Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 528 Great Purge

With the cooperation of the Duke of Collins, there will naturally be no trouble in the follow-up handling of this matter.

However, the impact of this incident does not stop there.

The Collins family is one of the three major ducal families no matter what. Even an illegitimate child is still a big figure that is unattainable for ordinary nobles.

After all, the Duke himself and the Duke's legitimate son are not people that ordinary nobles can easily come into contact with, and there are many times when it is inconvenient for the Duke himself to deal with some matters that someone needs to handle.

At such times, an ignominious illegitimate child with no right of inheritance becomes the Duke’s own spokesperson.

This is why even a dishonorable illegitimate child can obtain a noble title. In many cases, even an illegitimate child needs a reasonable identity to appear in aristocratic social occasions.

The sudden disposal of such a crucial illegitimate child would undoubtedly have a significant impact on the aristocratic community.

For the great nobles, it was natural that they would quickly check the children of their own family to ensure that none of them made the same mistake.

Although the return of the old gods seems to be an inevitable thing, investing in the evil god sect at this time is an advance investment, but the prerequisite is that one can live to see the day when the gods come and defeat the empire and the church.

And this is based on the premise that the evil god sect has the ability to defeat the empire and the church.

If these nobles see no hope of the Evil God Cult winning, how could they invest their lives and fortune into it?

The nobles may be ostentatious and vain in other aspects, but when it comes to issues concerning the life and death interests of their families, they are very pragmatic.

However, it would have been better if this had not been checked clearly. Once we checked ourselves, we found many problems.

The original vassal and nobles in the North were fine. Only a very small number of them had ties with the evil god sect and infiltrated some settlements.

This is not a big problem for the North, and the problem can be solved by sending a working group from the supervisory department to clean up the area.

But the various problems that arose within the nobility made everyone a little nervous.

As a problem that has existed since ancient times, the evil cult was once the ruler of the old world, so naturally the nobles had deep contacts and exchanges with them.

However, as the old gods fell silent, the former rulers were driven off the throne, and the nobles cut ties with them.

But this does not mean that there is no connection between the nobles and the evil cult.

Many of the imperial nobles who migrated to the north had connections with the evil god cult, and many of them had very close relations.

Some of them would only occasionally attend gatherings related to the evil god cult. Many of these gatherings were even just held under the banner of the evil god cult or were just imitations by some bored nobles.

There is nothing wrong with attending such gatherings, and even the church will not make a big fuss about such behavior. At most, it will only ask participants to repent or make atonement.

But some are not so simple, and their relationship with the evil cult is much deeper and more intimate.

Some noble families can even trace their lineages back to the time when the evil cult was still called the Church of the Gods. The blessings of the old gods are hidden in their family bloodlines, and some can even be called the so-called "descendants of gods."

The relationship between these families and the evil god sect is extraordinary, and many of them can even be considered as members of the evil god sect. There are also some families whose children are not good, and the situation they encountered is similar to that of Duke Collins.

Faced with such a difficult situation within the nobility, Perfecto had no choice but to order the supervisory department to work together with the church to conduct a liquidation.

Although she herself did not want to carry out such a large-scale purge, facing these nobles who were involved with the evil cult, Perfecto could not say the words of forgiveness.

After all, those who simply believed in the lies of the evil cult and were temporarily confused may still be saved, but those whose bodies are already flowing with the blessings of the old gods, or who are simply descendants of the evil gods, have absolutely no hope of being saved.

They are often the most ideal vessels or sacrifices for the arrival of evil gods. At the very least, they are easily influenced and bewitched by evil gods due to various reasons of their own.

No matter how upright and noble a person is, he will find it difficult to resist the temptation and temptation of the evil spirit deep in his blood.

This has nothing to do with whether their beliefs or faith are firm or not, but the fact that this kind of bewitchment and temptation from the blood will directly distort a person at the physiological level.

Just like the illegitimate son of the Duke of Collins, he was originally a handsome young man. With the protection of the Duke and some efforts of his own, he could be said to be young and promising with a bright future.

But such an originally positive young man fell into uncontrollable depravity after being exposed to the beliefs of the evil cult.

His body was also distorted into the shape of the scabby boy with octopus legs that Perfectcot had seen before.

It was an irreversible distortion and depravity. The distortion on the physiological level led to the depravity on the psychological level, and the soul had been irreversibly polluted.

This is just the change that occurred after being exposed to the evil god sect's beliefs and being blessed by the so-called evil god.

Those who are born with the blessing of the evil god in their blood or are simply descendants of gods, they don't even need to be exposed to the beliefs of the evil god cult. As long as the evil god is revived, they will be directly distorted at the physiological level.

It is also because of this that the church has carried out large-scale cleansing of those who have been blessed or have bloodlines from evil gods in the past, but there are always some that slip through the net.

Now, the empire has no choice but to replicate the church's operations and eliminate all problematic elements in the aristocratic group.

There is no doubt that this set off another bloody storm in the North, and many people even believed that this was Perfectoct's way of eliminating dissidents.

But these remarks had no effect on Perfecto, because she knew clearly what she was doing, and both the royal family and the aristocracy itself supported her in doing so.

As a result, the newly formed supervisory department in the North dispatched a large number of elite forces to carry out a major purge of the nobles in the North. For a while, the prisons in the North were overcrowded, and a large number of nobles, their family members, relatives, and related personnel were thrown into prison.

Those who have minor problems can be released after the trial, but those who have problems will not be imprisoned this time. The only options waiting for them are beheading or hanging.

There is no amnesty, no commutation of sentence, no exceptions, and no leniency outside the law.

With the Queen's permission and the support of the Council of Nobles, Perfecto went on a killing spree this time.

But simply cleaning out the nobles cannot be considered a solution to the problem, because the evil cult has infiltrated so deeply among the nobles, one can imagine what the situation is like among the civilian population.

(End of this chapter)