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"Lord Priest, have you discussed this matter with Abu?" The leading elder asked.
Shika's eyebrows were originally raised, but they relaxed after hearing the elder's words. She smiled. "The village chief has a good point. He knows how to be grateful. Without Salin, how many people would have starved to death? What chance would he have to stay here? "
The Abu the elder was talking about was the village chief of Shika's village. When the new village chief was elected, he would become an elder.
Seeing the elders' awkwardness, Shika said, "I'm not the little warrior I used to be. Being in charge of Metatlin City allowed me to learn many things. I keep in mind who is good to me. The village chief has never forced me to do anything. He was the one who made me walk the path of a battle priest. Elders, if the North Caucasians threaten me, what benefits will you get? "
The leading elder shook his head. "There won't be any benefits at all. But I don't want to see the Caucasians kill each other."
"I don't want to either, but they can't deprive me of my happiness just because of this. I'm a simple person. If they make me unhappy, I'll make them suffer forever. "
"Lord Priest, you don't seem to be in a good mood. Please don't …" an elder said worriedly.
These elders were South Caucasians, after all. They didn't want Shika to be taken out of the city and become the most primitive kind of priest, dedicating her life to the Caucasians.
"There's nothing wrong with me. I just feel that once a person has power, they should do something worthy of themselves. I've saved almost 400,000 Caucasians. Now, they want me to continue dedicating myself. Salin will take revenge if he has a grudge, until the enemy is completely dead. If they don't want their race to be exterminated, they should behave themselves. I'm continuing to save them. "Shika was completely satisfied after saying that.
This was communication between Caucasians. It didn't require too much skill.
The elders' hearts turned cold when they heard Shika. Shika was right. Salin might be very polite to the Caucasians, but if the North Caucasians succeeded, Salin's methods would be even worse than what Shika said.
The Gaugass outside the city didn't know that Salin had a large number of Demons under him. No matter how strong the Gaugass were, they wouldn't have much of an advantage over the Demons. If Salin was angered and sent demons to clean them up, not many Caucasians would survive.
"Lord Priestess, we understand." The elders replied bitterly. Their hearts were filled with resentment. If it were not for the North Caucasus messing around, at least Shika would have been willing to let one of her children continue to be a priest. Now, it seemed that Shika would have kept both of them by her side and would never hand them over to the villagers for education.
"You still don't understand. I've already dispatched people to clean up the Gaugass in the city. There will be a large number of mages conducting a lie test. If they couldn't pass the test, they would all be executed. After their souls return to the earth, I will help them purify them. "
"Priest!"
"Don't worry, this is not an excuse. The problem with the magicians is very simple. Among them, whoever intends to threaten me will be found out. I will judge them in front of everyone. "
After Shika finished speaking, she immediately asked the mages to send the guests off. The nine Gaugass Elders gloomily returned to the Southern Courtyard, while Shika was laughing heartily in the temple.
Salin had solved a problem for him. If he married, he would indeed lose his power as a priest. But this didn't mean that he couldn't do other things. Being the King of the Caucasus was still to protect the Caucasians, and the mystery of being a priest was to use the power of all Caucasians to improve himself.
After establishing a kingdom, he would have more and more loyal subordinates, and he wouldn't have to worry about children anymore. The two of them would continue to be kings, not priests.
But Salin's mind was really complicated.
The Southern Courtyard began the purge. The Caucasians were separated and interrogated one by one. They were interrogated by mages, and there was only one question — whether they intended to threaten His Highness Shika.
The mages used Caucasian language, and in Caucasian, coercion had multiple meanings. All the warriors who agreed with the North Caucasian elders were identified, and there were more than a thousand of them.
The trial was on Monday, at the Metatlin Arena in the north of the city. This arena, which could accommodate tens of thousands of people, was sealed off by Shika, and all the nobles in the city were invited to watch the trial.
In front of the arena's high platform, a huge magic array was set up, and the great mages personally participated in drawing and refining the magic circuits. At the same time, the Temple Legion, the elites of each battalion, participated in the trial.
Of course, the main audience was the Caucasian warriors.
These warriors didn't panic, and each of them faced the mages and answered the questions. After that, many were arrested. Today's trial was announced at the last minute, and because of this, another battalion was mobilized to fill in the gaps in the Southern Courtyard's defense.
The Caucasian warriors didn't have their weapons confiscated, and their equipment still belonged to them. The only difference from the other warriors was that they sat in the front row.
Under the protection of her trusted Caucasian warriors and mages, Shika arrived at the grandstand where Salin used to sit. In the arena in front of her, more than a thousand Caucasians were tied up there.
The white-robed mage went to adjust the sound amplification magic array and the video magic array. The nobles entered the boxes or the better seats in the stands. Most of them brought their personal guards with them.
Everyone already knew Salin's temper. He liked nobles who worshipped martial arts, and nobles with servants were far less favored than nobles with personal guards.
The magic array in the center was a lie detection magic array. This kind of magic wasn't advanced, so no one had ever used a magic array to activate it. Shika might be the first person to do so.
Looking at the Caucasian warriors tied up in the distance, Shika felt her gaze turn cold. She wasn't this kind of person, so cold and heartless. But why did they want to do such cruel things to her?
Fortunately, she acted quickly. Otherwise, with so many warriors in the city responding to the south's call, the city gates might really have been breached. Although the city gates were breached, the Caucasians couldn't control the entire city. The problem was that once the enemy entered Metatlin, it would be a huge blow to Salin's reputation.
Power could make people lose themselves. There must have been a lot of priests among the Caucasians outside the city, making the elders think that they could control the situation.
Although Shika didn't have much experience with the awakening of human power, she could vaguely feel it. She hadn't taken the news of priests outside the city seriously at first, but combined with the information she obtained later, Shika instinctively sensed danger.
Once a Caucasian warrior had a priest, they were even stronger than a swordsman with a Mage.
After everything was set up, Christian opened the sound transmission magic array for Shika. Her voice echoed in the Metatlin Arena, and the tens of thousands of people in the arena could hear it clearly.
"Today's matter was also a surprise to me. Because someone told me that the Caucasians outside the city wanted to harm me, the Earth Priest. "Shika's words were shocking, and the nobles didn't dare to believe it was true. But the thousand or so Caucasian captives tied up here weren't just for show. They were all very dispirited.
"I always thought that the Caucasians maintained the glory left behind from ancient times, but now that I think about it, I was too naive." Shika's words were all designed for her by the Mages. If she had said it herself, it would have been too straightforward, and it would have lost the meaning of a public trial.
"I sent people to seal the city gates and mobilized the equivalent of a military force. I didn't choose to start a war immediately, because I hoped that all of this wasn't true. But I was wrong!"
Shika looked at the Caucasians who were trying to make her surrender from afar and continued, "I am a priest, and dedication is my duty. But this dedication doesn't include my child. The Caucasians outside the city wanted to take everything from me, but they didn't ask if it really belonged to them. "
The bound Caucasians were placed in the area controlled by the sound transmission magic array. No one could speak, and no one could interrupt Shika's speech.
Shika said loudly, "The most shameful thing is that they wanted my child because the child's father is the King of Metatlin, Salin." Shika turned her gaze to the nearby nobles and said, "Your Highness helped the Caucasians a lot because of me. But this help was exchanged for betrayal. "
Shika rested for a while, seeming very tired. Then she continued, "I can't tolerate it, because I still have dignity. As a Caucasian, I feel a deep sense of shame. So here, I can't judge as a priest. I announce that from now on, I will be the true King of the Caucasians. The bloodline of the Caucasian Kingdom will always be Metatlin. "
More than a thousand Caucasian soldiers who had been silenced heard Shika's words, and their faces turned ashen. They had never thought that the elders' plan would make Shika make such a choice.
"Now, I will judge you as the King of the Caucasian Kingdom. Master, let's begin! "After saying that, Shika leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.
The Gaugass Warriors in the audience were also stunned. When they were asked questions, they thought that it was a test of loyalty. When they heard that the Temple Legion was going to participate in this test, all the Gaugass Warriors thought that they were going to be chosen to join the most powerful army in Metatlin City.
But no one made any noise. Shika sat there, looking tired, weak, and wronged. The Caucasians who were loyal to her couldn't bear to see her like this.
Shika had contributed a lot, even letting the man she loved marry a king instead of staying by her side. Now that this had happened, what else could they say? Let's see what the mages will do.
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