Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 504 I Retreat, the Enemy Advances
"Old Mokler, I came to discuss something with you today." The village chief touched the box nervously: "This gold was given by your Rorschach."

The couple was only slightly surprised, and quickly replied: "It was given by Rorschach, so just take it. He received so much help from you back then."

"No, it's not for me personally!" The village chief picked up the gold coin and said, "Your son wants to use this money to help the children in the village go to school."

"No wonder. I was wondering how you suddenly had the money to continue sponsoring." Merkler suddenly realized, but still did not pay too much attention to the gold coins.

"Well, let me tell you about this." The village chief sighed, "You know the situation this year. The older children have all gone to the front. Most of them are too old to go to school. As for the younger children, there are only a few in the village in recent years. There is also a public school, so it doesn't cost much."

That is to say, Rorschach gave too much back then, and it could not be spent, it could not be spent at all.

The village chief expressed his thoughts: "There has been an emergency recently. The grain collection team from above is coming. They said they would leave some food for us, but it seems that they are here to rob us. This year is a good harvest, but if we pay according to the standard written in the official document, we will starve to death!

"So, I'm thinking about whether I can use this money to do some operations, and also use the money to replace food, and give the villagers as much as I can. Luo Xia is not here, so I will discuss with you to see if this is possible?"

Old Merkler was still thinking about it, but his wife spoke first, "Yes, of course. Rorschach left this money to do good things for the village."

But old Mekler grumbled, "Since you have money, why don't you wait until there is a real shortage of food to buy it? What if you don't have the money?"

"Because if you have food in your hands, you can have enough food to eat, but gold cannot fill your stomach. If all the harvest this year is confiscated by the empire as the village chief said, then in winter and spring, the price of food will only soar, and it will be difficult to feed the whole village even if you spend money to buy it."

"That's right, that's the truth." The village chief nodded but froze in the middle of his nod. The voice just now was clearly... "Rorschach?"

Rorschach appeared in the living room and scared the "local wise man" Merckle. However, Mrs. Merckle quickly ran up to touch and hug the child, just to make sure whether it was really her son.

After confirming that it was not an illusion, Mrs. Merkle shouted to the second floor: "Angel, your brother is back!"

Rorschach didn't have time to reminisce about the past. He went straight to the point and asked, "Who is that miller? Why haven't I heard of him before?"

His tone made old Merkler even more nervous, he was not like this before.

The village chief remained calm: "He is an outsider. Compared with the mills owned by nobles or the public mills, his mill basically does not charge money or take grain, so people nearby like to find him, and some even carry grain for dozens of miles just to save this money.

"After the villagers accepted him, this guy started to organize some kind of charity organization. In my opinion, it's just a missionary organization. And quite a few people joined."

"Why didn't you say that in the letter?"

"Because." While old Merkler was still hesitating, the village chief grumbled with a squint, "When I wrote the letter for him, I also advised him to discuss it with you, but he just wouldn't. Hey, Rorschach, you don't know that the biggest sponsor of the Charity Society in the village is your father!"

"Huh?" It was just as magical as the fraudsters taking away the anti-fraud police officer's parents' pension. He did come back little, but he didn't expect that old Merkler would play such a joke on him. Rorschach was almost laughing out of anger: "Why didn't you tell me? Don't you know this is wrong? Then why did you send money?"

His tone of voice became higher and higher, and his tone became more and more sharp. Angel interrupted Rorschach's aggressiveness and said, "Brother, my parents don't believe the nonsense of that foreigner! Don't you know why we should sponsor him?"

Angel's words after coming downstairs surprised him: "Huh? Why?"

"You are not at home, and my second brother has gone out to serve in the army. Is there any strong man at home? Outsiders know that our family is rich. If my father does not pay, that outsider will instigate other people with bad intentions to bully our family. If something goes wrong at that time, will it be too late to write to you?
"My parents don't want to tell you in the letter that our family has been robbed several times. If it weren't for the village chief's hunting rifle, I don't know what terrible things would have happened."

The village chief also nodded slowly.

"Why don't you hire servants to protect you?"

"Where can we hire someone?" The village chief added, "The young ones have all gone to the battlefield, and the Adventurer's Guild is about to close. The old ones are all doing well for their respective employers. No matter how rich the Merkler family is, they are just commoners on the surface. Who would be willing to switch jobs from the earl's or viscount's mansion? Even if your parents are willing to pay, they can't get a job."

But Rorschach refused to accept it: "I do have my own problems. I only supported you with money and didn't pay attention to you in time. But I absolutely don't agree with your twisted logic.

"You shouldn't hide it from me, the person who is most capable of solving the problem. And if you support the evil cult of outsiders, won't it increase their power and allow them to harm more people?"

Rorschach was also worried that after bringing the family to Byng, something might go wrong under his name. Now it seems that his worry was in the wrong direction: Old Merkler, you really don't want to take advantage of my reputation at all! The theoretical relatives of the great wizard were reduced to being threatened by a small missionary and obediently surrendered.

Well, this would be reassuring to take them to Byrne. Rorschach made up his mind: "Okay, let's not pursue right or wrong anymore. Everyone in the house will follow me to Byrne. It's safe and wealthy there, and I can take care of them at any time."

The last time Rorschach came back, he was still a gentle boy, but now he displayed an unquestionable demeanor, even though he was the second youngest in terms of age.

"I can't leave." Old Merkler finally spoke properly: "I'm afraid you'll take us away, away from this land, away from our home. And now that we've moved away, what will happen to Franz? Can he still find us, and can we find him?"

"You don't have to worry about that." Rorschach took out the letter from home that he would never be able to send under normal circumstances: "I have found Franz. He is still in the army, but he is attending the military academy as an auditor. He is very safe.

"When I returned to the village, the miller was inciting the villagers. Staying any longer would only increase the danger."

The empire itself did not have a powerful church, and as resident mages were also recruited and mobilized as a substitute, many parts of the empire, especially rural areas and small towns, fell into a situation where they were defenseless on the mystical level.

As the saying goes, "If you don't take the initiative to fight for a certain area, it will be occupied by the enemy." The Mother Goddess Cult, which had disappeared for a time, has revived again, and the mages who were originally responsible for extinguishing the fire have joined the army. Judging from the Monkado Fortress incident, the process of the Mother Goddess' awakening is still advancing, and the Cult and its similar existence will only continue to develop with the pace of its invasion.

Especially in areas where war brings death, forced to pay the price and endure suffering. Even in this peaceful village, people come to infiltrate.

(End of this chapter)