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

cloth had a map of the

see the edge villages of the ten precincts of the

that had turned black as well as the current boundary of

the

the

precincts, including precinct 9, had red marks on

are the regions where the dead mana rain clouds

Clunk. Clunk.

was

recorded the entire map in

but has started to appear in other

out the

pretty well because they were in a high spot in the castle. The half-transparent

that the black mages were working

appeared half

Plop. Plop.

were slowly

did we not know about this when

Imperial Princess's voice

true. This is

a year was a pretty

Cale, the Church didn't tell you about

nodded his head so that it would not be noticed by others after hearing

ago but nobody

turned to look at the

at the Second Imperial Princess as she

been reporting the issue to the Imperial

already

“Yes ma’am.”

Princess looked at the First Imperial Prince and

Cale did the same.

Prince was still standing there without any expression on his face as if he was an ice sculpture while the

“Ha!”

Second Imperial Princess scoffed in

lot of

looking back at the

not be weird for the rain clouds to

Royal Highness. However, the rain clouds thankfully have not left the ten precincts so far and the

heard Mary’s

“...That’s odd.”

Mary mentioned! Why does it only rain in these precincts before it

spoke in a nonchalant

like someone is controlling the rain

lot of people heard his voice as he

is why it is

turned after hearing

Margrave was coming back

Plop. Plop.

black rain had almost ended and

blue sky that was

other but

a year ago that the rain clouds were not a

Margrave in charge of Precinct

was a Marquis

wall to investigate the cause but we

Marquis Helson.

to recall information about this man

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

deep not to the Emperor but to the

he would not treat the Imperial

‘He’s a fitting character.’

perfect as

had sent a letter

family. His only family member, his grandfather

Margrave was past his mid-thirties but

the pain he felt losing his family and is determined to

was said to be known by

‘Mm.’

after recalling a

< P.S. >

had added something as

had a secret relationship with our Fire of

was a hidden believer.

Margrave was

current Margrave is

Of course, the Margrave is not a

just keeping his

being called heretics and treated as a cult, but it seemed to be because

Human, why are you smiling like

watched as Zero

“Is that our mission?”

Zero after hearing the loosely asked

team with four members will all put finding the source of this dead

a success if we

“That’s right.”

twisted smile appeared

the Margrave another

if we also get rid of the

“Pffft.”

The Margrave scoffed.

you’ll be

the room instantly

of the rain cloud were

at each other warily or

calmly

you don’t

sank

You all have that great and

Marquis pointed out the

was pointing past

you can survive through just because

thick smile appeared on the

you

Boom.

Marquis stomped his

given areas to strategize with your teams and all necessary information

looked

stepped

name is Eaen and

Imperial Prince opened

determined the aides

did so,

up toward the

was only for an

Marquis was silently looking at Mary

Margrave was looking at Mary with such a

Margrave opened his mouth

Marquis seemed more like a soldier

of the candidates equally as if they

“You are dismissed!”

left the area first without

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

subordinates grumbled

“Tsk.”

if they were foolish before

“To our lodging.”

“Yes, candidate-nim.”

at

Clunk--!

Prince turned

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