Paladins of Asgard

"Curses can not only imprison your actions, but also produce harsher punishments, I believe you will not be willing to try." The Soul Stone said, "Let's start."

Rowe stood silent for a while.

Immediately, the curse took effect again, just like what the soul gem said, this time the effect of the curse was no longer imprisonment, but the severe pain that almost shocked him, causing him to hold his head and scream.

"Ahhh-"

This pain does not come from the body, but from the soul, and he has a feeling that his soul is about to be torn apart.

The pain lasted for a short time, but Luo Wei felt as if he had spent three days and three nights, and fell to the ground panting, with lingering fears.

Soul Stone: "I think you've remembered the feeling."

Forced by the cursed power, Luo Wei had to obey the instructions of the soul gem, quickly got up from the ground, and started the construction of the altar.

The altar is very large and built on a mountain. Fortunately, the structure is not complicated. There are many high-quality stones on this planet, so what he has to do is basically move bricks.

After being busy for several days, Luo Wei piled up a stone brick he had just cut, and asked hesitantly, "Can I rest?"

"You don't need to rest." The voice of the soul gem did not fluctuate.

"Although I don't feel tired, you know that emotions always need to be adjusted to work better, otherwise the efficiency will definitely decrease." Rowe shrugged his shoulders, "We mortals are like this."

The Soul Stone was silent for a moment: "Yes."

Rowe breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the severe pain caused by the curse of the soul had only appeared once, this feeling was unforgettable in his life, and he definitely did not want to experience it a second time.

As a battle-hardened elder, he has suffered numerous injuries and pains over hundreds of years, but compared with the curse of the soul, the only thing worth mentioning is the surrender to the magnetic disk.

In fact, even the pain of surrendering to the magnetic disk is far less terrifying than the terrifying experience of soul-cursing that seems to tear one's soul apart.

Luo Wei immediately found a stone and sat down, pretending to rub the dead skin on his hands, actually reading the holy deed.

He actually had some vague guesses about the origin of this voice in the soul gem.

Nemesis.

Nemesis was born before the formation of the universe, and is a powerful being with infinite power. The six gems are the crystals of her power after her death.

Rowe suspects that the voices in the Soul Stone may have some connection to Nemesis, or even Nemesis herself.

After all, only a transcendent existence like Nemesis, who is above the laws of the universe, is qualified to evaluate Asgardians as "mortals".

Since the curse is related to Nemesis, it will not be easy to break it. The only thing Rowe can be sure of is Divine Shield, more specifically, Invincible Hearthstone.

Consuming 60 Divine Shields, you can launch a legitimate retreat, ignoring all negative effects and teleport back to the city.

The problem now is that there is no Divine Shield, let alone sixty, not one.

Fortunately, it is not completely impossible. Rowe has accumulated a lot of books of piety and experience in his holy deed. By challenging and obtaining the gift of fate, he can definitely get some holy shield as a reward, but he is not sure how much he can get.

Whether he could use this to gather sixty Divine Shield techniques, Rowe was completely clueless, and even inclined to not.

Besides, the thought of consuming so much Divine Shield technique to escape the claws of the Soul Gem made him feel like his heart was bleeding.

Sixty Divine Shield spell fragments, one minute of invincibility!

One minute of invincibility!

If he could, Rowe could hardly wait to eat the soul gem.

He couldn't help but think fiercely: Even if it wasn't to save the world, just because of this hatred, he would have to smash the soul gem and even the whole family of Infinity Stones in the future!

Rowe thought to himself,

After a while, the voice of the soul gem came: "Continue."

"Yes." He was startled, and quickly got up and continued to move bricks.

...

Western America.

In recent years, a legend has circulated in the West: every night, the ghost rider burning hellfire will ride his warhorse through the darkness to complete the mission for his loyal demon, the smell of sulfur on his body from Oregon. No one knows from the state to Colorado.

Legends have a peculiarity that sometimes they are true.

At this moment, in the darkness of the west, the Evil Knight riding a flaming war horse galloped through the wilderness, leaving a trail of flames behind the fiery hellfire.

The warhorse roared past in the darkness, and the Ghost Rider soon arrived at the destination of his trip, the village of St. Vaticanza.

To be precise, it is the ruins of the village of St. Vaganza. The village here has been dilapidated and uninhabited. Collapsed houses and abandoned fields can be seen everywhere.

Entering the village of Saint Vatican, the evil spirit knight faded away the flaming flames of hell, revealing the face of a middle-aged man with a beard and a vicissitudes of life. He walked slowly in the village with a complicated expression.

More than 30 years ago, Carter Shire was born in this village, and he witnessed the battle between angels and demons with his own eyes.

Later, he left here, thinking that he would have nothing to do with the gods and demons in this life, until an evil old man came to the door and made a deal with him that now seems unfair.

The deal made him a Ghost Rider, at the cost of serving the old man.

Now his task is to take from here a covenant that connects a thousand fallen souls of St. Vaticanza, which the evil old man covets...

Not long after Carter Sley entered the village, the fallen souls who lived here were awakened, roaring in from all directions, and a terrifying gloomy wind was swept up.

His expression changed, and the fire of hell was ignited again on his body. The orange-red flames suddenly illuminated in the dark night. The fallen souls around him screamed and stopped, and they spread far away all at once, daring to go forward.

"Spirit of Vengeance!"

Carter Sley also looked at these fallen souls with eyes filled with flames.

They are not ordinary fallen souls. If they were just mortals, the evil old man probably wouldn't have any interest, and he wouldn't dare to enter in person.

Wandering in the village of St. Vaticanza are a thousand fallen angel souls...

The old man bewitched them and made them go from sanctification to depravity, but he did not dare to enter the village to retrieve the deceitful contract.

In the face of these thousand souls, only the Ghost Rider who shuttles between heaven and hell and possesses the power to judge evil can achieve his goal.

The hellfire on Carter Shire was burning, and the blazing fire made the surrounding souls fear and dare not go forward.

He came all the way to the church in the center of the village, where the wicked Covenant of St. Vaticanza was displayed.