Chapter 1215: The Expedition of the Word Army
As Galen announced, the nature of the Crusade was no longer his, Galen Trollbane’s, private army, but belonged to the entire Azeroth!
At this moment, Garin was very passionate!
"Our world was once ruled by darkness, the blood of good people flowed on the land, and respectable knights died to protect their own lives and ours!"
"With the help of the Titans, the world has returned to order. However, some things cannot be forgotten. The Holy Light reminds us to remain vigilant at all times!"
"The Old Gods are still secretly coveting our world, and we will not allow him to destroy Azeroth again."
"I make a promise to you now, my brothers and sisters of the Light. Evil will be defeated! From this day forward, I want us to be united."
"The Knights of the Silver Hand, the Knights Templar, the Knights of the Dawn, the Draenei Vindicators, the Sunwalker Legion, and the Zandalari Paladins will be united as one from now on!"
"The Silver Crusade of Azeroth is established!"
"We will fight all evil and protect our world!"
This square contains nearly half of the clergy in Azeroth.
They were inspired by Garin and their morale was high!
"For the Holy Light!"
"For the Crusaders!"
"For Azeroth!"
The army's morale was high, and Garin nodded with satisfaction!
"Silver Crusaders! Go!"
As the order was given, tens of thousands of clergymen boarded the warships in an orderly manner and set sail for the expedition!
Target: The Eternal Palace of the Naga and the Dark City of Ny'alotha!
In later generations, this expedition was called the Crusade!
In fact, Garen also wanted to absorb the priests of the Church of Holy Light into the Argent Crusade, but for now, the Paladins are more capable of dealing with N'Zoth.
Therefore, the plan to expand the Silver Crusaders can be postponed.
Among the more than ten thousand clergymen in this square, not all of them are real paladins.
The most orthodox ones are the Knights of the Silver Hand and a part of the Knights Templar. They were all baptized through the rituals of the Church of Holy Light and awakened into paladins.
The awakening threshold of the Paladin is too high. In addition to belief in the Holy Light, it also requires firm will and quality.
After the Orc War, the Silver Hand lowered the assessment requirements for paladins, resulting in the corruption of Prince Arthas.
Now the Knights of the Silver Hand have returned to their original standards, resulting in a limited number of new official members in recent years, but they are more elite.
As an equally orthodox Knights Templar, it has more members than the Silver Hand. The reason for this is that in addition to the fact that Stromgarde's national strength has grown faster than Lordaeron and its population is larger, the White City Cathedral can train a high-level paladin every sixty hours!
This saves several or even more than ten years compared to normal cultivation.
Of course, normal training is in batches, and the training in the cathedral can only produce one.
It’s a pity that the human population of Azeroth has not yet exceeded 100 million. Without a sufficient population base, normal cultivation cannot achieve explosive growth.
In addition to human paladins, dwarven paladins come from human teachings, and the high elves, in addition to the enlightenment of the Holy White City Paladin Training Camp, also added some belief in the sun.
The holy light used by the Draenei garrison officers is closest to that of human paladins, but their power of holy light comes from their belief in the Naaru, and they have more middlemen than humans.
The power used by the Tauren Sunwalkers comes from the belief in the sun Anshe.
Finally, Garin felt that the most unorthodox was the paladin of the Zandalari trolls.
When he first saw that trolls could choose the Paladin profession, Garin, who was a member of the Prell, exclaimed that Xiaodao was pulling his ass, and he was enlightened.
The power of this group of paladins comes from the guardian loa of the kings: Rezan.
This powerful Devilsaur Loa once signed a contract with the first emperor of the Zandalari Empire and helped this group of trolls establish the Zandalari Empire.
Because of this historical reason, Rezan is revered by the trolls as the most supreme Loa, surpassing all other Loa.
In order to praise this Loa, the Zandalari trolls wrote a poem that has been sung for thousands of years:
"The god Rezan, basking in the glory of the sun. Standing strong and unyielding, he is the greatest god!
He is mighty! He is fierce! As legend has it. Strong-willed and true to his word, Lezan is our guide.
Noble, perceptive, and true to his honor. No other god is as great. Son of the Dragon Mother, the morning star. He is the pride of Zandalar."
The heirs of the Zandalari royal family have always been followers of Rezan, and in addition Rezan also has his own temple and team of priests.
But the most unique thing is that there is a special group of paladins following Rezan.
There is no doubt that all the members of this holy warrior group are Rezan's most devout believers. The only difference is that they do not simply pray for Rezan's power like the priests. Instead, they use Rezan's power to strengthen their martial arts and become holy warriors wielding the light of God.
Coincidentally, Rezan's innate power is holy light, which makes this group of holy warriors very similar to human paladins, and they all become holy warriors who use holy light to enhance their combat capabilities.
This is somewhat similar to the Draenei, but of course there are some differences.
If the Naaru is the biological son of the Holy Light, then Rezan can only be considered as the son raised by a stepmother.
The Loa gods are ranked too low, even the demigods of the wilderness are much higher in status than them.
In order to prevent this group of Zandalari paladins from hindering the Argent Crusade, Garin deliberately light-forged Rezan to directly enhance his power of holy light so that he could bestow stronger divine light on believers.
