Chapter 411: The Day When History Advances

The attackers in the night finally retreated. After the two most powerful Holy See knights and several other wizards, knights, and priests who led the team fell, the few remaining people panicked and fled into the abyss in the dark of night. In the darkness, they left behind a dozen corpses and a mess, and in the end they got nothing.

A Cecil combatant was badly wounded, his force field shield was shattered in close combat with a knight, and a nearly bone-deep wound was opened below his chest, but after several After the bottle of alchemy potion was poured down, the combat soldier's injury has stabilized.

Apart from that, there were no other casualties on Cecil's side.

Soldiers who ended the battle began to inspect the field, organize their equipment, and check the enemy's condition, but none of them approached the clearing beside the well.

Wright stood quietly in this open space, a layer of clear and bright holy light still enveloped him, like a light-cast armor and cloak covering him, the holy light shone around, and also shone on the sky, In the open space shrouded in holy light, Emily had closed her eyes.

Those big bright eyes will never be opened again.

"Do you believe in Holy Light, or the God of Holy Light?"

Wright's mind came to the words that the lord asked him before he set off. This sentence has been lingering in his mind for many days. The contradiction caused by this sentence makes him sleepless day after day. He doesn't understand , did not understand why he had to choose between the Holy Light and the God of Light, but now he understood.

In the anger and the great disappointment of the God of Light, he understood that it was a strong light in his mind, a bang that broke free from some kind of mental seal, and in that moment of enlightenment, he abandoned his belief The Lord of decades, embraced the true Light.

But someone paid a price that shouldn't have been paid.

A slight coolness fell on his face, and strands of rain fell from the sky, landing on this land full of misfortune and sorrow. The summer rain, who was late for a whole night, finally arrived before dawn. In the cool rain, Wright half-kneeled beside Emily and put his hand on the little girl's forehead.

"...May the Holy Light protect your path... no more cold and darkness... May your soul be at peace... no more hunger and suffering..."

In Ansu 736, the 22nd day of the fire month, early summer.

The first white knight in human history was born in the wilderness of the South.

Although at this moment, no one knows how this new profession should be named.

Cecil Lead,

In the lord's mansion, Gawain saw the two knights Byron and Philip who had just returned from the front.

They hurriedly returned to the territory from the Hosman prisoner of war camp, and with them, there were thousands of special prisoners brought from the noble coalition.

"According to your order, we brought back those nobles and their knights and mages, as well as the priests of the Holy Light, the Holy See knights, and the mercenaries of the extraordinary who were mixed in the coalition," Byron reported the situation, "but because We only brought a part of it to the road - there were more than 1,000 people in the Hosman POW camp, and 200 people in the Tanzania POW camp that we didn't bring."

"That's enough, the main thing is to bring those nobles and their vassals here. Don't worry about the others," Gawain said casually. "Before we complete the integration of the entire southern border, we still have a lot to do."

"Lord, what are you going to do with those nobles and their followers?" Knight Philip asked curiously, "Those people... they have been clamoring to meet you after they have eaten, and to explain to you what happened in this war. ……Misunderstand."

"... Are you yelling to meet me to talk about this? Fortunately, their minds haven't completely frozen, but it's not much better," Gao Wenhun waved his hands indifferently, "They can save their energy, They still haven't figured out what this war means."

When Byron heard it, he immediately leaned over to Philip and whispered, "Look, I'll tell you, you can just keep those people locked up, and if they make a noise, let them make a noise, it's a big deal to put them with the big machine of the water plant. Shut the pumps together and see who's yelling louder..."

Philip ignored Byron at all, but continued to say to Gawain, "We captured the Holy See knights and priests of the Holy Light in the noble coalition as much as possible, but there are still many people who escaped pursuit after entering the plain area, and some of them People are trapped in Cecil's control area and are being slowly brought back, but there are still a considerable number of Holy See knights and priests who have fled to the St. Luan Cathedral in the northwest... It is not in our control area. "

Byron, who was next to him, couldn't help but muttered, "If you hit it, it will become a control area."

"Cough cough." Gawain coughed dryly. Although he wanted to say that Byron's words were right with him, at the last moment he avoided letting himself go too far, because he knew very well that St. Luan Cathedral and where the church was located. The city of Lu'an has a special meaning not only within the Holy Light Sect, but even in the entire southern border.

That is the headquarters of the Church of the Holy Light in the southern diocese, and a theoretically "neutral place."

The city of Luan is theoretically under the direct control of the royal family. There is no lord in the area, only the general affairs officer dispatched by the royal family, but the general affairs officer is basically a pretense. the southern bishops and priesthoods.

Of course, the bishop of the southern diocese is gone now, and the high-ranking knights and priests of St. Luan Cathedral have also died in this war. It's not a problem at all, but what Gawain has to consider is not the defense of St. Luan Cathedral at all.

What he has to consider is whether he can attack there directly, and under what name to attack there.

This is directly related to the subsequent order in the Southern Territory, as well as his influence on the large number of Holy Light believers in the Southern Territory.

And there's a more realistic question after knocking down St. Luan's Cathedral? Should we just occupy Lu'an City, or arrest all the priests of the Holy Light Church in Lu'an City, and even destroy the church? If it is the former, I am afraid that the influence of the Holy Light Church on the southern border cannot be completely driven out. If it is the latter, I am afraid that the social order in the southern border will face great fluctuations. The more devout Holy Light in my new territory Believers will also question the "justice" of the new lord.

After all, the occupation of cities and churches can still be said to be the normal procedure of war, because the bishop of the south, Lemont, "attacked" the city of Cecil with twelve heavily armed papal knights and a high-ranking priest, which can be regarded as An act of declaring war, but if the Holy Light belief system in the South is further destroyed after occupying the city, the hundreds of thousands of Holy Light believers in the South will have doubts about Gawain Cecil's rule.

There is no way for Gawain to directly erase the belief in the Holy Light from the minds of the hundreds of thousands of people, and with his current influence in the southern border and the actual situation of religious beliefs in this world, it is impossible for him to promote the belief that is too drastic. Church Reform Program.

Of course, it is also possible to consider a compromise approach. After the St. Luan Cathedral is taken down, all priests are forced to accept Cecil's law, and they are cut off from the Holy Light Church headquarters in the Holy Spirit Plain. After that, a little bit more Replacing, purifying, and transforming the entire group of priests, but the effect of doing so cannot be guaranteed, and there may be hidden dangers...

Now that he has begun to take over the southern border, he must start thinking about these practical issues as the ruler of the southern border.

Philip and Byron saw that Gawain was thinking about a problem, so they didn't interrupt, they waited quietly beside them, and then heard Gawain tap the table lightly with his fingers, as if talking to himself "Must there be a Church of the Holy Light..."

Philip didn't hear "what?"

"It's nothing," Gawain shook his head, "We will solve the problem of St. Luan Cathedral, but for now we can let those priests and Holy See knights continue to shake in the cathedral for a while. In addition, there are those who are locked in various prison camps. The aristocrats in ... are also hanging on for the time being, so that they can take a good look at the situation at hand, which will help them to cooperate with Cecil's laws in the future. While solving the problem of St. Luan Cathedral and reshaping the southern border Before ordering, we should do one more thing..."

Byron and Philip said in unison, "Another thing?"

"The South Territory must be made 'our South Territory'," Gawain stood up from behind the desk and came to the huge map hanging on the wall, his eyes fell on the northernmost portal of the South Territory - the rock fortress, " You can't hand over the key to the door of your own house to outsiders."

Philip and Byron followed Gawain's line of sight and saw the portal fortress with special significance.

Philip's expression turned serious, and Byron couldn't help but whistled, "Hey—that's a great goal."

"It's really an amazing target," Gawain nodded. "The rock fortress is not the same thing as the weakly defended stone fortresses in the south. Its entire city wall is enchanted, which is almost equivalent to having an extra layer all the time. The magic shield is shrouded in the fortress, and the rock fortress is full of elite soldiers - the Count of Pompeii is the theoretical owner of the fortress, but the garrison of the fortress is directly trained and controlled by the royal family. The 70,000 rabble assembled by Earl Hossman are even stronger."

Byron chuckled, "After all, it's to seal off the entire southern border."

"So we may have to fire a lot of guns to knock down this fortress," Gawain also laughed, "but anyway, we have to knock it down...and take this door into our own hands. "

After that, it doesn't matter to him how to fight on the Holy Spirit Plain. He can calm down and clean up the southern border, such as cleaning up those Holy Light priests hiding in St. Luan Cathedral, or cleaning up those who are still in prison cells. noble captives.

"When are you going to attack?" Byron put away his usual hippie smile and asked earnestly, "We are now at the most vigorous stage of morale..."

"Don't worry," Gawain waved his hand, quietly looking at the map in front of him, "I'm waiting for news..."

"wait for news?"

"Wait for a reason to attack the Rock Fortress, wait for the opportunity to attack, and wait for new information," Gawain said, "and these...maybe there will be soon."

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