When I traveled through time and became a player, I just wanted to commit suicide

The Order of Sloth, a huge force with minions almost all over the continent, is the largest slave trading group, and can even be said to be the root of all slave trade.

They are so secretive and eccentric that ordinary people have almost no chance of knowing about their existence.

But they are everywhere. They are present in every town on the continent. Their power can be centered in the town and radiate to a large area. It can be said that they exist wherever there are people.

The Order of Sloth generally does not capture slaves themselves.

Because when most powerful slave merchants obtain a group of slaves, they must first provide some of the best quality ones to the Order, and the rest will be bought and sold by the merchants themselves. In exchange, the Order will mark each slave with A "slave mark" that will accompany them for life.

In the slave trade, the price of slaves who have not been marked as slaves will be much lower.

Only the lowest slave merchants will sell, because they are not qualified to contact the Sloth Cult, and the methods used by those low-level slave merchants to control slaves are relatively simple and simple. People with a little strength can break free, and the risk of slave defection is very high.

It is absolutely impossible for a person with a slave mark to disobey the master's order. Even if he is unwilling in his heart, the power of the slave mark will drive the slave to complete the order and will be severely punished afterwards.

Generally, slaves with a tough attitude will become extremely well-behaved and stop resisting their master after being punished two or three times. At the same time, this is also a sign of despair for their own fate.

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"Now that you say so, isn't it possible that those children belonged to a slave trader? They were just sent to the Order of Sloth to be marked as slaves."

"The possibility is very low." Eivor shook his head.

"Those are more likely to be supplied to the cult by local slave traders. The Sloth Cult generally likes slightly older children because of their strong plasticity. If they are trained, they will become a high-quality slave."

"And I have seen that the slave marks on those children are all in an ownerless state. This is generally a characteristic of slaves in the religious order. Only members of the religious order can control the slaves who have no owners. Slave traders will temporarily determine the owner of the slave marks. Do it for yourself and don’t change to a buyer until you sell.”

"Such a power...don't the rulers and nobles here care about it? With that kind of power, who can guarantee that they will not be marked as a slave? You also said that no matter who is marked as a slave, It is absolutely impossible to eliminate the seal, so this kind of power that is not under his control will be allowed to exist in the hands of a religious group?" Li Shanren asked with a frown.

Even Eivor knows about the existence of the Order of Sloth, presumably the higher-level forces will only know more.

"They won't care about it. The existence of the cult is tacitly tolerated no matter where it is."

Eivor sighed and shook his head.

"On the one hand, the Order of Sloth is very powerful. They even have their own slave army, all of which are composed of extraordinary people. Remember what I just said, the Order generally does not capture slaves by themselves. Once they decide to do it themselves, They will dispatch slave legions, attack cities and plunder lands at every turn, and seize people from a village or even a city as slaves."

"I heard that there was once a small country in the west of the continent that completely banned the slave trade and boycotted the Sloth Cult. As a result... that country was attacked and destroyed by the slave army, and everyone in the country became slaves... .”

Hearing this, Li Shanren couldn't help but take a breath. It can actually destroy the country. Such a force cannot be easily provoked.

"On the other hand..." Eivor continued, "The interests of the Sloth Order actually do not conflict with the king and the nobles. Every year, a part of the high-quality slaves are given to the king and powerful nobles. The slave trade under their control will even pay taxes to the kingdom, and a considerable part of the kingdom's finances comes from the slave trade every year."

"Furthermore, the laws of the kingdom also advocate avoiding the death penalty as much as possible, and instead relegating them to slaves. The Order of Sloth will perform the process of marking the slaves on their behalf. Even many nobles will become slaves under trial."

"The interests of the kingdom are closely linked to the Sloth Religion. Unless the Sloth Religion decides to go to war with all the forces in the continent one day, the kingdom will not take the initiative to deal with the Sloth Religion.

Since the annihilation of the country, countries across the continent have asked the Sloth Religion to reach an agreement with them. They are not allowed to wage war against any country at will, otherwise it will be regarded as a war against the entire continent.

By then, even countries that are hostile to each other will put aside their disputes and kill the Sloth Cult together. As a condition, all countries that signed the agreement cannot ban the slave trade and boycott the Sloth Cult, at least not on the surface. "

There is such an agreement. If someone pretends to be the Slothful Order and declares war with any country, wouldn't the Order be doomed?

Li Shanren thought so, but then he felt that this idea was too naive.

If such a thing really happened, the kingdom would not need to take action. The religious sects with influence all over the place would take action on their own, pick out the people to clear their names, and then demote them into slaves or kill them directly to serve as a warning to others.

"...Therefore, the religious sect generally does not do anything too extreme nowadays. Of course, attacks on cities and villages will still happen occasionally, but they are only remote villages and small towns, and the kingdom is not willing to quarrel with each other. , so usually it’s just a symbolic punishment, and afterwards, the sect will offer a large amount of compensation to eliminate the impact.”

The more Li Shanren listened, the more frightened he became. Even he had never heard of this kind of power in the thousands of years of history in the modern world.

Not only is he rich and powerful, he is also good at dancing. He has good relations with most of the forces. He also has the unreasonable power of Slave Seal. To a certain extent, he can do whatever he wants. Except for the alliance of the whole continent, no one can do it. Stop them.

Facing this kind of force, even if he is a player, he must consider whether he is enough to fight them. If they accidentally discover the secret of his resurrection, he will probably be locked up for frantic research, or he will be resurrected once. Killed several times.

If something like that really happened, Li Shanren would never come here if he thought he could hang out in the border area in the future.

However, since the cult is so powerful, why is there only a bald old man in charge of the stronghold in Farm City?

But in other words, it is precisely because of such a powerful force that there is no need to send too many people to guard it. After all, a bare head can scare away a large group of forces, and small forces that are unaware of the existence of the Sloth Cult will not embarrass them. An orphanage.

At the same time, Li Shanren did not know the intimidating power of the bald old man as a gold-level knight. This was already the top combat power in Farm City. Even if someone really provoked him without opening his eyes, the old Hans would make the other party understand what cruelty is.

But who knew that there would be a stupid green magician who didn't know anything and just did it? As a gold-level knight, old Hans was beaten to the point where he was unable to fight back.

After learning what kind of force he had provoked, Li Shanren felt numb. If he had known that Norton Orphanage was such a big deal, he would not have come to look for trouble on his own, even if he had discussed it nicely with the bald old man, It's okay to buy Alice back. It's better to make Alice's slave mark owner yourself. Although this is very awkward, it is better than being enslaved by others.

Moreover, Li Shanren, who comes from modern society, does not agree with the existence of slaves, a class that is not conducive to social progress and development, and will not really treat Alice as a slave.