Chapter 744: Panic (Medium)
The huge black dragon flew low over the city, causing a low cry.
His scrutinizing gaze swept over everyone like a breeze, and he didn't see any change in the appearance of the people of Winder City—unlike what he had received.
Upon noticing this, Cervantes retracted his attention and flew towards the town hall, where Sera was waiting for him.
Cervantes was late, and by the time he arrived, Serena, Latinia, Ziegler, and Ithis were already sitting quietly in the lord's office waiting for his arrival.
However, he was still on the southeast border before, and now he can be considered to be able to come back quickly.
Jumping into the house through the window again, the maid only glanced at him, and then said eagerly, "Everyone has arrived, so the meeting begins!"
Because the lord's office is protected by the [Soundproof Enchantment], no one can know what is going on inside as long as it is opened, so they usually gather here instead of going to the conference room.
But it was the first time they had done so, and the situation wasn't so critical as to bring everyone together.
"You have probably all understood, a group of terrifying-looking monsters suddenly appeared in the territory of the principality, and their strength is not weak, ordinary people can't deal with it at all, so we need to send troops to exterminate them. But after those 'monsters' are eliminated, there will be a situation in the soldiers - bloodline awakening!"
The maid's face was grim, and the same thing appeared in the principality almost at the same time, and before they even had time to react, the sergeant who went to exterminate those monsters had already turned into that look.
Strictly speaking, this is not a bad thing, because after the awakening of the bloodline, the soldiers and even the knights think that they have become a little stronger.
However, after this situation appeared, they found that they had become the same as those former refugees who had been alienated by blood, unable to control their appearance!
And this situation seems to be getting worse, if we can't find a way, I'm afraid that soon the people of the entire Sad Wind Principality will become like that.
The alienated traits will be revealed, and while it will have little impact on their daily lives, and even for them, this is a good thing, but for outsiders, it is not a good thing.
The outsiders are all pure-blooded humans, and they have never eaten monster meat, so they are already very different from the people of the Duchy of Sorrow in appearance.
The people of the Principality of Sorrow don't care about this, and are even quite happy to show their alienated characteristics to outsiders, but that doesn't mean that outsiders don't care!
They themselves are quite concerned about this, and when they come to the Duchy of Sorrow, they will deliberately choose to eat at a restaurant marked with the label 'Monster meat is not used for meat in the store', and they will also make this request to the innkeeper when they stay.
Because they are afraid that they will become like the people of the Principality of Sorrow, even if they can get along with each other, it is inevitable that they will have a bad heart.
And this is still in the case that the people of the Principality of Sorrow Wind are able to hide their alienated characteristics, once they can no longer hide their alienated characteristics, then I am afraid that the number of outsiders will decrease.
After that, even if they explain it repeatedly, outsiders will not believe their words, and will regard it as a 'deception', in fact, it is just to get the merchants to come here to do business.
Outsiders will imagine the 'truth of the matter' on their own, and then they will become suspicious, and then they will start to distrust the people of the Duchy of Sorrow, and eventually there will be conflict!
This is something that the maid does not want to see, and the goddess of wealth does not want this kind of thing to happen, because in the course of the development of the past few years, the commodity trade of the Principality of Sorrow has occupied a large proportion on the mainland, and if it is cut off all at once, then she will be greatly harmed.
Now the economy of the Duchy of Sorrow is almost supported by 'commerce', because of the small size of the country, they have little self-sufficiency.
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, and once the commercial avenue is cut off, the prosperity of the principality will soon disappear.
"Someone is plotting against us!" said Cervantes, gritting his teeth.
He had seen it with his own eyes, and he didn't understand how it worked, but when the monster was burned out, it would emit something that would stimulate the blood, and the mages who were there at the time had not been able to collect it.
He saw with his own eyes the alienation of bloodlines emerge from the soldiers and knights, and then the villages near the mountains and forests also appeared!
Someone must be counting them, otherwise it would be impossible for such a monster to appear in multiple places in the principality at the same time.
And if the warlocks knew that this monster could stimulate the awakening of the bloodline, then they would definitely flock to it, but no one knows if this monster will continue to appear.
If there is not enough financial support, it is impossible for the magic energy machinery to continue to develop.
The maid frowned deeply, always feeling that this matter might not be so simple, but after pondering for a long time, she didn't find anything else suspicious.
Edith sat on the sidelines and was anxious, because she couldn't interject, she didn't know how to solve the matter, even if she had made her little brain run quickly, she still couldn't think of a solution.
Anxiety was a roadblock in the way of thinking, but Edith didn't realize it.
Ziegler is also full of anger, where can a wronged leader like the Principality of Sorrow be found?
Because of his recent good behavior, Serena has given him a lot of permissions, and the research funds he can use have increased.
As a mage, he really liked it here, if he was a dragon himself, he would need to earn money if he wanted to conduct magic experiments, but here, all he needed was one order was enough.
A dragon and a country cannot be compared, not to mention that the Principality of Sorrow can make a lot of money.
He was also hoping that the Duchy of Sorrow would be able to make more money and give him more research funds, but now he was suddenly notified that the research funds were going to be cut!
How could he endure this?
"It's either the All-Knowing Eye or the Dragon Hunting Order!" Ziegler said viciously, "Except for these two organizations, I haven't seen any organization that can possess such powerful technology! Ordinary warlocks still need to go through the bloodline awakening ritual if they want to advance, but this time you have seen it - and besides them, there is no other organization that has too much hatred with us, and needs to use this method against us!"
After learning the news, the maid's first reaction was that these two organizations did it.
It's not certain yet, but it's very likely that they're - especially not long ago, when Ziegler saw someone on the prairie who didn't know if it was the 'All-Seeing Eye' or the 'Dragon Hunting Order'!
Although it may be a coincidence, the maid also has to believe that it is now more and more likely that this matter has something to do with these two organizations.
The maid sighed, shook her head, and said: "Now we are not discussing who the real culprit is, but how to stop this matter! The enemy is in the dark, we are in the light, it is too difficult to deal with them, these two organizations are inconspicuous, and I am afraid that they still have enough power to kill the gods, and they cannot be easily dealt with." ”
She glanced at everyone and asked softly, "Do any of you have any proposals?"
Everyone shook their heads, because they really didn't know what to do.
Cervantes knew best that burying the body of such a monster in the earth would pollute the land, but burning it would make it worse.
He seriously suspected that even if they didn't need to be incinerated, the corpses of that kind of monster would gradually evaporate, and then let this happen, otherwise they could have gathered these corpses and thrown them into other planes.
Everyone felt that this was a tricky one, because they didn't have the means to deal with it right now!