The Source

Inside Ashgra City, Locke and Gabi Montoya arrived together before a cluster of dust-covered houses.

No one had lived in these houses for a long time.

The residents of Ashgra City did not dare approach this area. After all, the owners of these houses had all contracted a disease they could not understand.

Locke looked at the houses made of red and white bricks. The entire building resembled a small Western-style house. He took Gabi Montoya and briefly inspected the three nearby houses.

It had to be said that the average standard of living for ordinary people in the Wizarding World was better than that of the commoners on the Corfu Continent.

The commoners of Corfu Island lived in thatched huts without floors. Some even lived in cattle sheds alongside livestock, without so much as a bed.

But in the Wizarding World, the commoners of the Southeastern Corner Region each had at least a small, simple, independent house.

After inspecting the area, Gabi Montoya shook her head and said to Locke, "Senior Locke, I still can't see what the problem is."

"These houses aren't connected. We inspected three of them, and each was separated by five or six individual houses. So why did the commoners living in these three houses all contract that strange disease, while the owners of the dozen or so houses in between were completely fine?"

Locke swept his gaze over the surrounding houses. Some people still lived in them, perhaps because they had nowhere else to go. However, every household had nailed wooden boards over its doors and windows.

Only when they saw Locke and Gabi approaching did they crack open their doors to observe the situation. When they realized wizards had come, they became extremely agitated.

They clearly lived in constant fear, afraid that they,