Chapter 400 The Unfinished War

In the military area under Cecil's command, in the headquarters of the Military Intelligence Agency, Lemont's body was quickly brought to Gawain.

The regional bishop of the southern diocese died in a strange state. He had almost no trauma except for some scrapes and grime from his escape. The cause of his death was some kind of "high fever" from his head. The eye sockets of a regional bishop have been burned into two dark holes, the dry and charred eye skin is clinging to the eye sockets of his skull in a disgusting state, and his brain... seems to have been burned turned to ashes.

"We found him on a mountain road in the Dark Mountains," Soldrin reported what he knew, "when we found him, he was already dead, there was no trace of fighting around, and there was no residual magic wave. The cause of death was as follows: You see, the brain burns to ashes...but I've never seen a curse or magical effect like this."

Gawain squatted down and carefully inspected the situation of the Holy Light Bishop. When he put his hand into Lemont's eye socket, Amber next to him couldn't help but let out a disgusting voice: "Ugh... You are too disgusting..."

Gawain ignored the amber, but dipped in some ashes, rubbed his fingertips twice, and a tiny golden light flashed away in the ashes.

"It's the remnant of the Holy Light, emitting from the brain... This bishop was burned to death by his own Holy Light," Gawain frowned, "But why?"

Amber seriously began to analyze there: "Is it because he fled on the battlefield, violated some teachings of the Church of the Holy Light, and then ran into the mountains and couldn't bear the condemnation in his heart, and died of an explosion of conscience? "

Gawain raised his head and glanced at Amber: "Do you believe this yourself?"

Heidi directly ignored Amber's random analysis, stood beside Gawain and asked solemnly, "Ancestor, can you see anything?"

"I can't see that, apart from the cause of death caused by the backlash of the Holy Light, there are no traces left on him...but it's not that he has no ideas at all," Gawain clapped his hands and stood up, "It is the brain that was burned by the backlash of the Holy Light. , which proves that the initial runaway starts in the brain, which makes me think of a group of people…”

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

"It seems that those cultists haven't stopped. In areas we don't know, they are always active," Gawain said in a tone that was not surprising. Since the Ansu Civil War has already seen the shadow of the end of all things, now It is not unthinkable that the Eternal Sleeper appeared on the battlefield in the South, although he was very curious about why the Eternal Sleeper wanted to "help" the Cecils to kill an invader, but it did not affect him to continue doing his own thing," Send this corpse, along with the other corpses, to the incinerator and burn it thoroughly."

Two soldiers came in and carried Lemont's body,

Amber on the side looked at the Bishop of Shengguang who was being carried away and sighed: "A regional bishop... just died like this... Now you are completely opposed to the Church of the Holy Light."

"Their regional bishop led twelve knights to Cecil Land to 'negotiate' with me, asking me to hand over the civilians in the city. From that moment on, they declared war," Gawain said indifferently. "And even if they don't come out today, I will oppose them sooner or later - you should know the laws that Cecil enforces, and the Holy Light sect, which is now more and more extreme and inflated, cannot accept the 'High Law of the Council'. For the church's rules."

Hetty recalled the previous battle report sent by Carmel, and suddenly showed a thoughtful look: "Speaking of which... the bishop and the knights he led probably did not plan to fight us to the death this time. That bishop The term used is to negotiate with the lord and ask us to hand over the 'heresy' who have been sheltered. I suspect that their initial purpose was to lure you out of the ancestors, and then temporarily hold you back. When the time comes, they should look for it. Reasons to retreat - as long as you follow the rules of friction between the church and the nobles, and use gold and silver and some land to make compensation, this can be covered. And I guess, according to the original plan of Earl Hosman and the Church of the Holy Light, the Searle will be the absolute loser in this war, and the Church of the Holy Light is probably still waiting for our compensation."

Before Hetty was busy dealing with the information from all parties, her mind was not focused on it. At this time, everything settled down temporarily, and she suddenly realized that the "bishop of the southern diocese" was leading twelve Holy See knights to Sisi. The real purpose of Erling's "negotiations", and Gawain's reply made her expression more subtle: "This is obvious - of course they are just here to hold me back, could it be that they plan to capture this place? City?"

Heidi didn't know what to express: "As a result, they all died here... Even the bishop didn't survive."

"Remember what I said at the beginning?" Gawain glanced at Heidi, and said leisurely, "They can start this war, but it's not them who have the final say on the scale of the war after it starts."

Heidi thought about Gawain's words, and Gawain gave her a new order: "Notify Godwin, except for the additional account, the content is that the Church of the Holy Light colluded with Earl Hosman... No, it's some priests. In collusion with Earl Hossman, he plotted to attack Cecil City, but because he was too weak and too weak, he was wiped out after fighting with one of our technicians."

Heidi blinked: "...Is it really written like that?"

Gao Wen nodded: "Just write it like this, and then publish it all over the country - not only in the territory, but also let the army take it away and send it to the entire southern border, so that all literate people in the southern border have a chance to see it. Also remember , it must be emphasized that 'some corrupt priests and Count Hossman colluded'."

Gawain originally wanted to declare that the entire Church of the Holy Light colluded with Earl Hossman and became an enemy of Cecil, but he knew that he could not regard the entire Church of the Holy Light as an enemy—at least not now.

The priest class of the Church of the Holy Light may be corrupting and degenerating, but the believers of this sect are composed of a large number of people. Including Cecil's territory, about a quarter of the territory is a believer of the Holy Light. 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 the Holy Light Church to be an enemy, it will still inevitably cause confusion, so he had better put the depraved people at the very beginning of the public opinion propaganda. Priests are distinguished from ordinary believers.

And there is another point, the religions of this world are not only a kind of spiritual sustenance, their "magic power" and the gods themselves are real, and even these two are components of productivity and nature, unless the Church of the Holy Light is like the three Like a dark sect, it is completely distorted and degenerate, and it has lost its foothold in the normal social order. Otherwise, he would not be able to use the "belief in the Holy Light" as the target of elimination. He can only eliminate those priests.

And it has to be a corrupt priest-after all, the entire Holy Light Church can't have only one Wright Aviken, right?

Amber said just now that he was completely opposed to the Church of the Holy Light. This sentence may not be false, but Gawain has his own understanding and arrangements for this sentence.

Hetty took the order to leave, and only Amber and Gawain were left in the room for the time being. Amber pondered for a long time there, and suddenly remembered a detail from the task that Gawain arranged for Hetty: "Ah! Said to let the army 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've won all the battles," Amber scratched his hair. "The earl of Hossman in the north died, and his army was scattered, and the earl of Pebble in the west was also dead. I heard that they escaped. There are even fewer people, and now even the bishop of the Church of the Holy Light is dead... I heard that the front lines in the north and west have captured a lot of prisoners, and many of them are nobles in the south. Under normal circumstances, this war is not equal to fighting. Is it over? Then you should negotiate with the families of those noble captives, asking for money, grain and land..."

Amber looked at Gao Wen's half-smiling expression, his tone became lower and lower, and finally stopped slowly, with a horrified expression on his face: "Mom - you don't plan to stop at all, do you? "

"I have said long ago that this is a war to reunify the southern border, and what I want is not the previous unification situation where the nobles were divided and separated and depended on fragile allegiance and vassal relations to maintain, so I have been from the very beginning. I didn't intend to ask for any 'ransom', let alone negotiate," Gawain said with a serious expression, "Earl Hossman's coalition is indeed disintegrating, but remember, they just disperse, not disappear, not surrender. , but ran away from the battlefield. They did not become the population of Cecil, nor the nourishment of the land of the South. And the nobles who were captured...the families behind them, their castles, their manors, They still have their own independent territories, all of this is still there, as long as the fleeing troops return to these places, then these places will still be the territories of the nobles, not Cecil's land."

Speaking of which, Gawain emphasized word by word: "There is one and only one Cecil leader in the southern border."

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

"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 nobles and their vassals' 'upper class' are currently the main source of intellectuals , I have to use this group, I have to use their power," Gawain said, "but I still have to 'destroy' them, destroy their system and foundation... After this, everyone will be honorable and disciplined Citizen Cecil."

Having said this, 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 incinerators will be sufficient."

A confused expression gradually appeared on Amber's face, and in the end it was a shock.

Seeing this, Gawain couldn't help laughing: "Can I understand what I said?"

"I won't listen!" Amber stretched out his hand to cover his ears, "What you said is either hard to kill or scaring people to death!"

Gawain smiled and stroked Amber's hair - the height of this dwarf melon was so perfect that he put his hand on it just right.

Then he turned around and looked out the window at the setting sun, which was already sinking.

Knight Philip should have set off with his orders, and the cleaning of the southern border has begun.