Volume 6: Job Change Chapter 8 Paladin Niu Baiwan (Part 2)
Yes, everything has returned to normal, except for the minotaur standing on the bulletin board, muttering non-stop, with a long name like a scripture on his head, the newly-promoted son of God, the glorious minotaur paladin Niu Baiwan.
"Niu Baiwan!" Seeing him walking down the bulletin board with a frustrated look on his face, I took the opportunity to walk up to him and patted him on the shoulder enthusiastically.
"Hi, Jeff, you're here too..." Seeing me, Niu Baiwan's mood seemed to improve a little. His frown relaxed a little, and his voice was not as depressed as before. "...What a coincidence, I didn't expect to run into you here."
"The ceremony just now attracted almost the entire city's people. It would be strange if you didn't meet me here." I replied with a smile.
My answer made him seem a little embarrassed: "What happened just now... did you see everything?" I don't know if this was an illusion, but for a moment, I seemed to see that his rough and thick face turned red.
"Of course I saw it. You made quite a commotion! Congratulations on your successful transformation so quickly. But what's strange is, when can a Minotaur be transformed into a Paladin?" I asked curiously.
On the Falvi continent, due to differences in race and belief, each race can choose different professions and transfer professions. For example, the Tauren and Orcs believe in the Earth Mother Goddess, and believe that the dead do not return to the dead, but are accepted into the embrace of the Earth Mother Goddess, always blessing the descendants of their race. Therefore, their race has the profession of Shaman, but accordingly, no Tauren or Orc can become a priest of the Supreme God Darimos; accordingly, humans, elves, dwarves and gnomes cannot become a Shaman; in addition, the reckless and rough Tauren will hardly become a magician or a wanderer, and the simple and stubborn dwarves and elves will not consider changing their beliefs and making deals with demons from other worlds to become a warlock; the orcs' natural low and hoarse voices determine that they cannot become an excellent bard. I have never seen anyone break through this difficult barrier and become a professional that is difficult for their own race to become.
Similarly, each race will face such a restriction when changing jobs: most races have three choices when changing jobs, but some do not have so many. For example, in theory, it is difficult for a tauren to become a paladin.
Therefore, in a sense, Niu Baiwan's successful career change can almost be regarded as a miracle that transcends the times.
"Oh, don't mention this anymore..." What I didn't expect was that when it came to changing jobs, Niu Baiwan became very frustrated. He kept shaking his head, as if he wanted to shake off his big head with two long horns.
It turned out that just a moment ago, Niu Baiwan had just finished a long journey full of dangers and accidents.
The reason for this long journey is that our Tauren friend wants to rush from Valen Fortress to Moonbrook City to find an elven pharmacist trainer to improve his pharmacist skills.
Originally, he could have chosen to take a carriage, but this stingy guy wanted to save the fare of only a few silver coins and collect some herbs along the way, so he would rather walk.
Even so, there shouldn't be any problem at all. The two places are not far apart. On a clear day, you can even see the outline of Moonbrook City from the spire of the Valen Fortress Temple. The two cities are connected by a striking brick and stone road. As long as you keep walking along the road, even the most confused person will never make a mistake.
And on this very simple and smooth road, our Tauren friend once again demonstrated his amazing style as a lost traveler. Not only did he surprisingly get lost, but he was also very lost.
Spreading out his magic map, I saw that the route he was walking first crossed the Utsig Mountains in a drastic manner, splitting the majestic mountains that towered into the sky in half, and then the route drew a strange arc along the foot of the mountain, and rushed straight to a central land called Onzek Plateau - this was the first time I heard of such a ghost place in the world, and if I hadn't seen Niu Baiwan's map, I don't know if I would have the chance to hear this strange name again in my life.
Fortunately, Niu Baiwan was not completely stupid. When he made a long and difficult journey on the vast Wengzek Plateau, struggling to make his way through the deadly poisonous bees, the cannibals wearing large wooden masks and the wind demons wandering in the meadows, and faced the howling winds and yellow sands of the Wind Plain Desert, a divine light suddenly shook his mind and greatly activated his wisdom, allowing him to gain an unprecedented, clear and wise judgment of the truth -
He is lost!
If Niu Baiwan could return along the original route now, he would probably have found Yuexi City half a month ago. Unfortunately, our Tauren friends seem to have an incredible talent for exploration and discovering roads - of course, I mean the talent of taking the wrong path.
He turned eastwards and smuggled himself to the Centuria Plain, which belonged to the Winston Empire . In a small town called Davo in the middle of the plain, he boarded a boat and sailed down the Dawn River.
When he got off the ship, the three port cities of the Kingdom of Dranmeya had long been left behind by him, and what was presented to him was the endless Comet Coast. At this time, he had not yet realized that he had crossed the territories of three countries in succession and came to the Kingdom of Mondica, a peninsula country located on the seashore of the Comet. And as soon as he walked to the dock, the port town called Panlin was attacked by a large number of trolls and ogre bandits. Later, he learned that there were many strongholds of foreign bandits near this town. They would come to Panlin Town to sweep once a month. Sometimes some Shekong received the task of resisting the bandits and organized to help the residents of the town resist these bandits. However, this time he was very unlucky and did not meet those selfless and fearless mercenaries who lent a hand in times of crisis.
He was chased by the bandits for almost a whole day and night, climbed over three mountains, crossed three rivers, and finally rushed into a rain forest called "Green Leaf Forest" in a hurry. According to Niu Baiwan himself, this forest is full of dangerous plants, thick "man-eating vines" and highly poisonous "red devourers" wandering around will be attacked by a group of people if you are not careful. Fortunately, Niu Baiwan's ability to escape is as outstanding as his talent for getting lost, so he was able to survive from this dangerous situation.
In the depths of the green forest, Niu Baiwan found a forest cave made of vines and branches. It was a very deep cave, and our "brave" minotaur warrior did not dare to explore the depths of the cave. He just took a few steps near the entrance of the cave. Just as he was about to exit the cave, he found that two tall "branch knockers" suddenly appeared at the entrance of the cave. He subconsciously hid in the darkness beside him, but he did not expect to step on the air and fell into a dark and cold tree hole.
"That tree hole is really well hidden. It's clearly right there, but there's nothing there when you look at it..." Niu Baiwan described it to me with great excitement, "...even if I were to run to that place again now, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to find the exact location of that tree hole."
Find the exact location? I looked at him with great suspicion. I didn't think a guy who could get lost on a wide, straight road could find the exact location of the ghost.
"You don't have to find the tree hole, just tell me where the green leaf forest is in this map." I said to him calmly.
"Probably... it's right here." After hesitating for a moment, Niu Baiwan pointed to a certain location on the map with great certainty.
As I expected, he completely ignored the "Green Forest" sign on the magic map and pointed firmly to the Holy Fox Highlands in the northwest. The two places are located almost at the upper left corner and the lower right corner of the map. It would take at least half a year, or even longer, to walk from one to the other.
"Uh... I understand... please continue." Niu Baiwan's knowledge and understanding of geography left me completely speechless.
In the tree hole that Niu Baiwan accidentally discovered, he saw an old and weak dwarf paladin. When Niu Baiwan saw him, the dwarf paladin had been spitting blood and lying in bed. There was only a strange-looking instrument running beside the bed of the owner of the tree hole.
This old dwarf paladin is named Feng Garrett. Looking at his dying appearance, no one would have thought that he had participated in the great war against the King of the Last World two hundred years ago, and was a high-ranking officer. He told Niu Baiwan that after the war, he did not feel that everything was over, but was full of premonitions of danger. Just when the whole continent was cheering and celebrating freedom, sovereignty and life, Knight Feng Garrett came here without hesitation. With his skillful hands belonging to the underground dwarfs, he installed many magical devices to detect the stability of space magic fluctuations on the edge of the disappearance of the Withered Land. He waited alone beside the instrument, fearing that the Withered Land would carry the King of the Last World and his minions through the turbulence of time and space again and come back to this world.
The old knight's worries were not without reason. A few days ago, the instrument suddenly showed that the space magic elements here had violent fluctuations. A terrifyingly huge thing was ready to move and was violently hitting the space-time barrier, trying to descend on this plane. The huge magic reaction was like the stars in the sky were about to fall to the ground. All this evidence pointed the possibility to the only goal: the withered land was moving towards the plane we were in, and the last king "Heartbreaker" Darendil was back!
At this time, the life of the dwarf paladin Feng Garrett was about to burn out. He was bedridden, dying, unable to move. The unexpected appearance of Niu Baiwan renewed his hope for the great cause he had been waiting for all his life. He could only entrust this foreign warrior who had rashly intruded to deliver the data he had spent his entire life detecting to the hands of the paladin trainer in Reed City.
Fortunately, there is a magic teleportation device in the dwarf paladin's detection station that leads directly to Reed City. This is a precious life-saving straw for Niu Baiwan who is almost going crazy because of being lost, and for the Falvi Continent which is facing a huge crisis. If Niu Baiwan relies on himself to travel, he may not find where Reed City is even after the whole continent falls into the hands of the doomsday king.
We all know the rest. After being teleported to Reed City, Niu Baiwan immediately delivered Knight Feng Garrett's letter to the hands of the Paladin trainer. This matter is an immeasurable great achievement for the Star Knights, Delanmeya and the entire Falvi Continent. No matter how many words are used to describe his deeds or how much money is used to reward him, it seems so insignificant and far from enough.
In other words, these stingy bureaucrats had no intention of spending a penny to reward Niu Baiwan.
Therefore, in order to commend Niu Baiwan for his "benevolence and generosity in helping the senior knights and reporting dangerous information in a timely manner", the Star Knights made an exception and recruited this minotaur as a member of the Paladin, and reported his feat to the entire continent. However, this honor came too suddenly, and our minotaur friend was not mentally prepared at all:
"It's unfair. I just wanted to change my job to a Berserker. I didn't want to be a Paladin at all. A Paladin has low attack power, slow speed, and has to frequently heal others when forming a team. It's called a Warrior job change, but it's obviously a half-nanny job! Damn it, damn it, damn it, now I've really become a 'milk cow'..."
