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

map of the western part

edge villages of the ten precincts

Empire that had turned

are the red

of the candidates

the precincts, including precinct 9,

the dead mana

Clunk. Clunk.

window was still

entire map

but has started to appear

looked out

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

that the black mages were

first rain cloud appeared half

Plop. Plop.

were

this when it happened half

Imperial Princess's voice was louder

true. This is a bit

a year was a pretty long

Cale, the Church didn't tell you about

that it would not be noticed by others

months ago but nobody in

to look

the Second

the Imperial Palace on a

already knows

“Yes ma’am.”

Imperial Princess looked at the First

Cale did the same.

expression on his face as if he was an ice sculpture while the Fourth Imperial

“Ha!”

Princess scoffed

there are a lot of

mumbled before looking back

not be weird for the rain

the ten

heard

“...That’s odd.”

Mary mentioned! Why does it only rain

in a nonchalant

is controlling the rain

of people heard his voice as he spoke

is why it is

turned after hearing

Margrave was

Plop. Plop.

almost ended and the wind was

could see the blue sky that was slightly grey

other but the blue sky was slowly dyed by the grey color that spread

the rain clouds were not a natural

charge of Precinct

Helson was a Marquis of the

past the wall to investigate the cause but we haven't gained any useful

Marquis Helson.

this man he received

loathes politics and is from a Margrave family that has been protecting the western part of the Empire

was deep not to the

that he would not treat the

‘He’s a fitting character.’

was perfect as

a letter through the team

does not have a family. His only family member, his grandfather the former Marquis, met his

mid-thirties but

the pain he felt losing

was said to be known by

‘Mm.’

back a groan after recalling a piece

< P.S. >

had added

had a

He was a

Margrave was

current Margrave is aware of that fact

course, the Margrave

just keeping his grandfather's secret

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

Human, why are

ignored Raon’s comment and watched as Zero took

“Is that our mission?”

toward Zero after hearing the loosely asked question and

will all put finding the source of this dead mana rain

Does that mean the mission is a success if we simply find

“That’s right.”

twisted smile appeared on Zero's

the

of the cause? Do we

“Pffft.”

The Margrave scoffed.

you’ll be

air in the room

who had been anxious because of

looking at each other warily or deep in

Marquis calmly spoke

you don’t die, that

heated air sank

have that

Marquis pointed out

was pointing past the

not somewhere you can survive through just because you are

thick smile appeared on the Marquis’

if you wish to

Boom.

Marquis stomped

candidates to their lodgings! You will be given areas to strategize with your teams and all necessary

over as he looked at the

aide who had stepped up

everyone. My name is Eaen and I am the

Imperial Prince opened

the aides for

did

up toward the

only for

was silently looking at Mary but

was looking at Mary with such a fierce

his mouth once

tomorrow! You will

soldier or

equally as if they were his subordinates who needed to complete

“You are dismissed!”

left the area first without

half a year and

shrugged his shoulders in

“Hyung-nim, this is impossible!”

this is going

subordinates grumbled

“Tsk.”

at them as if they were foolish before giving

“To our lodging.”

“Yes, candidate-nim.”

at

Clunk--!

turned his

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