Chapter 233, Church and Nobility
A group of knights wearing exquisite armor ran wildly on the path in the wheat field.
The most striking feature on its body is the eye carved on the bright silver breastplate, an eye composed of rotating stars. Purple gems are inlaid in the center of the eye pattern, as if it really constitutes a smart star. Eye.
They discovered something, pulled the reins, and the horse began to slow down. The galloping posture slowed down because of a figure squatting on the roadside not far away.
The leading knight shouted to the figure.
"We are the Holy See Knights of the Star Gazing Church. Did something happen in front of us?"
An inquiry was issued.
Listening to the call, the figure raised his head. He was also a knight, wearing an old armor stained with blood, but perhaps the weapon was lost. He only held an ordinary pitchfork in his hand, which was basically the armor on his body. The style is old and no longer bright, but this combination is really weird.
Hoarseness.
"You're too late, those rat men are coming, and everything is ruined."
When he said this, there was an indelible sense of exhaustion in the voice of this strange knight.
The knights of the Holy See looked at each other at this answer, but in the end the leader decided to move forward.
He took off a cloth bag from his horse and threw it towards the lone knight squatting on the roadside in front of him.
"Keep walking to the back, knight. A baron has already organized the defense line. You are still needed there!"
After saying that, the team of knights continued to move forward without stopping.
After the Holy See knights left, this lonely figure picked up the cloth bag that fell on the ground, which contained a bag full of white bread.
He nonchalantly used his blood-stained gauntlet to grab the white panel in the bag. He used a pitchfork to support himself and staggered to his feet. He pushed away his visor, revealing a rough and red face.
Not like a noble, not like a knight, but like a farmer.
The blood-stained white bread was stuffed into his mouth and chewed hard. He did not lie to the team of Holy See knights. It was already too late. Everything was too late. Everything was gone.
The bread became moist, with a bit more bitterness and saltiness. It was the tears that fell. He supported his body with a pitchfork and took steps in the direction where the Holy See knights came.
His waist was not straight, a little rickety, and a little hunched. In the surge of rat people, he lost everything in one fell swoop. Even though he didn't have many things, only himself was left, but he was in pain and confusion. There is no question of why I survived or why I should survive.
The one who came was far stronger than some knights who claimed to be noble.
Although the figure is so bleak.
The Holy See Knights arrived at their original destination. They should have arrived a long time ago, but they were delayed by some things on the way. This was not the only village attacked by ratmen.
Even though they had agreed to peace for so long, in the face of such a situation, the knights and nobles, the de facto rulers of this area, gradually reacted.
The situation was never so bad that it was irreversible, because at this time of the Ratmen's invasion, the most important thing was already over.
All the golden wheat ears have been gathered into the warehouse.
This gave the nobles and knights enough confidence to recruit armies and gather free people, and a large number of people were brought together to deal with the rat-man attack.
But the price of awakening is obviously not easy. The destruction of villages and manors everywhere is the price of sounding the alarm.
The nobles didn't care about this, they were just some common people, like weeds in the wheat field, something that would pop up and spread unknowingly. On the contrary, the destruction of the ancient families and the noble bloodlines made them even more miserable. The nobles suddenly became a little more alert.
The rat people don't want to play any back-and-forth aristocratic game with them.
No matter what the nobles thought, the Holy See knights at this time were unable to empathize and just felt sad.
After pausing, what came into view was a ruins. Bodies were abandoned casually, and wooden walls were knocked down. The fire had not been completely extinguished, and the black smoke slowly spread over the blackened charcoal.
Pain, discomfort, sadness, maybe all of them. The Holy See knights stopped in front of the village, and various negative emotions began to rise in silence.
A positive god, or a god who appears to be positive, his church, no matter how it changes over the years, becomes distorted and dirty due to various things, but at the beginning, the teachings were basically They are all motivating.
There may also be another reason why the descending gods cannot win the support of the nobles immediately. In other words, the nobles as the ruling class are not born to rely too much on the gods who suddenly appear and are a head above them.
They rely on ordinary people, at least in the beginning, so naturally their teachings will tend to be inclined towards ordinary people.
In the teachings of the Stargazing Church compiled with the approval of the God of Mercy and Stargazing.
Supporting the conduct of buying and selling and commerce, and encouraging looking up to the sky and casting your gaze toward the vast stars, these two are the most important teachings, but these are not attractive enough, at least not attractive enough for ordinary people.
As a result, some of the most essential symbols have been integrated into the teachings, such as justice, mercy, and kindness. These are very simple things and are accepted by most ordinary people.
As a sign to attract believers.
The opportunity for the rise of the Stargazing Church was a ruling in a dispute, a ridiculous thing.
A baron married an ordinary civilian girl. No, he didn't just marry an ordinary civilian girl. He married all the women in the territory, from the elderly ladies to the young girls who had not yet grown up. They all got married on a whim.
This is not a big deal, and most of the nobles even spread it to each other as interesting talking points after learning about it, but it is extremely ridiculous.
All the women in his territory were welcomed into the castle, but after the fresh energy passed, he ignored all these women, but did not let them go. For the sake of his own face, after all, this was his own fault. things that come out.
Then a tragedy happened. Can this baron support so many wives? Of course he can. After all, this baron comes from an ancient family with a long heritage. They don't lack money, but why should they want it.
Why waste your money on these guys.
In this way, a large number of wives were abandoned on the back hill of the castle. A horrific scene occurred soon after. When all the bark and grass roots were eaten, they could only eat each other.
At this time, the unknown Pope of the Stargazer Church intervened in this matter. He broke into the absurd baron's castle alone to argue with him, forcing him to divorce his wives. The poor women were saved. These guys who had become crazy during this period of torture were able to return to various families.
This matter was not handled fairly, but no one thought there was any problem. Of course, ordinary civilians could not compare with the nobles, and there was just another grand divorce.
This divorce once again became an interesting topic of conversation among the nobles.
Since the Star Gazing Church became famous, its reputation began to spread widely among both civilians and ordinary people.
In this ruling, the Star Gazing Church took advantage of the wind, but as for the corpses piled up in the mountains behind the nobles, no one cared.
But the Star Gazing Church has since begun to flaunt its fairness and kindness.
The Holy See knights who came out among them naturally inherited these labels.
The village has been completely destroyed, and the ratmen who attacked here are nowhere to be seen. This team of Holy See knights did not stay here for long, but decided to start searching along this range, looking for the ratmen who destroyed the village, and will also pass this news to The surrounding villages are still holding on.
This is no ordinary rat plague.
Running for this disaster, the Holy See Knights left.
It's just that they didn't notice that shortly after they left, pairs of scarlet eyes appeared in the cracks, corners, and shadows of the ruins, watching the retreating Holy See knight.
The rat people didn't leave.
In this vast forest bordering the wheat fields.
A group of mercenaries moved forward carefully in the forest. For the generous reward, this group was not ordinary.
An armored warrior, a thief, an apothecary and a mage.
There is a profession of mage among the Youyan human race. After all, as long as they successfully open their eyes, they will be able to gain strong elemental perception ability.
It's just that their mages have not reached the level of power beyond the limit. Even with the support of blood and their civilization has spent a long enough time, this is still the case.
This small plane cannot support the existence of powerful creatures, and most of the mages who are mixed in the mercenary team are good at functionality.
Most of what he masters are magic traps, eagle eye, petrification, silence and smell elimination, such practical tricks.
But it was really useful, and it allowed them to travel through the forest. During this period, they encountered the chaotic rat teams and the transport team led by the Big Claw Priest many times, but they avoided it without any danger.
But the more he paused in this forest and the more he peeked at the exposed corner of this menacing rat-man, the more horrified he became.
These ratmen are not the wild beasts entrenched in the dark forests and uninhabited wilderness, but a ratman army with civilization and organization. Although I don’t know why, this ratman army is so scattered, but they It's anything but simple.
There are even a few ratmen who can mobilize elements. The elemental fluctuations covering their bodies almost attracted the attention of a ratman priest.