The Church of Radiance successfully overthrew the rule of wizards, but what faced Enoch was how to rule the human world? The most important thing was how to deal with the relationship with the knight class?

In the human world after the war, the ordinary civilian class fully supports the rule of the Church of Radiance and devoutly believes in the Lord of Radiance. However, the knight class has become accustomed to the extraordinary power of wizards and remains in awe of the Lord of Radiance, but has no piety.

Their beliefs make them incompatible with common believers.

The civilian believers were even more dissatisfied with these former minions of the wizard, even though it was the defection of the knights that overthrew the cruel wizard.

In addition to these internal conflicts, Enoch also discovered that mankind also faced external existential crises.

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

On the other hand, although the wizards were defeated, they were not extinct, because the awakening of wizards was random. In order to prevent the wizard class from resurrecting, the Church of Radiance must clean up and purify the newly awakened wizards.

However, Enoch discovered that they did not have enough clergy! Continuing to win over the knights became Enoch's only choice.

In the first year of the Glorious Calendar, Enoch held a coronation ceremony in Guangming Mountain, proposing the purposes of protection, redemption, dedication, and faith. Enoch was appointed as the Pope of the Glorious Church, and was called Enoch I.

It was inherited by his descendants and continues to this day.

Pope I announced the formation of the Knights of Radiance, and on the spot canonized the seven earliest knights who followed him as Holy Knights, and added the title of "Holy" in front of their family names. On that day, angels descended, and the holy light shrouded the seven gold-level knights.

With the blessing of divine power, the paladin stepped into the legendary realm in one fell swoop. The knights who watched the ceremony were all shocked.

Subsequently, the Pope announced the implementation of the enfeoffment system, and the church recognized the noble status of the knights, and required the knights to assume the duties of lords, manage the territory together with the clergy, protect the civilians, fight against aliens, and eliminate new wizards.

Enoch I clarified the responsibilities and obligations of each class. The lords exercised the duty of protection and the duty of belief, the clergy exercised the duty of salvation and the duty of belief, and the commoners exercised the duty of devotion and duty of belief.

Finally, Enoch I promulgated the Radiant Code, in which the Lord's Code clarified that the nobility's right to rule was sacred and inviolable. This meant that the Radiant Church would not deprive the nobility of their territory. Even if the lord was executed for violating the decree, the Church

Nor will his bloodline descendants be deprived of their inheritance rights.

As soon as the code came out, all the knights were very satisfied and swore allegiance to the pope on the spot. After that, they happily went to various places to take up their posts. This was the beginning of the aristocratic enfeoffment system that continues to this day.

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

It seemed that everyone was satisfied, but as time went by new conflicts arose.

In the process of the knights performing their duties as lords, they were shocked to find that without the leadership of the wizard, they were unable to withstand the attacks of orcs and monsters!

In the past, when knights led by wizards to clear out groups of monsters, the wizards would throw out several fireballs, blowing up the monsters to pieces. The knights then stepped forward to complete the cleanup. The whole process was very easy. But now

, they faced a large group of violent monsters, only to realize that the most insignificant group of goblins was not so easy to deal with. Even adding church clergy would not help, because not many clergy's extraordinary powers are directly used in battle.

The key thing is that their power has also been weakened! The final situation is that the knight fought bloody battles with the monster and was seriously injured. After being healed by the priest, he continued to fight and continued to be seriously injured... If he died in battle unfortunately, he would really die.

Oh... there has never been a resurrection spell.

Over the past 7,000 years, due to the invasion of monsters, human territory has been shrinking. So far, the territory has been reduced by 60% compared to the era of the Chosen Ones.

There is no hope of external expansion, which will only aggravate internal conflicts. Those lords who have lost their fiefdoms can only seek living space within human beings. In this process, friction and integration between lords and lords continue to occur. Gradually, the relationship between lords

The balance was broken, and 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. This kind of surrender and alliance formed one interest group after another among the lords.

And led to the emergence of aristocracy.

In the year 1757 of the Glorious Calendar, that is, more than 5,000 years ago, the most powerful group of 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 fell apart because the king and several big lords of the kingdom were executed by the church!

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

The church publicly declares that these lords have violated the Code of Radiance, abandoned their duty to protect, and wantonly killed civilians. They are as evil as wizards. For this reason, the church must put an end to this evil war behavior according to its duty of redemption, and will

Death to these evil lords!

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

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

With such a powerful force, the church did not do nothing when facing the invasion of aliens! In fact, all the clergy performed extremely bravely when facing the invasion of monsters. They were always the first to charge and the last to retreat. Many clergy

In order to protect the people and die on the spot, they wrote countless heroic chapters with their lives and blood. This is also the reason why the clergy of the Church of Glory are proficient in martial arts.

The powerful Knights of Radiance also attacked everywhere, annihilating thousands of monsters and regaining large areas of lost territory.

But the problem is that the clergy of the Radiant Church completely obey the lord's laws in the Radiant Code. They return the regained territory to the lord and then leave!

The lord who took over the territory was really miserable and wanted to cry without tears. Soon, those monsters would come back and the lord would lose the territory again.

You see, I have fulfilled my duty of redemption, but I don’t have the right to rule. Now I take the territory back to you and you lose it again? It doesn’t matter, I will help you take it back again, what? You don’t want it anymore? Well, I

Went somewhere else.

After a few times, these lords who were unable to protect their territory had no choice but to abandon their territory and join other families. The Radiant Knights no longer went to clear out that territory. This is why the human territory is getting smaller and smaller.

The external living space was squeezed by monsters, and the internal force of the church was oppressed. This in turn intensified the integration between the lords. The lords had realized that only unity could fight against such a behemoth as the church. Marriage and knightly duels thus entered history.

stage.

During that period, lords strengthened their ties with each other through intermarriage and resolved irreconcilable disputes through duels between knights.

It was the emergence of knight duels that enabled the knight class to form its own values: bravery, honor, and integrity. It also allowed the lords to establish many kingdoms. Since there were not a large number of civilian casualties, the church did not take any action.

However, it would be ridiculous for kingdoms to achieve unification through marriage and knightly duels.

The emergence of the kingdom united the power of the knight group, thereby promoting the development of human civilization. In the year 2535 of the Glorious Calendar, 4,500 years ago, Alya, the daughter of a nobleman, founded the Silver-White Tower. She first proposed that the lord should

Unite the civilians in the territory and introduce the concepts of vassals, territorial subjects, and free citizens.

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

First of all, it divided the civilian class and weakened the church's control over the territory, thus strengthening the rule of the lords and making the human secular kingdom more stable.

Secondly, this system has changed the form of war. The war between human kingdoms is no longer a single knight showdown, but has become a small-scale war between the elite and the elite. This completely meets the needs of the human kingdom.

The first large-scale war that broke out between human lords caused more than 20,000 casualties. The lords who started the war were crushed by the church. So the lords began to resolve conflicts through knight duels and completed the establishment of the kingdom.

But it is unrealistic to rely on knights to resolve conflicts between kingdoms. What often happens is that after two knights fight stupidly, the two kingdoms start to argue with each other for ten thousand years...

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However, a small-scale war would not cause a backlash from the church, and soon the first human empire was born.

The emergence of the empire made the knights more powerful than ever before. This gave them the confidence to fight against the church, and also intensified the conflict between the nobility and the church. It has continued to affect it to this day.

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

"My lord, if we unite for a long time, we will divide, and if we divide for a long time, we will unite. This is the law of development of human society, and the church has prevented this law." The king responded.

"Yes! I knew there was something wrong with the church! If humans want to open up more living space, they must unite. Only by concentrating their strength can we defeat the monsters and orc groups in the wilderness. But the church has prevented the unification of the human world.

It’s not a good idea to start implementing the enfeoffment system!”

"The purpose of the Church of Radiance is to harvest human faith! Only suffering can make ordinary people believe more devoutly in the Lord of Radiance, while knights are more accustomed to relying on their own strength rather than believing in any gods! So the knights provoked a large-scale unification war.

They will be ruthlessly suppressed by the church! Just like a shepherd will not allow a sheepdog to eat his own sheep! Hum! The Lord of Glory treats ordinary humans as sheep and knights as sheepdogs. As for the sheep and sheepdogs,

His will is of no importance to Him!"

As a time traveler, Victor's eyes turned red with anger at the fact that humans were enslaved.

"Sir, your conjecture is baseless. I think you have watched too many TV series." The king said in Victor's consciousness.

"..." Victor was immediately embarrassed when the king poured cold water on him.

"Sir, we know very little about the laws of this world, and we have no idea what role human faith plays. However, judging from the history Edwin told you, we can be sure that the Lord of Radiance does not care about faith.

The problem."

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

road.

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

The Age of God's Chosen Ones was the most prosperous period for mankind. The territory was more than twice as large as it is now, and the population was naturally the largest.

"If the Lord of Glory needed to harvest faith, that period was the time when the benefits were maximized, and His power could have established a church, but He did not do so." The king sent a message to Victor.

"However, according to the church, it was the people's prayers before their death that awakened the Lord of Glory. Before that, He was sleeping, so naturally he could not establish the church. But when he woke up, he had to have breakfast or something...

..." Victor defended his conclusion somewhat unwillingly.

"Sir, we have to look at the second evidence. Alya, the founder of the White Tower, introduced the vassal system, which has shaken the cornerstone of faith, but the church has not responded to it."

Victor was speechless. The vassal system strengthened the connection between the lords and the ordinary people. These middle classes, who were promoted from the ordinary people, were more dependent on the lords, and the people also longed to obtain the status of vassals.

Between the church and the lords, they will only choose their own lord. Those who truly believe in the Lord of Light are the free people who have no food and clothing, and the free people can also be converted.

This is actually an extremely clever system. Aren't you hindering my unification? Aren't you hindering my expansion? Okay, my territory is so big and I can't feed everyone. Let them wander. If they don't want to leave? I'm sorry, I

The castle cannot be accommodated, so let them live outside. What, there are monsters? Please join me to destroy these monsters. By the way, there is a group of ogres outside my territory. Let's take care of them together, otherwise they will come in.

Eat these free people. After a fierce battle, the territory expanded, the free people became territorial subjects, and the church's armed forces were reduced.

It’s such a system that poaches the church, and the church doesn’t respond at all?!

"The third piece of evidence is that when the church was at its most powerful, it did not deprive the lords of their right to rule or establish a unified human empire. Instead, it followed the confederation system in accordance with the Radiant Code. This is illogical."

If the church really needs faith, then it is in the interest of the church to clear out the hypocritical lords and establish a unified country of freedom. But they did not do this, even though they had the strength at the time!

"What does the Church of Radiance want to do? Or what does the Lord of Radiance want to do?" Victor asked with a headache.
To be continued...