Chapter 507: Witch Trail
Easily gathered a few working coolies for the retribution war group, Xu Yichen's mood was not bad, and after Yang Yuefan had a round of review, he directly threw his identity to Knight Bart for training.
These dozen or so people seemed to be much stronger than the malnourished refugees, and even after a month's worth of food at the Retribution Regiment, their foundation was still too poor.
Now that it had been discovered that a lot of contaminants had been stolen from the place, the Paladin Commander Dale gave the first order in order to facilitate management.
All the members of the expeditionary force laid down their weapons, picked up shovels, and began to work in the contaminated area, piling up the grayish-white putrefaction from the edges to the middle.
The selection mechanism of the Holy Warrior is very good, and those who can successfully become a Holy Warrior are all mentally tough, and even if they occasionally fall, they are directly corrupted by strong external stimuli or Chaos.
No one complained, almost all of them got down and got to work, it was a matter of chaos, and the holy warriors were duty-bound.
Since it is impossible to take care of such a huge area of contaminated area, it is necessary to concentrate these pollutants together and take care of them in a unified manner.
The holy warriors did this for five days, and a large amount of daily necessities were sent into the Black Forest, and in order to make it easier, the demon hunters directly organized their men to build an improvised road from the edge of the polluted area to the castle.
When the professionals are willing to lay down their arms and devote themselves to construction, the productivity that bursts out is no less than that of construction machinery.
Mortals need to cut down giant trees for several hours, and paladins with more than fifteen strength attributes only need three axes, and one person can drag them away.
The road was quickly opened on the third day, a straight line, and the trees along the way were cut down and processed into logs, and the roots were dug out and exposed to the sun, which soon became fuel.
Severn took a few local paladins and dragged logs back and forth with war horses to compact the sand.
The dwarven Groin's blacksmith has been working almost day and night lately, forging tools and crafting armor and weapons in his spare time.
If it weren't for the fact that the iron ore stored before had bottomed out, the militia who had not yet completed their basic training would have been better equipped than the city guards in Anthony Grand Harbor at this time.
Through the hard work of the holy warriors, the area of the polluted area has been reduced countless times, and the gray-white rotten pollutants that have been piled up into a dozen hills appear very well-behaved when they are not exposed to the holy light.
The original polluted area was excavated by the paladins until the uncorroded soil underneath was exposed, and the priests specially splashed it with holy water to check for residual contaminants.
Those gray-white pollutants were enclosed by wooden walls with Xu Yichen and his people, and three simple towers were specially built to facilitate the vigilance of the holy warriors when they were stationed.
"We brought a total of five tons of holy water to solve the problem here, but unfortunately, the holy water could not directly purify this inert contaminant." After several experiments, Dale the Paladin and the priests in the Legion were reluctant to find that the contaminant was almost unable to react to anything other than the power of the Light.
The only exception to this is the blood of the Demon Hunter himself, whose blood has been shown to cause direct damage to Chaos, but the reaction to this contaminant is not very violent.
And the only good news is that this substance really doesn't seem to have any effect on mortals.
"In any case, I wouldn't consider this substance from chaos harmless, even if it doesn't corrupt mortals right now." The Holy Warrior Dale said firmly: "There must be a chaotic conspiracy in this!" ”
A team of fifteen Paladins was left behind in the shrunken contaminated area, tasked with ensuring that no one was allowed to approach the contaminants.
No one wants to risk transporting these things into Antony Grand Port City or other places where humans live, so it's a good idea to leave it where it is.
Since Chaos has corrupted the world, there have been too many such things to be properly dealt with and have to be sealed off and forbidden to touch.
"Now that the contaminants have been properly disposed of, what are your plans for the future?" The Demon Hunter felt that it was a little redundant to take precautions against the paladin team before leaving, and that these paladins were better to get along with than he thought.
"We intend to use your territory as a starting point to carefully clean up the Black Forest first, and then try to deal with the land affected by the Corrupt Tree you mentioned." Paladin Dale sighed: "The Far South Continent is too big, and the local forces in the past did not welcome our arrival. ”
While the two were talking, a paladin on horseback hurried from the direction of the castle and whispered to Dale Seaworth, "Lord Seaworth, Lord Landers has discovered the witch's traces, and has not returned for a day with his four brothers. ”
"I see, let Cohen search along the way with his squad, ready to send a signal at any time." Dale calmly gave the order and shrugged his shoulders at the demon hunter: "The area around Anthony Harbour is really lively, greenskins, pirates, chaos, witches, if there are more mages from the Witch King, we can fight a world war." ”
"Hehe, yes." The corners of Xu Yichen's mouth twitched, and he smiled at the holy warrior a little stiffly: "I'll go back first and see if there are any other losses around the castle." ”
The demon hunter felt that he was really a crow's mouth, and just now he felt that he was safe with the holy warriors, and immediately had an accident.
Xu Yichen contacted Yang Yuefan on the way, trying to learn about the latest situation and see if it was the witch group hiding in Moon Shadow Village who had exposed their whereabouts and was followed by the holy warriors.
Reverend Richard is a rare enlightened member of the Church, and he is willing to turn a blind eye to the witches, purely out of his own will, and the Paladin Expeditionary Force will not show mercy to the witches.
I don't know why, Xu Yichen couldn't contact Yang Yuefan, and the other party didn't seem to be in his contact range anymore, so he could only wait for Yang Yuefan to take the initiative to contact him.
The Demon Hunter hurried all the way back to the castle, and immediately entered the secret room, informing Nangong Yujun that if an accident happened, he would take the [Heart of Machinery] to the Moon Shadow Village.
He turned around and contacted the ranger Ji Wanbing, and sent him to the Moon Shadow Village to warn the witches and paladins who were hiding there.
Xu Yichen was not too worried that the paladins would clash with him, and they had no direct evidence of their partnership with the Witch Federation.
It's just that the Retribution Warband has a good relationship with the witches of Moon Shadow Village, and once the paladins do go to war with the witches, they can't stay out of it.