Knowing the recent situation from Trume's mouth, Radis prepared to go to the church, while Trump stayed in the blacksmith shop to sort out the overturned things, and the two parted ways and agreed to go to the tavern for a drink and dinner together in the evening.

However, the plan could not keep up with the change, and before Lades reached the central square of the town, he found that the road in the direction of the church was already surrounded by a crowd of people.

Standing far away, I heard the people in front of me talking.

"Bill, this thief boy, how can he be provoked, he has to provoke those guys who eat people and don't spit out bones, now it's okay, something happened, right?"

"I said a long time ago that if this kid continues to mess around like this, something will happen sooner or later!······ Alas~, in fact, this kid's nature is still good, but poor old Bill died early and didn't teach him well, it's a pity. ”

"It's a pity, the people in the church are still there, they can't get out of their lives, and at most they will suffer a little, just so that he can learn a lesson, and save him from doing these ninth-rate things in the future. ”

"Don't say that here! You've lived in town for so many years, and you don't know what Bill is doing this for, he wouldn't have had to live this life······

"Come on, it's clear that this group of mercenaries deliberately used the topic to embarrass the people in the church!"

"The people of the church can't protect him, stealing is one of the crimes that the Sogo Church prohibits, and they don't have this position. ”

"This kid is so unlucky······"

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It seemed that there was some accident in front of him, and Ratis was not in a hurry, and he was also a little curious, so he looked left and right, found a place where no one was, condensed the hand of the mage, and then changed the form of the spell, stretched it far away, grabbed a second-floor window and took advantage of the leap, and a few neat dodges jumped onto the roof of a hotel, raised his vision, and looked towards the center of the crowd.

It was a little far away, and Lates couldn't see it clearly, only to see two sides of the street confronting each other, one of which was the well-armed paladins of Hannibal who he had seen in the church before, and on the other side were mercenaries far outnumbered them, and there seemed to be some children in the middle.

Look at it in the past or look at it in situ with divine magic?

Of course, that's in the past, and you can't consume the power of faith with divine magic? Although you have a lot of money now, you can't squander it too much, right? Of course, Lades understands that before finding a fixed source of faith power, he can save a little bit.

Thinking like this, Radis was already in the wind under his feet, and jumped out of the roof with a run, and when he was in mid-air, the slender and flexible mage's hand had already reached out and grabbed all kinds of borrowing objects, and flew between the roofs of the house with his small body.

The two mage's hands alternated, and the four guards defused the impact of the leap, dodging obstacles, and adjusting their body angles, as nimble as a monkey in the jungle.

When you jump high, you fly over all the buildings and look down on the whole town, and when you fly low, you pass over the heads of pedestrians on the road, startling many people to look up.

I have to say that Radis was able to use the mage's hand so coquettishly, thanks to Albert's special training in hell, otherwise he would not have the ability to travel through the city like Spider-Man.

Without further ado, between the cornices and walls, Latis was already close to the center of the conflict in a few blinks of an eye, and landed quietly on a water tower, looking condescendingly lively.

He didn't stand on a high place to hide, but because he could see more clearly here, and here in Alctor, he thought that he had no need to hide his head and show his tail at all, and the way he came all the way was coquettish enough, attracting I don't know how many eyeballs, and it was difficult not to attract attention.

His eyes moved down and fell to the middle of the street, but he saw a group of mercenaries pressing a teenage boy with a fierce attitude, talking arrogantly to the young paladins, and those young paladins were suppressing their anger one by one, their faces were pale, and they could see that they must have lost the upper hand in the exchange of words.

I can vaguely see that behind the paladins are protecting more than a dozen children of different ages, including teenage children who are a little more sensible, but most of them are only half-grown children, one by one pursed their lips and held back tears, looking at the mercenaries and the emaciated boy who was kneeling on the ground with his arms tied, Sister Lilith and several other nuns comforting them beside them, and looking back at the young knights in the confrontation with worry from time to time.

Laces frowned, feeling that things might not be as simple as he had thought before, at least it would be much more troublesome than the two sides directly fighting with real knives and guns.

Maybe I should ask someone about it.

Radis thought so, but heard movement from the audience······

I only heard a tall and thin mercenary with sharp ears and monkey cheeks arrogantly stepping on the kneeling young man, the snowy enchanted long sword in his hand resting on his neck, and beside him, a handsome man with a cold leader-like face shouted to the paladins with a proper expression:

"Now you are the administrator of this town, right? Hurry up and fulfill your duty, this shameful thief and his gang have stolen our treasures worth tens of thousands of gold coins, aren't you, as the administrator, not prepared to be routinely punished?

As he spoke, the man counted his fingers and pretended to ask, "Hanging, burning, demotion to life slavery, or exile······?" I don't remember exactly, but the amount of theft is so high, at least you have to chop it up, right?"

As soon as the words fell, the subordinates around him immediately cooperated with his words, raised the long sword in his hand high, and made a gesture to slash, which frightened the crowd of onlookers to exclaim.

"Stop!"

The leading paladin shouted with a shocked face: "You are not qualified to be tortured!"

The leader man waved his hand to signal his subordinates to stop, and then sneered playfully, "Oh, what, you want to do it yourself?"

The resolute-faced paladin leader was stunned unnaturally for a moment, and then shouted: "What to do with it is our business, you only need to hand over the prisoner to us, and we will naturally give you an explanation." ”

"Huh!"

Unexpectedly, the man's face turned cold, and after snorting coldly, he asked sharply:

"The prisoner's accomplices are still being protected behind you, how can you let us hand them over to you? Who knows if you will let them go in the blink of an eye? Now everyone can see your intention to shield them, how can I believe you? If you want to be punished, you must do it now, do what you have to do, there is nothing to trouble, let all the people present bear witness for us, and see how you uphold justice! Not only will he be punished, but his accomplices will never be allowed to let go!"

The young man who was originally kneeling on the ground with his head hanging his head suddenly raised his head violently when he heard his words, and roared again and again: "I have no accomplices, I stole the things, don't care about them!"

The mercenary with the sword immediately kicked him down, stepped on his head unceremoniously, and shouted viciously: "Honestly, you thief has no right to speak!"

"You guys!······ It's better not to go too far!"

The Paladin Leader was angry, but he didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Is it really as they say they are punishing on the spot?

How is it possible, let's not mention what is going on in this matter, although the evidence is conclusive, this young man is indeed a habitual thief, but from the mouth of the local nun, he has already learned the specific situation.

This teenager is the only son of the director of an orphanage, the old director is a retired thief professional mercenary, died in an accident a few years ago, leaving this teenager alone to take care of more than a dozen orphans, life is forced, and he has to embark on the road of stealing, such a pitiful and lamentable situation, how can they do it?

It is true that this does not be a reason for the boy to steal, but the townspeople know that the boy has never done anything to the people in the town, most of them are petty thefts, and most of the people in the town still have a sympathetic attitude towards his situation, if the punishment is really severe or even cruel now, it will definitely arouse the people's bad feelings towards the church and make them completely lose the hearts of the people, which he absolutely does not want to see.

But if it is not appropriate not to punish it, the doctrine clearly states that all thefts must be dealt with mercilessly according to the size of the circumstances, how can they, as members of the Church, openly violate it? Not to mention that this will damage the prestige of the Church, and the Paladins who worship the doctrine as their life will not be able to pass this level themselves.

And if they are not punished according to the regulations, these indomitable mercenaries will achieve their goal, and they know that they will definitely take the opportunity to amplify the impact of the incident in the future, whether it is to make trouble for their future management, or continue to damage the image of the church, or even take the opportunity to directly cause trouble, it will develop into an extremely serious incident, and they can't afford to bear such consequences!

Now they are really in a dilemma!

I have to say that this guy in front of him is really too insidious!

Anyone with a discerning eye can see what is going on, but they have no way at all, they can't even be tough and forcibly snatch people over, because now the other party's number and strength far exceed them, and Hannibal, who is extraordinary, is not in the town at the moment, and they have no certainty of suppressing the development of the situation!

At this moment, this insidious conspirator is still adding fuel to the fire: "What? Are you threatening me?"

He turned to the crowd of onlookers and shouted, "Everyone here has seen it, right? We, as victims, just want to deal with the prisoners according to the law, and we don't have any excessive demands, but we are threatened and unreasonably oppressed by them, I want to ask, is this the way of the church?"

He turned his head sharply and pointed at the young paladins and shouted, "They let the arrogant and vicious thieves live in the town without restraint, endangering the property safety of all the people and travelers, and now we have caught the thieves, not only do they not give us an explanation, but they are actually ready to shield the thieves' accomplices!"

"Behold, this is the justice of the Church! This is the face of the Church! I am saddened that the great Church, which has guided us forward, has been mixed with the vile thieves! Shall we watch them commit such blasphemous acts contrary to the oracle?"

"No! We can't compromise! All sinners must be punished as they deserve!"

"Punishment!

"Don't let go of any of them!"

"Catch them all!

"Punishment!

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He shouted unscrupulously there, and the mercenaries around him also raised their weapons in their hands and shouted in response.

However, the eyes of the masses were bright, they did not dare to provoke these dangerous bastards, and everyone just watched them put on a show with cold eyes, as if they were watching a group of pompous clowns staging a farce without any laughter or novelty.

No one laughed, it was obviously a noisy scene, but the atmosphere was already colder than the coldest cold wind, stabbing people with chills.

The young paladins gritted their teeth, and some even looked dead - they were confused, they didn't understand how to solve it, and they would now rather face the threat of the enemy's blades than endure the torture of humanity and faith in a distorted reality.

In the crowd, a beautiful princess in a smart outfit gritted her teeth and wanted to step forward, but was pressed on the shoulder by the female knight who was traveling behind her.

"Why?"

The princess looked back in grief, and her originally touching and sunny smile was still gone.

"It is inconvenient for us to meddle, and we have no position to intervene, this is not something that can be solved by force, please don't forget, you are the princess of the kingdom, and sometimes you also represent the image of the kingdom. ”

"That's not what I'm asking. ”

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Just when the gaffe became more and more serious, an obviously immature but indifferent voice suddenly sounded:

"Excuse me, can I please shut you up first?"

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