Regaining the Light?

Amber didn't know what to say, and if Gawain asked again, she didn't know anything, except that Wright had just returned to the territory and had now returned to the church.

"You watch the construction here," Gawain hurriedly explained to Rebecca, and then grabbed Amber, who was about to slip away, "You come with me to see Wright." ”

"Hey, don't pull me...... I choose the gods of the night, you know...... I'm the Chosen One in the Night...... I entered the Church of the Holy Light and felt awkward......"

Amber's faint protest soon vanished into thin air, and Gawain slipped the dwarf melon under his arm, strode straight to the church, and soon the two of them came to the chapel that Wright had built himself.

At this moment, the church is not open, but the door is not locked, and on the hidden church door, a white death chrysanthemum is quietly inserted in the gap of the door panel.

Gawain glanced at the death chrysanthemum, then stepped forward and gently pushed the door open.

A tall, burly figure stood in front of the pulpit, his back to the door, dressed in a scarred Cecil Wizard armor, and the sunlight from the side window fell on the figure's shoulders, rippling in a hazy glow.

In that vague and illusory glow, Gawain seemed to see something fleeting, but when he looked closely, all he could see was the hazy light of the dust as it flew in the sunlight.

Gawain walked towards Wright, and the sudden sound of footsteps echoed in the empty church hall, and the figure in front of the pulpit shook a little, Wright turned his head, and bowed when he saw Gawain: "Lord, I was about to report to you......"

"It's okay, I'll come to see you too," Gawain waved his hand, and then noticed a shocking wound on Wright's face, which stretched from the left side of his forehead to his cheek, and I was afraid that a little deeper would have robbed Wright of one of his eyes, and now that the wound had healed, it left a deep scar...... Looks like you've been through a lot. ”

"I ...... Regained the holy light," Wright lowered his head and spread out his palm, and a clear light like a substance almost immediately emerged from the air and gathered above his palm, this light seemed to attract the holy energy in the air, and his whole being was shrouded in a hazy halo, "I never felt it...... My relationship with the Light is so close that it has always been with me, with each of us, like magic in nature......"

Gao Wen quietly watched as the holy light flowed in Wright's hand and slowly dissipated, and then asked curiously, "How did you do it?" ”

"I ...... I don't know the whole reason behind this, but maybe I've found the true path of the Light," Wright's voice hesitated at first, but then became firm and powerful, "Lord, do you remember what you asked me?" ”

Gao Wen had a faint feeling in his heart: "About your faith? ”

"Yes, you asked me if I believe in the Light, or in the God of Light," Wright said, turning his head and quietly looking at the back of the pulpit, remembering that there used to be an icon of the God of Light, but now, it was empty, "I think I understand what you mean by now......"

The vanishing icon, the regained light, and the quietly changing temperament of Wright, Gawain had already thought in his mind about the general situation of this priest regaining the holy light, but he didn't know how this astonishing change could happen How a devout believer suddenly broke through his own faith, broke through that almost spiritual steel seal-like influence?

He couldn't help but ask, and Wright was silent for a long time after hearing these questions before he spoke quietly, "Lord, do you know what those nobles and Holy Light Priests did after their rout? ”

"I can probably guess." Gawain said in a deep voice.

"We passed through a village, on the edge of the Comsco area...... It's all ruined there," Wright said calmly, his tone seemed indifferent, but when he spoke, Gawain could feel the power of the Holy Light faintly floating beside him, "There are a dozen survivors in the village, and we spent the night there......"

From Wright's mouth, Gawain and Amber learned about the night that happened in Conscient's territory, the noble rout and the papal knights who were crazy with hunger, the little girl named Emily, and the whole process of Wright's regaining the Holy Light.

After listening to Wright's story, Amber inevitably showed a trace of regret and regret on her face, she frowned, looked up at Gawain, who looked up at Glitter, and then at Wright, and finally couldn't help muttering: "Those nobles...... And those ...... sticks."

After speaking, she immediately patted Gawain's arm: "Gawain, I didn't say you, you are still different from them." ”

"I know, you don't have to stress it," Gawain looked at Amber with a smile, then at Wright, "Although you have regained the Holy Light, you should still have doubts...... Otherwise you wouldn't have stood here thinking for so long without reporting. ”

"I'm just thinking about something...... I don't know if I'm supposed to think about something," Wright really frowned, sighed slightly, and then he looked into Gawain's eyes and asked in an extraordinarily resolute tone, "Lord, I have a question. ”

"Just ask."

"The nobles, and the priests, the knights, who claim to be the protectors of the people, end up being more robbers than robbers, of course they deserve to die, we can kill hundreds of nobles and priests in this war, but ...... What exactly caused such aristocrats and clergy? They hadn't fallen to this level hundreds of years ago, even decades ago...... We have exterminated them today, but will those after us follow the same path of depravity in tens or hundreds of years? ”

Amber looked at Wright's expression incredulously, as if she didn't expect this question to be asked by him, in her impression, Wright was just a zealous pastor who was relieved to preach and help people everywhere in the territory, but she didn't expect that he would suddenly ask such a question when he returned, almost questioning whether what Gawain had done was meaningful.

And the question ......

Amber couldn't help but glance at Gawain, she thought of the plans that Gawain had said, about the disposal of the old nobles, about the future territory law, she couldn't help but ask: "Yes, you also said at the beginning, there is always greed in human nature, even if it is the government department that seems to be orderly and honest now, with the development of the territory and getting richer, there will always be people who are corrupted by power, if that's the case......"

Gawain looked at Amber and Wright, and he wasn't too surprised by the latter's question.

It is not an overnight thing to transform and establish an idea, even in the case of continuous education and thought, even in the most core circle around him, there are very few people who can fully understand his ideas, and it is of course normal for Wright to have such doubts after seeing the battlefield with his own eyes and seeing the corrupt and degenerate appearance of the old aristocracy and the old church.

This has nothing to do with personal thinking or understanding, it is simply a limitation of the times.

He asked the priest who had regained the light in front of him, "Wright, what kind of group do you think the nobility are?" ”

"Noble ......," Wright frowned, "...... them It is the owners and rulers of the land and the people, and they are, at least nominally, the protectors of it all...... Their power is great, and the kingdom basically runs on them. ”

"Then do you think the nobility is good or bad?"

This time it was Amber next to him who answered: "The bad ones have all been seen with their own eyes." ”

"I'm also a nobleman," Gawain looked at Amber with a smirk, "and Viscount Gülen, who freed the slaves eleven years ago, and now Lady Gülen, and Viscount Andrew Leslie, who has accepted Cecil's laws and is ready to swear allegiance, they are all nobles. ”

"Forehead...... Amber was stunned for a moment, scratching her hair, "Then there are good and bad." ”

"Yes, there are good ones among the nobility, but why is the whole group of nobles still corrupted and degenerated like this?"

Amber and Wright looked at each other, as if they didn't know what Gawain was really trying to say for a moment.

Fortunately, Gawain didn't confuse them for too long, he had some things he wanted to say to the people around him for a long time, and at the right time, he took a slight breath and said what he thought: "The aristocracy or more strictly speaking, the landed aristocracy under the current system of Ansu, they are the absolute owners of land and population, and they are also the makers and executors of power, and from the day of birth, the nature of this group determines their way of life, they occupy almost all the resources, and have the absolute authority to use these resources, All commoners were merely leasers of their resources, even a part of them, and the nobility did not produce anything, they only needed to parasitize on the land and the people, and draw nourishment from the latter......

"So, of course, they don't really pity and care about the lives and rights of the common people, and because the resources come from the land, they don't care about the people as much as they care about their own land, and even if they occasionally show that they care about the people, it's just the same as a person cherishing the coins in his pocket, and they will protect their coins, but they can spend them at any time if the price is right.

"It is also true that they claim to be the protectors of the people, and this is also true, in the barbaric pioneer years, human beings only have limited resources to support limited protectors, in order to survive, we have to concentrate a lot of resources on a few powerful individuals, let these individuals protect the security of the whole, and these powerful individuals are the original landed aristocracy, at least in that era, their existence ensured the survival and development of civilization, but what about after the end of this period?

"No one can control the landed aristocracy, because they are both the owners and distributors and users of resources, the makers and enforcers of laws, and therefore they will inevitably become an out-of-control, corrupt, and degenerate group, and even in terms of morality, their "corruption" cannot be regarded as corruption, it is just a natural variation of a group growing and growing in a nutrient-rich environment, just as a plant grows in fertile soil.

"In this case, the landed aristocracy will always remember that they will never take the initiative to give up their resources and privileges, just as a plant will not take the initiative to pull the roots out of the soil, in this case, even if one or two good landed nobles occasionally appear, they will not change the attributes of the landed aristocracy as a whole, because the essence of this group has not changed, and their way of living will not change, as long as they still occupy the land, enjoy privileges, and master resources, Their group will inevitably embark on the road of parasitic on the land and the people, relying on the nutrients of the latter to survive, and their so-called role as the protector of the people will also disappear after all the landed nobles have completed the distribution of resources and formed a relatively stable ruling structure.

"And this concept is expanded, and the current Holy Light Church and the landed aristocracy are the same way, except that the resources occupied by the landed aristocracy are land, the church occupies faith and divine magic, the privilege of the landed aristocracy is the law, and the privilege of the church is the right to interpret the classics."

Gawain paused at this point, he looked at Wright and Amber who were lost in thought, and continued: "So let's go back to why the original nobles were corrupted and degenerated like this, the answer is that they will inevitably be corrupted and degenerated like this, this has nothing to do with the emergence of a few enlightened lords among the landed nobles, nor with how glorious and great they once were, this is purely determined by their inherent attributes, so Wright, I can tell you with certainty that we can wipe out hundreds of nobles and knights in this war, But as long as the group of landed nobles still exists, then even if we kill all this group of landed nobles, the landed nobles will appear sooner or later, even from our children and grandchildren.

"So from the very beginning, this war was not just to destroy the bodies of those nobles, but to destroy their foundations, and we were not fighting this war to destroy the forty or so sub-lords of the southern realm and plunder their land wealth, but to destroy the land and liberty of the land to which these lords belonged as a whole, to return the land and liberty to the people, to not have another village burned down by their own lords, not to have another Emily.

"Wright, if you are interested, you can look at the most enacted land allotment bill I have enacted, and the explanations of land rights and people's rights that have been constantly promoted in schools, in newspapers, and on various bulletin boards, and you may understand why Earl Hossman placed me eighteen counts when he called for war against Cecil, and eleven of them were related to the laws I made and the things I propagated in my territory. Because what is really going to kill them will even kill their children and grandchildren, and at this point, they see it quite clearly.

"But as long as these things are promoted, established, and formed into a stable social order, then we can proudly say that we have eliminated the whole of the landed aristocracy, not their physical bodies, but their foundations, and from now on, even if there are still the word nobles, even if they have something left, their roots will no longer exist."