119 – 119. Winds of Plague (1)
“Is there really room for interpretation of what you just said?”
“Yes. The Archbishop said so too.”
“Whoa…”
“If you don’t trust me, would you like to listen to the words of another priest?”
“No. It’s not like that. It’s not that the priest is untrustworthy… I’m sorry.”
I never said that because I didn’t believe it. The same goes for her sigh she breathed.
Those who are priests spend most of their lives studying prayer and theology.
In this way, they prove their faith and increase their divine power instead of magical power.
This holy power heals the injured and has a tremendous influence enough to revive those who are at the crossroads of life and death.
But that’s what you say when you use divine power for healing. The divinity given to these priests is not healing, but the power to read prophecy.
There is no way that those who spend their entire lives concentrating on reading the prophecies in the temple do anything wrong.
“Hmm… I didn’t know what that meant, but it seems pretty serious that the Countess reacted this way.”
“…It’s just not serious.”
Dahlia, who had been told the story in the carriage, responded by standing beside her and helped her sister’s reaction.
The priest spat out a heavy sigh, saying, “I thought even the Marquis would say that…”.
“I’m here for now. You’d better see it with your own eyes.”
The two sisters silently followed the priest. Pass through the prayer room to the room of the oracle located deep inside.
The sound of footsteps stopped, the last door opened, and the three of them arrived at the room of the oracle.
Jin of the watch face and hands.
The mysterious oracles given by the constellations of the North and South Head respectively caught my eye.
“The clock… Is this the oracle you were talking about?”
“No. This won’t be it.”
“Huh?”
“This helped me decipher it myself. That’s why I know.”
“As Countess Beryl said, the oracle of this clock has not yet been interpreted. Please look over there.”
Looking at the place pointed out by the priest, there is another gin behind the clock’s gin.
“You can look at them in order from left to right. As for the interpretation, as I said earlier, these two symbols represent the plague. The one right next to it is a young soldier holding up a shield against the plague.”
The sentence that raises a shield against an abstract object called plague does not make sense by itself. This obviously has an implied meaning.
“A young soldier with a shield is fighting against the plague… If a young soldier is fighting a battle right now, that’s true.”
“That’s right. It looks like the contents of the ongoing battle against the sheets.”
The priest nodded as he replied that he understood correctly.
Soldiers of the Principality fighting against the Scourge, which is believed to be the cause of the Lemteert Plague.
It could be seen that this picture fits the current situation perfectly in terms of including the plague or targeting the person holding the shield to protect the principality.
“By the way, three more pictures have been added here today. That’s what I wanted to tell you two.”
“This… The young soldier with the shield?”
The young soldier I thought meant soldiers came out again. However, unlike before, the shield is broken, and the man is frustrated.
“Ominously, if this soldier means the principality, it means we are on the road to defeat.”
“But isn’t that true?”
“Why?”
“It’s because even though the Sith subjugation is going on in much worse conditions, we have been informed of the victory once. The subjugation is still cruising.”
“Hmm…”
From the outside, it just feels uneasy.
To the extent that it is understandable that he hurriedly ran after hearing that a great crisis was looming over the principality.
First of all, the three of them saw that the crisis had passed as the sheet subjugation was successfully progressing.
“And this magic circle is the last one. I’m not sure if it’s related to the first two, but I wanted to show them this too.”
“…!”
“Sister. This…”
“…Yes. This is not a magic circle. It was a very wise choice for the priest to call the two of us separately.”
I summoned not only the magic circle, but everyone in the temple, including the archbishop, as well as the magic science professors from the academy, and asked about this painting, but everyone shook their heads.
However, the reaction of the two sisters was quite different. The priest was finally able to ask about this magic circle.
“What is this magic circle?”
It wasn’t because of this that they ran all of a sudden, but if I had mentioned this first, the two sisters might have come running right away.
Denice, who was hesitant, spoke first.
“How much does the priest know about the types of magical powers?”
“Yes…?”
Unexpectedly, Denis’s question started with the type of magic a person possesses.
***
Pow-!
Fireworks are heard from behind. A total of three firecrackers exploded in succession, and the whole team at Tembris confirmed it.
“Three, I need to get this done ASAP.”
The firecrackers, like signal flares, meant that we had to give up the camp due to the attacks of demon beasts, so if we couldn’t achieve our goal, we should return within time.
And even the count. Three bursts in a row means to join the main unit within 30 minutes.
“I think 30 minutes will be enough. What do you all think?”
As Goden asked as he pushed back the attacking Scourge, one corrected his words.
“I have to be honest. I shouldn’t have to ask if I can take care of that in 30 minutes and join the main unit.”
“That’s it, I guess!”
Twoong-!
With the hardness of an iron wall, it strikes through its much larger forelimbs.
Unlike the shabby size of the Scourge you’ve seen so far, a much bigger foe is right in front of them.
It was Shanberesh of Plague, which was initially designated as the Named Beast, and which is presumed to be the mother of the Scourge.
As the Scourge self-destructed, spreading offspring, causing a plague and gnawing at the host, I expected it to be a formidable battle when I first met them.
However, compared to the embarrassing things, there was nothing special about the mother.
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“Senia, are you sure about that?”
“Aris, you asked me something twice. There’s no way I’m lying here.”
“I was just asking because I didn’t know. By the way, I didn’t know that the magic circuit had a completely different structure. Thanks to you, I’m able to capture it so easily!”
As a result of checking Shanberesh’s body inside her magic, Senia said that her body structure was different from that of the Scourge, only her body was large.
She’s only focused on giving birth, so she can’t self-destruct like the Scourge.
Then what does this mean?
“Then let’s blast it hot!”
Quaang!!
-Kiik!!!!
“Phew, it’s finally getting a little cooler.”
“I’ll freeze my left leg again. Aris, please stop attacking me!”
“Did you hear that? Goden, cover me from the right side.”
“Okay. Trust me! I’ll push you all away!”
It was the sound of being able to use mana freely. Except for the Scourge pups.
Of course, the mother is dying after receiving an all-out attack from the enemy. Are the cubs really watching it? It can’t be.
But in Tembris, this was also prepared.
“Michelle, Erica. How long can you last?”
“Five minutes. I hope it’s finished within that time. Erica seems exhausted.”
“It’s not that tidy, it can be done in about 10 minutes.”
“It won’t take that long anyway, will it?”
“Then I must finish quickly. I will join the attack instead of parrying!”
“I’ll finish next. Give me a gap.”
The wall of blue flame that burns mana and the wall of divinity that is different from mana created a radius sufficient to attack Shanberesh.
The roles are clearly defined for each member, and before long, the huge body lies on the floor with traces of human attacks all over it.
Kung.
It happened exactly within 5 minutes from the moment they met until the moment when they stopped breathing.
“Subjugation complete! Everyone hurry back!”
Now that we have dealt with the Scourge’s mother, it is urgent to tell the truth about what remains.
So that humans do not become hosts to demonic beasts.
Same time. The unit that received the signal from the main unit was not the only one in Tembris who was dealing with Shanberesh of Plague.
“Huh, firecrackers? Is that a signal?”
“Yeah. It’s a signal to us. I think it means to join us.”
The signal also reached the academy students located in the rear so that the main unit could not handle the attack from both sides.
Now, all that was left was to gather together.
“But how did Junon know that he’s breaking through to the main unit first?”
“I don’t know, neither do I. Don’t ask me.”
“Isn’t it too much work…”
“It won’t be enough if you tell me in moderation. Hey! Junon! Don’t overdo it and go with me!”
There is no reply.
He cleared the way again, silently, single-handedly dealing with the Scourge as if he were doing his job.
***
“Hmm…”
An adjutant who checks the time by pulling out a watch from the time the firecrackers were sent.
Professor Meuniher ordered that if they did not return after 30 minutes, he would lead some troops to rescue them.
But I didn’t have to.
“Oh, there he is! It’s Tembris!”
They returned safely. In the meantime, he even cut off Shanberesh’s tail as evidence to see if the subjugation was successful.
They completed the task so successfully that it made me think that it was foolish to harbor prejudice that it would be impossible to deal with named monsters.
“Tembris team, everyone returned right after the subjugation of Shanberesh.”
“I’m glad. I thought I’d run if I was 5 minutes late.”
“hahahaha, our team isn’t that weak.”
“Anyway, you’ve worked hard. Thanks to you guys taking care of Shanberesh, the Scourge’s stock has noticeably weakened. You’ll be tired. Go to the barracks and rest.”
“Um… I have work to do rather than rest right now. Where is the commander?”
“If it’s Lord Gelbarten…”
Come to think of it, the commander left this job for me, his adjutant, and went to look elsewhere.
“You’re waiting over there to watch the rear troops join in.”
Goden lowered his head and hurriedly ran to Meuniher.
Meanwhile, the 3rd year students, who had greatly reduced the burden of the main unit from the rear, also arrived.
Everyone’s eyes are surprising because they didn’t tell anyone except for the adjutant.
They were all drenched in Scourge bodily fluids, but they weren’t hurt too much.
If there was a problem, it was the numbers.
“Looks like a whole pair is missing. What happened?”
“…There were runners. Damn them.”
“Huh, in the middle of a battle?”
“Yes! Because of those bastards, we were all surrounded and almost died!”
Students were criticizing them as if they were almost enemies.
“Okay. That’s it. Shouldn’t you guys also rest?”
I promise to deal severely with punishment for deserting the battlefield, and for now, I give them time and space to rest.
In fact, just the fact that there are survivors like this is great. It deserves praise. It must have been one person who saved them.
But…
‘Why are you so dark? Junon.’
It’s no exaggeration to say that Junon’s face didn’t look bright at all.
The steps back to the barracks also don’t look so light. It was a figure from the back carrying something, an enormous burden.
“What the hell happened to not be happy even after such an improvement?”
Tuk, tok.
To-do-duk.
“Oops, it’s raining. It’s raining in this heat, tsk. Had it been delayed longer, it would have been more hard work. At this point, it’s at the level of being appointed as a public servant rather than a hidden protagonist.”
But, why is that? Muuniher murmured.
And soon a team arrived.
“Whoops, whoops. Commander!”
“Hmm? What are you guys doing? Not going to rest.”
“Well, that’s it. The Lemtert Plague! That…!”
As Goden hesitated, unable to organize his words, Senia intervened right next to him.
“The Scourge self-destructs to spread offspring hidden in bodily fluids, and the offspring use magical objects as hosts to gnaw away their magic. Be prepared!”
“What?!”
The rain is getting stronger.
It was a shower pouring down on the scorching heat.