Soon, Shado and Kelani were no longer wandering on 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 walked, the gap would move accordingly. No elf was aware of 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 startled. He thought some tribesman had come here to set up an outpost one step ahead!
Only then did I realize that the five-pointed star should refer to
"The five races are equal and the five races prosper together"! When they arrived at the square, Xia Duo noticed that after the seemingly crowded and chaotic elves arrived here, they naturally divided them into five blocks according to the prompts of the five-pointed star in the center of the square.
The middle is 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.
of dwarves.
In the area where he is located, there is almost no other alien race - except for him. Although he has been to many elven cities - in the main plane and the projection plane, this is the first time that Sha Duo has seen it with his own eyes.
With so many elves crowded together, a rough estimate would probably number at least a hundred thousand.
Moreover, there are still elves pouring in from outside. Xia 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.
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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 stream of elves entering the square had become sparse. Just when Xia Duo was almost impatient, there was finally a trace of strangeness in the center of the square.
elephant.
Five mysterious elves wearing masks and simple and wide robes appeared in front of the five blocks. They had 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 the "People's Trial". It is said that this
The "People's Judgment Ceremony" has been passed down from ancient times, but Chateau thinks it is more likely to have been created after the founding of the nation of Comanso.
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, in the early days of the Crown War, it was at least 10,000 years away from today in the main plane.
Year.
The trial system practiced by Maielita 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 injustices and 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 the legal field definitely exceeds 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, requiring not only rationality but also professional judgment, otherwise it will be nothing more than 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 wouldn't be the rationality based on legal principles that Sha Duo thought. So he didn't bother to think too much. Maybe it was just like Kelani said just now, this is a play, controlled by the Crown Prince, allowing the public to participate.
, a drama for him to legally eliminate his opponents!
Is it necessary for a being like Kelani to watch such a drama? Sha Duo didn't understand, but since it was here, he had no choice but to 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 almost all the elves in the square burst into a hurricane, sucking 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 crowned 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 Cormanthor, 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 if you have been a fan for thousands of years, you were decisively abandoned when you said you wanted to abandon it!