Lu Yuanming now has close to a hundred priests.
As Grace marched, every village swept through. These villages were basically infected by black silk monsters. When Grace's army arrived, these monsters immediately transformed and destroyed them everywhere. When Grace's army destroyed them, some Almost all villages were wiped out, but there were survivors in some villages, and the priests among them were often those with a higher survival rate.
This time Grace was not as gentle as she had been with the priests before. These priests were all arrested regardless of whether they believed in any god. Then Grace personally talked to those who were willing to convert immediately. Grace swore an oath in the name of her main god to ensure that they To ensure their safety, her main god will also defeat the incoming gods and divine power, making them believe in the God of Order of Light. If they do not convert, they will be killed immediately, and their heads will be used to build the Jingguan.
This approach would definitely cause chaos in the past, and even Grace's internal vassals would rebel against her, because she was digging for the foundation of the nobility.
But things are different now. First, this demon has appeared in the world, and mankind is in danger. Second, Grace's main god, the God of Order of Light, is so powerful that not only does he come from the divine domain across the sky, but no matter what god these priests believe in, he is Destroy them all without a sound.
This greatly increased Grace's confidence and made her vassals more respectful. Even when it came to coercing priests to convert, they remained silent.
In this way, dozens of villages were swept across continuously, and most of the priests converted. Especially, the more priests converted and could exert their holy power, the more decisive the priests who converted next would be.
In just a few days, Grace's army arrived at the capital of the city-state in this area, a medium-sized city.
The nobles and high-ranking nobles in the city have long known that the villages in the city-state have been attacked, and they are even aware of the presence of monsters in these villages.
In fact, although those monsters can hide in the crowd, they are no longer their original people after all, and may not be exposed in a short time. However, these nobles and high-ranking nobles are all thoughtful people. The political struggle in the palace is so cruel. This was their special event. When a large number of monsters appeared in the village, some unexplained information was already passed among the nobles.
There's something wrong with some of them...
So when Grace's army came to this first city, the nobles and high-ranking nobles who had been prepared immediately led the private army to protect their relatives and leave the city gate. These private soldiers and relatives were screened and screened by them, and they were afraid. It's the monster lurking inside.
Sure enough, when the city gate was opened, the monsters in the city immediately transformed out of shape, and more than a hundred monsters began to burn and kill everywhere in the city, from the city lord's relatives, to high-ranking nobles, to ordinary nobles, to knights and soldiers. , among the free people, and even the slaves, all these demons were lurking. At this time, they suddenly broke out, and the whole city fell into chaos and boiling for a while, and then the flames burned. In less than ten minutes at most, the city Large swaths of flames swept through, forcing the surviving personnel to start running towards the city gate.
Grace immediately ordered the army to line up in front of the city gate. All the priests blessed the soldiers and used holy power to prepare for battle. If they were humans, they would be released from the city. If they were monsters, they would block them at the city gate and kill them.
This decision was correct. After costing the lives of nearly a hundred soldiers, Grace and the priests, together with the soldiers, killed more than 300 monsters in total. Although at least 60% of the people in the entire city died, they were still alive. More, but that's not what Grace and the others care about.
But Lu Yuanming cares.
There are many priests who believe in him. Although each priest can only vaguely convey a little information to him, cumulatively, they still let him know a lot of information about this possessed realm.
This is a medieval civilization world isolated by fog. It is poor, backward, ignorant, and cruel. In this world, the gap between each class is terrifyingly large. Slaves and serfs are not even considered intelligent beings in this world. It is an animal or tool that can be killed by the owner at will. In many cases, even being used as a sacrifice will be frowned upon.
Above the serfs and slaves were the peasants, that is, the yeoman farmers. Although their status was low, the lords would not kill innocent people. They were also the main source of sacrifices to the gods.
Further up are the free people in the cities. These free people are either long-term subjects of the nobility or knight class, or they are distant relatives of the nobility and knight class. These free people are either craftsmen or scribes who can read a little. And so on, they serve as citizens in cities and lower-level bureaucrats in villages.
It is not until this class that people have the most basic life safety, but it is still not safe. From time to time, they will be used as sacrifices in some big festivals, and in some years of food shortages, free people in the city often starve to death on a large scale. has happened.
Above are the knight class and the high-level bureaucratic class. One controls the force for the nobles, and the other serves the nobles with culture and literature. Seriously speaking, they all belong to the ruling class. However, in the information Lu Yuanming saw, Such knights and high-level bureaucrats are considered good if they can eat enough gray bread for every meal.
The kind of bread that is baked with soil, gravel, bran, etc. mixed with flour is called brown bread, while the so-called gray bread is made from gravel and most of the mud, but only slightly. After a while, there is still a lot of bran in it. The baked bread will not be ashes, and you will cut your throat while eating it. This is called gray bread. As for the best white bread, you need to use wooden products to scoop it out carefully. Dozens of times, only white flour is left to bake, and only then can the soft bread be obtained, that is, the city lord may not be able to eat enough every meal.
In short, the so-called knights and high-ranking bureaucrats at the end of the ruling class live a somewhat decent life. At least they can have gray bread for every meal, and occasionally they can be full.
Only when the nobles, priests, high-ranking nobles, and city-state lords reach the real ruling class, can they have life safety, identity freedom, a small amount of entertainment, a small amount of enjoyment, etc.
What a miserable world this is!
If Tang Zhe'an, Bai Ye, or any other high-level human being were present, they would immediately say that Lu Yuanming's Holy Mother's Heart broke out again.
Although Lu Yuanming knew that this was a realm of demons, as long as he was not completely possessed, everything here could be regarded as illusion, but when he saw the countless slaves, serfs, farmers, free people, etc. After a large-scale massacre, only ten of them could be saved. He also felt pity and wanted to do something for these poor innocent people.
"...Open a warehouse to let your mother go? What do you mean?"
Grace's face was confused, and just as confused as her were the nearly one hundred priests who had surrendered and obeyed Lu Yuanming.
They have never heard of the term "opening warehouses to release grain". They understand the meaning of the words, but what does the combination of these words mean?
In their concept, there is no concept of using food to relieve the poor and farmers.
If you give those white noodles to the peasants and serfs, isn't this a waste of food? ?
So Grace, who had always been fanatical and pious to Lu Yuanming, also fell silent.
It’s not that they don’t follow God’s instructions, but they don’t know what to do, and they don’t know the meaning of doing so.
This is as meaningless as killing red and letting water and air act as knights.
So Grace had to say that famous line.
"... It's really a waste of food to give the white flour to serfs and slaves." Grace said matter-of-factly.
Then she flew away...
Under the horrified gaze of the new priest, Grace was knocked back nearly a hundred meters, her limbs were all broken, and blood spurted all over her body. However, she healed quickly in the holy light, and then Grace jumped up from the ground, gritting her teeth. Said: "Let go! Let's put food! God's words are the absolute truth, let go!!"
The other priests nodded, and the nobles and high-ranking nobles, although their expressions were bad, did not dare to have the slightest objection at this time.
Grace is God's favored one. Such a serious injury can be healed in the blink of an eye. If it were them, it would really fall apart, right? The kind that you can't even put together.
As Grace agreed to release grain, the food from the city lords and major nobles was released to civilians, slaves, serfs, farmers...
These lower-class people were stunned until the soldiers stuffed the baked bread into their hands. They bit the food in a daze, and then a priest began to spread the word of the God of Light and Order. The prestige also told them that it was the decree of the gods that gave them food, and they were asked to be grateful to the gods.
Then all the priests sensed God's will at this time. They looked unbelievable, but they still let go of the holy power obediently, allowing this precious holy power to heal the injuries of these animals and inferior people, and told the slaves among them that they No longer a slave...
After all this, these people who were treated as livestock and tools by the nobles and nobles, some of them cried and knelt down to chant the name of God, and some cried bitterly and hugged their relatives and couldn't help themselves...
At this moment, Grace and other priests saw black threads rising from the ground of the city. Before they could make an attack gesture, these black threads began to evaporate and dissipate, and among the surviving descendants in the city On the bodies of the others, a light similar to the holy power rose up, and there were also many things that seemed to be ghosts or humanoids rising up with the holy light...
Lu Yuanming looked at all this in astonishment. He saw the first thing that appeared in the Demonic Realm, which was the projection of the heroes. At that time, these projections saved him and allowed him to survive from the Tombstone Demonic Realm. Come down, and at this time...
"Has your cognition been upgraded?"
Lu Yuanming was surprised, confused, and then silent...
The human heart is made of flesh. If you show me mercy, I will give you everything...
"The light of the golden species?"
Lu Yuanming murmured.
