The weapons I forge are absolutely flawless.

“Then thank you, Felix.” The craftsman seemed quite adept at handling such situations and immediately changed his tune.

“My name is Zakaya, and I’m in charge of this section.” He glanced at Vina and Listy behind Felix and then reminded them, “The construction here is dangerous. You can watch if you want, but please stay away and be careful.”

"Okay, I won't cause you any trouble," Felix readily agreed.

"Mr. Zakaya, you don't seem to be a local?"

Wiener stared at the chief craftsman, finding him quite unfamiliar.

“Yes, we came from another village.” Zakaya did not hide anything and said frankly, “Our previous village was attacked by monsters, so we had no choice but to move here.”

"We are very grateful to the mayor for taking us in, which saved us from becoming homeless, and for giving us this job building the city wall."

"Didn't you ask the lord for help before?" Vina asked curiously.

“Those guys are completely unreliable.” Zakaya’s face clearly showed more resentment. “You’ve heard about Count Taiwo’s treason, haven’t you?”

"Have heard a little bit."

Wiener had not only heard of it, but he had even witnessed Rogurd being buried underground.

“With the Taivo family scattered, our former territory is like a piece of fat meat without an owner. The lords are busy fighting with other nobles for territory, and they have no time to care about our lives!” Zakaya’s words were full of resentment.

Wiener hadn't expected this to be related to her again, and a hint of embarrassment flashed across her face. "Haven't you considered hiring mercenaries to protect the village?"

“After they collect the taxes, where will we find the spare money to hire mercenaries?” Zakaya smiled bitterly, his eyes full of helplessness. “If it weren’t for a small team from the St. Freya Knights passing by, it would have been a question whether we could have safely reached Lumiel Village.”

“I see.” Venere nodded thoughtfully.

"Uncle Zakaya, when will this city wall be finished?"

Felix watched the craftsmen busily piling up bricks and stones, feeling somewhat curious.

Zakaya estimated that "it will take about five days to completely close off the area."

Chapter 470: Unable to Give Up

The group bid farewell to Zakaya and continued on their way.

After confirming that no one was around, Lisette stretched out her palm and gently touched the city wall.

The bricks and stones exuded a hint of coldness.

Listy closed her eyes and chanted the incantation of "Mystic Vision." When she opened her eyes again, her pupils shimmered with a faint light, revealing mysterious patterns.

Under the gaze of these eyes, every inch of the city wall's bricks and stones became clearly visible, as if they could perceive the essence of all things.

However, a few seconds later, she dispelled the spell and shook her head at the two people beside her.

“There’s nothing wrong with the walls,” Listy said.

It was neither bound with any suspicious spells nor was it made with any shortcuts; it was simply used to defend against monsters.

"That eliminates another possibility."

Wiener crossed out his note.

He is drawing a timeline of Lumiel Village based on the information Lisette has gathered, and recording the various conjectures that arise from it.

"Vina, this area looks familiar!"

Felix suddenly pointed to a spot not far away and shouted.

Before the two could react, he ran over first, then jumped up and down, calling out to them, "Here, here!"

“This is…” Viner closed her notebook and followed, a nostalgic expression on her face.

"You look familiar to me too?" Lisette asked.

“I’m not familiar with Lumiel Village?” Viner countered. “But it’s true that I’m most familiar with this place.”

He spread his arms and pointed to one side, "Extending all the way from here to outside the city wall is where my old blacksmith shop was."

Unfortunately, it was demolished as an illegal building.

“That is indeed a place worth remembering,” Listy echoed softly.

But when the routine check-up began, her expression changed drastically, as if she had seen something unbelievable.

"Are you sure this is where you used to live?" Lisette asked eagerly, her tone tinged with surprise and doubt.

"Can't be wrong."

Although the blacksmith shop is gone, the surrounding scenery is all too familiar to Vina.

"The flow of time here is chaotic and extremely unstable... How do you manage to live in such an environment?"

Lisette reached out and touched Vina's forehead, as if searching for some clue.

"That can't be right!" Viner clearly hadn't expected this outcome. "Could it be that things only changed after I left?"

“I don’t know,” Listy shook her head, her expression serious, “but I’m sure it wasn’t the work of the demons lurking in Lumiel Village.”

She raised her hand and waved, and a blue fluorescent light appeared on the ground, extending all the way to the outside of the city wall, forming a large circle.

"Within this area, both time acceleration and time deceleration occurred simultaneously. One second it was accelerating, and the next second it immediately decelerated."

“It’s impossible for a man-made spell to produce this kind of situation. Even within a barrier, it would be extremely discordant.”

Glancing at the circle on the ground, Viner's last shred of hope vanished; it was indeed the site of the blacksmith's shop.

Lisette marked the area as a warning, but Felix stepped right in without hesitation.

He stepped forward, drew his sword, and unleashed a silver sword aura from bottom to top.

The originally solid crescent-shaped sword energy began to deform as soon as it was unleashed.

In this space where the flow of time is unstable, it collapsed completely after flying less than a meter.

“Something is definitely not right,” Felix said, his brow furrowed.

"You knew something was wrong, yet you still dared to go in?"

Vena yanked Felix out of the circle, then took out the Flame Blade Gun and unleashed a volley of bullets forward.

"Snapped!"

Of the eleven magic bullets fired, only three managed to remain on the wall, essentially relying on pure luck.

"Is there anything that's bothering you?" Viner turned to look at Felix.

“No,” Felix shook his head first, then added, “but when I was in the circle, my magic power was a little disordered.”

"Is it just a magic element disorder?"

Lisette looked around thoughtfully, then her gaze fell on a little squirrel that was busy collecting food.

With a gentle wave of her hand, all the pine cones in the thicket were drawn by an invisible force and fell at her feet.

The little squirrel had never seen such a scene before, and even the pine nuts it was tightly holding slipped from its hand and fell to the ground.

"How about I help you walk around and you can have all of these?" Lisette suggested.

The squirrel seemed to understand her words and nodded repeatedly.

Then, at an extremely fast speed, he ran a lap around the circle that Lisette had drawn.

"Squeak-"

Having completed its task, the little squirrel eagerly asked Lisette for its reward.

"No rush, I'll give it to you."

Lisette cast another spell on the squirrel, and after checking it, she let it go.

"It should only be effective on creatures with a certain level of magic concentration," she stated her judgment.

To be more specific, it refers to Emblem Envoys and Monsters.

This also explains why the workers did not find anything unusual when they were building this section of the wall.

Wiener jotted this down in his notebook, then seemed to remember something: "That cabin—"

“These two situations are completely opposite,” Listy immediately guessed what Venere wanted to ask. “Both involve abnormal time flow, but one is disordered and chaotic, while the other is orderly and stable.”

"If we want to break the barrier, these two points will be the weakest points."

"Let's use this as a last resort," Viner thought to himself.

If we cannot find the demon behind the scenes, simply destroying the barrier will only alert the enemy.

As long as they leave Lumiel Village, that demon can return at any time.

“Since this barrier won’t prevent people from coming or going, why don’t we just evacuate all the villagers?” Felix suddenly suggested.

He felt that the best way to deal with these people who hid their identities was to ignore them.

If you can't afford to offend them, can't you at least avoid them?

“Evacuation is not a problem, the key question is where to evacuate.” This was a question that Wiener had already considered.

“Lumiel Village is already the only village in the vicinity. If we retreat any further, we can only move into the city. No city lord has the courage to take in nearly a thousand people at once.”

Each caravan had its own route to leave, and Sargozi and the blacksmiths in the workshop, as skilled professionals, were highly sought after wherever they went.

However, the largest group of ordinary villagers, once they have nowhere to go, will become refugees.

With monsters ravaging the outside world, becoming a refugee at this time would inevitably lead to dire consequences.

“If that demon is mixed in with the villagers and moves to a nearby city, it will only put more people in danger,” Listy added.

Unlike Vena, she didn't have any special feelings for the village of Lumiel.

Therefore, when faced with a question, there will be no hesitation.

"Just focus on how to evacuate the villagers to a safe location while fighting the demons."

"I will not give up on Lumiel Village."

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Chapter 471 The Changes in the Small Village

Since Wiener had already made up his mind, the other two naturally did not object.

They simply quickened their pace, hoping to find that demon as soon as possible.

"What impact would it have if we remained in a region of abnormal time flow?"

Felix, who was walking ahead, suddenly asked a question.

“Uh…” Lisette was speechless for a moment.

She has been deliberately avoiding this question, because she doesn't want to worry Wiener.

Whether you consider duration or time multiplier, her experience in the House of Time far surpasses that of the villagers of Lumiel Village.

Viner knew what she was worried about, and pretended to be relaxed, saying, "If the time in this area is disordered, and it didn't appear only after that demon came to Lumiel Village, then I don't know how long I've been inside. Tell me, I'll be prepared."

“Well then I’ll say it,” Listy hesitated for a moment, “If it’s just a short stay, it won’t have much of an impact except for being more prone to fatigue. But if you stay too long, it will not only accelerate the aging process, but also easily lead to dependence.”

Dependence is easy to understand. When the body gets used to a higher flow rate environment, it will feel like all its actions are in slow motion when it returns to the normal range, and even the speed of thinking will be affected.

After she came out of the House of Time, it took her a full two weeks to recover from that state.

“Whatever the actual time has passed, it’s fair,” Felix said, expressing his understanding.

"That's not how it works."

Listy used an analogy that Felix could understand: "For example, if you normally eat three meals a day, eating one more or one less meal won't make much of a difference. But you can't eat nine meals on the first day and then skip meals for the next two days, as that will put an extra burden on your body."

The principle behind time acceleration is the same: once it exceeds the regulatory capacity, the loss of life force will also increase.

“But I can eat nine meals a day,” Felix added.

"After you've gotten used to the weapons that Wiener made for you, how will you be able to get used to the weapons made by the apprentices?"

Lisette then used a different metaphor.

"Ugh... Absolutely not."

This finally got Felix to admit his mistake.