The Peerless Kobold - Chapter 74
“Is this true… I won’t acknowledge this if your information is wrong, you know?”
“Y-yes, I will pay with my life should its contents be false! It coincides with past records where the first victims were people of the cloth, so I think the possibility is very high…”
This is no doubt a serious issue, and it would have been better if the report was wrong, but… The Court Mage, Ernesta Elballard, inwardly sighed as she received the report from her subordinate.
“Certainly, it’s not surprising that things like this would appear every once in a while. Rather, I would not be surprised that it appeared in the Royal Capital… Very well, I shall report this to my foster father.”
“Lady Ernesta, I would like to send out a mage to immediately confirm the damage, but would it be alright?”
After thinking for a while, Ernesta gave her instructions.
“We do know that the source of the infection is the blood, right? If it is really that bloodborne disease where blood spurts from the body in the end stages… Then, make sure to quarantine those who have been infected!”
“Yes!”
“Also, a gag order will be put in place, so please don’t say anything to the people involved either.”
“Understood. Then, I would like to excuse myself.”
After the mage’s subordinate bowed lightly and left the room, Ernesta threw herself on top of her desk and her beautiful silver hair spread out and glittered under the sunlight streaming in from the window.
“Out of all things to appear, it had to be Alvesta of the Seven Plagues…”
The Seven Plagues are monsters whose existences are currently classified as S-rank threats, especially those that humans consider dangerous.
There are some who are clearly not monsters, so it’s hard to classify them as such… but “Alvesta”, the creature spreading the sickness, was known to speak the human language, so it could not be classified as a genuine monster…
If Ernesta had been an adventurer instead, then The Tempest Witch could have become a Scarlet Gold rank which is rumored to be the highest rank that an adventurer could attain.
She could no doubt blow the Royal Castle to bits if she clad her arms in full-powered windstorms and slammed down her brass knuckle-equipped fists.
It’s obvious that her foster father would severely scold her if she did that, but…
Even if it were impossible for her to take it on alone, as the deputy court mage of the Kingdom of Riastize, if she utilizes the two hundred Magic Knights under her command, then defeating an S-ranked threat might just be possible.
After all, the great heroes and great sages in the past had done it too. Most of them had also received support from the nation and defeated the threats with the help of their armies.
“Ugh, how troublesome.”
However, Alvesta of the Black Rain was a particularly troublesome calamity-type threat, so she held her head in her hands.
