168. Contact with the enemy
On the second day, the villagers returned to their homes from the back mountain one after another, because the evacuation was timely, Bai Yi's interception was also in place, there were basically no casualties, and a few minor injuries were caused by pushing and stampeding in the chaos; Their homes are also mostly preserved, except for a few that caught fire, but that was also caused by them in the panic.
Overall, the demons didn't do as much damage to the town as they did on their own.
Bai Yi used earth magic to build a temporary embankment by the river that flowed through the town, which completely destroyed the barrier, and even if the water piled up upstream rushed down, it did not affect the town.
So the townspeople were even more satisfied with the lord's son-in-law.
Of course, Bai Yi had no interest in ending the rumors, he was very busy now, after confirming that the barrier was gone, the communication tablet could be used again, he hurriedly connected to Desgar's side, and then saw Desgar's pretty face appear on the slate.
"Teacher! Good morning! Desgaard smiled brightly at Bai Yi.
"Why are you wearing that thing on your head early in the morning?" Bai Yi looked at the cat-ear hairpin on Tesgar's head and asked angrily.
Desgaard spit out her cute little tongue, with a playful expression that had been discovered as a prank, and quickly took off the hairpin, trying to justify: "This is to accompany Artie to play, I didn't expect you to send a communication at this time, so I forgot to pick it up." β
Then do you want to accompany her in the future and wear only an apron all over her body? Bai Yi thought helplessly, and got back to business: "Take this communication tablet and go to the church to find that yellow-skinned mouse pastor, uh... It's Pastor Wesley, who went to Hokuriku with us last time, yes, it's important to find him as soon as possible. β
Desgar took the order, and it didn't take long for the face of the Yellow Rat Priest to appear on the communication tablet, and Bai Yi explained the situation to him, telling them to hurry up and find the paladins and crusaders.
So at noon the next day, a team of paladins in silver-white armor entered the Qingquan Territory, and after a brief observation of the battlefield, they found Bai Yi who was staying in the blacksmith shop under the guidance of a townsman.
At this time, Bai Yi was repairing the damage to the joints, and after seeing the paladin come in, he temporarily put down the hammer, and took a closer look at the other party, it was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, with a standard paladin temperament, and there was still obvious exhaustion on his face, which could be seen that he had rushed over overnight.
"My name is Charlemagne, the chief knight of the diocese of Afen, and I have come here after hearing your explanations to the vicar of Wesley." The paladin introduced himself, and then looked around at this small blacksmith shop, as the only blacksmith shop in the town, this place is naturally simple and cramped, and there is still a fire burning next to Bai Yi's sitting, but the temperature here is not high, but it is much cooler than outside, which makes the hot sweat in the paladin's armor no longer continue to rise.
He noticed the temperature control circle on the wall, and at first he felt a little strange that such a small place could have such a luxury, but when he recalled Bai Yi's identity, he was not surprised.
"You may be seated, Mr. Charlemagne." Bai Yi said neither humbly nor arrogantly, and dragged a chair from the side with magic power, although the other party has the name of a knight chief, but in terms of the organizational structure of the church, the title of knight chief or bishop is actually similar to the section chief and director on the earth, how big and noble the specific official is, the key is to look at the prefix, like this knight chief of the Yafen diocese, that's it.
"Let's get into the topic as soon as possible, the specific situation the day before yesterday is like this..."Bai Yi talked about the previous battle in more detail, of course, the part of the power of the void was replaced by him, and he did not specifically describe the chaos banshee that was out of specification, but after all, it was a brewing rhetoric, so the paladin Charlemagne couldn't hear anything wrong, but was a little sensitive to the three words of the Fallen God Cult.
"Looks like you know about this Cult of the Fallen God?" Bai Yi asked.
Charlemagne nodded, "They have always been on the church's watch list, and they have not been made public. β
Now it's Bai Yi's turn to be strange, "Just monitoring?" Not Wanted? β
"Yes, according to our investigation, this sect originally originated from the Mar plane, and it has only developed in the last ten years on the East side, and their missionary activities and ways of recruiting believers are relatively secretive, and there is nothing out of the ordinary, just like that kind of normal secret sect, so we are just monitoring, after all, with our way of acting, we can't brand them as a cult based on a name, and we didn't expect them to collude with demons." Charlemagne explained.
"Sometimes, you're really enough... Forgiving enough. Bai Yi said, he actually wanted to complain about the church's clumsy intelligence methods, how could a sect that assassinate and eavesdrop at every turn be a regular sect? Judging from their skillful operation, it is certainly not the first time they have done such a thing, and I really don't know what the church has been doing for so many years.
Although Bai Ye didn't say it explicitly, Charlemagne probably understood what he wanted to say, and quickly explained: "In fact, our doctrine has always been equality, tolerance, friendliness, and mercy, even for other sects. β
He is also telling the truth, although the Divine Charismatic Sect has zero tolerance for cults, but it is extremely tolerant of pagan religions, as long as it is confirmed that it is not a cult, they do not even prohibit those small sects from preaching in their diocese, and they also allow their followers to change their faith, and in this regard they do much better than many small sects, of course, such tolerance is also based on their strong foundation and strength, only the church provides free medical treatment, those small sects are not comparable, Not to mention that they have always been tasked with fighting demons.
Therefore, if those small sects only rely on fair competition, they are not the enemies of the Divine Charismatic Sect at all, and if they want to play some unfair competition, a single fallacy can turn the small sect into a cult, and the rest will naturally go without saying.
In fact, in Bai Yi's view, if you completely put aside the opposition between the two sides and evaluate it from a fair and objective point of view, he has nothing to blame for the Divine Charism, they do have established their prestige and image step by step with practical actions, they are not mixed with too much politics, and there are no atrocities such as massacring infidels, as for captive **, let women atone for their sins with their bodies, these things dare not guarantee that there is absolutely none, at least Bai has never heard of it, so even if the two sides are opposites, Bai Yi has to admit that the church is not that kind of villain organization.
While their teachings are deceitful, which religion's teachings are not? At least they are still persuading people to be good, not using the fact that there are 72 virgins in heaven to deceive people and blow themselves up. If there is an obvious black spot in the doctrine, it is probably the so-called sublimation that has been emphasized, and both the paladin and the missionary have reached the conditions for sublimation, and then they sublimate into the void.
But in the end, the church is more tolerant of heretics than vanity walkers, which still makes Bai Yi very unhappy, but at least in the case of the Fallen God Cult, he and the church have the same interests, and he will definitely teach the church to deal with the rest of the matter.
He doesn't have that much spare time to deal with this kind of well-organized cult, let the church toss it up for itself, anyway, they are happy to accept this kind of thing, and the paladin Charlemagne immediately said that he would report the situation to the higher-ups, and the investigation and eradication of the Cult of the Fallen God will be launched soon.
The zealous paladin did not forget to remind Bai Yi: "I hope Your Excellency, although I know that you are strong, you must be careful until the Fallen God Cult is completely destroyed, I am afraid that they will retaliate against you." β
"Thank you for your concern, I'll take notice." Bai Yi nodded and said, he had already expected this, no matter what their true purpose was, his chaos would definitely disrupt their plans, and it would not be surprising that he would be retaliated against.
"It's going to be a long process, please be patient, their lair is in the Mar plane, you should also know the situation there, our power there is not easy to use." Charlemagne continued.
Mar is a multi-racial mixed plane, what elven dwarf underground, they don't eat the charismatic sect, the power of the church is not very strong there, and there is a long way to go to exterminate the fallen god cult there.
At the end of the conversation, the paladin crossed his hands on his chest, like Ultraman releasing a kinetic lightwave, and gave the dialogue a blessing, "Thank you for all you have done for humanity, and we will certainly live up to your efforts." β
This hat is high enough, but unfortunately there are no substantial rewards other than the high hat... Bai Yi sneered, at the end of the conversation, he planned to sell stupidity.
"Speaking of which, didn't the Judge Knight come over this time? I've always been curious about these mysterious knights, and I thought I could catch a glimpse of their honor. Bai Yi asked very stupidly and innocently.
"Knights of Judgment?" Charlemagne was stunned for a moment.
"Yes, didn't you say that they are the elite main force fighting the demons?" Bai also continued to play dumb.
"Well, that's not the case," Charlemagne looked embarrassed, "maybe you misunderstood something?" The Knights of Judgment are not like the rumors, they are mainly responsible for some internal affairs... But trust me, you won't want to see them. β
The tone of this last sentence sounds similar to that of a gentleman in the void? How many people don't know how to be in this court? Even your own people are so disgusted? Bai Yi thought to himself.
Of course, he wouldn't know what the Knight of Judgment was up to, he was just deliberately clichΓ©d to see if the use of the power of the void yesterday had attracted the attention of the Inquisition.
Judging from the results so far, it is quite optimistic.