When we left The Pit for a second ti to look for more survivors in the nearby settlents, we got to a small town that the warriors hadn’t been able to save from the soldiers before.
Rio, who was in my group, told that they had over fifty brainwashed soldiers protecting the town, and the last ti they scouted it, they spotted an Accursed Beast accompanying them.
For that reason, the warriors never had a chance to save any of the enslaved villagers that they kept inside the town.
Now that I was here, they thought that we had a better shot at it. Nevertheless, when we arrived at the town after hours of walking, there weren’t as many soldiers as they said.
There were at least twenty soldiers and no Accursed Beast in sight. Even when I used my "search" spell, I couldn’t sense anything remotely close to our location.
"Are you sure this is the sa town?" I asked Rio, who was surprised to see their defenses had gone down.
"Definitely. This is the place..." he replied.
It was clear that Baelzor was redirecting his forces sowhere else, but we didn’t know where they were being taken or why.
If Drakzen had told Baelzor of our presence in the north, then it would have made more sense for him to buff up their security. Instead, it seed like he was retreating—almost as if he was purposefully giving us the town’s people.
Even with our suspicions, we couldn’t just leave all those people there. I could easily tell now when soone was brainwashed just by looking at their eyes, and I noticed that more than half of the enslaved villagers were not under the effect.
Yoru and I went in first, taking out a couple of the brainwashed soldiers that looked the strongest while the rest of the group started freeing the enslaved villagers who were not mind-controlled.
From what Rio told , freeing a villager who was brainwashed would make them go violent sotis, so it was better to keep them wearing the chains until we removed the spell from them.
Once we captured all of the brainwashed people, we returned to The Pit, which took us a few more hours to get there since so of the soldiers were extrely uncooperative.
Luckily, we got there before nightti, making feel like we were using our ti quite efficiently.
As soon as we returned, Helena went to et with her daughter, who had been patiently waiting for our return, while I went to the tenth ring with all of the brainwashed people.
I was still thinking about the fact that Baelzor was moving his forces, and it bothered so much that I ended up sending a voice ssage to Lyssandra, the Empress of Droman.
The Droman Empire was one of the largest countries in the world in terms of landmass. However, Lyssandra once told that they didn’t have enough people to populate all the livable areas in their borders.
During one of our etings, before I left Droman, she told that her country was open to anyone who wanted a new life.
She knew that the devils would ravage other countries, so she offered the confines of her nation to anyone who wanted to immigrate there—in fact, most of the people who escaped Guanghua during our siege there went to the Droman Empire.
There were at least 2,000 Guanghua citizens who migrated to Droman at that ti, so I believed that she wouldn’t have a problem receiving a couple dozen more.
My plan was to evacuate all of the people inside The Pit who weren’t warriors, as I couldn’t get the bad feeling out of my head.
Right after I sent the ssage, I received one from Reinar and Jen, saying that they had made progress on the cure and needed to test it out again.
’Jeez, these guys are working fast. Are they even sleeping?’ I pondered as I walked to the magic quartz to pick them up from End Forest.
When I got there, the two alchemists were carrying all of their tools, ready to leave at that sa instant. Without wasting any ti, I teleported us back to The Pit.
"Check this out. We perfected the mix, so now it’s not as thick as before..." said Reinar, pulling out a vial from his bag.
The potion had the sa cream color as before, but the consistency was much more liquid, so it would be easier to feed them to the brainwashed people.
A few more warriors were present this ti, as the information about the brainwashing curse had already spread all throughout The Pit, so they were curious to see it in person.
When we grabbed the first warrior who was chained to the wall, he tried attacking and Vespera, but my companion held him tightly while I fed the potion to the crazed man.
After the last drop poured out of the vial, we took a few steps back and waited for the excruciatingly painful seizure that followed up. However, the man didn’t move a muscle after kneeling down.
I could see the demonic energy slowly leaving his body, but the man wasn’t screaming in pain or anything, which surprised .
"Hehe, looks like it worked..." said Jen, rubbing her nose with a prideful expression.
Still, before I could ask them what they did to the potion, the demonic energy that left the man’s body accumulated in the air and materialized another imp, who instantly tried attacking Reinar.
However, it didn’t even take a second for Vespera to end the monster with her spider leg, stabbing the imp in the head and making it disappear into ashes.
"Huh, what happened?" the confused warrior said as he raised his gaze.
’Wow, it really worked—and no pain!’ I thought, happily surprised at the alchemists’ breakthrough.
While Bjorn and Magnus explained to the confused warrior what had happened to him, Reinar and Jen told their process for perfecting the potion.
Apparently, Jen had discovered that if she fernted the redberries that grew on End Forest, they would release a toxin that would numb a person’s pain receptors—in other words, she had found a way to make anesthesia.
The toxin wasn’t potent enough to cause any permanent damage to a person unless they digested a lot of fernted berries. However, when they mixed them inside the new potions, it countered the painful feeling from the cleansing.
’These two are geniuses...’ I thought, still pleasantly surprised.
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