The wind was cold, the snowflakes were flying, and the sky and the earth were vast. Davao City, which stood in the wilderness, was soon dyed white by the snowstorm.

Davao City is located in the middle of the Eastern Alliance, and it is actually not as large as the main town of a common barony. The 20-meter-high walls enclose an area of 14 square kilometers and are inhabited by 3 kings, 6 dukes, and 15 marquises.

Of course, the princes and marquis of Davao City are self-appointed, and their will cannot even carry out the entire city. They do, however, have knightly blood and surnames. According to the rules of the Radiant Code, the priests, the knights, and the populace are all three of the right places.

The town is surrounded by 120,000 acres of pasture land and a river. In the eastern wilderness, which is covered with devil grass, its natural conditions can be described as unique. Moreover, Davao City is only 54 days away from the Borui Kingdom, and it will not take more than 70 days for the convoy to reach the border town of the Seuss Kingdom.

The kingdoms of Borui and Seuss canonized all the down-and-out nobles of Davao City as Kingdom Lords, and opened roads and built supply points along the way in their name. Over time, it became an important trade transit point and business destination for the Eastern Alliance.

Davao City does not produce food, but it is quite prosperous, with a permanent population of more than 8,000. When the roads are slippery and difficult to navigate, large caravans will stay in Davao City for two months until the next spring melts before setting off for their destination. The caravan brought with it a dazzling array of goods and bulging money bags. The city is full of magnificent shops, pubs and inns. The flow of people on the streets is buzzing back and forth with goose feathers and heavy snow, and it is very lively, and there is no bleak and deserted water season at all.

With a loud bang, a figure suddenly smashed through the wooden door of the tavern and fell to the center of the street, causing pedestrians to scream and avoid. It was a middle-aged man with gray hair and a stout build. His ornate fur was stained with sewage, and it seemed to have scorch marks from the flames, and the whole person curled up in a strange position, lying on the ground and convulsing, obviously in shock.

"It's Master Ribber of the Gray Rabbit Caravan!"

A sharp-eyed observer recognized the victim's identity. The crowd was in an uproar.

"Sure enough, it's Master Rieber. ”

"It's fun now. ”

"Who dares to make trouble in Davao City?

"Hurry up and inform the Brotherhood's guard mercenaries...... Come and get a few people to help, and quickly carry Master Rieber to the church, where if he dies, he will smash our sign. ”

Davao City is a mixed bag, fights are commonplace, and it's not worth the fuss about dying. But no one can openly harm the financiers of Davao City.

The caravan is the owner of Davao City.

The Gray Rabbit Caravan is a bold and generous man, and is very popular with the residents of Davao City. What's more, the Gray Rabbit Caravan is the property of the Kamen Brothers, and seven out of ten of the inhabitants here are peripheral members of the Brotherhood. The leader of the Brotherhood's caravan was beaten half to death on the Brotherhood's territory, instantly arousing the anger of the residents.

However, the Brotherhood is divided into three major factions and more than two dozen forces. Riber may have been wounded by an enemy within the Brotherhood. The surrounding crowd maintained basic restraint, but faintly divided into several large and small gangs, facing each other, sabre-rattling, ready to fight at any time.

Not long after, the mercenaries guarding Davao City hurried over, and the mercenary captain led by him probed Rieber's snort, opened his eyelids and looked at his pupils, and signaled that his life was not in danger for the time being. Just as the guard mercenary was about to carry Rieber away, a sharp voice sounded:

"No one can touch him!"

Pacing in the tavern came a stocky old man, dressed in a luxurious bearskin coat, with a pale face and deep bags under his eyes, giving him a sense of excessive frivolity.

When the mercenary captain saw him, his murderous expression immediately changed to a sycophant smile, and he nodded and said, "Father Bilka, you are also there?"

The nobles of Davao City have nothing to do every day, either holding feasts or creating people, and the city's affairs have nothing to do with them. Father Bilka is the actual ruler, and in the name of the nobles of Davao City, he hires a mercenary group of the Brotherhood of Kamen to maintain order in the city, collecting taxes from merchants and distributing them to each of the mercenaries.

Father Bilka nodded majestically and reservedly, pointed at the unconscious Lieber, and said sharply: "He is an evil wizard!"

The crowd scattered around like a frying pan, and the escort mercenaries fled the scene rolling and crawling, hiding in the crowd and shivering, even the one-handed spear in their hands was a little unsteady. Two muscle, burgeoning faces walked through the broken tavern door, took Lieber's arm, and dragged him toward the town's church.

The pleasure seekers in the tavern poked their heads out, and began to talk excitedly and excitedly.

"Scared the hell out of me...... Lieber is the son of the devil. ”

"I saw a fireball the size of a human head coming out of his hand...... Surely the legendary Hellfire. ”

"The Most High is above...... Lieber plans to burn the entire city to please his devilish parents. Fortunately, the evil one can't hide from the eyes of the priest. ”

"Praise be to the Most High, I saw that the mighty man struck away the son of the devil with a wave of his hand, and the terrible hellfire could not hurt him in the slightest. ”

"Frog-eating fool! Don't you see that the warrior is a noble and upright paladin!"

Only then did the people on the street discover that next to Father Bilka stood a mysterious man wrapped in a cloak, who must be the legendary paladin.

The populace believed that the noble paladins were the embodiment of justice and strength. The Paladins vs. Evil Sorcerers episode is only circulated in the bard's ballads. Today, they witnessed the Paladin's subduing of the wizard and the rescue of Davao City. The believers knelt in the snow and praised the glory of the Most High in unison.

Father Bilka nodded in satisfaction, and commanded in a shrill voice, "Tomorrow at noon, Lord Paladin Conral Trigovar will personally preside over the ritual of purifying evil. It is important that everyone knows the news of the victory...... Who, you take someone to arrest all the entourage of the Gray Rabbit Caravan, interrogate them well, and don't let the wizard's helpers slip through the net. After saying that, the priest turned to the paladin and said with a flattering smile: "My lord, we will go back to church now?"

The mysterious man nodded slightly and walked forward. The crowd spontaneously gave way to a wide passage and watched the paladins and priests leave in awe and gratitude, and some devout believers even knelt down to kiss the paladin's footprints. And the people in the tavern are fighting for the wine glasses used by the paladin, and they have become a mess.

The church is the most magnificent building in Davao City, and its interior is majestic. Paladin Condal bypassed the main building of the church and walked into a modest building in the backyard.

The interior of the building is completely different from the plain exterior, with the mahogany furniture of the Kingdom of Gambis, the wool painted carpets of the Wharton Prairie, the oil paintings of the Silk Ladies of the Seuss Kingdom, the crystal chandeliers of Neville, the pure gold candlesticks and sazard oil candles of the Borui Kingdom, the ornamental armor of Duoduo, the centaur leather sofas of Sassan, and other luxury goods, all of which are of the best quality.

Conlar took off his cloak, and several young girls with beautiful faces and thin dresses greeted him with their bare white feet, but they were dispersed by Father Bilka. These girls are all made of pink and jade, innocent and cute, but there is a charm between their eyebrows and eyes. They were intimate with Father Bilka, apparently trained by him.

The paladin's azure eyes shrank slightly, and he said coldly, "You will enjoy it." ”

Father Bilka graciously took the cloak, and with a fat boar-like face, he said, "Let Mistress Trigovar see me, that's what I love." ”

The only specialty of the Eastern Union was the population, and the largest trade was the human trade.

Strictly speaking, trade in people is not a crime. After all, there is a tradition of persuasion for adoption. The children of ordinary families will have the foundation to climb upwards only if they follow noble masters, and their living conditions will be better.

Knights belong to the transcendent human beings who are moving towards perfection, and when the blood of knights spreads to ordinary people, beautiful appearance and healthy body become the intuitive standard to measure whether a person is noble or not.

If there is something good at the top, it will be prosperous at the bottom. The Eastern Alliance was originally a place of exile for the nobles, and there were no natural conditions for territorial development, and the down-and-out nobles were trapped in isolated island cities, with nothing to do except reproduce.

The ancestors of the Eleano family relied on human trade and lovers diplomacy to create the kingdom of Seuss. With the example of Eleano ahead, the Eastern Alliance's population trade flourished, and gradually formed a large and prodigious industry.

The caravans would take the collected men and women to the Eastern Alliance, sell them to the local nobles, adopt their young children with persuasion, and then sell them to lords in need at a high price to train them as squires, maids, family dead soldiers, or secret knights.

In fact, the clergy also needed to improve the appearance and temperament of their offspring to conform to the aesthetics of high society. It's no surprise that the church in Davao City has adopted some beautiful girls, but Father Bilka's penchant for abuse of underage girls is disgusting to Knight Conral.

However, Fr. Bilka was born in the oldest monastery of the Holy Mountain. Since the papal line was hollowed out, the priests of the monastery of the Holy Mountain gradually withdrew from the core of the Holy See's power and became the last in the convent of the church. It took a lot of effort for the Trigovars to take their former political enemies for their own use, and put them in charge of the Eastern Alliance.

Billa was confined to Davao City, and could not become a senior priest for the rest of his life. Declining priests are matched with down-and-out nobles, and the upper echelons of the Eastern Alliance are naturally extravagant and erosive. Crucially, Bilka is loyal enough to the Trigovar family and useful. Conlar would not blame the family's eagle minions because of his own sense of morality.

"Lord Trigovar, you've achieved the Silver Rank, and now you've captured another wizard, and a Level 4 Paladin is just around the corner. "I can't leave Davao City for my promotion. I have specially prepared 100 Holy Power Crystals as a personal gift from me. ”

Conlar's face was slightly pale, and he said with a deep groan: "This time, I was able to easily capture a wizard, thanks to the help of Black-robed Bishop Charlie...... You arrange it, and I'll take the little black robe to see him now. ”

"As you wish, my lord. Bilka bowed and retired.

Moments later, he returned to the room with a skinny boy dressed in a black robe. The boy was about 8 years old, clutching a small wooden box tightly in his hand, and wanted to bow at the sight of the paladin.

Conlar raised his hand to stop him, got up and said, "Jamie, take the box." I'll take you to meet your mentor. ”

The boy, Jamie, followed the paladin and left Father Bilka's residence. They entered the back door of the church, followed the spiral staircase, and climbed all the way to the top of the tall tower. Conlar pushed open the wooden door of the attic, and a strange smell came to his face, like honey soaked in rotten flesh, which made people want to vomit when they sniffed it.

Jamie pinched his nose and entered the cramped attic to see a scrawny old man sitting in a rocking chair. He was covered with a thick blanket, and beside him was a fierce mountain ape with smooth and shiny fur and a giant owl more than half a man tall. The mountain ape looked at the two visitors with curiosity, while the owl remained motionless with its eyes closed, like a lifeless specimen.

"A little wizard?"

The old man's voice was dry and hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken for many years, and two dark red fires flashed in his sunken eye sockets, as if they could burn through people's souls. Jamie couldn't help but shudder, holding the wooden box, trying to hide behind the paladin, but was carried out.

"Lord Charlie, Jamie is a pious child, and his parents are servants of my lord. Conlar took Jamie's hand and smiled.

The old man's dark red gaze softened, no longer possessing the power of breathtaking, and he nodded and said, "This is the heir you found for me?"

"Yes. ”

Conral Trigovar bowed his head to Jamie and said, "This Lord in front of you is the Chief of the Black-robed Cathars, the Sky Surveyor, the Insightful, the Pious, the Black-robed Bishop of the Inquisition, and Charlie, the 41st Speaker of the Council of Shadows. ”

"Only He can save your soul from the devil's hands. ”

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