Chapter 2260: Homecoming

Qiao Ann ignored the overly excited little Archibald, and walked up to his father, calmly explaining the fact.
"Mr. Archibald, I have eliminated all jackals, blood beasts and their hyena servants in accordance with the contract. If you do not object, I plan to execute the second half of the contract and send you back to Germany. Lin Town."
"Of course I don't object... How dare I object."
Old Archibald fell into the armchair, threw the shotgun, grabbed the bottle and took two big mouthfuls. He couldn't tell whether he was feeling relieved or discouraged at the moment.
"Mr. Master, I actually wanted to leave this ghost place a long time ago, but it's not easy to climb the mountains in this season, after all, I can't make magic."
Joan heard the old man Archibald's hint, turned and walked out of the house, casting spells to create a caravan led by three phantom horses.
"Mr. Archibald, take your people into the car. The Phantom carriage is flying in the air, free from wind and snow. You can return to Delin Town safely before dark."
The old man Archibald nodded and greeted his son and four hired workers to pack their luggage and board the caravan with the shotgun.
After everyone sat down, Qiao Ann blew his whistle, and the three intelligent phantom horses rushed towards the south, dragging the caravan, leaving no trace of the snow behind.
Watching Archibald's family go away by car, the black slaves in the wooden house couldn't help but panic. They were worried that Master Master would leave them alone in the mountains, so they asked Amigo to come forward and ask Qiao An to find out how to arrange them.
"Don't worry, I will cast a spell to create more phantom carriages and send you all back to Delin Town." Qiao An comforted Amigo, "The town council passed a bill prohibiting slavery today, waiting for you Back in town, he is a free man."
"Free man? This sounds good, but it's not good for us." Amigo shrugged and spread his hands, not showing much excitement about regaining his freedom.
"Why, don't you want to be liberated?" Qiao An looked at the young black slave inexplicably.
"Freedom is of course very good, but pure freedom cannot be exchanged for bread. We have no money or land, and we don't know how to fill our stomachs when we return to town."
After sighing, Amiguo said with a bitter face: "If we want to find a living in Delin Town, our only way out is to be a hired laborer. We have wages. Of course, it is much better than being a slave. But I am worried that no one is willing to spend it. Money hires us to work."
Qiao An still didn't understand what Amigo was worried about.
"Master Master, even if the council gives us the status of'free men', it cannot change our discriminated status in the town."
"Look, our skin color is different from yours. Most of the residents of Delin Town are white like you. If white people spend money to hire people for work, they will of course give priority to hiring compatriots with the same skin color."
"I don't think so, Amigo, whoever is good at craftsmanship and offers a reasonable price, I will hire someone to do the work." Qiao An said.
"Unfortunately, not everyone is as enlightened as you, Master Master. In fact, most people think differently from you."
Amigo insisted on his point of view.
"Master Archibald often said that people like us not only have ugly skin, they look like the devil, and our intelligence is not as good as that of white people. They are born inferior people and deserve to be slaves to smarter and more advanced white people."
"I don’t believe this, but I found that many people in Delin have the same views as Master Archibald. They may not publicly oppose the parliamentary decree, but privately they support slavery, thinking that we blacks Should be in a position of slavery."
Qiao An was deeply touched by the grief and anger in Amigo's words. Judging from what he observed in the town and in the council, there is indeed the kind of racial discrimination that Amigo worries about, but he does not think this is the mainstream.
"Amigo, I admit that some people in the town do discriminate against you, but overall Delin Town is not as xenophobic as you think."
"There used to be a well-respected half-elf doctor in our town. He also elected a dwarf to serve as a councilor and sheriff. In the Algonquin Valley, those yellow-skinned Asaites are our allies in Delin. I don’t see any reason why people discriminate against you who are just darker-skinned compatriots."
Amigo shook his head slightly.
"Master Mage, you still don’t understand. The dwarves and elves, as well as the Asa people, are born free men. They were the masters of this land before the arrival of the white colonists. We black people were trafficked from the beginning. Slaves, this is not the same. Unless you turn us all into whites, you will not change our destiny of being discriminated against by whites."
Qiao An was speechless, and had to admit that Amiguo's concerns had some truth, but he had not yet mastered the magic that could permanently change a person's skin color and appearance.
Moreover, even if he knew this kind of spell, he didn't think it would really help Amigo and his countrymen out of trouble.
They are not born whites. After the "bleaching", they will still be ridiculed as "fake goods" by insiders. In the end, they will neither win the approval of whites, but will be regarded as traitors by their dark-skinned compatriots.
After a long silence, Qiao Ann spoke again.
"Amigo, if you don't want to go back to Delin Town, are there other better places to go?"
"Master Mage, if possible...I want to go home."
The young black slave's eyes were red, and his speech was choked.
"Where is your hometown?"
"We are all from the'Modi tribe' in Musbelheim, south of Brass Mountain, on the east bank of the Jinsha River..."
Qiao An heard Amiguo describe the general location of his hometown, and then said to him: "Tell your companions, who else wants to go back to your hometown, I will take you on the road together."
"Okay! Master Master, thank you so much!"
Amiguo bowed to Qiao'an excitedly, turned and ran back to the wooden house, and chatted with other black slaves in tribal dialect. Everyone yelled excitedly when they learned that they were expected to return to their hometown.
Not long after, Amigo ran back to Qiao'an.
"Master Master, all of us want to go home."
Qiao An nodded and figured out how to send Amigo back to their hometown as soon as possible.
From here to the area where the Modi tribe is located, it’s a thousand miles away, to mention a thousand miles away. Along the way, you have to pass through the brass mountain pass where bandits are rampant. It takes too long to ride the Phantom carriage, and the journey cannot be guaranteed.
A more secure method is to use teleportation magic, but with Joan’s current spellcasting ability, up to eight people can be used to teleport each time, and it takes at least three rounds to send twenty Modi people back to their hometown. This is quite troublesome. .