After going out, Charlie, who was supposed to want to ride a horse, suddenly remembered something......

Everything happened last night so suddenly.

Suddenly, she was confronted by two powerful Arcanists.

Suddenly, she became a master and apprentice with these two powerful arcanists.

More suddenly, they arrived at the territory in a daze.

In the blink of an eye, they spanned a long distance that took 20 days to reach on horseback.

All of this happened a little too unexpectedly.

Of course, there are special caveats here: first, they left in such a hurry that they didn't seem to think of settling the accommodation fee for the poor bald boss of the inn.

And, secondly, did they forget to 'pack' the mounts in the barn and take them away?!

！！ Damn bald! Spit out my lovely foal!

However, this can only be thought of in the heart.

After all, after performing the 'Phoenix' teleportation method yesterday, the 'flesh pain' in the eyes of the white-robed arcanist Capa until now was hard to dispel, which was enough for Charlie to keep silent about it.

Old Tom smacked his mouth, which still smelled of fragrant barbecue, and walked in front with great enthusiasm to show everyone the way.

Obviously, Charlie is not the only one who thinks about horses, but the members of the mercenary squad don't have the courage to 'theorize' with the two Arcanists who have already shown many extraordinary things.

Even Kana, the magician girl who didn't deal with the Arcanist the most, kept her mouth shut and didn't say a word about it.

In daylight, the castle is finally fully visible to everyone.

The stone walls built against the reef cliffs have long since been eroded by the waves of the sea and have lost their original function.

And the castle, no, this can be considered the ruins of an ancient castle, and the last fig leaf has finally been removed in the sun.

Castles that look luxurious and comfortable need a lot of gold to repair.

Obviously, there are no people living in this long-abandoned castle, let alone anyone who can afford the expensive repairs.

'The desolate Earl dwells in a degraded castle, and sits on a barren land, ......,' thought Charlie with bitter amusement.

Old Tom walked in the front to lead the way, and babbled to the nobles who followed him:

"There's only one way up to the castle...... The previous Baron Lord originally wanted to renovate the wall on the reef, but unfortunately he never came back during the Dragon Slayer Battle that strangled the [Frost Scourge] last time......

Charlie: "........."

Hey, hey, it's a very unlucky castle!

However, the unaware old Tom continued to chatter as he walked: "[Frost Disaster]... … It was a white dragon in the prime of life, invading the coast to the south of us...... It is said that he breathed three hundred miles of ice on the coast, like a natural disaster. ”

Charlie's eyes widened, and he only felt a chill down his spine, what a breath frozen for a hundred miles...

is so powerful, and there are still people who dare to rush forward, do they think it's too boring to live?

The mercenaries guarding her left and right said, "That's a real nobleman, worthy of respect." ”

Charlie: "...

Listening to the old tax collector's narration, the group walked for about 40 minutes, and finally arrived at the village of Beira, the only gathering place for the people in Charlie's territory.

The houses in the village have been in disrepair for many years, and they look like 'ruins' unearthed together, just like Charlie's castle.

But fortunately, there are many houses in the village, and it seems that it should be a large population town.

This means that there is a lot of labor that thinks it will produce a lot of GDP, and she will be the rightful owner of it all, oh yes! A new life in another world, long live!

However, when Charlie asks about the population, it turns out that it is not what she thought it would be.

"What do you say?! How many people are here? Charlie almost lost her voice, and she was surprised to forget to control her voice, causing her voice to rise sharply.

"Hui, Hui lord, here, there are a total of 27 households in Beila Village, 99 people."

"Ahh It was 98 people, and last night he ran out of the woods and kept the silverback wolf, and poor Sam, who was busy in the fields at the edge of the woods, was dragged into the woods...... Hey......"

Charlie looked at at least a few hundred dilapidated civilian houses in Beila Village in a daze, and refused to believe the facts, "But there seem to be a lot of houses here, how can there be so many people?" Did those people run away? ”

Old Tom's face was numb, as if talking about those terrible things would no longer make any waves in his twilight old man's heart:

"Those are all houses built when the old lord was there, and there were quite a few of us here at that time......

Ah, then we had a couple of natural disasters, a tsunami, a hurricane and a ......

Well, there are fewer and fewer people, and more and more people are dying. Oh, the woods to the east of the woods bordering the inland......

Yes, there are always demonic beasts running out of it, and they will take people into the depths of the forest and eat them, and many of us have died from these demonic beasts that always come out to hunt......"

Charlie interrupted the old man in a calm tone about the terrible things that often brought death, "Can you call all the people in the village?" I always want to see for myself. ”

Old Tom immediately went to call someone, and after about half an hour, these lords living in Xiaohai Village were called back here one after another from all over the place.

They stood together and looked at Charlie and his party, who were brightly dressed.

Needless to say, just a glance at Charlie reveals too many of the answers that I wanted to ask.

All of them looked numb and thin.

Both adults and children are chronically malnourished, like skeletons wrapped in skin.

There was a long silence.

Scarface is used to seeing a lot of things when they do tasks, but they have never been able to get used to this kind of picture.

Perhaps, this is the last conscience in the hearts of human beings, if one day when they look at these people, their eyes become accustomed to life and death, then, from that day on, they will also lose their qualifications to be human beings.

The atmosphere was too depressing, and Searle took out the leather wine bag that was filled with inferior wine and poured a sip of wine, he was still young, far inferior to the scar man with a vicissitudes of life.

"Hiss~" The spicy drink stimulated his throat, so that Searle couldn't help but let out a breath of heat.

A thin little boy led by a dark, thin woman at the front of the people shook his throat several times when he saw the skin full of liquor.

The thirst for fresh water made the thin, skeletal boy let go of his mother's rough but warm hand.

He took a stride and walked straight towards Serre, who was holding the skin that had seduced him.

The little boy's movements attracted Charlie's idea, and he was a little curious and did not know what the child was going to do.

The boy's mother was very anxious, and called the boy's name in a whispered and hurried voice, "Stone, Stone!" Come back! ”

But apparently, the thirst for water had made the little boy choose not to listen to his mother's call.

Old Tom apparently tried to stop the child, but was stopped by Charlie, who was curious about what the child wanted to do.

The little boy walked up to Serre, staring longingly, almost greedily, at the corners of his emaciated eyes.

He pointed to the skin and said in a very dry voice, "...... Water...... Ask for water......"

Charlie looked at the boy carefully, saw that his lips were dry and peeled, and then looked at the boy's mother......

Similarly, chapped lips are even worse than in boys.

After looking at every one of the people of Bella Village, she noticed a problem.

There seems to be a severe shortage of water.

Back in the morning, the old tax collector in the town seemed to be in a hurry to drink water, but because he had eaten dried barbecue slices like this before, he didn't think much of it.

Charlie looked at Searle helplessly.

Serge took out another leather bag, which contained fresh water, and handed it to the boy.

The little boy raised his head and drank 'coo' and 'coo', but halfway through the drink, he suddenly remembered something, stopped abruptly, and then, like a wolf cub, looked at Serre with great vigilance.

Charlie watched inexplicably, but saw the little boy suddenly turn around, run to his mother at great speed, and stuff the skin with half a sac of water left to the thin black woman who was already dumbfounded.

The child 'snatched' Serge's water bladder in front of everyone's eyes, but no one stood up to accuse him of doing so.

Only the child's mother looked at the water bladder with trepidation and reluctance.

"Are you short of water here?" Charlie frowned and asked what to do with good old Tom.

Old Tom immediately said, "Yes, my lord, the only source of water in the vicinity is in the forest, and the original lord once opened a channel to divert water, but then ...... Hmm, I think something happened in the woods, the canal dried up. ”

"We don't have the ability to reopen because those man-eating monsters ......"

Charlie almost seemed to have heard something incredible, but she didn't expect that drinking water was a problem here, "What do you usually drink?" ”

"When it rains, when it rains, we store water, and in winter, we dig cisterns...... But、But it hasn't rained lately, and the sea water can't be drunk, so ......"

Charlie raised his hand to interrupt old Tom's rambling again.

She turned back to the mercenary team and the two Arcane Mentors around her and asked, "Is there a way to get some water out now?" ”

Scarface said, "We can organize into the forest, but we need to find out what level of demonic beasts in the forest is now." ”

"Then go and see what's going on at the old canal."

The Arcanist chuckled inexplicably.

Charlie was distracted by them, and before she could speak, Kana, the only girl in the mercenary team, stood up at this time and said confidently: "Tell them to line up to come to me." ”

The two arcanists watched with interest, not at all aware of the 'competition for posts'.

Charlie, seeing the power of the caster, immediately instructed Old Tom to tell the people of the territory to go to Kana with the vessel of water.

Old Tom was very prestigious in the village, and after some encouragement, the people went back to their homes and fetched pots and pots.

As Kana chanted the spell and released the first water balloon, the town erupted in a flurry of exclamations, which then turned into cheers mixed with a few tears of joy.

Charlie was stunned.

She didn't expect that this most trivial thing could make the people here, no, her people so excited.

In this way, Charlie quietly watched as the people received fresh water from Kana.

Some of them were sobbing, some were bowing down to thank them, and some were eager to pour water as soon as they got it.

But the scene ended when the pale-faced Kana's magic ran out.

A third of them did not receive water, and the vivid smiles of hope on their faces were gone, replaced by dull countenances of numbness and despair.

The arcanist had obviously expected this, and at this time the two old men stood up gloatingly, "Charlie, do you see, this is a stupid magician who does things recklessly. ”

"Good apprentice, let me tell you how the great arcanist solved the same problem once and for all when the first floating city appeared!"