Verse 428: Heart is like stone and iron (2)
According to Emmetselke's information, the child was a standard Sculpting talent owner, and the flames did not harm him, but strengthened him, and he eventually distorted in despair, killing the villagers using flames.
Therefore, the equipment with the resistance of the technique has become the focus of Marlin's choice for the girls, the other party is a talent owner of the Shaping Technique, although it is aberration, but it is obviously also strengthened in the technique.
Therefore, a musket that is farther away than the magic style is the best choice.
Marin went to the workshop and got ten rifles, and he and the three girls, along with a team of six punishers, were ready.
There was an area drawn on the map by a substitute who knew the local situation, and Marin learned the specific location - the place of the incident was to the north of the location of Marin's brother in the Black Forest, Creekside Village, the name of a huge land, with a population of about 200 people, which was the halfway point between Fort Carter and the town of Dardani in the north, and belonged to a three-way zone, where the villagers nominally belonged to the town of Dardane, but had been paying taxes to Fort Carter, and also enjoyed the help of Fort Carter, and it was impossible for the town of Dardane to send people to help them, And the aberrant child could not run north, it was already distorted, and instinctively would not take it into the wilderness, but would only take its owner to hide in the forest.
There, it may call out to Chaos, so it must be found as soon as possible...... Before this kid turns into a coordinate.
After preparation, Marin obtained the coordinates of the village from the punisher, confirmed the situation in the field through satellite images, pulled a teleportation channel, and then came out of the position on the top of the hill outside the village, and the teleportation channel was attached to the turf, which surprised the punisher who didn't know why - this kind of precision blind opening teleportation channel is already a legendary-level existence can do it.
So, knowledge can really change everything, but it's a pity that it's all to blame on a parrot.
The fire in the village had been extinguished, and there was a team of church agents and punishers who were treating the wounded and looking for survivors. ”
"Come and hunt down the child who went the wrong way, does anyone among the survivors know which direction the child is going, where the execution ground is?"
The answer is that no one saw that all the villagers at the scene were raised by the child, and then this kid was distorted and half of the village was raised, and no one knew where he went.
As for the word Young...... This is the standard term for energy sculpting killing.
The person in charge asked a small child to show Marin and them, a scrawny child who looked frightened, but after Marin gave him a slice of white bread, the child seemed to be able to walk again.
He also mentioned the situation of the two children to Marin - almost three days ago, the older brother of the two brothers suddenly had the ability to ignite things, and the younger brother was able to make water out of thin air.
The younger brother should have a strong auxiliary talent, but unfortunately the people in the village were illiterate, or they were frightened by the elder brother's talent for shaping energy, so they grabbed the two brothers and tied them up and walked to the execution point in the north of the village, where they had been used to execute children like them for almost a hundred years, and several were burned to death.
This little child also knows the pair of brothers - the father of these two brothers fell into the water and drowned when he was digging a ditch for the village, and the mother of these two children remarried, and they grew up eating the hundred family meals in the village, but unfortunately, awakening is not all about one thing, in the city such a child will have a good future, but in such a village, such a child will inevitably die.
When they arrived at the place where the execution was placed, Marin threw two small bags of white bread to the child, and then gave him a bag of flour and a piece of jerky - if they were given money, the children and their families would not be able to understand what this 'paper' could be exchanged for, and it was better to give it in kind, which is also what the punishers said.
The boy couldn't hold these things alone, so he could only pitifully ask a halfling punisher to help him look at the things, and then ran all the way to the village, probably calling his family to pick up the things.
"See, Your Excellency, such a child, can you imagine that he is twelve years old?" The captain of the Punisher Squad sighed as he stood beside Marin.
"In the city, such children are about eight years old or younger, and the chronic lack of nutrition and food is slowing down their growth." Marin knew this, of course, as he spoke, as he came to the center of the execution ground, and he saw the dead burned to the bones, as well as the young wreckage at the foot of a burner at the stake.
"This is the way to survive in the wilderness, doesn't Lord Marin think it's too cruel."
"I know, it's cruel, but it's a very frustrating choice to put yourself in the shoes of a child or a village, but we know that sometimes we have to." Marin said as he took out the casting materials, Marin wanted to confirm what was really going on at the scene, and the echo of the past was a good choice, and the caster could reconstruct everything that happened at the scene.
After the spell was cast, red threads began to appear, and they rolled up one by one, revealing the final situation in front of Marin.
In the scene, the two children were burned at the stake together, the older brother, who had a talent for energy shaping, was tied to the other rack, the younger brother was being set on fire, the older brother was struggling, he was cursing, he was pleading, but the executioners were standing there watching it happen.
They burned the younger brother first, and then something went wrong when they burned the elder brother - until finally, as the elder brother, he howled and got up.
And then there was no more, and the chaos distorted the elder brother, and the red threads representing the crowd began to scatter and then ignited until the elder brother knelt in front of the younger brother.
At the end of the echo of the past, the elder brother began to walk south.
"Indeed, as we thought, he went south, killed people, and then fled south." The captain of the substitute punisher looked at everything on the scene and sighed with regret.
"Back in the village, we find a second place where he is, confirm his whereabouts, and start the hunt." Marin finished speaking and left, and at the same time motioned to the halfling not to forget to bring the child's things with him.
Then he picked up the bag of almost 30 catties of flour with one hand.
The halfling carried this thing and his face was green.
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The child pointed to the village at the edge of the road to the north of the village, where it watched as the village was set on fire, and then slumped east.
"Fifteen miles to the east, the eastern part of the Black Forest, where there are spirits, goblins, and orcs." The young punisher who knew the area best gave Marin an answer.
"Let's start the hunt, let the Celestial Hound follow first." After Marin finished speaking, he reached out and waved to the child, who ran quickly.
"How many people are there in your village?"
"More than fifty." The child scratched his head, and Marin looked at the person in charge, who nodded.
"If you don't have anything to eat, you can come to Fort Carter, and I'll arrange work for you." After speaking, Marin patted the child's head: "Take care of your younger siblings." —Marin saw two children following him.
"Your Excellency Marin is truly merciful." The captain of the church's substitute punisher couldn't help but sigh as he watched Marin follow.
"I just don't want these kids to starve to death, after all, the winters in Fort Carter are cold, and this small village, which has lost a large number of villagers, is destined to disappear into the wind and snow without no one to help." Marin said, glancing at the side of the road—there were signs of flames on the side of the road, and it looked like the Heavenly Hound was not following the wrong path.