Chapter 503 - 'The Priests'

Ainsley was in deep thoughts for several seconds before she finally spoke.

"First, make sure none of the members and villagers come into contact with the contaminated water or soil."

Ainsley didn’t use her cutesy language anymore, too tired to act cute.

However, her people didn’t think it’s strange. At most, they thought the Godfather influenced the baby just like before.

"We have to tell the villagers that we are reconstructing the territories, so a lot of dust and trash got mixed with the soil and water source. This will not alert them of our problem."

"Agree, boss." Nouvan, the group’s healer, nodded at Ainsley’s words.

"Hum. Quickly gather food and clean water for the villagers while we fix the damage. There must be a way to clean up the contaminated water and soil..."

We only need time.

At Ainsley’s command, Jevon and the others immediately contacted the people at home to make a move. Before the sun rises, they had to finish collecting food and clean water for the villagers.

"Let’s do this!"

While the group was busy contacting those at home, the carriage finally arrived at the mansion. It was 1:30 a.m, and the sky was still dark.

However, the Sloan Family’s main mansion was still bright. Those in the estate didn’t sleep, and all of them moved to do their best to fix the problem.

Ainsley and the others immediately got off the carriage and entered the mansion.

Coincidentally, Grandpa Yofan, the 6 elders and the other higher-ups were gathering at the main hall, so when Ainsley and her group arrived, they saw each other.

"Ain!" Grandpa Yofan immediately rushed to pick up Ainsley even when the baby hadn’t even stepped into the main hall.

"Hewlo Gwandpa..." Ainsley hugged Grandpa Yofan’s neck while smiling bitterly. Her eyelids already felt so heavy that she could sleep anytime, but the baby bit her tongue to stay awake.

"Gwandpa, I have heard of the issue. What’s the condition now?" Ainsley didn’t waste time and immediately asked while Grandpa Yofan brought her to her throne.

"Ah, so you have heard the report...well, it’s lucky we discovered the problem early. By now, we have finished mapping all the contaminated territories."

Grandpa Yofan put Ainsley on the throne that was stuffed with thick butt pillows plus a warm blanket before taking the tablet from Elliana.

"Here, look. This is our territories’ whole map. The ones marked with red are the contained territories. You can see the details if you click on the red area."

Grandpa Yofan showed Ainsley the tablet containing the territories marked maps. Ainsley immediately took the tablet and zoomed in the several red areas.

She clicked on the red area and saw the detailed reports listed.

-Poisoned well.

-Corrosive soil.

-Burnt rice fields.

Each of the damage types was represented with a small symbol next to it, making things easier for Ainsley to see the location of the damaged areas.

They got blue skulls for the poisoned water sources and added the type of the water source, for example a well symbol, a river symbol, or a pond symbol.

They used green acidic symbols for the corrosive soil areas and red fire for the burnt rice fields.

With the symbols, Ainsley managed to understand the whole situation in mere minutes. Whoever made the reports was undoubtedly talented!

"Hum, almost all the water sources are contaminated. Only those inside the mansion stay clean..." Ainsley murmured while clicking the tablet’s screen.

"50% of the rice fields are burnt...we might face famine if the summer is unbearable. Also, the contaminated soils...those can’t be used to plant anything or rear livestock."

The problem was quite serious, but as long as she could clean up the contaminated water and the contaminated soils...

’Can potions make this happen? Or maybe Marrieta’s plant control ability...’

Ainsley decided to find someone to ask Axelle about this whether he could make any potion to clean the contaminated water and soil.

15 minutes later, the messenger went back to the hall with Axelle, who’s still in his pyjamas. The blue-skinned elf was still groggy as he stood across the throne at the main hall.

"W-we...can make a purification potion...b-but the ingredients...are rare...it’s hard to find."

In other words, it would be faster to rely on other things aside from potions.

"Hmm, I see. Can we use chemical products or something? Like maybe cleaning the water source manually..."

"I-I just checked, and the poison in the water source...is...f-from an ability user..." Axelle tried to stay awake as he answered Ainsley.

"N-normal method won’t work...the after-effect will still linger there and can be controlled from afar..."

It means that there could be another poison breakout in the water source as long as the ability user triggered the remains inside the water source.

The bad thing was to remove the remaining power; one couldn’t do it manually!

"T-the same goes for the contaminated soils. Only the burnt rice fields are safe. We can just r-replant the wheat and other p-plants...Lady Marietta can help with that."

"I see..." Ainsley turned off the tablet before giving it back to Grandpa Yofan.

At the moment, Ainsley’s eyes already started to see nothing but blurry images. Her head was ringing...yet Ainsley gritted her teeth and persevered.

"What about using Nouvan’s healing power to remove the status ailments?"

Ainsley remembered that Nouvan had this special healing ability. He surely could purify the water, too, right?

Unfortunately, Nouvan shook his head.

"I’m a healer. It means I can only heal living beings...I can’t purify the water or soil. For that, we need the priests!"

"The...priests?"

Ainsley tilted her head, bewildered.

What’s that? A new, hidden occupation?

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