003, "Supreme Code"
Outside of the Three Divine Domains, the most shocking thing for Talos was the status of the Supreme Codex on the Terra plane, as its name suggests, supreme.
The Supreme Code is the rule of order that prevails throughout the Terra plane, sacrosanct and inviolable for anyone to violate and blasphemy, not even the crown-wearing, high-ranking king.
Historically, there have been many kings who have been sentenced for violating the Supreme Code and have ended up in prison.
The notion that everyone is equal before the Supreme Code has been ingrained in the hearts of the people for thousands of years, and the intelligent beings of the Terra Plane have become accustomed to acting in accordance with the Supreme Code when they encounter problems.
In fact, even the true ruler of the world, with extraordinary powers that ordinary people can hardly match, the popes of the three divine domains will swear to defend the sanctity and majesty of the Supreme Codex to the death.
According to Hernan, the three divine domains deal with all kinds of supernatural events under the leadership of the Pope, and use various unusual feats to provide a safe living environment for the people and protect peace, and the Supreme Code of Law uses the form of law to maintain social order and punish criminals, both of which together ensure the normal functioning of the world.
As a result, adjudicators, justices, sheriffs, wardens, and other members of the judicial law enforcement department are the most respected professions outside of the Knights of the Divine Domain.
In Talos's view, the Supreme Code of Law is enough to amaze any legal expert in modern society in the past life, covering all aspects of politics, economy, society, and life.
Take the simplest example of theft, from a copper coin to a cow, different property values correspond to different punishments, depending on whether it is an ordinary labor camp or a sentence ranging from one year to several decades.
All kinds of crimes that the human brain can think of and can't think of have detailed punishments on them, and if he had to find a flaw in the Supreme Code, Talos thinks that there will be no death penalty.
Yes, there is no death penalty in the Supreme Law, and according to the law, the right to life of intelligent beings is given by the Creator, and no person or institution has the right to deprive others of life.
Its most severe punishment is to deprive a person of all rights except the right to life, including the right to liberty, and to be imprisoned in a dark shadow dungeon until death.
Therefore, even if Jerome, the villain who had killed several officials, including Hernan's wife, was sentenced to all the crimes one by one, and the punishment for several crimes was combined, the final result was only 700 years in prison and put into the worst environment of the Shadow Dungeon, instead of being sent directly to the gallows, if there was such a thing as a gallows in the Terra plane.
Hernán would not have had too many personal, hateful, and extreme thoughts about this outcome, after all, his education and status as a knight of the Divine Domain meant that he would instinctively choose to trust the divine authority of the Supreme Code, rather than let his personal will override the law.
The problem is that Jerome has escaped from prison again and again and has become more rampant with each attempt, and if the Supreme Code does not give Jerome the punishment he deserves, what is the point of the verdict?
If it weren't for this, his wife and unborn child would not have been held a grudge for his arrest of Jerome several times, and they would not have been the target of revenge after the other party escaped from prison again.
It is true that Hernan will not take the initiative to violate the sacred authority of the Supreme Code or the code of knights of the divine domain for thousands of years, and silently bury the idea of stabbing the enemy in the bottom of his heart, but the appearance of Talos made his heart that was gradually depressed see a faint glimmer of hope.
Shaken by his will, he decided to take a gamble and find Jerome, as he had done several times before, and then hand it over to the knight from the Sea God Domain to kill.
Looking at the Knight of God's Domain, whose face finally showed a glimmer of hope, Talos was not relieved that he had persuaded the man in front of him, on the contrary, he felt terrible for the depth of the Supreme Codex.
Obeying the law is of course a good thing, but it is by no means the absolute order, the absolute law of the Terra plane.
It is absurd to mechanically and rigidly obey a dead code.
Whose interests and will the Supreme Code represents, Talos suddenly popped up with such a question.
Talos knew he wouldn't be able to get the answers he wanted from the imprisoned knights of the gods, just as he couldn't verbally convince a priest of the Joy of Love to accept the chastity views.
With this in mind, Talos and Hernán decided to leave the cemetery of the previous gods of the Earth God Domain after a brief discussion, inquire about the news together, and set out to find the whereabouts of the villain Jerome.
"But ......," Hernan retracted the foot he had just raised, looking at Talos's long tail with a look of embarrassment, "Your identity as a knight of the Ocean God Domain is too conspicuous, once you go out, you will definitely be noticed by others, if we can, we have to find a way to hide your tail first." ”
Now Talos already knows why Hernan called him the Knight of the God Domain just now, only the Knight of the Sea God Domain has the ability to set foot on land in this plane, and ordinary Naga will not leave the ocean, nor can they leave the sea to survive.
Walking freely on land is one of the hallmarks of the Knight of the Sea God's Domain.
"You don't need to worry about this at all, as a Knight of the Apocalypse, I have my own way. ”
A Knight of the Apocalypse is a character created by Talos for himself, and uses a different name, Minoan, in his self-introduction.
- As for Talos, that's the name of the god that the Knights of the Apocalypse need to proclaim.
Therefore, even though Hernan's expression explained his concern in detail, Talos moved unhurriedly, and calmly took out a high-level spell scroll from the spatial ring, leaving Hernan stunned - there had never been a spatial magic item in the Terra plane.
A gray magical aura fell on him, and Talos's eight-and-a-half-foot-long snake tail quickly disappeared, replaced by a pair of long, straight, and muscular legs that only humans have.
High-level spell scrolls, turn tails into legs!
Seventeen years after being reborn as a Naga, Talos finally realized what it was like to have a pair of legs again, and he felt that he could run faster than a gust of wind.
And his height of nearly six feet made Talos extremely satisfied with his human form, except for the gentle gust of wind in the next second......
As a Naga, Talos was dressed exactly according to Naga tradition, meaning that he only had a piece of leather armor on his body, which looked very long to humans, and the lower half of his body......
It couldn't be anything more undignified, Talos thought in embarrassment.