Saint Laurent Prison Warden

Chapter 109 The Past of Karen Town
The white skeleton soldiers stood on the ground, holding tattered skeleton swords, swaying left and right under Richard's command, making all kinds of strange movements.

Sometimes she stands upside down, sometimes she crawls on her stomach, sometimes she leans against an iron mountain, and sometimes she sits like Guanyin on a lotus.

Snapped!
Richard snapped his fingers.

The skeleton soldier immediately raised his bone sword and chopped off his own head, ending the scene in glory.

Necromancers are not the only ones who can summon Skeletons, but Necromancers are the only ones who can control Skeletons to this extent.

"You really are a necromancer..."

The driver looked at Richard with a complicated expression, but his hostility was not as strong anymore.

“We refugees are the gutter rats, and you necromancers are the sewer bugs.

We are all victims of persecution by the Silver City."

"Ah." He sighed softly, looking a little frustrated. "We've already had a hard time, and you're still helping those mages to deal with us."

Richard heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the driver's attitude seemed to have softened a little. He maintained a calm tone and tried to continue to calm the driver's emotions.

"Brother, I don't want to do that either. But there are many things in this world that you can't just not do if you don't want to.

Just think about it, I am alone and have to sneak into your place as an insider. I could lose my life at any time. This mission is so dangerous.

If I hadn't had a bad time among those dog mages, this kind of crappy job wouldn't have fallen on me."

Richard sat next to the driver and began to act in an ostentatious manner to gain sympathy:
"Brother, have you ever experienced the feeling of being monitored everywhere you go? When you eat, read, walk, sleep, or even go to the toilet, you are watched.

Those mages were all staring at me, hoping to find evidence on me so they could kill me.

Every person I see on the street every day, I feel like they are spying on me.

You definitely can’t understand how sad this kind of life is.

They also forced me to marry a vicious bitch. That bitch could kill me by hitting me on the face with a magic book. Am I the type to marry her?

Now I am still caught between several forces. Although I seem to have someone to rely on, I am actually alone and helpless.

Even the only teacher I could trust died in their hands.

Woohoo, I am miserable, brother. I went to your side not because I wanted to, but because I was forced to do so. "

As he was talking, Richard suddenly realized that he didn't need to pretend at all, he was really miserable.

He was overwhelmed with sorrow and tears welled up in his eyes, and he accidentally revealed some of his true feelings.

"Oh. Then you are also a miserable person. Okay, I won't make it difficult for you." The driver looked at Richard's sad face and couldn't help but believe it a little.

He picked up the screaming black elk from the ground, crossed his legs, and sat next to Richard.

The driver looked up and stared at the purple thunder in the sky for more than ten seconds.

After a long time, the driver suddenly said:
“No matter how miserable you are, at least you know magic. A necromancer is still a mage.

Not like me, just a normal guy.

Magic is truly powerful. I have always envied wizards since I was a child.

When I was a child, when I was studying in Karen Town, our principal was a wizard.

He could fly directly to school instead of walking for an hour along the winding mountain road, and he could also turn students who dared to disobey him into frogs and rabbits.

A wave of the hand creates fire, a stomp of the foot creates an earthquake.

We were as weak as little chickens in front of him. From teachers to students, no one dared to disobey him.

When I was a child, I always thought that the principal was the most powerful person in the world, even more powerful than the mayor.

It was not until I followed my father to the central city that I learned that our principal was just a useless wizard who was exiled to our town of Karen, the worst among all mages.

There are mages countless times more powerful than our principal everywhere in the City of Travel.

This is the land of mages, and ordinary people like us who have no ability to cast spells are the outliers here.

I have felt resentful and wronged, but these emotions soon passed. For people like us, being alive is good enough, and we have no right to feel resentful or wronged. "

The driver took a deep breath and continued:

If fate had been kinder to me, perhaps I wouldn't have ended up like this.

pity……

Do you remember what I told you in the car? The reason why our town of Karen can exist is because of the magic crystal mine in the Karen mining area.

The mining of magic crystal ore is very troublesome. Even with the help of magic machinery, it still requires a large number of workers to mine the magic crystal ore.

I lost my mother when I was young. My father was a worker in the Karen Mine and a senior miner who could use magic robotic arms.

I actually had a pretty good childhood.

In my late teens, I would still go with my father to the central city about twice a year to eat and see the world.

My classmates at school didn't have this opportunity at all. Not to mention going to the central city, they could hardly even go to the Machinery City in the southern suburbs.

However, the mineral veins in the Karen mining area gradually dried up.

As the magic crystal veins in the Karen Mine became less and less, my father's temper became worse and worse.

Finally, no more magic crystal ore could be mined in the Karen Mine, and my father was fired from the mine.

The family suddenly lost its source of income and life became very tight.

My father was unwilling to live this kind of life, so he followed the prospecting team deep underground to find new mineral veins.

As a result, he unfortunately died in the underground, and I have been alone since then and have to fend for myself.

If it were just this, I could still survive. There are many people in Karen Town who are suffering as much as I am, or even more.

I have worked as a waiter in a bar, a mechanic in a restaurant, a car dealership, and an assistant in a driving school. I can't say my life was good, but it was not bad.

But I could never have imagined that the mayor of Karen Town, when Karen Town was at the end of its rope, would borrow a large amount of gold coins from the Magic Gold Alliance in order to build a fully automatic mechanical industrial assembly line like the one in the Mechanical City.

He actually wanted to turn the Karen Mining Area into a second mechanical city!
My God, the last thing we lack in Karen Town is people. The wages of our workers are even cheaper than the magic fuel costs of the machines. How could he succeed by doing that?

As expected, he failed. He just walked away, leaving behind a devastated Karen town.

Our hospitals are closing down, our schools are shutting down, and we can’t even pay the salaries of our teachers and security guards.

Those wizard masters in the Travel City left our town of Karen to its wits' end and didn't want to take care of us at all.

To them, the only value of the entire Karen Town is the magic crystal mine.

Without the magic crystal veins, Karen Town has no value to exist. The land that originally belonged to us was forcibly reclaimed and turned into the private property of some families. The valuable machinery and equipment were also taken away for recycling, leaving only the scrap metal that no one wants.

The food trucks have stopped running and no one is willing to deliver basic necessities to us.

The land in Karen Town does not produce food.

There are fewer and fewer people left in the town. I am still alive, but the town of Karen is dying."

"So you also went to the central city and became a driver of the magic car?"

"No, I didn't leave." The driver looked up and said, "My father is buried in Karen Town, and I will die there too.

So I didn’t leave, but stayed and worked with some like-minded people to try to rebuild Karen Town.”

The driver's tone was calm, but his words were powerful. His eyes were a little lonely, hiding his deep attachment to the past.

It was hard for Richard to imagine that he actually saw an inexplicable sacredness in the driver's expression.

"Fortunately, there are refugees from other countries coming to the border of the Travel City, just like my parents. There are many capable people among the refugees. Some have found a kind of moss that can be grown in the mines and used as food. Some have repaired broken machines and used them to build houses. Some have also gone to the Mechanical City to recycle a lot of scrap gray steel, which can be used as building materials.

Karen Town died, but Mineral Town was reborn next to Karen Town's corpse.

Originally, everything was developing in a good direction.

Until last year, when Mommy came to Mineral Town, everything changed."

When he said this, the driver touched the black elk in his hand and sighed softly.

Richard asked warily, "Mommy? What is that?"

"I don't know either,

She could be an evil god from outside, or a down-and-out wizard with great magical powers, or something else.

She appears to be a worn-out robotic toy head, but that's just her disguise.

All I know is that she is amazing.

I saw with my own eyes how she transformed a pile of junk into an ogre with immense power, and how she made a mechanical frog out of scrap metal lying on the ground.

When my mother promised to give me the power to cast spells and let me become a wizard, I agreed without any hesitation.

At that moment, I realized that in fact, in my heart, I had never given up my yearning for magic, but I had been deceiving myself.

Relying on my familiarity with Mineral Town, I recommended many plans to Mommy, made contributions step by step, and gradually became her confidant.

If you hadn't come, maybe I would have really become a wizard.

I really regret it. Why did I park my car next to you that night?
It's because the clothes you wear look too luxurious, which makes me obsessed with money.

If I had known it would be like this, I should have accelerated and run you over that night."

Richard: ...

How come we're back to this after all this time? Can we not discuss this topic? It's so dangerous.

Richard quickly said, "Brother, you should have told me earlier that you wanted to become a mage.

I know that there is a research institute that has been studying how to enable ordinary people to own magic books, and it has achieved some success.

I can recommend you to be a volunteer for the experiment at that institute."

"That's too late."

The driver looked at Richard with a half-smile.

"Why do you think I should tell you about my past?
It's just a last word. My father is dead and I still remember him. If I die, who will remember me?
Mommy's sacrifice ceremony has begun, and everything in the entire travel city will become a black goat dedicated to the mother goddess.

including me.

Of course, this includes you, Master Mage."

As soon as the driver finished speaking, the elk's eyes glowed red, and all the black hair on its body stood up.
The elk opened its mouth and spewed out a huge, swollen, rotten tongue.

The tongue was so big that it filled the elk's entire mouth, making it impossible for the elk to close its mouth.

Dark blood flowed out of the elk's eyes, dripping onto the ground, making a sizzling sound.

Richard's pupils shrank, and he quickly clenched the staff in his hand and stood up, on high alert.

"What do you want to do? Don't be impulsive, brother. Let me go, I can help you deal with other mages. I have been undercover around those mages for a long time and know a lot of information about them.

I am valuable.”

Richard said that fighting and killing was too dangerous, so he decided to be a spy, which he was familiar with.

Since I'm a spy anyway, it doesn't matter who I serve as a spy for.

The driver looked at Richard with a strange look and sneered:

"Why are you so nervous? Don't worry, we don't have any thoughts about you.

Do you see the thunder in the sky? The Lord of Xingge City who released this thunder is our target.

Originally, according to Mommy's plan, we should have gradually nibbled away at the area around the Travel City and gradually increased the number of blood and flesh sacrifices.

Finally, we will use enough sacrifices to guide the gods to come and turn the ore into our kingdom of God! Unfortunately, your appearance disrupted our deployment.

But it doesn't matter, Mommy has a simpler and more brutal solution."

The driver was talking, and suddenly changed the subject strangely:
"Master Mage, the moon in the sky is so beautiful tonight."

"The moon... is quite beautiful."

There are three moons in the Yasa world.

The White Moon represents maiden, destiny, balance and the future.

The silver moon represents the mother, life, creation and the present.

The Blood Moon represents the Crone, death, destruction, and the past.

Under normal circumstances, these three moons do not appear alone in the sky.

Sometimes there are two, sometimes there are three.

Only a few nights each year do these three moons appear alone.

When the moon appears alone, the residents of the Yasa world will hold some less grand celebrations for the moon. This celebration is called a moon festival.

Depending on the type of moon, the celebration is divided into the White Moon Festival, the Silver Moon Festival and the Blood Moon Festival.

Xingge specifically chose the Silver Moon Festival to hold my awarding ceremony. Richard suddenly thought.

"Today is the Silver Moon Festival, so of course the moon is beautiful."

"Silver moon? Hahahaha! Open your eyes and take a good look. Is that moon really silver?"

"Silver Moon Festival, if the moon isn't silver, what else could it be?" Richard asked suspiciously.

“Hahaha, the silver color you see is just what the moon wants you to see.

Bloody, all three moons are bloody, there is no silver at all!

Hahaha, you are a wizard, but you can't even see the truth of the world. You are worse than me!"

The driver laughed oddly.

"Master Mage, just like you said, there are times when we are forced to do something, whether we want to do it or not.

Although I think you will definitely die, but what if... If you survive, I hope you can help me go to Karen Town and build a tomb for me next to my father's tomb.

My father's name is Gorko and my name is Golf.

Just consider it as your reward for thanking me for letting you live."

The driver held the black elk in his hand, raised it above his head, and shouted enthusiastically:

"The endless abyss represents chaos, and the scarlet blood moon represents order.

Use the soul to guide chaos and use flesh and blood to guide order!
When chaos and order intertwine, the true door will open in the void."

Gudong!

Richard's heart beat violently, and he looked up in surprise. The silver moon began to turn red and looked bigger and bigger, as if the moon was falling!
(End of this chapter)