Slowly the hours pass, and it is now 2:00 p.m.

"Hope, let's descend!"

In a calm voice, Jin gives a single word of command.

"Yes, Master."

Jin's Hurricane, which had been waiting 500 meters in the air, lowers its altitude at once.

"<> Irradiate with full power!"

At the same time, the deus ex machina on board gives orders to his valet, Rei.

"Yes, Master Machina."

The highest-powered deus ex machina fires its magic power downward.

The <> comes to a standstill at an altitude of 15 meters, just above the tree canopy.

"Okay, descend from 1 to 20!　Rescue the villagers."

The twenty golems jumped down the cabin hatch one after the other.

"Ray, go support them."

"Yes, sir."

Squire Ray was the last to jump. Reiko stays behind in case of any unforeseen circumstances.

At an altitude of 15 meters, both Alma and Rei can land without any problems, even without using the force field generator.

At 2:00:30 PM, <> and Rey reach the cultivated land.

* * * * * *

Bathed in the May sun, eleven <> have been plowing, weeding, watering, and clearing the wasteland since morning.

They are given only minimal rest and minimal food, and they are wobbly.

"Don't rest, work!"

There is one supervisor. He is assisted by a golem.

It has only one job. To see that the farm slaves do not slacken off.

He raises his hoe lazily and brings it down with his weight. He repeats this action endlessly.

"Work harder!"

I shouted, and the agricultural slave took it as an order to work a little faster.

Even in May, the sun was still strong.

One of the slaves, who had been forced to work since morning without any breaks or hydration, finally collapsed.

"Get up!　Get up!

the supervisor yelled at him, but the man would not get up.

The supervisor and his assistant golem walk up to him, thinking about kicking him.

< irradiated the man with all its power.

* * * * * * * * * * * *

"u......"

"Ao......"

"......"

The ten <> who had been working there crumpled to the ground as if their threads had been severed.

The supervisor stands up to kick the fallen man, but stops in surprise.

He was about to step on the nearest < when....

"What the hell?

The supervisor was rolling on the ground after being pushed by someone.

An assistant golem reacted to help him, but the next moment, it was flying through the air and slammed into the ground.

"What the ...... is going on?

The supervisor let go of his consciousness as the shock pierced through his entire body. The last thing he sees is a brown golem that helps the fallen < up.

* * * * * *

Okay, that's good.

"Eleven in all."

Deus ex machina and Jin muttered to themselves as they looked below.

"There was one golem."

But Rey silenced them.

"Oh, they've brought back all the villagers. Hope, lower the lifting winch.

"Yes, sir."

Not knowing who was watching, Jin decided to use the lifting and lowering winch that he had prepared for such an occasion from the .

, carrying an unconscious villager, rides up to on a winch.

A simple triage, or prioritization, is performed, and the most dangerous are taken into custody first.

<

"......<>"

Elsa first casts a healing spell for both medical and surgical use, and then checks on them.

Reiko assists her, and the patient (a villager) is placed on a reclining seat.

Patients are brought in at a rate of about one every 30 seconds, and after 5 minutes and 30 seconds, one patient is brought in every . One patient was admitted to the .

"All with mild heat stroke, malnutrition, extreme fatigue, lack of sleep, lack of fluids. 1 with fatigue fracture of the right clavicle".

Elsa makes a diagnosis.

"Persica juice, administered. Then forced 10 hours of sleep. Patients with fractures are treated with healing magic."

<.

<>"

Healing magic is applied to heal the fracture, and Elsa and Reiko supply the patient with percha juice from a sucking cup.

And then...

"<>"

The patient was enchanted to sleep soundly.

* * * * * *

While Erza is treating the patient, Jin and Makina are dealing with the .

First, they send the 20 who are available to them back to their hideout.

* * * * * * * * * * * * *

Three minutes earlier, the Pandor Continental Division of the World Guard had entered the hideout.

"Let's go!"

Inside the hideout, about one-third of the population has been de-brainwashed by the powerful effects of the <>, and about one-third of the population is bewildered by the situation.

"What in the world am I ...... doing?"

"Don't tell me you've been cooperating with these crazy people?"

"Uh-oh!　Oh, my God, what have I done!

Forty-five former zealots were amused by their confused former colleagues.

For a minute or so they were confused, unable to understand what had happened, but then they realized the truth.

"...... seems to have broken the brainwashing. Take care of the ranting and raving."

Are you sure?

May I? - Sure, I don't mind. They're all low-level people. We can replace them as many times as we want.

I understand.

To faithfully carry out their superiors' instructions, the men of the Revolutionary Party draw their daggers and aim for the hearts of those who continue to be in turmoil.