sigh, Moon shook his head and grabbed a handful of flying ice chips from behind the Ice Pegasus' wings and smeared them on his face.

Bone-chilling cold is indeed a very useful thing.

This successfully allowed Moon to suppress all of his chaotic emotions.

He is now heading to the New World, the birthplace of chivalry.

It is also the location of the Holy City of the Church of Storms.

Legend has it that the war between the eldest sons caused the continent to crack, and in order to protect the knights' temple from being submerged in the howling storm sea, five huge ancient dragons took the initiative to transform their bodies into land, and this is the origin of the New World.

The new continent supported by the corpses of giant dragons is the youngest of the several continents here.

Therefore, many dragon species also took root in the New World.

Stories about knights and dragons are the mainstream culture here.

In Moon's memory, everything here is beautiful.

The knights maintain order, and the dragons maintain nature.

Mortals can live here happily forever.

But, that was the memory of when Morn was still the Lionheart King.

Right now, Moon found it hard to be optimistic.

After all, everything he encountered on his way to the Seven Hills made him frown.

The nobles of those small countries obviously surrendered to the Church of Storms and amassed huge wealth according to the will of the Church of Storms.

That was a clear act of blasphemy against the king.

But such blasphemous things did happen, in the name of the church.

Normally, this would be enough to indicate that there had been major changes or corruption within the Church of the Storm.

But the Knights of the Round Table, who are supposed to protect all of this, can still come to the aid of the Old Continent and operate outside.

This made Moen feel a little conflicted.

The round table still maintains its previous style, so why did this happen?

As he thought about it, Moon raised his eyebrows slightly.

He has some ideas.

But more clues are needed to support this.
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A little bit earlier, on the coastline of the New World, a small boat was slowly drifting from the depths of the ocean.

This made people who saw it speculate whether it was a fishing boat that had mistakenly entered the deep sea.

Because it was not a ship that could go out to sea too far.

But after watching, some fishermen were surprised.

The boat doesn't look like their style.

Instead, it looked like a ship from the Old World.

However, there is no way such a small boat could have drifted across the sea from the Old World to reach them!
So what the hell is going on here?

Much to the surprise of some fishermen.

The boat finally reached the shore.

Then they saw a little girl with slightly dark skin. They had seen that girl many times. She was a very typical fisherman's daughter.

Just like their children.

But the woman holding the little girl's hand was different.

Her clothes were extremely revealing, but strangely, she didn't look alluring at all. Instead, she made people feel ashamed and couldn't help but lower their eyes.

In fact, the fishermen were very sure that such a beautiful woman should not appear in such a place.

A woman's appearance doesn't tell us much, but being too beautiful can!
And this is an example of that.

After a brief hesitation, some fishermen hurriedly knelt on the beach.

They felt that this woman might be a noble and extraordinary being!
He is an adult who should be treated with respect by all the nobles in the church.

The charming beauty holding the little girl looked at the fishermen one by one.

From what she saw, many of these fishermen were gray between white and black.

There are also a small number of grayish white, an even smaller number of grayish black, and only one that is pure white.

The woman immediately took the little girl's hand and walked towards the only pure white.

As the woman approached, the little girl couldn't help but hide behind her.

Because the man in front of her looked very fierce, and half of his face looked terrifying.

The little girl's cognition made it impossible for her to describe what it looked like. She just thought it was very scary because it was completely different from that of normal people.

The woman looked at the man with great satisfaction and smiled:

"You saved a child from the flames. You are truly a noble man!"

The man said in fear:
"That is my son, sir."

But the woman smiled and said:
"It was only after I was rescued that I became your son, which makes you even more noble."

The man didn't say anything, just lowered his head.

He didn't think too much about it at the time, he just heard a child screaming.

The woman squatted down and brought the little girl to him and said:

"I want you to raise this child. She lost her parents just like your son, but she lost them not long ago."

This made the man who was looking down suddenly look up at the timid girl, and then look at the distant coastline.

"She escaped from the Old World? You took her with you?"

Even the fishermen know about the devil.

The woman didn't say much, she just looked at the little girl and said:
“This is my mission, that’s all.”

This made the man unable to understand what she meant, but he shook his head helplessly and said:
"My Lord, I would love to help this child, but I have my own children to feed."

Before the man could continue speaking, the woman extended her hand in front of him.

When it was spread out, a round and colorful pearl was revealed.

This pearl, which was almost as big as a baby's fist, instantly made the crowd swallow their saliva.

The woman also saw that at this moment, their colors had almost all become one or even two or three shades darker.

But the woman just continued to say to the man:

"That's enough for you to feed many children."

The man's color did not change at all, it was still the pure white that made the woman happy and disgusted.

But he did hesitate.

It's not for wealth, but for the little girl in front of him and his own children.

He knew that this pearl could change his child's future, and he also knew that the noble man in front of him would definitely not want to continue to raise this little girl.

After opening his mouth with difficulty, the man lowered his head and said distressedly:
"Still can't, sir."

This time, the woman was also surprised, but the little girl was relieved. She was just a child, so she was afraid of the man's face burned by the fire.

"Why? This is a treasure that I think is good enough."

The man shook his head and said:

"Sir, I am only a fisherman. No matter what the law says, I cannot hold such wealth. Therefore, I cannot raise this child. It will only harm her and my family."

The woman's face showed both boredom and pity. She stood up and took back the pearl.

"I understand. I will take this child to find the next person who is willing."

"Thank you, my lord."

The man knocked his head heavily on the ground.

"No need to thank me, you did nothing wrong, respected fisherman. Also, you can find a suitable wife in the future. I believe your children will be happy too." After saying this, the woman took the little girl away from the beach.

And when the fisherman raised his head.

The fishermen around all exclaimed.

Because the half of the fisherman's face that was burned by the fire has healed!

The woman's arrival and the fisherman's miracle became the biggest topic of conversation in the fishing village in the past few days.

They all said that it must be a transcendent being from the Old World.

Maybe he is a noble demigod!
But after a few days.

The fisherman's hut was forcibly kicked open.

This shocked the fisherman who was having dinner with his son.

After I saw clearly the person who was standing in the huge white light due to the sudden opening of the door.

The fisherman's hand that was reaching for the harpoon was instantly retracted, and he quickly knelt on the ground with his son:
"Master, why are you here?"

The priest in a navy blue church robe walked up to the man with a blank expression.

Behind him were two knights in luxurious armor.

The armor is embellished with symbols of the Holy Lance and the Dragon.

They are regular knights of the Church of the Storm.

After taking a look at the half-salted fish with a strong fishy smell on the table, the priest covered his mouth and nose in disgust, and arrogantly stretched out his foot to hook the man's chin.

After looking at it for a moment, the priest smiled and said:
"Your face is really healed."

The man said with sweat on his forehead:
"Thanks to you, sir."

The priest shook his head and smiled:

"Thanks to me? No, no, it's thanks to the great Lionheart King and the Goddess of Storms!"

"Yes, yes, yes, it is with the blessing of your Majesties, Your Excellency the Rev."

The sweat on the man's forehead continued to drip.

He didn't know why the church found him, an ordinary fisherman.

The priest, who was smiling just now, suddenly changed his expression and kicked him in the face.

"How dare you refuse that pearl? It is a blessing bestowed upon you by the two majesties. It is also a reward that the two majesties will give to our church through you to recognize our hard work. So how dare you refuse it?"

The priest's kick was not very powerful; his extravagant life coupled with endless drinking and sex had already drained his body.

But a kick in the face at such a close distance is not something an ordinary fisherman can endure.

The fisherman fell to the ground with his face broken by the kick.

But he did not dare to wail. He just quickly held his son down and knelt in front of the priest again, kowtowing repeatedly and saying:
"Father, Father Hal, that is not a gift that a small person like me can accept, so I dare not ask for it. It belongs to that noble man!"

The priest continued to kick him a few more times.

The man didn't dare to dodge and could only press his son under him and use his body to block the other person's feet.

But after kicking three or four times, he began to gasp for breath.

He casually untied the dedication ring worn around his neck that represented the integrity and poverty of the clergy.

Then he leaned against the cabinet beside him and said:
"This damned place is so far away, but there's not even a decent road. Damn it, and you, you idiot."

"I don't care about the stupid things you said. I only know that you caused the church to suffer huge losses. If you just agree, you can earn more wealth for the church than dozens of your villages combined can pay in hundreds of years."

"So, all of this is your fault. You have offended the church, and you have committed blasphemy!"

The man looked up in horror and said:
"Father Hal, you must understand clearly. I am a loyal subject of the two majesties. How could I blaspheme? This, this, this is really not my fault!"

The man, who was just a fisherman, had no idea what to do at the moment. He could only keep explaining and begging for mercy.

The only response he got was a spit from the priest.

The fisherman who was sprayed in the face lowered his head hastily and dared not say anything.

"You damned lowly person, you dare to quibble. If you are really a loyal subject of the two majesties, how could you refuse? Do you know how much that is? Such a big pearl, and colorful, it must be produced by the Leviathan clam."

"That is a deep-sea treasure that only a few are seen in a year in the entire church!"

After saying this, the priest noticed the blood on his feet and started looking for something to wipe his shoes with great disgust.

"You should be thankful that I don't want to dirty my shoes for an idiot like you. Otherwise, I will definitely let you, a blasphemer who offends the church, know what divine punishment is!"

"Forget it, take this guy away and throw him into hard labor to mine. To be honest, we should capture all these fishermen and make them mine. How much money can they pay for fishing?"

The cursing priest directly determined the fisherman's fate.

The fisherman collapsed. He knelt on the ground, crawled on the ground, hugged the priest's thigh and said:
"Sir, Father, I can't go to hard labor, I can't go, I have to feed my child, look at him, he is so young, he won't be able to survive without me!"

Hearing this, the priest couldn't help but look at the boy who had been staring at him viciously.

Then he sneered:
"That's easy, just arrest him too."

The fisherman felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

Endless confusion and anger surged in my heart at this moment.

He didn't understand what he had done wrong.

He wanted to vent, he wanted to make this real blasphemer in front of him pay the price, but just as he was about to stand up, he saw two knights in gorgeous armor.

The giant dragon on the opponent's chest was so realistic and ferocious.

This instantly made the man lose all his energy and sit back on his knees.

He couldn't resist.

But the two knights suddenly whispered something to the priest.

This made the sneering priest frown slightly and asked the boy:

"How old are you, kid?"

The boy didn't answer, but just looked at him with fiery eyes.

This made the priest very unhappy, but the man said hurriedly as if he had grasped a life-saving straw:

"Seven years old, he is only seven years old, Reverend Father!"

"Seven years old?"

"Yes, sir, I swear before the gods and kings, he is really only seven years old!"

The priest frowned and looked at the fisherman, then he spat at the boy and said:

"You're lucky, you damned little devil. Just wait, when you grow up a little bit, I will definitely arrest you and make you do hard labor to atone for your sins."

"Let's go, take this untouchable with you."

The two knights immediately stepped forward, grabbed the fisherman and left the house.

Before being led away, the fisherman looked back at his son.

He wanted to say something, but after seeing the neighbors around the house, he could only change his words:
"You know how to take care of yourself, child. You know where I keep the food. You must take care of yourself. You will be alone from now on."

Facing his father, the boy no longer showed any ferocity. He just stood at the door, gritting his teeth and nodding vigorously.

In front of the man, the priest kicked down another man.

And he cursed:

"You just did what you were supposed to do, and you dare to ask me for a reward? Damn pariah, do you want to do hard labor too?"

The other party quickly waved his hands and crawled away.

Looking at the man running away, the priest clapped his hands in amusement. This was good, he saved a few silver coins.

Finally, feeling unsatisfied, the priest turned around and looked at the fisherman who was trapped between two knights.

Then he suddenly picked up a piece of sharp gravel from the ground and slashed it towards the man's face.

"Now it's much better. I almost forgot that you, who have offended the church, cannot have a good face. Your face is also given by God, but you didn't get the blessing to offer to us!"

The severe pain caused the man to break free and fall to the ground.

The knights also stood aside and watched happily.

At the very end, the man lying on the ground still said to his son:
"May both majesties bless you, my son."

This time, the boy who had been holding back his tears started crying.

He didn't understand why his father would pray to those two beings who couldn't protect any of them.

Doesn’t father know that those two so-called supreme beings are the source of all that happened to them?
Why does my father still hold on to that ridiculous belief even after all this?

　It's a new chapter, 4,000 words for now, I'll go and sort out the subsequent outline

　　
　
(End of this chapter)