Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

The Will of the Saints, III

The Will of the Saints, III

Haiwen sat in his room for a while, calmed down, and then went to the members of the White Clothes Society.

Manager Nader had already prepared rooms for these people. Hewen first visited Eros, and the manager told him that Eros had been noisy for a while, then drank some wine and fell asleep on the bed.

Then let her sleep for a while, I hope time can heal her wounds.

Next he found the old man named Odd Jones.He first asked Odd, "Sir, what happened? How did Raya die?"

Odd is a kind-hearted old man. When he heard Laya's name, he sighed: "Laya..." His throat squirmed, and his voice was a little choked, "She...she died to save people .”

Haiwen said: "Please tell me in detail."

"Yes, my lord."

So Ord told Haven what happened, from the moment they discovered the secret realm, then the artifacts of the murlocs, prophecies, and a series of other things... Later Laya learned of the massacre and wanted to stop it by pretending to be a god This tragedy.

"The brutal and bloodthirsty Bagu Kahn depends on their courage. That man cut off his left hand, and Lord Laya chose... to die." Odd bowed and saluted, "She looks like someone in white." Like the patriarch, she sacrificed herself to save a whole city. She is a saint, a living god."

No, she's just an ordinary woman.Hai Wen pondered for a while, and said, "Then did she save Eagle Head City in the end?"

"We don't know, because the picture was cut off later. But I think Bakugan must have been moved by the saint's virtue—even a stone would cry."

But the Overlord is harder than a rock, Haiwen thought to himself.

These days, Hai Wen heard a lot about the war.Bagu Kahn's crusade against the northern border was invincible. Nobles, mages, knights, mercenaries... all died under his sword.He captured Sword and Shield Castle by himself, and took Eagle Head City, which is known as the millennium city, into his pocket.There are legends that he is the reincarnation of the devil, and that he is the incarnation of the god of war.What exactly is he, Haiwen doesn't know, but Haiwen can be sure that this person is by no means an ordinary reckless man, he is an overlord with great talent and strategy.

He will become my strong enemy in the future, Hai Wen thought to himself.

Haiwen then told Odd about the three artifacts in Laya's suicide note, and the old man replied: "There is indeed such a thing, I brought all three artifacts, and now I will give them to you. If you don't mind , I am also willing to work for you.”

Haven asked him: "There is no unreasonable allegiance, sir. What do you value in me that you want to be loyal to me?"

Odd replied: "Laya said that you are the only one who can inherit her career after she dies. And I have heard rumors about you. People say that you are a just judge and a clean king. Even slaves can live in the world. Live happily and well in your land. I used to be one of the three presidents of the White Clothes Society. I, like Raya, swore to eliminate suffering in the world. However, I am old and stupid, and I cannot do it on my own. So I want to assist you and let you complete this great cause."

Haven asked him, "What will you do? What do you want?"

Odd replied: "I know some medical skills and magic. I also often do business in the Gulf, mainly dealing in ironware, mainly agricultural tools, and also buying and selling armor and shields, but I don't sell weapons that hurt people. I Also walking in the Gulflands and the South all year round, I can draw maps. There are many maps in the library that I drew."

Haven is very happy that Mr. Ord's talent can just make up for the vacancy he is currently employing.He nodded and said: "You are a very remarkable person, Mr. Ord. Your medical skills can save lives, the iron utensils you sell can save lives, and the maps you draw can promote the development of the entire society. I sincerely invite You join my side."

Odd smiled and said, "Your Excellency, I have planned to join."

"So, what do you need?"

Aude replied: "I don't want anything, my lord. I only want you to promise me one thing."

"please say."

"I have been saving lives and healing the wounded all my life. I don't seek fame or money, but there is one thing I can't let go of." Aode straightened his expression, "My lord, I beg you to find someone for me."

"Who?"

"This man is the son of my brother. I have never married, so I naturally have no children, but my brother has two wives and three children. It is a pity that his family was attacked by bandits. He and his wife were all killed, and the children also died. Two of them died, and only one son was left alive. I wanted to adopt this child, but I didn’t expect him to be trafficked on the road. So far, his whereabouts are unknown. This child is the last blood of my family, and I dream of finding it he."

Hai Wen asked, "How long has it been?"

"Fifty-eight years."

"Then I'm afraid..." Hai Wen looked troubled.

The old man nodded and said: "Of course I know that this is almost impossible. After such a long time, he may have died a long time ago. However, one still needs to have some hope. My lord, I beg you to help me find him, you There are more people than me, and the influence is wider than me. I think if this child is alive, he should still be in the Gulf, maybe we can meet him."

"But it's been so long... 33 years, if he is alive, he is already an adult. Does he have any characteristics?"

Odd said: "Yes! This child has a burn on his chest, which was left when he was a child, and he is blind in one eye."

Haiwen said: "Well, it's easy to find if you have these characteristics. I will tell my people to pay attention, but Mr. Ord, don't get your hopes up too much. There is a huge crowd. Find a child who was lost 33 years ago. , this is too difficult."

The old man saluted and said, "I understand, thank you, my lord."

After explaining this matter, Odd took Haiwen to see the Three Artifacts.

The three artifacts of the White Clothes Club are the scepter, necklace and crown.These three artifacts are all glittering and shining.There are exquisite hollow patterns on it, and the patterns are wonderful magical symbols; some scriptures or some kind of spells are engraved on the scepter, and the gemstone at the top seems to be shining.

Haiwen stared at them, thinking: Laya said that the three sacred objects can be combined into one, giving the user powerful magic power.

When he touched the three artifacts, he inexplicably felt a hot current pouring into his palm.Then this hot current slowly flowed into his mind, the voice of the hymn appeared in his mind, and an inexplicable sense of responsibility appeared in his heart.

He withdrew his hand and thought to himself: This thing really has magic power.

And he had a hunch: I'll be using them soon.

Thinking of this, Hai Wen locked the box and kept it safe.Afterwards, Haven went back to write the letter to Isrit, but because of Laya's incident, his mood was hard to calm down, and he couldn't write the letter smoothly, so he put it on hold for now.

The next morning, Haven went to see Eros.

He prepared a cup of hot milk and an exquisite breakfast, and delivered them to Eros' room himself.With him came Mirsalu and a nun from the White Society.

Eros sat on the bed, her hair disheveled, and her face as gray as dust.Haven put the food on her table and said to her: "Miss Eros, I have read her letter." Haven tried to avoid words that would irritate Eros, "Whether it is I , or that adult, I hope you get better."

Eros glanced at him and said, "I'm fine."

Haiwen froze for a moment, not knowing what to say for a while.At this time, Mirsalu tried to communicate with Eros, and she said, "Sister Eros, I—"

"I'm tired, thank you." Eros lay down again, "Please go out, I'm really tired."

The three of them had no chance to speak at all, so they had to leave.After coming out, Haven met Smiley Cat in the corridor.The ranger asked Haiwen, "My lord, how is that girl?"

"She doesn't speak, she's completely closed herself off."

The smiling cat smiled wryly, and said: "I heard that when Laya set herself on fire, she was pressed to the ground and watched the whole process. Burning people, my lord, I've seen it before. That scene was terrible. "

Hai Wen nodded and said, "Yes, it is very scary."

"But what's even more frightening is that the person who burned was someone you know." The smiling cat leaned against the wall, with a deep tone, "Think about it, what is the relationship between Eros and Laya? They are master and servant, master and apprentice , a friend, or even a relative—how can he bear Eros?"

Yes, how could she stand it?If Isrit died in front of me like this, I would definitely break down.

Afterwards, Mirsalu went to sword practice, and Mammy went back to church.Haven and Smiley Cat are walking in the castle, discussing various things.

Around afternoon, a messenger came, and he said to Haven, "Commander Ambleside, there are letters from two or four forks."

Haven said, "Give me the letter."

He opened the letter on the spot, and it turned out to be a letter from the Dulalia family.The content of the letter is very simple, that is, the second son of the Dulalia family, "Ivan Dulalia", will come to negotiate with Haiwen as a diplomat, and he is asked to be ready to welcome him.

Two days later, Ivan Dulalia came to Pinewood Castle.It was a tall, thin, flirtatious young nobleman.He wore pointed high boots, had a raised moustache, and always raised eyebrows.

Haven was tired of negotiating with these people, but Dulalia's people came to him in person, and he couldn't drive them away.So he prepared guest rooms and dinners, so as to show the friendship of the landlord.

During the dinner, this Duralia said to Hai Wen: "My lord, I'm afraid you can guess the purpose of my visit today. Yes, I hope you will come forward to help suppress the bandits."

Hai Wen asked him: "Suppress the bandits? Didn't you tell me to negotiate with the rebels?"

The man chuckled and shook his head, and said: "We just want you to make a false peace talk. How can the nobles negotiate terms with the rebels? My lord, we already have a careful plan. As long as you promise to help, we will send the plan to you." and the map. All you need to do is use your popularity to lure these rebel leaders out of the mountains so we can kill him."

Haiwen sneered and said: "Do you think that you can suppress the rebellion by doing this? No, this is not a rebellion, this is an uprising of the people. If tyranny does not disappear, the uprising will not disappear. In my opinion, you should look for problems from yourself .”

The man patted the table and laughed: "Uprising? You mean uprising? Haha, my lord, don't talk about riots so nicely. These are a group of lowly slaves! Regardless of your political opinions, you are a noble in the end. Nobles can Sleeping with slaves? Stop pretending, Ambside, all the nobles in the world know that you are using these brainless slaves. Am I not? Am I right?"

So all these nobles think so?Hai Wen nodded and said, "It's too ugly to use. I'm cooperating with them."

"Just use it! Don't put gold on your face, hypocritical Ambleside!" the guy said wishfully.

Haiwen also followed his train of thought and said: "Okay, well, you guessed it right, I am using them. Now that you have seen it through, then I will stop pretending. Lord Milas, tell you Sir, he said that as long as he agrees to the conditions I raised last time, I would be willing to assist him..." Hai Wen sneered, "Suppress the bandits!"

"Okay, then I'll thank you for the nobles of the two and four forks first, then let's set a date - how long will it take you to assemble the army? Ah, the sooner the better"

"Seven days is enough."

"That's great!"

Next, the dinner party went smoothly.Hai Wen sent the plague god away the next day.He went back to his room, thinking about how he should deal with this matter.He wrote several plans, but felt that they were not adequate.Later he invited Smiley Cat over and asked for his opinion.

The smiling cat said to Haiwen: "My lord, the rebels this time are not that simple, nor are they so simple. A small part of these people are indeed farmers who cannot survive. We can win them over, but most of them are doing all kinds of evil. Let me ask you, can the bandits win over? Why don’t you let them and the noble dogs bite the dog. You can pretend to make a little effort, and you can go to the nobles to cheat a sum of money later. It’s a free business.”

Haiwen couldn't agree with his statement. He didn't want to cooperate with bandits, but he didn't want to collude with nobles.

He failed to come up with a two-power strategy.

Smiley Cat tends to pretend to be nice to the nobles, while Haven is more willing to negotiate with the rebels.The two argued for a while, but to no avail.Just then, another messenger brought news.

The man came to Pinewood Castle on a fast horse, his whole body was soaked, and he looked in a mess.

"Commander, news from the front!" He said to Haven.

"What news?"

The messenger said: "According to reports from our comrades, a tragedy happened in the northern border. Bagu Kahn captured Eagle Head City, but after the siege, his prime minister Lan Zu was assassinated, so Bagu decided to massacre the city."

"I know all of this." Haven nodded.

However, the man continued: "The massacre went on all night, and more than [-]% of the people in Yingtou City were killed. It is said that the pile of corpses was higher than the mountain, and the ground in the city was dyed deep red."

Haiwen was stunned, "What did you say? The massacre went on all night!"

"Yes, Commander, the massacre went on all night."

Didn't Raya stop the massacre?

How did that happen?

Will of the Saints, IV

Will of the Saints, IV

Haven asked him, "Is that all? Is there any news about the goddess on Eagle Head City?"

The man replied: "The miracle did appear, but...the massacre also happened. The comrades at the front told me that Baku Kahn didn't believe in God, and nothing could stop him from massacring the city."

Massacre.Haiwen thought to himself, in order to vent his anger, he would slaughter a city.

War is for profit, but massacre is just meaningless massacre.A king who waged wars for profit was still considered a human being, but Baku Kahn, who slaughtered to vent his anger, was no longer a human being.

This demon must be punished.

"Don't tell Eros about this, don't do it," he urged.

The messenger said: "Commander, I'm afraid it will be very difficult. The massacre of Eagle Head City will soon spread everywhere. Unless you put her in a cage and don't let her see anyone."

Haiwen sighed, and said, "Let it be as it is." Eros locked herself in the room all day now, and Haiwen couldn't communicate with her.

However, these two things really made Hai Wen completely give up his fantasy.

He wrote in his diary that day: "It has been more than three years since I became the mayor of Yemadi. In the past three years, I have experienced ups and downs, experienced the warmth and coldness of the world, and parted life and death. I finally understood a truth:

All compromises to the enemy can only be exchanged for a more tragic butcher's knife.

This is what Laya told me with her life.

The best way to deal with enemies is to chop off their heads.I have given up all illusions and am determined to fight the enemy to the death.

If you want to win, you have to be stronger than the enemy's sword.

The bandits wanted to be killed, the nobles wanted to be killed, and the king wanted to be killed even more.

I don't need to form an alliance with the nobles, because I already have the strongest allies - my allies are all the oppressed and exploited civilians in this world.Hundreds of millions of serfs, slaves, poor people, laborers, beggars, strong men... They are all my allies.

I have such great power, what else is there to be afraid of?

I'm ready for the war. Since the war is inevitable, let it come more violently.

I will end this era with my own hands. "

Five days later, Isrit's orc reinforcements arrived at Pinewood Castle.Haiwen reorganized his troops and prepared to march towards the second and fourth forks.That afternoon, he wrote a letter.This letter was written to the leader of the rebel army in the Reach. In the letter, he invited the leader of the rebel army to come out to negotiate with him as the "beggar king" and discuss a series of things about forming an alliance.

Of course, their target was not the leader of the rebel army.What he really wants to do is to wipe out the nobles and rebels in the River Bend.Now that he has this strength, he can no longer be so passive.

Haven asked Odd Jones for a map of the two and four fork roads, and he learned that there was a hill to the south of the river bend, which was suitable for deploying ambushes.So he planned to deploy his army here, and then go to the meeting alone.This can show his sincerity and attract the nobles and rebel leaders.

After everything was arranged, Hai Wen brought the three artifacts to Pinewood Castle Church.This is also the property of the White Clothes Society, where the original chairman of the White Clothes Society: Saint Monk Limou is enshrined.

He decided to try to combine the three artifacts here.

He asked the scholars around him, as well as well-informed people like Smiley Cat and Nader.After listening to everyone's opinions, Hai Wen felt that if he wanted to combine the three artifacts, then he would need extremely strong mental power.So everything that strengthens his spirit helps to increase this success.

Next, he summoned the people from the White Clothes Association and his cronies, and he needed everyone to work together to complete this matter for him.He also asked Odd to draw runes, invited a pianist, and arranged the ritual vessels of the church in advance... Regardless of whether it is useful or not, it is good to make all kinds of preparations, and it is good to increase psychological hints.

In the evening, people came to the church.