Looking at the Mayor's chubby figure disappear, Chen Heng sank into his thoughts.
According to the rules of this world, if the records of those unlucky seniors before him were correct, whenever outsiders came, it meant that the trial would begin and the demon king chapter would begin.
The sign of the demon king chapter beginning was the growth of demon beasts and their attacks on the people outside.
A person's achievements depended on their own efforts, but it also depended on the background of the era.
If the people did not suffer, why would they need heroes?
As such, whenever the trial began, it meant that the demon beasts would grow and appear.
Only then would there be the soil for the emergence of heroes.
Right now, it was about time for the demon king chapter to begin.
Only when the demon king revived would the demon beasts walk out of the forest and attack the people outside.
Thinking about it from this perspective, if the demon king appeared, would the heroes be far away?
Perhaps they would not have to wait too long for Chen Heng to appear.
As Chen Heng thought to himself, he walked to the side.
Following this, he helped the Mayor suppress the demon beasts outside.
Of course, he did not personally act.
After spending so much time and money to raise the mercenary group, he had not raised them for nothing.
They were given good food and drinks; they were not here to be bosses.
They were used when they needed to be.
Chen Heng did not have to personally act; just the mercenaries were enough to easily stop the demon beasts outside.
Of course, as for those outside, they could not help.
After all, the town had a small city wall, and it was quite complete.
Other places did not have such conditions.
As for Chen Heng, he did not appear much during the entire process. Most of the time, he gave a speech and gave some things to the refugees.
It was not that he had suddenly become kind but that he needed faith energy.
To obtain faith energy, one had to have a specific goal.
If one did not personally appear, even if others were grateful, they would not know who their benefactor was.
As such, he had to appear when necessary.
The fighting and killing could be left to others; Chen Heng only needed to appear a few times at critical moments. That would be enough.
Time gradually passed.
In the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed.
During this time, the town had greatly changed.
The surroundings were filled with refugees from the outside world.
This was quite shocking.
Before this disaster, no one knew that there were so many people living around the town.
These people were originally hidden in various corners of the town. Many villages were even located at the edge of the dense forest, so it was naturally difficult to find them.
In the past, these villages were very independent. Apart from occasionally coming to the town and exchanging some goods in the market, they did not do anything else.
This time, when the disaster came, these people were all bloody unlucky.
Those crazy demonic creatures wouldn't recognize people, and they would kill anyone they saw. They couldn't even reason with them.
It was no wonder.
After all, he was a demon. Eating and killing people was his profession. As for reasoning, that was not within his scope of application.
Therefore, all the people outside the small town were unlucky, and they all ran into the small town.
Normally, the mayor of the town would be overjoyed to see so many people in the town.
But at this time, he could only frown.
The reason was simple.
There was no food.
The local agriculture in the town was not bad, but it was too dependent on the resources in the forest in the past. It could be considered a trade-based town, and the local agricultural production could only be self-sufficient at best. It could not be considered very rich.
Now that the outside world was so chaotic, it was impossible to continue farming. As such, everyone could only rely on their own food to survive.
Their days were already tense, and now there were so many people rushing over.
People were indeed valuable resources, but the prerequisite was that they could be used in production.
If they could not and just left there, it would be a waste of food.
That was the situation right now.
Evidently, they could not continue farming.
Most of the refugees had fled here, and their food reserves were quite limited.
Most of the refugees had run out of food reserves.
What would happen if they could not fill their stomachs?
Evidently, it would not be anything good.
It was because of this that the mayor felt quite worried.
Over this period of time, he had run around everywhere and had lost some weight. He looked much slimmer than before.
This actually had the effect of losing weight; this was quite rare.
Seeing how worried the mayor was, Chen Heng only watched.
Even though he knew that the mayor would find him sooner or later.
But before that, he still looked on.
Of course, it was not that he did not do anything during this time.
He had made some preparations.
He was just waiting for things to begin.
What happened next was pretty much what Chen Heng had expected.
With nowhere else to go, the mayor finally came to find him.
However, Chen Heng was not as easy to talk to as before and casually gave him some things.
He did the same as everyone else.
However, the mayor could not do anything about this.
There was a lack of food, and the price of wheat was continuously rising. It was not realistic to hope for the people to take out food to fill this hole.
Being able to take out some things was already a sign of support.
In actuality, he had not planned on helping the refugees; he had only come to ask for support.
Only with the local tycoons' support would he be able to do as he pleased.
Chen Heng's words were seen as a declaration of his support.
Following this, he began to take action.
A large number of guards patrolled the surroundings and started to chase away the refugees.
They did not allow the refugees to enter the town and wanted to chase them all out.
In fact, during this process, they even wanted to take away the last bit of food that the refugees had left.
All around the small town, conflicts were constantly erupting. It looked like a war was about to break out.
However, the mayor did not seem to care.
They were just a group of ordinary people without weapons or food, and they were not a big deal to him.
As long as he had the support of the local factions, he did not fear anything.
After a while, a large number of refugees were chased out.
Resentment boiled and fermented.
Even within his residence, Chen Heng could sense this unique power.
This was also a type of faith energy, but it was different from the faith energy he had obtained in the past. It was a negative one.
If he could obtain this negative faith energy, he would most likely be able to become more powerful, but his personality would most likely be affected.
This made Chen Heng sink into his thoughts.
"Could it be that the so-called Demon King and Hero represent different types of Faith Energy?"
Standing within his residence, Chen Heng could not help but think to himself.
From the current situation, it seemed that the so-called faith energy could produce extraordinary effects in this world, and when it was applied to a person's body, it could cause a person's power to become stronger.
In that case, did the demon king and hero represent different types of faith energy?
The Demon King stirred up chaos, causing despair, representing negative beliefs, while the Hero represented hope, representing positive beliefs?
If that was the case, it did not seem wrong.
If his conjectures were correct, this little world was someone else's experiment.
Since it was an experiment, they had to test all possibilities.
Demon King and Hero represented two different aspects, representing the two possibilities of the power of faith.
Chen Heng felt that he had found a part of the answer.
But what puzzled him was, in the process of this experiment, what kind of role did an outsider like him represent?
After all, judging from the current situation, this so-called experiment did not seem to need an outsider like him to intervene at all.
In that case, what was the point of outsiders entering this world and starting a trial?
"Is it to find variables?"
In that moment, Chen Heng thought of a possibility.
It was possible that he was looking for variables.
As a Sorcerer, when Chen Heng did experiments, he would need to add in some variables to test different results.
Was this the same for this little world? The purpose of joining outsiders like them was to add variables and seek different experimental results?
For now, Chen Heng could not find out the answer to this question.
After all, he could not ask the person who set up this little world.
To be able to set up such a big little world and use it as an experiment, the person who set up this world was undoubtedly very powerful. Even Chen Heng at his peak could not compare to that person.
In theory, a so-called True Lord could open up a secret realm, but the secret realm they opened up was completely different from a normal world. It was even more different from the huge small world in front of them.
For this person to be able to do such a thing, it was evidently not something that a True Lord could compare to.
Facing such a bigshot, Chen Heng felt that it was best not to meet him.
Otherwise, he would probably die.
After sitting in the manor for a while, his surroundings had evidently changed.
The most obvious change was that the children's laughter had lessened, and even the old butler's expression had become serious. The surrounding guards had become more and more serious and gripped their weapons.
The changes in the atmosphere were quite evident.
Looking at this scene, Chen Heng nodded.
"It's about time …"
He sat up on a patch of grass and looked forward. His expression was calm as this thought flashed through his mind.
In the following days, the situation once again changed.
Within the town, a large number of mercenaries suddenly appeared, and under the shocked gazes of the Mayor, they directly attacked.
In the end, Chen Heng decided to intervene.
Under his orders, a large number of mercenaries moved out and wiped out the factions around the Mayor.
Following this, a large amount of food was taken out to help the refugees.
As a steady stream of food was taken out, the originally tense and despairing atmosphere was instantly cleared up.
The town once again calmed down, and the surroundings returned to normal.
The only thing that changed was that the person in charge had changed.
However, apart from those who were underground, who cared about this?
In any case, Chen Heng did not care.
Apart from providing food, he also sent people to spread the word among the refugees. In a short period of time, Ed Doyle's name resounded throughout the town.
Normally, when walking on the streets, all of the refugees would look incredibly grateful towards this person who had given them hope and a new lease of life.
After all, he had given them hope in a time of crisis, so no matter how harsh and ungrateful he was, they would still feel grateful.
Of course, this was only temporary.
In at most half a year, this gratitude would completely disappear, and Chen Heng's influence would greatly weaken.
Unless he could continue to bring benefits to this group of people, he would definitely be forgotten.
However, Chen Heng did not care too much about this.
All he wanted was the pure power of faith that was produced during the transition from despair to hope.
Just as he had expected, after he brought these disaster victims out of despair, the power of faith that was born from the desire to survive and hope was extremely pure and brilliant.
This was incredibly pure faith energy, and because of the number of people, it was also incredibly large.
To put it bluntly, even though this power could not compare to Chen Heng's own strength, it could still greatly increase his strength.
With his foundation as a true Sorcerer, this was quite impressive.
Chen Heng could not help but think of something.
Just the faith energy from a small town had such power; what about a city, a kingdom, or even half of the world?
At that time, how powerful would the power that could be produced be?
Chen Heng could not help but think to himself.
However, he did not place much importance on this power.
Even though faith energy was powerful enough, in the end, it was not his.
With faith energy, it had enough power, but once it disappeared, it would immediately return to its original state.
This kind of power was too restricted, and there were too many ways to use it.
A person's rationality was limited by their own knowledge, so they could be controlled by people of a higher level.
If Chen Heng was his enemy, he had too many ways to make him lose this faith energy.
Whether it was directly slaughtering his supporters or framing him, it was very easy to make his supporters lose trust and gratitude towards him.
As such, he could not rely on this power and could only use it to observe it.
Right now, Chen Heng only wanted to observe it.
.....
"There's another small town up ahead," Lin Feng said.
On a desolate path, a group of people rode on horses.
The middle-aged man looked at the young man and said, "We'll be there soon."
"Alright."
Next to the middle-aged man, the young man sat on a horse, looking somewhat pale.
If one looked closely, they would find that the youth was actually not very old. He was only in his early twenties, and there was still a hint of immaturity between his brows.
He looked quite handsome and gave off a heroic aura. However, he had a worried expression on his face, as if he was worried about the distance.
"We need to hurry up!"
As they galloped, the young man gasped for breath before saying, "The demon disaster has erupted, and the town ahead has most likely been trapped.
We need to hurry over and save them. "
"But … your body …"
Looking at the young man, the middle-aged man hesitated, "Can you hold on?"
"I'm fine," the young man shook his head.
The young man shook his head. Although his face was pale, there was an unconcealable determination in it. "If we had arrived a little later, more innocent people would have been harmed by the demonic creatures."
"As such, we need to hurry …"
As he spoke, his face became even paler.
Looking at the young man like this, the middle-aged man hesitated but could only sigh and nod.
They continued onwards and soon came to the town ahead.
However, what surprised them was that the town in front of them looked quite calm.
Outside the town, there were some traces of blood. There was dried blood on it, but it had already dried up.
There were some guards patrolling around, and it seemed that they were seriously patrolling the area.
There were also some traces of demon beasts, but most of them were corpses and there were no living demon beasts.
"This is …"
The young man and middle-aged man could not help but be stunned when they saw this, and they felt extremely surprised.
They had rushed all the way here with the original intention of coming here to help.
However, it seemed that this place did not need any help.
"This place is well protected."
Looking at the town ahead, the middle-aged man felt quite surprised.
"Let's go in and have a look."
The young man nodded and said, "I wonder who it was that protected these innocent people during the demon disaster."
Seeing the young man and the middle-aged man walk over, a guard came over to question them.
"Are you here to answer the call?"
"Answer the call?"
The young man and the middle-aged man felt quite interested, "What call?"
"Mister Ed is currently recruiting guards and preparing to launch an encirclement and suppression of the nearby monsters."
The guard said, "Those who go will receive generous rewards; are you here to answer the call?"
Seeing that the young man and the middle-aged man were both wearing armor and weapons, he asked this question.
"Attack the demon beasts."
Hearing this, the young man's expression became serious, "I don't care about the rewards, but if you want to attack the demon beasts, please count me in!"
He did not want any rewards and only wanted to attack the demon beasts?
There was such an idiot?
The guard instinctively wanted to mock him, but when he saw the serious expression on the other party's face, he finally stopped.
This young man seemed to have some sort of power that could move people's hearts. Looking at him, one could not help but feel moved and agree with his words.
If this young man's words came from someone else's mouth, they would seem fake. However, coming from this young man's mouth, he seemed incredibly serious, making one feel deep respect for him.
For some reason, the guard felt a sense of respect in his heart and did not say anything. He only nodded and led them away.
The people around them looked at each other but did not say anything.
During this period of time, as the call was given out, many mercenaries had come to answer the call, preparing to join the demon beasts expedition.
With this sort of background, the young man and the middle-aged man's appearance did not seem too out of the ordinary and did not attract much attention.
Following this, they walked into the town.
The scenery around them was revealed.
After some time, the chaos around the town had died down. Even though there were still some traces of what had happened, it was mostly fine.
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