Chapter 218: The Ashamed Priests and Going on the Road Again
As soon as he sealed the surroundings of his priests with the orbs of rejection, he asked in a deep voice: "Did there be a battle last night? Answer me!"
His voice was extremely loud, using divine magic to enhance the spread of the sound.
Although it is a very common magical technique that is available in every family, the Church of the God of the Dead advocates the sleep of death, and the priests who keep quiet all year round rarely use this magical technique.
As soon as the words came out, the priest who led the team was slightly startled by his own voice.
The noisy insults around him were stopped for a moment, and then the young knight holding a metal spear also spoke: "There was indeed a battle last night. I led people to spend the night in this open space, but a large number of bandits plundering the trade routes around us attacked us. An attack was launched."
The young knight's voice was not low at all, and he obviously didn't want to lose any momentum.
Kil pointed to the huge fire behind everyone: "We are now dealing with the corpses of the enemy and ourselves after last night's battle. You should be familiar with this, right?"
But Kil's sincere and true words were the words of one family after all, and were not very reliable to the priests of the God of the Dead who did not know their identities and were wary of them.
So, the priest leading the team reached out and pointed at a random young refugee nearby, asking him to answer his question.
"Don't be afraid, answer honestly! Speak!"
The male refugee who was suddenly called out was not making up lies, but he was frightened for a moment when faced with such a scene. But fortunately, he still told his experience intermittently.
"The old man who was the only one left in the village to escape yesterday morning asked all the young people in the village to leave the checkpoint and follow Knight Kiel to make a living. No, it is to assist the knight on his mission."
"Young people were sent out from each village in the checkpoint. Everyone gathered outside the checkpoint and followed the Lord Knight as he walked eastward along the trade road. He set off at noon and walked until evening, where he stopped for the night. "
"Who would have thought that when we came here a while ago, we were not robbed or taken away by bandits, but this time we passed by, we were attacked by many bandits together. It was too dark at night. Although we couldn't see clearly, everyone had a fierce fight with the bandits. Many people died in the battle, and thanks to the Lord Knight, he led everyone to defeat many bandits, and even led people to stab the bandits' lairs in the middle of the night, and rescued some poor businessmen and women who were caught."
The priest who led the team opened his bright eyes and stared unblinkingly at the young man who was called out for questioning. While listening to the content, examine the other person's expression to determine whether he is telling lies or not.
But it didn't seem to be a lie. The other party's emotions were sincere and simple. At first, he was confused because of being arranged by the village elders. Later, when he said that he was attacked, he had a look of panic and hatred. But when he said that he was going to attack the bandit's lair, he looked happy.
Although this man's hands were empty at this time, he did not look like he was fighting.
After making eye contact with the other priests under his command for a while, the leading priest then spoke: "Then, this girl also tells me what happened yesterday."
Kil stood on the spot holding a double-edged metal spear, watching these fully armed priests of the God of the Dead change from their overwhelming momentum at the beginning, to their cautiousness in the subsequent questioning, and then to the questioning of the two people behind them. , they gradually became embarrassed.
At a loss, he put away the protective statue in his hand without leaving a trace, and the short staff of divine power that he was holding tightly in his hand lowered its head, and it no longer looked as aggressive as before.
Under the raised visor, Keir revealed a mocking expression.
But none of the priests looked at him.
I don’t know if I don’t dare to look or if I don’t want to look.
The female refugee who was called also recounted her experience yesterday. Similar to the former, she was also frightened by the attack last night. She either screamed or moved with the crowd. She was where everyone was.
Fortunately, this woman has a good memory. She still remembered most of what Kil and Batal shouted when the accident happened last night. Now that she was asked to repeat it, it just explained what happened last night.
The situation seemed clear, but the priest who led the team did not carelessly put away the luminous sphere in his hand. Neither Kiel nor Priest Batal knew what it was, but unlike ordinary people, they both A powerful force was felt on this gorgeous shining sphere.
Therefore, I didn’t know the details of this thing and didn’t act rashly.
"Please bring over the bandits who were captured in last night's attack."
The priest who led the team demanded this, but the words he used in his words had quietly softened.
Kil snorted softly, waved his free left hand back, and brought the person to him.
He probably understood the reason for the other party's caution, so he mocked at this time: "You guys are old, so you have to identify them carefully, and be careful not to believe those bastards everything! In order to survive, the robbers' mouths can be... Not a word of truth.”
Several priests from the Church of the God of the Dead curled their lips and said nothing.
Soon, nearly ten bandits, whose arms were tied with ropes and whose legs and feet were connected to others, were escorted over. These people looked nervous, fearing that they would be executed in public if they came here.
As a result, I just came to see a few strange priests who were surrounded. Later, these people were not questioned by the priests. They were just looked at carefully and were suppressed again.
They came with nervous faces and left with confused faces.
Then the priests of the God of the Dead called the people who had been rescued from the bandits for questioning. Ms. Fenia was selected this time, and she calmly told the general story of the fight between Yin and Barney the mountain wolf. .
The priests then asked the other two people who had been rescued in the bandit's lair, and everyone told the true words they saw.
The truth is often irrefutable.
In this way, the priests of the God of the Dead have roughly judged that this place is indeed not an evil ritual created by the Church of the Evil God. It is simply a bandit attack on the young refugees who gathered.
They came by mistake on the way.
It's just that when the attack occurred, both sides of the fighting were large in number. There were more than 800 people on the young refugees' side, and there were also a lot of people on the bandits' side. In several waves, attacks were launched on both sides of the open space, and the number of people was estimated to be hundreds.
Under normal circumstances, the bandits would be able to disperse the young refugees who lacked organizational and fighting abilities with a single night attack, and then catch them one by one, without causing any major casualties.
But there is a knight and a church priest of questionable identity here among the young refugees.
This turned the originally one-sided battle into another one-sided situation.
The priest leading the team exhaled and had to look into the eyes of the young knight. After his face twitched, he asked: "Young knight, where are you from and are you loyal to the noble lord nearby? Why do you want to do this this time? Leading so many young people out of seclusion and heading east? Please answer appropriately."
Kil snorted, and then answered loudly, his voice loud enough for everyone to hear clearly.
"I am Joe Keel. Not from around here, but from Kendal County in the North West Province. I follow Baron Kendal, Knight Dodd Crow who taught me knightly skills, and Knight Punk Rummy. Together, we led the elite militiamen of Kendall County and set out in early spring to go to the border of the southern province to support the local war with neighboring countries."
"But when I was passing through the city of Montoka in the Western Province, I met this—Priest Lothar Batal of the Church of the God of Saturn."
Kiel then raised his voice to a loud voice, allowing everyone to hear clearly: "Everyone, listen clearly. Inspired by the great God of Agriculture, Lothar Batal was attacked in the village before, and the villagers' believers were kidnapped by the defeated army. Come to Montoka City and look for me who is also appointed by the great God of Agriculture! Joe Kil! Let’s go together to rescue the captive villagers who are in deep trouble at the moment.”
The priest who led the team was about to ask whether this was true or not, but was blocked by what happened next.
Kil directly slammed the spear in his right hand into the ground, then used the buckle under the neck armor to remove the helmet, and then took off the complex metal armor that covered the entire upper body, unbuttoned the inner armor and clothing under the armor, and directly exposed his head and face. Upper body.
"Look, this is the evidence. It is the ritual blessing appointed by the God of Agriculture in the Montoka Parish of the Church of the God of Agriculture!"
Kil turned around to give everyone a clear look.
Then he shouted loudly and activated the 'grass and tree source' ritual blessing ability that can bring unlimited energy.
The powerful god of agriculture surged forward, following the route he had explored before, and instantly filled Kil's body.
The green power of the god of agriculture visible to the naked eye swam like fire on his skin, and his original bright eyes were replaced by a pair of eyes that emitted a green light.
And the blessing patterns on both sides of his chest sparkled even more.
It was the first time for the young refugees around him to see such an ability so clearly. Although they did not understand what happened, they at least knew that this powerful young knight was indeed blessed by the great God of Agriculture.
For a moment, the believers in the God of Agriculture immediately knelt on the ground and worshiped the majestic and astonishing young knight.
Other rescued people also talked in low voices.
But laymen watch the excitement, and insiders watch the door. Unlike ordinary people who were surprised when they saw the activated 'source of grass and trees', the priests of the Church of the God of the Dead noticed another unactivated ritual blessing ability on the young knight's chest.
Under such exposed and close observation, they could clearly perceive something that surprised them from the unactivated blessing ability.
The power of divine power and ritual blessing descended by the god of agriculture.
In the perception of the priests, that thing is so pure and eye-catching, powerful and complex.
Although the ability is not activated at the same time to show identity, it is okay if it is not activated.
"I'm really sorry. You are indeed a warrior blessed by the God of Agriculture. No need to prove it, but please forgive us for being cautious, because we sensed the breath of a large number of people dying in the early morning, and we are afraid of this unmanaged area. Against the background of the gradually chaotic southern province, the evil conspiracy of the Evil God Church will break out."
The priest who led the team bent down slightly at this moment, holding the Orb of Rejection, and bowed his head to apologize to the young knight.
"It's not me who should accept your apology, but all the innocent people who were attacked by bandits on this trade road and lost their lives. They are the ones you really need to apologize and compensate for! Go and take a look, under the green grass on this trade road, There is no place that has not been soaked with the blood of innocent people. Go and see the white bones and walking corpses scattered all over the bandit lairs not far from here. Go and see the piercing wails echoing in the places where the people are imprisoned. Go and have a look, don't huddle behind the city wall or within the town. It's not just this long unmanaged trade route that has been abandoned, but also all the refugee people inside the White Stone City Wall pass who sacrificed their dignity and knelt down to beg!"
"The white stone city wall left by the dwarves seems to be eternally smooth, but shrouded in its sacred feeling, I don't know how many innocent souls are mourning! And what about you? You just live in the holy church temple and church, paying homage to the church all day long. Do you pray to the gods to live your life? Have you ever walked out of the thick walls and listened to the desires of the people kneeling on the streets begging? Oh, kneeling begging and praying are really similar, right? "
"You! This is disrespectful!"
There were priests of the God of the Dead who were in their twenties and nearly thirty years old and shouted loudly, but the other priests remained silent.
Next to him, Priest Batal, who had never spoken a word, was also staring blankly at the young knight whom he had known for only a few days.
He thought that he knew the weapons and equipment of the knight squire in training and his skills, so he knew him well. However, he did not expect that after hearing these words, he realized that this young man who usually laughs and laughs, He actually has such a warm and compassionate heart.
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The priests of the Church of the Dead drove away in donkey carts.
But instead of returning to the White Stone City Wall level, he took a surrendered bandit from the Fat Man bandit gang and drove the donkey cart towards the bandit's cave lair that was set on fire by Kiel and the others last night.
Although the flames can destroy a large number of primary undead zombies, the negative energy aura filling the cave will not fade away so easily.
The flames will eventually go out after the burning materials are burned out, but the caves that retain the aura of negative energy are likely to be valued by other weird things in the mountains and forests, and then take over.
They had to deal with it carefully, they couldn't just set it on fire and then do it hastily.
Of course, these priests moved very quickly, and in Kiel's view, it was just an excuse to redeem himself for his mistakes on this trip. However, Kil noticed that the priest who led the team never put down the activated Orb of Rejection from the beginning to the end.
Even when he was apologizing, or even when he was conducting a brief farewell ceremony for the innocent refugees, he carefully held the heavy and gorgeous sphere.
The other party didn't explain what this thing was, and it was hard for Keir to ask. He also didn't know how powerful the thing in the opponent's hand was.
A large number of corpses were burned into ashes all over the sky in the morning. The people then poured water to extinguish the fires, dug pits and buried the ashes of all the robbers' corpses. The ashes of the dead young refugees were all passed away last night. After visiting relatives and friends, grab a handful of granulated ashes, put them in a small bag, and carry them with you.
So, after eating a meal of wheat porridge in the afternoon, everyone set off again, walking eastward along the deserted trade road.
The team gathered the leader, and everyone was carrying more or less things, either weapons and equipment from the bandits last night, or valuable items found from the bandits' lair.
As for small things, young refugees who had never participated in the fighting, regardless of gender, all carried one or two items on their backs. For those who are stronger, two people use ropes and wooden sticks to carry heavier objects on their shoulders.
The rescued merchants and people no longer had the right to ride in cars, and they had to follow the team on foot. Some people want to return to the White Stone City Wall level in the west. After all, it only takes half a day to return to a civilized town, which is far better than being in an uninhabited and dangerous wilderness.
But they couldn't open their mouths and were rescued by the Knights of Kiel. Where did the team go? Not only were their words useless, but how could they repay the debt of salvation they owed when they were rescued?
Some down-and-out businessmen who own nothing but businessmen's clothes may still be immersed in the sadness and loss of complete defeat and not think much about it, but they still understand similar principles.
They can't just leave before their gratitude is clear.
Unless, like Ms. Fenea, she could repay her with buried property and other valuable properties (no one mentioned anything about her and Barney the mountain wolf, nor the young people at the time).
Of course, for some teenagers and women who really have little property and repayment ability, others around them don’t expect them to do anything.
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Throughout the afternoon, hundreds of them only walked a little way, so they had no choice but to camp early for the night at around dusk when it was dark and drizzling.
Thanks to the various animal skins and bedding obtained from the bandits' lair, although these things are rarely washed and cleaned by the bandits, these oily and smelly things can at least be propped up to protect everyone from the rain and keep warm.
The grass beside the merchant road was flattened by people walking back and forth several times. This was not only to make it easier for people to camp, but also to drive away the beast dens and poisonous insects in the grass in advance.
The ashes of the firewood that everyone carried were scattered on the ground, and the bugs who couldn't stand the smell of the ashes crawled away into the ground or far away as if they were running for their lives.
Bloodfangster specially selected thirty strong young men who were skilled and agile in cutting wood in the morning, so that they would not have to carry extra luggage and cargo. After that, their daily work was to accumulate physical strength and cut wood to make firewood for everyone when setting up camp. .
Therefore, after choosing the location of the camp, Bloodyost led the logging team, as well as the twenty young men holding swords who were responsible for protecting everyone, to the forest not far from the camp next to the trade road to obtain firewood.
After they cut down a tree, they can directly chop the big tree into firewood of suitable size for people to use and carry. After taking these firewood back to the camp, when everyone had enough fuel to burn for a night, their work came to an end.
It seems that this job is a bit of a disadvantage, but in fact, those who are selected are envied by others.
After all, carrying things on your back is quite tiring, but the woodcutter only needs to carry his own woodcutter tools and can walk calmly in the middle of the team.
One of the main reasons for the delay in walking in the team is actually the rescued people who walk the slowest in the team. They are different from the young refugees.
The young refugees were weak because they had not had enough to eat before, so they started walking slowly. However, as they ate endless meals of thick wheat porridge for the past two days, the resilience and physical strength of the farmers who originally farmed the land took advantage of them. It was revealed.
Everyone, regardless of gender, has a pair of iron legs. Many of them are carrying things on their backs. They can also talk and laugh on the road. From time to time, they exchange the iron swords assigned to their partners and friends.
As for the merchants, they usually travel by car to do business, and the rescued women have never walked such a long way. Everyone has been tortured and imprisoned by the bandits for a long time, so they walked very slowly this afternoon.
The team's speed slowed down as a result.
But Kiel didn't care.