goddess of revolution

Chapter 286 The Crack of Justice

In Cheyandia, wooden houses have been built in the valley outside the basin, forming a large-scale village and town.The roads paved with gravel crisscrossed and looked quite neat.

In the tall wooden house near the basin, Nama heard her sister's indignant accusation, and at first she was also angry. After pondering for a moment, she sighed helplessly.

"Okay, I see, I will discuss this with everyone tonight."

Nama patted her sister's head affectionately: "Don't be angry, and don't blame the Duke of Prell and the people who mined the ore. We will always find a solution that everyone is satisfied with."

"I don't blame anyone." Nicole secretly touched the wristband wrapped in her sleeve, and was a little surprised: "Why does it feel like my sister has changed a lot. I didn't say anything before. Everyone is satisfied, and the solution is not Something for a paladin to think about."

Nama smiled lightly: "You want to say that my sister has become a relative heretic?"

Nicole hugged her sister's arm and acted like a baby: "My sister is really going to become a heretic, so I will accompany her to change! The kind of justice that makes me and my sister enemies is definitely not real justice!"

"You, keep your voice down, and be careful not to be heard by other people." Nama put her arms around her sister and said in a low voice: "When you said such things before, I would definitely educate you severely. I always feel that you deal with businessmen all day long. Faith always accepts the temptation of people's hearts and money, and has never been firm."

"Now, the instructor entrusted me with the task of building Xia'andia. After less than two months of doing it, I deeply felt that my previous understanding of justice was indeed too superficial and one-sided. We didn't even see it clearly. Where is the starting point of the justice I insist on?"

Nicole muttered: "The starting point? It sounds like sister, do you believe in the four kinds of justice that Duke Pryor said?"

"It's not just me who believes it, but also the instructor," Nama sighed, "But the instructor doesn't believe that there are only four kinds of justice mentioned by Pryor. His Majesty's true will."

Nicole was a little worried: "Is my sister going to follow uncle to find the fifth kind of justice?"

Nama shook her head: "Didn't the mentor say it? Everyone can see different reflections of justice in their hearts, so the path to pursue justice belongs only to myself. I can't follow the mentor to find such justice, but I am doing it right now." look for things."

"My sister will definitely find it," Nicole continued coquettishly: "When my sister finds it, she will drag me along!"

Nama pinched her nose dotingly: "You know how to be lazy..."

When my sister left the wooden house and went back to Xia'andia, Nama came to the second-floor terrace, overlooking the village, and sighed softly: "This is really troublesome..."

"There's more trouble inside," she muttered.

At night, the log cabin in the center of Cheyandia glows with a bright white light, illuminating everything around it.This is a white light lamp bought from the Adventurer's Guild of Beta City. As long as you cast a first-level general magic, such as healing, a lamp can be turned on for an hour, which is much less labor-intensive and more convenient than simply using divine light to illuminate.

Hundreds of people were crowded in the wooden house, sitting in a large circle. These people gathered all the hero-level professionals in Xia'an Dia, most of them were paladins, and there were also some magicians, druids, and rangers.

This is the "Tutor Association" that has been running well since the establishment of Xia Andia. All the major policies and important affairs of Xia Andia are collectively decided by the mentor association.

Most of the time in the past, Xia An put forward opinions, and everyone supplemented them. If Xia An was not around, Nama, as an agent, did not have such authority.

"These people are thieves! They must all be arrested and severely punished!"

A person waved his arms, looking extremely excited, it was Banner who was still practicing mining.

"Getting something for nothing is the greatest evil! And this must be a conspiracy by Duke Pryor. He intends to let these professionals dig out all the mine veins and cut off the foundation of our Xia'andia!"

Banner's attitude towards this matter was extremely resolute: "Tomorrow we will organize a patrol, catch one and severely punish the other!"

A few paladins echoed firmly, but most remained silent, frowning.

"Patrols are needed, but severe punishment cannot solve the problem," Nama said. "I think this is just an opportunity to develop the outer layer of Cheyandia."

"We can issue authorizations to adventurers. The authorized adventurers can mine ores, and the ores dug will be handed over to us in a certain proportion. In this way, we can control the scale of mining and obtain certain benefits. At the same time, attract more Adventurers have settled outside Cheyandia."

People nodded one after another. Although everyone came to Xia'andia to pursue a free and peaceful life, the series of turmoil in the Godfall Plateau before, especially the conflict between Beta City and Holy Light Fortress, made them realize that tranquility and freedom require strength to possess. .

It is a force to gather more adventurers on the outer layer of Xia'andia, and let Xia'andia manage it.

"Authorization? Hand in? In other words, we paladins are going to recruit miners, collect mining taxes, and treat magic ore as a business?"

Banner said in a bitter tone: "Is this going to turn Cheyandia into an ore supplier for the Duke of Prior? Nama, are you going to ask for a title of baron or viscount from the Duke of Prior? , and even pick up the family glory of Earl Hector?"

"Banna, your hatred of the nobles is blinding your heart again," Nama said coldly: "The task entrusted to me by the mentor is to make Xia'andia grow stronger, so that we can build and Through the comparison of the different modes of operation between Xiyandia and the outer zone, we can look for pure justice. It can exist independently and support everyone and everything, not just justice that can only be used for adjudication.”

Banner said angrily: "Who knows whether what you are doing is endangering justice, luring paladins to take the wrong path, or breeding pure justice?"

"We have been staying in Xia'andia, and what we do every day is mining, but we still have ears, and we can hear the obscene laughter of men and women in the outer zone every night! We still have noses, which are so strong You can smell the nauseous alcohol now!"

Banner made a very serious accusation to Nama: "What is the difference between the current outer zone and all the dark and depraved cities on the mainland? We came to Xia'andia to stay away from such evils, but you actually want to stay in Xia'andia?" Build a lair of evil at Ya's gate?"

People's expressions became serious, Xia An was not there, and the conflict between the civilian faction headed by Banner and the noble faction headed by Nama broke out again.

"Then you are questioning the decision of the mentor!?"

Nama also stood up, confronting each other: "Everyone has confirmed the instructor's instructions, that is to make the outer area of ​​Xia'andia grow stronger, and let the paladins seek justice in the process of management and development. As for the things you are picky about, as long as Wherever there are people, there will be disputes between good and evil, even in Paradise Mountain, indulgence and extravagance cannot be tolerated, the overall situation is good, and we should be tolerant."

"I didn't question the instructor's decision!"

Banner retorted: "But it doesn't mean to tolerate your turning Cheyandia into a mine for the great nobles, nor does it mean to ignore the definite crimes that are happening!"

He said awe-inspiringly: "Although the mentor puts you in charge of managing the outer zone, it does not mean that you have the privilege of trampling on justice without being questioned! The mission that the tutor gave us to clean up the evil around Xia'andia has not been withdrawn. We have the right to protect the outer zone." The good order of the strata!"

Nama sneered: "You are still in the training period, you can't take half a step beyond Xia'andia!"

"I can't, others can!"

Banner glanced at the crowd: "Am I right?"

Several paladins stood up, nodded and said: "We have such a right!"

Nama gritted her teeth, and said again: "Do you want to maintain order? Okay! Then from tomorrow, let's see, when you impose the order you want on the adventurers in the outer zone, how will the outer zone respond?" Attract more adventurers to settle, or leave here."

"If it is the former, it proves that you are right. If it is the latter, then you are wrong. Do you dare to accept my conclusion?"

Banner froze, and the paladins who stood up also frowned.

The old man dressed as a magician spoke up: "Xia'an said before the trip that he hoped to see a prosperous new settlement when he came back. That would become a new barrier for Xia'andia, a new test site, and a new lair of justice. If you are not satisfied with Nama's management, you must be convincing enough. I think there is no problem with Nama's argument. Banner, if you want to clean up the order in the outer zone, you can't let the goal of developing the outer zone be problematic. .”

This magician is a good friend of Xia'an, and he was invited to settle in Xia'andia. He solved many problems for the paladins that were difficult for priests to solve, and was highly respected in Xia'andia.

What he said, even the paladins who agreed with Banner had nothing to say.

Banner pondered for a moment, then said in a low voice, "I'll think about it again..."

It was getting dark, people left the wooden house, and scattered in twos and threes.

In the wooden house, Banner said to Nama: "You have embarked on a dangerous path, and I will not sit idly by."

"Banner, you don't agree with the instructor's opinion, do you?"

Nama shook her head and said regretfully, "I can see that you don't believe in pure justice."

"Justice should serve goodness," Banner said firmly, "Justice should be upheld and crimes should be eradicated."

Nama sighed: "The justice you want is actually revenge, and the crime you want to eliminate is actually all nobles, right?"

Banner stared at Nama with deep eyes: "Isn't it? Whether nobles or priests, every breath they breathe is poisoning the whole world, and every pore on their bodies is filled with blood from the poor. The blood and sweat squeezed from the body."

Nama asked, "And then?"

Banner said in a natural tone: "Then, of course, a saint who upholds justice will be the king, and all the nobles will be replaced by paladins with firm beliefs. Every crime."

"If there is a fifth kind of justice, it is this kind of justice, so I don't understand why the teacher is looking for it. This is a self-evident thing. Just do it, just eliminate all evils?"

Nama shook her head bitterly: "Banner, when we were together, I advised you to read more books, especially history. Evil can never be eradicated, and kings and nobles will always be corrupt, but you always If you don’t listen, you still think I’m despising your identity.”

"What a paladin should do is not to destroy the nobles, but to be vigilant against them at all times as you said, to implement the law and amend the law. The paladin should become the sworn enemy of the nobles, just like the opposition between light and darkness, instead of instead of the nobility."

"When the paladins replaced the nobles, didn't they become nobles themselves? You can see such things by looking at history. Aren't the ancestors of the current nobles all noble and holy, with firm beliefs, and heroes who are willing to sacrifice to protect the people? ?"

"If you don't believe it, you can ask Gloria, ask her, what kind of justice are they still upholding for the paladins and nobles who are the upper class in Alanis?"

Banner's cheeks twitched a few times, and he let out an incomprehensible low smile: "Yeah, I can't read, I'm uneducated, I'm just a country boy. So in your eyes, I'm always low. That's why we broke up."

"Banna, until now you are still clinging to your identity, and even attributed our breakup to this kind of thing." Nama's chest obviously rose and fell, and tears welled up in her eyes: "It is you who have always been here Low self-esteem, I always think that mud-legged people are lowly people!"

Banner was also excited: "Shut up! This is not what I think, this is reality, a reality created by generations of your nobles!"

He didn't want to talk any more, and said coldly: "I've said it before, I won't let you drag Xia'andia into the abyss of corruption!"

Looking at Banner's disappearing figure, Nama sighed long, wiped away her tears, and looked resolute again.

Another day of practice began, and in the mine, there was an endless sound of clanging pickaxes.

"Banner, there are too few people on our side." During the break, the companion wiped his sweat and said to Banner: "Xia An is not here, most people are confused by Nama, we have to think about it differently." Method."

Another companion looked in a certain direction and said in a low voice: "I think you should have a good talk with Otto. He is actually on our side, otherwise he wouldn't follow us to the Holy Light Castle."

"Yeah, Otto has a good relationship with many people, especially the druids and rangers. If we persuade him, we can gain more people's support."

Banner shook his head: "Otto? He only knows how to carve wood all day long, and the crime is in front of him. Just because he is a woman, a guy who can't bear to spit, can he count on him?"

He looked in the other direction, where the jingle was visibly slower.

After thinking about it, he waved to his companion and went alone.

In the depths of the mine, Mayne cried and said: "Gronia, my hands have worn out two layers of calluses, and my arms are as hard as iron. If I dig any further, I won't be able to get married. Let me rest." Come down!"

Gronia swung her hoe and scolded, "Stop pretending, you go out to chat with Frodo every day after you swipe your hoe, what a disgrace to us paladins of Alanis!"

Mayne said in despair: "Didn't you come here to mine mines to be a paladin in Xia'andia? What are you talking about Alanis? Speaking of which, I really want to go back to Alanis, even if I am arrested as a traitor and apostate It doesn't matter anymore."

"For what? Just to return to Alanis!"

Gronia whispered: "But it's not going back with one or two people, but with a group of people, a large army!"

Mayne smiled wryly, "His Royal Highness..."

The words and the hoe stopped together, and Banner appeared in front of the two of them.

"His Royal Highness Gloria", Banner saluted very politely. They had been together in the mine for more than half a month, and this was the first time he came to talk to her.

"I've always been curious about some things," Banner asked, "Alanis was established by paladins. What kind of country is that? How do paladins manage the people? Where is justice? What is it like? "

Mayne laughed and said, "Oh, actually..."

"Maine!"

Gloria interrupted her, her head bowed, her eyes flickering.

After a while, she raised her head and said in a sacred and solemn tone: "The paladins of Alanis are noble and holy, and they have always insisted on justice. Although the details are a little different from the paladins of Xia'andia, they built Alanis into justice on the ground. Heaven."

Mayne was dumbfounded, looking at Glonia as if he was meeting Gloria for the first time.

Banner frowned, obviously suspicious.

Tears fell from the corners of Gronia's eyes, and she said sadly: "That's why the Blood Crown Queen destroyed Alanis."

(End of this chapter)