Chapter 586 (1/2)

Should we go talk to Lovren Right away? Well, I think it was better for us to go back to Weena Rhyn first and report about Rhyn’s stall. I was sure she had calmed down by now.

But before we left, I remembered that there was something I wanted to ask Grandma Jill.

「Hey, does the scarlet waterweed medicine have any effect on the surroundings?」

「What do you mean?」

「Yesterday――」

She explained that when she saved a boat from the Modoki attack, she felt some discomfort with her Water Magic and that the cause may have been the spilled Scarlet Waterweed potion or the Modoki’s dissolved body.

Then Grandma Jill nodded her head in agreement.

「I see… If it’s someone in your class, they might be able to feel it. Perhaps that’s the effect of the Scarlet Waterweed potion」

「Is that so?」

「You can use the Space-Time Magic, can’t you?」

「Nn」

「Then it’s no wonder that you’re so sensitive」

Then Grandma Jill explained to her.

「The water in this lake has a slight amount of magic power in it」

「Magic power?」

「Yeah. It’s a magic power similar to Space-Time magic?」

「Hmm, but why?」

「Well, we don’t know much about that either. All I can say is that it’s been that way for hundreds of years」

People living around here seemed to live their lives thinking that was the way it was, and don’t question it much.

「Of course, it’s so slight that you wouldn’t normally be able to feel it at all. Even you can’t detect it either, right?」

「Nn」

Indeed, if it hadn’t been for the Scarlet Waterweed potion, we wouldn’t have noticed it either. It seems to be a very small amount of magic power.

However, it wasn’t completely unaffecting the surroundings. It has become an endemic disease that has taken root in this country.

Apparently, it is not caused by pathogens, but by continuous consumption of the water from Vivian Lake, which is their water source, since birth.

In fact, the disease is not endemic in areas of the country that get their water from other sources.

The process is simple. If they keep drinking the water from the lake, they will accumulate Space-Time Magic power in their body.

As a result, the magic power of the water made them feel slightly hasted. In other words, the water in the lake acted as a very weak Haste potion.

However, since the effect was really slight, no one noticed it. Because no one noticed it, the person’s senses and the body’s reaction to it keep deviating from each other, causing fatigue to build up and making the person even more intoxicated. This was the true nature of the endemic disease.