Episode 61 – The truth of the plague revealed
How far did you walk in the direction of the wind from the spot where the bloodstains were found?
I was walking with the wind blowing in front of me, and I felt something strange in the wind.
It wasn’t a natural foreign substance, but someone artificially created a foreign substance.
I could also feel that foreign substances with an artificial feeling mixed in between the blowing winds tried to enter my body and then disappear due to the repulsion of the aura.
Perhaps this man-made foreign substance was the cause of the plague.
I was in a situation where I didn’t know what would happen, so I opened my senses.
Without relaxing the tension applied to his whole body, he applied force to his right hand holding the sword.
At any time, no matter what jumped out in front of me, no matter which direction the enemy attacked, I was ready to respond.
As I carefully moved forward step by step, the amount of foreign matter mixed in the wind was increasing.
No, it wasn’t that it was growing, it was that I could see it with my eyes.
What looks like yellow smoke is blown away by the wind.
At a certain distance, the yellow smoke disperses and becomes invisible.
Perhaps the burned village I stopped by was the first to fall victim to this plague.
I moved slowly in the direction the yellow smoke was coming from.
And then, a huge flower that seemed to be the source of the plague appeared before my eyes.
No, it was not a flower, but a grotesque creature that looked like a flower.
From petals to stamens, pistils, calyxes, and stems, everything looks bizarre.
It was as if, if a person were to be made alive into a flower, that would be what they would look like.
People?
A person?
I took a close look at the organism presumed to be the cause of the plague that appeared in front of me.
What is revealed on the surface of the stem…… It was clearly a human face.
What is it? What is that?
“What the hell is that?”
It was to the point that self-talk came out of my mouth without even realizing it.
Really, was that grotesque being made of human materials?
A flower made of human material.
Even the black magicians who were members of the Demon King’s Army back then didn’t do anything like this.
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If someone had been summoned using human lives as ingredients, the church would have found out about it.
However, the fact that the church did not know the location of this being meant that it was not a being called from the Demon Realm or other places.
I stopped judging the situation myself here and hid behind a big tree so that the flower wouldn’t detect me.
Anyway, I needed Professor Julia’s help now.
I took the crystal ball out of my pocket and contacted Professor Julia.
[Alberto? What’s happen?]
“I have found an object that seems to be the cause of the plague. Or rather, I should say I have found a living organism.”
I told Professor Julia what I had discovered so far and what I thought about it.
[I see. It is a flower that sprays foreign substances that give it the feeling of being artificially created. Obviously, that guy is the cause of the contagious disease.]
“What should I do?”
[Can you fight alone?]
Professor Julia asked if I could fight alone.
[If it’s an ambiguous opponent to fight alone, I’ll send you support. With my authority, it is possible to mobilize the knights of the territory.]
Professor Julia said she would send support because she was worried about me.
I turned my head for a moment and looked at the flower made of people.
As I raised the senses of my whole body again and moved the aura to my eyes, I began to see grains all over the flower.
He was a guy I could deal with alone.
“I think I can deal with it alone.”
[Are you really okay? If you get hurt, how can I look at Nina? Can you really come back without getting hurt?]
“It’s possible. Trust me.”
I told Professor Julia to trust me.
Obviously, Professor Julia knows the relationship between me and Nina, so she must be saying that because she thinks Nina will be sad when I come back injured.
But I am a sword master. A sword master who cuts through everything with his aura blade.
There was no way I could lose against that flower that couldn’t even move.
However, it is forbidden to be careless, so I took holy water out of my pocket and sprinkled it on myself while speaking to Professor Julia, who was talking with me from the crystal ball.
“I’ll come back unscathed. I don’t want to make the person who’s been waiting for a living widow.”
[You two aren’t even married yet, are you?]
“…….”
[I’m kidding, kidding. Just in case, I’ll send the knights to the nearby village. Then, be sure to come back alive.]
With those words, Professor Julia cut off magic communication.
I also put the crystal ball in my pocket and took out various types of potions from the pocket for a full-scale battle.
“Hu, this is the first time I dope after becoming a sword master.”
What I took out of my pocket were potions with different colored contents.
These potions containing purple, iridescent, white, and green liquids were all buff potions that gave various beneficial effects to the person who took them.
How did you get this precious thing that ordinary people can’t even see?
It was an item personally supported by the Marquis of Sebatia.
‘If you’re going there, take this with you. It is said that the four levels are the level of a sword master, but it is difficult to respond to sudden variables. Then, these will come in handy.’
The potions that Marquis Sebatia took care of were well packed in this pouch.
The purple potion increased the strength of the person who took it for 24 hours.
The rainbow-colored potion was a potion that bestowed divine power to prevent evil spirits from dwelling in the person who took it.
The white potion was an item that provided perfect protection from poison for about four hours.
Lastly, the green potion was a potion that increased concentration so that you could concentrate for a longer period of time when you took it.
I drank these four potions in turn.
The taste…… It was unimaginably terrifying, but I had to put up with it because it temporarily gave me a good effect.
“Damn it, it’s terribly tasteless.”
It’s my personal opinion, but I think people who develop delicious potions will really make a lot of money.
Bitter, I know that medicine that is good for the body is bitter to the mouth, but isn’t this a bit harsh?
Still, the effect of taking the medicine began to increase, and my whole body started to overflow with energy.
With doping done, all that was left was to get rid of that grotesque flower.
I got up, took a deep breath, and fastened my pockets to my waist.
It was to prevent forgetting during the battle, by any chance.
After confirming that the pocket was tightly bound, I gripped my sword again.
This time, since I had to go all out from the start, I created an aura blade and ran towards the grotesque flower.
“Ha!”
The aura blade rising above my sword was shining brightly on my path in the forest, which quickly turned dark.
As I lunged at it, tentacles sprouted from the grotesque flower and rushed straight at me.
“Where!”
However, its tentacles were no match for my Aura Blade.
Like a feather that fell on a sharp blade, it sliced through all of the tentacles of my sword.
As if in pain, the bizarre flower twisted its body and spewed spores in all directions.
However, since I am now covered in an aura, the spores it spewed could not pierce my aura and disappeared altogether.
First, I decided to cut off the calyx and top of the calyx, which seems to emit spores.
As I moved left and right, I slowly approached him while preventing him from predicting my movements.
The tentacles that grew again rushed to stab me to death, but their attacks were blocked by my sword every time.
I’m sure the opponent can be cut down with my aura blade, but a little bit of carelessness could ruin everything.
Closing the distance slowly, I reached a distance of about five steps from his calyx.
Then, I pulled out the aura blade temporarily and cut the part where the calyx and the stem were connected.
This was my own skill that I acquired from fighting the battle golem.
Instantaneously increases the amount of aura supplied to the sword, making the aura blade longer.
Then, the enemies they thought were at a safe distance were to slash them at a speed that made them unable to respond.
This was my own proprietary technology, created by me.
From the moment the aura blade on my sword cut through the stem and calyx supporting the grotesque flower, the movement of the tentacle became noticeably dull.
And
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A flower completely detached from its stem fell onto the ground, creating a cloud of dust.
The flower turned into black smoke and disappeared into the air, and at the same time, I felt the spores of the flower spreading in the air disappear.
I took the crystal ball out of my pocket and contacted Professor Julia.
“Professor. I’ve taken down what appears to be the cause.”
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[I was still waiting. According to reports coming in now, the symptoms of people who had the contagious disease are disappearing.]
It was fortunate. Word was heard that the plague was disappearing.
However, there were some unclear points. Anyway, who spread this plague?
An investigation was needed to uncover this.
So, after I told Professor Julia that I would investigate this place, I started to investigate in earnest.
As I was searching to see if anything had fallen or if there was anything that could be a clue, a small pendant shining from the floor caught my eye.