Arcane Linguist

Chapter 508 The incident came to light
Before you know it, spring has passed and autumn has come, and another year has passed.

In Reiner's world, the vigorous Western Expedition is in full swing.

As expected, the kingdom's army was invincible and everyone surrendered wherever they went.

The nobles of the Silena Kingdom were ready to surrender completely, but Rowan took iron-blooded measures that refused to surrender and launched a massacre against those nobles who might threaten his rule.

This naturally aroused dissatisfaction from many parties, and even in Atrein there were many voices of criticism and severe condemnation.

But Rowan didn't care at all. With the support of his legendary mage-level father and the solid foundation laid by his mother, he had great power and unparalleled prestige as soon as he came to power. The soldiers and civilians under his command were also happy to expand territories and obtain fiefdoms in this way.

It just so happens that the nobles of the enemy country give up all their interests and leave them to their own hands.

At this moment, everyone suddenly realized that Rowan was serious.

He is trying to clear all obstacles in a brutal way.

Even, in order to prevent those nobles from fleeing and becoming apartments in other worlds, and then breeding descendants and causing endless trouble, he also deliberately closed the teleportation circle from Reiner's world to the outside world.

However, this kind of confrontational alliance cannot be formed overnight, and they also lack the magical power of mid-to-high level and above, and they always lose ground every time they face a battle.

But at this time, on the other side.

At this moment, several more figures caught his attention.

Soreno walked over with some curiosity.

But on the ruins of the broad street that was originally the upper city, two groups of skinny people were facing each other, actually fighting for a bag of grain.

He had been to these places in the past, but later, when he went to Nieves City to develop, he learned all about what he saw and heard from newspapers.

If it weren't for the realization of Rowan's strategy of "fighting slowly" and resolving internal conflicts during the war, I am afraid that the city would have been conquered long ago and it would have ended completely.

The once prosperous city is now reduced to ruins. Among the ruins, the crumbling and dilapidated buildings seem to silently tell the stories of the past.

At this moment, what appeared in front of him were ruins that had been torn by war.

It has been several years since I really stepped down.

Soreno came to the war-torn area of ​​Dolan Kingdom.

Under this strategic planned elimination, the opposition's power quickly withered.

Due to the remnants of these powers, many places have become no longer suitable for life. Occasionally, carrion crows can be seen hovering among the ruins, making shrill cries, making it particularly desolate.

Just to catch a turtle in an urn.

Those turned out to be human beings living among the ruins.

……

"Those are refugees, what are they doing?"

This finally made all enemies recognize the reality and unite to fight against it.

His eyes turned to the main trunk of the street, an area once ravaged by demons. Traces of explosions and burning could be seen everywhere. The ground was overgrown with grass, but it was killed by the negative energy brought by the undead army, turning it into withered and scattered everywhere. .

"I never thought that this place would turn out like this."

The grain had the mark of a certain trading company on it, and it was obviously unearthed from a warehouse or cellar among the ruins.

The hungry survivors have long lost their source of food and are becoming like ghosts.

"Kill!" Someone screamed, and the survivors in ragged clothes rushed forward with sticks, stones, and various crude weapons, beating them to death.

The wounded man roared like a beast, and the perpetrator roared like thunder.

In a short time, blood and water splashed, and the skin and flesh were torn.

Soreno had only read in textbooks that refugees who had lost their source of livelihood in war-torn areas could easily turn into mobs, but he had never witnessed such primitive and cruel fighting with his own eyes.

They are obviously so weak, but they are not weak at all when dealing with each other.

Perhaps both sides know that they can only survive by fighting desperately.

Soreno watched from a distance with the extraordinary vision blessed by the "Eagle Eye Technique", and did not disturb the battle of these ant-like refugees. It was not until one party completely won and left behind the wailing and screaming wounded that he came back to his senses.

"These people are despicable and dirty, and they will die without mercy. They just happen to be my test subjects."

He quietly cast a spell, and a moment later, several rune beasts appeared out of thin air and picked up those seriously injured and dying humans.

"Soul-stealing art!"

Soreno cast spells one by one, grabbing the souls of those people and condensing them into balls.

He has cast this spell many times, but never on humans. But now it seems that it comes naturally without any discomfort.

Each of the soul fires grabbed from those people's bodies was the size of a grain of rice, but it contained a person's most essence and pure thoughts.

Soreno was somewhat surprised to find that this kind of miserable person who was trapped in war and suffering, and whose last thought was only to eat and drink enough, had an unexpectedly high quality of spiritual power.

“This characteristic seems to have the same mechanism as the power of faith.

The more difficult and difficult it is, the easier it is for pure faith to be born! "

Their thoughts at the moment are just to take a bite of hot food. If someone can satisfy them at this time, they will be instantly moved, comparable to a fanatical believer!
At this moment, he had already thought of how to collect more wisdom fires and how to improve their quality.

This doesn't even require him to search everywhere. He just needs to pay more attention in this war-torn area and find the hungry and cold civilians.

So, in the following days, Soreno traveled around the world, breaking into those refugee camps under different identities, and successively captured some spirits and souls.

He has more and more sparks of wisdom in his hands.

But at this time, Soreno also felt that it was inconvenient for him to act alone, so he simply took advantage of the opportunity of experiment and began to try to inject this kind of wisdom fire into people.

He is creating his own dependents in a similar way to "talisman beasts", and at the same time he is also determining how many people are needed to promote an ordinary human being to an extraordinary being comparable to the middle or even high level.

At the beginning, he did not really master the techniques used on humans, and destroyed the captured test subjects one after another.

But after paying the price, I began to gradually figure out some rules, and even succeeded by chance.

And those subordinates who were created quickly captured more refugees for him, successfully making up for the previous losses.

However, just when Soreno thought this matter could continue without anyone noticing, something unexpected happened.

A team of battle mages patrolling the territory of Dolan Kingdom discovered the dependents he created, quickly captured them, and then reported them step by step.

The mages behind noticed the secret mark in it, traced it back to the technology of artificially creating rune beasts, and then followed the clues and suspected Soreno.

When he stood up, many doubts broke out, and what he did was completely exposed.

(End of this chapter)