The attackers in the night finally retreated. After the two most powerful church knights and several other wizards, knights, and priests who had led the team fell, only the few left in the night panicked into the squat. In the darkness, they left more than a dozen bodies and a mess, and eventually did not get anything.

A Cecil soldier suffered a very serious injury. His power field shield was crushed when he was fighting with a knight. Then a wound with almost deep visible bone was opened under the chest, but in number After the bottle of alchemy was poured, the soldier’s injury has stabilized.

In addition, there is no other death or injury in Cecil.

The soldiers who ended the battle began to check the battlefield, sort out the equipment, and confirm the enemy's situation, but no one was close to the open space next to the well.

Wright stood quietly on this open space, a clear and bright light still enveloped around him, like a light-cast armor and a cloak covering him, and the holy light shone around and shone on the sky. Emily had closed her eyes in the open space covered with light.

The bright big eyes will never open again.

"Do you believe in the Light, or the Holy Light?"

In the mind of Wright, there was a saying that the lord asked himself before the departure. This sentence has been lingering in his mind for many days. The contradiction caused by this sentence made him sleepless all day long, he did not understand. I don't understand why I have to make a choice among the Holy Light and the Holy Light, but now he understands.

In the great disappointment of anger and the **** of the Light, he understood that it was a glare in his mind, a loud bang that broke away from a certain spiritual seal. In that moment, he abandoned his faith. The Lord for decades embraced the true light.

But some people have paid the price that should not be paid for.

A slight coolness fell on his face, and the silky raindrops fell from the sky and landed on this land of misfortune and sorrow. The summer rain that was late for a whole night finally arrived before dawn. In the cold rain, Wright was half-baked by Emily and placed her hand on the girl's forehead.

"... Let the Light shelter you from the way forward... no longer trapped in the cold and darkness... May your soul be peaceful... From then on, there will be no hunger and suffering..."

Ansu 736 years, fire on the 22nd, early summer.

The first white knight in human history was born in the wilderness of the South.

Even at this moment, no one knows how this new career should be named.

Cecil led, in the lord's office, Gao Wen saw the two Knights of Byron and Philip who had just returned from the front.

They all returned to the territory from the Hosman POW camp, and arrived with them, as well as thousands of special captives brought out from the nobility coalition.

"According to your orders, we brought the nobles and their knights, the wizards, and the priests of the Holy Light, the Knights of the Holy See, and the Merciful Mercenaries in the coalition," Byron reported the situation, "but because To hurry, we only brought a part of there and more than a thousand people in the Hosman prison camp, and two hundred people did not bring them in the Tanzanian prisoner of war camp."

"That's all right, mainly to bring those nobles and their vassals over, others don't have to worry," Gao Wen said casually. "We can do a lot more before we integrate the entire South."

"Lord, what are you going to do with the nobles and their followers?" Philip Knight asked curiously. "Those people... have been clamoring to meet you after eating, to explain to you in this war. ……misunderstanding."

"...Is it to talk to me to talk about this? Fortunately, their brains have not completely frozen, but they are not good enough to go," Gao Wenyi waved his hand. "They can save energy. They haven't figured out what this war means in the end."

Byron immediately heard the whisper and whispered next to Philip: "Look, I told you, you can keep those people on, and they will let them squat, big deal, they will be bigger with the water plant." The machine pumps are closed together to see who is moving..."

Philip didn't take care of Byron at all, but continued to speak to Gao Wen: "We arrested the Knights of the Holy See and the Holy Light Pastor in the aristocracy as far as possible, but many people still escaped after entering the plains. They have Some people were trapped in the Cecil-controlled area and are slowly being captured, but a considerable number of Holy See knights and priests fled to the St. Lu'an Cathedral in the northwest...not in our control area."

Next to Byron couldn't help but swear: "Put it down into a control zone."

"Cough." Gao Wen suddenly coughed twice. Although he wanted to say that Byron was saying this, he avoided avoiding flying too much at the last moment because he knew very well that St. Luan's Cathedral and the church were in Lu. Ancheng not only has a special meaning within the Holy Light, but even throughout the South.

It is the headquarters of the Church of the Light in the southern parish, and it is also a theoretical "neutral place."

Lu’an City is theoretically controlled by the royal family. There is no lord in the local area. There is only the general affairs officer stationed by the royal family. However, the general affairs officer is basically a blind man. The real control of Lu’an City is the Cathedral of St. Lu’an in the city. Southern bishops and gods.

Of course, the bishops of the southern parish are now gone, and the high-ranking knights and priests of St. Luan’s Cathedral also died in this war, seven seven eight eight eight, the strength of the entire St. Luan Cathedral to the current Sethi It’s not a problem at all, but what Gao Wen has to consider is not the defense of St. Lu’an’s Cathedral at all.

What he wants to consider is whether he can attack it directly and in what name he attacks.

This is directly related to the next order in the South, and also to his influence on a large number of Holy Light believers in the South.

And there is a more realistic question: after the St. Luan Cathedral was knocked down? Is it just occupying Lu’an City, or is it to arrest all the sacred church officials in Lu’an City and even destroy the church? If it is the former, I am afraid that the influence of the Holy Light Church on the South will not be completely expelled. If it is the latter, I am afraid that the social order in the South will face great fluctuations, and the more devout light in the new territory. Believers will also question the “justice” of the new lords.

After all, the occupation of cities and churches can be said to be a normal procedure for war, because the southern border bishop Leymont has "offensive" the city of Cecil with twelve heavily armed Holy See knights and a high-ranking priest. This can be seen as A declaration of war, but if the city is further destroyed after the occupation of the city, the hundreds of thousands of Holy Light believers in the South may have doubts about the rule of Gavin Cecil.

Gao Wenke couldn't directly erase the light belief from the hundreds of thousands of people's minds, and with his current influence in the south and the actual situation of the world's religious beliefs, he could not promote too much. Church reform program.

Of course, you can also consider using a compromise to force all the priests to accept Cecil law after laying down the St. Lu'an Cathedral, and let them sever contact with the Holy Light Church headquarters in the Holy Spirit Plain, after that, a little bit later. Replace, purify, and transform the entire group of priests, but the effect of this is not guaranteed, and there may be hidden dangers...

Since he has begun to take over the South, he must begin to think about these practical problems as a ruler in the South.

Philip and Byron saw that Gao Wen was thinking about the problem, and they didn't bother to interrupt. They waited quietly beside them, then they heard Gao Wen gently tapping the table with his fingers, and said to himself. One sentence: "There must be a church of the Light..."

Philip didn’t hear it at once: “What?”

"Nothing," Gao Wen shook his head. "We will solve the problem of the Cathedral of St. Lu'an, but at the moment we can let the priests and the Knights of the Holy See continue to shake in the cathedral for a while. In addition, those who are locked in the various captive camps. The nobles in the house... are also temporarily hanging out, letting them recognize the situation in front of them, which will help them to cooperate with Cecil’s law in the future. In solving the problem of St. Lu’an Cathedral and reshaping the South Before order, we should do another thing..."

Byron and Phillips said in unison: "Another thing?"

“We must make the Southland 'our southland',” Gao Wen stood up from behind the desk and came to the huge map hanging on the wall. His sight fell on the gateway to the northernmost tip of the South China Sea. “Can’t Give the keys to your home to the outsiders."

Philip and Byron followed Govin's line of sight and saw the portal fortress with special significance.

Philip's expression became serious, and Byron couldn't help but whistle: "This is a bad goal."

“It’s really a bad goal,” Gao Wen nodded. “The Rock Fortress and the defensive stone fortress in the South are not a thing at all. Its entire wall is enchanted, almost equivalent to an extra layer of time. The magic shield is shrouded in the fortress, and all the troops stationed in the Rock Fortress are the bourgeoisie of the fortress. But the garrison of the fortress is directly trained and controlled by the royal family. A rock fortress, its power is better than Howth. The 70,000 hustle and bustle that the Count of Mann has gathered together is even stronger."

Byron laughed and said: "After all, it is to block the entire southern environment."

"So we may need to fire a lot of guns to get this fortress down," Gao Wen laughed. "But anyway, we have to knock it down... and then control the door in your own hands." ”

After that, how to play on the plains of the Holy Spirit has nothing to do with him. He can calm down and clean up the South, such as tidying up the sacred officials who are hiding in the Cathedral of St. Luan, or cleaning up those who are still in the cell. Aristocratic prisoners.

“When are you going to launch an offensive?” Byron put away the usual hippie smile and asked seriously, “We are now at the most vigorous stage of morale...”

"Don't worry," Gao Wen waved his hand and quietly looked at the map in front of him. "I am waiting for the news..."

"wait for news?"

"Wait for a reason to attack the Rock Fortress, wait for the timing of the attack, and wait for new information," Gao Wen said. "And these... maybe soon."