Chapter 282 Hall of Valor
"What is this place?" Vic looked at the house in front of him and asked in confusion, "Is this the hunter statue of Blood Healing?"
"No, it's not." Ivana shook her head and said, "This is the Hall of Heroes."
“…Hall of Heroes?”
"Yes." Ivana explained, "My grandmother told me that when the God of Senluo was still alive, hunters could not pray to the God of Senluo immediately after passing through the Temples of Courage and Trust. Instead, they had to register in the Hall of Heroes first."
"We need to register with the Hall of Heroes? Why?"
Ivana thought for a moment and said, "You can think of this as reporting your name to the God of Senluo. After all, before the God of Senluo grants you power, he must first know who you are. Of course, this is just one way of saying it. Another way of saying it is that after the hunters have passed the tests of courage and trust one after another, most of them have become exhausted. It is not appropriate to pray directly at this time, so the Hall of Heroes is also a place for them to rest and adjust their status."
"So that's how it is, but..." Vic was still a little confused, "Why are we here? Shouldn't we go directly to the statue of the Blood Healing Hunter?"
"Do you remember what I said before?" Ivana said, "You didn't get the blood healing skills, so either something happened to you on the road, or there's something wrong with the blood healing statue. No matter which possibility it is, it means that our journey is not safe. So we need some self-protection ability when we really encounter danger."
Vic showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, and looked at the Hall of Heroes in front of him again: "You mean there is something in here that can protect us? Is it a weapon?"
"More than just weapons." Ivana put her hand on the door, and then raised her eyebrows at Vic with pride, "Come on, you will be amazed..."
After saying that, Ivana opened the door.
Just like the previous two temples, as soon as the door opened, dust rushed in, instantly covering the faces of the unprepared Ivina and Vic.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Vic closed his eyes due to the smoke and coughed violently, "There is too much dust, Miss Saint."
He opened his eyes and then froze in place.
Because what he saw before his eyes was no longer Ivana and Valhalla, but flying yellow sand all over the sky.
There are countless dead bones beneath the yellow sand, some of which belong to humans and some to wild animals.
They were wearing hunter's attire and had hunter's weapons in their hands, but they had been damaged over a long period of time.
From further away came the sound of shouting and killing.
Vic raised his head and looked into the distance.
At the end of his vision, he saw countless hunters and hounds fighting.
Vic couldn't see who they were fighting against. He only saw them falling down like harvested wheat and turning into dry bones under the yellow sand.
"This is the future He wants." The familiar voice sounded in my ears again, "Do you want to see such a future?"
Vic opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, he felt someone shaking his shoulders desperately.
The sound of the wind in my ears was replaced by the girl's slightly anxious call.
"Vic! Vic!"
Vic blinked.
The yellow sand and the dry bones are gone, and what remains before us is Valhalla and Yvina.
"Miss Saint?"
Seeing that Vic had returned to normal, Ivana breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked nervously: "What's wrong? Did you remember something? Have you been here before?"
"I..." Vic scratched his head, "I remembered something very strange."
"Something weird?"
Vic quickly told Yvina what he had just seen and heard.
After listening to this, Ivana frowned deeply.
"Strange, very strange." She murmured, "From your description, those who died seemed to be hunters and hounds of Senluo, but there should be no such battles in Senluo's history. Hunters are born to fight against death and weirdness."
"The voice told me about the future," Vic reminded, "the future that 'He' wants."
"The only one who can be called 'Him' is the God of Senluo, right? But why would the God of Senluo want such a future?" Ivana thought for a while, and then turned her gaze to Vic, "And more importantly, what else is in your head? This is obviously not your memory, is it that saint?"
"That should be it." Vic whispered, "After coming here, I can hear him talking to me from time to time. Before, I couldn't hear it clearly, or I quickly forgot it, but this time... it was very clear."
Yvina saw anxiety and fear in Vic's eyes.
She also knew what Vic was afraid of, the fear of being devoured by the Saints, the fear of losing himself.
So what can I do? Comfort him?
Ivana thought about it and soon came up with an idea.
"Don't think too much." She turned around and quickly entered the Hall of Heroes. "Come in with me. We still have important things to do."
After hearing what Ivana said, Vic shook his head, told himself not to think too much, and quickly followed in.
After entering, Vic discovered that the building was pronounced Valhalla, but was written as the Armory.
He saw various types of hunter equipment hanging on the wall, including the serrated knife used by Bai Wei, the long-handled sickle used by Ryan, a cane that could be swung as a whip, and an extremely compact crossbow.
All the equipment he had seen in the book could be found here in real life!
He couldn't help but mutter: "This is too amazing."
"These are all left behind by the hunters who registered before," Ivana said. "They are the equipment they treasure most, because they believe that they cannot take power from the God of Senluo for no reason. They have obtained the power of the God of Senluo, so naturally they have to leave some of their power to give back, or to protect the God of Senluo. These weapons are the best symbols."
"I see," Vic asked. "Are they still usable?"
"Of course." Ivana said, "These weapons all contain divine power."
"Divine power?!"
"Yes." Ivana explained, "But they are not the kind of divine power with special powers that you imagine. The God of Senluo just uses divine power to freeze them, so that they will always remain at their sharpest. Whenever they are taken down, they can be immediately put into battle. In other words, they will always be weapons, not decorations."
Perhaps to verify her words, Ivana took a dagger from the wall. As soon as it was unsheathed, blood flowed from her wrist.
Vic was very surprised: "You don't have to go to this extent, right?"
"...Actually, my previous wound opened up." Ivana silently put the knife back and threw it to Vic. "Anyway, these can all be used. You are a hunter now, but you don't have a hunter's weapon on you. What's the problem?"
With Ivina's reminder, Vic remembered that he didn't even have a regular hunter weapon on him.
The fake old hunter did give him a hand axe, but the hand axe was damaged during the pursuit of the Wildfire Cultists, and he has never received a new weapon since then.
Bai Wei did have a serrated knife, but Bai Wei used it much better than he did, so he was too embarrassed to ask for it.
So after all this, he has actually been an unarmed hunter all along, with nothing except the hunter blood in his body.
Now that he finally got an authentic hunter weapon, Vic suddenly had a very subtle feeling in his heart.
Then he heard Ivana say casually: "Oh, the sword in your hand also has a background, you can take a look."
Some background?
Vic lowered his head subconsciously, and sure enough, he saw a name on the hilt - "German".
This name... Vic felt that it looked familiar.
"This is the first hunter's sword in Senluo's history." Ivina said.
Vic's eyes widened.
He remembered, Geman... yes, it was Geman.
The name of this first hunter in history is recorded in all books related to hunters, and he is also the first hunter Vic knows.
At this moment, Vic suddenly felt the sword in his hand was heavy, as if a legend had come true.
"This..." Vic asked nervously and expectantly, "Can I really take it?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Vic suddenly felt something tapping his shoulder.
He raised his head and found that Ivana had found a scepter from somewhere and was placing it on his shoulder.
"Miss Saint?" Vic tilted his head, "You are..."
"Hunter Vic, I am speaking to you now as the current Saint of Senluo." Ivana's expression was no longer as casual as before, but full of seriousness and solemnity. "Please kneel down and swear allegiance to the Lord and the Lord's agent, that is, me, and I will record your name forever in this Hall of Heroes."
Vic's mouth opened slightly.
He stared at Ivana in a daze, their two pairs of pupils trembling slightly in each other's sight.
"From now on," Ivana said word by word, "you are a true... Senluo Hunter!"
Vic heard a sneer in his mind.
Obviously, this is another me.
But Vic didn't give him a chance to speak. Instead, he slowly leaned down and spoke with a trembling voice.
"I, Hunter Vic Ade." He added Ade's name, "I am willing to pledge my loyalty to you."
At this point, he truly became a Senro Hunter.
A few minutes later, Vic stood up and looked at Ivana, who stood on the steps to make herself taller, and scratched his head: "So what should I do next?"
Ivana jumped down the stairs: "Do whatever you have to do, um...if you must say something, just protect me."
"Protect you?"
"Yes." Ivana said, "The duty of the Senluo Hunter is to protect Senluo, but now the only one who has a relationship with Senluo is me, so you can only protect me."
"……oh."
"Your lost expression makes me want to take back the ceremony just now." Yvina glared at Vic.
“No, no.” Vic waved his hands repeatedly, and then mustered up the courage to say to Ivana, “Thank you.”
"I asked you to protect you, and you still want to thank me?"
"Well, because I know you're doing this for my own good," Vic said. "You don't want me to lose myself, like Father Uru has been doing."
Ivina was a little surprised: "Does that Rhine priest always do this?"
"Well... probably, although he didn't say it explicitly, I think so." Vic said, "And it's not just you and Father Uru, there are also Hunter Ryan and Miss Rilla. Many people have helped me along the way, which is really... good."
Vic took a deep breath and then spoke with determination.
"So I will never be controlled by that saint!"
Seeing Vic being so serious, Ivana didn't know what to say. She wasn't very good at dealing with this kind of thing, so she could only cough twice: "It's great that you think so."
"Well!" Vic said excitedly, "I don't have any problems anymore, let's go on!"
Seeing that Vic was about to rush out, Ivana immediately stopped him: "Hey, wait, wait, your work is done, but mine is not yet finished!"
"Ah?" Vic turned to look at Ivana, very confused, "Do you have anything else to say?"
Ivana sighed and pointed to the back of Valhalla: "Didn't you notice there's a room in the back? Really, I didn't come here just to find weapons for you, but also for me."
Vic was surprised: "And yours?"
"Yes, my grandmother told me that the Saint of Senluo can also fight." Ivana said, "But she didn't have the time to teach me before... But it doesn't matter. There are also instruments dedicated to the Saint in the Hall of Heroes. As long as I find them, I can at least protect myself, even if I can't fight."
As Yvina spoke, she took Vic to the back room.
Then she opened the door of the room and stood there in a daze.
"What's wrong?"
Vic hurried forward and looked into the room, then his eyes widened.
What did they see?
Dry bones.
Countless dead bones of hunters were piled up in the small room.
At this moment, Vic's previous illusion became reality.
"Why..." he murmured, "why did so many hunters die here?"
Vic felt something was wrong.
By this time, Ivana had recovered from her shock and immediately walked in and began to examine the bones.
While checking, he said to Vic, "Come and help."
"oh oh."
Vic hurried over, but he didn't know what to check because the bones were too old and he had no idea when the person died.
“Look at their clothes!” Yvina said. “Hunters carve their names and dates of birth on their clothes.”
“Ohhhhhh!”
Vic understood, and immediately found the name on the clothing of the nearest hunter's remains.
"Leo."
Vic was stunned.
(End of this chapter)
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