"Your Highness!" Anne, who was helping Conrad distribute supplies, spotted Li Aili, who had just returned.
The ladies' skirts were dirty, and their faces were covered in dust, making them look like a few little kittens that had crawled into holes in the ground.
"Your Highness! You're finally back!" Anne exclaimed excitedly, her words flying. "Where have you been for over a month? Balk and the others couldn't contact the Duke, and neither could we!"
"Oh God! Something terrible has happened, everything's in chaos, where should I even begin?"
"Calm down, Anne," Joanna advised her friend, who was speaking without punctuation, and then quickly reported the important matters to the lady.
"Madam, there have been no deaths in Emerald City."
Li Aili felt somewhat relieved.
Joanna added, "Suddenly, many spatial rifts appeared, and some monsters attacked us. Thanks to Lord Pumpkin outside the city, without his help, there would definitely have been casualties in Emerald City..."
The knights are still pursuing the remaining monsters.
Upon receiving the news, Balk also arrived with his men. "Your Highness!"
Balk said succinctly, "Your Highness, His Highness Albert has slain a god."
Li Aili and Arthur exchanged a glance.
"I'll go for a walk around town first to calm everyone down. You all go and talk business," Li Aili said.
When such a disaster strikes, the people in the city are filled with fear and anxiety. At this time, the lord's intervention is more effective than anything else in calming the people's hearts.
Moreover, Li Aili possesses the heart of a sage, and she is capable of far more than this.
The couple tacitly agreed to split up and act separately.
Li Aili led Joanna towards the hospital, asking, "Where's the hospital? Did it collapse too?"
Joanna: "Yes, but please let me explain. The hospital and some municipal buildings were indeed enchanted with high-level solidification magic, as you requested."
"But we were attacked by a spaceship."
"The spaceship emerged from the crack, and we were rescuing traveling merchants outside the city at that time... and then the spaceship suddenly started bombing us."
The sturdy magic could withstand earthquakes, but it couldn't withstand the concentrated fire of the extradimensional invading creature's spaceship.
"What about that spaceship?" Li Aili's voice turned cold.
"We released those two dragons and killed them."
"very good."
Seeing Li Aili walking through the ruins of the city, many dusty and disheveled villagers stopped what they were doing, and women and children came out of their tents.
They followed silently behind Li Aili, naturally forming a long line.
Li Aili glanced around and saw that the sky above the line behind her was filled with layers upon layers of rain bubbles.
[Waaaaah, I was so optimistic about Emerald City that I even broke away from my family and sold all my possessions... What am I going to do now?!]
[God, I just took out a loan from the goblin bank to open a shop, and the entire commercial street is ruined! What am I going to do now...?]
[Damn it, I expanded too hastily. Bella even had a baby. What are we going to do...?]
These people, their faces etched with sorrow, followed Li Aili blankly.
Li Aili did not speak.
At this time, actions speak louder than words.
Soon, she arrived at the 'Second Hospital' set up in the outer city.
Unsurprisingly, this place was also a ruin.
The knights cleared a small area for the doctors and nurses to stand in, and then set up more than a dozen medical tents on it.
Some of the knights and civilians who were injured in the attack were sent here.
There are many wounded, and the Second Hospital is short-staffed.
They are like 'white butterflies' flitting among the patients.
Even when Li Aili arrived, some medical staff who were busy putting splints on patients and then giving them a "bone-regenerating pill" did not stop what they were doing.
Li Aili raised her hand to stop Joanna from notifying the busy medical staff.
She simply walked to the ruins of the hospital, gently crouched down, and her wise heart began to pound.
The residents had expected the Duchess to deliver a moving speech that would inspire them to rebuild after the disaster.
Then they saw the frail duchess reach out and touch the rubble, and then a jaw-dropping scene unfolded.
Rumble—!
Gravel flew up from the ground.
The hospital, which was unrecognizable from its original state, was transformed as if time had been reversed, turning from a pile of ruins into a complete hospital in an instant.
And all of this happened in just one second.
The people: "!!!!"
The original 'rainy bubbles' popped and burst, replaced by blank bubbles, just like the blank minds of everyone present.
One nurse was so shocked that she shoved the "bone-regenerating pill" up her nose.
Just then, the patient was so startled by the city lord's "stone-turning hand" that he gasped for breath, and with a "thud," the bone-regenerating pill ended up "the same way."
Li Aili, who was applying alchemy to infrastructure construction for the first time, stood up, clapped her hands, and said, "Quickly move the wounded into the hospital for treatment."
"Open the alchemy warehouse and draw upon the stored healing potions. I hope that before sunset, Emerald City will be free of any wounded."
"Yes!! Your Highness!" Joanna's face flushed with excitement.
She felt a fire burning in her chest, all her previous fatigue vanished, and she was full of inexhaustible energy.
Look! This is the lady I follow! This is the lord of our Emerald City!
The surroundings were deathly silent.
The doctors and nurses stood there dumbfounded, and the villagers who had come with her were all speechless.
“Joanna, you do as…” Li Aili was about to give some instructions when she was interrupted by a sudden burst of cheers.
"Long live the Emerald City Lord!!!"
"Emerald City will never fall!!"
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