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Because the tentacles are far beyond ordinary people's perception of power, because everyone knows that the tentacles are not just tree-like tentacles, and there are countless tentacles in the farther place that blocked the army of demons, because the tentacles hope that the village has become a place on the earth. The safest place.

However, the apparently activated tentacles now indicate that, perhaps, the rumors are true? !

Get out of the nobles, Eldi looked at another entrance and exit in the hall - people who come in go through the main entrance, Eldi is the master, and there is a back door behind the side of the chair.Leon is standing there now.

"So, why don't you come out?" Letting the tentacles bounce around, there is one more person than the city lord, which is more scary.

"... I promised to give you a city in three years, but I didn't do it." Leon huddled at the door and refused to come out.

"The appearance of the devil is force majeure, and you have not lost the bet. In fact, with your current appearance, I can understand that you know that we cannot fulfill our agreement, so you use the devil as a shield to break the bet?"

"of course not!"

"Then sit back." Eldi stood up, walked to Leon, knelt down on one knee, touched his chest with one hand, and stretched out his hand to Leon, "I have been waiting for you for a long time, I lord of the

Leon, who feels like a princess rather than a lord: "..."

Although a little obedient, Leon still handed his hand to Eldi. Eldi held his fingertips, lowered his head slightly, rubbed his forehead, and then he stood up and took Leon to the city owner. in front of the chair, watching him sit down.Leon shook the chair twice. Although it represented the highest power in Hope City, it was just an ordinary but comfortable chair.He saw Eldy not sitting down and gave him a questioning look.

After receiving this look, Eldy sat down with a smile.

There are still many things to do today, the nobles must leave, and there are still many people in the city who hope to be able to leave.When they came, they came as refugees. The church had agreed before sending them here that they would not be charged any fees. The condition is that they can work here with peace of mind.

In fact, many people live more comfortably here than in their hometown. There are no nobles in Hope City, and the officials are not superior. People in the church are very kind, and children can receive free education.

But there are some people who feel that they should go after the disaster. After a few years, they seem to have forgotten how to live in the past, and there is a thought in their minds that "my hometown is better than here".Hope City is just a safe haven for them, not a home.

They recommended several older and prestigious old people to send a joint request. The old people saw that Erdi took the roster, but handed it to another strange young man. Although they were a little puzzled, they finally It was because of fear that he didn't speak out.

"Leave if you want, no one is stopping you." Leon flipped through two pages of the roster. The roster was made of white paper with crooked characters on it. The person who wrote it should have just learned it not long ago. Leon looked at the correctness of the words Erdi smiled, this is Erdi's credit.It was his persistence that allowed these people to have the courage to put forward their appeals to the higher levels and write their names with a pen.

"We...we hope to use the portal."

"No problem." Leon nodded again. The people below just smiled, and he continued, "But, about this, you have to tell the church? It's useless to ask us."

"We... also hope to ask the city lord to report to the church..." Several old people bent over, blushing, but still glanced at Eldi with pitiful and pleading eyes.

"This is fine too." Leon was still so easy-going for the third time, "How about this? After we ask the church, we will post the number of people who use the portal, the personnel conditions and the price on the bulletin board. You pay for it yourself."

"..." The old people looked at each other, and now their faces were not red, but slightly purple.They gave Eldy pitiful looks again, and Eldy let out a sigh.

Leon urged: "Is there anything else? There are still many people waiting behind."

"Dear lord, great city lord, cough cough cough!" The old man didn't know who Leon was. Although Eldi kept saying that he was only acting city lord, they didn't understand the difference between acting city lord and city lord at all, " Thank you for defeating the evil demons, bah!" He spat on the ground, "I know it's wrong to spit, but those demons... ahem!"

The old man shivered, he must have choked on the cough this time.

"Thank you for making it possible for us to go home while we are alive. I beg you to show mercy so that we can die in our own homes, please..."

"Please." "Have mercy." "We just want to go home."

Leon looked at them. He sat on the chair and tilted his body to get as close to Eldi as possible: "Have you done too many good things?" As soon as the external pressure of the disaster disappeared, his own people rushed to take advantage of it.And looking at it like this, I really feel that being weak and pitiful can benefit.

"I just continue to follow your path." Eldy said, but felt that the words might be ambiguous, "I have never shown sympathy regardless of the occasion, and I have never ignored right or wrong and only looked at strengths and weaknesses. I don't I know how these people came to have the idea that they can take advantage of us by virtue of their weakness."

Although they didn't raise their voices particularly high, they didn't lower their voices either. The surrounding guards and the old people below could all hear them clearly.

Leon sat upright again and looked at the people below: "So, do you have any comments?"

"No." Most of the old people shook their heads, but there were always people who had different ideas from others.

"We just don't want to stay in this ghost place! Didn't you say why you are fighting, fighting for us?! Then why can't you even satisfy us with this request?!"

"Yes, but I can't give it to you for free. Get out." Leon shook his hand at them.The knights who were guards at the side came up immediately, they were holding the long wooden barn in their hands, and the two of them placed the barn horizontally at the same time, with a clang, the heads of the barn crossed together, and they just laid the barn sideways like this Push forward.

Except for the one who was too self-righteous and yelled just now, who was hung on the wooden barn and pushed out the door, and was thrown out again.

——The original city hall, like other buildings, was destroyed by the distortion of the earth. Now their office is a big tent, but it has everything that should be there.During the evil disaster, when everyone in the city is busy, there are always spectators outside the city hall, let alone now when the evil disaster has passed?Even the cold can't stop the enthusiasm of everyone watching.

After this group of old people, there was a more serious case where a husband killed his wife and son. This man firmly believed that his son was possessed by a demon and he must be "purified", otherwise the demon would return to the earth.His wife was killed to protect his son, and when the neighbors heard the noise and came running, the next child had already been strangled to death by his father himself.

"Why does such an obvious case need..."

"Boom!" "Kang kuang!" "Help!" "These fuckers should go to hell!"

"What's going on outside?" Leon asked.

A knight went out and came back soon: "Some people gathered outside and threw dung balls and mud at the old people."

Leon: "..."

Eldy: "..."

Both of them couldn't help laughing. There were some... According to the words of the people, "greedy idiots", but there are always wise and conscientious people, such as those who are now gathering to fight against idiots.

Two days later, the leading knight who came to pick him up was actually Morifeo.

The war with demons is not without benefits, at least the technology of the portal has developed rapidly in the past few years.The cost is reduced, the duration is longer, and it is more stable.But this kind of development is backed by the sense of urgency that if you don't develop, you will perish. In the middle of the catastrophe, the connection between cities can only rely on the teleportation array.But the devil's infiltration of the teleportation array made the time before the teleportation array opened like a dice shake.

——Xiaopo Village got a big one in the first teleportation formation.

This kind of problem completely disappeared in the later stage of the disaster, and even the little devils that infiltrated it became less and less, and they still lacked arms and legs.

"I knew you were awake, so I specifically asked to come back." Morifio gave Leon a hug, "Welcome back, my little... now we are friends." They are comrades who have never fought side by side, The closer you get to the demon, the more you fight, the more you understand what Leon has done.

The time for reminiscing about the past was very short, and there was a group of noisy nobles outside, everyone was busy, but unexpectedly, when it was close to noon, Morifio came back again.

"Bring me to lunch."

"of course."

At the dining table, Morifio, who was full of food and drink, let out a long breath: "I came back to life... Do you know? What I miss the most on the front line is the food at home. I always remember that I will come back to eat, so I just survived."

Erdi heard the meaning of his words, and was a little surprised: "Teacher, you want to come back?"

"Of course I want to come back!" The half-elf waggled its ears twice. "This is the kingdom of God. Those who leave will regret it. They think their hometown will welcome a group of runaway cowards?"

Eight years ago, they were high-ranking nobles, and they thought that they could still hold the same power and status before the disaster when they went back eight years after abandoning everything and leaving?The reputation of their ancestors spoiled them.

Morifio looked at Eldi again, and Eldi looked back at him with a "?"

"The new head of the Bonova family is now the head of Taipuilu. The Church of the God of Nature did give them a little convenience, but they did all of this entirely on their own strength..."

Tepuyru City is a border city of the Cairns Empire, and it is also a fortress. The Bonova family was indeed asked to take over the management of the city council of Dillier back then.But he was directly rejected by the old man of Bonova's family, and within three days, he left Diller City with his family in a hurry.After several twists and turns, he got in touch with the Earl of the Cairns Empire and the original Bonova family, and secretly left the Muller Federation.

Almost at the same time he left the Muller Federation, Diller City fell.After that, there were various major actions of the major churches. The people did not know what happened, but the upper echelons of various countries knew it.The Mueller Federation chose to let the church inspect, but occasionally the local city hall would cause some trouble to the church, which is their old habit of controlling theocracy.The Cairns Empire chose to purge its armaments, recruit more soldiers, purchase a large amount of food, and build greenhouses in major cities.

——The Cairns Empire is the strongest empire, and the Mueller Federation has always been a third-rate country despite its strong economic strength. This is for a reason.

Afterwards, the evil disaster broke out completely, causing all kinds of chaos. The original nobles of Taipuilu ran to death, and some of them ran to Xiaopo Village.As a family of foreign aristocrats, the Bonois family first enlisted to join the local Temporary Knights, accumulated military exploits and was promoted, and finally became the city lords during the war, and after the disaster, they were officially canonized by the emperor of the empire.

Morifio did not erase the role of the church, nor did he exaggerate, he just said it indifferently.

Eldi, who was not interested in the Bonova family, still showed a gratified smile at this time, and his face, which looked like an arrogant and bad nobleman, softened and warmed up: "The Bonova family has nothing to do with me. .”

Morifio and Leon raised their eyebrows together, forget it, let Eldy go on like this "it doesn't matter".

"By the way, there is one more thing. Are you willing to build a long-term teleportation array?"

"Is this a good thing that every city desires?" Eldy glanced at Morifio, feeling that their teacher is becoming more and more dishonest.How can such an important thing be remembered in such a sudden way?Instead, he put the Bonova family's... that kind of insignificant little things first.Well, it's a trivial matter...

"No, not every city is eager for a good thing." Morifio spread his hands helplessly, "Some cities think that this is the infiltration of theocracy, just like our paper."

"What happened to the paper?" What did Morifeo mean in his words that the promotion of paper was not going well?This is really a surprise, "I thought that the promotion of paper would only encounter accidents where someone snatches the formula."

"The situation is more complicated. There are five types of people who refuse to use blank paper. A group of people are the makers of parchment paper. They are purely out of profit, and there is nothing to explain." Morifio said with fingers, "A group of people are Guys like the Muller Federal Conservatives reject anything that puts the gods in front of people. The last group of people are certain fanatics who pursue primitiveness, not the very radical kind, but against industrial civilization and most Emerging things, including paper. The fourth type is people who think paper is noble and refuse to write on cheap plants. The last type is people who follow the trend of others and think that white paper is paper for inferior people. Worse Interestingly, all five of these people have high social status."

"I can understand the other four kinds of people. But paper...isn't it promoted by God?"

When one person says "I like something" to another person.It is indeed very likely that others will hear it due to various circumstances, but they will not listen to "I know you didn't mean it, and you definitely don't like it".But gods...Gods are condescending. They express their preferences by looking down, but there are still people who will make decisions on behalf of gods after hearing the words and deeds of gods?

"I was more surprised than you when I first found out about such people." Morifio looked at Leon, he understood what was in his eyes, "But there are indeed such people in this world and they Believe that you are the most devout believer of the gods, not the church."

"God will answer them?"

"Of course not. But these people think that the gods are not living and autonomous creatures, but a kind of consciousness, a kind of belief or character."

"...I understand." This is an abstraction of gods. In his common sense, gods are also like this, but this world is different from the earth. The earth is a scientific... and later, it is not a very scientific world.But here is a complete metaphysics world, "But isn't this situation already close to a cult?"

"No, they have abided by the creed for generations. Under normal circumstances, they are harder to be bewitched by cults than fanatics. And they are often respected and emulated by local people because of their high moral standards."

I seem to have heard of this kind of thing, but it's just heard. What kind of religion on earth is it, the impression in Leon's mind is already too vague.

"Actually, I'm also very curious about these things." Morifio moved twice and found a more comfortable position on the chair, "So I went to check the history of paper, and found out that you are not the first indivual."

Morifio and Leon: "??"

"It is not the first person to invent better paper. Although it is not as good as the paper you invented, there are always various improvements. Although many people intend to completely erase these pasts from history, but always There will be bits and pieces handed down."

Morifeo took out a box from his backpack and handed it to Leon and Eldy, where there were all kinds of non-parchment paper.Most of them are some kind of bark or grass directly peeled off and treated as paper, and there are still some obvious traces of plant veins on it, which is incomparable with smooth white paper.

It can also be seen from these papers that people in this world have a fixed thinking pattern, thinking that paper is a kind of skin that has been peeled off (plant or animal), or leaves that have been picked off, and can only be written after being laid flat Word.

Leon looked at it: "There is a reason why these papers have not been compared with parchment." Some are very brittle, some are too soft, and some veins are too obvious.

"In addition to those problems that resist whenever a new paper comes out, now our paper has the same problems."

"Why do you say that?" Eldy also didn't understand, "Our paper is very useful."

"Our paper is really easy to use and cheap. However, for the big users of paper, those mages and priests, our paper cannot be provided for the time being. Types of people account for the majority. The remaining people will also give up using blank paper because of the influence of those five types of people."

"So, what does church mean now?"

Leon could understand that not long after the writing in this world appeared, the parchment appeared, and it has been developed to the present, which is considered by many people to have reached the end of perfection.Although these parchments had many problems in Leon's view, before the white paper appeared, no one really thought those problems were problems.

In other words, if you want better writing conditions, you should buy better parchment paper. Those so-called "parchment" paper are actually leather paper made from monster skin. This kind of paper has a fragrant smell and delicate tentacles. , there is no need for enchanting to have different magical properties just after being made, it is the best paper for making magic scrolls.

"It's not that the church has any ideas, it's that the church is worried about what you think. Things are good things, and they haven't been spread for various reasons. You have to be patient. The alchemists of our church did the first thing after the disaster. The first thing is to study how to integrate some magical plants into the papermaking technique of white paper, I believe this kind of scroll paper will be better than Warcraft skin paper."

"No, the white paper did not spread because there was no printing."

"what?"

"Because knowledge is still in the hands of very few people." His common sense knows that when papermaking first spread to the West, Western churches still used parchments and parchment books to write and record, and knowledge was still the private property of the church. , The letters between the nobles are full of typos.However, they don’t think that what they wrote is a typo, because other than the church, other people don’t even have fixed characters. Everyone spells them with letters. They think they spelled it correctly, so that there is no need for a password , Only if you recognize yourself can you understand what your own people wrote.

"This was my mistake, I should have taken out both things."

The current knowledge is expensive, and it must be expensive. Those researchers in the Xiaopo Village Research Institute, the mechanical technology they have come into contact with, is actually not real knowledge at all.Their understanding is very general, and many things are still in the state of knowing what will happen, but they don't know why it is like this.The real knowledge of this world is magic, and that is when they, the real commoners who came out of literacy schools, would never be able to touch it in their entire lives under normal circumstances.

"Although I don't know what printing is, I will come over next month, bring a group of people, and take away the next group of people."

"it is good."

This time when Morifio came, everyone in Xiaopo Village had also confirmed who could leave and who couldn't.

Those who can leave start to prepare, and those who cannot leave start working for long-term settlement even if they resent it.