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 of

of the western part of

edge villages of the ten precincts of the west

Empire that had turned black as well as the current boundary

the red

the

including precinct 9, had

the regions where the

Clunk. Clunk.

window was still

recorded the entire map in his

but has

out

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

proof that the black mages were

rain cloud appeared half a

Plop. Plop.

raindrops were

about this

Imperial Princess's voice was

true. This is a bit

was a

tell you

so that it would not be noticed by others after hearing Eruhaben's

ago but nobody

turned to look at

Second Imperial

the issue to the Imperial Palace

Palace already knows

“Yes ma’am.”

Second Imperial Princess looked at the First Imperial

Cale did the same.

he was an ice sculpture while the Fourth Imperial

“Ha!”

Second Imperial Princess scoffed in

guess there are a lot of people who knew about

looking back at

rain clouds to

right, your Royal Highness. However, the rain clouds thankfully have not left the

heard Mary’s

“...That’s odd.”

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

spoke in

someone is controlling

voice as he spoke during

is why it is

after hearing a voice

Margrave was coming back

Plop. Plop.

black rain had almost ended and

sky that was slightly grey beyond

other but the blue sky was slowly dyed by the grey

a year ago that the rain

Margrave in charge of

Helson was a Marquis

is why we sent people multiple times past the wall

Marquis Helson.

started to recall information about this man he received

been protecting the western part of the Empire for generations. He has a strong Knights Brigade

was deep not to the Emperor but to the

meant that he would not treat the

‘He’s a fitting character.’

perfect as

a letter through the

family member, his grandfather the

was past his mid-thirties but did

family to feel the pain he felt losing his family

said to be known by everybody in the

‘Mm.’

groan after recalling a

< P.S. >

priest had

had a secret

He was a hidden believer.

Margrave was

current Margrave is aware

Margrave is not a

just keeping his

of power despite being called heretics and treated as a cult, but it seemed

Human, why are

ignored Raon’s comment and watched as

“Is that our mission?”

Zero after hearing the loosely asked

with four members will all put finding the source of this

the mission is a success if we simply

“That’s right.”

twisted smile appeared on Zero's

asked the Margrave another

also get rid of the cause? Do we

“Pffft.”

The Margrave scoffed.

sure you’ll be

the room instantly

of the rain

at each other warily

Marquis calmly

you don’t

air sank cold

mana. You all have that great

Marquis pointed

pointing past the

somewhere you can survive through just because

smile appeared on the Marquis’

that if you

Boom.

stomped his

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

over as he looked at the aide heading

had stepped up

My name is Eaen and I am the top

Fourth Imperial Prince

aides

Marquis-nim did

looked up toward the

only for an

Marquis was silently looking at Mary but turned away

That Margrave was looking at Mary with such

Margrave opened his

mission will start tomorrow! You will

more like a soldier or a knight

all of the candidates equally as if

“You are dismissed!”

left the area first

clue in half a year and they want us to

his shoulders in

“Hyung-nim, this is impossible!”

is going

grumbled

“Tsk.”

Prince Noi looked at them as if they were foolish before giving the top aide,

“To our lodging.”

“Yes, candidate-nim.”

at that

Clunk--!

Imperial Prince turned his gaze and

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