If I let you farm, will you become the emperor of the empire?

The next day.

At dawn, the agricultural officer More came to Roman's manor at full speed.

He found Roman by rolling and crawling.

"Master Roman, something bad has happened! A devil appeared in the town of Sger last night!"

At this time, Roman stood in front of a large and neatly cultivated field. He admired the neat rows of furrows and ridges. The soil was moistened by the morning mist. The more he looked, the more pleasing it was.

Until the pig-killing scream sounded, Roman frowned immediately,

...

"Is it a witch?"

"It's a witch."

"Magic can't do this. Even if it can, it can't last so long. Only witches have this weird and unpredictable spell."

After learning the details, Roman called Green and Aaron over and deduced the main cause of this phenomenon together.

Speaking of witches, we have to mention the church.

This religion that believes in gods has a very special position in this land.

The king, the nobles, and the church together constitute the power class of this era.

But the relationship between the three is very subtle. The nobles obey the king, the king submits to the church, and the church is very wary of the nobles.

Most of the power of the church is in Sinnoh. They not only control the clergy with healing abilities, but also have powerful armed forces.

For example, the Pope's Knights Templar, the Cardinal's Demon Hunter Knights, the Inquisition Knights and many other armed organizations.

The armed forces and faith bonus allow the church to collect tithes from the entire land.

Tithe refers to one-tenth of the national income.

Even so, Roman has never seen the Grand Duke of the Split Armor make any compromise with the church.

The Black Iron Kingdom is the most powerful country on this land. The three grand dukes control nearly 40% of the military power and territory of the Black Iron Kingdom.

They shook their heads at the church at the same time and never paid tithes.

Of course, this does not mean that the peasants in the Black Iron Kingdom live more comfortably than those in other countries.

The nobles and the church are similar. They are both oppressors. They will only leave the peasants with a lingering surplus of food, and then take away most of the food without mercy.

Facing a hungry gluttonous beast, even if more food is grown on the ground, the farmers can only stay at the stage of not starving to death.

The three grand dukes refused to pay taxes, but the king of the Black Iron Kingdom paid tithes instead.

In Roman's opinion, this is a very interesting phenomenon.

The boss pays money to the church, but the three big bosses under the boss sneer at the church, which has quite complicated historical reasons.

Let alone sneer.

If the army of the Holy See dares to take a step out of Sinnoh, it will also be attacked by the three grand dukes.

As the remote territory of the Grand Duke of Split Armor, there is no church stationed in the town of Sger, and the church has no intention of preaching here.

If there is a church, Roman can only deal with it privately.

The emperor is far away, so what is there to fear!

Let's get back to the point.

Magic is a kind of supernatural power.

But magicians need special training. Magicians in this land are basically extinct. Only some wandering peoples can master superficial magic, call themselves magicians, and use performance talents to make a living.

Witches are natural casters, and all women have a very small chance of awakening the power of witches.

The church regards witches and magicians as the source of disasters and unclean filth.

Therefore, the church's demon hunting knights have been hunting witches and magicians for a long time, causing countless tragedies.

These things do not involve the interests of the nobles.

So the nobles don't bother to care whether the witches are persecuted.

The witch's spells are considered by the knights of war to be a trick of pretending to be gods.

In the eyes of the knights of war, even a mortal can kill a weak witch by sprinkling salt and a dagger.

This phenomenon is impossible for the knights of war.

Witches are not worth paying attention to at all.

However, the church seemed to have some terrible obsession with witches. Once a witch was found, not only would the witch be burned to death, but the witch's family would also be purified.

And they claimed that the evil witch had polluted the body of the family through blood ties.

When Roman was 10 years old, he witnessed the church burning a witch to death.

It was a witch who awakened in the territory of the Split Armor family.

The Grand Duke of Split Armor refused to pay the tithe, but for some reason he did not object to the church catching witches in his territory, even if the church wanted to burn the witches in public.

Roman was very curious about this, so he went to take a look.

He saw the burning stake, and black smoke rose above the flames and floated into the sky, like the devil's grin.

A powerless woman was tied to the stake. In the burning fire, she raised her neck high, her face was covered with dust and black smoke, her hair was disheveled, and her body was burning with high temperatures.

But the screams filled with pain and despair were all drowned out by the crackling sound of the wood fibers breaking.

Until everything collapsed and turned into ashes.

That scene brought a great shock to the young Roman, as if something in his heart was broken.

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"That's not a devil, just a witch."

At the dinner table, the butler Seth brought breakfast.

Roman signaled that Moore could sit down.

There were no rules here, and Green and Aaron started eating.

Seth could have been at the table, but this old-fashioned man would only stand beside him, not eating fresh delicacies, but eating leftovers.

At Roman's invitation, More had to sit down cautiously, and then asked: "So, sir, how do you plan to deal with this witch? Do you want to inform the church?"

There is no church power in the town of Sger.

But More believed that as long as the group of fanatics knew that there was a witch here, they would not care about this short journey of a thousand miles, and would also give a reward of 10 gold coins to the informer.

That's the price of twenty oxen!

Roman glanced at him: "Why deal with her? Why inform the church? She was just passing by."

More was speechless.

This is the border of the Black Iron Kingdom. There is no place more remote than Sger Town. There is actually a witch passing by here.

My noble lord, do you believe your lies yourself?

More believed it.

"Yes, you are right."

Roman asked again: "It didn't cause panic."

Moll said: "No, two poor ghosts witnessed her figure, they were not cursed by evil, I asked them to shut up, and I checked the situation in Sage Town, no one was missing or injured."

Roman nodded and said: "Then don't worry about it."

This witch seemed to be looking for someone in Sage Town.

But it doesn't matter, Roman doesn't care about the witch's origin and purpose, as long as it doesn't hinder him.

How else to find it?

Do you want to turn Sage Town upside down?

It is said that if there is amethyst, holding this extraordinary crystal and approaching the witch, special visions will appear.

Because amethyst has the power to illuminate evil.

But Roman didn't have amethyst, and he didn't have the time.

After breakfast, he took Green and Aaron, Seth and Moore to Sage Town.

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