Chapter 11: The Justice of the Holy Warriors
Declare in advance that fiction is fiction and rules are rules. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ infoIn this novel, there is no such thing as evil detection and resurrection. The paladin in this novel is not exactly the same as the paladin in the rules. And there are also variants of the Paladin in the rules, such as the Killing Paladin, the Despotic Paladin.
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"I said, 'That's it, am I tied up with you?'" Martin said helplessly.
"Yes, probably. Canian replied, "After all, we paladins need to keep our promises. β
"I said, after all, we didn't tie you with a rope. Lyukrixia replied.
β...... I'm not free after all, am I? Martin said, "Well, don't talk about all this nonsense. Let's talk about where we go from here. β
"According to my plan, we will contact the nearest organization, then report, and then organize the team to eliminate the black-robed Bull. "Canion's role as conductor was a natural one.
"Hey, hey, hey, what should I do? Can you guarantee that they won't be suspicious of my identity, or will they not come at me with swords and magic when they know who I am?" Martin questioned his identity. It's no wonder that, as the notorious Starch Spencer Druid, it is indeed possible to encounter good people and have a conflict - isn't it a battle to meet Lyukrisia?
"You have to rest assured that we are not the Greens, and we will not ask Oak Leaf for help. You can rest assured that there won't be any druids or rangers. We are the people of the "Radiant Rock Wall", so naturally we need to ask our superiors for help, considering that the enemy is a powerful mage, we will probably also ask the "Brotherhood of Scepters and Swords" for some support. Canian was relieved.
"Oak Leaf", "Radiant Rock Wall", and "Brotherhood of Scepters" are all names for good organizations in this world. Evil kills each other, and good fights with each other...... It is said that there used to be a large unofficial goodness organization, but as the good-willed people disagreed with each other, the organization eventually split. People who are close to each other naturally huddle together, and this is how it ends. "Oak Leaves" is mainly composed of druids and rangers, and naturally leans towards nature. The "Brotherhood of Scepters and Swords" is made up of mages and warriors. The "Radiant Rock Wall" is composed of a number of churches, the most powerful, the most powerful, and the best relationship with the government. It is precisely because of the characteristics of these organizations that the people they send out also have distinctive characteristics. As for what the people they sent out, no one can guess...... Naturally, it's either a group of druids and rangers, or warriors protecting mages, or a shiny piece of armor...... Of course, they also have a decent relationship with each other, and they often borrow each other when there are difficult situations to deal with.
"It's better without druids or rangers. But there is a limit to what is good. Martin said with a sad face.
"You haven't done anything evil, what are you worried about?" asked Liukrisia. In fact, she still suspects that Martin had done evil before he ran into them. To her, a pure and kind Spencer Druid was as strange as a tiger who had never eaten meat.
"Although I have not done evil, have you not always practiced the inference of guilt for a person of my status?"
β...... All this can be said is that we will do our best to protect you, after all, we owe you a lot of affection. I'm still a bit of a weight in our organization, so I shouldn't have a problem," Canian relieved again
β...... That's what happened, and that's all it can be. You can't knock them down and slip away. Martin thought to himself. Then he asked Liukrisia, "Then what is evil?"
"To Do Evil Things"
"So what is evil?"
"Are you finding fault?"
After such a conversation, Martin finally got serious. "I really want to ask you what is good and what is evil. I've gone down the mines, with the shield dwarves. From them, I heard about the origin of the mine. The shield dwarves toiled hard and dug deeply. The vein was found. But it was already occupied by a group of isolated goblins. The dwarves didn't have much to say about the goblins, they spoke directly with their weapons. The tomahawk slashed deep into the goblin's chest, and the hammer smashed the goblin's brain. The dwarves cleared all the goblins and took possession of the vein. β
"The dwarves who fought in that battle are still alive now, and then, in the intoxicating smell of ale, they boasted to me about their featβnone of the goblins ran away, they were all cut down. In other words, there was not a single goblin survivor, and all goblins, from pregnant women to babies, were slaughtered by the dwarves. β
"I naturally know that goblins are the so-called evil race. However, the goblins live in isolation. Their ancestors may have done evil, but are these goblins after countless generations to pay for it, and what about the goblin babies? Isn't the dwarf aggression?"
"Now tell me, have the dwarves done evil, and if so, should we organize an adventuring party to fight them?"
Martin's speech made Liukrisia fall into thought. She's just a 16-year-old girl after all, and she's speechless for a while when she encounters something like this. Then she turned her face to Canion, waiting for his answer.
"What you said reminded me of a past. Canian spoke slowly. "I was young then, just becoming a paladin. We've been tasked with helping a group of gnomes resist the kobolds. We did a great job. Then the gnomes said that they had detected the kobold's den, which was currently full of old and weak women and children, so the gnomes planned to go over and kill him and bleed. The gnomes invited us to go with them. β
"Some of the companions cried out, 'Go and go,' and went with the gnomes. I sat down with more people, refusing to go ahead for the disgusting slaughter. Later, the men came back in high spirits. From their words, it is known that they killed all the kobolds and smashed every kobold's egg. β
"When I asked why I was doing that. One of the paladins who had gone to the slaughter patted me on the shoulder and said, 'Remember, to eradicate evil, there are no babies of the evil race in my eyes, only the seeds of evil. And when I asked why the gnomes had stoned innocent kobold babies to death as well, the gnomes shrugged their shoulders and replied, 'Do you want to wait until they grow up to come back to us for revenge?'"
"You see, my child, that justice is not absolute... So don't be confused... Just follow the righteousness that your soul follows... I have educated you to be a good person, so you don't need to be deceived by the righteousness of others, and the way you walk from your heart is righteousness. Canian said.
Martin listened quietly to Canion's speech, then nodded his head, "Yes, I think that's what it is." As a human paladin, do you need a gnome's concept of justice? certainly don't gang up with gnomes to slaughter kobold babies. The gnome and the kobold are feuds, and there are irreconcilable contradictions that compete for living space, if you stand in the position of the gnomes, then it is naturally right to do it, and as a human holy warrior who went to help the gnomes resist the kobolds, they are just passers-by, and they should not be involved in that kind of massacre. In fact, I don't think there is a universal justice, and there is more than one race in our world. There are so many races, from kobolds to silver dragons, there are so many ways of life, there are so many kinds of justice, and there is no race that does not call the action of maintaining its own way of life justice...... For example, the elves of Rasitimon refer to the "kripti" that preserves their slave-ant life as justice. Even if we are all human beings, justice is different from each other. For the Paladins of Carnichi, it was justice to uphold the belief that a child was sacrificed to the god Bal, and they organized the "Holy Assembly" for this purpose. For the Paladins of Norma, upholding that slavery was justice, so they joined forces with the Republican army to defeat the gladiators' revolt and crucify 6,000 men. Don't talk about these sword-wielding people. Even the pure and kind virgins who lived in the temple during the Norma period sat in the honorable position and watched the gladiatorial fight, and stretched out their thumbs down when they judged? And for the nobles and knights, it is justice to kill the evil tribune! It is not easy to establish widely accepted values. β
"Well, what about your standards of justice sometimes?" asked Canion, waiting for the other to say something like "the law of the jungle, survival of the fittest." Such words.
"I don't know my standard of justice, but I remember vividly what my teacher taught me whether it is justice that meets the requirements of social development and the interests of the broad masses!" replied Martin without hesitation.
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In the face of such high-sounding words, Canian had nothing to say. He knew very well how many sins he could commit in the name of this sentence, but the sentence itself was true. γ
"So, what about the Evil Breaker?" asked Liukrisa suddenly.
"The Evil Slash is only a blow to the evil in your heart, and it only works against the targets you believe are evil. Therefore, you can't even say that the object of the Evil Slash is evil. You should be very clear that in our world, neither magic nor magic has the ability to detect evil! I can give the most intuitive example of the evil slash, and the holy warrior Potemkin is an excellent example. When the gladiators revolted in the Norma Republic, the Church demanded that the paladins join the legions of the Republic to suppress the "mob". The paladin Potemkin refused to participate in the fight against the rebels, so he was expelled from the title of paladin by the Church. But he didn't think it was right and eventually joined the rebels. During the battle, he killed a total of twelve paladins who had gone to suppress the rebels. Most notably, five of the twelve were killed by Potemkin with the Evil Slash, and according to the account of a centurion of the Norma Republic Legion, there was even a scene of Potemkin and the paladins who suppressed the rebels slashing each other with the Evil Slash. He paid the price for his choice and was crucified after the failure of the Great Uprising. But the Holy Warrior, who was expelled from the Church, used his actions to explain what he saw as justice. Martin directly used the example of that year as his own argument, to which Liukrisia was speechless.
Then, there was no word all the way. The three of them galloped on horseback, and they had already made up their minds to change horses directly at the next stop, so they were not stingy with horsepower at all. Not only that, but from time to time I also add a magic or magic to the horse to speed it up. All three of them are accustomed to riding horses, and they are very skillful at dissolving the impact at the waist. During the gallop, Martin looked at Liucrexia from time to time, and Liucrexia's vigor and health attracted him. She was nothing like the somewhat sick women he had seen before, and the Starch Spencer was a druid. From the resolute thin lips to the pair of black eyes, Liu Crexia has a unique temperament as a whole.
"Perhaps, there's nothing wrong with staying with them. Martin muttered. The oncoming wind blew his whispers out of sight......
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I'm sorry, I haven't updated for a long time, I drank some liquor during the Spring Festival + I didn't sleep enough and my head was dizzy, so it hindered the update. Books will be written with great effort. The content of this chapter was conceived a long time ago, but the result of it was not very satisfactory to me. It seems that I will have time to revise it later.
Recently, I watched some movies and anime. "We are from the future" is very interesting. I recommend taking a look.
I remember that the Roman Empire (note that the uprising in Spartacus took place during the Roman Republic, not the Roman Empire) also had gladiator uprisings, but I couldn't find them when I looked them up. Dizzy, it looks like I'm misremembering again.