Chapter 40: Yir Village in Longtan Tiger's Den
Although the confrontation in front of the castle was short and rapid, Chen Blade, who was only a level 5 mage, had already exhausted his spells, and even the priest's magic was left to defend against attacks and heal the wounded.
Although the thieves among the adventurers were not the main force of the attack in the battle just now, they came in handy in the escape. Thieves who are familiar with the surrounding terrain lead everyone through the forest and streams to walk the path, and those who have mastered the tracking skills are responsible for covering up the tracks.
Although there are no pursuers for the time being, everyone does not dare to take it lightly, the level of these adventurers is generally not high, just now they took advantage of the more and less, coupled with Chen Blade's spells, if you really want to meet the same number of orc warriors, it will definitely not be an opponent.
Because of the large number of people, the detour, and the exhaustion of Chen Blade's spells, he couldn't use his magic to speed up, and by the time he fled to Yi'er Village, it was already two days later.
Seeing the safe and sound Yier Village really made Chen Jian breathe a sigh of relief, he was afraid that when he returned here, he would see a scene of ruined walls and rivers of blood. Although this is a more distant place than a foreign land, months of living together have made him feel emotionally attached to the village of Il and its villagers, and he will fear for their safety.
"Yo, you're running back too, and you've brought back a lot of people." When he heard Jona's voice, Chen Jian thought he was hallucinating.
Unexpectedly, Jona ran back to Yir Village a day earlier, and asked her to ring the alarm bell, and then agreed to meet at the castle, but she was taken outside the city gate, and finally fled in embarrassment, and Jona actually ran in front of him, this woman is really not to be underestimated.
"I didn't see you outside the castle, and I was worried that you had an accident, but I didn't expect you to run fast."
"Of course, I didn't go to the castle at all, I ran straight here, and now that you're back, the orcs were repulsed? Or was the baron's castle breached by the orcs? ”
"This ...... The baron didn't let us in at all, dogs, don't save you when you die, feed the orcs. At the mention of Baron Vinoa, Chen Jian was angry.
"Hehe, I knew that the nobles didn't have good things, so they were too lazy to go to the fence, and maybe they would be sent by him to be cannon fodder, so after ringing the bell, I ran back here directly."
Chen Jian could only sigh that Qiao Na was really prescient, and he still knew too little about the virtues of the nobles in the other world. I naively thought that everyone could work together to resist the enemy.
"It's good to be fine here." Chen Jian said happily.
"There's no castle here, but it's much safer than Vinoa." Joanna smugly said her opinion.
Indeed, to the north of the village of Il is the Misty Forest, which is entrenched in various magical beasts, which is not conducive to the passage of the army, and to the east of the village is the sacred canteen of the Food Order, where the three ancient war trees are not vegetarian, and to the south of the village is Dave's Magic Tower to guard one side. To the west of the village is a tent camp for adventurers who come on a treasure hunt. It can be said that there are defensive forces on all sides.
In addition, there are also clergy and accompanying escorts from the Earth Church and the Love Church in the village. Compared with the guards who have not experienced wars and are only responsible for maintaining the security of the town, the combat power here is indeed much higher-end.
"You've thought it through, why don't you tell me, and you'll slip back alone." After listening to Qiao Na's analysis, Chen Jian realized that today's Yier Village is indeed not what it used to be, and it can no longer be seen with the attitude of an ordinary small mountain village.
"A little person like me naturally wants to hide in a small place, you are also the head of a sect, who would have thought that you didn't even shout open the castle gate."
Qiao Na's complaint said that Chen Jian's old face turned red, but her next sentence made Chen Jian nervous again.
"But this place hasn't been spared orcs."
It turned out that Il Village was also attacked by orcs, but compared to the hundred-man surprise attack force in Vinoa Town, Il Village was obviously not a key target, just a scout team of ten people.
They are also unlucky, originally according to the map, there should be only a small village without resistance, where did they expect to come and want to fight a gopher, but out of the ground dragon.
And the bad thing is Dave's magic tower, the orc scout team is close to Yir Village from the south, it is said that if you see a magic tower set up here from a distance, then the orcs have already fled, how can a small team provoke the sphere of influence of the mage with the magic tower.
But Dave's magic tower has been processed by him, the tower body is entwined with vines, covered with strange flowers and fruits, and the top of the tower is still leafy, it looks like a big tree from a distance, where does it look like a magic tower.
There are still patches of farmland under the trees, and who would have guessed that the old peasants in the fields who are plainly dressed and doing farm work are actually clergy and druids of the Earth Church.
Not to mention a ten-person squad, even if the entire orc army attacking Vinoa Town was sent here, it would not be enough for them to fight.
The sad orc scout was taken away by a wave as soon as he approached, and he didn't figure out what was going on until he died.
Although this result was a little gratifying, Chen Jian didn't dare to relax completely, who knows if these scouts did not return to the team, whether it would attract more enemies to surround Yi'er Village.
Chen Jian arranged for the village elders, women and children to be divided into two groups, one group hiding in the magic tower and the other group hiding in the canteen of the Order.
Then the men of the village were given weapons and shields, and they were armed. These materials were all purchased by Chen Jian when he established the Church Armed Forces, because he had money in his hands, so he bought a large number of them with great wealth to prepare for the expansion of the Church Knights in the future.
A few days later, the village of Il was no longer attacked by the orcs, but a large number of refugees poured into the village. There were survivors from Vinoa's town, as well as survivors from other surrounding villages that had been attacked by orcs.
Among them is Crafor, an old acquaintance of Chen Blade's Rowrens Grocery Store. From his mouth, he also knew that the town of Vinoa had completely fallen, and it was said that even the Baron's Castle had been breached.
But it was precisely because the orcs concentrated their forces on attacking Baron Vinoa's castle that they were able to escape without a circle of fire to other places.
We all know that there is a magic tower built in the village of Il, and there is a church that I don't know what church it is, and in times of crisis, people want to be sheltered by stronger powers, in the past they were afraid of magicians hidden in the misty forest, but compared to the brutal orcs, at least human magicians are not so terrifying.
And the presence of pastors can also give people spiritual comfort in the midst of fear, and soothe their grief of losing their homes and loved ones.
Many of the people who fled to Il, regardless of which god they believed in in the past, most of them converted to the three major sects in Il. After all, under the threat of orc butcher knives, the gods they had previously believed in did not answer their prayers. And the three major sects in Yir Village really took them in and gave them a sense of security.
However, compared to the food order that has little brand awareness, most people choose to believe in Mother Earth, followed by the goddess of love, but in this time of chaos, love is obviously not a good choice. So although both Mother Earth and the Goddess of Love are powerful divine powers, there are more people who choose to believe in the former.
However, Chen Jian also has a trick to pull people, after all, he is the head snake here, through the gate of time and space, Chen Jian purchased a large amount of living materials and emergency food from the earth. Especially for food, all believers in the god of gastronomy can receive double portions.
Although it is more materialistic to pull people in this way, the other two major churches will not turn against Chen Jian because of this believer. Therefore, Chen Jian still relied on prize marketing to attract a lot of believer resources.
Moreover, the biggest advantage of the Food Order is that when the believers enjoy the Church's sacrament in the holy canteen, the degree of faith rises significantly, and it can be said that the effort of one meal can make people upgrade from inferior believers to shallow believers.
That's the unstoppable charm of good food!
In the continent of Orlund, believers can be divided into five levels step by step: well-known, knowledgeable, graced, steadfast, and unique.
Well-known: Bad believers (have heard of God's name and general authority, and occasionally go to church to receive sermons.) )
Knowledge: Shallow believers (understand God's authority, God's power, God's doctrine, go to church regularly to pray, and can apply for baptism.) )
Grace: True Believer (who has been baptized as a full believer and is willing to study and understand the doctrine in depth, and has the opportunity to be trained to become a clergyman. )
Firmness: Devout believers (deeply understand the doctrine of God, deepen their faith, and strive to bring their thoughts closer to the faith. )
Unique: Fanatic (The instructions of the gods are above all else, and in order to spread the radiance of the gods, they can ignore all laws and morals, and even sacrifice their own lives. )
Above these five levels is the Holy Spirit.
The electorate is not within these five levels, and there is no hard requirement for the degree of faith of the person who can become a voter, as long as he can win the favor of the gods, he can become a voter, so even though Chen Jian's belief in Chariel may be negative, he still becomes a legitimate voter and enjoys the privileged treatment of voters.