From Village Chief to Emperor of the Strongest Empire - Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Lumberjacks In Danger

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The servants in the castle were already busy in the early morning.

They had seen the mayor practicing his Qi in the yard early in the past few days, so they would always go around the front yard and try not to make too much noise to disturb the mayor’s training.

Although it had not snowed yet in the early winter season, the early morning air had already made the thin-clothed people start to shiver in the cold.

Su Chen, who was practicing his combat energy, was now steaming hot, turning his sweat into steam like a small stove.

Combat energy and magic power were unique training systems in this world. The basic combat energy training method could stimulate the human body.

Ever since he was attacked by the saliva fish outside of the town, Su Chen was especially serious about practicing combat energy in the hopes of improving his physical quality.

His eyes were tightly shut as he used his mind to control his combat energy to travel through his body. What was different from the past was that today, Su Chen did not try to find out how many times his combat energy could be circulated. He was suppressing the speed of his combat energy circulation!

He tried to suppress the speed of his combat energy circulation but instead tried to make it go deeper within the core of his being.

As expected, after he slowed down, the scope of his combat energy’s influence was even greater than before. All kinds of deep muscles, skeletal muscles, fascias, tendons, and ligaments could all be affected.

The consumption rate of his combat aura was also much faster than before. The combat aura that could have been used up for seven rounds had been used up by the fifth round.

Su Chen did not let himself stop and continued to practice the basic sword skills against the iron-sheet wooden pile in the courtyard

“Mayor, Sir Ian’s has an urgent report. He said that the logging team in the west gravel ridge seemed to have been attacked by a large-scale magical beast.”

The guard of the castle brought a guard and hurriedly found Su Chen, who was cultivating in the front yard. They bowed and explained the situation.

The new logging team was the result of Ian and Su Chen’s discussion a few days ago because the logging team was made up of ordinary workers. Ian was worried that they would be attacked by the magical beast outside the town. So he sent a few guards and bronze knights to protect them in turn.

“Attacked by a magical beast? Tell me the details.” Su Chen put down the knight’s sword in his hand, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and asked the guard.

“Aaron greets the mayor.” The guard named Aaron bowed deeply to Su Chen.

“Just this morning, as usual, we were escorting the logging team to pick up wood at the gravel ridge. A bronze knight, Mars, was attacked by a forest wolf in the deeper part of the gravel ridge. When our team arrived, he was already heavily injured and fell to the ground. The forest wolf had also escaped.”

“Forest Wolf? That’s a level-two magical beast, right? Were there any other casualties? Where’s captain Ian?” Su Chen asked with a frown.

“Mars was originally a bronze knight who belonged to the Karev family. For the time being, no one else was injured. After captain Ian received the news, he immediately went to the gravel ridge to organize an escort team to retreat. I’ll report to you when they return, mayor.”

Su Chen fell into deep thought. Magical beasts were different from monsters. They were creatures that had evolved on their own on this continent. They had their own territory and race just like normal animals and would not appear near a human city usually.

Forest Wolves were animals that lived in groups. Once they found a wolf, they could basically confirm that there was a wolf pack nearby. They did not know how powerful the Wolf Alpha was. Su Chen was thinking that he should wait for Ian and the others to return and he would see what the situation was like.

He had no choice but to summon the Glimmer Knights to clear it up.

Su Chen subconsciously checked the omniscient map and found that a long path was lit in the west direction of the town.

This was the path of the logging team!

It turned out that his subordinates could also help him light up the black fog on the map.

Su Chen used his spiritual sense to control the map to move to the end of the path. He saw the logging team slowly retreating, but he did not see any traces of demonic beasts in his field of vision.

At this time, Evelyn brought a cup of hot milk to Su Chen. Ever since Su Chen started training every morning, Evelyn would bring him a cup of hot milk every day after Su Chen’s training.

Su Chen took the cup of hot milk that Evelyn handed him and drank it in one gulp. He instructed Aaron,

“When Ian and the others return, I’ll go through the details with him.”

Then, he took his coat from the weapon rack and was about to go to the west gate to wait for Ian and the logging team to return.

“Mayor, don’t you want to have some breakfast first? It’s already prepared in the dining room…”

Seeing that Su Chen was going to do something without breakfast, Evelyn could not help but ask worriedly.

“I’m not going to eat yet. Let’s see what’s going on first!”

Su Chen put on his clothes and equipment, waved goodbye to Evelyn, and left for the West Gate.

Not long after, Su Chen saw the logging team that had returned. Most of the knights and guards led by Ian were still at the back to prevent the magic beasts from chasing them. Everyone was still in a state of panic after being attacked. When they returned to the vicinity of the town, they heaved a sigh of relief.

The heavily injured bronze knight, Mars, was lying on a simple wooden stretcher. Blood continuously flowed out from the stretcher and dripped onto the ground.

“Quickly put it on the ground. Let me take a look.”

Seeing this, Su Chen quickly went forward to check on Mar’s injuries.

Mars’s consciousness was already fading. He was lying on the stretcher. His back, thighs, and arms had all undergone a simple bandage, but there was still blood continuously oozing out from the bandage, it had already dyed his clothes and the cloth that was bandaged.

His breath had already become weak. Between his breaths, he spat out a little blood foam from his mouth and let out a faint groan unconsciously.

Su Chen immediately cast a healing spell in his mind to stabilize his injury first.

Sure enough, a pale green light ball appeared on Mars’ body, stemming the bleeding. Su Chen immediately cast another healing spell. 

The healing spell was only a level-one healing spell. It could not instantly heal the wounds of a person who was on the verge of death. If an ordinary person received more than two healing spells in a short period of time, there would not be much of an improvement. The excess life energy could only be stored in the body to speed up the process of his recovery.

Mars’ breathing gradually calmed down. Su Chen ordered the guards to carry him to a nearby house, wash the wounds with clean water, and change his dressings.

At this time, Ian, who led the guards to cover the rear, also returned to the small town,

“Mayor.” Ian frowned and looked a little worried. He gave a knight’s salute to Su Chen.

“Is Mars’ condition okay? His injury was heavy. We could only treat him briefly and wait for your treatment.”

“Don’t worry, he’s stable. He will need time to recover.”

Su Chen took Ian to the house where Mars was being treated for his injuries. “Let me take you to see him..”