Chapter 248 The New Priest
Chapter 248 The New Priest
"Yes, sir."
Ziwang responded.
Li Moss and his three companions led him to form a ranks from the soldiers in the middle of the fortress.
The first step is to call everyone out.
The soldiers on the outer and middle layers of the fortress had already retreated back inside the building.
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Zivan first went to the front of the barracks and knocked on the door.
"Who?"
"Shall we go take a look?"
"I'll go."
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The door was opened a crack.
"Ziwang?"
Bogi poked his head out from the barracks.
Zivan took the picture here first because he remembered that Bogi was here.
He looked at his old friend and spoke.
"Come out, Boge. The battle is over."
Bogi glanced at the tribesmen gathered outside the building and nodded slightly.
"it is good."
Although he didn't know why there was such a battle.
But with nobles here, if they really wanted to kill them, they would have already washed away the walls of the barracks.
They are definitely not going to survive now.
Dozens of soldiers emerged from the building.
Zi Yi shouted.
"Put down your weapons, and you will not be hurt. Which are the soldiers from the town? Which are the soldiers from the manor? Stand separately. The soldiers from the manor, go back to the manor later and call all the people here."
Zi'an stood silently behind him.
The soldiers hesitated when they heard to lay down their weapons.
However, upon hearing that there were further missions to be accomplished, they released their grip and let the weapons fall to the ground.
Snapped--
Soon, the soldiers split into two groups within the encirclement.
Then Li Mosi and his three companions led them to the outer layer of the fortress and made the same arrangements for the soldiers there.
After leaving the fortress, the soldiers from the town returned to the town.
The soldiers from the manor dispersed according to the manor and went to gather their respective people.
It wasn't very bright at the moment.
But it still allows them to barely make out the road.
The soldiers were watched over by their tribesmen, and tribesmen were also stationed in the fortress.
Seeing that everything was in order, Li Mosi led Ziyi, Zian, and the Holy Maiden to check out the warehouse in the fortress.
The warehouse here isn't very big.
Li Mosi mainly wanted to test if the key worked.
Of course.
However, it's not just the keys from the Matica Knights' Domain and the Valos Knights' Domain that can be used.
The key to the warehouse in Baron Stern's territory can actually be used!
The teeth on them are clearly completely different.
Li Mosi didn't understand locks either, and could only guess that there was some kind of "backdoor" inside.
Although everyone knew that Baron Talis had taken something with him when he fled.
However, all the food in the warehouses combined was enough to feed the people of the entire territory for more than ten months.
The local lord of BYD is truly inhuman.
It's not even time to slaughter livestock before winter.
He took Ziyi, Zian, and the Holy Maiden for a brief look around the main house's storeroom.
In all aspects, it is not much different from Baron Stern.
As they walked out of the main house's warehouse, neither Ziyi, Zian, nor the Holy Maiden showed any expression.
They've seen it all before.
There is so much food now that we can't eat it all.
The real question is how to use it effectively.
"Um……"
Zi Yi made a thinking sound.
He looked at Li Mosi.
"Master, what should we prepare during this time when our people are gathered together?"
It feels like it's going to take quite a long time.
Are we just going to wait like this?
The saintess interrupted casually.
"A public trial requires a proper venue, doesn't it? No one else has gathered the people of twenty manors across the entire baronial territory together for a public trial like this."
Typically, a circuit court would be set up, with the lord and priests traveling to various manors to conduct trials.
If it's a city, then organize it by street or district; those who can be gathered together are free citizens.
It's impossible to have thousands of people together in one place.
"You can't just find any place. There's such a big open space outside."
Zi'an pointed to the open space between the town and the fortress.
She felt that wasn't the problem.
"Shouldn't we first determine what the purpose of a public trial is?"
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Li Mosi noticed that Zi'an seemed a bit smarter today.
"That's right."
He nodded.
"Let me explain the process to you first."
Zi Yi glanced at Zi An, who smiled.
Then the three of them listened to what Li Mosi had to say.
"First, we need to determine who will be tried, which has already been determined."
"The next step is to organize the people and collect evidence of their crimes, which we have only made preliminary confirmation of so far. But that's enough."
The two disciples nodded.
The crimes they know of now are enough to kill those guys.
"Then we'll gather everyone together, choose a trial location, and set up the platform. We'll just set up a simple one later."
The saint frowned.
Something feels off.
"Once all the people have arrived, we will ask them to come up on stage and tell their stories of suffering."
"That can't be right!"
The saintess opened her eyes wide and looked at Li Mosi.
Is that so?
Shouldn't it be the lord who, upon hearing of a crime or dispute, orders the person accused to be impeached and prosecuted, and only in cases of serious crimes for which no one has accused them, should the lord be responsible for questioning?
Then the plaintiff and the defendant began to provide evidence.
It was decided by the gods or by a duel between the two sides.
Then, with God's will as witness, the lord and priest, in front of everyone, would make a declaration of atonement or a judgment based on the outcome of the duel.
The three of them saw her staring blankly at Li Mosi, not saying anything for a long time, so they stopped paying attention to her.
Li Mosi recalled the four steps she had just mentioned and held up five fingers.
"Then, according to the people's opinions and our own rules, we determined the sinners' crimes."
Finally, the matter was handled on the spot according to the rules.
Li Moss made a knife with his fingers and cut down hard.
He glanced again at the saintess who was standing there in a daze, and then spoke to his two disciples.
"What we need is not to restore harmony, but to establish a new order."
Ziyi and Zian nodded gently.
"Understood, Master."
The saint blinked.
She realized it too.
This situation is indeed different from what she experienced.
Ziyi opened his mouth.
"Then I'll go and tell the tribesmen to cut down trees and build the platform."
"No rush."
Li Moss strode forward, leading the three of them southward.
"We also need to see how the new pastor is doing."
"Eh!"
The saintess grabbed Li Mosi's arm and whispered in his ear.
"Aren't you afraid I'll be recognized? The new pastor comes from the cathedral."
Li Mosi glanced at her, then grabbed Hagi Saint with her other hand.
If Hagi Saint can say such a thing, then he is not the one who should be most worried about this kind of thing.
He continued leading the three towards the church.
While dragging Hagi Saint along, Li Mosi spoke to Zi Yi Zi An.
"If there is someone that everyone says is a good person, or someone that everyone says is a bad person, then you must see them for yourself before making a decision."
"Yes, Master."
"I understand, Master."
Ziyi and Zian said they understood.
"Hey, it's not you—"
Hagi Saint wanted to say something, but Li Mosi just kept pulling her forward.
The four of them quickly arrived at the church gate.
Zi'an stepped forward and pushed the door open.
The door wasn't bolted at all.
"Hmm? It's not even dawn yet..."
The gatekeeper monk stared blankly as the four walked inside.
"Is that Lemos?"
He was ignored.
The church courtyard is about the same size as the baron's main residence courtyard, and the church itself occupies about the same area as the main residence.
However, the church is entirely built of stone bricks, and it is also one floor higher than the main house.
It looks more like a small fortress.
As Li Mosi and his companions approached the church entrance, they saw a man in a priest's robe kneeling before the statue of the God of Light in prayer.
The candles around the pulpit illuminated him clearly.
"This is out of the mercy of the God of Light, that the sun shines upon us from the sky, to illuminate those who sit in darkness and shadow, and to guide our steps toward the path of happiness..."
This is where dreams begin, and where dreams come true.
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