Saint Laurent Prison Warden

Chapter 162 Soul Overload
"Whoosh..." A strong airflow came from the sky. The two investigators from Rainbow City looked at the armed airship that came to greet them slowly descending with some disinterest.

With their senior sister's obstruction, they did not make enough progress in their investigation of the Mechanical Moon, but instead left with a box of information related to the war curse. They originally wanted to investigate in the Travel City for a while longer, but someone was really annoyed by seeing them wandering around in front of them, so they were forced to leave. They delayed for several days, but the master had reached the point where he had to leave.

"Although I failed to complete the task assigned to us by the teacher this time, it is not a wasted trip to meet you, Brother Richard."

The showy man patted Richard's shoulder reluctantly and said to Richard, "Brother Richard, thank you for your hospitality and help during this period.

I can see that you have been trying your best to help us find clues, but the enemy is too clean, it's not your fault. We have preliminarily determined that this incident was planned by the White Weaver Organization. Even a demigod may not be able to detect the conspiracy of those people, let alone you.

Although our Dome Mage Corps' combat department and your logistics department have different divisions of labor, we are close brothers. If you have any problems that are inconvenient to find a teacher in the future, don't hesitate to come to us, and we will definitely help you with all our strength."

"You are the only one who is capable." Cross bared his teeth and said to the show-off man, "Brother Richard has my sister watching over him, so you don't have to worry about it. If my sister can't solve the problem, you can't solve it either."

“Hahaha.” Richard cupped his hands and laughed, “Xingge City Lord won’t care about me. You are my family. You don’t need to say more. If I am bullied, I will definitely come to you crying and shouting for help. You can’t get rid of me even if you want to.”

"My family..."

Cross looked at Richard, hesitated for a moment, sighed, and said:
"Brother Richard, there are some things I don't want to say because they may offend people. But I'm leaving soon. If I don't tell you, maybe no one will ever tell you."

"Oh? What's the matter?" Richard couldn't help but become curious.

"It's about the chief of your logistics department, your boss, Iluna Hill.

I bet that after you listen to it, you will most likely regret it, but if you don’t listen, you may regret it even more in the future. You can choose to listen or not.”

"Ah? Senior Brother! Is it appropriate to tell Richard about Iluna? What if Richard can't accept it?"

“So I’m giving Richard a choice. He has a right to know.”

"Well, then you go ahead. This is what you said, brother. It has nothing to do with me. Brother, you are not afraid of that crazy woman Iluna, but I can't afford to offend her. I am just an innocent listener passing by."

"Hey, you've done it very cleanly. Slippery thing, where's the courage you had when you confessed to your senior sister?"

"Wasn't that hung on the city wall by Senior Sister? The cold wind blew it all away. Iluna is not much gentler than Senior Sister."

Looking at the two of them singing the same tune, Richard didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"This... Since you all said so, I must listen to it." Richard said immediately. "Iluna is my direct leader. In my heart, she is mysterious and powerful. I want to know more about her past so that I can get along with her better."

The Cross and the show-off man looked at each other, and the Cross said:
“Then I’ll say it.

Richard, do you know the gray pigeon? "

"Ah? Gray pigeon? Gray pigeon?"

"No. It seems you don't know. Gray Dove is the name of a unit." The Cross explained: "In the Broken Staff era, the war between our Silver City-State and the Holy See was too brutal. The grassroots of both sides were exhausted, and the anti-war sentiment reached its peak, so we had to end the war.

In the end, the Holy See reluctantly recognized our independence, but this was not the end of the war.

Whether it is the Holy See or our side, there are still many conflicts of interest that need to be resolved.

Where there are conflicts of interest, armies are needed to fight for them. Although the fighting has ceased on the surface, both we and the Holy See have retained some combat troops to fight each other.

The equipment and personnel of our combat forces are all our regular troops, but they have no overt connection with us.

They have the most regular personnel and equipment, but do not have any regular military numbers, so they are gray and are called gray pigeons.

Gray pigeons have continued to this day and have not disappeared until today. Many members of the gray pigeons have even formed a hereditary system, with the father dying and the son inheriting the position.

Iluna was also a member of the Gray Pigeons in the early days, and was also a team leader of the Gray Pigeons. During a mission, she encountered a special situation. If she chose to sacrifice a team member, she would have a chance to complete the mission. If she chose to save the team member, the mission would fail.

In order to complete the mission, she chose to sacrifice her team members without hesitation. Twenty-one of her team members, 23 in total, died. Only she and another team member survived.

The Cross sighed and said:

"The most troublesome thing is that she chose to take a big gamble and lost. She did not complete the mission, and all the team members died in vain.

As a result, Iluna was almost sentenced to death. If the teacher hadn't come forward to save her, you might not have seen her now.

If Iluna had died in the mission, no one would have blamed her. But she survived. So Iluna had a very bad reputation in the army - a vicious woman.

A vicious person who disregarded the lives of her subordinates for her own promotion, a despicable and incompetent leader... Iluna has many bad reputations and titles.

That period was the saddest time for Iluna. Because of this experience, Iluna Hill's personality became more and more strange, and she became more and more cruel to her enemies.

At that time, the city lord Xingge, who was as young as Iluna, was also serving in the army. Iluna's act of sacrificing her subordinates was exactly what the city lord hated the most. Because of this, Xingge had a lot of complaints against Iluna. The two of them had been at loggerheads for a long time, and the hatred had been accumulating until now. "

After Cross finished speaking, he looked at Richard who was somewhat shocked, sighed, and said:

“Those subordinates sacrificed by Iluna were not just passers-by who had no close relationship with Iluna.

They were the subordinates trained by Iluna. They were both master and apprentice as well as comrades-in-arms, and most of them had feelings for Iluna.

But even so, she still sacrificed them all.

As Iluna's subordinate, you must be mentally prepared.

In her heart, completing the mission is more important than anything else. Maybe one day in the future, if she encounters a situation that requires you to be sacrificed, she will sacrifice you without hesitation. "

The muscles on Richard's face twitched twice. He finally understood why Cross said that he would regret it after hearing it.

Now he began to regret it.

How could he get along peacefully with Iluna after knowing such a past? I'm afraid he would hesitate to execute all the orders Iluna gave him.

Yes, there are people who put the interests of the Silver City above their own lives. They will not be affected by such things and will still obey Iluna's orders without hesitation. But Richard knew that he was not that kind of person.

Between his own life and the Silver City, he would choose to save himself without hesitation.

It's not that he is selfish, but as a time traveler, it is really difficult for him to have any sense of belonging to the Silver City-State.

But Richard is still very grateful to the cross. "It's better for me to regret it now than to regret it in the future. At least after knowing that Iluna had such a past, I can be more cautious about Iluna."

Hula...

Richard felt a little relieved as he watched the armed airship carrying two people rushing into the sky. Their departure announced the end of the Odyssey incident. In the future, there would be no more people who were specifically searching for Odyssey coming to the Travel City to investigate.

Richard can also spare more time and energy to concentrate on dealing with other troubles.

After seeing the two off, Richard returned to the hospital and offered to be examined by Dr. Princeton.

After a round of examinations, the wrinkles on Princeton's forehead were successfully deepened.

"Your soul really has no trace of disease, which is incredible. Perhaps you are right, and the potion you prepared really cured the disease in your soul.

Hurry up and make all those messy potions you made. Maybe they contain the method to cure the stigmata shackles."

Richard was silent: "Doctor, it's you who is sick, not me. You want me to remember the mess of medicine I prepared during my apprenticeship?

You just said a few days ago that those medicines were useless, why are you making a fuss now?"

"Well, after excluding all other possibilities, this most unlikely possibility is the only possibility." Princeton frowned and said:

“After such a detailed examination during this period of time, I have confirmed that you do not have any special physique, nor are you protected by any magical power. You are just an ordinary wizard.

Then how can you be immune to the soul diseases caused by the stigmata shackles? It doesn't make sense. Have you ever experienced other treatment methods? It can only be those messy potions. "

Richard: ...

"I remember Xingyue Club has surveillance cameras. How about checking the video?"

"After such a long time, those photo beads have long been destroyed. Photo beads are not easy to make, and they are considered to be of no value and will be recycled soon."

Oh, it’s destroyed. Then I feel relieved.

Richard laughed in his heart, shrugged and said:

"That's all I can do, Dr. Princeton. Please try harder.

"It is your mission and expertise to research a method to cure the stigmata, not mine. I am just a test subject. I can only cooperate within my ability."

"Hey, that's true, but why do I feel it's so wrong? You must have some secret.

Our medical and magical examinations did not find any problems with you, but this does not mean that you have no problems. It may be that our examination methods are too backward. "

Princeton said angrily:

"Since you said you would fully cooperate, then let me be your personal physician for a week. During this week, I will follow you 24 hours a day and check on you at any time."

Richard's eyes lit up when he heard Princeton's words.

"24 hours might be a little difficult. When I was in Saint Laurent Prison, you couldn't get in. Unless you joined Saint Laurent Prison and became the prison doctor."

"Join Saint Laurent Prison? No problem!" Princeton just patted his chest and agreed, but suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Wait a minute, the Saint Laurent prison you mentioned, can I quit after I join it?"

"Of course." Richard smiled and said, "Don't worry."

"Okay, let's go!" Princeton was also a man of decisive character. He immediately took on the role of personal physician. He packed up the medical kit on the spot and followed Richard closely.

Richard took Princeton and rode on the gargoyle, and left the hospital and headed straight for Saint Laurent Prison.

Princeton was originally full of confidence, thinking that if he followed Richard, he would definitely find the core reason why Richard was immune to the stigmata. But when he flew to the magic-forbidden area of ​​Saint Laurent Prison, he realized how unfriendly this place was to mages.

"Go back, go back, go back quickly! I'm about to vomit!"

At Princeton's strong request, Richard landed the gargoyle outside the forbidden magic area.

He jumped off the gargoyle, squatted on the ground, opened his mouth and vomited loudly, almost vomiting out all the bitterness in his body.

After a long pause, Princeton stood up, wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, and said with a curse: "My goodness, this forbidden magic zone is really powerful.

I finally learned my lesson.

If I'm not mistaken, this is a seal on the soul, sealing the communication ability between the mage and the elements to form a magic-banning effect.

The reason my body is so uncomfortable is because my soul is overloaded."

"Soul overload? What does that mean?" Richard asked curiously.

"To put it simply, our mages' souls may not seem to be fluctuating, but they are actually searching for information connections with the elements 24 hours a day. This is our mages' instinct.

But here, this connection is severed. No matter how hard our souls search, they cannot find the elements and establish a connection with them, but our souls do not know this.

After the connection was cut off, our soul increased its search efforts in order to get in touch with the element as quickly as possible, constantly sending signals to the surroundings, even at the cost of the soul itself!

That is why our souls are in such a terrible state of distress.”

"Ah! So that's how it is." Richard was impressed. "As expected of an expert in the field of souls, you figured out the principle right away. I brought so many people to the Forbidden Demon Zone, and I just figured out the principle now.

Isn't the principle of the forbidden magic zone different from the principle of the stigma shackles?"

"Of course they are different!" Princeton was very annoyed: "The principles here are elementary school problems for me, and stigmata are issues that demigods study. They are not on the same level at all.

That’s why I’m surprised you didn’t have any symptoms.”

(End of this chapter)