Chapter 722: The Church of Epilepsy explodes!
Todd couldn't describe his feelings right now.
Should I say it's fear, depression, or maybe I've given up thinking?
Or maybe there are more than just these three emotions, and more negative emotions are flooding into your brain?
have no idea.
He felt that no one would be happy after being kidnapped by a madman.
"I, Todd Speaker, am 23 years old. I have no place to live, no job, and no savings. My biggest hobby every day is to find old men and women to give me some coins to spend. They all give them to me voluntarily. This is not a crime. Even if it is treated as fraud, I can't even get a one-year sentence."
Todd muttered to himself for a long time, then he suddenly scratched his hair like crazy and said in a melancholy tone:
"What am I doing?"
He curled up in the corner of the dark house. Even the windows of this small house were blocked tightly with weeds, and it seemed that they had been blocked recently. A damp and musty smell echoed in the house. This house was no different from a bare house. The only advantage it had was that it was clean.
“Puff, puff—”
Just then, three dead rabbits with their heads torn off were thrown in through the window, blood spilled all over the floor, their limbs still twitching.
The spilled blood instantly destroyed the only advantage of this room.
"Ah, it's only morning." Todd looked up at the sky blankly. Judging from the broken window, it was only morning now, probably around eight or nine o'clock, the beginning of the day.
However, he couldn't feel any vitality from it, nor could he even feel happy, because -
"You must enjoy today's food. I'm going to preach first, hahaha!"
An old-fashioned but crazy voice came from outside the window, and then Todd heard the other party running away with happy steps. After a while, there was a faint sound of artillery fire outside.
"That old guy is really not afraid of death."
Looking at the rabbit that was contaminating his floor with blood, Todd finally took action, walked over, picked up the rabbit, and handled it with unskilled movements.
After a while, smoke floated out of the chimney, but a gust of wind magic controlled by Todd blew it away instantly, and from a distance it was almost impossible to tell that the house was still inhabited.
The remaining smoke drifted to the collapsed bakery on the street, to the burned-down herbal medicine store, and to the empty houses with their doors wide open.
The smoke dissipated before floating out of the lifeless and almost deserted town.
Even if Todd didn't use magic to eliminate the traces of cooking smoke, it probably wouldn't be very conspicuous, because outside the town, the invisible magic was becoming chaotic and violent, and something as shapeless as smoke would definitely be eliminated by the turbulent magic.
That is to say, there is a magic stabilization device left by a magician in the town, which makes the town appear slightly stable. Being in a magical chaotic environment for a long time will definitely affect people's health.
Why does magic riot?
Because it is very far away from the town, but it doesn’t seem too far away in front of the acceleration magic.
The churches are at war.
This is the central area of Scamelon, the Kingdom of All Religions.
It is also the forefront of the battle between the coalition forces of the three major religions that control the country and the rebel forces of various small churches.
The two sides fought fiercely in this area. It often happened that the coalition forces occupied the place in the morning and the rebels returned in the afternoon. The same piece of land would change hands many times in a short period of time.
It can be said that this is now the most dangerous place in the entire Skamiron, without a doubt. Apart from the invasion of demons, what else could be more dangerous than war?
In the eyes of local residents living in this town called Haipa, no.
Fortunately, the fighting between the two armies has not yet reached here.
But tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, as long as the war continues, it will probably spread here sooner or later.
A fragrance gradually wafted from Todd's cabin.
Although eating only rabbit meat for a long time will cause health problems, it is better than having nothing to eat. Recently, it has become increasingly difficult to catch animals nearby, which is naturally due to the war.
The good thing is that the monsters nearby have also disappeared, and the safety of the town has been guaranteed. Not even a slime can be seen these days. After all, the slime's insignificant body can be used to load magic cannons, which can be used by both sides of the war.
Because of the war, people in the town fled on a large scale, but there were still a lot of things left in each house. He could pick up spices and use them at will, so the stew was very fragrant.
Although fragrance is colorless and invisible, it is to some extent more difficult to conceal than cooking smoke, but Todd does not need to conceal it.
As the aroma of stewed meat gradually spread throughout the town, this dead silent town gradually began to move.
The doors of some houses that looked shabby and like ruins from the outside were pushed open a crack, and dark shadows emerged from behind the doors, with bloodshot eyes and eyes full of desire.
“Sniff.”
After sniffing twice to confirm the aroma of stewed meat, his bloodshot eyes narrowed as a strange laugh came from behind the door.
The door slowly opened, sunlight flooded into the dark room, and the creature hiding within was revealed.
There are two children, a boy and a girl.
They looked to be in their teens, and their clothes were tattered, but they were clean and even the crevices between their nails were spotless.
Although they are a little thin, it can be seen that if they were not short of food, they would be very popular. The two of them look somewhat similar, so they may be siblings.
The two men looked at each other, and then quietly walked out of their own shack, but the direction they went was not Todd's shack, but the completely opposite direction.
They split up and ran to some houses with closed doors and knocked on them. Finally, they ran into a house together and pushed out two elderly people in wheelchairs.
Other doors also opened, and one weak face after another emerged. Everyone was dressed in rags but cleanly.
Some were sick, some were missing an arm, and some were so weak that they had to use crutches to move around. There were about ten people gathered together.
It perfectly fits the term "old, weak, sick and disabled" and is simply a concrete embodiment of the concept.
Everyone seemed to be in a very bad mental state. No one spoke when they gathered together. They walked towards Todd's house in silence. The atmosphere was quite weird.
It took these weak people more than ten minutes to walk this short distance, and some of them had to stop to rest and catch their breath.
When they finally arrived in front of Todd's house, everyone looked at the two children. They counted down for a while and went up to knock on the door.
After a while, the door opened.
Todd, wearing a pink apron he had picked up temporarily, came out with a large pot of stewed rabbit meat. The aroma made everyone present swallow their saliva.
"Praise Dianhuo! Dianhuo is the best!"
People shouted slogans in unison.
Even though they were so weak that they had to take a breath to walk, they all gave their all when shouting slogans. This was not because they were all fanatics, but because
"Well, that's good. The slogans were pretty loud this time."
Todd nodded in satisfaction, and then looked at the bodies of these people one by one. If anyone had dirty hands or faces, he would throw a ball of water magic at them to make them clean up. After seeing that everyone's hygiene was acceptable, he knocked on the edge of the pot with a spoon and said:
"Okay, let's eat. Come and line up for your meal."
This is what people are waiting for.
Then, various containers were filled with rabbit stew through Todd's hands, and during this time he kept chattering:
"I'll give you an extra piece of meat. Go feed those two old men and women first."
"You have an infectious disease. Go eat by yourself."
"Does your arm still hurt? Oh, it's nothing, I'm just asking, I can't treat it."
At the end, when the two children were still serving soup, Todd gave them all the remaining soup and said in a more polite manner:
"Eat more and grow up quickly."
The children nodded heavily, their eyes full of gratitude as they said:
"Praise Dianhuo! Dianhuo is the best!"
There were three rabbits for more than a dozen people, and even if Todd didn't serve himself any meat, it still seemed too little to eat. But there was no other way, as he could not find any other food.
Although there was not enough food, everyone who received the food prayed with gratitude and recited all the prayers they had learned in their lives. These prayers were directed to the god that Todd had told them, and as long as they praised that god, he would provide people with the strength to survive.
The name of that god is [God of Mad Fire].
"Oh, I can't believe I've ended up like this here. I really want to go to the capital and live with my cousin."
Todd looked at the people eating heartily and couldn't help but sigh in melancholy. He took a sip of the soup which was very tasty but had no ingredients at all.
He is a mediocre magician who can use magic to replenish his physical strength. Although he doesn't need to eat at all, he only needs to eat once every two days.
Of course, it’s not that he doesn’t like eating. In fact, he loves food very much, but these old, weak and sick people need to eat more right now.
"I can't believe this is what my first batch of believers turned out to be like when I first tried to start a sect."
He hesitated to speak, and finally sighed deeply, muttering to himself euphemistically: "Such a future is promising."
People heard him sigh, and although they didn't know the reason, they all shouted in unison: "Praise Dianhuo, Dianhuo is the best!"
After shouting, he continued to eat.
“Yes, yes, yes.”
Todd forced a smile and thought to himself:
I can't believe I came up with these meaningless words, and I can't believe these people happily accepted them.
The people who fled Haipa Town took away all the food, leaving the old, weak and sick to die.
From a moral point of view, perhaps this selfish behavior should be criticized, but Todd should be grateful that there are still people staying in Haipa Town.
Because these people indirectly saved his life.
All this dates back to half a month or a month ago.
That was what happened after he sneaked into the Warrior Country, but was kidnapped by a weird old man named Dorian because he shouted that he believed in insanity.
Dorian's mental state is very unstable, and he only shows a certain logic when talking about insanity. If you declare that you believe in insanity and say something related to insanity, you can gain Dorian's trust, or even use words to influence his behavior.
This is the conclusion he came to after observing Dorian. The meaning behind this conclusion is
In Dorian's hands, his life was in jeopardy.
Dorian believed the nonsense he had made up, and thought that there was an organization in Scamelon that believed in Mad Fire, so he happily hurried over here, saying that he wanted to join the organization and contribute his strength.
But Todd knew that there was no such organization at all. He only learned about the Mad Fire when he accidentally saw a newspaper from the Warrior Country. Most people didn't even know about it, let alone an organized belief.
So, when Dorian arrived at Scameron and found that there was no such organization at all, his life was over.
In order to avoid that kind of thing from happening, Todd tossed and turned in bed during the nights he was traveling, and thought of many backup plans.
When he was still in the Warrior Kingdom, he asked Dorian to find research on the Insanity Fire, saying that he wanted to learn and understand it more deeply. Dorian actually found it for him.
After further research, Todd discovered a fact that made his eyelids twitch:
This insanity doesn't seem like a good thing, does it?
Why does it seem like an infectious disease?
Realizing that he seemed to have stepped into a super dangerous deep pit, Todd couldn't turn back. He could only try various things every day to improve Dorian's favorability, trying to make the other party let him go after knowing the truth.
But then, a turning point appeared.
That day, they stayed overnight in the town of Hepa to rest. Dorian was already restless because he couldn't find the organization.
Todd was so scared that he wanted to try to escape, but he would definitely be found by the old man because the old man was so strong that he could crush him.
On that sleepless night, the two children who had come with him to get food appeared.
"We believe in the gods you believe in. Can we please give us something to eat?"
This sentence became Todd's life-saving straw.
The next morning, he brought the brother and sister who had spent the whole night cramming for knowledge of insanity to Dorian, and announced in grief that his organization had been destroyed by an unknown church, and the two children were the only survivors who escaped.
The brother and sister's acting skills are beyond ordinary people, and they keep praising Dianhuo, saying that Dianhuo is the best. They coax Dorian, whose mental state is getting worse and worse, into a cheerful and kind old grandfather.
At this moment, Todd said, "We can rebuild the church here and make the faith of Dian Huo great again!"
Dorian accepted the request without question.
In this way, Todd managed to get away with it temporarily and saved his life.
The old, weak and sick people in Haipa Town became the first believers of the Mad Fire Church. Knowing that Todd and his people were their only source of food, people were extremely loyal to the Mad Fire Church.
It was because of this relationship that Todd dared to accept this group of people with confidence, and then temporarily used Haipa Town as his base.
Why didn't he leave this dangerous area of war?
Because he was gambling, gambling that he could get rid of Dorian.
Although this guy is very strong, he goes out every day to find people to come back to believe in Crazy Fire. When there is a war going on outside, there is no guarantee that he will not encounter any accidents.
Todd has decided that if Dorian doesn't come back for more than two days, he will run away immediately!
I will never look back!
However, the cruel reality is that Dorian comes back intact every day, and looks quite happy, and sometimes he can even pick up some good things.
Although it's weird to say that.
But there's a sense that Todd is playing the traveling frog, and Dorian is naturally the frog son.
"As long as I'm here, you'll have something to eat. Be grateful to me. Your happiness is built on my pain."
He said in a voice that only he could hear.
But what if?
He smiled self-deprecatingly and said:
“What if this church really does succeed?”
Todd himself didn't believe it.
At this moment, the ground suddenly shook, as if a heavy creature was coming towards this side.
He glanced into the distance and his face suddenly turned ugly.
"Have those guys from the war finally noticed this place?"
He saw a group of armed men riding huge horses towards him. They looked like a small team.
It was impossible to tell from here whether the team belonged to the coalition forces of the three major religions or the rebels of those small churches, but no matter which side they belonged to, as long as they came over, Todd had a feeling that it was definitely not a good thing.
The crowd began to panic, and then he stood up and said:
"Everyone, hide in the cellar. I'll handle this!"
(End of this chapter)
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