Chapter 282 - 158: Tales at the Courier Inn, the Rat King’s Bridal Contest
"Big rat, big rat, stop eating our grain! For three years, we’ve worked for you, yet you never cared to look..."
Exorcising demons involves a ritual; you must have a method to exorcise demons. It’s not about just using brute force to dispatch them and then thinking everything is settled.
If invited to vanquish demons, you must resemble a mage. Sometimes the incantation may not be effective, but reciting it makes you appear more professional.
Xu Qing recited anonymous verses while wielding an elm sword made of thunderstruck wood, drawing circles repeatedly.
This action left Guo Dongyang and the storehouse officer responsible for overseeing the process astounded.
To be fair, he indeed appeared quite competent!
After circling around the grain storage warehouse, Xu Qing’s frown deepened.
Yin Pupil manifested, and in the center of the warehouse arranged with the mountain and halt layout, a slight demon aura emerged from the surface. Without Xu Qing’s celestial eyes and Yin Pupil, not even a rat’s hair would be visible.
The warehouse center had the largest granary, with demon rats hiding in the deepest part of the grain cellar. It was like a turtle retracting its head; no matter how much one circled above, there was no way to access them.
The storehouse officer ran circles around the warehouse with Xu Qing, sweating profusely from his normally sedentary official duties.
The official expected Xu Qing to exorcise demons, not to lead the Imperial Court officials on a training exercise!
Suppressing his frustration, the storehouse officer wiped sweat with a handkerchief and questioned, "Mage Xu, you have observed, so when do you plan to exterminate the rat infestation?"