The Church of Radiance succeeded in overthrowing the sorcerers, but Enoch was faced with how to rule the human world, and most importantly, how to deal with the knightly class.

In the post-war human world, the common people of the common class fully embraced the rule of the Radiant Church and devoutly believed in the Lord of the Radiance. However, the knightly class has become accustomed to the extraordinary power of wizards, and maintains a reverence for the Lord of Light, but has no devout faith, which makes them incompatible with the common believers.

And the common believers are even more resentful of these former sorcerer minions, even though it is because of the rebellion of the knights that they overthrew the brutal sorcerers.

In addition to these internal contradictions, Enoch also found that humanity also faces an external existential crisis.

The change in the laws of the world has weakened the power of wizards, and at the same time weakened the power of the clergy, and at this time, humans are at their weakest, and orcs and monsters are beginning to have the ability to threaten the territory of humans.

On the other hand, the wizard, although defeated, is not extinct because the wizard awakening is random. In order to prevent the resurgence of the wizarding class, the Church of Radiance must purge and purify the newly awakened wizards.

However, Enoch found that they did not have enough clergy, and continuing to woo the knightly class became Enoch's only option.

In the first year of the Radiant Calendar, Enoch held a coronation ceremony on the Bright Mountain, proposing the purpose of protection, redemption, devotion, and faith, and Enoch served as the Pope of the Radiant Church, and was called Enoch I, and the Pope was succeeded by his sons, which continues to this day.

Pope I proclaimed the formation of the Knights of Radiance, and on the spot canonized the seven knights who had followed him as paladins, and gave them the title of 'saint' in front of their family names. On the same day, the angel descended, the holy light shrouded, and the seven gold-level paladins stepped into the legendary realm in one fell swoop with the blessing of divine power. The knights who watched the ceremony were all shocked on the spot.

Subsequently, the Pope announced the implementation of the feudal system, and the church recognized the knights as nobles, and required the knights to assume the position of lords, and to govern the territory together with the clergy, protect the commoners, fight against foreign races, and eliminate new wizards.

Enoch I clarified the duties and obligations of the various classes, with the lords exercising the duty of protection and the duty of faith, the clergy exercising the duty of salvation and the duty of faith, and the plebeians exercising the duty of devotion and the duty of faith.

Finally, Enoch I promulgated the Code of Radiance, in which the law of lordship made it clear that the right of the nobility to rule was sacrosanct, which meant that the Church of Radiance would not deprive the nobles of their territory, and even if the lord was executed for violating the fatwa, the Church would not deprive his descendants of the inheritance.

As soon as the code was issued, all the knights were satisfied, swore allegiance to the pope on the spot, and then happily went to various places to take up their posts, thus starting the system of aristocratic feudal feuds that continued to this day.

Enoch I's feudal system not only eliminated the risk of direct war between the church and the knights, but also recruited knights to help the church fight against aliens and eliminate wizards, and the church also had time to recuperate and grow.

It seems, everyone is satisfied, but over time new contradictions arise.

In the process of the knights exercising their lordship duties, they were shocked to find that they had lost the leadership of the wizards, and they could not parry the attacks of orcs and monsters!

In the past, when the knights cleaned up the monster community under the leadership of the wizard, the wizards threw out a few big fireballs to blow up the monsters, and the knights then stepped forward to complete the clearance, and the whole process was very easy. But now, when they face the hordes of ferocious monsters, they realize that the most insignificant goblin community is not so easy to deal with. Even if you add the clergy of the church, it will not help, because the extraordinary power of the clergy is not directly used in battle, and the key thing is that their power is also weakened! In the end, the situation that arises is that the knight fights with the monster in blood, is seriously wounded, and after being healed by the clergy, he continues to fight and continues to be seriously injured...... If you die in battle, you are really dead....... there has never been a resurrection.

For 7,000 years, under the invasion of monsters, the territory of humanity has been shrinking, and so far, it has reduced the territory by sixty percent compared to the time of the Chosen One.

There is no hope for external expansion, which will only exacerbate internal contradictions. Those lords who have lost their fiefdoms can only seek living space from within the human race, and in the process, friction and integration between the lords and the lords continue to occur. Gradually, the balance between the lords was broken, some lords became stronger and stronger, and some lords became weaker and weaker, so the weak lords began to seek the protection of the powerful lords, and this submission and alliance allowed the lords to form one interest group after another, and led to the emergence of a noble hierarchy.

In the year 1757, more than 5,000 years ago, one of the most powerful lords in the human world announced the establishment of a kingdom, and the first kingdom in human history was born.

But three years later, the kingdom collapsed, because the king of the kingdom and several high lords were put to death by the church!

The reason is that the kingdom launched an annexation war, causing a large number of civilian casualties, which the Glorious Church cannot tolerate!

The Church openly declared that these lords, who had violated the Radiant Code, betrayed their duty of protection, and wantonly slaughtered civilians, were evildoers like wizards, and that the Church, in accordance with its duty of salvation, must put an end to this evil act of war and put these wicked lords to death!

This is the first time that a lord has been executed by the Church, and the power displayed by the Church has terrified all the lords!

At this time, the church had cultivated a large number of clergy, and the Radiant Knights had become the most powerful armed force in the human world, with a total of 11 paladins in the legendary realm.

In fact, all the clergy were extremely brave in the face of the invasion of monsters, they were always the first to charge, the last to retreat, and many clergy died on the spot to protect the people, and wrote countless heroic chapters with their lives and blood. This is also the reason why the clergy of the Church of Radiance are proficient in martial arts.

And the mighty Knights of Radiance also attacked everywhere, exterminating thousands of monsters and regaining large swaths of lost territory.

But the problem is that the clergy of the Church of Radiance fully follow the rules of lordship in the Radiant Code, they return the recaptured territory to the lord, and then walk away!

The lord who took over the territory was really suffering at this time, and he wanted to cry without tears, or it wouldn't be long before those monsters would make a comeback, and the lord would lose the territory again.

You see, I've done my duty to redeem, but I don't have the right to rule, and now I'm going to take the territory back for you, and you're losing it again? It's okay, I'll help you take it back, what? You don't want it? Okay, I'll go somewhere else.

After a few times, these lords who were unable to protect the territory had to announce that they would give up their territory and join other families, and the Radiant Knights would no longer clear that territory, which is why the human territory is getting smaller and smaller.

The external living space is squeezed by monsters, and the internal force oppression of the church, which only exacerbates the integration between the lords, and the lords have realized that only unity can fight against such a behemoth as the church, and marriage and knightly duel have thus entered the stage of history.

During that period, lords strengthened their bonds with each other by intermarrying with each other, and irreconcilable disputes were resolved through duels between knights.

It was the emergence of knightly duels that made the knightly class form its own values: bravery, honor, and integrity. And the lords established many kingdoms, and since there were no large number of civilian casualties, the church did not do anything.

However, it would be ridiculous for kingdoms and kingdoms to want to unify each other through marriages and knight duels.

In the year 2535, that is, 4500 years ago, the daughter of the nobles, Arya, created the Silver Tower, she first proposed that the lord should unite the commoners in the territory, and introduced the concept of vassals, lords, and free people.

This system is of great significance and far-reaching impact.

First, it divided the plebeian class and weakened the church's control over the territory, thus strengthening the lord's rule and making the earthly kingdom of humanity more solid.

Secondly, this system has changed the form of warfare, and the war between the human kingdoms is no longer a single knight duel, but has become a small-scale war between the elite and the elite, which fully meets the needs of the human kingdom.

After the first large-scale war between the human lords resulted in more than 20,000 casualties, the lords who started the war were crushed by the church, so the lords began to resolve the conflict through knightly duels and completed the establishment of the kingdom. But the contradictions between kingdoms and kingdoms are unrealistic to be resolved by knight duels. It often happens that after the two knights have fought stupidly, the two kingdoms begin to fight each other for 10,000 years。。。。。。。

Small-scale wars did not provoke a backlash from the Church, and soon the first human empire was born.

The emergence of the empire made the power of the knightly class stronger than ever, which gave them the confidence to resist the church, and also exacerbated the contradiction between the nobility and the church. And it has been influencing until now.

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"King, what do you see from this history that Edwin told me?" asked Victor expectantly, now seeing the King as his staff.

"My lord, it is the law of the development of human society that it must be divided for a long time, and the church has prevented this law. The king responded.

"Yes, I knew that there was something wrong with the church! Mankind must unite if it wants to open up more living space. Only by concentrating your strength can you defeat the monsters and orc tribes in the wilderness. But the Church has prevented the unification of the human world, and they have not been happy since the beginning of the implementation of the feudal system!"

"The purpose of the Church of Radiance is to harvest the faith of mankind! Only suffering can make ordinary people more devout to believe in the Lord of Radiance, and knights are more accustomed to relying on their own strength and will not believe in any gods! Therefore, knights who provoke large-scale wars of unification will be ruthlessly suppressed by the church! Just as shepherds will not allow shepherds to eat their flocks! Hmph! The Lord of Radiance treats ordinary humans as sheep and knights as shepherd dogs, and the will of the sheep and sheepdogs does not matter to him at all!"

As a traverser, Victor's eyes were a little red with anger at the fact that humans were enslaved.

"Your assumptions, my lord, are unfounded. I think it's your TV series that you watch too much. The king said in Victor's consciousness.

“。。。。。。。。。 Being poured cold water by the king made Victor stunned.

"My lord, we know very little about the laws of this world, and we have no idea what the role of human faith is. However, from the history that Edwin told you, it is certain that the Lord of Radiance does not care about the matter of faith. ”

"The first proof is the population problem, if humans are sheep, faith is wool. Then the shepherds will naturally go to great lengths to expand the number of sheep. So, my lord, what do you think is the most abundant period of mankind?" the king asked Victor.

"It was 8,000 years ago, the time of the Chosen One before the advent of blood sacrifices. I understand. Victor thought for a moment and replied.

The Age of the Chosen One was the heyday of mankind, with a territory more than twice as large as it is now, and a naturally largest population.

If the Lord of Light needed to harvest the faith, it was a time of maximization, and His power could have done to build a church, but He did not. The king sent a message to Victor.

However, according to the church, it was the prayers of the people before they died that awakened the Lord of Light, and before that, he was asleep and naturally could not establish the church, but when he woke up, he had to have breakfast or something。。。。。。 Victor defended his conclusion with some reluctance.

"My lord, this depends on the second corroboration. Arya, the founder of the White Tower, introduced the vassal system, which had already pried the foundation of the faith, to which the Church did not react. ”

Victor was speechless for a moment, the vassal system strengthened the ties between the lords and the common lords, these middle classes promoted from the common people, were more dependent on the lords, and the lords also longed for the status of vassals, and between the church and the lords, they would only choose their own lords. The true believers in the Lord of Light are the freedmen who have nothing to eat, and the freedmen are convertible.

This is actually a very clever system, aren't you hindering my unification? Aren't you hindering me from expanding? Okay, my territory is so big, I can't feed everyone, let them wander, don't want to go? I'm sorry, my castle can't live, let them live outside, what, there are monsters? Please go with me to exterminate these monsters, by the way, there is a group of ogres outside my territory, let's take care of them together, or they will come in and eat these free people. After a fierce battle, the territory expanded, the freedmen became a people, and the Church forces were lost.

It's such a system that digs into the corners of the church, and the church has no reaction?!

The third proof is that when the Church was at its strongest, it did not deprive the lords of their right to rule and did not establish a unified human empire, but obeyed the feudal system according to the Radiant Code. This is not logical. ”

If the church really needs faith, then it is in the interests of the church to clean up the hypocritical lord class and establish a unified kingdom of ****, but they did not do it, although they had the strength at that time!

"What the hell is the Church of Radiance going to do, or is it the Lord of Radiance?" asked Victor with a headache.

"My lord, I would like to remind you that the Church of Radiance is also made up of human beings, and it is not to be confused with the Lord of Radiance. ”

"We have already concluded that the Lord of Light cannot intervene directly in this world, and that He and the Church are more like collaborators. ”

"Tell me your conclusions. Victor said impatiently.

"The Lord of Radiance really cares about severing the devil's connection with this world, on the one hand, he demands the elimination of the awakened, and on the other hand, he prevents the mass blood sacrifice of the human race. ”

"Your Excellency, you see that war has caused a large number of civilian deaths, and it has the same characteristics as blood sacrifices, and these human beings have strong negative emotions when they die, hatred, fear, pain, etc. I think it has the potential to work in the devil's favor. ”

And all the perverse behavior of the Church points to one key point, which is the Radiant Code. All of their actions are in obedience to the Shining Code. And it hasn't changed for thousands of years. ”

"Your Excellency, have you noticed, knights cannot awaken, but they can gain magical powers and become paladins. And when a golden knight becomes a paladin, he immediately has the power of the legendary realm. That's why magic is the foundation of the church. ”

"I suspect that the clergy will lose the power to perform magic if they violate the Radiant Code, the Lord of Radiance does not need the power of faith, and the church may really need to harvest faith, but they must not violate the Radiant Codex, otherwise no amount of faith is meaningless. ”

"Wait, the Radiant Code was made by the First Pope, why should he bind his successor?" asked Victor quickly.

"Your Excellency, you seem to be hostile to the Church of Radiance. Can you tell me why?" asked the king.

"I don't like to have a transcendent creature on my head, I always feel like there's a conspiracy in the Church of Radiance. Victor replied dryly that he had nothing to hide from the king.

"Your Excellency, this prejudice can make you misjudge, but judging by what the Pope I did, he was indeed a great and wise man. ”

Victor was speechless, yes, why couldn't Enoch be a noble man?

"I guess here's the thing, Enoch worked with the Lord of Light to eliminate the group of Awoken, they entered into a pact whereby the Church was responsible for eliminating wizards and preventing large numbers of humans from being slaughtered, and the Lord of Light gave the Church the ability to harvest faith and use divine magic. In order to prevent the church or the knightly class from degenerating into a ruler like a wizard, Enoch compiled the Code of Radiance, which was witnessed by the Lord of Radiance. ”

"As for the Lord of Radiance, I think he behaves more like a law creature, or rather a program, and he doesn't discern between good and evil in a person, so Enoch needs to use the Radiant Code to restrain those who come after him. ”

"If the knightly class falls, the Church will crusade against the knights, and if the clergy break the Code, they will be stripped of their power. It seems that I misunderstood the church, and they are indeed noble. Victor said with a sigh.

"My lord, the nobility of the Church is meaningless, and the Radiant Code has imprisoned the development of the human world. The Church was on the opposite side of the aristocracy, and this contradiction would lead to changes within the Church. ”

"Indeed, Edwin's subsequent account confirms this, but how do you think that there will not be a war between the nobility and the church?" asked Victor in surprise.

"As long as the Church recognizes the right of the nobility to rule, it will not lead to war. What's more, the paladins of the church are more powerful than ordinary knights, and the paladins themselves come from the knightly class!"