Encyclopedia of Feanor Continent

The next day, Evandel woke up before dawn, but lay in Palos' warm embrace without moving. He wanted to enjoy this rare peace, but he heard that there were people who woke up earlier than him. Through Natalie's eyes, he saw that the little priest Cecil had gone to a distant spring to fetch clean water, boiled the medicine for the old priest, and then started chopping firewood to get ready for the day. After burning firewood, I went to wake up the orphans who were still asleep.

This small church full of orphans obviously cannot survive on the meager donations from the sparse townspeople, so Cecil is not like ordinary pastors who only need to pray daily and be in charge of the church, although He himself is only a thin boy, but he is the only labor force in this church. After the children wake up, they will do some things within their ability, such as tidying up the room, grazing livestock, tending the crops, lighting the fire and cooking. The old priest was too sick to get out of bed, and they could only survive on their own in this barren place.

It’s not just Palos who wants to help them, Evandel also wants to do what he can, but of course he, who has always hated children, can’t adopt these orphans. To solve the “curse” here so that they can be self-reliant is what he can give. the greatest kindness.

After lazily finishing breakfast, Avondel went to inspect the experimental equipment left in the corner of the prayer hall yesterday, and Palos followed.

Little Amy was rubbing rope with some long grass stalks in the prayer hall with a few children. When passing by the altar, the Templar wiped it with a somewhat unnatural expression, hoping that he did not leave any strange marks Come, look up and see Evandel looking at him with a narrow smile.

Palos coughed unnaturally: "...Is there a conclusion to that curse?"

"This is not a curse at all." Evandel shook the suspension in the glass bottle and poured it into the vegetable field outside the window. Pastor Cecil who happened to be passing by looked at him in surprise. Evandel He waved to him and said, "It's just right, come and listen too."

Cecil walked into the prayer hall, acting as if he didn't hear or see anything last night, but his eyes still avoided Evandel and Palos intentionally or unintentionally.

"The abnormality here began to appear about ten years ago." Evandel said, "You may remember that there was a big earthquake in that year. In addition to the big crack in the ground, there are still There are also cracks in many places, and this place is not far from the sea, probably at that time a certain crack in the ground caused seawater to pour in and pollute the groundwater here, so the well water became salty and bitter, and the land slowly It has become a saline-alkali land. This has nothing to do with the curse, and there is no way to reverse it. Tell the townspeople to replant some crops adapted to the saline-alkali land in the future, and just don’t let the livestock drink well water."

Amy and the children listened carefully, and then looked at Evandel with reverence: "Are you a scholar?"

Evandel smiled and said, "No, I'm a mage."

Cecil, who had been silent all this time, finally looked up at Avondel in surprise. The children looked at each other, and a little boy wrinkled his nose in disbelief and said, "This must not be true, you lied! The priest said, Mages are bad guys, especially young ones, but you are not a bad guy."

Evandel narrowed his eyes and smiled: "...how do you know I'm not?"

Palos hurriedly stopped the bad-hearted mage from threatening them: "Hey, not all mages are bad, just like not all priests are good, you have to learn to distinguish for yourself. Evandel, since the issue of the curse has been clarified , we should continue on our way.”

"Wait a minute! You can't go!" Amy stood up suddenly, ran to the door and closed it, leaning on the door and looking at them with bright eyes.

"What are you doing?" Evandel crossed his arms and looked at the little girl, "You heard that I am a mage, do you want to catch me for Tianxingdao?"

Cecil hurried over to pull Amy: "Don't mess around, come here!"

Amy said loudly while resisting Cecil's pull: "I know you are all good people, even mages are good mages, Cecil, you said that mages are very powerful, we can ask them to help us ah!"

Cecil shook his head and said, "Enough, no one can help us, we can only rely on ourselves."

"We can beg them! Although, although we have nothing to repay, we can earnestly pray for them every day. We cannot deal with the 'Baron' on our own!"

"What's going on?" Palos asked.

Amy hurriedly said before Cecil stopped her: "'The Baron' is a robber nearby. He often bullies us, robs us, and kills my brother! You look very powerful, can you help us? ! Please!"

"A robber?" Evandel turned his head and saw that Palos was looking at him expectantly, and shrugged, "You decide."

Palos knew that the mage agreed: "Tell us more first."

Cecil hesitated for a moment before saying: "...the bandit leader claims to be a 'baron', but he hasn't done anything worthy of his status except for occupying the outpost on the hill and robbing passers-by."

"Yes, they raped and plundered, and did all sorts of crimes!" The children began to accuse the robbers of their evil deeds one after another, Cecil told them to be quiet, and continued: "The outpost two kilometers to the north was established during the previous war. , there are arrow towers and drawbridges, it is difficult to attack by force, there are more than 20 people under the 'Baron', maybe more, they are all vicious outlaws, even if you seem to be very strong, you must risk your life to clear such a group of gangsters Danger."

Evandel said: "Why does it sound like a tone of telling us not to meddle in our own business?"

Cecil said sincerely: "I don't have anything decent to repay you, so there is no reason for you to take such a risk. Even if we are often robbed by them, we will not be unable to survive, but if you go, you may die." was killed."

Amy said with tears: "But they still bully you!"

"It's all trivial, and it doesn't matter." Cecil shook his head, "But if these innocent travelers die for things that have nothing to do with them, that would be our sin."

Palos said angrily: "The garrison, the Knights Templar, and the army of the kingdom, anyone is fine. Isn't there anyone to take care of these bandits who occupy the mountain as king?"

Cecil said: "You probably don't know that this is the border of two countries. Both sides claim that this area is under their own jurisdiction, but in fact no one country really manages it. As for the Templars...they only care about the people here. No wild mages, no bandits."

"They don't care about me," Palos said. "Tell me where the outpost is?"

As soon as the words fell, a loud voice like a broken gong suddenly came from the door: "Cecile, our honorable pastor, where is he?"

The children suddenly huddled together, Cecil's face turned pale, and Amy gritted her teeth and said, "It's them... the baron's men with buck teeth."

"Who is it!" Phils' dissatisfied voice came from upstairs. Phils, who was still catching up on his sleep after playing outside until too late last night, was woken up, and fell directly from the window on the second floor with a stomach full of anger. , "Are you a guy with a face that looks like you have been kicked by a donkey, are you here to find fault? I just happen to have an itchy hand!"

"Bucktooth" didn't take the 1.6-meter tall elf seriously. He walked into the house with three robbers with tattoos swaggeringly, and stared at Evandel with mischievous eyes: "This fat sheep Very fat, remember what the boss told you last time, whenever you see a rich passer-by, you should report to us, and you forgot to go into the gutter after you finished talking?"

Cecil bit his lower lip and said, "I'm a servant of God, and I won't collude with you."

"Oh, what a breath, why did you suddenly become holy now?" Amidst the screams of the children, Bucktooth grabbed Cecil's hair and was about to drag the young pastor outside, "You You ungrateful bitch, if I hadn't raised some donations for your poor church, your little bastards would have starved to death! Today I will be well..."

"Stop!" Palos couldn't tolerate this robber bullying a priest in front of him, he stepped forward and grabbed the hand of "Baoya" and shook him away, "Baoya" stepped back a few steps and sat on the ground, Angrily pulled out the small ax at his waist: "It's reversed! Give it to me!"

Palos just woke up, neither wearing armor nor carrying a weapon on his body, which largely gave the unsuspecting robbers confidence, but even if Palos was unarmed, they could not deal with him. He was about to grab the ax with his bare hands. At that moment, there was only a sound of strings, the movement of "Baoya" paused, and an arrow suddenly appeared on his neck.

On the stairs, Alkai, who didn't know when he came down, raised his face, revealing a pair of red eyes under the hood. He slowly drew another arrow from his quiver and put it on the bow.

Firth, who was ignored, quietly approached a robber at the door, and before the other party had time to react, he stabbed a dagger into his kidney. He smiled evilly and said, "Kids, learn hard!" What to do when you encounter bad people."

Amy screamed, and Cecil covered her eyes, half-shoved the panic-stricken children into the kitchen, and told them to stay put, then he closed the doors and went back pale. The prayer hall, this sacred place was already covered in blood. Three of the four robbers died. Evandel looked at the last robber who was seriously injured and was struggling to climb out, and asked calmly, "Are you' The Baron's men?"

The robber was pierced through the lung by Phils' dagger, and he was speechless. From his terrified eyes and reaction, Evandel already knew the answer. He patted Palos on the shoulder: "Put on your armor, we will meet the 'Baron'."