Alien Knights

"Is the judgment of the soul real?" Deirdre looked at the small stone in his hand and asked with blank eyes: "Is there really a balance of good and evil after death to measure the actions of a lifetime?"

Todd and Rachel looked at each other and smiled in unison.

Todd said to Deirdre: "The things you see in the soul space are all made up by me."

"But Sandra is indeed dead."

"That's the effect of the soul link ability. I used the method of forcible invasion to obliterate the consciousness of the linked person, that is, Sandra, but the premise is that the other party's willpower is weak, or it is under a great mental blow."

After explaining the cause of Sandra's death, Todd was in a daze for a moment and didn't speak again.

Rachel glanced at Todd, walked to him, bent down slightly, rubbed his brow and said, "Are you still obsessed with that dead man?"

"Sandra deserved it, and should be deprived of the right to life." Todd looked at the woman in front of him and sighed: "But his death reminded me of two things."

"Which two things?"

Todd raised his head slightly and looked towards the roof: "One, he is not a born villain. As a child and a teenager, he had conscience and justice. I have been thinking, after this, what turned him into a complete murderer?"

Rachel tilted her head and thought for a while, then gave her answer: "The ravages of war? The tragic death of relatives? The desire for revenge?"

After hearing this, Todd shook his head: "At first, I also blamed his depravity on these reasons. But, if you think about it carefully, is there something hidden deeper that is the root cause of his going to the abyss?"

Rachel asked puzzled: "Something hidden deeper?"

Todd frowned into the word "chuan". After thinking for a while, he still didn't have a specific answer. Finally, he simply said, "I can't give a definite answer now..."

Rachel gently held Todd's hand: "In that case, why don't you think about it..."

Todd shook his head: "I can't help but pursue the answer behind it, because it involves the second thing."

Deirdre put down the stone in her hand and sat beside Todd, looking at the latter with bright eyes: "What's the second thing?"

"You were also in the soul space yesterday and saw the so-called trial of the soul." Todd looked a bit troubled and hesitant: "Do you think that trial is fair?"

Deirdre's eyes widened: "I think it's fair from the beginning to the end! This morning, people are still saying that the soul trial in the New God Realm has made all the injustices in the world justice, and you don't have to worry about being judged wrongly in your life any longer!"

Rachel listened to Todd's words without saying a word, just quietly waiting for what the other party would say next.

"There is no absolute justice in this world."

Todd's words stunned the two women in front of them.

"Any judgment of others, or the classification of good and evil behavior, has a very strong subjective color, even if the judge is a god." Todd said while recalling the soul gathering last night: "When I saw Sandra stabbing the sharp knife into the slave owner's chest, for a moment I wanted to judge this behavior as 'evil'. But after understanding the crime of the Ulster man, I judged this behavior as 'good'."

Todd's words caused Deirdre and Rachel to have completely different expressions.

Deirdre was completely bewildered, but Rachel looked thoughtful.

"Sandra is indeed worthy of death, but I am worried that if one day I use supernatural powers to judge whether a human is guilty or not, whether there will be errors and biases that should not have occurred."

Rachel still didn't speak, but looked into Todd's eyes with some indescribable emotions; Deirdre was more direct, she shook her head and said, "Why do you want to make things so complicated, bad people are bad people, good people are good people, that Sandra really killed someone no matter what!"

Todd touched the top of Deirdre's head with a smile, and said with a pun, "So, it's hard to be a human being, and it's even harder to be a god."

Seeing Deirdre with a displeased face, Rachel suddenly said: "The matter over the Holy Acropolis has been contacted."

Todd raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Have you found a contact?"

"Several people from the Alien Association have sent a message that there are indeed traces of the Elders' actions in the Holy Acropolis." Rachel glanced at Todd: "Although I want to persuade you to give up the trip to the Holy Acropolis, it seems that you will not change your mind."

Todd didn't say a word, just nodded slightly.

Rachel pursed her lips, and took out a pack of documents from her pocket: "Here is the introduction of Felicchild, and some certificates of his slave trade. Before you leave, you'd better read it carefully. Also, I found a linker for you in the church. He will be responsible for covering you and assisting your actions."

"Connector? Who is it?"

"This person should not be unfamiliar to you. He is the envoy who issued the Holy Order of the Muxi Knights, and is also the chief deacon under Cardinal Yarborough—Tristan."

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In the evening three days later, Todd, who was riding a griffin, landed in an uninhabited village about ten kilometers northwest of the Holy Acropolis.

Todd, who intended to fly here with Rachel, was sternly rejected by the former. The reason given by the other party was that there were still matters that had not been dealt with, but Todd felt that Rachel was only afraid of heights.

Watching Henry take advantage of the night to fly high into the sky, Todd, who was shaped into the deacon of the church, Felicchild, found a pre-arranged luggage and mount from a nearby abandoned warehouse.

He put on a large black robe, put the string of Felicchild's silver crosses in his pocket around his neck, and then rode his horse towards the gate of the Holy Acropolis and galloped away.

Along the way, weeds are overgrown on both sides of the road, and there are sparkling bones and scattered debris everywhere.

Less than one kilometer away from the Holy Acropolis, Todd saw hundreds of people gathered around a huge bonfire outside the city wall, chanting prayers aloud.

A priest stood on a crate, holding a Bible in one hand and a cross in the other, and shouted loudly: "Father Almighty and Merciful! We humble servants, use your holy words as a discipline, and hunt down all the devils in the world!"

Several wooden crosses were erected at the foot of the city wall. Following the priest's order, dozens of torches were thrown from the hands of the onlookers, and the pyre under the crosses was lit.

Not only adult men, but the screams of several women and children could be heard in the middle, coming from the raging fire.

"The alien species is the reason why the heavenly father angered believers! It is the source of all bad luck and disasters!" The priest raised his hands towards the sky: "Only by burning all the alien species to death can the crops in the field grow again, and the sky will rain to irrigate the dry land!"

Frowning, Todd rode his horse through the crowd.

These people from the Holy Acropolis have sunken eye sockets and are skinny, and the long-term food shortage makes it extremely difficult for them to walk. But in the current scene, the priest's simple words of bewitchment made these people no longer see reason, only religious fanaticism and paranoia.

"Burn to death!"

"Burn the alien species."

"Burn to death the alien species..."

Todd, with a dignified face, rode away a long way away, but he could still smell the smell of burnt flesh in the air, and he could hear the crazy roars of those behind him.