Precisely because no one had ever successfully broken through to become a Demigod.
No matter who had left those records behind, there was no guarantee they were correct, because the path they had followed might have been wrong.
Continuing down that path offered no hope of breaking through to become a Demigod. This was no alarmist claim. Those at the Peak Hero had ultimately failed to break through, which proved one thing: the paths they had followed were not correct. If their paths had been correct, why would they have failed in the end? That much was beyond doubt.
For that very reason, throughout the ages, those who reached the Peak Hero had treated these records only as references, never as unquestionable truth.
If even classes such as Warriors and Hunters faced such difficulties, what more needed to be said about Paladins?
The Paladin class was, fundamentally, a new class.
In fact, the Paladin class had not originated from a single source. It had two.
According to the available written records, Paladins had two earliest sources. The first was on the continent of Azeroth, where Archbishop Alonsus Faol of the Holy Brotherhood of Northshire founded the Order of the Silver Hand, enabling warriors who believed in the Holy Light to wield its power against the invading Old Horde. The second was among the Draenei, who, after fleeing Argus and encountering the Naaru, were taught by them to fight using the Holy Light. Since there was no consensus on the Holy Light's nature, form, or time of emergence, it was impossible to determine which source had produced the first Paladins. The only certainty was that the Naaru possessed some method of freely controlling the Holy Light. As for the Blood Knights, they too had arisen after capturing a Naaru and discovering