This cold winter is a disaster for the people of the Skar Federation, the invasion of the Shining Gold Empire, the civil war between the Pawood family and the Soros family, and the sudden earthquake disaster, all of which make the people of the Skar Federation miserable and complaining.

But even in the darkest places, there is a silver lining.

Khalkhalan.

Just a few days ago, when they heard that the Soros family had sent soldiers to encircle and suppress them, almost everyone thought that the big picture was settled and that it was only a matter of time before the mob was suppressed. They have quite good reason to be convinced of this. This is normal, no matter how useless the aristocratic private soldiers are, they are also regular soldiers. And those mobs were nothing more than mobs, no matter how brave and fearless they had been before, but they were powerless in the face of the armies of the nobility. If it's on Earth, it's better to say, after all, there is no essential gap between the two sides. But in the Klein Continent, mages, swordsmen, knights, and those powerful high-level professionals are simply handy against a group of mobs. In this world, the nobles generally recruit some strong people as guests and bodyguards, and in front of them, those mobs are simply vulnerable. Even if there is not a single soldier under the nobles, and the mob is full of hundreds, as long as there is a high-ranking professional by his side, then the final defeat must be those thugs.

It is precisely because of this that after learning that the Soros family had sent private troops to Khalkhaland, almost everyone was waiting for the final and inevitable outcome -- the nobles won a great victory, the mob was killed, and the head was captured and hanged. The corpses were hung on the walls, and then the smug nobles could once again trumpet their powerful armament. and to warn those who are stubborn to immediately give up their undesirable thoughts, and obediently work as cattle and horses under their hands is the best choice.

Anger, perhaps. Maybe unwilling, but for ordinary citizens, they have nothing to do except curse a few words in their hearts. I can only wait helplessly, and then until that future becomes a reality.

However, the greatest charm of the future is unknowable.

The Soros family is defeated.

The news spread almost like the wind throughout the Skar Federation, especially in the southern region controlled by the Soros family, causing an uproar. Of course, strictly speaking, the defeat was nothing more than an ineffective private soldier under one of the last sons of the Soros family. But in the word of mouth, it feels as if the entire Soros family has been defeated by a mob.

However, this is also the case.

This incident has not only seen a lot of reaction within the Soros family, but even in the Southern Alliance headed by him. After all, the civil war between the north and the south was imminent, and both sides were very nervous. And before the start of the war, such a thing happened, which invisibly weakened the morale of its own side, which is tantamount to making the Southern Alliance a joke in front of the Northern Alliance -- look, this group of self-proclaimed brave and reckless men can't even kill a group of mobs, and still expect them to be able to control the future of the Skar Federation? After the Soros family takes power, I'm afraid the entire Skar Federation will be full of mobs!

If the loss of reputation can be borne by the Soros family. Then the political losses are not something they can afford, but in just a few days, many families who had been neutral in this civil war have joined the camp of the Pawood Alliance, as mentioned before. The Soros family can't even manage the problems under their own territory, and can they still be expected to manage a country?

If the Soros family is a civilian family, then everyone can understand it. But the Soros family has been based on force for generations, and it is precisely by force that they have gained their current status and resources. And now. They actually turned their heads in the place they were best at, although they often walked by the river without getting their shoes wet. But this time the boat capsized in the gutter was too inopportune.

However, the Soros family is not just beaten and does not fight back, and they quickly responded to this.

They began by accusing the mob of being devilish believers, and possibly even cultists, on the grounds that their soldiers had been bewitched by evil on the battlefield and had done the impossible. Therefore, they have reason to think that the other party must have used some kind of evil magic.

And almost everyone has heard this kind of statement, and almost no one pays attention to it. If the mob burned, killed, and looted, then this argument is somewhat credible. But the problem is that what they did is not kept secret at all, and everyone knows very well. These mobs opened the granaries of the nobles and distributed them to the poor people who could not survive the winter, and those people did not get infected with the plague and died as undead after receiving the food -- if there really were such good-hearted demons and monsters in the world, then they really wanted to see them.

As for those so-called evil magic and demon methods, they are even more laughable, the Klein Continent is not a dark church in the Middle Ages, and those ignorant people listen to the wind and rain. In a world where magic, magic, and alchemy are highly developed, such things are not completely absent, although they are not elegant. In fact, many times the aristocracy likes to use potions that can make people fall into a state of frenzy to add all kinds of "fun" to themselves, which is nothing new in the streets and alleys. So there is even a suspicion that the mob - oh no, the Free Salvation Army may have found these things of the nobility from the spoils of war and worked wonders on the battlefield.

I have to admit that people always have a curiosity mentality, and this is also very in line with the impression that the commoners have a little evil towards the nobles, so it didn't take long for this rumor to spread throughout the Skar Federation, and even in some places abroad. So much so that the most common thing that the nobles say to their ridiculous juniors is "Put away your messy things, lest they be used as weapons by the mob, but there will be jokes!" ”

And even more interesting things were to come, after that, the Soros family even found traces of paladins among the mob, which made them immediately protest to the Templar Order -- and this immediately turned what the Soros family had said before into a joke, if the other party was really a cultist. How could he get mixed up with a paladin? Unless it's a fallen paladin.

But unexpectedly, in the face of the protests of the Soros family. The True Eye Church's reply is intriguing. They claim that the paladin has been disciplined and is currently on a journey of faith -- what is called a journey of faith. It is a semi-punitive measure within the church. Generally speaking, only those paladins who have controversy are punished like this, they are temporarily deprived of their original positions and then embark on a journey to find the faith. When they find their faith, they can go back to the church to be interrogated, and as long as they confirm that they have passed the test, then they can resume their original position and status -- to put it bluntly, this is similar to leaving their jobs without pay, and your relationship is still in the church, but you are just letting you go out and wander. And as long as you can find a way, then you can come back and continue to do your own thing.

For the Soros family, they just hit a soft nail, but for those who have a heart, they are keenly aware of a little strange aura from the answer of the True Eye Church. You must know that due to the very sensitive struggle between theocracy and political power, the Templars are generally silent when it comes to such problems, but this time, they gave such a response. Although everything is very in line with the rules, it always gives people a strange attitude, as if to say "we can't control her now, so what she does has nothing to do with us".

This is not what the Templar Order has always done. Even if they really can't control it, they should emphasize that the Templar Order has always scrupulously adhered to its duties and never overstepped its bounds of the norm and the like. But this time. They didn't say that, but simply told the Soros family that "they can't take care of it."

And then there was no then.

This illustrates. Far from preventing, and may even have acquiesced, to the actions of the clergy.

Why is that?

Of course. Considering the rumors that have broken out from within the Soros family that they are colluding with the cultists, it is not difficult to imagine that the Templar Order's patience with the Soros family has reached the extreme, not to mention that the Soros family actually behaves more like the cultists than those thugs.

Although the Soros family is furious about the Templar's indifferent attitude, unless they really dare to wipe out the Templar, they can only swallow their anger. However, what is causing the Soros family a headache right now is not the attitude of the Templar Order, which is not afraid of boiling water, but the trouble in front of them.

The defeat of Khalkharan seems to have uncovered the tip of the iceberg of the weakening of the Soros family, and for a time many territories under the rule of the Soros family almost suffered the same problem. It's no wonder, after all, the Soros family has used all their strength to collect supplies everywhere, so that most of the people under their governance are complaining. And Khalkhaland is just the first to be squeezed the hardest, so it is the first to break out.

But that doesn't mean there's peace and tranquility elsewhere.

After the "Free Salvation Army" in Khalkhaland defeated the private soldiers of the Soros family, their popularity suddenly skyrocketed, and people from many places came to join them. Of course, other places began to follow suit, launching riots after riots, but they were not as lucky as Oldman, and the other nobles after Khalkaland were also more vigilant, so the riots were suppressed almost as soon as they started.

But even so, it did not make the situation better, and the current Soros family has adopted an almost iron-clad policy in order to re-establish its rule, and even adopted a joint sitting system, once it is found that it is involved in the riot, then the whole family will be killed. This has led to a growing miasma of smoke throughout the South, with the blood of civilians flowing everywhere, and dozens or even hundreds of hanged bodies visible in every gathering area. But instead of quelling the riots, this added fuel to the fire -- the members of the defeated rebels gathered in Khalkhaland as if they were attracted, and in less than half a month, the "Free Salvation Army" had grown from 500 to 1,300 men, and in terms of numbers alone, they were enough to rival a regular army.

And then, there is only one biggest obstacle in front of Oldman.

That is the central city of Khalkhaland, Tagus. (To be continued......)