Chapter 132 (2/2)

“Your Majesty… I am fed up!” Satan’s hair was very messy, and he had bags under his eyes. He looked very haggard, as if he had been had sex with more than one Steele. He said in a very weak voice, “They are even more stupid than the pig!”

Sui Xiong asked him what had happened, and Satan could no longer suppress his feelings and began to complain while crying: these followers had never been to school before, some couldn’t even count from one to 20, worse still, they didn’t show any interest in studies. Satan and other educated followers had been working very hard to teach them for a week, and were very upset by them, and could no longer continue the teaching anymore.

“If this has to continue, I will definitely burn them to death by throwing a fire ball at them; or myself.”

Seeing the haggard and desperate Satan, Sui Xiong had no choice but to abandon this plan.

As a result, Ray’s seemingly good plan failed to cheer up the followers made them even more depressed. Satan also felt a bit depressed by the failure of this plan.

Thus, Sui Xiong tried to ask for help from Steele, who was always feeling very happy.

“It is really easy to make them happy!” Steele began to laugh in a slutty way. In the blink of an eye, Steele became a pig.

“Enough! I know what you mean.” Sui Xiong sighed and pushed away Steele, who was writing something on a wood board.

He shouldn’t have asked Steele, since she was probably the least reliable person in this world, and could never give any decent suggestions. So he turned to others.

Palin couldn’t understand why the followers were feeling low. He believed they shouldn’t be like this since they had good accommodation as well as enough food and water. After hearing Sui Xiong’s explanation, Palin said, “Your Majesty, a shallow person like me can never understand what you are thinking, and I fail to understand what you mean. Please forgive me.”

Rode said, “They are feeling low simply because that they haven’t got the land to farm? I think they are just feeling bored! Order them to practice the martial arts together with Master Gerrard! They shouldn’t stop practicing until they exhaust themselves. This way, they will neither have the time nor the energy to feel bored!”

“This sounds nice… but how about the exploitation to the north?” Sui Xiong asked. “The winter is coming, and after they have been practicing with Gerrard for the whole winter, they will be as strong as the formal soldiers. Would they still be willing to do the exploitation? Would they feel they hadn’t been appreciated enough?”

Hearing this, Rode sighed. “Your Majesty, you are being too merciful with them! In my view, there is no need to care about if they are feeling low or not! Picking out the faithful follower from the ordinary followers is just like sifting sand for gold. It takes time. The followers who are in low spirits don’t deserve your attention, since they just don’t strive to make progress!”

Sui Xiong agreed with Rode, but even so, it was not helping. Since it was Sui Xiong himself who had gathered this people together to push up to the north, Sui Xiong felt he was responsible for these people’s happiness. He might seem too merciful on these followers in Rode’s view, but he thought that since he had the ability to cheer them up, why not try to work harder to do so?

Later, Sui Xiong went to ask the experienced Snow.

“The morale of the followers is a rather complicated issue, but you are right!” Snow said. “Boosting their morale can not only help to cultivate more faithful followers, but also helps to foster the collectivism among the whole church. Actually, if you don’t mind, you can send them to the dragon roaring town, where there are many employers hiring employees all year around. Even if they are not able to work as farmers there, everyone in the dragon roaring town is very positive, and this will do them good.”

Sui Xiong though about this for a while, and agreed that this might be a way worth trying out. So he decided to send the followers to the dragon roaring town.

As Snow had said, people in the dragon roaring town were overly positive. If the followers came to this town to work, not only could they learn a skill, they could also be more high spirited.

Emotions are contagious. One could feel more and more depressed if he spent time with the depressed; while one could become happier and happier when he spent time with someone who was feeling happy. Even if those followers were feeling rather low due to the lack of farmland, they could soon become happy and positive if they got the chance to live among the happy villagers and adventurers in the dragon roaring town. This wouldn’t do them any harm; laughing is better than crying and being happy is better than being sad.

Later, hundreds of followers were sent to the dragon roaring town. Snow arranged some followers to work as butchers who helped to dismember the evil monsters, and most of the followers to work as backmen. Just as Snow had said, soon the followers gradually become more happy and positive, although they were not working as farmers.

Seeing them finally laughing and smiling, Sui Xiong was relieved. Meanwhile, something else happened.

“Your Majesty, I have met a very interesting person.” When the first snow of the year came, Wendy woke up the doppelgänger that had been sleeping in the magic pagoda. “I think he would be of great help to you.”

“Ah? Who is he?”

“Akane Pasteur,” Wendy said. “He is the son of my teacher’s late good friend, a Druid who excels in the spagirism.”