"No, no, you can't do that!"

Seeing Franco about to take off his gloves and hand them to Carl, Jimmy Eric couldn't help but panic and hurriedly shouted: "I, I apologize, Mr. Carl Rowland, I apologize to you, I shouldn't question your courage...... You are a gentleman of integrity, please don't be like me......"

Such an insincere apology, Carl didn't bother to pay attention to it. In the more popular words of his previous life, how to say: If an apology is useful, then what else do you need the police to do?

Karl gently weighed the glove that Franco had handed him, and raised his hand to throw it over. This action directly frightened Jimmy Eric into a panic, and he almost knelt down and begged for mercy.

He hurriedly looked around, trying to call for help, but the crowd of onlookers turned their eyes away as soon as they came into contact with him.

Just when he was about to fall into a desperate situation, he suddenly saw Pastor Brad get out of the carriage, and as if he had found a life-saving straw, he ran over with a rolling belt, trying to grab the pastor's robe and ask for help.

"Priest, priest, I ask for help, I want to apply for the protection of the Church!"

"I am a commoner, a faithful believer in the Lord, and according to the decree of His Majesty the great Pope Gregory I, knights have the duty to protect civilians, and when a commoner is of good character and has not violated the teachings of the Lord, no knight shall innocently harm civilians, let alone kill innocent civilians under the pretext of duel. ”

In order to save his own life, Jimmy Eric not only prostrated at the feet of the priest regardless of his image, hugged the priest's thigh, but also moved out of the provisions of the "Holy Law" to try to avoid Carl's invitation to a duel.

"The Lord is merciful and just, and has mercy on every lamb!"

The black-clad and black-haired young priest had a calm face, and in a deep voice he gently recited a lesson from the Holy Scriptures, calming Jimmy Eric's panicked and frightened mind.

The Holy Covenant was a code of sacred significance signed by the Emperor the Glory and the Pope at that time, in which for the first time the distinction between the church and the secular was clearly divided, and the scope of rights and responsibilities between lords, nobles, kings, knights and the church, priests, churches, and clergy was determined.

The Holy Covenant not only defined the system of allegiance between knights and lords, and the division of rights between nobles and churches in the form of specific provisions, but also involved many provisions to protect the interests of the common people.

In the era before the rise of the Glory Emperor, the continent was constantly in turmoil, the nations annexed each other, and in the cruel war, not only slaughtered cities, killed prisoners, set fires, looted and other atrocities continued to occur, and even some degenerate nobles and knights, in order to combat the war potential of the hostile lords and countries, directly attacked the opponent's territory to carry out targeted slaughter and looting.

In that chaotic era, because of the continuous wars, the fields were burned to the ground, the cities were bulldozed into ruins, the wilderness was littered with exposed bones, the moats were filled with slaughtered corpses, ravens and wolves haunted the ruins of cities and manors, and the smoke of blood and fire burned everywhere.

In the midst of wars, plagues, massacres, famines, cold winters, and even necromancer disasters, the population of the continent at that time suddenly plummeted by nearly half, and the stable order that the Church had spent two thousand years building on was also greatly impacted.

Thus, when the Glory Emperor ended the war and established the first empire of unprecedented magnitude after the War of Dawn, the Pope and the Glory signed a sacred covenant together.

The charter specifically set out many protections for civilians, the wanton massacre of civilians in war was prohibited, the mass killing of civilians by lords without reason was declared illegal, and the Church listed it as a blasphemous crime of colluding with heresies, sacrificing demons, and falling into darkness.

Similarly, in view of the absolute military superiority of knights over civilians, it is forbidden for any knight to kill free civilians without reason, emphasizing the protective role of lords and clergy over civilians, any lord has the obligation to protect his civilians from foreign knights, and the clergy of any church has the obligation to supervise the knights to kill civilians under the pretext of "dueling" and "banditry".

So, Jimmy Eric's request for protection from Pastor Brad is in accordance with the Holy Covenant.

"While it is true that there is a provision in the Holy Law for the protection of the common people, it is also stated in the Holy Law that if a commoner provokes a noble knight and insults the knight and his family's honor, the knight has the right to defend his honor with his sword!"

Franco was also from a noble family, and he was naturally familiar with the terms of the Holy Covenant, so he smiled and said: "'Glory is my life', this is the teaching left by the Glory Emperor who formulated the Sacred Covenant, for a true knight, the reputation of the individual and the family is more than life, and the insult to honor can only be washed at the price of blood, whether the blood comes from oneself or from one's opponent......"

"Indeed!"

Pastor Brad nodded slightly, and said calmly and calmly: "The honor of a knight should not be disgraced, this is a standard recognized by both the church and the world. ”

"But tolerance and kindness are also virtues, and it is not a glorious thing for a knight to raise his sword against an unarmed commoner, however well-founded. ”

"Haha, tolerance and kindness are the virtues of nuns, not knights!"

Franco laughed and said, "The eight virtues of a knight, love, honor, loyalty, valor, mercy, justice, sacrifice, and humility, none of them are tolerance and kindness!"

Although there is no tolerance and kindness in the virtues of a knight, in fact, tolerance and kindness are already contained in the eight virtues of a knight. ”

Pastor Rhett's voice was low and magnetic, and he said in a compassionate and compassionate tone: "Love is not only love for beautiful women, but also love for the world, for the world, for the Lord, and love is not only the narrow love of men and women, but also the boundless love of loving oneself, loving one's family, loving one's family, loving one's family, loving one's family, loving one's country, loving the world, and loving the world created by the Supreme Lord!"

"Honor is not only the dignity of the individual, but also a kind of rational, divine glory, the glory of being a human being, being cared for and loved by the Lord, not bullying the weak, not fearing**, maintaining a rational and noble soul, is the greater honor......"

Pastor Brad's understanding of chivalric virtues has transcended the limitations of one's narrow mind and reached a state of boundless love, with the lofty feelings of a saint.

Unfortunately, both Franco and Karl are lay people, and they are destined to fail to understand the boundless love, compassion and kindness of the pastor Brad.

"I'm sorry, I'm an honorary knight!"

Although in front of the priest, Carl wanted to keep a low profile and try not to be noticeable, but since all the troubles were coming to his door, Carl couldn't keep a low profile even if he wanted to. What's more, even Georgie and Franco, who have just known each other for a short time, took the initiative to stand up for him, and even did not hesitate to scold a promising pastor for this, if he shrunk his eggs again, it would be too courageous and not a man.