Arcane Lord

By the time Sha Duo flew back to Linshui Village, Simon and others had returned, and Leiden was giving his final blessing to the dead soldier.

In front of the altar, Leiden looked solemn, facing the sun above his head, and recited the holy words, and a ball of holy light appeared in his hands. Then, Leiden covered the deceased's forehead with his radiant hand, and then slowly moved towards the legs.

It needs to be repeated several times before it is finally over.

Xia Duo calmly fell outside the crowd and watched from a distance. He could actually do this process. It was nothing more than summoning positive energy to baptize and remove the negative energy from the deceased to avoid mutation after burial.

However, Leiden's blessing has a better effect, and even has a weak antiseptic effect.

Seeing that the ceremony was about to end, Shado sent a message to Leiden and Ava, asking them to come to his camp.

…

After a while, both the leaders and the slaves continued their work under the leadership of the leaders of their respective working groups. In Xia Duo's small camp, he was assigning tasks to Ava and Leiden.

"There must be more than just that nest of trolls around the territory. The two we encountered last time didn't find their nest in the end, so maybe there are still more.

"Aiwa, your next task is, in addition to training the members of the Guard to use magic items, you also need to expand the reconnaissance range around the territory and mark the threat level in advance. In addition, select the members of the Guard who are suitable to become rogues and train them. Let them become full-time scouts, and I will give you 5 places.”

"Yes, sir!"

"Leiden, if Ava picks out a few people, you have to add a few more, including the one who died today. The conditions in the territory are limited now, so recruit training will not be done. Try to select people who have experience as adventurers or soldiers, and are slightly older. It’s okay to be more relaxed. Also, the scope of activities of the cleanup team will be limited to the areas scouted by the scouts.”

"Yes, sir!"

Xia Duo waved his hand, and Ava left silently. Only Leiden was still standing there. Xia Duo asked: "Is there anything else?"

"Sir, as the population increases, I think the territory should have night watchmen."

"Night watchman, aren't there guardsmen watching the night?"

Xia Duo said subconsciously, but he reacted the next moment. In Savile Land, night watchmen is not a general term, but refers to a special group——

Undead!

Xia Duo is very coveted by this kind of "perfect worker" who never sleeps, but the existence of negative energy still makes him wary. He would never dare to create undead creatures by himself. Once it gets involved, he can't get rid of it. Lose.

Besides, necromancers are not visible in Netheril. Only the clergy of the Lord of Death can openly evoke undead creatures, and can also reduce the impact of negative energy on the outside world (which cannot be completely eliminated).

Of course, this is not without restraint or rules. Generally speaking, they are the corpses of criminals, or extreme believers in the Lord of Death, who are willing to leave their bodies behind for driving after death.

The night watchman in Savile Town is a kind of undead creature. During the Orc War, after Shado killed a necromancer who lost the ability to cast spells, Leonard brought a team of night watchmen with him when he arrived.

Although Xia Duo has never seen their true appearance, the negative energy cannot be blocked by a mere layer of ordinary black robes. This incident left a deep impression on him.

It would be good if a group of night watchmen could be introduced, as it would reduce the defense pressure on the Territory Guard. Thinking of this, Xia Duo asked, "How can we introduce night watchmen?"

To be honest, he was worried that it would be difficult to find this kind of "person" who only worked, didn't eat, and didn't get paid!

Leiden smiled, and then said: "Sir, we don't need to do anything extra. The servants of the Lord of the End of All Things like to record the life and death of mortal things, hoping to get eternal peace from them. Your Excellency only needs to go to Savile Town to invite a person to record the fate. If the person serves as the cemetery guard of the territory, he will summon the night watchman to serve you, but——"

"Just what?" Xia Duo asked quickly. He didn't expect that the conditions for obtaining a night watchman were so simple. As long as he had someone in hand, he just needed to find a servant of the Lord of Death.

"Sir, the fate recorder will not participate in the killing. To recall the body of the night watchman, you need your help."

"Is that so, does it have to be a human? I mean, would the corpse of a goblin or beast be okay?"

"Ah -" Layton was simply stunned. He had never thought about such a problem. As far as he knew, most of the night watchmen in Savile Town were criminals and people who violated the curfew.

"Sir, I can't answer this question. At least I have never heard that goblins can transform night watchmen."

Xia Duo was a little disappointed when he didn't get the answer he wanted, but he still planned to ask professionals again later. If goblins could be made into undead creatures, it would be amazing.

Although they are small in size, this can be regarded as a single small power, but they are almost perpetually moving. In the long run, they are simply a huge profit.

Thinking of this, Sha Duo could hardly restrain himself from teleporting back to the Tower of Time, and then went to Savile Town to find the fate-recorder.

But in the end, he stopped. Since it was a "perpetual motion machine", he didn't care about the time. Anyway, the ship would arrive in a few days, so there was no need to waste the energy of the Tower of Time.

…

After Leiden left, Shado sat quietly for a while. After lunch, he set off to inspect the river digging site.

In the past few days, 500 river diggers, including all the tools, have been in place. Every day Xia Duo passes by, he can see the new progress.

He first took a look at the brick kiln to the north of the temporary work shed. It was still in the stage of firing bricks for the kiln. The quality of the bricks at this stage was the worst, and they were only slightly better than sun-dried earth.

After that, it was constantly changed, and finally "qualified" bricks were produced. Of course, in Xia Duo's opinion, these bricks were actually not up to standard, but they were enough for paving the floor.

Further north from the brick kiln is the element channel, or river. Some digging was done at the east end, but Xia Duo later stopped it and started clearing the trees along the way.

Hundreds of people started working at the same time, and the efficiency was very fast. Along the way, Xia Duo, most of the trees on the "road" of the elemental passage have been knocked down.

This step takes almost no effort. The real trouble is the transportation and the underground roots. Digging river channels, digging river channels, there is no way these tree roots can still be left!

Similarly, in Linshui Village, the residential area only needs to clear the surface of the land, but the development of farmland behind it requires clearing away tree root remnants and woodland stones bit by bit.

This is a big project.

…

Follow the elemental passage, all the way east.

Soon, Xia Duo saw the doomsday scene in the Mysterious Ruins not far ahead, and the Tower of Time vaguely revealed from the doomsday scene further away.

"Oh, I don't know when the magic network will return to normal!"

Sighing, Xia Duo came to the end of the elemental passage. From unknown time on, a stone house appeared here.

He knew from the few times he came here before that this was the temporary residence of the three arcane masters of [Hidden Hand]. In addition to them, other arcanists who came to repair the magic network also established temporary residences on the edge of the ruins of the magic network.

Xia Duo was not surprised. After all, repairing the magic network was not something that could be completed in a short time.

This is a long-term project!