Arcane Lord

Soon, Shado and Kelani were no longer wandering the streets, but squeezed into the crowded wave of elves, but Kelani's spell that other elves avoided was still in effect.

This caused a gap of about half a step to be formed around the two people. Wherever they went, the gap would move accordingly. No elf noticed this abnormality during the whole process.

And when Kelani took Sha Duo down the suspended walkway on the second floor and merged into the more turbulent waves, Sha Duo had already determined that the destination of their trip was the People's Square in front of them.

When he arrived, Xia Duo had passed through the center of the People's Square, and he was still deeply impressed by the huge circular square. The square was roughly in the shape of a regular circle, with an inscribed five-pointed star inside, and the ground was decorated with different colors. distinguish it from its surroundings.

When he saw this, he was almost shocked. He thought that some tribesman had come here to set up an outpost in advance!

Then I realized that the five-pointed star should refer to

"Five ethnic groups are equal and the five ethnic groups prosper together"! When they arrived at the square, Sha Duo noticed that after the seemingly crowded and chaotic elves arrived here, they naturally followed the prompts of the five-pointed star in the center of the square and divided them into five blocks, leaving the middle empty.

Of course, this is not divided by race. After all, there are no wing elves, sea elves or Sri elves anymore. Sha Duo guessed that it may be divided according to communities, streets or political ideas.

The area where he and Kelani finally stopped was at the junction of the two blocks on the south side of the square. In the block next to him, he saw many Easterners and even a few recorded elves. dwarf.

In the block he was in, there was almost no other alien race—except him. Although he had been to many elven cities - in the main plane and in the projection plane, this was the first time for Sha Duo to see so many elves crowded together. A rough estimate would probably number at least one hundred thousand.

Moreover, there are still elves pouring in from outside. Sha Duo is not sure whether there are elves from other places coming temporarily, but even if there are, the mobilization of more than 100,000 elves in such a short period of time is enough to demonstrate the mobilization and organizational capabilities of Cormanthor. .

If not, then the estimate of the total population of Cormanthor may have to be re-evaluated. This city alone is enough to exceed the entire Bactria Territory, let alone others.

With such potential, how could Xia Duo not feel pressured. ...Almost half an hour later, the flow of elves entering the square had become sparse. Just when Xia Duo was almost impatient, there was finally a strange phenomenon in the center of the square.

Five mysterious elves wearing masks and simple and wide robes appeared in front of the five blocks. They have been here for half an hour. Of course, Xia Duo no longer knew nothing about it.

He gradually restored the so-called meaning from the conversations among the elves around him.

The whole picture of "People's Trial". It is said that this

The "People's Judgment Ceremony" has been passed down from ancient times, but Shado thinks it is more likely to have been created after the founding of the nation of Cormanthor.

Xia Duo has never seen the elven society in ancient times, and there are very few relevant historical materials, but he has been to Maiyeli Tower in the projection plane. At that time, it was in the early days of the Crown War, at least 10,000 years away from today in the main plane. Year.

The trial system implemented by Mayelita at that time was not a people's trial, but a adjudicator system. A group of elves would swear to be loyal to the law throughout their lives and then become adjudicators, with the power to investigate, judge, and execute on their own.

Although adjudicators may cause many unjust and false mistakes in their lives, and many adjudicators cannot bear the inner suffering and choose to commit suicide, it is undeniable that the adjudicators' professionalism in law is definitely beyond that of most ordinary elves.

The people's trial seems fair and represents public opinion, but in fact it is just an emotional favorability trial. Both emotions and public opinion can be manipulated.

In other words, such a trial can completely prevent a demon who wins the favor of the public from being punished, or allow an innocent person who is disliked by the public to die unjustly.

This kind of

"People's Trial" requires extremely high personal qualities of the participants. It requires not only rationality, but also professional judgment. Otherwise, it will just be a mass carnival filled with selfish desires.

Looking at the performance of these elves in the square, Xia Duo did not think that they had high personal qualities. They might be rational, but not necessarily professional.

And if they know that the person to be tried today is very likely to include a high mage, it is hard to say whether they will continue to remain rational.

At least it won't be the rationality based on legal principles that Chateau thinks. So he didn't bother to think too much. Maybe it was just like what Kelani said just now. This was a drama, a drama controlled by the crown prince, allowing the public to participate, and legally eliminating opponents for him!

Is it necessary for a being like Kelani to watch such a drama? Xia Duo didn't understand, but since he was here, he could only continue reading.

...Soon, the five unknown mages wearing masks began to guide the ceremony, and a total of twenty-seven imprisoned and immobile elves were teleported to the open space reserved in the center of the square.

At the same time, a projection appeared over the square almost simultaneously, seemingly to greet the invisible elves behind.

The next moment, not only Xia Duo, but also a hurricane almost erupted in the square, causing all the elves to suck in the cold air at the same time. This shows that the identities of the twenty-seven elves in the center are special.

As for why Xia Duo was surprised, it was actually very simple - the clothes of the twenty-seven imprisoned elves almost all had one or more sun-corona-like patterns on them, which was very familiar to Xia Duo.

That is the symbol of the Sunwing family. In [The Birth of Cormanthor in the Projection Plane], Shado transformed into the heir of the Sunwing family, Lael Akarama, and finally passed the Excalibur Trial and became The first generation king of the emerging Cormanthor.

He stayed in that projection plane for more than four years. He might not be able to see anything else every day, but it was difficult not to see the corona crest that represented his family.

The Sunwing family has a long heritage, not only in the projection plane, but also in the main plane. Although Xia Duo didn't pay attention to it deliberately in the past, how could he be unaware when he saw the sun crown emblem now?

According to his understanding, the Sunwing family in the main plane is already a high-ranking family in Cormanso, many times stronger than the run-down family he had in the projection plane!

At the same time, the Sunwing family is also one of the staunchest supporters of King Yin Lisel, at least for the past nearly a thousand years.

But it's a pity that even though it has been a fan for thousands of years, it was decisively abandoned when it was said that it was abandoned!