Not surprisingly, even though both Jenkins and the priest were intercepting, one or two of so many flying torches managed to ignite the stake. Because of the oil, the raging fire immediately burned.
"What are you doing!"
The priest asked loudly, but no one paid any attention to him. Seeing this, Jenkins turned around and wanted to save the poor man, but was forced to take a step back by the detonation flames.
Seeing that things have developed to such an extent, he doesn't care to hide himself anymore. Use icing to quickly cool down the surroundings, then take a step back, lunge forward, take off and kick, directly kicking the stake to the ground.
The flames splashed around, and the priest and Jenkins rescued the bound people together. Although he has been burned by high temperature, at least his life is safe.
When Jenkins helped him stand up, he realized that the surrounding townspeople looked at them strangely.
Jenkins took a deep breath and muttered the spell in a low voice, with him as the center of the circle, the aura of the spell spread outward like ripples. The burning flames made Jenkins' face bright and dark, but he stood on the high platform and looked at the townspeople below. The extremely oppressive aura still made the townspeople a little panicked.
It just used very little spirit to push the [Aura of Fear], and with the support of extremely high mental strength, it easily destroyed the spiritual defense of the townspeople. I don't know who took a step back first, and then in the strange atmosphere of the burning candles, the townspeople retreated automatically, leaving only the church members and the burned man standing beside Jenkins.
The innocent townspeople who were burned were temporarily placed in the church. The priest saw the [Aura of Fear], so he revealed the fact that Jenkins was the "demon hunter" who left this morning. But it doesn't really matter who Jenkins is. The important thing is that the townspeople gathered spontaneously the next morning to discuss how to find out more "unclean things" hidden in the town.
Jenkins was sure the town was free of any non-human beings, but the townspeople, caught in a strange mood, couldn't care less. It was almost a repeat of yesterday's events, and that night, the stake that Jenkins had kicked down the night before was erected again, and the new accused was tied up.
If Jenkins remembered correctly, this was the first person to throw the torch yesterday.
The priest who arrived after hearing the news tried to persuade the townspeople to leave again, but this time the townspeople did not listen to him. People who lost their minds actually began to blame the priest, thinking that it was his negligence that allowed those evil things to invade the town.
Clashes soon erupted, with people pouring onto the high platform where the stake was set up, church clergy and ordinary townspeople mingling. In the chaos, no one knew who threw the torch. The torch ignited the stake, and Jenkins kicked the stake down. People fled again because of inexplicable fear...
This is almost a repeat of last night's incident, except that today's victim's burns are much more serious than yesterday's.
If things go on like this, sooner or later someone will be burned to death. Both the priest and Jenkins were in a hurry. After reconfirming that there were no creatures with black auras in the town, Jenkins came up with a new idea:
"Maybe it's just an ordinary person who controls everything behind the scenes."
"Ordinary people?"
"This kind of thing should not be uncommon. Ordinary people who accidentally obtained evil ancient books did some crazy things under the influence of selfish desires. You must know that we are not the only ones who can use extraordinary power. Part of the ritual, especially those evil rituals with a particularly low threshold."
Taking advantage of the darkness, all the extraordinary people in the church moved, and together with Jenkins went deep into the forest to the location of the buried treasure. As expected, there is only a deep pit left, and the contents have already been dug out.
There is someone in the church who is good at tracking. Under his leadership, the group returned to Black Town, which was shrouded in night, and finally found the home of the clerk who lived next to the church in the town.
The town's clerk is mainly responsible for assisting the sheriff to record what happened in the town, and sometimes gets paid by writing letters for the townspeople. He is also quite prestigious in the town. When the literacy rate is not high, any literate person will be respected.
He forcibly broke into the clerk's house. Although the man with the crossbow caused some trouble to the group, he was successfully arrested by them in the end. In the ensuing search and interrogation, Jenkins and the priest learned that the clerk was behind all of this, and the origin of everything was the earthquake last month. After a crack appeared in the clerk's basement, a cracked passage connected the basement And the huge complex of buildings deeper.
"There are ancient buildings underground in Black Town?"
Jenkins and the priest stood in the corridor of the church, he asked suspiciously. He knew this news in the story before, but it was not really confirmed until this time.
"Yes, according to the current exploration situation, Black Town as a whole seems to be suspended above a huge ruined dungeon. I have had people blow up the entrance tunnel. You can't imagine what we saw underground, those gray Behind the wreckage of the twisted stone building, there may be something even more terrifying hidden, it is really terrifying... "
The priest said haggardly, it was just one night, he seemed to be more than ten years older.
The clerk also went deep into the underground ancient buildings hidden in the dark. When he returned to the ground again, he had automatically learned the huge and evil mystic knowledge, and successfully predicted that there would be an entrance to a strange place. In the forest east of town.
Without any reason, he thought that he should help the evil things in the strange world invade Black Town, which is why he later instigated the three youths to explore. Those three victims were not the first batch. Before them, many people were replaced by things in Weirdland.
These people were caught and burned on the first night and the second night respectively, and the riots against innocent people in the following nights were planned and instigated by the clerk. The death of the monster was expected. He tried to use this method to confuse the public, create panic and divide the people, and take the opportunity to release all the evil souls in the treasures.
Because he only used ordinary people's means during this period, Jenkins, who was not familiar with this place, didn't notice the clue.
"There are really ancient buildings underground in Black Town?"
Jenkins, who woke up from the bed again, thought incredulously, opened his eyes of reality and looked down, but saw nothing.