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 the

had a map of the western part

villages of the ten

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

are the

the

including precinct

regions where the

Clunk. Clunk.

window was still

the entire map

9 but has started to appear in other

out

the sky pretty well because they were in a high spot in the castle. The half-transparent black shield was repeatedly breaking and

the black mages were working

first rain cloud appeared half a

Plop. Plop.

were

not know about this when

Imperial Princess's

This is

a year was a pretty long

Cale, the Church didn't tell you about this

it would not be

ago but nobody in the

look at

Second Imperial Princess as

the issue to the Imperial Palace on a regular basis, your

Palace already knows about

“Yes ma’am.”

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 his fists clenched and was avoiding

“Ha!”

Second Imperial Princess

lot of people

before looking back

the rain clouds to appear

clouds thankfully have not left the ten precincts so far and the

heard Mary’s

“...That’s odd.”

It is weird as Mary mentioned! Why does it only

spoke in a nonchalant

sounds like someone is controlling

his voice as

it is the

after hearing

Margrave was

Plop. Plop.

almost ended and the wind was no

sky that was slightly grey

and blue sky... The two colors started separate from each other but the blue sky was slowly dyed by the grey

that the rain clouds

Margrave in charge of

Helson was a Marquis of

wall to investigate

Marquis Helson.

information about this man he

of the Empire for generations. He has a strong Knights

loyalty was deep not to the Emperor

would not treat the Imperial

‘He’s a fitting character.’

was perfect as

a letter through the team

Margrave does not have a family. His only family member, his grandfather

past his mid-thirties but did not

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

to be known by everybody

‘Mm.’

a groan after

< P.S. >

had added something as

had a secret

a hidden

former Margrave was a secret

For reference, the current Margrave is aware of that

Margrave is not a

is just keeping his

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

Human, why are you

ignored Raon’s comment and watched as Zero took

“Is that our mission?”

Marquis peeked toward Zero after hearing the loosely asked question and

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

mean the mission is a

“That’s right.”

smile appeared on Zero's

asked the Margrave another

also get rid of the cause? Do

“Pffft.”

The Margrave scoffed.

you’ll be first

the room instantly

been anxious because of the rain cloud were

candidates were looking at each other

Marquis calmly

you don’t die, that

sank cold

all have that

pointed out the

was pointing past the

can survive through just because you are familiar

smile appeared on

if you

Boom.

Marquis stomped

given areas to strategize with your teams

over as he looked at the aide

stepped up was

is Eaen and I

Imperial Prince opened

determined the aides for

did

up toward

was only for

Mary but turned away after noticing Cale’s

looking at Mary with such a fierce

his mouth once

start tomorrow! You will have

a soldier or a knight than

equally as if they were

“You are dismissed!”

area first without any

year and they

his shoulders in

“Hyung-nim, this is impossible!”

Haaa, this is going to be

subordinates grumbled as

“Tsk.”

they were foolish

“To our lodging.”

“Yes, candidate-nim.”

at that

Clunk--!

Fourth Imperial Prince turned his gaze and then

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