Mount and Blade System: Start from Pioneer Lords

The silk was delicate and smooth to the touch. Although I didn't know what material it was, it was definitely a high-end product.

The words on it were the latest version of the common script, and the handwriting was very neat and elegant. It is often said that you can know a person by their handwriting.

Li Wei roughly guessed that this 'Radiant Holy Word Codex' was probably personally transcribed by that Saintess.

Truth be told, the Lord didn't know why she wouldn't use regular parchment and insisted on using silk in a retro manner.

Could it be that this Saintess was not the eighteen-year-old girl he imagined, but an elderly Saintess old enough to be his grandmother, hence her nostalgia?

Tucking it into his arms, Li Wei planned to study it carefully later.

Actually, there was something he didn't quite understand. Due to the magic tide, many schools of professions had disappeared in the long history.

But to this day, the concentration of magic elements was many times richer. Just the fact that Sophia could use Transformation Magic showed a hint of this.

Although Transformation Magic couldn't compare with legendary magic that consumed a huge amount of magic power, the required magic environment was not something that could be easily achieved.

Now that magic was becoming richer, why did the once-popular Paladins decline?

"By the way, why did the once-popular Radiant Paladins decline to their current state?" Li Wei asked curiously.

Compared to him, a history illiterate who knew nothing, Leah, who had received aristocratic education since childhood, obviously knew more about these past secrets.

"The role of the 'Radiant Holy Word Codex' is that the strong become stronger, and the weak become weaker. In that era when Paladins emerged in endlessly, why do you think their basic physical strength far exceeded ordinary people?"

Leah paused to create suspense.

Si Kai, who had little presence, rarely chimed in, "Could it be that the gods were still manifesting at that time, so the Paladins piously prayed to the Goddess of Holy Light to obtain divine favor and enhance their physical strength?"

"No, that's just one aspect."

Leah shook her head and revealed a secret unknown to everyone:

"At that time, the Holy Light Church controlled a mine that produced a rare magic material called 'Dawn Blue Crystal'. As long as it was combined with other common magic materials and slightly refined by alchemists, they could create the famous magic potion - 'Physical Limit Potion'."

"This potion had almost no side effects, but it could allow the most ordinary human to increase their physical strength by at least six times."

"And those knights whose bodies had been tempered often gained even more terrifying improvements."

"Do you know how many times that famous legendary Templar Knight, Diarot, improved with this potion alone?"

Before everyone could respond, Leah held up both hands with a look of emotion.

"Ten times? That's not much."

The Lord curled his lips. He was more than ten times stronger now, so it seemed he also had hope of becoming a legendary powerhouse.

"One hundred times! A full one hundred times!" Leah sighed. "With the blessing of the 'Radiant Holy Word Codex' cultivated to the top level and various divine arts, after advancing to legend, he single-handedly killed a Thunder Giant."

The Lord silently retracted what he had just said. It seemed that he still had a long way to go before becoming a legendary powerhouse.

"I've heard some stories about Paladin Diarot, but I didn't expect there to be these unknown legends," Si Kai said with a look of admiration.

The era in which Diarot lived was at least nearly two thousand five hundred years ago. That era was the era of prosperous magic. Giants who were born to control the sky, the earth, and thunder occupied Thunder Cliff.

Dragons not only breathed dragon breath, but were also proficient in various powerful magic.

Various powerhouses emerged in endlessly. Epic powerhouses were known as demigods, and legendary powerhouses were powerful enough to fight against the legendary gods.

However, as the magic tide receded, these powerful creatures gradually disappeared into the long river of history.

"As the Dawn Blue Crystal was mined out, the Holy Light Church couldn't find a replacement, and the Paladins inevitably declined."

"After all, even if an ordinary person managed to cultivate the 'Radiant Holy Word Codex' to the top level, it would only increase their strength by about twelve times," Leah spread her hands.

It could only be said that it was fate. It wasn't without advantages that Paladins almost became the mainstream of an era, but the limitations were also great.

Unlike magic, which was enduring.

Everyone was lamenting that the Paladins shouldn't have declined so quickly, especially the Lord, who kept slapping the table and sighing.

If he drank this so-called 'Physical Limit Potion', even if it didn't increase his strength by a hundred times, as long as it could increase it by several times, his basic strength would be much stronger than this Diarot.

In addition, if he cultivated the 'Radiant Holy Word Codex', well, another legendary powerhouse would be born.

By then, what was the point of pioneering? He could just open his mouth and get whatever he wanted.

Princesses, Saintesses, and even those kings would probably be eager to offer their queens.

Damn it, he was born at the wrong time!

The Lord was a typical case of eating what's in his bowl, looking at what's in the pot, and thinking about what's in the kitchen.

He had already gotten the 'Radiant Holy Word Codex' for free, but he was still thinking that it would be even better if he could also have the magic potion, sighing and lamenting, looking like he had missed out on a billion.

"By the way, Li Wei heard that High Cliff Fortress went to slay a dragon. What exactly happened?"

After briefly discussing magic history with the illiterate and rough men present, Leah asked with some curiosity.

There were many stories about High Cliff Fortress in Whiteflow City, but the dragon slaying was the most popular.

After all, the mere mention of dragon slaying was enough to attract people from all walks of life to listen for a few sentences.

Who told humans to have an enthusiasm for dragon slaying that was engraved in their bones?

"Hey, it's just like in the knight novels. I led my group of useless subordinates to defeat the dragon's眷属(juàn shǔ- Dependents) and then chased the sun and moon to the dragon's lair. After an unimaginable battle, we finally defeated the evil dragon."

Speaking of this, the Lord began to explain with great interest.

Coupled with his bewitching tone, he was just like a preaching cultist.

Si Kai, who had always wanted to be a transparent person, finally couldn't hold back and couldn't help but want to expose the Lord's lies.

"My Lord, with all due respect, then may I ask, where is the dragon?"

Whether it was killing a dragon or defeating a dragon, there would always be some clues, instead of just having stories circulating like now.

The dragon's whole body was made of rare magic materials. If the Lord killed the dragon, whether he used it himself or sold it, it was impossible that there would be no trace of it.

As for defeating it? To defeat a dragon, you would at least have to hurt it, right? Then where was the dragon blood? The dragon scales?

Si Kai didn't believe that the Lord was wealthy enough to disdain these magic materials that cost hundreds or thousands of gold coins at every turn.