Chapter 107 – Omen (Start)
In the middle of a certain night, the clock in the Shrine for the Lord of Radiance resounded throughout the city in the sky, the believers of the Lord of Radiance had met without prior agreement, and had immediately kneeled for worshipping and praying.
And at such a time, within some section of the Shrine, the people within a grand hall were stepping evenly and upright. Their vision looked to the east, without a single person deviating one bit, they were only praying in a low voice.
On either side of the grand hall were rows of pillars inlaid with crystals, they emitted a white radiance during their prayers. Innumerable amounts of golden motes seeped out of the air, pouring down like rain.
When the prayers finished, the person that was leading, proudly nodded and spoke: “everyone, the old year has concluded, the new year has already begun. At this occasion, we’ll make some conclusions!”
“Yes, Archbishop. The Holy Sword Knights have already been deployed and awaiting.”
“Yes, Archbishop. The 31st outbreak place is already under observations.”
“Yes, Archbishop. The local Priest regiment has already been secretly inspected and purged.”
“Yes, Archbishop. The entire Kingdom nobles have basically been inspected thoroughly.”
“Yes, Archbishop. The arrangements for Briar Forest has already been completed. The plan of controlling is already a third finished.”
“Yes, Archbishop. The Adventurers Guild is already within grasp, in case there’s a change, 80% of the Adventurers can be mobilized for missions.”
Finished speaking, everyone present all dropped their arms and held their breaths, waiting for the upper commands.
“Excellent, in accordance with our Lord’s Commandment1, on the 11th imminent Demon Calamity, all possible outbreak locations have already been brought under control. But this is still a test of the Gods, to let the world know that only our Lord will have the ability to save everything!” the Archbishop in the centre had a face showing the vicissitudes of life, and his hair was ash white, but when he spoke these words, he did not have the slightest of hesitations.
Everyone at the scene all answered immediately, deferentially genuflecting towards the Archbishop and listened him continuing on: “however, in accordance with customs, amidst of this war, outstanding characters are all to be given particular preferential treatment. The Demon Calamity is a baptism. We only need to take in the most outstanding, just to better spread the glory of our Lord!”
“Yes, Archbishop. Only, the other Churches, especially the Church of the Harvest Goddess and the Elves’ side……” after several wars spanning thousands of years, the Churches had planned ever better, and also concealed several people with aspirations; the Gods didn’t even need to be mentioned.
“Only our Lord’s glory is eternal.” the Archbishop did not have a response, he only said this phrase.
“Yes!” everyone present all genuflected. Afterwards seeing him not speak, each and everyone retreated in an orderly fashion.
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On this world, there was this phrase that was analogous to a proverb: the last strike in front of death was the most fatal.
What it spoke about was just the toxic creatures during winter. Because in winter, all living things would rest and recuperate, animals and insects would also be the same. Many toxic creatures in winter would either die, or hibernate. During this short period, it was the time that they struggled the most, the internal toxins would be at the maximum and also be the most fatal.
If humans were to be hurt by a toxic creature during this short period, if they didn’t want to die, they would need to shed off a layer of flesh. Moreover, this kind of thing within Briar Forest would be frequently seen, even if it wasn’t autumn and the other seasons, they would also be frequently encountered.
In regards to the Adventurers that often need to head into the forest for a task, if they were able to have an immediate set of efficacious medicine that treated toxins, then it would simply be like sending coal during snow. And under such a situation, a type of medicine that treated toxins, and was flowing from Rumont’s drugstore, had gradually appeared in every Adventurer’s line of sight.
“Have you heard? You can currently buy a type of new kind of medicine that treats toxins. Even though it doesn’t counter a specific type of toxin, it still has an easing effect for a large majority of toxins.” inside an Adventurers Guild at a city that wasn’t too far from Ricca town, because there was no small amount of missions being issued, the Adventurers that came to observe or accept missions was utterly plentiful; each of the management hall windows were all queued with long lines. For the sake of letting the waiting people have a temporary rest, the Adventurers Guild specifically set up a resting region at an open space, placing a good few rows of chairs. At this time, no small amount of people were filled sitting at the region.
Two people sat in the first row at the southern tip of the resting region. Looking at them, they appeared to be acquaintances. They were already chatting in a low voice for a while now. Seeing that the queues at the windows weren’t visibly decreasing, one of them who was bored senseless, had suddenly thought of an extremely useful piece of information. Afterwards, he had fished out a small bottle from his pocket, and swayed it in front of the other: “look, it’s this one. I entrusted someone to help me buy it. I’ve heard that generic toxin can all be treated by this, and additionally, the pricing is cheap, ha!”
“Is this true or fake?” the other person asked in shock and soon after suspiciously took ahold of the medicine bottle. Uncorking it, he then used his nose for a sniff: “it smells a bit strange. I’ve really never come into contact with this kind of medicine before, where did you get this? Can it really treat toxins? Eh? What is this?”
Carefully inspecting the small bottle, the big man had unexpectedly seen a strange pattern at the bottom of the bottle. That pattern was was a combination of a leaf and a word. Carefully reading out the word, he actually achieved in sounding out two syllables———Rumont?
The former saw him take notice of this area and heheh laughed: “have you guessed it yet? This is precisely a new medicine launched from Rumont’s drugstore. Another masterpiece from the genius Druid! I’ve heard that it can treat a lot of toxins, and the efficacy is extremely good; the pricing is neither high. Once I heard about it, I had then entrusted a person to buy me 5 bottles! Hehe, luckily I acted fast. Currently, people are crowding towards Ricca town to buy this medicine, it’s now not that easy in just wanting to buy a bottle. Recently there’s been a lot of missions from the Guild that frequently head into the forest, this kind of medicine that treats toxins is sure to be of good use! This symbol is said to be thought out by the Druid. Heh! A leaf along with the spelling of his name. Truly simple. Yet it helps people distinguish it ah……eh, what do you want?”
When this person was speaking increasingly more animatedly, a person had suddenly walked over and caused him to jump in fright. This Adventurer wanted to get angry, but when he turned his head for a look, it was a veteran that had already passed the age of 50, that appeared behind him. It wasn’t that he respected the old, but instead it was the clothes he wore. He immediately swallowed back the curse words he was going to split out. Those that were able to become an Adventurer would have a certain amount of insight.
“Pardon my intrusion, I just passed over and just happened to hear you two speak of some toxin treating medicine. But as far as I know, medicines that treat toxins are certainly not common, but neither are they rare. I wonder which category, the toxin treatment you spoke about belongs to?” the veteran smiled and asked.
“Oh so you’re asking about this!” the pair chatting had just suddenly realized.
The person that bought the medicine explained: “sir, the medicines in the past were all medicines that were directed. With so many kinds of poisons within the forest, who would be able to bring it all eh? The Church certainly has an omnipotent treatment again toxins, but it’s extremely costly; it’s created from the Detoxification spell……what we talked about is a toxin treating medicine that’s also newly released. The man that researched and developed it, is a genius Druid from the town of Ricca. He opened a drugstore with quite the complete variety of medicines, the prices are also low, and all along with a great reputation. Why old sir? Are you thinking of buy such a medicine? Then you’re really unlucky, it’s said that because there’s too many people that want to buy the medicine, the treatment medicine no longer meets the demand. If you currently went there, I reckon it’d be quite difficult to buy in the interim.”
“So it’s like this ah!” the veteran heard this and his face revealed a disappointed expression: “I won’t hide it from you two, people I know have an urgent need of this kind of medicine, could you two……”
The Adventurer that had bought the medicine was just hesitating, when his eyes suddenly saw a bag of money. Lifting his head, he then saw the veteran giving him a smile: “I neither want you to suffer a loss, this is 20 silver coins, it ought to cover your loses. I heard that you’ve bought as many as 5 bottles, I hope you’ll give this bottle to me.”
“20 silver coins? Deal! This is yours then.” only opening the bag for a glance, he ascertained that what was inside was truly 20 silver coins. The Adventurer immediately, and neatly slipped the medicine bottle to the veteran. After all, this 1 medicine bottle had but costed him no more than 6 silver coins. With this change of hands, he had then earnt 3 times back, the Adventurer was naturally willing.
And after the old veteran had taken ahold of the small bottle, he had walked towards an entrance in a corner of the hall.
Entering, he first did not hurry to depart. Instead, he had pulled off the stopper and poured a drop out. Just a drop, and his face revealed an astonished expression: “looks like it truly has some effect, I’ll investigate it again once I get back!”
The inside was a long long corridor. The veteran seemed to be completely familiar with the structure of the place, and neither needed another’s guidance. Putting away the medicine, he then faced forward and walked over. When he walked to the end of the corridor, he turned and faced left, and again walked another 50 or so steps, opened another door, and walked down another long corridor. The end suddenly opened into a wide clearing.
Exiting from the wide entrance, there was surprisingly a garden that wasn’t considered large behind the grand hall. There was a middle-aged man inside, just holding onto a spade and planting something. However, looking at his posture, as well as the exquisiteness of the tool within his hand, it was quite evident that this kind of labour was but a casual form of exercise.
“Vice-President!” the old veteran respectfully and cautiously genuflected.
“Speak then, what is it?” the middle-aged man put aside the farm tool and spoke.
“Yes, a strange phenomenon has already occurred at Abela2 hills. There is a leakage of negative energy. It’s currently not clear. It’s predicted that in spring of the coming year, there will be an obvious effect on the local crops.”
“Oh, there is a leakage of negative energy this fast?” the middle-aged man seemed to frown, this appeared to be slightly outside his expectations: “whose territory is it?”
“Vice-President, nominally, the territory belongs to the Baron of Cairnlea, Lance Uren.”
“Oh, autumn giving way to winter is a matter that’s certain. So long as you supervise it closely. Don’t divulge anything and especially don’t get involved!” the middle-aged man thought it over, before also passing down this order.
“Yes!” the old veteran had deep wrinkles, but he still answered, the superior’s indifferent kind of manner caused him to tremble.
“Right, what else is there?” the middle-aged man composedly asked, appearing to be slightly discontent. This rule had long already been set, why would he come ask again? Could it be he was hesitating and weak?
“Vice-President sir, I actually discovered a good item.” seeing this expression, the old veteran’s heart sunk. If the superior believed he was hesitating and weak, then……all of a sudden, he had good fortune and thought of a good idea, he handed over the medicine within his hand over.
“What is this?” the middle-aged man neither hurriedly nor impatiently wiped his hands first before accepting the small bottle: “medicine?”
Once he unstoppered it, a medicine scent had shortly infused the surround air.
“Yessir, Vice-President. This is the newest released toxin treating medicine, it’s said that a Druid called Rumont from Ricca town had researched and developed it. Though the efficacy is distantly uncomparable to the toxin treating medicine of the Church, it has a certain immunity effect towards a large majority of toxins!” the old veteran could only say this, he had just sampled it a bit. In the final analysis, he didn’t have any assurances. But at this moment, he could only put on a bold face.
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