Chapter 293 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

After careful consideration, Sui Xiong decided to let Felix preside over the construction of the development zone.

At present, the Church of Void Mask had plenty of talents, but the professions of these talents were extremely unbalanced. Military talents and low-ranking officials were everywhere, but few people were capable of being a chief officer.

Honestly speaking, the most suitable one to be a chief officer was Miss Pan Jogan, a teacher in the school of clergymen. However, she was a believer of the God of Centaur, and she was very loyal to her god. Thus, expecting her to help Sui Xiong build the development zone was tantamount to seeking out fish from the woods.

The second choice was Jose, since he once had been a tribe leader. But for some reason, he was more suitable to be an assistant officer than a chief officer. So Sui Xiong lowered his standard and finally found Felix, who was a teacher, hoping to pass on the fantastic profession of battle mages—Magic Bomber.

Felix did well in the Fighter Championship, and since then she had become famous and had received many invitations. Instead of accepting invitations from those nameless teams and various organizations, she stayed in the Void Mask Land and joined the Mage Corps of the Church of Void Mask.

In exchange, she could use the strength of the church to find several children with the talent of both mages and paladins and teach them professional skills of the Magic Bomber. This would complete her promise that she had made when she was a teenager to pass on the profession.

Time flew fast. Several years later, these children grew up to be teenagers, and Felix also grew up a lot. Just like the others, such as Jose, Felix began to get close to the Legendary Realm.

There was actually a long distance from getting close to the Legendary Realm and then entering it. As the heir of the blood of the legendary creature, Phoenix, Felix was not in a hurry. She could live a long life after the power of her blood woke up, so she was determined to achieve her goal gradually and slowly enter the Legendary Realm through years of accumulation.

In that case, she was quite free now. Moreover, she was a businesswoman with a broad horizon and a flexible mind, and she had also been outstanding in the Mage Corps during this period of time. Thus, Sui Xiong made up his mind to let her be the mayor of Pyroxene Town and preside over the construction of the development zone.

Felix didn’t hate this job. On the contrary, she was curious to know how His Majesty, the Void Mask intended to revive a desolate town into a model of what he called “social progress.” It would be even more interesting if she could make a contribution to this career.

So after being invited, she enquired about the whole thing in detail and accepted the job happily. With simple preparations, she left the Void Mask Land with her students and came to Pyroxene Town in the cold winter.

Of course, Sui Xiong would not just let her fight alone. It wouldn’t be long before others came to help, and it was her own request that she came first.

“Since I am going to be the mayor and preside over the construction of this town, I should start my work first,” Felix said then. “It’s like fighting. A commander who rushes to the front is undoubtedly more convincing to her subordinates than shrinking back at home. That’s the same thing.”

That was why she came here in a hurry and seized power as soon as she arrived. She grabbed the position of the mayor through persuasion rather than by force as ordinary mages did, and she built a magic school to make preparations for the follow-up work.

Hours later, in the evening, students from the Isuka School of Magic returned home under the guidance of Haman. It could be seen that they were a little sad and in a low mood, and the red eyes of some sensitive little girls apparently showed that they had cried.

As soon as they saw their teacher, Felix, they told her about what they had seen and heard during the trip. Generally speaking, it could be summed up in one sentence—the people here were very poor, and they needed help.

When Felix checked their expenses, she found a huge amount of food expenditure unexpectedly. After careful calculation, she found that these little guys had bought food that was enough for hundreds of people to eat for at least a month, and the price was quite high. These little guys probably had been cheated by others.

After she saw the bill, Felix frowned and looked at Haman.

As a legendary master who was getting close to the Legendary Realm, of course, she would not take money seriously. But when her students were cheated by others, she was still very unhappy. Those teenagers might lack social experience, but Haman was a native and was not a fool. How could he allow this to happen?

Haman saw that she looked unhappy after she saw the bill, and then he suddenly felt nervous in his heart. “Mage, this is just a one-time expenditure on food. Those poor people will save the food for eating, and they also have jobs… It is estimated that they will be able to survive this winter,” he said in a low voice.

“It doesn’t matter. But why are the grains so expensive?” Felix said with a frown.

Haman was confused at that. “Expensive? It’s on sale for a bulk purchase…”

Now it was Felix’s turn to be confused. She looked at the bill and recalled it carefully, confirming that even the food price of the Void Mask Land would not be so high. And the food in the Void Mask Land was much better than that here. Rough milled Gold Vines flour, for example, was seldom used in meals; even dogs didn’t like to eat it.

The price of food here was so high! How could it be so high in such a dilapidated place? That was not reasonable!