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General Vassar was forced to be helpless, so he had to send someone to investigate the inside story of this sensational "defection case". In the end, Laval was found without accident.

When questioned at the military court, Laval admitted that he had learned of the plan to defect by the officers the day before.

He himself did not participate in this matter, but he did not report to his superiors in time because of the affection of his colleagues.

Although General Vassar had no personal relationship with Laval and was looked down upon by Laval at one time, he valued Laval's talents very much. Both publicly and privately, he praised Laval as the most capable general of the Continental Army. He did not want to be because of this scandal. He sentenced Laval to death for his military career.

But having said that, Laval made the mistake of knowing not to report. Without punishment, he would not be able to explain to the Continental Congress and the officers and soldiers under his command. There is also the suspicion of favoritism, damaging the commander-in-chief's own reputation and public image.

After careful weighing, General Vassar finally made a ruling, confiscated Laval for a year's salary, transferred from active duty, and sent to a small mountain town in the northwest of Forge Valley as mayor, and took a vacation to recuperate.

General Vassar's intention was obvious. First, he would hide Laval for a while, and wait until he avoided the limelight. In the future, he would be recalled to active duty and re-enable this rare valiant general.

For individuals who receive such treatment, most of them will be grateful for the kindness of your commander-in-chief, and dormant for a period of time in order to make a comeback in the future.

However, Laval is no ordinary person, and his thoughts are different from ordinary people.

This famous New World general from an aristocratic family has always had an extreme temperament and high self-esteem. He believed that he was not wrong. He suffered a great humiliation when he went to the military court to be questioned. This made him deeply humiliated, thinking that a hero was useless, and his thinking became more extreme.

Benedict Laval spent a depressed time in the small town. As the Fijian Army succeeded in succession in the south, especially after the fall of Leiden, Laval believed in the victory of the independent revolution. It also tends to collapse step by step.

Compared with career setbacks, conceptual shocks have had a greater impact on Laval's thought changes.

Although he has a fierce reputation as a "butcher" and has fought side by side with cultists and even demons, Laval is not what many people think of as a devil or demon believer. In fact, he is a "non-mainstream" paladin.

The times are developing, and various extraordinary professions are constantly improving and evolving with the passing of the times, becoming very different from the original image when they were born.

The most typical is the druids. The fundamentalist druids are the style of the "primitive order", and the reformist druids are like the "harvest ring". Both are druid communities, but the difference is big. Like wild wolves and domestic dogs.

This change over time is also very obvious in the profession of paladin.

The ancient paladins followed the eight great knights' creeds, advocating "absolute justice" and "infinite justice", and under no circumstances did they deal with evil forces, even if they only cooperated temporarily against greater evil forces.

As an old joke said:

A paladin broke into the tavern, first cast a shot of "Detect Evil", and then slaughtered all the melon-eating people who were judged to be the evil camp... He thought he was doing his best to eliminate evil, in fact, in the eyes of normal people, this is purely neurotic !

This kind of fundamental paladin is basically anti-human paranoia, unable to adapt to the changes of the times, and is almost extinct today.

Instead of the fundamental paladins, the reformist paladins are more flexible in their behaviors. The common feature is that they are no longer so obsessed with the black and white stand, admitting that there is a large gray area between good and evil, and advocating There are "relative justice" and "limited justice" with the meaning of compromise, and different factions have been differentiated on this basis. Among them, there are three most widely known types.

The first category is the paladin who has issued the "Oath of Dedication" and upholds justice, virtue and order. In fact, they are the "modified version" of the fundamental paladin. Most of them believe in kind gods and are honored as "white knights."

George Vassar is an example of the "white knight".

The second category is the paladin who has given the "sage's oath". The creed is to respect tradition, love nature, advocating light and life, and to maintain the balance of nature, fight evil forces and undead creatures as their own duty, and often interact with fairies, elves, and Drew. The alliance between Iraq and the rangers is usually called the "green knight".

The last category is the "black knight" who swears the "vengeance oath" and swears to punish the enemy. In order to uphold the justice in his heart, he will not hesitate to kill the "black knight" whose hands are stained with blood-this is also the most extreme and most deviating from the original principles of the "black knight". Samurai, let alone justice or not, I am afraid that even "kindness" is not even considered.

Compared with the "white knight" and the "green knight", the "black knight" with extreme thinking and unscrupulous behavior is often more likely to go astray and fall into the evil way.

Benedict Laval is a "black knight" who swore his "vengeance vow" when he was young.

The strong will to avenge his mother prompted him to hate all the Asa people. However, under the forcible coordination of the Far Eastern Emperor Roland I, the Continental Congress agreed to form an alliance with the Asa people of the Walsung tribe, which contradicted his beliefs. , A lump fell in my heart.

If that's all, it's not a big deal. After all, during the Mineral Vein War in 1622, the colonists and the aborigines also cooperated briefly for common interests, which did not prevent the two parties from becoming enemies afterwards due to conflicts of interest.

What makes Laval even more depressed is that the Emperor of the Far East has been providing military training for the indigenous people of the New World for free for the past two years. It is said that there are currently two batches of no less than 7,000 Assa youth elites trained at the Colasburg Military Academy.

When the young Assa students return from their studies, they will go directly to the front line with a large number of advanced weapons and equipment from the Far East and become the backbone of the Fijian invading army.

If the situation really evolves in this direction, the Continental Army's situation will be embarrassing.

The War of Independence has been fought for almost two years. Except for occasional flashes in the Baden Wetlands, the Continental Army has been passively beaten for most of the time. From north to south, they lost consecutive battles and abandoned the city and lost countless lands.

Now that the Continental Congress has fled to an isolated island overseas, the main force of the Continental Army is trapped in a corner of the Forge Valley, and the south is even more dangerous, leaving only the last stronghold in Delin Town.

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