Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 506 Treating the symptoms rather than the root cause

There was nothing much that could be done in one day in the village, so Rorschach just took out the surrounding hideouts.

After the mill caught fire, some people pretended to put out the fire, but the fire spread very quickly. Even though the mill was next to a small river in the neighboring village, people were unable to save anything. Only the empty cellar entrance and collapsed stone walls were left. As for the people, they were unrecognizable.

Some said that the outsider had problems and ran away, while others said it was an accident and he probably died in there.

To reassure the village chief, Rorschach held another purification before dawn. While everyone else was asleep, a blue light washed over the village and then across the fields.

The worst pollution had been set on fire, by Rorschach himself.

Of course, those who went to the mill at night could not sleep all night. They could not close their eyes due to anxiety, and their minds were full of the scene of the fire engulfing the mill. When they saw the blue light flooding into the house like water, they were so scared that they rolled out of bed and began to crawl and pray randomly until everything returned to calm and the sky gradually brightened with the crowing of cocks.

"So let's go, leave here." Rorschach suddenly had an idea and thought of how to persuade old Merkler: "In Bain, where I work, land can be freely bought and sold and reclaimed. As long as you have money, you can buy as much land as you want, but the premise is that it cannot be left uncultivated."

Seeing that Old Merkler didn't say anything, Rorschach patiently continued to add: "In the north of Byrne, there is fine wine, and other places have beer. My magic tower also has a magical alchemical wine jar that can turn grain into fine wine in one day."

Old Merkle finally couldn't sit still any longer: "Oh my God! Aren't we father and son? Why didn't you tell me earlier!" He began to pack up his things "angrily": "Old woman, Angel, let's go now! Let that idiot who only knows how to fight come to Bavaria to find our family!"

"Village chief, you...you come with us too." Both the original and current Rorschach have received help from the village chief, and Rorschach is very grateful to him.

The village chief hadn’t slept all night, and he was not as energetic as the young man and old Mekler. He rubbed his eyes and yawned: “You guys go. I still have to wait for my son to come back to the village.”

Rorschach remembered that the village chief's father and son had the same name and surname: "You can write a letter to tell little Melson."

The village chief was silent for a while: "He can't receive the letter."

The room was quiet for a while, and old Melson closed his eyes as if he was about to fall asleep: "I always wonder, if I had given him my precious leather armor, would he not have died? I regret it. It's just a wizard's relic, how can it be more important than my son."

"So you gave it to Franz later."

The village chief nodded and said: "You must protect him. Don't be like poor little Melson. I only received a notice and a few silver coins. He hasn't returned home yet and has no clothes."

Rorschach didn't know how to comfort the old man: "I tricked Franz into studying in a military academy. He is safe now."

"That's good, that's good. He has a very useful brother."

Merkler was extremely shocked. He took up old Melson's drooping hands and said, "You didn't even tell us that we are a family from now on. Let's go to Bayern together."

In the end, the old village chief refused the invitation, and Mockler chose to ask him to move into the manor before leaving. The village chief still refused, but he promised the Mocklers that he would help take care of the courtyard, and Mockler had the opportunity to put the key into the village chief's hand.

In addition to the money, Rorschach also gave him some healing potions, carved a metal seal with his own emblem, and a bottle of alchemical potion.

"Since you want to protect the village, I won't force you. If an accident or disaster happens to the village, you can throw this badge into the potion and I will know. It will be much faster than writing a letter."

"Got it. Thank you." "I'm the one to thank." Rorschach glanced at the old man. Although old Melson might be younger than Kano, he was just an ordinary person. The injuries in his youth and the hard work afterwards made him look much older.

Rorschach looked into those kind, tenacious but also old and turbid eyes for a long time, sighed deeply, and solemnly said goodbye to the old village chief.

From then on, the Merkler family quietly moved away from the small village where Rorschach was born.

Rorschach and they took the airship all the way to Byrne. With him in charge, there was no need to worry about anything going wrong with the flying vehicles, whose accident rate had been rising year after year, and they landed smoothly at the newly built Lanster transportation hub.

He asked Andre to help settle old Merkler's family, then he turned around and entered the guild, disappearing into the teleportation array.

"I didn't expect you to pay me a surprise visit." Alexander von Humboldt was designated to meet with the unexpected guest.

Rorschach took out the contaminated wheat seeds, as well as some samples that were kept when the city dens were taken down, including potions, deformed pieces of meat.
"It seems that the Mother Goddess's invasion of reality has restarted, or perhaps it has never stopped. The efforts of Valois and the Lord of Order last year were only to temporarily clear some of the pollution, and now that the war has begun, new organizations have resurrected." Rorschach's concerns are not unreasonable.

Humboldt also shared what he knew: "There are generally no abnormalities in the main grain-producing areas within the empire, but the research teams sent out this year did find and bring back a lot of Mother Goddess pollutants from various places. One team was even attacked by believers, just when you invited me."

No wonder Humboldt was so busy during the harvest season, it turned out he was there to deal with the cult.

Rorschach thought before speaking: "If the cult continues to attack the food supply, and the Mother Goddess's past incarnation does have relevant authority, then as military rations are collected, I'm afraid there will be problems throughout the empire. Not only that, the situation in Valois may be the same."

"The Forest Tower is already communicating with the Imperial Army and the Royal Family. If the military rations are concentrated, an additional inspection and purification measure can be added to target the Mother Goddess's contamination. The Empire's anti-magic device is very powerful and can even dispel the primary divinity."

The young archmage was not satisfied with this measure: "But it is only a temporary solution, and many people will be polluted. It would be best if the guild could take action as well."

"Yes, you can write a detailed report with me, and I will present it to the Senate. If we can reach the astral plane and enter the symbolic plane, in addition to monitoring the Tree of Truth, we may be able to detect the activities of the gods from a macro perspective, so that we can also get a sense of the Mother Goddess's activity level."

"Then the progress will have to be accelerated. In addition to the guilds, secular institutions should also cooperate. After all, the main purpose is to protect civilians, which should be their responsibility." After Rorschach finished speaking, he saw Humboldt seemed to be hesitant to speak, and couldn't help asking: "Is there something wrong with what I said?"

"Yes, very much so." Master Humboldt said yes, but he kept shaking his head: "You don't know, there is a view in the Imperial Parliament that the major cities of the empire can be covered with anti-magic devices, and the current emperor obviously supports it.

"The war has concentrated the mages stationed in the town to the front line. They can't raise any objections. The only obstacle to this plan is the mages belonging to the guild, that is, us."

He glanced at Rorschach and added, "Originally, there were many technical difficulties in the long-term operation of the anti-magic device, but they were solved one by one. In particular, a company called 'Basif Energy' appeared, which seemed to be able to solve the fundamental energy supply problem."

"Hehe, I think it's amazing that the Empire has such courage." Rorschach seemed not to understand the hidden meaning of Master Humboldt: "Shouldn't we make progress and find a way to crack the forbidden magic device?"

"That's easy to say. The Monkado Fortress incident was witnessed by all. All five devices fired simultaneously and the pollution from the Mother Goddess' activation was completely eliminated."

"The gods nowadays are either dead but not yet stiff, or still in a state of chaos and stupidity and have not awakened. It is not impossible to suppress their blind power. But we are living people who can think, and we can always find a way to break it." Rorschach said firmly.

He did not stay long after he finished speaking, and left after handing over the collected samples and evidence to the Archmage. Talking was useless, Rorschach immediately teleported back to his magic tower to start the experiment.

(End of this chapter)