Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2091
Soon, Xia Duo and Kelani no longer wandered the streets, but squeezed into the crowded wave of elves, but Kelani's spell of avoiding other elves was still in effect.

This created a gap of about half a step around the two of them. Wherever they went, the gap would follow. No elf noticed this abnormal situation during the whole process.

And when Coranie led Xia Duo down the suspended walkway on the second floor and merged into the more turbulent waves, Xia Duo had already confirmed that the destination of the two people's trip was the People's Square in front of them.

When I came here, Xia Duo passed through the center of the People’s Square, and I still have a deep impression on the huge circular square. The square is roughly a regular circle, with a five-pointed star inscribed inside, and the ground is made of different colors. distinguish it from its surroundings.

When he saw this at the time, he was almost taken aback, thinking that some clansman had come here one step ahead to play an outpost!It was only later that I realized that the five-pointed star should refer to "five races are equal, five races share prosperity"!
After arriving at the square, Xia Duo noticed that the seemingly crowded and chaotic tide of elves had arrived here, and he naturally divided it into five blocks according to the prompt of the five-pointed star in the center of the square, with the middle empty.

Of course, this is not divided by race. After all, there are no winged elves, sea elves, or sri elves. Xia Duo speculates that they may be divided according to communities, streets, or political ideas.

The area where he and Coranie 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 quite a few orientals, and even a few were squeezed into the pile of elves. dwarves.

And in the block he was in, there was almost no other race—except him.

Although he has been to many elven cities - the main plane and the projected plane, it is the first time that Xia Duo has seen so many elves crowded together.

Moreover, there are still elves pouring in from outside. Xia Duo is not sure whether there are elves from other places coming here temporarily, but even if there are, mobilizing more than [-] elves to gather here in such a short period of time is enough to demonstrate the mobilization and organization capabilities of Comanthor. up.

If not, then the estimation of the total population of Cormanthor may have to be re-estimated. This city alone is enough to exceed the entire Great Xia Territory, let alone others.

With such potential, how could Xia Duo not feel pressured. (The fertility of elves is not weaker than that of humans, but because of factors such as traditions and habits, they usually have their first child after a hundred years of marriage. After that, unless the first child dies, they will rarely regenerate later. Even if they do, it will take at least a hundred years as a cycle , Drow is forced to give birth once every 25 years to cope with the harsh living environment in the Underdark region, and actually one birth per year may not be impossible~)

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Almost half an hour later, the flow of elves entering the square had become sparse, and when Xia Duo was almost impatient, there was finally a vision in the center of the square.

Five mysterious elves wearing masks and simple and large robes appeared in front of the five blocks, and they have been here for half an hour. Of course, Xia Duo is no longer ignorant of this at the beginning.

He gradually restored the whole picture of the so-called "people's trial" from the conversations of the elves around him.

It is said that this "People's Judgment Ceremony" was inherited from ancient times, but Xia Duo thinks it is more likely that it was created after the founding of Cormanthor.

Xia Duo, an elven society in ancient times, has never seen it, and there are few relevant historical materials, but he has been to Maierita in the projected plane. At that time, it was at least 1 years away from the main plane in the early days of the Crown War. Year.

At that time, the trial system implemented by Maiye Lita was not a people's trial, but a judge system. A group of elves would swear (ceremonial spells) to be loyal to the law all their lives, and then become judges, with the ability to investigate, judge, executive powers.

Although adjudicators may have caused many unjust, false and wrongly decided cases in their lifetime, and many adjudicators could not bear the inner suffering and chose to commit suicide, but it is undeniable that the adjudicator's legal professionalism is definitely beyond that of most ordinary elves.

The people's trial seems fair and seems to represent public opinion, but in fact it is just a trial of favorability with emotions. Both emotions and public opinion can be manipulated.

In other words, such a trial can completely save a demon who has won the favor of the public from punishment, or allow an innocent person who is disliked by the public to die unjustly.

This kind of "people's trial" has extremely high requirements on the personal quality of the participants, not only requires rationality, but also professional judgment ability, otherwise it is just a mass carnival with selfish desires.

Looking at the performance of these elves in the square, Xia Duo didn't think they had high personal qualities. They might have rationality, but they might not be professional.

And it's hard to say whether they will continue to be rational when they know that the object of trial today is very likely to include a high-ranking mage.

At least not the rationality based on jurisprudence that Xia Duo thinks.

So he didn't bother to think about it too much, maybe it was just like what Kelani said just now, this is a drama, a drama controlled by the king, allowing the public to participate, and legally eliminating opponents for him!

It's just that such a drama is necessary for an existence like Coranie to watch?
Xia Duo didn't understand, but since he came, he had no choice but to continue reading.

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Soon, the five unknown mages wearing masks began to guide the ceremony, and a total of 27 spirits who were imprisoned and unable to move were sent to the reserved space in the center of the square.

At the same time, a projection appeared over the square almost simultaneously, as if to greet the elves that could not be seen behind.

The next moment, not only Xia Duo, but almost all the elves sucked in a hurricane in the square at the same time, which shows the special status of the 27 elves in the center.

As for why Xia Duo was surprised, it is actually very simple——

The clothes of the 27 imprisoned elves almost all have one or more corona-like patterns, which are all too familiar to Xia Duo.

That is the symbol of the Sunwing family. In [Projection Plane Birth of Comanthor], Xia Duo became the heir of the Sunwing family—Lyle Akarama, and finally passed the Excalibur test, becoming the The first generation crowned king of the new Cormanthor.

He stayed in that projected plane for more than four years, and he might not be able to see other things every day, but it was hard not to see the coronal coat of arms representing the family.

The Sunwing family has a long history, not only in the projection plane, but also in the main plane. Although Xia Duo hadn't deliberately paid attention to it in the past, how could he be unaware when he saw the corona crest at this moment!
According to his understanding, the Sunwing family on the main plane is already a proper high-ranking family in Cormanthor, which is many times stronger than the dilapidated family when he projected the plane!
At the same time, the Sunwing family is also one of the staunchest supporters of the Crown King of Elythel, at least for the past nearly 1000 years.

But it's a pity that even fans who have been for thousands of years, they were decisively abandoned when they said they would abandon it!

(End of this chapter)