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Barony of Dal?

Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment before he remembered this place.

It was a relatively remote territory. Sui Xiong originally planned to use it as an experimental site, and sent Kabbalah, the "European Prince" who was best at summoning divine envoys in the church, to be the chief priest.

According to his idea, the local lord belongs to the evil camp and will definitely conflict with Kabbalah from the good camp. When the time comes, Kalaba will inevitably call for help from divine envoys, and he can verify the help of divine envoys to these mid-level priests through practice.

Moreover, we can also use this incident to see how far the divine envoy can be used? By the way, try the advancement of the Divine Envoy... In short, there are many things that can be studied and tried.

However, even gods cannot have everything go their way. Although Sui Xiong designed things well, things developed differently than he expected. In other words, what Baron Dahl did was completely opposite to what he expected.

According to his plan, Baron Dahl must not be able to tolerate the help and organization of the Church of the Void to the poor, and sooner or later there will be a serious conflict with the Church of the Void. But in fact, after witnessing the combat effectiveness of the Church of the Mask of the Void, Baron Dahl almost gave up his plan to fight with force. After all, for him, even if the poor people in the territory become stronger and difficult to control, they are nothing more than less. It's just some money or cannon fodder, it's not worth the risk of losing troops.

How much is the life of a poor person worth? As long as he kills a dozen elite soldiers, he is worth more than the entire poor people in Dal City combined!

With this idea in mind, Baron Dar began to make peace with the Church of the Mask of the Void. Not long after, as the conflict between the merchant faction and the noble faction became more and more intense, Baron Dahl fell into a dilemma. Baron Dahl did not want to join either the merchant faction or the aristocratic faction. In the end, he gritted his teeth and directly defected to the Void Mask Church and established a small autonomous region.

Speaking of which, he is also a ruthless person. He knows that joining the Church of the Mask of the Void will mean suffering a lot and losing a lot of profits, but in order to escape the conflict between the merchant faction and the aristocrat faction, he is willing to endure hardship and lose money. Just to complete the atonement ceremony, he gave up half of his life. If the healing spell of the Kabbalah priest hadn't been so good, he might have died during the atonement ceremony.

But he also relied on his determination to let Sui Xiong see his sincerity. So Sui Xiong changed his mind and gave his blessing and protection to Lord Dal.

Relying on Sui Xiong's protection, Dalling successfully escaped the great conflict between the aristocrats and merchants that almost turned into a war. Currently, it is changing its policy to develop in a low-key manner and live a peaceful life.

Probably because he kept a low profile, Sui Xiong even gradually forgot about this territory. If it weren't for Leon's reminder, he wouldn't have thought of Darling.

So he hurried towards Darling, and this time he reached his destination in only a few hours.

Winter has reached the coldest season, and the climate in Dal Territory is relatively cold in this area. Now almost the entire territory is covered in white snow.

The chief priest of Kabbalah was sitting in the reception room of Baron Dar's mansion, talking to Baron Dar alone.

The burning wood passed through the fireplace, keeping the room warm at least. Although it was not like other aristocratic mansions where you could only wear a single suit, at least you would not feel the cold.

Kabbalah held green grass tea in his hand, but had no intention of drinking the tea, just thinking quietly.

Opposite him, Baron Dahl was also thinking. Currently, the two people with the highest status in Dal Territory are like two statues, motionless.

After a while, Baron Dahl sighed and said, "Things... are really difficult to handle!"

"I know." Kaba Liao said, "If it were easy to handle, I wouldn't come to you."

"Heating is a big problem, and I know that. But for the poor to survive the severe cold safely, a lot of fuel is needed no matter what. We don't produce coal here, we can only use firewood. But cutting down a lot of firewood means that There will be conflicts with the druids in the forest..." Baron Dahl shook his head slightly, "With our strength, even if we can defeat them, the loss will be huge."

"For human life, nothing is not worth it." Kabbalah advised.

"The lives of the poor are life, and the lives of the soldiers are also life." Baron Dahl said sincerely, "Master Kabbalah, I will not tell you those empty words. Those soldiers were selected and trained at a great cost. Yes, they have always been loyal and brave, and they are the basis of my rule. I can't risk their lives just to help the poor."

The chief priest of Kabbalah frowned and said, "But don't soldiers exist to protect the people? If soldiers don't protect the people, what is the value of their existence?"

"That's true, but how can I say to them, 'The poor need firewood to keep out the cold, and they need to cut down a lot of trees, but there are druids in the forest. Go deal with the druids and let them cut down trees.' ...Wouldn’t they agree to this?”

Kabala was silent. After a while, he sighed: "Where did those druids come from!"

This is not a question, just a feeling.

Since last fall, druids have appeared in the forest near the Baron of Dal. They are not the common sect that emphasizes the unity of nature and man, but a more extreme sect that blindly protects nature and believes that people should return to nature.

This sect protects the natural ecology without principles and strictly prohibits all acts that destroy nature. This includes but is not limited to opening up wasteland, cutting down trees, and opening up roads in the forest. In the past few months, they have fought with the adventurers of Dal Territory several times. Although neither side has lost lives, there have been many injuries.

In this case, even if the weather is cold, civilians dare not go to the forest to cut trees, so as not to be attacked by them.

For ordinary civilians, if they don’t cut trees, they can also buy coal or something to keep warm, or simply save firewood and wear thicker clothes. But the poor can neither buy coal nor thick clothes to wear. If they can’t get enough firewood for heating, I don’t know how many people will freeze to death this winter!

The Kabbalah priest certainly can’t allow such a cruel thing to happen under his nose, so he took the clergy to negotiate with the druids.

The result of the negotiation was obvious, so he came to visit the Lord's Mansion, hoping that Baron Dahl would send troops to assist him and "persuade" the group of druids to prevent the poor from not being able to survive this winter.

However, Baron Dahl refused to send troops. Although he was also a believer of the Church of the Void Mask, he was reluctant to sacrifice his troops for such a thing.

The Kabala Priest had no way to deal with this. The so-called kindness means that when people are in need, they can sacrifice their own interests, but it does not include sacrificing the interests of others.

He is a good person, so he can't convince himself to force Baron Dahl to send troops.

So the matter fell into a deadlock. Today is the third day of their discussion. Even if the Church of the Void Mask allocates it in a coordinated manner, the firewood stored in the slums has been almost used up - this is the result after the baron took out a lot of firewood stored in the mansion to help the poor.

At this point, the Kabala Priest was also helpless. Just when he was thinking about whether to go to the merchants in the territory to ask for money, he suddenly heard words from the bottom of his heart.

The words were deep and rich, carrying a sacred feeling that made him extremely happy.

[Don't worry, I'm here. ]