Release that Witch

10. Chapter 10 Stonemason

    The weather has not been good this week, the head is always gray, and Karl van Bate is in the same mood as the weather, and it is extremely low.

    Walking on the wet stone slab street, people greet him from time to time – in this small town, Karl runs a school. Unlike the schools where Greycastle’s noble children can attend, he also teaches to the children of ordinary people. So in Border Town, he has a very high reputation.

    “Hey, Mr. van Bate, good morning.”

    “Sir, is my son doing well?”

    “When is it free, Karl, go fishing together.”

    Usually, Karl will always respond to them with a smile, but today he just nodded and said nothing.

    Ever since seeing Anna’s hang, the world in his eyes has cracked—or the crack has been around since leaving Greycastle, but he deliberately turned a blind eye. He used his busy work to paralyze himself, and the innocent smile of the students also masked the crack to some extent.

    It wasn’t until Anna died that he discovered that there was no change in the world. The crack not only did not disappear, but expanded.

    For Anna, his memory stayed half a year ago. She is not conspicuous in the school’s more than 30 children, the ordinary appearance, not much, but a little bit makes Karl impression profound.

    That is her passion for knowledge. No matter what she teaches, her words, or history, she can always remember the first one. Even he himself feels the history of boring religious evolution, and the other party can hold the book for a whole day. He has also seen the little girl helping to care for the neighbor’s sheep. In the sun, Anna carefully brushed the lambs with gentle movements like taking care of the baby. The picture he still remembers very clearly, the girl’s smile is sweet, and in any case, impossible and evil are hooked.

    Then there was a fire in the neighborhood, Anna’s mother passed away, and Anna didn’t come to school anymore. Until a week ago, she proved to be a witch, hanged in the square in the town center.

    Tempted by Devil? Unclean people? Evil? It’s all fart! For the first time in his mind, he had doubts about Holy Church, and for the first time he had doubts about the knowledge he had taught.

    Anna is not a witch. He doesn’t know, but the word evil doesn’t turn to her! If a girl who is not yet adulthood and curious about the world can be called evil, then the administrative officials in Greycastle are Devil from Hell! For hundreds of gold royals, the stone was deliberately stolen, causing the collapse of the theater in the new district. More than 30 members of the Stoneemason Club were killed.

    But are they on the hanging post? Not one. The judge finally sentenced the Stonemason leader to improper construction and exile, and Stonemason ordered the dissolution. In order to avoid the limelight, Karl, who knew the inside story, had to drag his family to escape from Greycastle, all the way to the west, and finally to Border Town.

    He started a school, had many students, met new neighbors, new friends, but the crimes that Greycastle played were always in mind. Now, once again, he feels the ridicule of the world – in the end, what is evil, can the gods in heaven really see it clearly?

    The last straw that overwhelmed Karl was Nana.

    Nana is different from Anna, and can even be said to be the exact opposite. She is an extremely lively girl and is well known in school. As long as she does not attend class, she rarely sees that she has a stop, not riding a tree to make a bird, or squatting in the grass. Asked what she did, she giggled for a while before answering that she was quarreling with the ants.

    Nana’s face is always full of smiles, which seems to be her nature. This tragic and difficult world has nothing to do with her, at least in school, she can always laugh without any worries. Karl even had a hint of curiosity – did she cry from birth to now?

    Until two days ago, Nana found him in tears. “Teacher, will I be hanged like Anna?”

    He knew that his student, Nana Pine, also became a witch.

    “Ah, isn’t that Mr. van Bate? Please come here and help us to see what is written on it. ”

    Karl felt someone pulling his sleeve, he raised his head and found that he didn’t know when he had walked to the small town square. Many people around the bulletin board squatting something, heard the name of van Bate, everyone consciously let a road open.

    “You are too smart, let me see.”

    “Yeah, it was always Mage’s guy who read it. It turned out to be a stomachache and went to the bathroom. It hasn’t come back until now.”

    If it is normal, he will definitely smile and nod, and then explain the contents of the bulletin board to everyone in detail. But now Karl finds that he can’t do it—the smiles and enthusiasm of these people are not fake, but for him, it’s harder to bear than the mask of smirk.

    The notice of hanged Anna is also posted on it, and everyone is so excited to discuss. In a sense, you are all murderers. He said in his heart that your ignorance and ignorance killed her.

    Karl pressed his emotions and took a breath and walked to the announcement.

    “The prince recruited people to build Border Town, and there are many grades to choose from,” he said.

    But I am also one of the murderers. What qualifications are there to blame them? Tell people that the witch is an evil person is not himself? Karl only felt that the corners of his mouth were bitter, and I said something to the children. I thought of the Church teachings, and I thought I was doing a good job, hell!

    “stone grinder, requires men, 20 to 40 years old, strong and strong. Pay 25 copper royals a day. ”

    “Mud craftsmen, gender-free, over 18 years old, with masonry experience, pays 45 copper royals per day.”

    “Handyman, requires men, 18 years of age or older, to pay 12 copper royals per day.”

“……”

    No, he has to do something. If Anna’s death is irreparable, then at least Nana can’t be repeated. There was a voice in Karl’s heart, and when Stonemason would be destroyed, he didn’t stand up. When Anna was hanged, he didn’t stand up. Should he keep silent like this, watching these lovely children being sent to the gallows?

    But what can he do? With Nana, fleeing from Border Town – he has his own family, the family has flown from Greycastle, and the situation has just got better and left? Not to mention that Nana herself was born into a rich family. Can she live without a fixed life?

    “Stonemason, regardless of gender, age is not limited, anyone who has participated in municipal construction, stronghold, and fortifications, City Hall has long-term recruitment, paying one gold royal per month.”

    “Supplemental Terms: Those who are experienced and perform well can be awarded official positions.”

    After the notice was finished, everyone was already noisy. “The monthly salary of 1gold royal is comparable to the cavalry of Longsong Stronghold!”

    “Can you?” Base pits are unfavorable, but also stronghold? ”

    “Don’t just stare at this, the first few items are also very good. If you pay for it every day, it’s not much less than hunting.”

    “It’s true that hunting can still lose your life. Hidden Forest is not a place to go anywhere.”

    Karl van Bate didn’t pay attention to this, and his entire attention was focused on the final seal and signature of the notice. That is the autograph of Fourth Prince Roland Wimbledon’s.

    Didn’t the prince know that Months of Demon was not long before? No matter what he wants to build, it is not a good time to start work at this moment. It seems that His Highness Wimbledon is ignorant of the construction, if he can draw his attention with the name of the Stonemason meeting…There was a sudden thought in Karl’s heart. Perhaps through this recruitment, he could see the prince himself, the highest governor of Border Town’s.

    This thought made Karl swallow and persuade the prince to believe that the witch is not evil? It is rumored that His Royal Highness has a unique idea, a different personality than ordinary people, and he is extremely disgusted with Church. Maybe it works! He thought that although he was finally ordered to hang Anna, it was Prince Roland, and he could see that he was not willing.

    The prince himself is only in his early twenties. He should be able to understand more easily. How can the girls who are still in the cardamom suddenly become sinful evils?

    Of course, there is also the possibility that he will be sent to the hanging post together as a party to the witch. The Church Law clearly stipulates that anyone who covers a witch or a witch for a witch should be considered a cultist of the fall.

    I can only hope that I hate Church’s prince and use Church’s law as waste paper.

    Karl prayed in his heart.

    Although he did not know which gods to pray to, he closed his eyes and prayed for blessing.

    In order to die Anna, in order to still live Nana, the crack in his heart no longer expands.

    He decided to take the risk.