Chapter 400 The war that has not ended yet

In the military intelligence headquarters of Cecil Territory, Lemont's body was quickly delivered to Gawain.

The regional bishop of the southern diocese died in a strange manner. There were almost no external injuries on his body except for some scratches and dirt left when he ran away. The cause of his death was from his head. Due to some kind of "high fever", the regional bishop's eye sockets have been burned into two dark holes. The dry and charred eye skin clings to the eye sockets of his skull in a disgusting state, and his The brain... seems to have been burned to ashes.

“We found him on a mountain road in the Dark Mountains,” Solderin reported what he knew. “He was already dead when we found him. There were no signs of a fight or The remaining magic fluctuations, the cause of death, as you can see, the brain burned to ashes... But I have never seen any curse or magic effect like this."

Gawain squatted down. Carefully inspecting the situation of the Holy Light Bishop, when he reached into Lemont's eye socket, Amber beside him suddenly couldn't help but make a gagging sound: "Ugh... you are too disgusting..."

Gawain ignored the amber, but dipped some ashes into it and gently rubbed it twice with his fingertips. A tiny golden light flashed through the ashes.

"It is the residual echo of the Holy Light, emanating from the brain... This bishop was burned to death by his own Holy Light," Gawain frowned, "But why?"

Gawain glanced at Amber: "Do you believe this?"

Hetty ignored Amber's random analysis and stood beside Gawain. He asked solemnly: "Ancestor, can you tell anything?"

"I can't tell. Except for the cause of death caused by the backlash of the holy light, he didn't leave any traces on his body...but also It’s not that I don’t have any ideas at all,” Gawain clapped his hands and stood up, “What the Holy Light burned back was the brain. This proves that the initial loss of control started from the brain. This reminds me of a group of people..."

Hetty looked at Gawain's expression and suddenly reacted: "The Eternal Sleeper?"

"It seems that those cultists have not stopped. In areas we don't know, they are always there. It's active," Gawain said in a tone that was not surprising. Since the civil war in Ansu has the shadow of the Death Society, it is not unimaginable that the eternal sleeper appears on the battlefield in the south, although he is curious about the eternal sleeper. Why did the reporter "help" the Cecil people kill an intruder, but this did not affect him from continuing to do his own thing, "Send this corpse to the incinerator together with other corpses and burn it thoroughly."

Two soldiers came in and took away Lemont’s body. Amber on the side looked at the Holy Light Bishop who was being carried away and sighed: "A regional bishopAh... He died like that... Now you and the Holy Light Church are completely at odds with each other. "

"Their regional bishop led twelve knights to Cecil Territory to 'negotiate' with me, asking me to hand over the civilians in the city. From that moment on, they were declaring war. ," Gawain said nonchalantly, "And even if they don't show up today, I will confront them sooner or later - you should know the laws implemented by Cecil. The Holy Light Sect is currently taking an increasingly extreme and expansionist route. It is impossible to accept the rule that the law of the Government Affairs Office is higher than the church. "

Hetty recalled the battle report sent by Kamel before, and suddenly showed a thoughtful look: "Speaking of which... the bishop and the knights he led may not be there at all this time. Plan to fight us to the death. What the bishop said was that he came to negotiate with the lord and asked us to hand over the sheltered 'heresy'. I suspect that their original purpose was just to lure you out, ancestor, and then temporarily hold you back. When the time comes, they should They will find reasons to retreat - as long as they follow the rules of friction between the church and the nobility and use gold, silver and some land as compensation, this can be covered up. And I guess, according to the original plan of Count Horsman and the Holy Light Church, Cecil will be the absolute loser in this war, and the Holy Light Church may still be waiting for our compensation. ”

Before, Hetty was busy processing the intelligence coming from all sides, and her mind was not focused on it. At this time, everything settled down temporarily, and she suddenly figured out what the “Southern Diocese Bishop” was leading. Twelve Holy See knights came to Cecil for the real purpose of "negotiation", and Gawain's reply made her expression even more subtle: "This is obvious - of course they are just here to hold me back, is it possible?" Are they still planning to capture this city? "

Hetty didn't know what expression to make: "In the end, they all died here...even the bishop didn't survive. "

"Do you remember what I said at the beginning? Gawain glanced at Hetty and said, "They can start this war, but it's not up to them to decide how big the war will be after it starts." "

Hetty was thinking about Gawain's words, and Gawain gave her a new order: "Notify Godwin to issue an extra number. The content is about the Holy Light Church and Count Horsman. Collusion... no, some priests colluded with Count Horsman and conspired to attack Cecil City. However, because they overestimated their capabilities and were too weak, the entire army was wiped out after a fight with one of our technicians. "

Hetty blinked: "...Is it really written like this? "

Gawain nodded: "Just write it like this, and then publish it throughout the territory - not only within the territory, but also have the army take it away and send it to the entire southern territory, so that all literate people in the southern territory can read Have a chance to see it. Also remember, we must emphasize that ‘some corrupt priests and Count Horsman colluded’. ”

Gawain originally wanted to announce that the entire Holy Light Church was in collusion with Count Horsman and was an enemy of Cecil, but he knew that he could not bring the entire Holy Light Church toThe Church of Light is considered an enemy—at least not now.

The priestly class of the Holy Light Church may be corrupting, but the believers of this sect are composed of a large number of people. Including Cecil’s territory, about a quarter of the people are Saints. Light believer. Although these ordinary believers may not be so strong and extreme in their belief and support for the Holy Light Church, if he suddenly declares that the Holy Light Church is the enemy, it will still inevitably cause chaos, so it is best for him to expose the fallen people at the beginning of the publicity campaign. Priests are distinguished from ordinary believers.

And another point is that the religions of this world are not only a kind of spiritual sustenance, their "divine power" and the gods themselves are real, and they are even components of productivity and nature. Unless the Holy Light Church is as completely distorted and degenerate as the three dark sects, and loses its foothold in the normal social order, it is impossible for him to regard the "faith of the Holy Light" as the target of elimination. The only ones he can eliminate are those priests.

And it must be a corrupted priest - after all, there can't be only one Wright Aviken in the entire Holy Light Church, right?

Just now Amber said that he was completely opposed to the Holy Light Church. This sentence may be true, but Gawain has his own understanding and arrangement for this sentence.

Hetty took the order and left, leaving only Amber and Gawain in the room for the time being. Amber thought about it for a long time, and suddenly remembered a task from Gawain's assignment to Hetty. Details: "Ah! You just said that you want the army to send things to the entire southern border... Is the war not over yet?"

Gawain glanced at Amber: "When did I say the war is over? "

"But we won on all battlefields," Amber scratched his hair. "Count Horsman in the north is dead, and his army is scattered, and Count Pepper in the west is also. Dead, I heard that even fewer people have escaped, and now even the bishop of the Holy Light Church is dead... I heard that many prisoners were captured on the northern and western front lines, many of whom were nobles from the south. Normally, wouldn't this war be over? Then you should negotiate with the families of those noble captives, asking for money, food, and land..."

Amber looked at Gawain with a smile on his face. His expression and tone became lower and lower, and finally he slowly stopped, with a horrifying expression on his face: "Oh my God - you don't plan to stop at all, do you?"

"I was early. As I said, this is a war to reunify the Southern Territory, and what I want is not the previous unified situation where the nobles divided themselves into feudal states and relied on fragile loyalties and vassal relationships to maintain it, so I had no intention of wanting it from the beginning. What's a 'ransom', let alone negotiation," Gawain said with a serious expression. "Earl Horsman's coalition forces did disperse, but remember, they just dispersed, not disappeared, not surrendered, but They ran away from the battlefield. They neither became Cecil's population nor the nutrients of the southern land... and the families behind them, their castles, their manors, he.They still have their own independent territories, and all of this is still there. As long as the defeated armies return to these places, then these places will still be feudal noble territories, not Cecil's land. "

Speaking of this, Gawain emphasized word by word: "There is only one Cecil Territory in the south. "

"Don't you plan to..." Amber looked into Gawain's eyes in disbelief, "Kill all the noble families in the south..."

"I Of course I won't kill them all, at least not directly, because then the social order will collapse, and whether I want to admit it or not, the aristocracy and its vassal 'upper class' are currently the main source of intellectuals. This group must be used, their strength must be used," Gawain said, "But I still have to 'destroy' them, destroy their system and foundation... After this, everyone will be the glorious and law-abiding Sisi Citizen. "

At this point, he sighed slightly: "I very much hope that every southern noble and their vassals can accept this arrangement, but if they can't accept it... I hope that at least the incinerator will be enough." use. "

A confused expression gradually appeared on Amber's face, and in the end she became excited.

Gawain couldn't help laughing when he saw this situation: "I said Can you understand? ”

“I won’t listen! Amber reached out and covered her ears, "What you're talking about is either too difficult to die for or it's going to scare people to death!" "

Gawain smiled and reached out to press Amber's hair - the height of this short winter melon was so perfect that he put his hand on it just right.

Then he turned around Turning around, he looked at the setting sun outside the window.

Knight Philip should have set off with his order to clean up the southern border.