Chapter 368: Alchemists’ New Mix
After my group of warriors and I got to a small settlement that was taken over by brainwashed soldiers, we made sure that Baelzor didn’t have any of his monster eyes scouting the area.
Luckily, there weren’t any, so we went with the warriors’ idea of attacking them head-on. However, we needed to capture as many of them as possible since they were prime candidates to test our new cures.
The warriors told me that any time they clashed with the brainwashed soldiers, they tried their best not to kill them, but it wasn’t always possible to save themselves along with the soldiers.
Whenever they were accompanied by demons or Accursed Beasts, the warriors couldn’t even think about saving them. Still, I was here now, and I didn’t want to let any of the mind-controlled people die in vain.
The plan was simple—the warriors attacked from the front and clashed with the soldiers while Yoru and I entered from the sky and captured them from behind.
It didn’t take us over five minutes to capture them all. Although, to be fair, I did use powerful wind magic to move around quickly.
After chaining down the soldiers, we noticed that half of the villagers kept working, carrying stones and wood into a cart while the other half stood nervously on the side of the settlement.
The ones who kept working were enslaved villagers who were also brainwashed, so even if we attacked the soldiers around them and liberated them from their duties, the villagers wouldn’t stop working for a second.
The villagers halted their work only when we intervened and physically stopped them. Still, their faces showed no emotion.