Chapter 106: Female Paladin and Goblin

"Master Alfred, aren't you angry?
Why did Lord Monroe remove you from your position as captain, make you the vice-captain, and let a necromancer be our captain?"

In the square in front of the Dawn Cathedral, a petite girl wearing a full set of silver-white armor was standing with her hands on her waist, her round face puffed up as she spoke.

Beside the girl, several other paladins nodded silently. Although they did not say it explicitly, they agreed with what the girl said.

“Fanni, necromancy is an orthodox spell. You can’t be prejudiced against necromancers just because of their name. Don’t have any stereotypes.

As a paladin, you should first pay attention to people's behavior, not the power that person holds!"

Alfred looked serious as he reprimanded Fanny.

The female paladin was unconvinced and raised her neck and said, "Lord Alfred, it's not that I am biased, you also saw it during the world recollection.

Necromancers are such evil creatures, they play with corpses at will and even use them as cannonballs!"

"Forehead……"

Alfred was unable to refute for a moment.

He hesitated for a long time, and said with a stern face: "Fanni, anyway, don't use 'Detect Evil' on Deya later. He is a member of the church now."

Although the Paladins are old-fashioned, they are not completely inflexible.

As long as they don't use the 'detect evil' spell, and as long as they don't see the other party doing anything against the spirit of chivalry, they can pretend to turn a blind eye.

"I see."

The female paladin named Fanny snorted. She didn't want to make things difficult for Alfred.

Alfred was relieved when he saw this.

Not long after, the damned evil necromancer Deya Cavendish arrived at the square in front of the cathedral.

"Deya, long time no see, we haven't seen each other since we last parted.

I heard from Lord Monroe that you have joined the church. I am so happy that I cannot express it in words. From today on, we are colleagues!"

Alfred walked forward enthusiastically. The man who was like a golden lion put his arm around Deya's shoulders and said happily.

“I’ve been studying magic at home lately, and besides that I’ve been participating in World Remembrance.

The incident at the bar last time happened suddenly, and I didn’t thank you afterwards. I hope you don’t mind it, Alfred.”

Deya said with a smile on his face and a gentle tone.

As for the 'Dawn Squad' that he was about to join, Monroe, the president of the Inquisition, had already told him the details of the team.

"As a knight of the goddess, it is my duty to help my friend when I see him being assassinated. By the way, let me introduce him to you.

They are all members of our team, this is Fanny, this is Julian, he is Ken..."

Alfred introduced the team members to Deya one by one.

Deya greeted them one by one.

These paladins were relatively friendly, at least on the surface, and greeted Deya politely.

Only the only female paladin in the team, the girl named Fanny, treated him badly and just snorted coldly.

Deya looked at the other person.

The girl is petite, but should be over 20 years old. She has an oval face with freckles. She can't be said to be the kind of girl who is stunning at first sight, but she is also very cute.

With Alfred's explanation, Deya also knew the specific strength of this team.

There are eight people in the team. Alfred is a newly promoted 5th-ring paladin, Fanny, Julian and Ken are 4th-ring, and the remaining four are 3rd-ring.

This is already an extremely elite team.

It is difficult for a Paladin to become a Paladin as they have too many rules to follow.

But precisely because there are many dogmas to abide by, the strength of the Paladins is far stronger than that of ordinary professions.

It can be said that it can attack, defend and heal.

In any church, the Paladin squad is the elite among the elite.

Although this team does not have a six-ring player, as long as they cooperate well, they are even capable of competing with a six-ring player who has just been promoted.

"With me, a rare mage, as the advance investigation team, the Dawn Church has made a great investment."

"But is it really okay for a necromancer like me to lead a team of paladins? They may work well together, but how can I cooperate with them?"

Deya murmured in his heart.

Oh, I think I have cooperation with them. If someone in the team dies, I can create a Death Knight on the spot to keep the team's combat effectiveness as strong as possible!
As a special undead creature, the Death Knight requires the corpse of a Paladin to be created.

Alfred had no idea that Deya had already set his sights on their bodies, so he said, "Let's go, Deya. The church has prepared falcons for the long journey."

Deya nodded. He didn't want to say any more nonsense. He just wanted to get what he wanted quickly.

Several people immediately went to the falcon training ground, rode the war eagles there, and flew towards the northeast.

Nowadays, whether it is England or Sussex, the overall strength of the country has weakened a lot.

It is no longer possible to form a griffin legion of hundreds of people like it was seven hundred years ago.

There are very few griffins in the two countries now, and the air forces can only be replaced by falcon knights.

……

Half a month later, in the Kilbernoe Rainforest——

An expedition team consisting of eight paladins and a necromancer is clearing the way through the forest.

It wasn't that it took Deya and his companions half a month to reach this forest.

In fact, riding on the falcon, it took them three days to reach their destination.

But after arriving at their destination, things were completely different from what they expected.

This area is entirely tropical rainforest with lush vegetation.

There are countless monsters, poisonous creatures, and strange plants.

They rode on falcons and searched the sky over the area for any traces of the remains of the Dark Moon Cathedral, but found nothing.

The dense vegetation and tall trees made visibility extremely low. They had no choice but to abandon the falcon and go into the rainforest to search themselves.

"These human footprints have disappeared... It's getting late, so today's search ends here. We'll camp here."

Compared to Deya, a wizard who always stays at home, Alfred has more experience in adventure.

So nominally Deya is the captain of the team, but it is still Alfred who actually leads the team.

After finding a dry area, the Duke's son asked everyone to rest for a while.

Two days ago, they found traces of human beings in this rainforest, and judging from the footprints on the ground, there were quite a few people.

However, they were not good at searching and tracking in the rainforest. After following those marks for two days, the marks had completely disappeared.

The team members sat on the ground and built a fire.

Some monsters in the rainforest are not scary and can be easily dealt with by this team.

Compared to those powerful monsters, the various mosquitoes in the rainforest are more annoying.

However, with the wizard Deya here, a few small spells are enough to prevent the mosquitoes from bothering them. After living in the rainforest for half a month, the dry food they brought had long been eaten, and they did not expect to stay here for so long.

However, this group of paladins are hardworking enough and they are determined not to go back even if they don’t have enough supplies. Instead, they continue to search for the ruins of Darkmoon Cathedral.

Of course, Deya agreed with this wholeheartedly. Even if they went back, Deya would stay alone. He would never give up [Forbidden Item: Beyond Death].

Several paladins caught some fish from the river, gutted them and roasted them over the fire.

The seasonings that Deya brought were plenty, which gave the fish flavor and made it taste not too bland.

Without dry food, the team's food mainly came from finding some animals in the rainforest, or eating directly the bread and water made by Deya using magic.

Although the food created by magic has no taste at all, it is enough to meet nutritional needs.

This made the Paladin team sigh that it is more convenient to bring a mage with you when going out.

Even every few days, Deya could use some cleaning techniques on them.

After more than half a month of getting along, this group of sunny and cheerful boys no longer have any resistance to Deya, the necromancer.

The easiest way to deepen comradeship is to explore together and fight together.

"The footprints are very fresh and purposeful. I'm afraid this group of unknown people are also looking for the ruins of the Dark Moon Cathedral."

Alfred sat next to Deya, chewing on the fish in his hand and drinking the clear water created by Deya from time to time.

He continued, "These people should not be from England. If England makes any move, the church will definitely be able to detect it immediately."

Deya said seriously, "They should be the people on the other side of the strait. They started the cross-sea operation when the world was recalling!"

Deya is also becoming anxious now.

These unknown people may not know the existence of [forbidden objects], but what if?
If it weren't for that forbidden artifact, Deya would still be a necromancer far beyond the imagination of ordinary people based on his panel and current abilities.

But he will lose the power of the Undead Scourge, so that [Forbidden Artifact] must not be obtained by anyone else!
“In World Remembrance, I have seen the map of the continental island at that time, and the topography and landforms are completely different from those today.

It is very likely that when the Dawn Goddess and the Dark Moon Goddess perished together, their power changed the topography of this continental island!"

This is what Deya thinks is the most reasonable explanation.

Otherwise, if it had only been seven hundred years, the landform would not have changed so much.

"The goddess has not fallen!"

Fanny stood up and glared at Deya, shouting, "...The goddess is only injured and is recovering. Necromancer, don't say such blasphemous words."

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Alfred quickly tried to smooth things over. He reprimanded Fanny for a few words, and then said to everyone, "But what Fanny said is not wrong. The goddess is just recovering, she is not dead.

But I'm afraid the British side doesn't think so. I heard that they are mobilizing heavy troops and I'm afraid the war may come at any time."

His words left everyone silent. As to whether the goddess had fallen or was injured, that was a matter of opinion.

Fanny also felt that her tone just now was too harsh. She apologized to Deya and said indignantly: "Damn it, where are the ruins of the Dark Moon Cathedral!

We have been here for so long, and all we have seen besides a bunch of kobolds and goblins are those disgusting spiders!"

In this rainforest, creatures such as kobolds and goblins can often be seen.

Their small team cleared out quite a few colonies.

Before that, they went deep into a cave and saw the "Phase Spider" inside.

Those spiders are not very strong, the tallest one is only three rings.

But the abilities of those phase spiders are really disgusting.

Deya didn't have the spell to anchor the space, and although they were not injured, they were annoyed by the group of spiders.

However, this also allowed Deya to experience the atmosphere of adventure.

When he was in the city before, he had never seen the various monsters described in the books, only their corpses.

Now that he has come to this uninhabited rainforest, Deya also feels the richness of species in this world.

"Fanny, have you ever read the comics?"

"Comics? Those little drawings of little people that are serialized in newspapers?"

"Yes, it's a little man painting."

"I've seen some, what's wrong?"

Fanni doesn’t understand what Deya is going to say.

Deya smiled and said, "I saw a comic book last time. It's very interesting. I recommend it to you. It's called "Female Paladin and Goblin."

Fanny frowned, "What kind of crappy name is this? What does it mean?"

"It's about a cute little female paladin who went to siege goblins, but was caught by the goblins and ended up getting raped by a group of goblins and becoming pregnant."

"You're lying. How could a Paladin be captured by those ugly goblins? Humans can't get pregnant with goblins' offspring. I won't watch such a thing!
You evil necromancer, there is something wrong with your mind. I want to duel with you and let you know how powerful the Holy Light of Dawn is!"

Fanny screamed loudly.

The other paladins all laughed. They could see that Deya was just teasing Fanny.

Deya looked at Alfred and said, "She seems to dislike necromancers."

Alfred shrugged and said, "There's nothing I can do. Previously in the World Recollection, Fanny was part of the support team that went to stop the Son of God of the Dark Moon Goddess.

But as soon as her team saw the other side, they were killed by the undead army.

Fanny had the chance to achieve a perfect promotion, but that death made her only succeed in the promotion by a narrow margin."

Deya laughed dryly.

Well, that really does have its reasons.

He had killed countless members of the Church of Dawn in the World Recollections, and it turned out that Fanny was one of them.

I guess in the World Remembrance, her corpse has turned into the zombies of her own men.

"It's getting late, everyone should get some rest. I'll be on duty for the first half of the night, Julian, you'll be on duty for the second half. We'll continue the search tomorrow."

At Alfred's signal, everyone prepared their sleeping bags for camping and prepared to rest.

Deya was holding a dog-headed man's skull. He muttered something, and after casting a spell, he hung the skull on a wooden stick.

[You used the 3rd level spell 'Skull Guard']

[Skull Guard: When an enemy enters a certain area, the skull will scream]

This is a very useful warning magic in necromancy, because necromancy detects the soul, and it is difficult for ordinary creatures to escape the detection of this spell.

The team members each wrapped themselves in sleeping bags to rest, while Alfred sat by the fire to keep watch.

Just when the night was halfway through, suddenly, the dog-headed man's skull made a harsh and unpleasant cry.

"Who?!"

Deya and the other paladins were suddenly awakened, and everyone quickly held their weapons and prepared for battle.

The rainforest ahead of them was eerily quiet.

(End of this chapter)