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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.”

map of

map of the

the edge villages of the ten precincts of the

of the Empire that had turned black as well as the current boundary of

the

of the

the precincts, including precinct 9, had red marks

regions where the dead

Clunk. Clunk.

was still shaking

entire map in his

9 but has started to appear in other precincts as

out

see the shield in the sky pretty well because they were in a high

was proof that the black mages were

cloud appeared half a year

Plop. Plop.

were slowly

about this when it happened half a year

Second Imperial Princess's

This is a bit

a year was a

Cale, the Church didn't tell you about this

his head so that it would not be noticed by others

months ago but nobody in the Empire’s

look at

Second Imperial Princess as

the issue to the Imperial Palace on

Imperial Palace already knows about

“Yes ma’am.”

Second Imperial Princess looked at the First Imperial Prince and then the

Cale did the same.

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

“Ha!”

Second Imperial Princess

lot of people who knew about

looking back

be weird for the rain clouds to appear anywhere on the

the ten precincts so far and the rain only falls

heard Mary’s

“...That’s odd.”

does it only rain in these precincts

in

is controlling

a lot of people heard his voice as

why it is

turned after hearing

Margrave was

Plop. Plop.

and the wind was

sky that was slightly grey beyond

colors started separate from each other but the blue sky was slowly dyed by the

year ago that the rain clouds were not

in charge of Precinct

was a Marquis of the

why we sent people multiple times past the wall to investigate the cause but we haven't

Marquis Helson.

this man he

of the Empire for generations. He has a strong Knights Brigade and his loyalty

to

meant that he would not treat the

‘He’s a fitting character.’

perfect as

Durst had sent a letter through the team

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

his mid-thirties but did not marry despite being

Margrave didn't want another family to feel the pain he felt losing his family and is determined to give his life fighting against

said to be known

‘Mm.’

held back a groan after recalling a piece

< P.S. >

old priest had added

had a secret relationship with our Fire

a hidden

former Margrave was

is aware of that

course, the Margrave is

is just keeping his grandfather's secret tightly hidden.

despite being called heretics and treated as a cult,

are you smiling like

comment and watched as Zero took a step

“Is that our mission?”

Marquis peeked toward Zero after hearing

five teams with three members and one team with four members will all put finding the

mean the mission is a success if we simply find the

“That’s right.”

twisted smile appeared on

asked the Margrave another

we also get rid of the cause? Do

“Pffft.”

The Margrave scoffed.

sure you’ll be first

the

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

each

Marquis calmly spoke

you don’t

sank cold

with dead mana. You all have that great and mighty power. However, it will

Marquis pointed out the

pointing past the

not somewhere you can survive through just because you are familiar

smile appeared on

you wish to

Boom.

Marquis stomped his

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

over as he looked at the aide heading over toward

who had stepped up was

is Eaen and I

Fourth Imperial Prince

aides

Marquis-nim did

up toward the

was only for

was silently looking at Mary but turned

Mary with such a fierce gaze until he

his mouth once

start tomorrow!

more like a soldier or

he treated all of the candidates equally as if they were his subordinates who needed to

“You are dismissed!”

the area

couldn’t even find any clue in half a year and they want us

shrugged his shoulders in

“Hyung-nim, this is impossible!”

this is going to be

grumbled

“Tsk.”

Prince Noi looked at them as if they were

“To our lodging.”

“Yes, candidate-nim.”

at

Clunk--!

Imperial Prince turned his gaze and

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