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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

cloth had a map of

edge villages of the ten precincts of the west on

had turned black as

are the

the

precinct 9, had red marks on

the dead

Clunk. Clunk.

window was still shaking

entire map in his

has started to appear in other

out

a high spot in the castle. The half-transparent

the black

rain cloud appeared

Plop. Plop.

raindrops were

this

Imperial Princess's voice was

is a

year was a pretty

Cale, the Church didn't tell you about this

that it would not

months ago but nobody in

look

the Second Imperial Princess as she

Imperial Palace on

Palace already knows about

“Yes ma’am.”

at the First Imperial

Cale did the same.

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

“Ha!”

Princess scoffed

guess there are a lot of people who knew about

before looking back at the

not be weird for the rain clouds to appear anywhere on the

Royal Highness. However, the rain clouds thankfully have not left the ten precincts so far and the rain only falls in these areas

then heard

“...That’s odd.”

is weird as Mary mentioned! Why does it only rain in

in

sounds like someone is controlling the

people heard his voice as he spoke during a silent

why it is the

hearing a

was coming

Plop. Plop.

almost ended and the wind was

the blue sky that was

The two colors started separate from each other but

determined half a year ago that the rain clouds were not a natural

Margrave in charge

a Marquis of the

the wall to investigate the cause

Marquis Helson.

about this man

Margrave family that has been protecting the western part of

to the Emperor

would not treat the Imperial

‘He’s a fitting character.’

was perfect as

a letter through

current Margrave does not have a family. His only family member, his grandfather the former Marquis, met his death fighting against

was past his mid-thirties but did not

The Margrave didn't want another family to feel the pain he felt losing his

was said to be known by everybody in the

‘Mm.’

groan after recalling

< P.S. >

priest had added

grandfather had a secret relationship with

He was a hidden

Margrave was

is aware of that fact as well.

course, the Margrave is

is just keeping his

that the Church had a lot of power despite being called heretics and treated as a cult, but it seemed to be because they had

why are you smiling like

comment and watched

“Is that our mission?”

Zero after hearing the loosely asked question

will all

a success if we

“That’s right.”

smile appeared

the Margrave

we also get rid of the cause? Do

“Pffft.”

The Margrave scoffed.

you’ll be first place

air in the room

people who had been anxious because of the rain cloud were now heated

were looking at each

calmly spoke

you don’t

heated air sank

dead mana. You all have that great and mighty power. However, it will benefit you to

Marquis pointed out

finger was pointing

land is not somewhere you can survive through just because you are

appeared on the

that if you wish

Boom.

stomped

given areas to strategize with

as he looked at the

who had stepped up

is Eaen and I

Prince

the aides

Marquis-nim did so,

looked up toward

only for

looking at Mary but

Human! That Margrave was looking at Mary with such a fierce gaze until he turned

Margrave opened his mouth

start tomorrow! You will

like a soldier or a knight than a

equally as if they were his subordinates who needed to

“You are dismissed!”

area first

They couldn’t even find any clue in half a year and they want us to take care of

his

“Hyung-nim, this is impossible!”

Haaa, this is going to

grumbled

“Tsk.”

if they were foolish before giving the

“To our lodging.”

“Yes, candidate-nim.”

at

Clunk--!

Fourth Imperial Prince turned

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