Chapter 299 (2/2)

Such people might not be qualified in key positions, but they had to be the backbones of the grassroots level and the local level. They could win others’ respect and love. Exaggeratedly speaking, they were the pillars that supported the building of society.

Felix and Jose had specifically sent vegetables and oil to the excavators mainly to win those strong labors’ hearts as soon as possible. Sui Xiong had told them that money was secondary because people’s wills were the key to success. Therefore, both he and the mayor had all thought of ways to win people’s hearts as much as possible.

For example, Jose now was patrolling in the forest near Pyroxene Town with some people. They were searching for the collection points of negative energy with a magic compass whose development was led by Satan, the head of the Mage Corps. They would nail specially produced purification columns down into the ground during the daytime and then push the force of the columns. The force could temporarily destroy the collection points, and it could also create temporary cleaning points in the same areas.

This action aimed to reduce the possibility of the appearance of skeletons in the night around the town; this would thus avoid the skeleton tide of the “Extreme New Moon Night” that happened every year.

“Extreme New Moon Night” was a concept of astrology. There was a night where negative energy was very active between mid-autumn and late autumn every year. Such nights were called the Extreme New Moon Night.

In the Ashes Woods, on the Extreme New Moon Night every year, an inexhaustible army of skeletons would appear, launching a crazy attack on all the people who settled here. Many villages of pioneers were ruined on the Extreme New Moon Night, with no survivors left in the whole village. Even the four towns with stronger defenses were afraid that they wouldn’t be able to resist the horrible skeleton tide if they were not built on the edge of Ashes Woods.

When he had first come ashore, Sui Xiong had once witnessed the skeleton tide; it had been a terrible catastrophe.

Not only that, a small skeleton tide would often appear at new moon nights every month. Those skeleton tides were not a problem for the towns, but they were still very threatening for the villages.

Jose destroyed the collection points of negative energy around the town one by one to establish purification nodes, finally aiming to build an extremely large purification array.

This was the subject of Mage Satan’s current research. He had chosen the direction of “purification” as his key to breaking into the Legendary Realm. According to his calculation, if this kind of large-scale purification array could succeed, it would mean that his thinking methods and calculations were correct. Then, what he only needed for stepping into the Legendary Realm would be enough magic power.

For him, a scholar-type master mage, magic power was not a problem, but rather a large ceremony. The key was to ensure that you were in the right direction to avoid the failure of the ceremony.

If his research was successful, then it would not take long for the Church of the Void Mask to have a true legendary mage, a wise man who could help travel steadily down the path of ability and wisdom.

People in Pyroxene Town were not aware of those things, but they at least knew one thing—what Jose and others had done was really good for the town.

Really good!

This made the residents of the town feel a bit better about the horrible red-haired giant man whose nose was able to spout sparks. They also trusted Town Mayor Felix who ruled the town, and the Church of the Void Mask behind the mayor a bit more.

The rulers in the past had only paid attention to the construction of the town walls, but they had never cared for the lives or deaths of the people outside the town walls. Compared to them, this group of new rulers obviously cared more and were more humane. They thought about the people.

Raising wages, stabilizing prices, repairing houses, rebuilding farmlands, developing mine veins, and purifying the environment—Town Mayor Felix and her partners and subordinates were indeed doing something beneficial for Pyroxene Town.

Some of what they’d done gained good results immediately. Some of them did not make any effects for the time being, but they would be good in the long run. Some of them were even the very things they had already wanted long ago but were impossible to own.

In the case of such measures running at the same time, the residents of Pyroxene Town naturally chose to trust and support Town Mayor Felix. Whenever she appeared in the town, the residents would take the initiative to salute her. At this time, what they had in their hearts was not fear, but admiration.

Not only that, but the influence of the Church of Void Mask in Pyroxene Town was also rapidly increasing. Many residents who did not have a clear faith in the past were willing to go to the bishops of the Church of Void Mask to follow the lectures, praying with them to praise the great god who looked strange.

When the special mushrooms in the first tunnel flourished, they purified the soil around them. Seeing the ground fade to gray and then back to the color of the soil itself, as well as the sprouting of the vegetables planted for tests on the ground, the residents of Pyroxene Town finally couldn’t help but cheer, laugh, and cry tears of joy.

“You are such a great person… Oh, great god,” in the air, the Goddess of Wealth, who had covered her figure with divine power, said to Sui Xiong, “I have never seen a god who can win people’s hearts in this way. In my opinion, you are not like a god. Instead, you are more like a virtuous emperor who has never really existed in the legend of the human world.”