Trash.
Shepherd had never expected Mokania to be such trash.
Shepherd had thought that it was one thing for the sorcery "In the Name of God" to exploit a loophole in Moral Law, and understandable enough for Nia God to be morally coerced the first time.
But being morally coerced a second time could only mean that those nobles were pushing their luck.
Yet Nia God, who had been pushed around so brazenly, had simply yielded and gone soft.
According to Mokania, In the Name of God merely treated the nobles as a collective. Whenever an abuse of power occurred, the other nobles would learn of it.
The nobles would then form an alliance against him because of it.
It was only an alliance!
There was no binding force involved whatsoever.
Shepherd was almost certain that if Mokania had taken a hard line and truly killed the noble who had morally coerced him, the allied nobles might have protested, raged, played some petty tricks, and even caused some people to suffer collateral losses.
But those nobles would never truly become one entity, advancing and retreating together as they fought Mokania to the bitter end.
All Mokania needed to do next was kill some of the overly radical nobles, then establish an absolute rule for the nobles.
Under the constraints of that rule, no matter how rotten those nobles were, they would still have a bottom line.
Once someone crossed that bottom line, Mokania could use it as grounds for punishment.
The nobles' moral standards and conduct would not have fallen so endlessly under such restrictions.
It could be said that if Mokania had been even a little tougher, this world would not have become what it was now.
Yet Mokania was clearly the one who wielded greater power and held