Chapter 217 (1/2)
Chapter 217 The cause of the disease
Roland and the witches had finished, but just as he decided to return to his roo hall
“Your Royal Highness, the shi+ps transporting the Eastern Region refugees fro’s City just arrived at the pier!”
“So fast?” It seeht, pleased, as a man who has relations to the black and white side of the society, his ti in the patrol wasn’t wasted However, when he looked at his sweating Chief Knight and saw his pressed brows, Roland i
“What happened?”
“The people on board have caught a strange disease,” Carter described the patient’s characteristics quickly “At first, it was only a few individuals, but by now the disease has spread over two to three shi+ps, even the soldiers of the First Army have been infected!”
An illness which causes black spots all over the body, which also spreads on contact? This sounds very siue, siue bacillus didn’t change the color of the infected’s blood, not totheir skin break apart
Roland wrinkled his brow
His first thought was Lily, but they had not fully grasped the scope of her new ability yet andher handle an infectious diseases which had never been heard of before would be very dangerous If she were unable to cure theet infected So he had toto Carter’s description, it seeer
In any case, at least I have to first blockade the area
Thinking up to here, Roland ordered Carter, “Go and send out the First Army; they should set up a restricted area outside of the pier, forbidding anybody fro it Additional tell them: Miss Nana and I are also already on the way”
“Yes!”
“Is it going to be very difficult?” Nightingale asked
“That’s still unclear, everything depends on Lily’s ability,” he said “Call all of the members of the Witch Union, there will be no afternoon naps today”
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Through the whole journey to the pier, Roland thought about how to verify the effectiveness of Lily’s ability while keeping her isolated from the patients
Fortunately, her ability to protect freshness belonged to the sue of five meters like that of many other witches, it allowed her to use and efficiently control her ability over a distance without the need of actually touching the target
Thus he brought two carpenters along, and with the help of Anna they quickly built a rectangle box The room was split in the h aembedded within the barrier Within the lower half of the wall two symmetrical holes were cut, on top of which Soraya had painted a flexible curtain, so that when Lily stretched her hands through the hole, the coating would tightly wrap around her hands Furthermore, the soft sky colored curtain would also cut off the air circulation between the two roo as she later washed her hands with alcohol, all possibility of being infected should be eliminated
During all this, it were still the 100 soldiers of the First Army who maintained the order on top of the shi+ps That they were still able to uphold discipline wasn’t due to their strong willpower, but because elic Miss Nana would certainly let them recover like she always had
As soon as the box was prepared, one of the soldiers who had shown the black spots but could still as selected
According to instructions he entered the rooh the barrier, and made full use of her ability At the same time, Roland stood beside her and observed the soldier’s situation through the
The irl nodded, giving Roland the signal that she was done, he opened his mouth and asked, “How do you feel now?
“Your Highness?” When the soldier heard Roland’s voice, he excitedly raised his hand to salute, then froze on the spot, “Hey, I feel like hness, I already feel much better now!”
Roland also saw that the dark spots on the soldier’s hand were rapidly fading; this definitely isn’t a plague symptom If I remember it correctly, the soldier’s black spots should have coree of cyanosis Even after killing the bubonic plague bacillus, these spots should have taken a long time before they faded away After all, Lily doesn’t possess the ability to heal
However, her new ability had an effect on the unknown infection, which made Roland feel a little relieved