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"Hey, you're not really going to get yourself killed, are you?"
While Father Utravsky went into the back to prepare, Emlyn White leaned toward Lorne and lowered his voice. His tone carried a barely perceptible warning-and a hint of gloating?
"You might have beaten a few third-rate gangs through sheer luck, but there's no way you can beat that muscle-brained brute!"
Ignoring the vampire cleric chattering beside him, Lorne began seriously assessing the prospects of this commission.
Bishop Utravsky, a Sequence 6 Dawn Knight of the Warrior Pathway.
He had heard that the Warrior Pathway was also called the Giant Pathway. Now, Bishop Utravsky's extraordinary height seemed to confirm that perfectly.
The man's past slaughter had gradually given rise to an inner demon, something akin to schizophrenia. Under the influence of Beyonder factors, it also showed certain signs of losing control. Bishop Utravsky possessed a magical candle that could manifest the deepest part of his psyche-that brutal inner demon. This made it possible to eliminate him through combat.
This method of treating mental illness was simply unheard of, and it piqued Lorne's interest.
But the consequences of failure were equally cruel. If he failed to defeat the inner demon, or if the battle dragged on too long, the backlash might engulf his mind, leaving him forever lost in that world. He would become an unconscious living corpse-what people commonly called someone in a vegetative state.
A Dawn Knight possessed the strength of a giant, could fill an area forty to fifty meters around him with dawn light, could condense Dawn Armor over his body, and could form a Sword of Dawn with purifying effects.
He could also create a Storm of Light capable of widespread destruction, directly destroying human bodies, eliminating wraiths, and severely injuring