The judicial paladins were a special force of the Church. Their image in the eyes of the public was far better than their image in the Void and the Church. Due to the glorious image that the Church had painstakingly created, the public's perception of the judicial paladins was more like a mysterious protector or a hidden punisher. Unfortunately, the truth was very different. Of course, with the glorious reputation of the Church, they would naturally need someone to do the dirty work for them. It was not difficult to understand the existence of such a special force.
While Baiyi was chatting, the rest of the paladins had a clear division of labor. After inspecting the scene, they found a few charred corpses of the devils and preliminarily determined that they were killed by powerful magic. After that, they recorded the runic formation in the middle of the town and even interviewed the residents. After that, they declined Mia's father's kind offer to stay for dinner and left in a hurry.
Wow, their efficiency is quite high.
In the next few days, Baiyi used his magic to help the villagers repair the destroyed houses while he waited patiently. It was not until five days later when the judicial paladins still did not show up that he finally confirmed that the barrier was indeed able to block the fluctuation of the Void Energy.
Those five days were also the last five days that Mia would spend with her parents during the holiday. However, the little girl seemed to be a little troubled. Especially when she was in front of Baiyi, she would often blush and put on a bashful look. She did not seem to be intimate with Baiyi anymore. It seemed like she was very concerned about the rumors in the town.
Why are these gossips so gossipy? Can't they take a look at Mia's situation? She's still so young! Can she even get married?
"Don't mind those rumors." Baiyi gently patted Mia's head, "This is something that you will have to face in the future. You have to learn to ignore them and even sympathize with them. After all, to those who spread rumors, this is probably one of their few pleasures."
Nodding her head, Mia buried her face in the belly of the hammerhead shark plushie again. Her little head swayed slightly and her two ponytails bounced in front of Baiyi's eyes.
Before he left, Papa Mia shook Baiyi's hand once more. Not only did he accept Baiyi's greeting gift, but it was also as if he was entrusting Baiyi with a great responsibility. "I'll leave Mia in your care!" Papa Mia said earnestly.
In the next few days, Mia's mother sewed a green cloak for Baiyi and solemnly handed it over to him.
Tsk, don't tell me you really think of me as your son-in-law? Although a young wife or something seemed quite interesting? Still, Baiyi shook his head forcefully. This kind of thing had crossed his bottom line. Not to mention, there was still that woman in the Void waiting for him. She was very possessive! Even though I'm tired and fell asleep on my own, I'll still wake up eventually. I guess I should just forget about it … 'Baiyi thought to himself.
And what's with this green cloak? No wonder you two are mother and daughter! Both of them had the same level of appreciation. Had her mother completed the little fellow's unrealized plan on her behalf?
When Baiyi and Mia returned to the mansion in a luxurious carriage, Tisdale, who was still dressed skimpily, was the first to come out to welcome them. Attie, on the other hand, was hiding behind the kitchen door with both of her hands on the door frame. She carefully peeked out half of her head, revealing the cat ears on her head as she stared at Baiyi like a curious kitten.
"Why are you hiding behind me?" Baiyi waved at her. "Come here, come here."
She lowered her head and blushed as she walked to Baiyi's side, but Baiyi quickly grabbed both of her cheeks.
"Didn't I make it very clear when I left? You can wear this shameful hair clip all you want. It's fine if you don't wear shoes, but you can't just walk around the house in an apron. Why can't you remember? Was the weather that hot? Aren't you afraid of being seen? "
"Aiyo! No wonder she did not dare to come out to greet Baiyi. The girl had taken advantage of Baiyi's absence to strip down to her white apron. She was probably not used to wearing too many clothes, was she?
Releasing her cheeks, Baiyi turned to Tisdale and asked solemnly, "You didn't learn from her, did you?"
"No … No … Absolutely not!" Tisdale quickly explained with a blushing face. "That would be too bold …"
Phew, that's good then. Tisdale is still the more obedient one. Baiyi thought to himself. Then, he could not help but finish the picture in his mind. The two beautiful girls, one in black and one in white, were both wearing a cat ear hair clip and dressed up in such an indecent way, exposing everything that should not be seen. Not only that, but they were also bending down together with their hands in the shape of cat claws. Tsk, he did not dare to imagine anymore. That image was too impactful.
After sending Attie to put on her clothes, Baiyi began to get busy. There were still a lot of things that he had to deal with. First and foremost, he had to take care of the flowers and plants in the little animal coin jar and let them bask in the sun in the yard. Then, he had to deal with some of the materials that he had obtained from the bodies of the devils. Although most of the devils had been killed by him, there were still some intact bodies of the hammerhead sharks.
It was a pity that the unprofessional Voidwalker liked to attack the vital parts of the devils. Unfortunately, the most valuable parts of the devils were the vital parts, such as the heart that could be used as a source of energy. After rummaging through the bodies for a long time, Baiyi only managed to find three usable hearts and brought them back.
As for the horns of the other minotaurs and the fangs of the boar-headed devils, he did manage to get a lot of them. However, they were not that valuable, so Baiyi did not really care about them. Although the blood of the devils could be recycled, by the time Baiyi went to deal with it, the blood had already dried up.
In short, he did not get much in terms of material gains. Of course, that was not the most important thing. His biggest gain from this trip was the enchantment that could block the fluctuation of the Void. At that moment, many of the Voidwalkers in the Void were working hard to crack the enchantment so that they could restore the enchantment in the mansion.
Regardless of the portability of the enchantment, at least Baiyi would be able to do whatever he wanted in his own lair... Err... Considering that there were three girls living in the mansion, the word 'do whatever' would easily lead to unhealthy misunderstandings. Let's just change it to 'do whatever'.
After that, Baiyi used the magical furnace in his house to process the hearts and engraved a few formations on the surface of the three hearts. That way, he could ensure that the energy that gushed out from the hearts was pure Mana and not the kind of evil energy that carried the smell of the devils.
After that, he put one of the hearts into the magical furnace to increase its output while the second one was used to replace the formation that Tisdale had left in the basement. According to the consumption of the formation, the hearts of the middle-level devils could last for at least five years. That would save Tisdale a lot of money.
As for the last one, he kept it for the time being so that it could be used to power the enchantment after the enchantment was completed.
After he was done, he went to the material store early in the morning the next day and bought a batch of Phantom's Dust and Banshee's Tears that were needed for the enchantment. By the time he walked out of the store with two storage pouches filled with materials, the other pouch that was filled with money was half empty. Those materials were just too expensive!
More importantly, the batch of materials that he bought might not even be enough! After all, he was going to have to reverse engineer the enchantment. Even if the Scholar was the one who presided over the process, there was no guarantee that it would be completely correct. There were all kinds of necessary experiments that had to be done along the way. That was a bottomless pit.
For a moment, Baiyi regretted selling the Godsfall cult to the Church so generously. He should have taken some money from them first.
As a last resort, he had no choice but to meet Undine in advance. Originally, he planned to wait for Undine to come to him again so that it would be easier for him to raise the price. But now that the situation had changed, he had no choice but to take the initiative to promote his glider.
Fortunately, the Dole family did not stay idle during the time that he was away. They had already agreed to his plan and started to conduct market research on the Northern Kingdom. Their initial plan was to resell the high-end luxury goods from both sides.
Baiyi did not have much to say about that. He was not the business consultant of the Dole family nor was he related to Undine. In fact, if he were to choose, he would definitely choose the alchemical products that had a higher added value. As far as he knew, the development of alchemy in the Northern Kingdom was not that good.
The Dole family planned to purchase ten gliders in advance. Baiyi generously passed the blueprint of the glider to Undine and asked her to find a carpenter to build it herself. Meanwhile, he peddled the two necessary sets of formations to her. His price was 500 gold coins per set, which was about 30% of the profit of those luxury goods.
Undine mercilessly countered with a price of 50 gold coins per set. They could not accept such a high transportation cost.
Then, the two of them started to quarrel, accusing each other of being a ruthless profiteer. Undine, who had completely exposed her true nature as a businessman, did not spare Baiyi any face at all.
In the end, Undine took into consideration their friendship and gave in. She set the price at 250 gold coins, which was not a nice number to hear.
"Do you know, Master Hope? My impression of you has completely crumbled now," Undine said unhappily as she took the parchment with the formation drawn on it from Baiyi's hand. "Same here.
"You too! I've always thought that Miss Undine is a forthright person," Baiyi retorted without hesitation.
He didn't know what was going on, but after the two of them haggled over the price, their relationship became even better than before.
In the end, Baiyi drafted a letter for her tribe. The general content of the letter was that she was doing well and that Baiyi was very kind and gentle to her. He also told the tribe not to worry and that the Dole family would use their settlement as a transit station to build another trade route. He asked the tribe to actively cooperate with him.
At the end of the letter, she stamped her tribe's emblem. That was the proof of her identity.
With the prestige of the two of them and the fact that her tribe was very interested in the trade route, a letter like that would be more than enough.
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