Chapter 364: Lord Clive's Recruitment
When Aunt Susan brought the prepared plates of pheasant and hare, the whole tavern burst into cheers.
One of the plates was placed in front of Fang Rui, Fang Rui picked up a chicken leg and gnawed it, gnawing until his mouth was greasy.
"Fortunately, Andre, otherwise, even though we have the protection of the Holy Light, we wouldn't even be able to eat meat. ”
"Yes, the war is over, why haven't the knights and priests come back? ”
Speaking of this, all the drinkers began to lament.
The town is not big, you can go out of the town to hunt and farm at will, although you have to support the church, everyone can still live, but now the support is reduced, but the production outside the town is all cut off, just rely on some fields in the town, no matter how good the yield is, it is difficult to make everyone in the town full, let alone eat well.
It's just that they can't do anything, after all, here, they can get by for the time being, if they go out of the town and encounter a demonic beast, there are thousands of families in the town, and it is probably not as good as a first-order demonic beast to fill in the gaps.
Fang Rui drank wine while smiling and listening to the other people sighing.
The joys, sorrows, and sorrows of ordinary people have not been noticed for a long time.
In fact, if it weren't for Fang Rui arriving here, with the protection ability of the Holy Light here, he would have been able to protect the church a long time ago, and if it wasn't for Fang Rui secretly deterring those demonic beasts, Green Town would have already become a dead city.
"What is the Holy Realm going to do next, will they come to their rescue when they are most desperate......?
Fang Rui was eating and drinking while thinking.
To understand the Sacred Realm, one must understand the most basic things of the Sacred Realm.
That's faith.
The Holy Realm is the same as the Buddha Realm, and faith is their most basic and fundamental thing.
In the Holy Realm, the more people who have faith, the greater the power of the Holy Father, the supreme ruler of the Holy Realm.
At its peak, the Holy Realm had a star field twice as vast as it is now, and it had countless fanatical apostles.
At that time, the Holy Father was the strongest being in the world, and whether it was the Buddha Lord of the Buddha Realm or the Supreme God of the Divine Realm, he was far from being the opponent of the Holy Father.
Although it was not easy for the Father to kill them, it was easy to defeat them.
As for the Immortal Realm, at that time, it was a force that belonged to the third level, and it was weaker than the Three Realms.
Then the fairy world rose.
Four of the five top-level immortal realms, that is, the five great immortal monarchs, took the risk and entangled the Holy Father at another level.
That battle was the closest battle to death for the Four Great Immortal Monarchs.
Whether it is the Sect Master of the Law Sect whose spells are ever-changing, the Sect Master of the Force Sect who is incomparably powerful, the Sect Master of the Sword Sect who has reached the limit of his moves, or the Sect Master of the Taishang Sect who can replace part of the will of heaven and earth, they are not the opponents of the Holy Father.
It was an incomparably powerful force, the power to destroy a qiē.
However, they persevered, and by all means, they dragged the Holy Father back for a whole hundred years.
And in the past hundred years, the Almighty Immortal Monarch led other masters of the Immortal Realm to fight bloodily, defeated the other masters of the Saint Realm, snatched nearly half of the planets of the Saint Realm, and sealed the countless fanatical believers together with the planets, cutting off the connection between them and the Holy Father.
This made the Father begin to weaken.
Under the combined power of the Four Great Immortal Monarchs, the power of his faith was consumed and could not be replenished, and he was finally defeated by the Four Great Immortal Monarchs together.
The Holy Realm has since lost half of its territory and, most importantly, its most fanatical group of cultists.
The fairy realm did not slaughter those fanatics, but sealed them along with the planet.
Interestingly, fanatics are ordinary people.
When fanatical believers become knights, priests, or even angels of higher rank, they lose that fanatical faith, and only ordinary humans can have the purest faith.
And the fanatics needed by these Holy Fathers died of old age one by one after hundreds of years, and those planets also became the property of the fairy world.
From then on, although the Holy Father was still the top existence in the worlds, he could no longer have the absolute advantage of strength as before.
Now that he has been attacked by the Immortal Realm again, the Saint Realm has been greatly injured again.
But for the Holy Father, this is a good opportunity.
Human beings can only have extremely strong beliefs in times of extreme despair.
After letting them fall into death, we will rescue them with the radiance of the Father, and let them become the most faithful fanatics.
This is what the Holy Father is going to do now.
It couldn't be done before, because the Holy Realm, after that war, has always been peaceful, and even if the Holy Father wants to use all kinds of means to recreate so many fanatical believers, he will be stared at to death by the extremely vigilant Immortal Realm, making him unable to move.
And now, such an opportunity was created by the invasion of the fairy world.
Fang Rui didn't know much about this qiē cause and effect, but it didn't prevent him from deducing it.
He didn't care what kind of Cheng Dù the Holy Father would be so strong, if the Immortal Realm could defeat the Holy Father once, then he would be able to defeat the second time.
What's more, in order for the Holy Father to have such a strong strength with the power of faith, the number of fanatical believers needed is not a small number.
That's what billions of fanatics can achieve.
What's more, the strength of the Four Great Immortal Monarchs has increased a lot now compared to the war 10,000 years ago, and they are still steadily suppressing the Holy Father.
Fang Rui just came here to experience a qiē, no matter how big the matter was, he couldn't interfere.
This kind of war on another level is not something he can participate in now.
When Fang Rui finished drinking his beer and was about to leave, the sound of chaotic footsteps suddenly sounded.
The door to the tavern was pushed open.
A thin, middle-aged man with a wig appeared in the doorway.
He covered his nose and looked at the drinkers inside with disgust.
But the drinkers did not dare to look at him in the same way, for he was the mayor's butler.
The mayor of Greentown, Lord Clive, is also the lord here, and apart from the church, he is the largest.
And this butler, Baker, is his most loyal servant.
"You people...... Are there any warriors?" screamed Baker's butler.
The drinkers looked at each other.
Seeing that everyone was silent, the expression on Baker's butler's face became even more disgusted.
"I'll tell you...... The great Lord Clive decided to let his privates and the few mercenaries who had not left before unite the remaining forces of the church to teach the monsters outside the town a lesson...... This is Lord Clive's kindness, shouldn't you show something?"
"Butler Baker, is this true?" someone asked.
"Of course!, Lord Clive's private soldiers have been assembled, and the remaining five reserve knights and two reserve priests of the church are also ready, how can there be a fake!" Baker said vividly.
"That's great, Master Clive has finally done a good thing......"
The brother who said this shrank in the eyes of Baker's butler.
"Lord Clive is naturally very merciful, but shouldn't you show something if you let the private soldiers take action? The church also agreed, and each of you will give a silver coin as a reward for the knights and priests, and it is for you that the noble knights and priests are allowed to fight!"
"Butler Baker, you know, we have been besieged for more than two years, and there is not enough food for each family, where is there a silver coin to pay?" someone called Qu.
"Nothing else, you people still have money to drink every day, and if you have money to drink, don't you have money to support the church?"
The drinkers were silent, and Aunt Susan stepped forward, and threw a ledger in front of Baker's butler.
"They're all on the books. Aunt Susan said.
"Then you have money, right? It's been a few years, and you can still let these poor ghosts hang their accounts. Butler Baker sneered.
"It's because I have so many accounts that I don't have any money. Aunt Susan spread her hands and said seriously.
"Then I don't care, either pay or pay people!" Baker's butler showed a fierce expression: "At least thirty ...... No, fifty sturdy men, the knights need you to clear the way, if there are no fifty people before sunset tomorrow, Lord Clive and the priests of the church will leave, and you guys who don't know how to be grateful will all become food in the mouths of the monsters!"
After saying this, Baker's butler turned and left, and as he left, the drinkers saw a dozen or so majestic lords' private armies following him.
"Hell, why do you have to go out of the way, let us be cannon fodder?" someone complained loudly.
"But the mayor and the church have given orders, so what can we do?"
There are only about 1,000 households in Greentown in total, and most of them are old and weak women and children, and it is really not so easy to get together fifty young and strong men to come out.
"Whatever, we're not going! Usually we provide for these masters, isn't it time for them to help?" someone shouted loudly.
"But didn't you listen to him, if we don't go, then they will just leave, and then the whole town will be destroyed. "Someone said worriedly.
There was silence in the tavern.
Those old men can run away, but they can't, their roots are here, and the people in the whole town are their relatives.
"I'll go. ”
Uncle Hill stood up, this is a stout middle-aged man, he is the blacksmith in the town, and many farm tools are in his hands, but after the monsters surrounded the town, the farmland outside the town was barren, and he had no place to use it, so he could only drink all day.
"I still have a lot of farm tools there, such as sickles and hoes, which are also weapons when I hold them in my hands. Uncle Hill said in a deep voice.
Someone stands up, and naturally someone follows.
Slowly, the heroes in the tavern, who were usually considered to be powerful, all stood up.
Some of them are idlers, some are farmers, and some are former hunters...... They are all people who are more familiar with the situation outside the town.
But by counting, there are only forty-nine.
After all, how many people can there be in the town? The others are honest, and they have never even stepped out of Green Town in their lives, and it is too difficult to get these people to fight the monsters together.
"We'll go back and look again to see if there's anyone who fits. Uncle Hill waved.
Just then, a voice rang out in the corner.
"Someone else, right? Count me in. Fang Rui said with a smile.
All of a sudden, everyone's eyes fell on this "foreigner".