Supreme Magus novel Chapter 827

Chapter 827 Domino Effect Part 1

"It’s not the first time that an undead has managed to infect people, either to safely feed upon them or to control them. This kind of trick, however, always followed the same pattern.

"The tissues would be hidden inside their victim and act as a parasite. Hence you would find two energy signatures, each belonging to a different being and then remove the unwanted one.

"In our case, the Draugr tissues form a symbiote that fuses with its host, making it impossible to treat them separately. That’s why it managed to fool us for so long. It followed the pattern of Jiera’s plague but had a different effect, leading us to believe it was simply a different strain of the disease." Marth said.

"That’s it!" Quylla jumped off her chair in excitement. "Professor, if I recall correctly, Jiera’s plague deadly trait was its ability to bond with its victim tissues and make them rot from the inside so that any attempt to heal it would just hasten the decay process."

"Exactly." Marth nodded. "It was a disease that couldn’t be cured with normal healing magic. It required a combination of darkness and light spells because otherwise the healing would multiply the infected tissues and help spread the disease until it became untreatable."

The cure required the Healer to distinguish the healthy parts of the patient’s body from those damaged. Then, they had to bombard the body with pulses of darkness magic strong enough to kill the infected tissues and only weaken the rest.

At that point, it was possible to infuse the patient with both life force and light magic, since only healthy cells would manage to reproduce whereas the infected would die of strain.

The procedure had to be applied to the patient’s head and torso first since unlike limbs, they couldn’t be regenerated. Also, time was of the essence. Due to the plague’s nature, if there were no healthy tissues the patient was doomed.

"My guess is that Erlik has infused his tissues with the same spells that empowered the plague. So far, first, you have treated it as if it was Jiera’s plague and then as if it was just an undead parasite.

"Yet our enemy is actually a hybrid. We already know how to eradicate the plague, but how can we adapt the cure to a Draugr?" She asked.

"Draugr don’t have many weak points aside from being unable to move during the day. They are creatures of envy and greed, so..." A flash of understanding appeared behind Marth’s eyes.

"Oh gods! It’s just an idea, but if it works..."

***

Ernas Household, now.

As an Archon, Jirni Ernas was no longer just an Officer. Her role required to supervise the job of many Royal Constables and the reports that kept flooding on her desk made her more worried by the day.

The Empire had managed to stop the advance of the Lich’s army and was slowly reconquering the lost lands, but there were still a lot of people who had lost their homes.

All those who had family members in the Griffon Kingdom or in the Blood Desert were seeking refuge from the war in the other countries, but distinguishing those who were really so desperate to betray their own homeland from the spies sent to spread false information was very hard.