Makelle looked at Serilee seriously and said word by word: "That will not only not help those civilians, but will also completely destroy the entire Ascalla!" ”

"Why?" Seri Leph asked with a look of disbelief.

"Because we're the bottom line! At that time, our neutrality was the best way to protect the city! Think about it, what would happen if we were among the civilians? No one will stand still, especially those who have enjoyed power, and when we stand in the midst of the rioting people, it means that their last legal basis is also lost, and if they fail, they will be completely finished! Faced with this situation, they have no second choice but to fight back. ”

"At that point, they will lose their last scruples, and in order to survive, they will turn the entire city into a real battlefield!"

"Wasn't Ascatra a battlefield that day?" Serileph was still unconvinced, because in her opinion, as long as the Knights of the Burning Heart were completely on the side of the civilians, they could quickly end the dispute, and the damage would be minimized.

Makelle looked at Serilee for a few moments before he slowly asked, "Have you ever seen a real battlefield?" ”

Selly Love was tempted to say that she had seen it, after all, in the capital of Towcent, the chaos caused by Alfred and Sianna and later Degra was definitely a real war, and the whole of Bowland was almost lost.

But after thinking about it, Seri Leph couldn't speak again. Because she didn't participate in the Battle of Bowkeland at all, she was still outside the city at the time, and her father didn't give her a chance to join in that battle.

"When people are completely unrestrained, they will behave more terrible than demons. In fact, it's not just the aristocracy, but also the commoners. I admit that civilians are being oppressed and deserve mercy, but I would say that 80 percent of the destruction in Askatla that day was caused by civilians who appeared innocent. If, if we join the civilian population, then it is to tell everyone that those excesses of the civilian population are justified! So tell me, what's going to happen next? ”

Without waiting for Serilee to speak, Makelle gave himself an answer.

"The civilians did not realize what terrible crimes they had committed, that day countless families were destroyed, countless women were crying in the streets, countless children had lost their parents, and people were going crazy to rob all the rich people they saw, and they thought that they had stolen their wealth, and they wanted to take back what was theirs, and they were about to take it for granted. Once we join them, everyone will think that these people are doing the right thing because the Paladins support them! That's the real disaster! The riots will spread rapidly and will no longer be contained, because we, who are supposed to maintain order, have abandoned it! ”

"......" Serileph was stunned, for the first time she had heard that the real culprits of the disaster were civilians. This filled her heart with a sense of disobedience. Isn't it the aristocracy that caused all this? Why impose the charges on those poor civilians?

As if seeing Cerilee's confusion, Makelle took the initiative to speak: "The beginning of all this is, of course, the greedy nobles and big merchants! But the problem is that it is ordinary people who rob, kill, set fires, and rape. That's what I'm going to tell you, the worst order is better than chaos! This is also the reason why Witherland chose to close the entire headquarters of the Burning Heart, because he knew that as long as the position of the Burning Heart remains, then whether it is the aristocratic faction or the commoners, they will still maintain the most basic sanity, and those who have not been affected will still have awe, awe of order! The nobles did not dare to slaughter the commoners without scruples, because they knew that if they did, they would be completely on the opposite side of the burning heart. ”

"The civilians who participated in the riot also understood that their madness must be limited to a certain extent, not spread to the whole city, and even those civilians who were not involved in the first place will know that the burning heart is still there, so they cannot participate in the riot without scruples!"

"That's the bottom line when I say it! Witherland has saved the Knights of the Burning Heart! He didn't let the Knights fall into it, and at the same time, he also kept the lifeblood of the city, giving a glimmer of hope to all the people in the city who still yearn for order! From my point of view, Wesselland's choice was not only wise, but also courageous. You know, that kind of decision is not something that everyone can make, especially someone as kind as Witherland. ”

"Cyli, we are paladins, and our duty is to guard, to protect everyone! So we need order! Only if order exists, can we protect the majority! That's what we have to do! ”

Serilee's mind was a bit of a mess, and what Makelle said today was so different from what she usually thought. To put it simply, this girl has a bit of a white left virgin flavor, she will always subconsciously favor the weaker side, which is not wrong, but if you think so about everything, it will be terrible. This is also a common problem for almost all young paladins.

Makelle didn't say any more, but brought the conversation back to what Soram had said.

"You just said, what do you think makes sense of Solam's words? Then have you ever thought that you and Solam are completely different? I don't know much about Solam, but just by looking at his profile, I can guess what kind of person he is. He may be brave, he may be powerful, but he must not be a man who likes to care for others. He always thinks about things with himself as the center, he will only think and only do, the choice that is most beneficial to him. That's the biggest difference between him and us, remember when I said what the most important purpose of a paladin is? It's guarding! Guarding other people, the logic of our thinking is different from the beginning. ”

"When he encounters an enemy, his first reaction is to kill the enemy, in the most decisive way, but he doesn't think about what impact this incident will have on other people, he doesn't even care why the enemy is coming, he just needs to kill the enemy. But we can't, we have to think about other people. We can find the enemy right away and kill them, but then what? As long as the things that attract vampires and killing sects are still in Azkatra, they will return, which is a huge threat to others and we cannot tolerate. This time we found out and can eliminate them, so what if we are negligent next time? Who will be the most likely victim? So we have to figure out why these bastards are here in Askatra, and then eliminate this threat from the roots! ”