Volume 2 Chapter 13 (1/2)
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Actinoe
This point in the story was a few days ago before Falma and Ellen had discovered the first black death patient from the offshore quarantine
Bruno de Médicis was at the San Fleuve Royal School of Pharmaceutics
He wrote letters overnight for each and every city of the empire and medical universities all over the world about quarantinethe spread of black deathHe wrote each raphy, race, culture, custoion, and actual circumstances of each place for brevity Based on what Fals, such as what to do if there was an outbreak of black death, how to establish quarantine areas, how to deal with patients, how to detect black death with and without apatients, how to properly treat dead bodies, and so on
In addition to these proposals in black death counterardless of attributes in order to participate in preventing an outbreak proactively Writing these manuals could only be done by Bruno, since he had built a trusting relationshi+p with research institutions, hospitals, influential people, and knew the circumstances of medical care from all over the world
Although Falma had the cure, it was only supplied exclusively to the eh production capacity to supply to everyone in the world
Therefore, countries outside the empire had to prevent an outbreak at all cost without a cure
“Falo come?”
He still had such doubts But the sense of crisis that Falnore Bruno tried to believe in Falma
He knew that Fal the quarantine work in Marseille province He really wanted to help them, but it was unfortunate that he had to do the job of a Royal Court Apothecary, and that was to stay in the Iencies and take care of this country’s center so as it wouldn't fall into ruin if an epidemic broke out That’s why Bruno hadn’t left the Imperial Capital
“President, Professor Casper is here to see you”
Bruno’s secretary called out from the president’s room
“Hmm, please come in”
Bruno invited an old lady professor into the president’s office
She was Professor Casper Loiseau, a Wind Divine Arts user who studied fungi and spores She looked like a traditional witch dressed in black Other professors were ridiculing her research as useless and gossiping that she didn’t have that et that much research funds in the school She was about to retire next year without her research seeing the light of day
Her research involved fieldwork collection and taxonoi However, Nova Root Medical University had a ht to be a field that was not new Hence her laboratory had few students She only had two students at this moment
It was Bruno who still kept funding her laboratory barely, even at the insistence of the other professors and directors to end it
He believed that the research that seemed useless would yield unexpected results someday
“Milord, a dismissed? It would take at least a month to clean out the laboratory if I start now”
She was co tearfully if she would be told to leave her laboratory immediately She placed her deeply wrinkled hand on top of each other, which seemed to wither more as she waited for a response
“No I a job that I need you to do for me”
“Me… A job to do now?”
The old wolasses on her nose Who in the world would entrust a job to a professor, as shunted off by ato pass their reed her
“There’s nobody else but you in this empire can have the job to save the world!”
“What, whuー… But that is…”
The old professor faltered at the scale of the word “world” Bruno always considered the whole world orking, but did she ever consider the world when doing her research? Her eyes were only drawn to the fungi in the empire
“I want you to find a certain anism And I want you to cultivate it so we can have redient from it
Falanism, but couldn’t find, to produce the antibacterial medicine
Actinomyces
It was a bacteria that was na its mycelia radially
Bruno appealed for evoking her aspiration and intellectual curiosity
“Some of the species will become medicines that can become a cure for incurable diseases, black death or other terrible incurable epidemics”
“Eh?”
“Please read this carefully”
Falma left some sketches that showed the characteristics of actinomycetes They also showed a sketch on how to see it with a hten Bruno
“Which great professor can do this…? To, tolike that…”
Professor Casper read Fal and adjusting her glasses As if coe that had been accumulated over the years
And then, she sed her saliva and responded in a quivering voice
“Thiー, thiー, this fungus I, I, have this in a flaー flask in my laboratory for years now…”
The unattractive old professor on the verge of retiring had already obtained the savior a long tio
“Well done, Professor Casper!”
The school had decided to focus all of their efforts in creating the new medicine from that microbe
Ihest research budget in the school Three laboratories equipped with apparatus for organic synthesis were guaranteed for Professor Casper and a large number of scholars, alchemists and technicians were mobilized
From this day on, it was decided that Professor Casper would direct the project of test production of the anti-bacterial medicines
“The retire to look forward to”
Bruno put out words of encouragement
“Yes, I will have to do so”
If the eradication of the black death became a reality, her dream of ecstatic cheers from the academic societies would not be so distant anymore
It was a once in a lifetime opportunity Professor Casper decided to focus on Bruno’s expectations
Even if she started working now, she wouldn’t be able to produce anything right away
However, if she didn’t begin her research now, the lives that could be saved ht be lost for eternity
It was around this tieon arrived He received the carrier pigeon from Marseille province with the entrusted information of “Black death has been discovered”
Fale, which was located west of Marseille harbor A large bag was on his shoulders containing medical tools, medicines, mask, and the like
Although it only took divine power to propel the Divine Medical Wand, it needed a considerable amount of concentration to control the levitation and altitude Thus Falma had very close encounters with birds and tall trees for numerous times
People on the ground were spooked at the unidentified flying object and were screa Falma’s Divine Medical Wand was crystal clear so it was hardly visible froround, thus they could probably see only a person flying through the sky I wonder who the previous owner of this Divine Medical Wand was?, Falht to himself
If a person was seen flying in the sky, they may be reported to the church as a heretic But if they earing a hood to hide their face, like the white robe for quarantine that Fal Conspicuous or not, it was a small matter to deal with later
In a fishi+ng village of Marseille province, hovering directly above Estaque village
Fal at the sea, there were only singleboats in the wharf The large shi+ps which soods into the country were not in the sea Either they had hidden themselves behind rocky terrain or had probably returned to Nederground
It would be an unpleasant trip back horound
All the creould certainly die and the shi+ps would become wrecks
damn it, where are the shi+ps? I need to sterilize each shi+p, else I can’t save the crew members
“Should I make a sanctuary area…?”
Falma was able to memorize several Divine Arts which Head Priest Salomon had translated from the ancient texts of the Divine Medical Wand’s manual He wasn’t able to memorize all but the easy ones One of them was the creation of sanctuaries
He filled the ith divine power, holding one end of the wand he twirled his body several tiehammer Then the purification Divine Artout in a circle with him as the center
When Falma activated the sanctuary, a blue shockwave distorted the airspace visibly spreading fast and tremendously all around
“This sanctuary sure is handy”
What Falma used was the Divine Medical Wand unique art called “Infestation Invalidation Sanctuary”, which seems like a mouthful to say By the way, Divine Arts that had names to them and needed incantations were called Divine Skills Falma could use Divine Arts and Divine Skills without distinction as he could activate Divine Skills without chanting, but Divine Skills basically needed long winded incantations
Pathogens wouldn’t be able to survive in the air within the Infestation Invalidation Sanctuary, so it was reasonable to believe that uninfected people within that area would not be affected by said pathogens
Fale with Infestation Invalidation Sanctuary
In addition, Fal his speed and then got off from the Divine Medical Wand
“Whaー, what…!?”
With the sun behind his shoulders, the white gowned boy that got off stole the villagers eyes
In Estaque village, seriously ill patients were gathered in the free clinic and a vast ers were about to ran away froe in a rush to abandon the sick and escape the plague
“Please wait!”
Fale entrance, stretch both hands sideways to obstruct their path
He then slaround and activated a Divine Art Estaque village was then completely surrounded by a thick wall of ice
There weren’t e scale Divine Art
“Uwaaaaーー! It’s a wall of ice! What the hell are you!”
“H-he flew from the sky! He’s a monster!”
“We are trapped in a wall of ice!! We can’t get out!”
The villagers who hter them went into a panicked state
Although they sawI can do about it, should I show my face?
He wanted to hide his face as much as possible because he was seen, but everyone was suspicious if he stayed as he was Falma wore a mask as he took of the hood of his robe and addressed them
“I am a Royal Court Apothecary from the Imperial Capital I have come to save you all”
“He’s not a monster but a human?”
“I-isn’t he a kid?”