Chapter 38: Plague (2/2)

But this was only a small probe from the Plague God, nothing more.

Feinan’s records were very clear: that saint emerging during the first outbreak wasn’t a god’s incarnation. He was in fact only a mortal, a master herbalist and master apothecary.

As for that plague’s true ending, it wasn’t a result of saint medicines. In fact, when the Plague God spread the plague, he didn’t pay attention and spread the plague in the West Forest. This directly angered the Nature God.

The Nature God erupted in anger and with his strong divine power, he beat up the weak Plague God more than enough.

The pathetic Plague God hadn’t had time to develop his own territory when his divinity almost got broken by the Nature God. Fortunately, the Fear God, Destruction God, and other evil gods helped him, or he would have been sealed in a bottle by the Nature God so he could play with him at any time.

Since then, the Plague God moved cautiously… Not doing anything to those gods.

He spent a lot of time to grow his own influence in another place, slowly recovering his strength.

And after the Nature God, Elven God, and other second generation Old Gods slowly became less active, he began to grow restless and wanted to try again.

That first invasion of Dark Sweet Poison in Feinan was only a small experiment, nothing more.

Now various gods were planning to attack the universe magic pool. It was quite obvious to every god, regardless of weak or strong divine power, that this was an opportunity.

An exceptional chance to increase their influence and get more followers.

The Universe Magic Pool, for wizards as well as mankind, was a great blessing.

However, it was a layer of shackles and restraints for gods. After the Wizard God Lance’s departure, they had already wanted to break it.

They only needed an opportunity.

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”Putting it like that, isn’t my daughter incurable?” Gru’s lips turned pale.

Hearing Marvin’s introduction of the dark sweet poison, he started sweating all over.

His own daughter was in fact infected by a plague!

This was quite a terrible thing. Not even mentioning whether he could save his daughter’s life, if others knew about it, she might be burnt to death by scared people.

Right.

Even if there were wizards in this world, they were still as ignorant as those from Earth’s Middle-ages when facing something like a plague.

Caught the plague? Consider that person dead!

Fear spread even faster than plagues!

In a way, panic and plague were indeed the perfect match. Unfortunately the Fear God and the Plague God were both male, they couldn’t match. They could only occasionally meet and help each other out.

”If your daughter was incurable, I wouldn’t be sitting here,” Marvin said emotionlessly. ”I actually know of a method that could save your daughter.”

”What? Is that for real?” Gru suddenly saw hope.

Masked Twin Blades didn’t really need to deceive him.

Since he said so much, he should have some assurance. Gru felt a bit spirited.

”Don’t worry, dark sweet poison stays in hibernation for a long time. Only in that split second when someone dies, the infected would explode. At that time, the plague would spread through the air. We still have time.”

”The most important thing right now is to recover White River Valley. Because the method to rescue your daughter just happens to be in Baron Marvin’s castle.”

As Marvin stood to leave, he patted Gru’s shoulder. ”Relax, being this nervous won’t be good for tomorrow’s fight.”

Gru replied in a hoarse voice, yet smiling, ”Really… Thank you so much… Even if I don’t know what your relationship with Baron Marvin is.”

”However, we, the Bramble team, will certainly go all-out for this mission.”

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Next day, at nightfall. Everyone finished preparing and quietly gathered at the sentry posts on both side of the forest.

Just like they planned, the garrison and Bramble team went one way, while the Lynx team and those three solo adventurers went the other way.

”Let the bait out,” Anna said indifferently.

On the side, Gru nodded.

One woman behind him suddenly leaned forward and started chanting a spell.

She soon turned into a beautiful sika deer!

The sika deer jumped twice before suddenly rushing along the big road and then back into the woods.

”Roaar!”

The six idle mutated aardwolves noticed the sika deer and started drooling. They all began to chase together.