Chapter 56

The glorious church succeeded in overthrowing the rule of wizards, and Enoch was faced with how to rule the human world? The most important thing is how to deal with the relationship with the knight class?

In the post-war human world, ordinary people's civilian class fully supported the rule of the glorious church and devoutly believed in the Lord of glory. However, the knight class has been used to the extraordinary power of wizards and maintained awe of the shining Lord, but they have no devout faith, which makes them incompatible with the peaceful believers.

The civilian believers are even more angry with these former wizard minions, although it is precisely because of the defection of the knights that they overthrew the cruel wizards.

In addition to these internal contradictions, Enoch also found that human beings are also facing external survival crisis.

The change of world law weakened the power of wizards and priests. At this time, human beings were the weakest, and orcs and monsters began to have the ability to threaten human territory.

On the other hand, although the wizards were defeated, they did not become extinct, because the awakening of wizards was random. In order to prevent the resurgence of the wizard class, the shining church must clean up and purify the newly awakened wizards.

However, Enoch found that the number of their clergy was not enough! Continuing to win over the Knights became Enoch's only choice.

In the glorious calendar year, Enoch held a coronation ceremony in Guangming mountain and put forward the purpose of protection, redemption, dedication and faith. Enoch was the Pope of the glorious church and called Enoch I. the papacy was inherited by his children and continues to this day.

Pope I announced the formation of the order of Knights of glory, and canonized the seven knights who first followed him as paladins on the spot, with the word "Saint" before his family name. On that day, angels came and the Holy Light shrouded. With the blessing of divine power, seven golden paladins stepped into the field of legend. All the knights who watched the ceremony were shocked on the spot.

Subsequently, the Pope announced the implementation of the enfeoffment system, the church recognized the noble status of knights, and asked knights to assume the position of Lord, jointly govern the territory with priests, protect civilians, fight against alien races and eliminate new wizards.

Enoch I defined the duties and obligations of all levels, the Lord exercised the duty of protection and belief, the clergy exercised the duty of redemption and belief, and the civilians exercised the duty of dedication and belief.

Finally, Enoch I promulgated the glorious code, in which the Lord's law partially defined that the ruling power of the nobility was sacred and inviolable, which meant that the glorious church would not deprive the nobility of their territory. Even if the LORD was executed for violating the religious order, the church would not deprive his descendants of their inheritance.

As soon as the code came out, all the knights were very satisfied, took an oath of allegiance to the Pope on the spot, and then happily took office everywhere. From then on, the aristocratic enfeoffment system continued to this day was opened.

Enoch I's enfeoffment system not only eliminated the risk of direct war between the church and the knight class, but also attracted the knight to help the church fight against aliens and eliminate wizards, and the church also got time to recuperate and grow.

It seems that everyone is very satisfied, but with the passage of time, new contradictions have arisen.

In the process of the Knights performing their duties as lords, they were stunned to find that they had lost the leadership of wizards and could not resist the attack of orcs and monsters!

In the past, when the knights were led by wizards to eliminate the monster community, the Wizards threw out several big fireballs and blew up the monsters. The Knights then came forward to complete the elimination. The whole process was very easy. But now, facing a large group of ferocious monsters, they know that the most insignificant goblin community is not so easy to deal with. Even the clergy of the church can't help, because the extraordinary power of the clergy is not used directly in combat. The key is that their power has been weakened! The final situation is that the knight fought with the monster and was seriously injured. After being cured by the priest, he continued to fight and seriously injured... If he died unfortunately, he would really die There has never been resurrection.

For 7000 years, under the invasion of monsters, human territory has been shrinking. So far, it has been 60% less than that in the era of God chosen.

There is no hope of external expansion, which will only aggravate internal contradictions. Those lords who have lost their fiefdoms can only seek living space from within mankind. In this process, the friction and integration between lords and 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. Therefore, the weak lords began to seek the shelter of the powerful Lords. This kind of submission and alliance formed one interest group after another among the Lords, and led to the emergence of noble classes.

In 1757, that is, more than 5000 years ago, the most powerful Lord group in the human world announced the establishment of a kingdom. The powerful shining knights in human history also attacked everywhere, destroyed thousands of monsters and recaptured a large area of lost territory.

But the problem is that the clergy of the glory church fully abide by the Lord's law in the glory code. They return the reclaimed territory to the Lord and then walk away!

The Lord who took over the territory was really suffering. He wanted to cry without tears. Soon, those monsters will make a comeback, and the Lord will lose the territory again.

You see, I've fulfilled my obligation of redemption, but I don't have the right to rule. Now I've taken back the territory to you, and you've lost it again? Never mind. I'll get it back for you. What? You don't want it? Well, I'm going somewhere else.

Several times later, these lords who were unable to protect the territory had to renounce the territory and join other families, and the shining Knights no longer went to eliminate the territory. This is why human territory is getting smaller and smaller.

The external living space is squeezed by monsters and the internal force oppression of the church, which intensifies the integration between the Lords. The Lords have realized that only unity can resist giants such as the church. Marriage and knight duel have embarked on the historical stage.

At that time, the Lords strengthened their ties through intermarriage and settled irreconcilable disputes through duels between knights.

It is the emergence of Knight duel that makes the knight class form their own values: bravery, honor and integrity. And made the Lords establish many kingdoms. Because there were no large number of civilian deaths and injuries, the church did not do anything.

However, it is ridiculous for kingdoms to want to achieve unity through marriage and knight duel.

The emergence of the Kingdom gathered the strength of the knight group, thus promoting the development of human civilization. In 2535 of the glorious calendar, 4500 years ago, Arya, the daughter of the aristocracy, created the silver white tower. She first proposed that the Lord should unite the civilians in the territory, and introduced the concepts of vassal, collar and free people.

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

First of all, it divided the civilian class, weakened the church's control over the territory, strengthened the rule of the Lord, and made the secular kingdom of mankind more stable.

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

The first large-scale war between human lords killed and injured more than 20000 people. Then the lords who launched the war were crushed by the church. Therefore, the Lords began to solve the contradiction through Knight duel and completed the establishment of the kingdom. But the contradiction between kingdoms cannot be solved by Knight duel. It often happens that after the two knights foolishly fight, the two kingdoms begin to quarrel with each other for 10000 years.......

The small-scale war did not cause the rebound of the church, and soon the first human empire was born.

The emergence of the empire made the power of the knight class stronger than ever before, which not only gave them the strength to fight against the church, but also exacerbated the contradiction between the nobility and the church. And has been affected until now.

————————————

"King, what do you see from the history Edwin told me?" Victor asked expectantly. He now regarded the king as his staff.

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

"Yes! I knew there was a problem with the church! If human beings want to open up more living space, they must unite. Only by concentrating their efforts can they defeat the monsters and orc communities in the wilderness. But the church has prevented the unity of the human world. They have no good intentions since they implemented the enfeoffment system from the beginning!"

"The purpose of glory church is to reap the faith of human beings! Only suffering can make ordinary people more devout in the Lord of glory, and knights are more used to relying on their own strength rather than believing in gods! Therefore, knights who provoke a large-scale unification war will be ruthlessly suppressed by the church! Just like shepherds will not allow shepherds to eat their sheep! Hum! Glory The Lord of is to treat ordinary humans as sheep and knights as shepherds. The will of sheep and shepherds is not important to him! "

As a transgressor, Victor's eyes were red with anger at the fact that human beings were enslaved.

"Sir, your conjecture is groundless. I think you watch too many TV dramas." Said the king in Victor's consciousness.

“。。。。。。。。。” Victor was embarrassed when the king poured cold water on him.

"Sir, we know little about the laws of the world, and we know nothing about the role of human faith. However, from the history Edwin tells you, it is certain that the Lord of glory does not care about faith."

"The first evidence is the population problem. If human beings are sheep and faith is wool, then shepherds will naturally spare no effort to expand the number of sheep. Then, sir, when do you think the number of human beings is the largest?" The king asked victor.

"It was 8000 years ago, before the blood sacrifice. I see." Victor thought for a moment and replied.

The era of God chosen is the most prosperous period of mankind. The territory is more than twice as large as now, and the population is naturally the largest.

"If the Lord of glory needed to harvest faith, that was the time to maximize his interests, and his power could build a church, but he didn't do so." The king preached to victor.

"However, according to the church, it was the people's dying prayer that awakened the glorious Lord. Before that, he was sleeping. Naturally, he could not establish the church, but when he woke up, he always had breakfast or something..." Said Victor, somewhat tirelessly defending his conclusion.

"My Lord, this depends on the second evidence. Arya, the founder of the white tower, launched the vassal system, which has pried the cornerstone of faith, and the church has no response to it."

Victor suddenly had nothing to say. The vassal system strengthened the relationship between the Lord and the ordinary people. These middle classes promoted from the ordinary people depended more on the Lord, and the people were also eager to obtain the status of vassal. Between the church and the Lord, they would only choose their own Lord. The true believers in the Lord of glory are the free people without food and clothing, and the free people can be transformed.

This is actually a very clever system. Don't you hinder my reunification? Didn't you hinder me from expanding? OK, my territory is so big that I can't feed everyone. Let them wander. Don't you want to go? Sorry, I can't live in my castle. Let them live outside. What, are there monsters? Please go with me to destroy these monsters. By the way, there are a group of Ogres outside my territory. Take care of them together, or they will come in and eat these free people. After a fierce battle, the territory expanded, the free people became the leading people, and the armed forces of the church were damaged.

It's such a system of digging into the corner of the church. The church has no response?!

"The third evidence is that when the church was the most powerful, it did not deprive the Lord of the rule, did not establish a unified Human Empire, but followed the enfeoffment system according to the glorious code. This is illogical."

If the church really needs faith, it is in the interests of the church to clean up the false Lord class and establish a unified country, but they didn't do so, even though they had this strength at that time!

"What does the shining church do? Or what does the shining church do?" Victor asked with a headache.

"My Lord, I would like to remind you that the glorious church is also composed of human beings and cannot be confused with the Lord of glory."

"We have come to the conclusion that the Lord of glory cannot directly intervene in the world. He is more like a collaborator with the church."

"Tell me your conclusion." Victor said impatiently.

"What the Lord of glory really cares about is cutting off the connection between the devil and the world. On the one hand, he calls for the elimination of the awakened, on the other hand, to prevent human beings from large-scale blood sacrifice."

"Sir, you see, war has caused a large number of civilian deaths. It has the same characteristics as blood sacrifice. These human beings will have strong negative emotions such as hatred, fear and pain when they are dying. I think it may be beneficial to the devil."

"All the irrational actions of the church point to a key point, which is the glorious code. All their actions are to comply with the glorious code. They have never changed for thousands of years."

"Sir, have you noticed that knights can't wake up, but can gain divine power and become paladins. When a golden knight becomes a paladin, he immediately has the power in the legendary field. Therefore, divine power is the foundation of the church."

"I guess if the clergy violate the glorious code, they will lose the power to perform divinity. The Lord of glory does not need the power of faith, and the church may really need to harvest faith, but they must not violate the glorious code, otherwise no amount of faith is meaningful."

"Wait, the glorious code was formulated by Pope I. why should he restrict his successor?" Asked Victor hastily.

"Your Excellency, you seem to be deeply hostile to the glorious church. Can you tell me why?" Asked the king.

"I don't like having an extraordinary creature on my head. I always think the shining church has a conspiracy." Victor replied simply that he had nothing to hide from the king.

"My Lord, this prejudice will make you misjudge. Judging from what Pope I has done, he is indeed a great and wise man."

Victor is speechless. Yes, why can't Enoch be a noble man? That's what he did.

"I guess it's like this. After Enoch cooperated with the Lord of glory to eliminate the awakened group, they signed a contract. The church was responsible for removing wizards and preventing a large number of human beings from being slaughtered, and the Lord of glory gave the church the ability to harvest faith and use divinity. Enoch made rules in order to prevent the church or knight class from degenerating into a ruler like wizards The code of glory was and was witnessed by the Lord of glory. "

"The Lord of glory, I think he behaves more like a law creature, or a program. He will not distinguish a person's good and evil. Therefore, Enoch needs to use the code of glory to restrict the latecomers."

"If the knight class degenerates, the church will crusade against the knight. If the clergy violates the code, they will be deprived of power. In the past, it seems that I misunderstood the church. They are indeed noble." Said Victor with a sigh.

"My Lord, the nobility of the church is meaningless. The glorious code has imprisoned the development of the human world. The church is on the opposite side of the aristocracy. This contradiction will lead to changes within the church."

"Indeed, Edwin's subsequent narration confirms this, but how do you think there will be no war between the nobility and the church?" Victor asked in surprise.

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