"Is it that bad?"

On the ridge, Banner looked out over the sheltered valley below, his face pale.

In the afternoon, when the villages and towns of the valley were at their noisiest, they were now empty, and there were few people to be seen on the gravel road.

On the tenth day of Banner's administration, the number of regular residents of the Sanctuary Valley had shrunk from thousands to less than 300. The huge river valley villages and towns seem to be extremely depressed.

"How the hell do you do it? There are thousands of people in the outer zone, aren't most of them good?"

He turned to the executors behind him, his words visibly angry.

"It's just doing it according to the rules you said, the cleaning that should be cleaned, the punishment that should be punished, we don't understand what's going on!"

"Banner, do as you ask, I'm afraid there won't be a single person left in the outer zone right now!"

"It's not our problem, Banner!

After ten days of busy work, the executors were also frustrated to see such results. After being counted down by Banner again, several young and vigorous holy warriors finally couldn't help but refute it.

Banner froze, this was the first time his companion had confronted him head-on, and there was more than one.

He sneered, "So, you didn't strictly enforce the rules we discussed?"

Another paladin said angrily: "That's not something that was discussed, you came up with it by yourself! You can't just talk about it in Xia Andia all the time!"

"Gaston?"

His close friend also retorted, which surprised Banner even more, and he said in distress: "Don't I want to see it with my own eyes and do it myself?"

He looked at the red-haired girl, "Gronya, what do you think?"

"I ...... As I've said before, it's complicated," said Gronia, "I don't believe that most of the people in the Outer Sector are bad people, maybe for another reason. ”

Banner thoughtfully, "Another reason?"

"I don't know exactly what it is, after all, I'm just a newcomer, but I do think it's a bit ...... to make a decision without seeing it with my own eyes and experiencing it firsthand Careless. ”

Gronia's quiet words not only made Banner not move, but the others also nodded.

"That's right, I can't just squat in Cheyendia anymore and just talk about it", Banner sighed, his face changed for a while, and said resolutely, "I'm going out!

Gaston frowned, "But the mentor ......"

"The mentor will forgive me, and even if I don't, I'm willing to accept any punishment!"

Banner said, "This is for our justice!"

The paladins were relieved, and Banner dared to break through the ban and go into battle himself, at least to understand what kind of situation they were facing.

Even Gaston looked at the red-haired girl gratefully, it was all Gronia...... Your Royal Highness's work.

"Banner, what are you doing here?" Cheyenne said......"

The paladins guarding the canyon checkpoint were particularly surprised to see them.

Banner said coldly, "You can go and inform Nama, but don't try to stop us!"

"What does this have to do with Nama? We're just doing our job. ”

"Banner, do you dare to go out, aren't you afraid that the mentor will deal with you?"

"You don't listen to the words of the mentor, what are your intentions?"

The guards were also angry, the paladins did not have a strict hierarchy in the first place, and the chaandia paladins were even weaker in this regard, and they were united by prestige and trust. Banner ignored Cheyenne's ban, and the guards were naturally angry.

The quarrel didn't last long and developed into pushing.

"I can't find you anywhere, so I can't practice in the mine here?"

A familiar voice sounded, and it turned out to be Otto. Probably because he saw that the mine was empty, he thought something was happening, so he hurriedly looked for someone everywhere.

"Practicing with you, my faith will be blackened!"

"What's the matter with you?

"Get out, coward!"

Greeted by the people who had been placed on the ground, the people on Banner's side felt as if they had been betrayed by their own people, and they turned their fingers at Otto.

Otto stopped at the door and shouted: "Practicing in the mine is to reflect on what you have done before! If you violate the ban again, Cheyenne will definitely be disappointed, and you must not go out ......."

Before he could finish speaking, he was punched in the face by one of the paladins, and the others rushed up and punched and kicked him around.

"Stop!"

Seeing a paladin's clenched fist flash with golden light, Gronia rushed forward to block the punch. The golden light struck her back, causing her to stagger a few steps against the wall, and a bloody streak suddenly appeared on her forehead.

She covered her forehead, waved her hand to the holy warrior who came to apologize with a pale face in fright, and said eagerly: "It's all holy warriors, how can they fight each other?

The pushing stopped, and there was silence for a while, and Banner snorted at the guards and walked away with his companions.

Not everyone has followed Banner, and the non-grounded civilian paladins have not yet moved.

Some people surrounded Gronia, some diligently took out the scar removal ointment, some asked about the injury, and some blamed the guy who made the shot. The paladin knows low-level healing skills, and abrasions are nothing at all, but how can such a beautiful girl as Gronya leave a scar on her forehead.

Others looked at Gronia and then at Gaston, and neither of them moved, and they didn't move.

"Let Banner and the others see the situation in front, we are following too closely, for fear that he will say that we should cover it up again," Gaston said.

He said to the guards with angry faces, "We don't want to do that either, Banner people, sometimes they are too impulsive. ”

The guards snorted angrily, ignored them, and sent someone to inform Nama and the other core members of the Mentor Society.

No one paid any attention to Otto, even though he was beaten and his nose was swollen. In the eyes of the guards, he is still in the same group as Banner, and in the eyes of Gaston and others, he is still a "traitor".

Otto sat in the corner, looked at Gronia and Gaston, then looked at the direction in which Banner and the others were out, and then looked at the guards, and suddenly had an extremely strange feeling.

The Cheyendia Paladins had only roughly split into two factions before, but now it seems that they are further divided.

"Cheyenne, where are you, why haven't you come back?"

An uncontrollable fear began to creep in Otto's mind, and he felt that Cheyendia was in a dangerous situation.

..................

Otto's premonition was fulfilled in the evening, and the quarrel in the Chayendia Center Chateau was loud and intense, like never before.

Most of the people in the basin who were not qualified to attend the mentorship meeting had gathered outside, and they could not hear the details of the quarrel clearly, but they were all concerned about the situation inside.

"Anyway, Banner, you're completely insane!"

Nama's chest rose and fell violently in anger: "Those adventurers are no longer in the outer zone, why should we control them? That will cause a violent conflict! Maybe we will also recruit the Duke of Prell's people!"

The mentor meeting was originally held for the guards to accuse Banner and others of leaving the valley without permission despite Cheyenne's ban, but Banner did not defend himself, but only said that he would admit how to punish Cheyenne when he returned. He then made a request for an increase in manpower, citing "coercive measures" against hundreds of adventurers who had moved a few kilometers away from the outer zone.

The Valley of the Shelter River was not really deserted, and most of the adventurers moved outside, setting up their own tents and stone huts, creating a makeshift settlement.

The vicinity of Cheyendia is already a well-known place, and adventurers are used to it. Now that there is a transportation service in Beta, they are reluctant to actually leave. At the same time, they also knew about the "line struggle" within Cheyendia, and thought that the nonsense of Banner's gang would soon stop. Thinking about waiting until the limelight has passed, then moving back to the Sanctuary River Valley.

Banner believed that the new settlement also fell under the jurisdiction of Xia Andia, and that the "good order" he advocated would make the Sanctuary Valley more prosperous, and that would need to be proved by these people. So he asked the Mentor to empower him to mobilize more paladins to "forcefully persuade" the adventurers to move back.

"Are you scared?"

Banner sneered, "This ruined your conspiracy calculations?"

Nama was puzzled and frowned, "What are you talking about!?"

"Nama, you are worthy of being a holy warrior!"

Banner said solemnly: "You were so happy to hand over the management to me before, but you are playing tricks behind your back! Secretly destroy the good order we want to build, instigate adventurers to leave the outer zone, and make everyone think that we have failed, so that you can continue to follow your evil path that corrupted Xia Andia!"

"You ......"

Nama's body shook and took several breaths to stabilize, and she laughed angrily: "You don't know how to build order at all, and in just a few days, you have stifled the prosperity of the outer zone, and then blame me? ”

"I'm calculating, but it's not against you!I knew from the beginning that you and your people were only going to destroy, but this is an opportunity to show our rivals strength, to make him scruples, to make him reach out to Ciandia and retract his hand!"

"That's right, Banner, I'm using you as a knife......"

She looked at Banner with pity in her eyes, "Use you to warn Duke Prell not to continue to encroach on our testing grounds." ”

"What kind of good order do you only know, and how much do you know about the current situation on the Godfall Plateau? Do you know that Beta City has absorbed tens of thousands of adventurers, and half of the adventurers who live in the outer zone have actually settled in Beta City?"

"Did you know that the Duke of Prell is infiltrating our Cheandia from all sides through transportation and trade?

"This is a war Banner, a war without blood, a war for hearts and minds, which you don't even understand. The reason why the Mentor instructed us to develop the Outer Zone is to wage such a war with the Duke of Prell and to find pure justice in the war. ”

"You and your companions only know that you are burying your head in the practice of that kind of extreme justice, which is destroying our foundation and financing the enemy!"

Nama's explanation is like a waterfall cascading down from a mountain, containing strange and powerful powers, and not only the members of the Guru Guild showed a sudden expression, but Banner's face also turned pale.

He subconsciously looked in a certain direction, and then gained strength from the red hair.

"It's funny that we fund the enemy?"

Banner said disdainfully, "Nama, you've also learned to be a fool." In your mouth, the Duke of Prell is an enemy, but your actions are not what you say. ”

"Esther!"

Banner's voice suddenly raised: "Say it Esther! Tell everyone what you know! Let everyone see clearly who is colluding with the Duke of Prell! I want to take advantage of the absence of the mentor to turn Xia Andia into a vassal of that great nobleman!"

Nama was shocked: "Esther!?"

Esther looked in a certain direction nervously, and only after getting some instructions did he settle down a little, swallowing his saliva, and cowering: "I...... I heard you, Nama, you told Nicole to work with Duke Prell to develop transportation...... What transportation resources, to carry out all-round cooperation ......"

Nama was so angry that her chest was about to explode: "That's a strategy! What do you know! And Esther, how do you ......?"

She didn't know what to say for a while, why did Esther, who was originally on her side, go to Banner's side all of a sudden?

"I'm what? I'm a paladin!"

Esther straightened his chest, his eyes were also bright, he looked directly at Nama, and said in a tone that was clearly audible in anger: "Whoever is on the side of justice, I will stand with whomever I want! I am not like you, I keep saying that I want to be the sworn enemy of the nobles, and I habitually bend down when I see the big nobles!"

Nama bit her lip tightly and was speechless for a moment.

"Yes, we are mud legs, uneducated and uninformed, so you can wantonly distort and deceive!"

Banner said bitterly: "Justice is in everyone's heart, there is no need for flowery rhetoric, and there is no need to learn, everyone is born to understand!"

It's not about justice......

Nama wanted to say, but it could be seen that most of the people nodded in agreement, and a chill rose in her heart, which made her unable to speak.

Banner took advantage of the victory and pursued: "Nama, Nicole runs to Beta City every day, she even wears the kind of bracers that only adventurers in Beta City have, she is also in charge of the foreign trade of all Shaandia's materials, God knows how many Shaandia's interests she betrayed, God knows what deal you made with Prell through her? I ask that Nicole be interrogated and asked to explain all the problems clearly!"

"You're simply ...... Don't want to interrogate Nicole!"

Nama was suddenly excited: "Nicole worked hard for Shaandia and everyone, and even went to a place like redstone alone for a little difference, and you still have the face to say that you want to interrogate her!?"

Banner stretched out his hands to the crowd, "Look, isn't it obvious that it's going to happen?Nama, admit that you're colluding with Prell to thwart our plot to build a good order!"

Magician Francison shook his staff: "Banner, your accusations have jeopardized the internal unity of Cheyendia, I hope you will be more cautious." First of all, the Duke of Prell and us are not enemies, and a certain amount of communication and cooperation is necessary. Secondly, without Cheyenne's mentorship, he has no right to interrogate his own people. ”

The discussion rang out, and many people agreed with the old magician's opinion, and no one wanted to see the holy warriors split, especially those who were not the inhabitants of Cheandia, who were not holy warriors.

Banner said angrily, "Who knows when the mentor will come back? If he doesn't come back for a month, it means that these sins are tolerated and these plots continue?"

"Wouldn't it be good to let everything go back to the way it was?" the old magician sighed, the matter was caused by Banner, and the outer area was also messed up when Banner took over, and as one of the few people who was not a paladin in Cheyenne Diari, he could naturally see it clearly.

"Back to the way things were, Francis, are you favoring Nama?"

Banner was even angrier: "You're not a paladin!

Many paladins, including Gaston, also echoed it, to be honest, these magicians, druids, rangers and so on, crowded into the holy warriors, participating in the mentor's meeting to decide all the affairs of Xia Andia, they have long been dissatisfied with this kind of thing.

It was probably the first time that so many holy warriors had expressed their dissatisfaction with their participation in the mentor meeting, and the scene of everyone's friendship and mutual assistance in the past burst like a soap bubble, and the old magician's face instantly turned red with anger.

"I'm just offering you some useful advice and advice as an elder for Cheyenne's sake......

He trembled his lips and said, "Since you think this is unnecessary interference, from now on, I will not be here again. ”

The old magician walked away angrily with his staff, and the remaining druids and rangers also left with angry faces, even if Nama said to stay.

Because of the departure of these "outsiders", the people gathered outside the wooden house became noisy, and the different factions quarreled with each other, and the holy warriors in the wooden house heard it clearly.

Nama shook her head in pain: "Banner...... How can you do that? Are you trying to ruin Shaandia!?"

Banner retorted, "You are the one who wants to destroy Shaandia!"

The "outsiders" were gone, and the paladins in the wooden house quickly split into two factions, and the confrontation was noisy, and the atmosphere became more and more tense.

"That's enough!"

A voice suddenly sounded: "I really can't stand it!"

In the corner, the red-haired girl stood up, looking extremely excited: "I'm just a newcomer, I'm not qualified to express any opinions, let alone make any judgments, I just know that this is not right! Aren't everyone all holy warriors? Why are they fighting each other? Why can't they unite as one?"

The holy warriors were silent, and at first they felt ashamed, but suddenly a spirit stirred.

Paladin, when did you unite as one?

Haven't the holy warriors always fought each other?