Chapter 108: Something I Saw in a Small Town

Milari Theo was a retainer of the Duke of the Silver Eagle, Ponlein Fate.

It is not appropriate to say that he is a retainer, to be precise, he should be the son of a retainer of Ponlein, his father is the Minister of Finance of the Principality of the Silver Eagle, and he himself does not have a position for the time being, in fact, he has just held a coming-of-age ceremony two days ago, and has not yet been awarded the position of knight.

Milari likes to travel and adventure around the continent, learning about the different customs and customs of each place, but due to his identity, most of his travel places are only in the territory of the Varla Empire, and he is also a rare believer in the 'God of Travel and Art, Grimon'.

The deity will bless his followers with less danger and more creative inspiration during their travels, and that believers above the True Faith level will be able to more easily obtain food or temporary lodging from others through their art (usually singing or storytelling) while traveling.

In general, Grimon belongs to the type of god whose believers are very combative, but the divine grace they bestow is unexpectedly practical, and since there are not many believers, it is also very real that believers, like Sivi, can obtain divine charism as long as they become true believers......

It's a pity that only a small number of people can travel all their lives, and the vast majority of Grimmond's followers will choose to settle down in a place after they reach middle age, except for the art industry such as theater performances, they will almost always choose to convert to other gods in the end.

After his coming-of-age ceremony, Mirari was entrusted with a job by Grand Duke Pomrein in the hope that he would be able to deliver one of his letters home to his youngest son, who was given a seal to Angela Fat, in the area of Anulrad, in the Valley of the Dead.

Naturally, Mirari would not refuse the Grand Duke's commission, so after a day's rest, he immediately set off for the rumored fiefdom of Angela Fat, a town whose name is not even recorded on the map of the Empire.

Originally, Mirary thought that this kind of small place, although it had the name of a 'small town', was actually just an ordinary village - it was not that he was blind to it, he had seen many similar situations during his travels, and many of the 'small towns' on the border of the empire were essentially just villages, and the reason why they were falsely called 'towns' was because they could get more support and assistance from the nearby large cities.

But the small town of Angela surprised Mirari a little.

It is true that this town is indeed a little smaller, with a population of about 100 people, but the construction is quite good, and it can even be said that it is very ...... Exquisite?

It took Mirari a long time to think of this adjective.

First of all, the layout of this town is indeed small, the whole is a square, and if you walk along one side of the square, it will only take about half an hour to walk with Mirari's footsteps.

From the outside, the edge of the town has no basic walls, only a rudimentary wooden fence.

The original Mirary was extremely disappointed with the town, and the most ridiculous thing was that when he asked a farmer in the farmland outside the town who was probably praying to the god of harvest why the town had no exterior walls, the reply was "How troublesome it is to have to tear down the town after the city wall is built."

This made Mirari can't help but scoff, in recent times, natural disasters have occurred frequently on the mainland, and the border town is empty, and the scale of the town is not reduced, it is very good, and you still want to expand? Dream your dreams! It is worthy of being a poor man with no knowledge, and he can't even carve the idol of the god of harvest, so he can only take a strange spherical statue to fill the number......

As a result, after entering the town, he realized that he seemed to be a little arbitrary, and the experience of the past in other border towns seemed to be unable to be applied to this town.

The buildings in the town look very clean and new, the ground is paved with neat red bricks, the whole street is clean and tidy, not to mention the filth that is difficult to get down in other towns, and there is not even garbage, the streets in this town are clean and don't look like people live.

Later, Mirary learned that the tubes on the side of the road were called 'garbage cans', and the townspeople seemed to throw their garbage directly into the stuff and dispose of it centrally. According to the residents of the town, this was specially done by the lord, saying that it could improve the happiness of the residents and obtain performance points......

What surprised him even more was that these trash cans were actually alchemical creations mixed with golem technology, and whenever someone went to throw away the garbage, they would first ask, "What kind of garbage are you?" "Then tell the other person which trash can to throw it in. Some garbage cans that are more remote and cause few people to throw away garbage will even emit messages such as "garbage is coming, garbage is coming!" when they see that they have thrown things in the past. shouted of joy.

Although Milary always felt a nameless fire in her chest every time she encountered such a situation, it did make the streets neat and clean...... Maybe when you return to the Principality of Silver Eagle, you can suggest to the Grand Duke that this technique be used in the Principality as well?

In addition to the clean streets, very well-marked street signs, and very good taverns that look like a good place, there are also open-air baths in this town! Sadly, Mirari had only once in the guest house of Romero when he was a child and his father had been on a mission to the Grand Duchy of Romero, an experience he would never forget.

After that, when he traveled in the Varla Empire, he also searched for similar hot springs, but unfortunately after so long, he didn't find a hot spring that he could soak, and he didn't expect to be able to get what he wanted in such a border town.

In particular, there are several different types of hot springs here, such as simple hot springs, carbonated hot springs, mineral hot springs, and elemental hot springs.

Because of the tight time, Mirari only tried a simple hot spring, which is said to be the most basic hot spring, but even so, he still regained the memory of his childhood, and after soaking, he felt extremely happy, and even the skin that lacked maintenance during the perennial trip seemed to be much more comfortable - he naturally didn't know that this hot spring could add various buffs to the skin - the only unpleasant thing was that there were many monkeys that came out of nowhere when he was soaking in the hot spring, and he kept pointing at him......

All in all, if you were to rate the places she has visited so far based on the environment alone, Milari feels that this town is definitely in the top three, striving for the first place.

That's right, in terms of the environment alone.

In contrast to the environment, Milary felt that the inhabitants of this town were more or less a little bit, eh...... Uncanny?

First of all, since Milari entered the town, he felt that most of the inhabitants seemed to have looked at him as if they were looking at him as if they were looking at him.

This made Mirary think that he had something in his head, but no matter what he did, he still couldn't see anything.

Then, the townspeople seem to be praying to the idols all the time – the farmers who farm the fields, the workers who build the houses, and even the garbage collectors...... And the object of their prayers was the spherical statue of the mysterious god, and Mirary always felt that it seemed to have developed to the point that there was a man in every man, and maybe in a corner he didn't know, there was a wholesale of this thing in this town......

In addition to praying for the idols, the people of this town are quite strong.

Originally thinking that this town had no walls, only a circle of what resembled a fence, Mirari was also worried about this beautiful town, after all, this town was located just outside the Valley of the Dead, and it was not strange that a group of undead suddenly came out of that ghost place at any time.

When the undead emerge from the Valley of the Dead, this town with so much life will undoubtedly be their first target!

In fact, what he feared happened right in front of him: not long after he finished bathing, a group of undead appeared not far from the town, and the town's lookout found the traces of the undead in advance, and the wolf smoke was lit.

Mirari tried to persuade the townspeople to try to join forces against the undead, but when he walked out of the room, he saw the townspeople running out of the town in a bustling manner—not running away, but rushing in the direction in which the undead appeared.

Ah, what a simple and brave townsman they are. Mirari was so moved that he even wanted to go together to fight the undead.

As a result, as soon as he reached the entrance of the town, the townsfolk came back with curses, and with them came the stumps and severed arms of the undead. Judging from the tone of the townspeople, they seem to be disgusted that there are too few undead this time.

And until the end, Milari didn't know where most of the bodies of the dead had gone.

Looking at the murderous appearance of the townspeople, he didn't dare to say it, and he didn't dare to ask......

After that, he also saw two townsfolk with swords on their swords arguing over the words 'Is the food in the Iron Cavern tavern or the food in the system restaurant delicious?'

Apparently neither of them could convince the other, and the argument escalated, and just when Milari thought they were going to start doing it like the rude mercenaries, the two townsfolk suddenly came face to face and danced strangely with passionate expressions.

There was also a townsfolk girl next to her, constantly shouting and persuading: "Don't fight, don't fight!" ”

…… The inhabitants of this town are all fools.

"Your lord wants to see you."

To be Angela's maid...... Probably a maid, anyway, when the girl, who didn't look particularly pretty, but who was very attractive and had a great figure, said this, Milari felt that she was almost moved to tears, and if she stayed any longer, he felt that he was about to become a fool.