Chapter 26: I’m in a lot of trouble, too.

Chapter 26: I’m distressed too
Half an hour.

In just half an hour, Heine had witnessed the reddish-brown soil of the haunted farm turn into an earthy yellow color.

With just the mild holy light spreading out, the fertile fields turned into withered and lumpy cracked earth that was warm to step on.

He also gained a deeper understanding of the hegemony of holy light.

Mild is still so, wait for the three storage wells of holy light to be released ……

No wonder this place turned into the “Scorching Valley”.

The only good news is that those soldiers who have been victimized by the spells and necromancy have all woken up.

They came out from the mines or other places, and there were close to twenty of them left, the leader of which was the one who kissed the air before.

He seemed to have retained some of his memories from when he was under the spell, and came to Heine of his own accord with an embarrassed expression.

“Is …… it Your Excellency who saved us?”

Heine nodded, “Yes, I am Heine, the Lord’s spell advisor. I’m sorry, I was going to leave with you guys, but my carriage broke down halfway, so I came late.”

The soldier heard the derision in his tone and was obviously quite critical of Arthur.

But he didn’t dare to say more, and could only accompany him with a smile.

“No, no, no, it’s not late at all, thanks to you, our brethren aren’t all handed over here, and Lord Arthur.”

“What is your name?”

“Jerome Bender, my lord.”

Jalen stood at attention and saluted, “I am the captain of this operation and a second class warrior.”

“Greetings, Jalen.”

Heine almost said ugh nice out of habit, but he remembered that he was now an aborigine and held his tongue.

However the three skeletons behind him didn’t make any comment on the name either.

It looked like in their time Zhou Dong also became the past, or simply a parallel world, there was no such person.

Jielen and the others had come with a total of twenty-four people, five were dead, and the rest all carried injuries.

This group of people’s fighting strength was fair, basically not losing against the blood servants transformed by serfs.

Coupled with the warrior’s resilience and resistance to beatings, as well as the purification of the residual energy in their bodies by the spreading holy light, most of them retained their full mobility.

Without the need for Heine’s command, they carried the bodies of their companions and the officer Arthur onto the vehicle.

Heine’s carriage followed them and together they set off on their return journey.

Jianglu and the three skeletons shared a carriage, and the atmosphere was quiet and very eerie.

Mr. Sa: “Mr. Xia, why is she always staring at you?”

“Maybe because my red turban is more handsome.”

Catch the Goat: “Handsome my ass, you’re like a landmine thief.”

Mr. Xia: “Ah yes, yes, yes, you have faith blessing now, whatever you say is right.”

Mr. Sa: “Look at your face that you can give up anything for dps.”

Catch the Goat: “You guys shouldn’t be too superstitious about this ‘all attacks within three seconds must be bludgeoned’ buff, this isn’t a game, it’s reality, the effects aren’t the same.”

Teacher Xia: “It’s indeed different, I clearly saw Heine’s electric shock staff bursting its pipes, this buff is much more fierce than in the game. By the way, is there any consumption?”

Catch the Goat thought for a few seconds, “There doesn’t seem to be any consumption, but the cooldown effectively exists, just like having a prediction of the next movement when the muscles are tired, bravado will lead to deformation of movements like this.

“Speaking of which, dude suddenly wants to get real. We’re skeletons now, we don’t need to eat but we don’t know how to get tired, so what’s the energy that drives us? If it’s soul fire, then what’s supporting it to burn?”

Teacher Xia couldn’t help but spit out, “Worthy of graduating from hatching eggs, why are you still obsessing over this?”

Mr. Sa marveled, “Goat is a high school student, I thought that high school students like you don’t play games.”

“Don’t go off topic ah Chief Sa, seriously think about my question. The main thing is that I sucked in so much holy light, the mud cow went into the sea, and there was no sound, now I’m panicking a lot. And I think thinking this through can solve the ‘no way to learn skills’ problem we’ve been having.”

Neither of them had any good insights, but it was Heine whose thoughts were racing.

Sheepcatcher’s guess was right; they were undead creatures, powered by soulfire.

But they weren’t undead and didn’t have to counteract the attraction from the underworld.

Normally, when a necromancer summons a wandering spirit to attach to him, he first has to pay a portion of his spiritual energy as “rent”.

Afterwards, every time they give an order, they will also consume spirit energy, similar to a “usage fee”.

This is one of the reasons why most undead minions are dumb, i.e. energy saving mode.

But he hadn’t been bothered by that, as the three of them were individuals when they were summoned.

So what sustained their actions?
Meanwhile Jiang Lu was wondering.

She observed all the way, but did not detect any “strong” aura from the skeleton in front of her or from Heine outside the car…….

But all powerful undead creatures can be judged by the strength of their soul fire.

So is it because they are good at hiding, or is it because they don’t perceive enough and have been completely fooled?

The carriage was filled with agonized people.

It drove back to Ebony Town in anguish.

……

Heine did not expect young George to come to meet him in person, and accompanied him all the way to his study.

The study.

Heine briefly described the course of the battle he had seen and the results of his conversation with Dylan Gittler.

George was satisfied.

He expressed his high appreciation for Heine’s air of nonchalance and the fact that he always took the initiative, and patted Heine’s shoulder vigorously.

“Well done!”

But soon he frowned.

There was a long silence.

“You mean that Gitler was tricked?” “Yes, he may have been tricked by the elf and Donald teaming up.”

Heine then spoke her speculation:
“The mine is actually a device that sucks in holy light and saves it, which does somewhat reduce the concentration of holy light around the haunted farm.

“I originally just wanted to save Mr. Arthur and didn’t think that much about it, but who knows that when I angrily questioned the other party, both of those Gitil actually showed shocked looks, so I guess they might have been tricked.

“As for more details, perhaps you can wait for Mr. Arthur to wake up and ask him, I don’t recommend you ask that Gitil to his face, it’s like directly calling him stupid.”

George sneered, “And I have to worry about his face?”

Heine didn’t pick up on that.

Dylan or George was dead set on saving face.

It would be better for him to wait for them to calm down naturally, as nothing he could say would be out of place.

George pondered for a few seconds and suddenly said, “Donald ran away, and there are only a few unknowing servants left in his house.”

Heine froze at first, then nodded, “I suppose so. Where did he go?”

“Probably south. He was originally a mountain man from the south, and he helped my father with the trade between the mountain men and the dwarves when I was still a child. By the way, you didn’t lose much this time, did you?”

George looked over at him, “I heard it said that you even lost your wagon and went to the Silver Bazaar in the morning to buy a lot of things.”

“It’s true that nothing can be hidden from your sharp eyes.”

“Stop being poor and go get reimbursed by my steward.” George patted his shoulder and scolded with a smile, “You can properly reimburse more, but don’t eat me poor.”

“Yes, Lord.”

“Stay with me for the next two days, your home may not be too safe.”

“…… Good.”

Heine thought to himself that you are just afraid of death, let me be a guard for free, no wonder the front is showing goodwill and hemorrhaging.

The two talked some more about the situation around the territory, George popularized part of the general knowledge of the regional culture for Heine.

Before leaving Heine deliberately asked, “What about …… the prisoners?”

George froze, then laughed:

“The rules of hunting, whoever hunts goes to who.”

……

After dinner, Heine White whored out a carriage and replenished all the arrows consumed on the trip at the Silver Bazaar.

As night fell, he returned to his room.

This was also the time for the main event of the day.

“Ms. Jianglu, have you eaten?”

The elf was tied up solidly and looked at him with an expressionless face.

“It looks like it was eaten.” Heine muttered to himself.

The three skeletons fishtailed and stood against the wall.

It was almost as if they were given a stick to follow and yell “Wi – wu – wu” to set the mood.

Jianglu saw General Sa’s bulging arrow pouch and sneered:

“You took my dagger and sold it again?”

“That’s not true.”

Heine placed the willow-shaped dagger on the table.

He was going to sell it, but heard Mr. Xia wailing “Don’t, I might have to learn skills too.”

So he gave up.

Indeed, it was time to think about learning skills.

It wasn’t like there was a ready-made mentor in front of him.

“Let’s talk about the money you owe me.”

Jianglu frowned, “When did I owe you money?”

“This morning, I lost a carriage because of your commission.”

“Heh ……”

Jianglu smiled disdainfully.

How much could a carriage be worth?

Heine: “Let’s mark this carriage down to 15 gold coins.”

“? What shitty carriage can be worth 15 gold coins!?”

“The point is not the material or the type of horse, it’s the emotion.”

Heine nodded his chest with a serious look.

“I’m emotionally attached to that horse, this money is to make up for my emotional trauma, it’s all considered to be less.

“Then there are some worthless battle damages, including but not limited to one air-breaking arrow and three magic-breaking arrows, which together will cost you 20 gold coins, I think.”

Once one accepts the setting of 15 gold coins for the wagon, and then looks at these battle damages that are priced at 20 gold coins ……

It’s actually a good deal?

Nope, cost-effective my ass!

Jianglu quickly reacted and was about to retort, when she suddenly heard the other party continue:
“Last but not least, the hush money.”

Jiang Lu’s body sat up straight for no reason.

The elf ears also twitched.

“She’s nervous.”

A sharply commented Ms. Summer.

(End of chapter)