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.”

map

had a map of the western

able to see the edge villages of the ten precincts of the west on

had turned

are the

of the

of the precincts, including precinct 9, had red

regions where the dead mana

Clunk. Clunk.

was still

entire

rain cloud started in precinct 9 but has started to

out the

well because they were in a high spot in

was proof that the black mages were

rain cloud appeared half a year

Plop. Plop.

raindrops were

know about this when it happened

Princess's voice was

This is a bit

year was a

the Church didn't tell you

it would not be noticed

six months ago but nobody in the Empire’s

turned to look at the

Second

issue to the Imperial Palace on a regular basis, your

Imperial Palace already

“Yes ma’am.”

Imperial Princess looked at the First Imperial Prince and then the

Cale did the same.

as if he was an ice sculpture while the Fourth

“Ha!”

Second Imperial Princess scoffed

guess there are a lot

mumbled before looking back

would not be weird for the rain clouds to

the ten precincts

heard Mary’s

“...That’s odd.”

mentioned! Why does it only

in a nonchalant

sounds like someone is

lot of people heard his voice as he spoke during a silent

it is

turned after hearing a voice behind

was coming

Plop. Plop.

almost ended and the wind was no

that was slightly grey

each other but the blue sky was slowly dyed by the

that the rain clouds were not

charge of Precinct

Helson was a Marquis of the

is why we sent people multiple times past the wall

Marquis Helson.

recall information about this

is from a Margrave family that has been protecting the western part of the Empire for generations. He has a strong Knights

not to the Emperor but to

that he would not treat

‘He’s a fitting character.’

as

Durst had sent a letter

member,

past his mid-thirties but did not marry despite

the pain he felt losing his family and is determined to give his life fighting against dead

said to be known

‘Mm.’

a groan after recalling

< P.S. >

priest had

reference, the Margrave's grandfather had a secret

was a hidden

former Margrave was

is aware of that

Margrave is

just keeping his grandfather's secret tightly

had a lot of power despite being called heretics and

why are

watched as Zero

“Is that our mission?”

hearing the loosely

and one team with four members will all put finding the source of this dead mana rain cloud as

mission is a success if we simply

“That’s right.”

appeared on

the

get rid of the

“Pffft.”

The Margrave scoffed.

you’ll be

air in the room instantly

anxious because of the rain

each other warily

calmly spoke

don’t

air sank

mana. You all have

pointed out

finger was pointing

is not somewhere you can survive through just because

appeared on the

if you wish

Boom.

Marquis stomped

will be given areas to strategize with your teams and all necessary information will be

eyes clouded over as he looked

aide who had stepped up

you, everyone. My name is Eaen and

Prince

the aides for

Marquis-nim did so,

looked up toward

was only for

Marquis was silently looking at Mary but turned away after

at Mary with

Margrave opened his mouth once

will start tomorrow! You will have

seemed more like a soldier or a

equally as if they were his subordinates who needed to

“You are dismissed!”

area first without any

in half a year and they want us to take care of it in a

shrugged his shoulders

“Hyung-nim, this is impossible!”

Haaa, this is

grumbled

“Tsk.”

them as if they were foolish before giving the top aide, Eaen, an

“To our lodging.”

“Yes, candidate-nim.”

was at that

Clunk--!

Prince turned his gaze

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