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[Detected your first entry into a Monster Hunter + Soul Sacrifice-related instance--] ["Game Master" activating--] [You successfully loaded the Reinforced Protagonist Template from the Monster Hunter Stories world blueprint—"Monster Knight/Nameless."] [Monster Knight: Reinforced Protagonist Template. The Template Blueprint was the self-created protagonist from Monster Hunter Stories, known as the "Knight Hero."] [Though it shared the same world setting as other Monster Hunter works, it had developed along an entirely different branch. Its background settings and monster encyclopedia were shared, but while Hunters focused on hunting, maintaining ecological balance, and other such duties, Knights advocated forming bonds with monsters and living alongside them. The ideological clash between the two had once caused major conflicts.] [When you chose to load the "Monster Knight" template--] [You would simultaneously obtain the template-exclusive armament, the "Bonding Stone."] [You would simultaneously obtain the template-exclusive skills "Humanoid Bird Wyvern MAX," "Inheritance Ritual," "Weapon Master," and "Beast Tamer."] [Loading and Uninstalling this Character Template both had a 60-minute cooldown.] [Additional Evaluation: This is the charm of a Dragon Knight!]
After entering the instance, the template Cheng Tian had loaded through a damned random draw was the "Monster Knight" template—one that theoretically shared the same roots as Monster Hunter, yet had taken an entirely different path.
Hunters could be found everywhere in the New Continent, but not a single person here could be called a Knight.
Where Knights gathered, there were also pure Hunters. But where Hunters gathered, Knights were nowhere to be seen.
To a certain extent, the ideological conflict between Monster Knights and Monster Hunters was even fiercer than that between Soul Sacrifice's Redemption Faction and Sacrifice Faction.
There had even been a Great Purge, where the Hunter community had attempted to wipe out the Knights entirely.
Their reason was that they feared the Knights