TCF2-22

Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

The black rain was as thick as the unexpected rainfall in the middle of summer.

Clunk. Clunk.

It also brought gusts of wind with it.

“The edge precinct black mages truly are skilled~”

Cale turned his head after hearing the melodious mumbling.

‘He’s smiling?’

The mercenary with disheveled hair was smiling while looking out the window. That made Cale think about his suspicions.

‘Is this bastard really a member of the Agents of Destruction?’

There were not many reasons to send a subordinate out of the capital no matter how many times Cale thought about it.

‘Hmm?’

Cale turned toward the Fourth Imperial Prince who was standing past Zero.

‘As expected, the trash demeanor is just an act.’

The Fourth Imperial Prince, who was looking out the window with quite a serious gaze, had both of his fists clenched. It was only for an instant, but he even cursed under his breath as if he was holding back his anger.

- Human! Will our team be okay? One was smiling like a fool before turning serious while the other was angry but suddenly chuckles and pretends to laugh!

As Raon mentioned, the two candidates had quickly hid their emotions.

‘The two of their emotions aren't the issue right now.’

Cale looked away from the two of them and looked outside.

Swooooooosh-

The black rain mixed with the wind and turned into something like a small storm.

And that storm-

Baaaaaang!

Slammed into the shield.

Crack.

A portion of the shield broke.

"Will this be okay?!”

One of the candidates became shocked and almost shouted to an aide to ask.

One of the aides stepped forward.

‘That person is the one who was speaking to the Margrave.’

Cale recalled that this was the last aide to speak to the Margrave before the Margrave left.

“Please don’t worry. There are over one hundred black mages in Precinct 9. In addition, they are all at least at the middle-grade level.”

The aide’s face was stiff despite telling them not to worry.

“This level of rain cloud is not enough to destroy it.”

The candidate who asked the question seemed a bit relieved after hearing the aide’s confident remarks, but Cale had a thought after hearing the answer.

‘What if it gets past this level of rain cloud?

Then what happens?

Will the shield break?’

Cale heard someone who had the same question as himself.

“Are there instances where it gets worse than this level of rain cloud?”

It was the Second Imperial Princess.

‘Hmm.’

The Second Imperial Princess had formed a team with two candidates who did not stand out much.

‘The team is set up so that the Second Imperial Princess would shine the most if they do their mission well.’

The aide closed her mouth for a moment at the Second Imperial Princess as Cale quickly came up with that assessment.

The rest of the candidates and their subordinates all turned toward her.

Clunk. Clunk.

The wind that seemed to be getting worse was slamming against the window.

Thankfully, there was no black rain hitting the window.

“Currently.”

The aide pushed up her glasses a bit as she responded.

“Currently, there are no rain clouds stronger than this.”

“...It sounds like there will be in the future?”

The aide sighed at the Second Imperial Princess's scary gaze.

“The rain clouds have slowly gotten stronger since the dead mana rain clouds first appeared, your Royal Highness.”

“Mm.”

Someone groaned.

"And the amount of time in between each instance of rain cloud has been getting shorter.”

“Is it impossible to determine the cycle of the rain cloud?”

“Yes, your Royal Highness.”

The Second Imperial Princess looked up at the ceiling for a bit before asking.

“What exactly is this rain? I've never seen something like this before.”

This was also Cale’s first time hearing about this.

‘This is different from the erosion methods the Church told me about.’

There were multiple methods of dead mana erosion spreading throughout Xiaolen, but there were some common symptoms.

‘The ground slowly turns black.

Or liquefied dead mana shoots up from underground in places where the foundation has lost strength.

Finally, river water polluted by dead mana flows down and erodes other pieces of land.

I’ve never heard of it being through rain clouds.’

The eroded lands did have dead mana fog but it was not something that moved.

“The Margrave should be explaining this for all of you, but I will give a short explanation because of the current situation.”

The aide walked toward a wall without a window.

Cale could see a long cloth that resembled a curtain on the wall.

The aide pulled at the cloth.

Chhhhhh-

“It's a map.”

a map of the

cloth had a map of the western part of

villages of the ten precincts of the

had turned black as well

the

of the

including precinct 9, had red marks

the regions where the dead mana rain clouds

Clunk. Clunk.

window was still

recorded the entire map in

in precinct 9 but has started to appear in other

looked out

the sky pretty well because they were in a high spot in the castle.

that the

appeared half a

Plop. Plop.

raindrops were

we not know about this

Second Imperial Princess's voice was

true. This is

was a pretty

tell

would not be

months ago but nobody in the Empire’s capital knows

look at

at the Second Imperial Princess as

reporting the issue to the Imperial Palace on

Palace already knows

“Yes ma’am.”

at the First

Cale did the same.

without any expression on his face as if he was an ice sculpture while the Fourth Imperial Prince had his fists clenched and was avoiding

“Ha!”

Imperial Princess scoffed

guess there are a lot of people who knew about

looking back

be weird for the rain clouds to appear anywhere on

not left the ten precincts so far and the rain only falls in

then heard Mary’s

“...That’s odd.”

Mary mentioned! Why does it only rain

in a

is controlling the rain

lot of people heard his voice as

why it is the

hearing a voice

Margrave was

Plop. Plop.

black rain had almost ended and the wind was

that

sky... The two colors started separate from each other but the blue sky was slowly dyed by the grey color that spread

year ago that the rain

charge of

a Marquis of

past the wall to investigate the cause but we haven't

Marquis Helson.

started to recall information about this man he received from the

loathes politics and is from a Margrave family that has been protecting the western part of the Empire for generations. He has a strong Knights Brigade and his loyalty to the

not to

he would not treat the Imperial

‘He’s a fitting character.’

as a

had sent a letter through

family member, his grandfather the former Marquis,

but did not marry despite being a

to feel the pain he felt losing his family and is determined to give

to be known by

‘Mm.’

groan after

< P.S. >

priest had added something

the Margrave's grandfather had a secret relationship with our Fire of

a

former Margrave was a secret

is aware

the Margrave is not

keeping his grandfather's secret

called heretics and treated as

Human, why are you smiling

and watched as Zero took

“Is that our mission?”

toward Zero after hearing

right. The five teams with three members and one team with four members will all put finding the

the mission is a success if we simply find

“That’s right.”

smile appeared on

asked the Margrave another

get rid of the cause? Do

“Pffft.”

The Margrave scoffed.

you’ll be first place

air in the

who had been anxious because of the

each other warily or deep in

Marquis calmly

you don’t

air sank cold

have that great and mighty power. However, it will benefit you

Marquis pointed out the

finger was pointing past the

you can survive through just

appeared on the Marquis’

if you wish to

Boom.

stomped his

You will be given areas

looked

aide who had stepped

is Eaen

Fourth Imperial Prince

determined the aides for the

did so,

looked up toward

was only for an

looking at Mary but turned away after noticing Cale’s

Mary with such a fierce gaze until he turned his

Margrave opened his mouth

start tomorrow! You will have

more like a soldier or a knight than

as if they were his subordinates who needed to

“You are dismissed!”

area first

any clue in half a year and they want

shrugged his

“Hyung-nim, this is impossible!”

this is going to be

subordinates grumbled

“Tsk.”

at them as if they were foolish before giving the

“To our lodging.”

“Yes, candidate-nim.”

was at that

Clunk--!

turned

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