News of Merlin's curse spread through Ashfurnace Castle with a speed that surprised Lance. That morning, after arranging the planting task for Ashhearth, Lance left Sulla, Raj, and Old Bill behind.

"The news must have been spread by Sister Vivien!" Raj said with some sadness.

"That bitch raised it, and it was ...... to take in the magic crystals of an abyss ghost and do such a thing" Old Bill's white beard turned up.

"It's useless to talk about that now," Sulla frowned in displeasure, "Now that His Highness Merlin's prestige has been greatly hit, the number of people who have joined the Ashfurnace Fort has decreased by half in the past few days, there were almost fifty or sixty people in the past, and now there are only twenty or thirty, and some people would rather hang out outside the Ashfurnace Fort than come in." ”

Sulla has a good explanation of what it means to be a good manager, and she has begun to think about things from Merlin's point of view. Old Bill was very appreciative of this, and he felt that Merlin had a good eye, and he immediately picked Sulla. However, he was still a little worried, this woman was too beautiful. Usually beautiful women mean trouble, and there are also doubts that Sula and Raj appeared too coincidentally. He decided to take a moment to talk to Merlin about it.

"Your Highness, why did you come out, didn't you say that you should have a good rest?" Raj said happily standing up.

"You are all so busy, there is still so much land in the Ashfurnace Valley that has not been planted with wheat, and I have no way to rest in peace. Merlin waved his hand and pulled out a chair across from Sulla and sat down. This is the ceremonial hall on the third floor of the Ashhearth, with a high dome supporting a huge canopy surrounded by many circular stone pillars more than a meter thick. In the center of the hall is a huge round table, large enough for thirteen seats. This is a reference to the story of the Knights of the Round Table, indicating that everyone is equal and part of the Ashhearth when discussing matters here.

"Merlin, you swore in front of everyone to smear the white tombstones with the blood of the evil spellcaster, and I fear that this will affect your prestige among the people!" said Old Bill worriedly, only to realize that Merlin has now lost his hearing, and he can't hear all this he says.

Raj quickly pulled a stack of papyrus from the table and wrote down what Old Bill had just said. A delicate line of mainland text was handed to Merlin.

Merlin picked up Raj's note, smiled and said, "Don't bother, I can hear you!"

"Has the curse of the Abyssal Ghost been lifted?" said Sulla's joy, smiling like a flower in bloom. Merlin was stunned for a moment.

Lance coughed twice, and couldn't help muttering to himself in his heart, this His Royal Highness Merlin has been unable to tell Leah's wandering knight woman, and now it seems that he still has thoughts about Sula, is it so chaotic for young people to treat love, he thought of Drogba who moved out of his house, it seems that he has more women than Merlin, and now he is not going to Leah's place, I heard that there is a new gypsy girl who has taken a fancy to him. It's better for young people not to make a difference.

Merlin felt that his face had thickened a lot, but he couldn't help blushing, he coughed dryly twice, and was glared at by Sura again, so he had to scratch his head and spread his palms out.

A fat bumblebee king appeared in front of everyone, "The curse is not touched, but I have this little one, and if I wear it on my body, I can hear the sounds around me." ”

There was a cry of regret all around, especially Old Bill. It seems particularly frustrating.

"You must keep it a secret for me!" Merlin put away the King of the Bumblebees, "The church has nothing to do with the evil Fawkes, so there's no shame in Merlin not finding his lair." ”

"Ashfurnace now has a population of over a thousand, so we don't need to be in such a hurry to expand the population. The arrival of unfaithful people in Ashfurnace will be a curse in the future. Merlin's face became solemn, "Don't you think it's too coincidental for the evil spellcaster to appear at the Wine Festival?"

"When he appeared, our patrol had just returned from the mountains. Lance said sadly, frowning.

"Mole, you mean there are moles in Ashfurnace Castle?" "Sula gasped with anger, "These scum, we kindly took them in, and actually sent a message to Fawkes!"

"They don't necessarily live inside Ashhearth, maybe they're ronins outside Ashhearth!" Merlin said, "There are quite a few ronins out there now, and these people are thieves and fugitives, so it's not surprising that they become evil spellcasters. ”

Compared to the people who came to the Ashhearth Castle before, Sulla would accept them, give them tools, and get a piece of land outside the Ashhearth Castle, so that they could eat food every day. Now there are many ronins who are unwilling to join the Ashfurnace outside the Ashhearth, and they look for something to eat in the valley during the day, and find a sheltered place to spend the night at night.

"Don't let me know who did it, or I'll hang him outside the castle. Sura's silver teeth gritted together.

"We'll find him. Lance and Old Bill looked at each other and said in unison.

The two of them seemed unwilling to stay any longer, so they greeted Merlin and hurried out of the council hall.

Just as the two of them were gone, Sula stood up, tilted her head, and asked, "You really don't think it's a shameful thing?"

"Of course I'm ashamed, I've sworn in front of so many people, and now I'm back, and I don't dare to go out now!" Merlin laughed happily.

"People with such thick skin as you won't feel sad!"

The light-hearted atmosphere was shattered by an abrupt knock on the door, and Leah walked into the council hall with Arthur in her arms.

"Your Highness Merlin, so you're here," Leah walked straight up to Merlin and said a little nervously, "I'm looking for you everywhere!"

Merlin was of course happy to see Leah, but he didn't expect that Sula and Raj would be present when the two met. He went to Sula for help, only to see Merlin's pretty chief steward pouting his bright red lips and tilting his head somewhere else.

Merlin picked up his pen and wrote a line on the papyrus, "I'll talk about that later!" and he took out a handful of sprouted wheat and placed it in front of Sulla.

"What is this?" asked Sulla.

Merlin wrote on papyrus: "Sprouted seeds!"

Sura's eyes lit up and a beautiful smile appeared on her face.