Barony of Dahl?

Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment before remembering this place. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It was a relatively remote territory, and Sui Xiong originally planned to use it as an experimental site, and sent Kabbalah, the "prince of Europe" who was the best at summoning oracles in the church, as the main priest.

According to his thoughts, the local lords belong to the evil camp and will definitely clash with the Kabbalah of the good camp. At that time, Calaba will inevitably summon the oracles to help, and he will be able to verify the help of the oracles for these mid-level priests through practice.

Moreover, you can also use this to see how far the Divine Envoy can be used, and by the way, try the Divine Envoy Advanced and the like...... All in all, there are many things that can be researched and tried.

However, even the gods can't do everything as they should, and although Sui Xiong designed it well, things didn't turn out what he expected. Or rather, Baron Dahl's approach was the exact opposite of what he expected.

According to his plan, Baron Dahl will not be able to tolerate the help and organization of the Church of the Void Mask for the poor, and sooner or later he will have a serious conflict with the Church of the Void Mask. But in fact, after witnessing the combat effectiveness of the Void Mask Church, Baron Dahl almost gave up his intention to fight by force, after all, for him, even if the poor people in the territory become strong and not easy to control, it is nothing more than a little money or cannon fodder, and it is not worth risking the loss of troops for this.

How much is a poor man's life worth? He only needs to die a dozen elite soldiers, which is worth more than the poor people of the entire city of Dahl combined!

With this in mind, Baron Dahl began to reconcile with the Void Mask Church. Then, not long after, as the conflict between the merchant faction and the aristocratic faction intensified, the Barony of Dahl fell into a dilemma. Baron Dahl did not want to join either the merchant faction or the aristocratic faction, so he finally gritted his teeth and directly took refuge in the Void Mask Church and started a small autonomous region.

Speaking of which, he is also a ruthless person, knowing that he will suffer a lot and lose a lot of benefits by joining the Void Mask Church, but in order to escape the trend of the merchant faction and the aristocratic faction, he would rather suffer and lose money. Just to complete the atonement ceremony, he gave half of his life, if it weren't for the Kabbalah priest's healing spell, he was afraid that he would be able to die in the atonement ritual.

But he also relied on his determination to let Sui Xiong see sincerity. So Sui Xiong changed his mind and sent blessings and protection to Dahl.

Relying on Sui Xiong's protection, Dahl Ling successfully escaped the great conflict between the aristocratic faction and the merchant faction, which once almost developed into a war, and is now changing his policy to develop in a low-key manner, living in peace and stability.

Probably because it was too low-key, Sui Xiong even gradually forgot about this territory. If it weren't for Leon's reminder, he wouldn't have remembered Darling.

So he hurried towards Dahlling, and this time it took only a few hours to reach his destination.

Winter is at its coldest time, and the climate in the Dal Territory is relatively cold in this area, and now the entire territory is almost covered in snow.

The Kabbalah priest was sitting in the reception room of Baron Dahl's mansion, talking alone with Baron Dahl.

The burning firewood through the fireplace kept the room at least warm, and although it was not like other aristocratic mansions, you could only wear a single coat, but at least it would not feel the cold.

Kabbalah held the grass tea in his hand, but he didn't mean to drink it, just thought quietly.

Across from him, Baron Dahl was also thinking. At present, the two highest-ranking figures in Dahl's territory are like two statues, motionless.

After a while, Baron Dahl sighed and said, "Things ...... It's really not easy to do!"

"I know. "If it's easy, I won't come to you." ”

"Heating is a big problem, and I know that. But to keep the poor safe from the cold, a lot of fuel is needed anyway. We don't produce coal here, we only use firewood. But if you cut down a lot of firewood, it means that you will clash with the druids in the forest......" Baron Dahl shook his head slightly, "With our strength, even if we can defeat them, the loss will be great." It's not worth it. ”

"For the sake of human life, nothing is not worth it. Kabbalah persuaded.

"The lives of the poor are fateful, and so are the lives of the soldiers. Baron Dahl said sincerely, "Lord Kabbalah, I will not tell you those empty words, those soldiers are selected and trained at great expense, they have always been loyal and brave, and they are the basis of my dominions." I can't risk the lives of the poor to help keep them warm. ”

The Kabbalah priest frowned and said, "But don't soldiers exist to protect the people, and if soldiers don't protect the people, what is the value of their existence?"

"That's true, but can I say to them, 'The poor need firewood to keep them out, they need a lot of trees, but there are druids in the forest, go and deal with the druids, so they can cut down trees'...... They're not going to say yes to that?"

Kabbalah was silent, and after a while, he sighed: "Where the hell did those druids come from!"

It's not a question, it's just an emotion.

Since last fall, druids have appeared in the forests near Barony Dahl. They are not the common sect that emphasizes the unity of nature and man, but the more radical sect that blindly defends nature and believes that man should return to nature.

This sect protects the natural ecology without principle and prohibits all acts of destruction of nature with extreme strictness. This includes, but is not limited to, clearing wasteland, cutting down trees, carving roads in forests, and so on. In the past few months, they have fought several times with the adventurers of Dahl, and although neither of them has lost any lives, they have been injured quite a bit.

In this case, even in the cold weather, the civilians did not dare to go into the forest to cut down trees, lest they attack them.

For ordinary civilians, if they don't cut down trees, they can also buy coal or something to keep warm, or simply save firewood and dress thickly, which is almost enough. But the poor people could not afford coal or thick clothes to wear, and if they no longer had enough firewood to keep warm, I don't know how many people would freeze to death this winter!

Of course, the Kabbalah priest could not allow such cruel things to happen under his nose, so he took the priests to negotiate with the druids.

The result of the negotiation was obvious, so he came to visit the lord's palace, hoping that Baron Dahl would send an army to help him and "convince" the group of druids so that the poor would not survive the winter.

However, Baron Dahl refused to send troops, and even though he was also a believer in the Church of the Void Mask, he was really reluctant to sacrifice his troops for such a thing.

In this regard, there is nothing that the Kabbalah priest can do. Kindness refers to the fact that people can sacrifice their own interests when they are in need, but it does not include sacrificing the interests of others.

He was a good man, so he couldn't convince himself and forced Baron Dahl to send troops.

So the matter came to an impasse, and today was the third day of their discussion, and no matter how much the Void Mask Church managed to distribute it, the firewood stored in the slums had been almost used up—the result of the baron taking out a lot of the firewood stored in the mansion to help the poor.

At this point, the Kabbalah priest was also very helpless, and just when he was wondering whether to go to the merchants in the territory to fight the autumn wind, he suddenly heard words from the bottom of his heart.

The words were deep and deep, with a sense of sacredness that made him extremely happy.

[Don't worry, I'm here.] 】