The next day, Sha Duo's second field mission to join the trial court began. This time the mission was not carried out by him alone, but by a small team of five people. The leader was a mid-level man named "Oger"
mage.
In addition to Oge and Shado, two of the other three people are also mid-level mages. The quality of this team is quite high. In addition to the mage team, there are also fifty ordinary soldiers.
Mainly used for doing chores, basically one mage and ten soldiers are allocated. If necessary, you can apply for more.
"Set off!"
Og gave the order, and all the mages summoned magic mounts. This is also the standard equipment of the judges. Yesterday, they received a lot of [Summoning Mounts] scrolls. As for the ordinary soldiers, they could only follow them and run away.
Of course, it's not right to follow them, they are running around. Fortunately, the mages are not fast, otherwise these people will definitely not be able to keep up as time goes by.
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This time we are going to a place called "Lettuce Town". The mission is similar to the one Sha Duo received yesterday, which is also to investigate demonic beliefs, but this time there is an additional elimination mission.
When they arrived at the underworld, before entering the confines of Lettuce Town, Og ordered everyone to take a short rest and let all the mages apply their spells before moving on.
At the same time, two ordinary soldiers were sent to go ahead and shouted, "Here comes the trial court, everyone gathers!"
When the mages arrived, a group of people were already standing sparsely in the open space of the town, and more people were walking here one after another.
Xia Duo noticed that there were also men and women among these people, but the proportion of pregnant women among the women was not as high as in the Blackstone Town he had visited yesterday. Just when Xia Duo was thinking about what Oger would do.
Then I heard Oger suddenly shout, "Hatton!"
A thin middle-aged man immediately emerged from the crowd. He bowed his body and was quite flattering to Oger. With a smile on his face, he said, "Sir, you are finally here!"
But Oger didn't give him a good look. He just said coldly: "Point out the person. Remember, don't be clever."
"Yes, yes." Haddon agreed hastily, his body bowing deeper.
But as soon as he turned around, he stood up straight, changed his face, and began to roll his name triumphantly, "My Lord Mayor, stand up, your incident has happened!"
"Me?" At this time, the mayor looked confused and didn't know what happened. He looked at Oger with some doubts, but Oger didn't say a word. Hatton, who got the signal, stepped forward and pulled
The mayor captured the crowd.
At this time, a group of soldiers immediately stepped forward to separate the mayor from the crowd. The townspeople immediately became commotion, but in the end nothing happened.
It's not because of magic, after all, they also received magic education, but they did not become official mages in the end, and most of them were even dismissed directly from the apprentice school.
They knew the limitations of mages. There were only five mages. They swarmed or dispersed. Maybe they actually resisted, but the presence of fifty ordinary soldiers made resistance almost impossible.
Not to mention, the empire is advancing, their hearts are divided, and they are suspicious of each other. How many people are willing to sacrifice their lives for others to resist?
Then, Hatton continued to call names. At this time, there was no need for him to pull people. He called one, and the townspeople looked at that one, and the soldiers rushed to catch it.
Until nearly half of the people were called and pulled out, Hatton seemed to still have some unfinished ideas, but after all, he was not trying to be clever.
As more and more people were called out, the people at the mayor's side seemed to gradually realize why they had been pulled out alone, and their expressions gradually became a little frightened and uneasy.
"Eddie, Zach, take these people outside the town first." Oger ordered.
Zach is another junior mage in the five-person trial team. Xia Duo and Zach looked at each other with doubts in their eyes, but they still had to obey orders.
These ordinary soldiers should have gone through a lot of training in advance. The two teams belonging to Sha Duo and Zach immediately pointed their weapons at the circled mayor and others.
These nearly 100 people were pointed at by 20 people with weapons. They showed no sense of resistance and were just taken away in such a numb manner. Xia Duo had some doubts about the use of the so-called devil belief.
"Zach, do you know what's going on?" Xia Duo fell behind and communicated with Zach in a low voice.
Zach also looked confused at this time, and there was even a hint of uneasiness in his tone, "I don't know, it's also my first time on a field mission."
It was not until they arrived outside the town that the nearly a hundred people who were being escorted had a slight reaction. The mayor first comforted the townspeople, and then said to Xia Duo and Zach: "Two adults, is there any misunderstanding here?
We are all law-abiding civilians of the empire!"
Xia Duo and Zach were silent. Except for fertility, the empire's laws were relatively loose for civilians. The only possibility was the "devil belief" mentioned in the mission.
But in "Eddie's" memory, there is nothing else except that the devil looks like a human being, is handsome in appearance, and is good at seducing people into corruption. There is not even a specific image of the devil.
As for the demonic deeds, except for the attacks that have gradually increased in recent years, they are more literal "degrading people" and not more specific. Not to mention the outsider like Xia Duo, even "Eddie"
This native felt something was amiss.
At this time, when it comes to judging demonic beliefs, apart from tasks and orders, there is probably no more psychological fulcrum.
People will always tend to stand in the perspective of "justice", regardless of whether this "justice" is really just, as long as it conforms to their own understanding, but now the judge's "justice" seems untenable.
These are ordinary civilians. Are they going to be judged just because they believe in demons?
Seeing Zach's face gradually getting worse, Xia Duo also sighed silently in his heart.
After a while, Og came over with more than a dozen townspeople, and also brought the final verdict - these people are all devil believers.
"Eddie, Zach, how should we deal with the devil believers?"
The empire does not have laws in this regard, but demons are the natural enemies of mankind. Referring to the empire's attitude towards demons, it is the attitude towards demon believers.
There is only one word——
kill!
Before Shado and Zach could answer, the mayor and others had completely lost their composure. They had also received education from the Empire, but they had not become mages. They still knew a little about demons.
Some people immediately collapsed to the ground when they heard that they were identified as devil believers. Most people were so panicked and scared that they almost knelt down to beg for mercy. Only the mayor was sane and tried to explain:
"Sir, we are not devil believers. We are all law-abiding civilians. How can we be devil believers?!"