Crusade against the Pope

Chapter 29 Breaking the Shackles and Chains
Ever since he merged his past life memories, Gailis no longer liked to carry a sword with him. He also kept the sword given to him by the late King Baldwin and no longer used it.

Weapons, this thing, really can't be liked, of course, he doesn't actually need to carry a sword with him now. He just borrows one from someone around him when he needs it.

The sword in Garys's hand at this moment belongs to Simon. As a long-time knight squire, the long sword Simon uses is of the same model as the one used by Garys, and Garys finds it quite easy to use.

This kind of long sword should actually be called a hand-and-a-half sword or a half sword. Its characteristic is that the hilt is long and can be used with one hand or two hands, which makes it quite flexible in battle. It is suitable for knights to use on horseback and for infantry to fight on the ground.

Of course, this kind of flexible weapon is rather troublesome to wield and requires years of training.

Among knights, Gellis' swordsmanship was not considered very sophisticated, but things were different now.

After releasing his restraining perception, Gailis could capture everything around him, whether it was flowers, trees, or flying dust, with his vision. In his eyes, these heavy infantry charging towards him were much slower than those Bedouins on horseback.

When he faced these soldiers, he didn't need to think about blocking or any sophisticated sword swings.

As he slowly walked into the army, his long sword repeatedly stabbed or chopped at the neck, directly attacking those places that were not covered by armor or helmets. These gaps that ordinary people could hardly capture were as easy for Garys to capture as plucking flowers.

There was no way time had stopped, and Garys's speed had not increased to a level beyond the reach of ordinary human eyes.

For this reason, his behavior was a little too difficult to understand for bystanders, such as the villagers and Ahmed.

It was like walking, but faster than running! It was like swinging a sword, but there was no sign of power accumulation! It was more like a ghost twitching and flickering!
And along with the flashes of sword light in the sunlight, blood gushed out like a fountain.

Gailis did not try to avoid the blood. He acted more casually, and when he passed through the formation of ten heavy infantrymen, his body was stained with a lot of blood. Behind him, the soldiers who wanted to escape but had no time to do so fell down one after another.

The blood on the sword dripped down the blade from the tip to the ground smoothly. This time... there was no crack on the long sword used by Garys.

"Ah? Aba? Aba..." Ahmed blinked rapidly. He thought he was hallucinating or possessed by evil spirits.

This...what's going on? !
What about his soldiers?! Those private soldiers that cost twenty gold dinars a year to raise one!
After raising soldiers for a thousand days and deploying them for a moment, and spending hundreds of gold dinars, this is the result!

What a joke.

Is this really not a dream?
Ahmed did not come to his senses until Garys put the sword on his shoulder and wiped the blood off the blade with the precious cloth.

"I just heard you say: I am the brick, I am the seal of the prophets, and after me there will be no messenger or prophet."

"I want to tell you that in my eyes, Prophet Muhammad is as respectable as Brother Jesus. Brother Jesus spread the gospel with charity, while Prophet Muhammad preached to the world with swords and horses."

"He promoted social reforms, prohibited usury, banned the killing of infants, and established Zakat to help the poor. He saved the Arabian Peninsula from the vortex of tribal hatred, broke down the barriers between tribes, and treated non-Arab believers fairly and tolerantly." "But what about you? After reciting the scriptures for decades, have you ever learned even a little bit of the prophet's style?"

Garys did not kill Ahmed, and he should be sent to the stake after the trial in the future. Now he just exerted a little force, and with the long sword on Ahmed's right shoulder, he forced him to kneel down with a dejected look on his face, looking at the corpses of the private soldiers.

The sky has really changed.

It's not that the weather suddenly changed from sunny to cloudy, but that the chains and shackles that had bound the villagers behind Garys since birth were broken.

The villagers looked at each other in bewilderment, and even Cardoso subconsciously touched his clothes. To the naked eye, nothing seemed to have changed, but he could feel himself becoming much more relaxed.

"God helps those who help themselves! Now that you have stood up today, you must not kneel down again. I have not come to this world to kill all the evil people in the world by myself, but just to let you know that God favors you and He has never put shackles on you..."

A commoner holding a long sword, he killed ten people with his sword. His body was stained with blood, and he used the sword as a force to overwhelm the tax collector, forcing him to kneel on the ground.

This is indeed a miracle, but it is a reward for those who had the courage to throw stones.

Gellis will not stay here for long. Monterey Village is just a starting point, a seed.

After so many days of careful watering, the seed finally sprouted and grew towards the sky, craving for sunlight and clean water.

When Garys called on the young people in the village, forty young people from eighty households stood up, hoping to follow Garys. They might not know where Garys would lead them, but the feeling of freedom, ease and being able to stand and talk was really great, sweeter than sugar water and very desirable.

Of course, Gailis would not do such a thing as picking forty people from a village. After careful selection, Gailis only chose five people from this village as his disciples.

These five people are not very old, just teenagers of twelve or thirteen years old. They are like the rising sun, with infinite possibilities.

The reason why Gellis accepted these five disciples was that he hoped to establish a strong bond with the Monterey Village and also to keep these five people by his side and teach them by example.

Although the believers who witnessed the miracles worshipped Garys, it was difficult to reason with them because adults had fixed values. Garys only hoped that he could save the children, so that they could break away from the shackles in which their ancestors had lived for generations and learn real knowledge in the free and vast land, so that they could break free from superstition one day.

Later, Gellis witnessed another election, where many villagers in the village's threshing ground shouted Cardoso's name in unison.

In this way, Cardoso became the leader, or village chief, of the village.

　Today's update is completed. I went to deliver the takeaway. I hope there will be more orders today so that I can reach the order requirement for this week as soon as possible.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)