Tome of Blood

   Been coming to Castells for a while.

  If counting the months of sleeping, Charlotte has returned to the territory for half a year.

  In half a year, the number of her followers also increased, from about 200 at the beginning to about 700.

   To be honest, this growth rate is very slow.

  Charlotte has not yet figured out what the purpose of faith and believers is, so she has not listed the spread of faith and the development of believers as the main current plan, and therefore, she has not spread her beliefs.

  As for the hundreds of believers who have grown, they all developed secretly under the leadership of the werewolf Luf from the blood wolf tribe who migrated from Boulder to Castel.

  Of course, although it is developing in secret, Charlotte will also use the ability of the Holy Code of Blood from time to time to do what a "god" should do.

   Except for the few months of sleeping, she takes time out every week to cast her eyes on her believers, and sometimes listens to the prayers of believers, performs [Divine Blessings] to show "miracles", and bestows divine grace...

  This is a supernatural world where gods really exist.

  Even if there are no miracles and benefits, preaching is hard to be convincing.

  However, because the main force for the development of believers is the demi-humans who migrated from the blood wolf tribe in Boulder, so most of the newly developed believers in Charlotte in the past six months are still mainly werewolf miners from the Castel Silver Mine.

   It is also considered lucky. As one of the cash cows of the Crescent Royal Family, the Castel Silver Mine is protected by the Royal Army.

  After the rebels launched a rebellion and went south, they did not dare to set foot in the Castel silver mine, but only dared to cut off the connection between Beigang and the silver mine.

  And this makes the silver mining area centered on the Silver Mining City a "paradise" in a certain sense.

   These hundreds of believers in Charlotte were lucky not to be dragged into the flames of war.

   Now that the connection between North Port and the mine has been cut off, Charlotte wants to send someone to the kingdom garrison camp in the Castel Silver Mine to inquire about news. No one is more suitable than her believers who are also in the Mithril Mine.

  Thinking of this, Charlotte cast her consciousness on the hundreds of light clusters representing the believers, and followed the memory of the breath to find the one representing the werewolf Luf.

  With a light touch, she extended her consciousness to the past...

  …

  Northeast of Castelland, Caiyin City.

  As the famous mithril mining area in Siunite, the silver mining city at this moment is much more noisy than usual.

  In the city, ragged, skinny beggars can be seen almost everywhere in the streets and alleys, and outside the city walls, simple tents of all sizes have been set up along the city.

  These are refugees who fled here from all over the north as the war spread.

  War damage to order is devastating.

   The army and mercenaries led by the nobles did not have the so-called military discipline, and everywhere they went was a complete mess.

  Even if there was only a partial rebellion in Castel, where the war spread, it still triggered a wave of refugees.

  As the Castel Mithril mining area protected by the Royal Army, it naturally became the best place for refugees in the Castel War Zone to escape.

  During the month when the war broke out, refugees from all directions almost crowded the entire Silver Mining City.

  Refugees will also bring pressure on law and order. In order to maintain order, the city hall of Mining Silver City finally had to ask for help from the nearby Kingdom Army and send troops to maintain order.

   Only in this way can it be considered that no greater chaos has been caused in Mining Silver City.

  Outside the Silver Mining City, on the side of the Castel mining area.

  Outside a rough tent, there was a long queue of skinny refugees, eagerly looking at the desk at the front of the queue.

  On the desk, there are hills of black bread piled up, and beside the black bread is a huge pottery jar filled with porridge.

  Behind the desk, several tall werewolves and humans wearing the uniforms of the Castel Mining Workshop supervisors were busy distributing food to the refugees queuing up.

   From a distance, you can hear the rough and loud voices of the werewolves maintaining order on both sides of the refugee team:

   "Don't rush! Don't mess! Everyone has a share!"

  “One person can only get one bowl of gruel or one piece of black bread, and no more can be taken, and no one can steal!”

   There are werewolf miners with scary appearance and the maintenance of heavily armed Castel guards. Although there are many refugees queuing up, the order on the scene is not chaotic at all.

Watching the refugees receive the food one by one, they expressed their gratitude to the mining workshop that distributed the food, and loudly praised the benevolent Lord Castel, the acting general manager of the mining workshop, Hank de Leon-Castell With emotion on his face, he said to the tall werewolf miner beside him:

   "Your Excellency Luf, I really want to thank you for your help. Now almost all the guards on the mine have been transferred to the city. Without you, I am afraid it would have been chaotic."

  The werewolf Luf smiled honestly and said:

   "Mr. Hank, this is what it should be. Every refugee is a citizen of Castel. As a follower of the Earl, it is right to participate in the relief."

   "This is also the Earl's long-standing request. When I was still in Boulder, I followed the Earl to participate in the relief of poor areas many times."

   Steward Hank also nodded slightly, and sighed:

   "Yes, the Earl is kind. When she left the mining workshop, she hinted many times that I should deal with the life problems of the poor and miners in the Silver City."

   "Although refugees often gather in Caiyin City because of its proximity to the Grand Duchy of the North and East Unite, but there are so many now... It's the first time I've seen them. I really hope that the rebellion will end soon..."

  Luf nodded and said firmly:

   "It will definitely end. All those who betrayed the Earl will eventually pay the price they deserve!"

   Steward Hank sighed:

   "Hey, I hope the Earl is safe and sound. Rumors have been raging in the north recently. People in the city are also unstable, and I don't know what's going on outside."

  Luf comforted:

   "Of course the Earl is safe and sound. We just need to do what we can and keep an eye on the Castel Silver Mine for the Earl. With the Kingdom's garrison, those rebellions dare not come."

  Looking at the confident look of the werewolf miner, Steward Hank's heart moved slightly, very curious:

   "Your Excellency Luf, it sounds like...you seem to know the news of the Earl?"

  Luf shook his head and said meaningfully:

   "There is no news, but... the Earl is not an extraordinary person, but a saint walking on the ground, and he must be safe and sound."

  After listening to Luf's words, Steward Hank nodded secretly after a little thought:

   "You're right. The Earl is a living saint. Even the rebels of the Legolis family may not dare to offend the gods!"

  Luf smiled slightly.

  He did not explain that the sacred in his mouth and the so-called sacred understood by the other party do not refer to the same thing.

  Although the other party is appointed by His Majesty the True Ancestor to act as an acting steward, it is not yet the time for the other party to know everything.

  This kind of ambiguous misunderstanding, so let’s just misunderstand it.

   It's just that, although he has confidence in the great true ancestor, even he, the actual tribal priest, hasn't received a new oracle for three or four months.

  Even though the True Ancestor had predicted it a few months ago, as time went by, Lu Fu still felt a little uneasy.

   "Your Majesty the True Ancestor... Castel is already in chaos. I still follow your oracle and spread your faith in the mining area, but... when will you wake up?"

  Luf sighed in his heart.

  However, at this moment, a very familiar feeling suddenly came to his heart.

  A friend recommended a book, "Strategy said, I seem to be the master of villains"

   Travel through the final boss of the first episode and start the coquettish story of the second episode.

  Labels: [The Fourth Natural Disaster], [Steampunk]