Mage? Spell Engineer!

"Old Mekler, I'm here to discuss something with you today." The village chief touched the box uneasily: "This gold was given to you by your Rorschach."

The couple were only slightly surprised, and quickly replied: "It was given to you by Rorschach. Just take it. He received so much help from you back then."

"No, it's not for me personally!" The village chief picked up the gold coin: "What your son means is to use this money to help the children in the village study."

"No wonder, I told you why you suddenly have money to continue sponsoring." Merkle suddenly realized, but still did not cast too much eyes on the gold coins.

"Oh, let me do it, that's all." The village chief sighed: "You also know the situation this year. The older children have gone to the front line, and most of them have passed the age of going to school. The younger children Well, there are not many in the village these days, and there are public schools, so it doesn’t cost a lot of money.”

In other words, Rorschach gave too much back then, and it was impossible to spend it all.

The village chief expressed his thoughts: "There has been an unexpected situation recently. The food collection team from above is coming. They say they will leave some food for us, but it seems that they are just here to scrape the land. This year is a bumper harvest, but according to the official document If we pay the standard payment written above, we will starve to death!

"So, I'm thinking about whether I can use this money for operations, and use the money for food, and give the villagers as much as they can. Luo Xia is not here, so I will discuss with you to see if it can be used in this way?"

Old Mekler was still thinking about it, but his wife took the lead and said, "Yes, of course. Rorschach left this money to do good things for the village."

But the old Mekler muttered: "Since you have money, why don't you wait until there is a real shortage of food to buy it? What if you don't need it?"

"Because if you have food in your hands, you can eat enough, but gold can't fill your stomach. If it is true as the village chief said, this year's harvest will be confiscated by the empire, then in winter and spring, food prices will only skyrocket , it’s hard to feed the whole village even if you spend money to buy it.”

"Yes, that's the truth." The village chief froze in the middle of nodding, and his voice just now was clearly: "Rorschach?"

Rorschach appeared in the living room, startling the "village sage" Merkle, but Mrs. Merckle hurriedly ran forward and touched and hugged him, just to make sure he was his real son.

After confirming that it was not an hallucination, Mrs. Merkle shouted to the second floor: "Angel, Brother You is back!"

Rorschach didn't have time to reminisce about the past, so he said directly: "Who is that miller? Why haven't I heard of him before?"

His tone made old Merkel even more nervous. He was not like this before.

The village chief remained calm: "He is an outsider. Compared with mills owned by nobles or public mills, his mill basically does not charge money or pump grain, so people nearby love to look for him, and some even drag grain for dozens of miles. Just to save this money.

"After the villagers accepted him, this guy started to organize some kind of charity society. From my perspective, he was a missionary. And there were quite a few people joining him."

"Why not say it in the letter?"

"Because." When old Mekler was still hesitating, the village chief muttered with side eyes: "When I wrote the letter on my behalf, I even persuaded him to discuss it with you, but he just refused. Hey, Rorschach, you don't know yet. , the biggest financial sponsor of the charity in the village is your father! "

"Huh?" It was as magical as a fraudster taking away the anti-fraud sir's parents' pension. He did come back less often, but he didn't expect the old Merkel to make such a joke to him.

Rorschach almost laughed out of anger: "Why didn't you tell me? Do you also know that this is wrong? Then why do you still give money?"

The tone of his questions became higher and sharper each time. Angel's words interrupted Luo Xia's aggressiveness: "Brother, my parents don't believe that foreigner's lies! Don't you know why you want to sponsor him?"

What Angel said after coming downstairs was beyond his expectation: "Huh? Why?"

"You are not at home, and the second brother has gone out to serve as a soldier. Is there any strong young man at home? Outsiders know that our family is rich, and if dad doesn't pay, the outsider will instigate other people with ill intentions to bully our family. If something goes wrong by then, will it be too late to write to you?

"My parents don't want to tell you in this letter that our family has been robbed several times. If it hadn't been for the village chief's uncle's shotgun, I don't know what terrible things would have happened."

The village chief also nodded slowly.

"Why not hire servants to protect you?"

"Where can I hire them?" the village chief added: "The young ones have all gone to the battlefield, and the Adventurer's Guild is about to close down. The old ones are all working well for their respective employers. No matter how rich the Mekler family is, Ming On the surface, he is just a commoner. Who would want to switch jobs from an Earl and Viscount's house? Even if your parents are willing to pay, they can't get through. "

But Rorschach did not accept it: "I do have my own problems. I only used money to support you and did not pay attention in time. But I will never agree with your fallacy.

"It shouldn't be hidden from me, from the people who are most capable of solving the problem. And doesn't funding foreigners' cults increase their power so that they can harm more people?"

Rorschach was also worried that problems would arise in his own name after bringing the family to Byrne. Now it seems that his worries were misdirected: Old Mekler, you really don’t have any of my tiger skin. Bullshit! The theoretical relatives of the Archmage were actually reduced to being threatened by a low-ranking missionary, and they obediently surrendered.

Alas, this can be taken to Bain with peace of mind. Rorschach made up his mind: "Okay, no more right or wrong. Everyone in the house will follow me to Bain, where it is safe and wealthy, and I can take care of them at any time."

The last time Rorschach came back, he was still a gentle boy, but now he showed an unquestionable demeanor, although he was the second youngest in age.

"I can't leave." Old Merkler was finally able to speak properly: "What I'm afraid of is that you will take us away, leave this land, and leave our home. And now that we have moved away, what about Franz? Can he still find us, and can we find him?"

"Don't worry about this." Rorschach took out the letter from home that his younger brother would never be able to send under normal circumstances: "I have found Franz. He is still in the army, but he is attending the military academy and is very safe.

"When I returned to the village, the miller was inciting the villagers, and staying any longer would only increase the danger. "

The empire itself does not have a strong church. As a substitute, the mages stationed in the town were also recruited and mobilized. Many places in the empire, especially the countryside and small towns, fell into an undefended situation at the mystical level.

As the saying goes, "xx field, if you don't take the initiative to fight for it, it will be occupied by the enemy." The Mother Goddess Cult, which had disappeared for a time, revived again, and the mages who were originally responsible for extinguishing the fire joined the army. Judging from the Monkado Fortress incident, the process of the Mother Goddess' awakening is still advancing, and the cult and its similar existence will only continue to develop with the pace of its invasion.

Especially in areas where death, forced to pay the price and endure pain due to war. Even in this peaceful village, there are people who come to infiltrate.