Chapter 181 Ascetic Monk

[Pilgrimage]

This is a ritual behavior unique to some believers of gods. They make a certain vow and goal for themselves, and then after years or even decades, they stick to their vows while walking on the path of asceticism and completing the preset goals. Only in this way can they complete a pilgrimage of faith completely and successfully.

This is an extremely difficult road, which is completely independent of the practice range of normal ascetics. Often only those who want to challenge themselves, break through the limits, prove their faith, polish their hearts, and pursue the highest will put on this set of shackles for themselves.

This road is difficult, but the ascetics who can successfully complete this road are all people with firm faith and strong will. After truly completing this road, the practitioners of the road often become extraordinary and holy.

The ascetic's mind will become extremely tough, and the body will be tempered for a long time. It is said that some legendary monks set and completed the harsh ascetic rituals for themselves, which successfully promoted them to legends in the eyes of the world.

Scar knew this ritual, and there were similar practitioners in the faith of the loyal god Torm, but because this escape route was too harsh, he had never seen an ascetic who really took this path, and the man in front of him had actually been walking on this path for three years!

To be honest, this made Scar admire him very much. Although he didn't know what kind of oath the man in front of him had made and what kind of path he was walking on, it would definitely not be easy anyway, and this also confirmed the strength of the man in front of him from the side.

This information gave Scar a certain understanding of the man in front of him, and during this time, Father Lison also explained the ins and outs of the matter to Leon, and after understanding the course of events, Leon saluted again with one hand.

"Thank you, Father Lison, this dangerous journey of salvation is exactly what I need."

Leon said so. As a monk who believes in Ilmet, the pilgrimage path he chose is not just to hone himself in the form of asceticism, but more importantly, to keep the purity of the soul and the firmness of faith in this process.

Ilmet's teachings taught him to lend a hand to those in need, but if he just lived in one place, he would not be able to see the suffering in the distance, and he would not be able to practice Ilmet's teachings to the greatest extent.

That's why he chose to come to Baldur's Gate from Neverwinter, because he had heard of various tragedies and massacres that happened here. That's why he concluded that Baldur's Gate needed more help from people with lofty ideals, so he came here as a pilgrim ascetic.

Here he tried to practice Ilmet's teachings, doing his best to help those in need, healing the wounded, teaching martial arts to the powerless, and guiding the lost. He tried to help many people... but it was not enough.

Because Baldur's Gate, this quagmire, could not be changed by just one person or even a sect. Today, he saved one person, and tomorrow he heard that another person was killed. Chaos was the norm in this city, and Leon was powerless to change it.

He tried hard to try and find the source of all these evils, but he couldn't do it, he was just a monk.

When he found this out, the truth made him feel heartbroken and uneasy. He couldn't stand that he was clearly here, but he could only watch everything happen and could do nothing. After a long time, his firm belief began to waver, which made him, who was originally optimistic, only calm his mind through long meditation every day.

He urgently needed to break the status quo.

At this time, he heard about the tragedy in the civilized holy city of Eltoril not far from Baldur's Gate. He realized that maybe this was his chance. If he couldn't save Baldur's Gate, or even the city would destroy his belief in Ilmet, then he might as well go to hell to save those souls who shouldn't suffer. In the scorching hellfire, his life would only have two endings.

Either he would practice Ilmet's path until his death in this great action, so that he could be promoted to Ilmet's kingdom as a glorious practitioner of faith, and live up to his experience of being picked up and raised by Ilmet's believers when he was young, and live up to his own faith.

Or... Although he thought the possibility was not high, if he could really accomplish this great feat, it would mean that he would not only be able to break his inner demons and strengthen his faith, but also save tens of thousands of lives and save an entire city!

Is there any more devout display of faith than this? There is no more.

He had no idea how to start before because of incomplete information, but now Father Lison gave him this opportunity, so he agreed to this life-threatening journey without saying a word.

Leeson: "This is the path you chose, holy warrior, so we will all support it."

Logan: "And we have all seen your pain during this period, so be brave, Ilmet will be watching you."

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Leon spent some time explaining his situation to Scar, and after Scar had a full understanding of him, out of trust in Ilmet's followers and the other party's identity as an ascetic, he believed that he absolutely met the standards of this mission in terms of strength and mentality.

However, the specific candidates for this operation were not decided by Scar. Although, as he said before, Eltoril now accepts any friendly help, only Consultant Florrick is truly capable of sending them to hell.

So Scar could only promise him that he would tell the leader about his situation. If there were any vacancies in their team, he would definitely be called before the operation. Leon accepted this arrangement after Scar explained.

Then Scar left the Temple of Suffering and went to the place that had been booked long ago to meet Noshir.

And Leon took advantage of this time to escort Father Logan back to the Temple of Mercy in Rivington, the outer city, with most of the money, and bought food, clothes, medicines and tents in the outer city to prepare for the upcoming refugees.

At this time, Noshir had already flown directly to Feilongguan, received his reward from Palestine, and was now on his way back.

He planned to use the 2,000 gold coins to buy a space bag, and then try to upgrade it with incentive points to see if he could upgrade the space bag to be able to load all his current wealth, or upgrade it to have the function of loading living things, so that he can carry his demon Pokémon with him in the future.

However, he planned to do these things later. Now he had to go to the spacious street to meet Scar, and then use up the large bottle of petrified lizard oil on his waist.