Saint Laurent Prison Warden

Chapter 77: Give full play to the subjective initiative of villagers ( words)

"What a pity, the fire on the mountain just now was a natural phenomenon and it doesn't count as damage caused by my spell.

Otherwise, the tree spirits and beasts in the forest would have a lot of experience."

hum.

Just then Richard sniffed and frowned.

"Huh?! Why is there such a strong smell of burning in the air? Are there any fire mummies nearby?
Wait, that's not right... Grass! House!"

Richard turned around suddenly, and sure enough, the kid's house had been set on fire by the kid's wall of fire, with the raging fire shooting straight into the sky.

At this moment, Richard heard a hysterical roar:

"Oh! Such a big fire! After burning the graves, it's going to burn the village too! Born!"

Richard: ...

Richard looked out and saw a group of strong villagers running towards him in a noisy manner, carrying buckets of water in their hands.

The middle-aged man who looked like the village chief was leading the group and was carrying a large water element stone on his shoulders. At this moment, he was looking at the burning house and shouting in grief.

"Whoever is setting fires everywhere, I will kill him if he is caught.

My firefighting team hasn't even been organized yet, and we've already set two fires!"

"That's right! Kill him!" The villagers were all furious and condemned the incident.

Richard took a look at the flaming mummy beneath his feet and lifted him up with a snap.

"Here it is! Here it is! Villagers, I have killed the monster that set the fire! It is this thing that burned the forest and the houses."

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Villager:?
“Wow! There’s a monster!”

"It's okay, it's okay, the monster is dead."

The villagers were shocked when they saw Richard holding the charred corpse.

The village chief was shocked when he saw Richard wearing a wizard robe and a staff on his waist.

He quickly put down the water element in his hand and shouted loudly:
"Are you the Mage? Are you the Mage who lives in Lions Village?"

"No, no, no, I'm not the wizard Katoon you mentioned, but he is my friend. I'm another wizard who is visiting him."

Richard threw the flaming corpse to the ground and said to the villagers, "Don't say anything else, put out the fire first, don't let it get bigger!"

"Okay! I'll listen to you, Master."

"Hurry, hurry, come here."

"Sir, will you take command?"

The villagers' verbal instructions were actually intended for Richard to use magic for help, and Richard could see it at a glance.

I am now a newly-started Destiny Mage, and my magic reserves are far less than those of an ordinary mage. Wouldn't it be exposed if I helped?

Richard is more than willing to support the villagers and offer everything but help.

He said solemnly: "Just follow your own pace. I just fought with this vicious monster and I am now in a weak state. I need to recover my magic points.

I have to save my strength for more terrifying enemies. I suspect there is more than one monster like this in the village.

Do you understand what I mean?"

"I understand, I understand." The village chief bent down and licked his lips: "Master Mage, you are doing this for our safety. We completely understand that you can just sit beside us and practice, and just watch us."

Several villagers holding shovels immediately dug a big hole, and the village chief placed the water element in the hole.

The water element stone is equivalent to the well in the Yasa world, but it is movable. With a little magic power to activate the water element stone, a large amount of clean water can be produced around the water element, which is quite convenient.

The village chief is a magical person.

He patted the water elemental stone, and soon, streams of clear water emerged from the bottom of the water elemental stone like a fountain.

The villagers picked up buckets, drew water bucket by bucket, and poured the water into the house.

"Quick! Everyone grab buckets and wet towels, we need to put out this fire immediately!"

"Here, everyone, come quickly, the elderly and children should not come to cause trouble, go home and hide, and be careful."

In this remote village without a fire department, fire is the order.

When the flames started, people from every household in the village ran out and worked together to put out the fire.

But the fire in the kid's house had not been put out yet, and Richard, who had been hiding outside the crowd and observing carefully, noticed the problem.

The concentration of the undead virus around has increased!

Someone wants to mutate!
who is it? !
“Hungry! Ah!!”

Richard's attention was immediately focused on an old lady who was fetching water.

Her skin was changing from normal skin color to light blue at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Ice mummy! The opposite type of fire mummy, the transformation requires sufficient water elements around and the person is cold. It is normal to be emotionally excited when fighting a fire. The clear water sprayed from the water element stone meets the last condition of the fat aunt's transformation.

Richard, who had been waiting for a long time, rushed into the crowd and covered the aunt's face with a wet towel.

"Don't move, don't come closer."

The aunt, who had not yet fully mutated, was startled. She quickly stretched out her hand and tried to push Richard away. Richard glared at her fiercely and said:

"I told you not to move, and that includes you, so you are not allowed to move either."

Out of respect for the caster, the aunt subconsciously slowed down her movements, so the mutation process on her body got stuck in the middle and quickly disappeared.

At this time, the crowd who had been frightened and dispersed breathed a sigh of relief and began to chatter and discuss.

"Oh my, why did Aunt Sima turn into a monster just now?"

"Oh my god, it's horrible. In the blink of an eye, my entire skin turned blue and was as smooth as fish skin."

"Fortunately, the Master Mage is here."

"Will the Master Mage kill Aunt Sima? No, Aunt Sima is a very kind person."

"No matter how good a person is, if Aunt Seema turns into a monster, she will be killed. Look at the fire at Chadlin's house.

Until now, the three members of the Chadlin family have not come out. They must have been killed by that black monster.

I am sure that if we do not kill Aunt Seema, she will turn into a monster and kill us, as the bards sing.”

Facing the villagers' discussions, Richard took the rag off the aunt's mouth and shouted:
"Don't make wild guesses and stay calm. The aunt is not a monster, she is just affected by the monster's magic. The real monster is still hiding nearby, and I haven't caught him yet. Don't worry about putting out the fire. As long as I am here, the monster can't hurt you.

Listen to my orders! Go on! Except for you, Auntie, sit next to me, don't get too close. "

"Oh oh oh! Okay." Although the aunt was not entirely clear about what was happening, she could vaguely realize that her best choice now was to be obedient.

She nodded repeatedly in fear and hid beside Richard, not daring to move.

When the villagers saw Richard come out to personally refute the rumors and put the aunt under custody, they also became bolder and continued to put out the fire according to Richard's instructions.

Soon, the fire in the house was completely suppressed.

When the two charred bodies were carried out of the house that had been partially turned into charcoal, all the villagers fell into silence and mourning.

Richard stood among the villagers and said loudly: "I am a friend of the powerful wizard in your forest. I am as powerful as him. There is a monster hiding in the village and has planted a curse on you. This curse will turn you into puppets of the monster and be at its mercy. I came to the village specifically to deal with the monster.

Don't worry, I'm here, I won't let you get hurt, but you must cooperate with me, now all of you take off your clothes and let me check your belly."

"Ah? Check the belly? Why?" The villagers were a little embarrassed for a moment. In their minds, the belly is a private part of the body that cannot be shown to others casually.

Fortunately, the village chief took the lead and stood up.

"Everyone has seen how the wizard saved Aunt Sima just now, what else do you have to doubt?

The Master will not harm us, please listen to him."

As he spoke, he took the lead and lifted up his clothes. With the village chief's demonstration, the other villagers no longer hesitated and followed suit by lifting up their clothes.

Among the villagers, there are special species that are difficult to transform like Irene's grandmother, there are also types that are extremely easy to transform, such as the powerful zombies who will transform as soon as they are threatened with death, and the gluttonous zombies who will transform when they are too full.

Richard patiently classified the villagers into categories one by one and told them all the taboos of each group.

“I won’t restrict your other freedoms, but you must not do the thing I tell you not to do, and then I can guarantee that you won’t transform.

I hope you can supervise and observe each other. If you find someone who deliberately wants to mutate, that person is likely to be an accomplice of the monster in secret. Be sure to catch him in advance, and I will deal with him personally. "

"Village chief, are these all the villagers in the village?
If there are other villagers, call them over for me to check immediately.

By the way, I see you are quite efficient in your work. Very good, I admire you very much.

As long as you do your job well. When I get rid of the monster, you can follow me and I will teach you magic."

"Really? That's great, teacher, I'll do whatever you tell me to do!" The village chief jumped three feet high with excitement, laughing so hard that his saliva was almost flowing out.

He wished he could tie up the monster with a tortoise shell bondage and bring it to the teacher right now, so that the teacher could get rid of the monster.

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With Richard's encouragement, the village chief burst out with 200% of his motivation.

It only took him five minutes to gather all the people in the village. Even the frail Irene and her disabled grandmother were carried by the village chief, one under each armpit, to the square in the center of the village.

Richard looked over all the villagers, recorded all possible types of undead that might appear, and helped the villagers clarify their respective transformation conditions.

He also deliberately divided the villagers into groups, and asked the villagers in the same group to live together and supervise each other.

If someone wants to deliberately do something that may cause themselves to mutate, there will be a big reward for the reporter and a heavy penalty for the person reported.

Now, Richard has minimized the possibility of the villagers mutating.

Unfortunately, even though Richard had already achieved this point, the trial was still not completed.

Richard couldn't help but close his eyes and think.

“If we can’t find the villagers who are about to mutate and control them, when the time comes, they will mutate and kill people everywhere.

The goal of the second wave of trials is to prevent all this from happening and save the village of Lions.

This is the subject of the test.

I have now found all the oddities of the villagers and have controlled them. In theory, they no longer have the chance to mutate.

Without the hint, I might be lost now.

According to the prompt, if you just guard, you won't be able to guard anything.

What I have to do is not just to find and control the villagers who may mutate, but to ensure that the village will not be destroyed in a short period of time.

That means I have to prevent the spread of the undead virus and resist the attacks of mutated beasts and tree spirits in the forest.

All three crises must be resolved.

The best way to prevent the spread of the undead virus is to shut down the source of everything - the magic generating device located in the Katoon Mage Tower.

But to fulfill this condition is equivalent to confronting Katoen directly. With my current strength, that is basically seeking death.

Then let’s build a moat in the village!

The reason why the wet handkerchief can prevent the undead virus from entering other people's bodies is because the water element has a strong ability to absorb and purify the undead virus. Although the moat cannot completely prevent the undead virus from entering the village, it can reduce the concentration of the virus entering the village to a level that is almost threatening."

So Richard called the lackey village chief over and gave him the task of leading the village to dig a moat. He took out a small bag of Golden Knife Music and asked the lackey village chief to use the Golden Knife Music as a reward for the villagers for digging the moat.

The village chief of this era obviously had never seen the Golden Sword Music, but the gold used to make the Golden Sword Music is a general equivalent that can be used in all ages.

So the village chief happily accepted the task and promised Richard that it could be completed within a day and no villagers would mutate.

Richard smiled and asked the village chief to get a batch of wet masks for the villagers to wear. In this way, even if the villagers turned into undead, the wet masks would not fall off, and the villagers would slowly change back as time passed.

But Richard knew that this was just psychological comfort. If he really let an undead run rampant in the village, the villagers would soon be killed.

Richard knew that he could deliberately induce some villagers to mutate in the village, and then kill them as monsters to easily gain experience points, but Richard chose not to do so.

One is that he still has some psychological burden from killing people, and the second is that he is afraid that too many villagers will die, which will affect his final evaluation.

He feels psychological burden when killing people, but not when killing monsters.

After dealing with the affairs of the village, Richard encouraged the village chief with a few words, and then resolutely went to the forest under the pretext of looking for monsters that did not exist.

Having spent so much time in the village, Richard's mind never stopped thinking about how to obtain first-level witchcraft.

And now he finally had a guess.

He couldn't wait to conduct experiments to verify his hypothesis!

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(End of this chapter)