Lord of Glory Chapter 67: Encountering A Mercenary

Chapter 67: Encountering A rcenary

All of this happened in a split second for others, but it had been a whole twenty minutes for Paladin. When Paladin’s ti returned to normal, he quickly stretched out his palm. 300 of his 600 light magic elents imdiately dispersed and then condensed into light balls suspended in the palm of his hand. Without hesitation, Paladin pressed his palm to the beast’s chest. The light ball buzzed and shot out as a golden light beam as thick as a thumb. It shot from his palm, and then pierced through the scorpion-tailed beast's chest muscles, heart, and back all at once.

"Hey wow wow!" The scorpion-tailed beast let out an extrely painful howl. Paladin sent the beast that was about to pounce on him flying in the opposite direction. It landed on the grass with a bang, causing so dirt and smoke to rise up.

"Huh? It’s burnt?"

When the smoke and dust cleared, Paladin was stunned to see a large charred area on his palm. Plus, there was a black hole on the Scorpion-tailed Beast’s chest that had fallen to the ground in the distance. It appeared like it was burnt. A small fla remained alive and crackling in the scorched areas, burning the piece of flesh and blood. At the ti, Paladin had no ti to notice Aberleigh’s awe-filled eyes behind him. He reached for a branch and lightly stabbed the scorched black spot. The crisp texture and lumpy scorched black spot told Paladin everything he needed to know. The charred area had turned into charcoal!

"Oh. Oh huh, ha ha ha ha. Is this the power that I have?" Paladin muttered as if possessed. The power that had been displayed exceeded Paladin's expectations. Before, he hadn’t fully comprehended the fact that his power was growing increasingly stronger. At the thought, he subconsciously opened his hand that was holding the branch. The branch snapped unexpectedly. Its outer layer actually turned into charcoal which broke into pieces before being scattered all over the ground.

"Huh, hahahaha!"

Paladin's shocked expression gradually changed to one of excitent and ecstasy, but then, he suddenly rembered that only half of his light magic elents were left. In other words, only three hundred were left. Just when Paladin subconsciously wanted to use his own light magic elents to capture the scattered light elents in the surrounding, the omnipotent eye that floated on his forehead gave off dazzling brilliance again. Like a magnet, it attracted magical elents from the sunlight that ca through the gaps in the leaves. It then lted into Paladin's magic circle, as if returning ho. In just half a minute, his light magic elents were full again.

"Oh gods, can you tell what the hell is going on with this eye?!"

All this felt like a dream. When Paladin turned around, he saw Aberleigh kneeling. With a full-blown smile, he stepped forward and asked, "What are you doing on your knees?"

"Woah-woo!"

Aberleight felt a strong sense of fear when he saw Paladin’s eyes that glowed golden and the horizontal golden eye that floated in front of Paladin’s forehead. He was so terrified that he backed away and buried his head in his arms as if begging for rcy.

"Huh? Are you afraid? Hehehe, are you afraid?" Paladin was beaming with delight. He could feel all the beasts, fish, and insects within a 20-ter radius running desperately through the All-seeing Eye. It was as if they felt threatened by sothing extrely terrifying.

Paladin looked at Aberleigh who was obedient and dared not to raise his head. Flatly, he said, "Alright, this can also do. Fear and serve ."

Paladin, who felt like a king ruling the world, hadn't had enough fun yet. Suddenly, the All-seeing Eye noticed four rcenaries wielding swords, bows, and crossbows walking into his field of vision with ecstatic expressions on their faces.

"Hmph, here co the ones who are not afraid of death. Aberleigh, let's have so snacks before dinner." Although it was impossible to tell Paladin's disposition from his glowing eyes, his tone alone conveyed indifference, condescension, disregard for human life, cold-bloodedness, cruelty, and ruthlessness.

"It’s a Scorpion-tailed Beast! Isn't this the beast we've been searching for?!"

The old man who led the four rcenaries noticed the two, who were none other than Paladin and a huge man. Beside them, there was the corpse of the Scorpion-tailed Beast. One of his teammates abruptly beca greedy and excitedly exclaid. anwhile, the other teammates imdiately understood what the captain wanted. A pretty-looking female warrior drew the sword from her waist. She looked at Paladin's back and said, "It seems that you are a priest. We’re grateful to you and your servant for your assistance in defeating the Scorpion-tailed Beast. However, you wouldn't have succeeded as easily if we hadn't fought him for three days and three nights."

At the end of her speech, another man who looked witty imdiately nodded and agreed. "Therefore, please give the corpse of the Scorpion-tailed Beast to us. When the ti cos we'll go to the priest's church and donate so silver coins." After saying that, the four rcenaries laughed in unison. They were certain they had won. After all, they were stronger than this re priest, plus they had more people! At least, that was how they felt.

Upon hearing such foolish remarks from these people who didn’t know their place, Paladin smiled disdainfully. Turning around silently, the All-seeing Eyes on his forehead shone brighter. He looked straight at the four humans.

"My Enos!" Obviously, the four rcenaries were afraid of Paladin right now. His eyes were glowing golden, and a horizontal golden eye was floating on his forehead. Paladin’s appearance was far from making people think he was harmless, especially when a cruel smile ford on his face.

“Aberleigh!" Paladin yelled, and the big man slowly rose to his feet. The rcenaries who had frozen in place were unable to regain control of themselves. They all took a deep breath of cold air at the sa ti. They did think that particular man was huge, but they never thought he would be so big! The captain had been confident in his own height, but it all crumbled when he saw Aberleigh's figure, which was three heads taller than himself. Plus, his muscles were so huge that they were as big as a millstone. Feeling ashad, a thought suddenly flashed across his mind.

‘Did I bully the wrong people?’

Paladin calmly approached the scorched corpse of the Scorpion-tailed Beast. He observed the sharp barb before kneeling down and curiously touching it. However, amidst that, he gave Aberleigh an order.

"Aberleigh, keep one alive and bring it over. You can eat the rest."

Then, sothing horrible happened. The priest's words were like an activation button. The eyes of this tall and terrifying monster-like man instantly turned red. He fiercely opened his fang-filled mouth and dashed extrely fast to the rcenaries.

Fortunately, the captain had a lot of experience under his belt. The mont he saw the monster running towards them, he imdiately raised the thick oak shield in an attempt to deflect the ferocious attack and give them ti to devise a battle plan. The captain was convinced that as long as the four of them were given ti to prepare for battle, this mighty-looking monster would be nothing more than re a blink-and-it-all-would-be-over enemy.

The thing was, the captain was wrong, very wrong. What was more, there was no room for regret. The very hard oak shield was easily smashed into pieces by Aberliegh's extrely fast hit. It felt as if he got hit head-on by a fast-moving carriage. The captain's eyes widened. Before he could even groan in pain, he saw the good-quality chain armor he wore got disfigured and deford like crumpled paper. Just like squeezing orange juice, a fountain of blood burst from the gaps of the chain armor. The captain’s whole body was flung into the distance until it hit a small tree. He was obviously very dead.

"Captain!" the female soldier shouted loudly. However, she was pulled back by two of her frightened companions who thought it would be better to run away.

"Let’s go back and call for help. This monster is far too powerful for us to fight on our own!"

"But..."

"I also want to avenge the captain, so let's go!"

The three rcenaries who found an opening, imdiately threw down their shields and swords before turning around to run away.