Transcendent Noble

Father Miller crouched out of the security office, his expression heavy, depressed, and even the bright sun couldn't smooth the entanglement on his face at this moment.

"I have been a priest for twenty-seven years. This is the first time I have seen a lord sign a death sentence!" Thinking of the desperate eyes and pious confession of death row prisoners in the dungeon, Miller couldn't help but say Victor by his side pleaded: "I think it's better to exile them."

Victor shook his head and said, "I personally gave the order to hang the criminals, and I will bear the responsibility. Father Miller, you are not at all. You need to blame yourself for this."

According to the Guangming New Testament, the lord has secular judicial power and can impose penalties on criminals who violate the law, including imprisonment, hard labor, flogging, public display in cages, exile, and hanging . However, in actual operation, lords rarely hang freed people and leaders under their rule, because the execution of criminals requires the consent of the garrison priest.

The church claims that the priest has the responsibility of redeeming the people and supervising the lord. As long as people can pray for atonement, even criminals have the right to be redeemed. Of course, this is only the salvation of the soul, and the lord still has the right Hang the criminal. In fact, the church is not trying to shelter criminals. They treat believers as lambs. Even if some lambs have threatened the health of the flock, the wool that should be harvested must be harvested before being executed. If the chief executioner is a vassal, the garrison priest will definitely not distort the tune.

Lords feel the headache of the church’s oversight power. In order to avoid losing a brutal reputation, most lords will not ask the refugees’ crimes at all. The sheriff usually handles it with full authority, and the sheriff will This thankless thing is left to the hyena. To this peculiar order, the garrison priests tend to adopt a tacit attitude, because the execution rate of the death penalty in the territory is directly related to their merits.

As a voter of the Lord of Radiance, Miller has surpassed the limits of the Radiance Code. His power is like a sea, he can see the veil of the future, and he can observe a person’s evil and evil from the soul level. no. However, Miller was essentially a kind-hearted old farmer. He didn't even want to kill the wizard himself, let alone an ordinary person.

"You forced me to agree to hang 19 people! You said I was not responsible?" Father Miller muttered, "I think it's better to be exiled."

There is no conclusive evidence. Under the circumstances, it is common practice to exile criminals into the wild. Without the protection of villages and towns, the exiled people basically have no way to survive. There are no beasts and monsters in the wild led by Randal, but the alchemy war mastiff is not to be trifled with, but Victor needs a fair and honest death sentence. He would rather offend Miller than execute secretly.

"These prisoners murdered and buried their bodies, the evidence is conclusive, die without regret! Even if you disagree with my death sentence, I will hang them! Give the victims justice." Victor said righteously. .

Faced with the lord of devotion to righteousness that inspires reverence, Miller was at a loss.

Miller is a civilian priest who understands Holy Power by himself. He has not received training in the monastery. During his more than 20 years as a priest, he has spent most of his time preaching in remote small towns, where the population is sparsely populated. Simple, there are almost no refugees and bandits. The villagers in the small town live and work in peace, their neighbors are in harmony and mutual help, and at most a few fights have occurred. It is also because the young men are competing for love for their favorite girls, and they don’t even need to mediate. They will soon get back together.

It is a brand new challenge for Father Miller to independently preside over the teaching affairs of more than 10,000 people. He does not know how to deal with the lord, so he can only follow his heart and try to save some people.

"fief lord, not all of these prisoners are bad guys. Three of them were forced to fight back, so they missed the killing! They should not be hanged." Father Miller cautiously persuaded: "I agree. Hang other people...Do these three people give them a chance to commute to two years of hard labor?"

"How do you know they are good people?" Victor asked curiously.

"Uh..." Father Miller paused and explained weakly: "Didn't they confess it?"

"That's just their side words!" Victor shook his head helplessly. Said: "The victim is dead, don't you just say what they say?"

"This...I am a priest. I can tell if they lie. Other criminals are full of lies, I Didn't you believe it?" Father Miller couldn't explain to Victor the soul-level things, he could only argue vaguely.

"I can't agree!" Victor categorically refused, saying: "How do you know that the victim deserves to die? Couldn't he be redeemed?"

"This..." Father Le suddenly had nothing to say, everyone was dead, how could he tell whether he was a good person or a bad person.

"If there are too many people hanged by Randal, it means that I am not able to educate the people! The above may have to resend the priest to take over the teaching affairs here!" The old priest smashed his neck and played a rogue.

Victor only finds it funny. With his current reputation and status, it is only a letter to change or not to change the priest. There is no need for Sylvia to come forward. Archbishop will also sell him face.

Just as the two were entangled, Linda, the sheriff, came over with a big belly, "Good day, my lord, good day, Father Miller."

Linda Wearing a loose skirt, holding his belly in one hand, and about to curtsey, Victor quickly stopped and said: "You don't need to be polite."

"May my lord protect you, child." Father Miller told Linda Warned repeatedly: "Pay more attention to rest during this time and don't run around!"

"Yes." Linda gently stroked her belly, her face full of maternal love.

When Linda took the guards into the police station, Father Miller asked Victor: "You never let a pregnant woman execute the death sentence, do you?"

Victor complexion stiffened , After a while, sighed: "Father, do you think Linda is a good person?"

"Not really!" Miller whispered: "There are not many good people under your guard!"

"They are all mercenaries, and they are really not good people." Victor nodded said: "It's a bit exaggerated to say that they kill people like scything flax, vicious and merciless, I didn't wrong them."

"Three years ago, I took hundreds of refugees to open up the Randal leader. On the way, Linda killed a good villain. That man was actually a farmer. Although he was wrong, he was not guilty of death. But I It was discovered that after Linda killed that person, the remaining refugees never committed any crimes, not even theft! Father, do you know why this is?"

Miller asked blankly:" Why?"

"Because sin is contagious like a plague!" Victor explained: "If I saved the villain, he might become a good person, but sin will erode the souls of other refugees. , They would think that indulgence of their desires can also be forgiven, and criminals will become more and more."

"Of course, severe penalties will only disgust the people, but my strength at the time was very weak. Without relying on the power of the York family, they could not even recruit followers. The people did not have much confidence in my little lord, and they were worried about the future. After Linda killed the villain, they were relieved."

"Linda beheaded a villain who did not die, and also cut off the sins in the hearts of the people. She invisibly established my authority and the order of the domain. It is precisely because of the order that the people can come back. It can be said, Without Linda's sword, there would be no Randal Family today!"

"Order..." Miller frowned, muttering to himself.

"Yes! It's order!" Victor lightly said with a smile: "The criterion of good and evil is difficult to define. In order not to let his family starve to death, he went to snatch other people's food and was He was beaten to death, and his family starved to death. Do you think the person who killed him was a good or a bad person?"

Father Miller looked confused and his beard was crushed, and there was nothing Ways to figure out right and wrong.

"I don't have an answer. I don't need an answer." Victor Shrugged continued, "The only thing I can do is to establish order, let the people live and work in peace and contentment, so that the tragedy will not repeat itself. Order impossible to cater to Everyone, no matter how good or bad people are, everyone who disrupts order is a bad person, and those who obey the observe order are good people."

"Nelson and the others fight for survival, they may not have innocent people in their hands. Blood. But as long as they arrive in the town, they will abide by the local order, sword enters sheathe, spend money to get drunk, obediently and honestly. Based on this, they are not really bad guys."

"The same principle. Even if the three death row prisoners killed for self-protection, but they disrupted the order of Randal, they must be punished, otherwise the plague of crime will destroy the city wall of order and cause greater damage to the people. Hurt!"

The three good people in Father Miller's mouth may really resist killing because of being oppressed, but they do not belong to legitimate defense, but follow the rules of freedmen. .

Victor can tolerate the inherent order of the refugees. In fact, the overwhelming majority lords acquiesced in the results of the refugees' struggles and waited for them to decide the outcome before letting the police control them. The problem is that Randal's security system is too weak. In order to prevent the tail from being too big and the hostile to bully the Lord, Victor must first use a few lives to establish his prestige.

"Father Miller. The Randal collar is more fragile than you think" Victor continued: "This is the pioneer collar. The fortress blocking the entrance to the Great Swamp has not been built yet, and it is difficult for my army. Respond to the threat of Ant-Man. The refugees in the territory are ready to flee at any time. The reason why they still stay in Randal is because there are job opportunities here. The order of the territory is also an important reason."

"In addition to lunatics, No one likes killing people. But if I can’t maintain order, General Randal will fall into chaos, and those simple and honest people will choose to leave here. Without these people, how can the fortress be built? The fortress cannot be completed on time, and the ant-man army can be overwhelmed at any time. Centaur Hills and even the entire Gambis Kingdom are in danger. At that time, people will be displaced, hunger and cold will be inevitable."

"Father, would you like to see this scene?"

Miller was stunned for a while, his tangled brows finally relaxed, "There are reasons for what will happen and things that will not happen, and now I know the reason is there."

Yes Isn't the hat buttoned too big and stunned the old man?

Victor touched his forehead and probed: "Father Miller, what are you talking about?"

"Child, I want to thank you!" Miller said sincerely.

"Thank me for what?" Victor asked unfathomable mystery.

"You let me know where I was wrong." Father Miller said with a faint smile: "Order is the rule, faith is the order of our lord, so there will be a sacred mark !"

"I can't redeem everyone, and I don't need to cater to everyone. Only by accepting my order can I be redeemed!" After speaking, Father Miller turned and walked towards the chapel.

Victor looked at Father Miller’s relaxed back, browses tightly frowns, and shouted: "Have you agreed to it?"

"I agree!" Father Miller headed He didn't reply, just turned his back to Victor and waved his hand.

Victor touched the chin, thinking about it for a while, shaking his head and sighing, turned and walked towards the city hall.

This old man must have been fooled by me!