Chapter 16, Visiting the Lord
Those who have awakened their professional talents will choose to change jobs.
Among them, the four worst professions are warrior, rogue, ranger, and bard. Humans of these four professions can directly complete the job change by stimulating their talents, and the same is true for spellcasters. As long as they have enough talents, they can Transfer directly.
Some professions require the power of the gods to assist in changing jobs, such as paladins. Paladins can only change jobs in the four churches of the Church of Justice, the Church of Life, the Church of Luna, and the Church of Love and Goodness. Only these four churches have It has its own templar system, the most powerful of which is the Church of Justice. On the southwestern border of the empire, there is a holy city that belongs to the Church of Justice—the City of Justice. Several paladin legions are on standby there, ready to attack the Badlands green evil wave.
There are several such professions, such as druid, monk, and priest, all of which require the help of the corresponding gods to change professions.
In addition, there are many strange and rare occupations, which makes it even more complicated.
When the strength reaches a bottleneck period, the original profession can be advanced, and Boris's order of advancement is from warrior to berserker.
Ryan's adoptive father, Norman, advances in the order of warrior, knight, and white wolf knight. Among them, the special advanced profession of white wolf knight needs to be blessed by the white wolf God of War to advance successfully.
Ryan's occupation has always been a mystery. There is no doubt that his basic occupation is a warrior, but Teresa discovered that Ryan actually knew how to use magic.
A part-time job will be severely punished, magic and martial arts are just living in a dream, human beings are a race that is not suitable for using magic, and only swinging a sword and singing can only be performed at the same time in battle.
Teresa has seen from the collection books of the Garland Council that there is a legendary profession called magic swordsman, who can enchant weapons, which is somewhat similar to Ryan. Today's incident made her categorically deny this possibility again, magic sword Knights only use the magic power very superficially. There is absolutely no way to easily control the magic power like Ryan. Moreover, after the magic swordsman chooses to practice magic, he will lose the professional talent enhancement of wrist strength, so most magic swordsmen choose to directly Swords and rapiers are dexterous weapons that are used in battles.
The warhammer in Ryan's hand weighs at least a few dozen catties. If he can use such a heavy warhammer like a fire stick, he can't be a magic swordsman no matter how he looks at it.
"I'm a knight." Ryan looked surprised. The man pointed to the knight badge on his chest and said exaggeratedly: "Didn't you see my knight badge? I am the White Wolf Knight of the Kingdom of Nord." Wolf Rider 'Sledgehammer' Ryan."
"I'm not asking you about this, I'm asking about your advanced occupation." Teresa said impatiently, if it wasn't for her weak body, she really wanted to hit this guy's forehead with a staff.
"Then are you willing to tell me the spells you have mastered and the upper limit of casting spells every day? Dear Ms. Trovik?" Ryan was still smiling: "Everyone has their own secrets, why should I tell the secrets for free? And you?"
Only then did Teresa give up asking. Everyone has their own secrets, especially among spellcasters.
Soult, the pastor in charge of the Carzenhaven Justice Church, finally arrived. The pastor is tall and strong, over 1.8 meters tall. The bulging muscles on his arms propped up the pastor's robe. The original loose white robe looked tight-fitting. clothes.
"Knight novels have really poisoned many people. I want to say that the vast majority of priests are not the kind of weak women imagined. Most priests are men with powerful bodies. Their favorite weapons are heavy hammers and flails. .”
——Roland Otto Fechenbach, "Horn of Victory", Elector of Altdorf
Ryan looked at Soulte's strong body and couldn't help smiling when he remembered this famous saying.
The speed of handing over tasks is very fast,
After confirming that their identities were correct, Ryan and Teresa changed the short-term mission of chasing Belt to a long-term mission. Neither of them intended to give up. After re-signing the contract, they bid farewell to Sirte.
Walking out of the Church of Justice, Ryan nodded and said, "I plan to visit the lord of Carzenhaven, Mr. Willard the Logger. Teresa, if you have anything to do, please feel free, and I will not send it off."
After speaking, the man wanted to leave on his own.
Today's weather was slightly clear, and Ryan's back was leaving towards the morning light. Teresa looked at the man's back, gritted her teeth, and stopped him: "Lian!"
"Huh? Is there anything else?" Ryan was a little surprised.
"Can I go with you?" The sorceress leaned on her staff, with a faint smile on her mature and beautiful face.
"Uh... this seems to work." Ryan thought Teresa was his teammate and a female member of the Garland Council. Of course, the lords would like to get to know more powerful spellcasters.
"Then let me go." Teresa immediately followed, Ryan shrugged, and the two walked side by side on the street.
Teresa didn't meet anyone she was familiar with, so she deliberately took a step closer and said in a low voice, "I'll only say this once. What I said last night was wrong."
"Oh? Which sentence is wrong?" Who knew Ryan didn't appreciate it, and the man pretended not to understand what she meant.
"Tsk, you already understand." Teresa looked at the arc of the man's mouth and knew that he understood, so she didn't say any more.
"The chicks can spread their wings and fly not because the wings have grown, and the fruit will fall to the ground not because the weight exceeds the burden." Ryan suddenly said a word without thinking, and then motioned Teresa to follow.
The sorceress was slightly taken aback, but soon, a feeling called joy rippled in her heart.
this man.
Are you beating around the bush and saying that I am mature?
Ryan is a knight of the kingdom and has a great reputation. His request to see him was quickly approved. The lord of Carzenhaven, Willard, agreed to meet him, but now he has some things in hand. Let the steward receive them first, and the steward takes Ryan and Teresa sat down in the side hall and poured warm cider for the two of them herself: "I'm sorry, the lord has something to do, and the visitor is a bit entangled."
"It's okay." Ryan touched his chest with his left hand very politely, and performed a knight's salute, Teresa nodded slightly as a gesture, and at the same time, the sorceress began to look at the furnishings in the house.
The layout in the side hall is quite luxurious. The fireplace is heating the room. A kite shield with a white bear head is hung above the fireplace. The wooden walls have been carefully painted white, and the floor is covered with animals. The fur is used as a carpet, and the bench for two people has thick cushions. On the wall in front of the bench are various animal head specimens, including wolf heads, deer heads, wild boar heads, and even a bear head. Show off your strength.
"Mr. Butler, may I ask you a question? Who is it that you are entangled with?" Seeing the butler's eyes looking towards the main hall from time to time, Ryan wondered who could be entangled with the lord?
"It's those druids." The old butler said helplessly: "I heard from the master that it was a druid named 'Arborist' Eldrad. So I came here to pester the master, saying that the master has destroyed the natural balance, these nasty druids are really the most unwelcome people here."
Ryan and Teresa looked at each other, the sorceress's mature and charming eyes rolled slightly, and stopped talking, Ryan said with a smile: "If possible, I would also like to let these people go, but I can't. "
"Yes, yes!" The old housekeeper responded again and again, talking about the cause and effect.
The lord of Kaltzenhaven is called Willard, who is also a military nobleman and has a reputation for bravery on the battlefield. He has always used battle axes and shields.
Villard has the nickname of "lumberjack". This guy is very good at chopping trees. Over the years, he has organized logging teams to cut trees in the forest many times in order to build towns. On the one hand, it is very useful for building towns. On the other hand, these The wood from the boreal forest is of good quality and can also be exported for financial benefit.
Logically speaking, there is nothing to blame for what Villard did. From the point of view of Ryan's Celestial Dynasty people, relying on mountains to eat mountains depends on water to eat water. Karzenhaven is a place with dense jungles. Instead of letting the Beastmen and Goblin tribes These monsters are raging in it, it is better to cut down logs and sell them for money.
But some people can't accept this kind of behavior.
That is the group of druids of the natural church.
There are different opinions about the origin of the druids, because Tal, the god of nature, is an extremely ancient god. Human history records are very clear and written after Charlemagne established the empire. The previous history was due to The "big catastrophe" caused by the destruction of the former wizard empire led to the destruction of historical materials. The history of the catastrophe period and before can only be found in the records of dwarves or elves.
Druids appeared in an earlier period. They were not all human beings. These people advocated the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and advocated a harmonious balance between the two.
Sounds a lot like Life Church, doesn't it?
It's actually quite different.
The perspective of the life church is "people-oriented", and the perspective of the nature church is "protecting nature from human encroachment".
Therefore, the Druids are always wandering around the mainland to appeal. Whenever human beings do something that "disrupts the balance of nature", such as logging, mining, or fishing, they will always come out to protest. It seems that even grazing and planting are destroying the natural balance, but there are too many people doing this, and the druids "have to" acquiesce.
In fact, except for the wood elves, no one accepts their theory. The dwarves even stipulate that no druids are allowed to enter their towns, and humans are not much better. As for why they are not driven out... …
The main reason is that druids are too strong. These natural people will come out to travel, at least they are all elites. They can release natural spells in a normal state. When needed, some druids can even transform into Wild beasts, such as bears, eagles, wolves, ravens, etc., use their claws and teeth to fight.
These transformed beasts are much stronger than human warriors of the same rank. An elite druid transformed into a bear can fight two or three humans of the same rank without any pressure.
Ordinary lords would not want to fight with these people. If there is no accident, this protest must have ended in the lord's every possible means and mud, Ryan thought so.
Just as he expected, after a while, a tall druid with wolf fur on his body, a wreath on his head, and a long stick came down from the stairs, with an angry but helpless sigh on his face , Seeing someone sitting downstairs, Druid asked: "Who are you?"
"Hello, Instructor of Oneness." Seeing that Teresa had no intention of saying hello, Ryan took the initiative to speak.
After hearing the balance of one body, the Druid's face looked better at first, but then he noticed Ryan's knight badge: "It's just another human being who kills creatures, I'm Aldrad the Tree Planter, I want to warn you, if you destroy the forest like this, you will be cursed, and your soul will be in..."
"That's enough of you bastard, get out, you're not welcome here!" the old butler cursed angrily, the druid gave the old butler a disdainful look, then turned and left.
"Mr. Ryan, and this lady, this way please." Seeing that the Druid had left, the old butler immediately put on a smiling face and asked the two to go upstairs to meet the lord.
"You don't seem to dislike them?" Teresa asked curiously as they went upstairs.
"I have never disliked people who are willing to give everything for their ideals." Ryan gave the answer.
The two went upstairs together, and the second floor was where the lord worked and rested.
The room where the lord usually uses to work. The furnishings of the room are very simple. The wooden floor is covered with furs of various animals. On the wall are various collections of the lord, swords, calligraphy, paintings and shields. The long wooden table is set on the inside. Lord Willard of Carzenhaven sat on the chair behind the long table. On the wall behind him hung a musket and a tomahawk, obviously his favorite weapons.
This kind of room layout, which could only be used as an urban-rural junction in Ryan's previous life, is already considered rich in this world.
The Nord Kingdom is often ridiculed by the imperial people as a country bumpkin. In Nord, there are only the Grand Duke of Nord (that is, the King of Nord, the King of Nord claims to be the king but is actually a duke conferred by the Empire) and the legacy of the old empire. The several earls under the command are responsible for guarding the main cities. In addition, all the nobles in Nord have no hierarchy and are unified as lords. A small town is also a lord, and I call a whole port city a lord, so Nord is often ridiculed by the imperial people for not even distinguishing the ranks of nobles.
"Come in, the master is inside."