The carriage drove through the city and took a group of people to the cathedral in the suburbs. On the way, Jenkins ate bread while learning about the situation. Chocolate was forced to endure a day without a regular breakfast.
Specifically, after the three people were arrested yesterday, the church followed the clues they provided to find out the situation. Among them, Earl Paramount's residence was the best to find, but when the church's scribe team and accompanying police and priests arrived outside the suburban manor, no one opened the door for them.
"I went to see it too, and the appearance was really scary. I really didn't expect it."
The one who spoke to Jenkins in the church was Mr. Jonson Gilbert, an acquaintance of Jenkins. When the Ice Messenger broke into Nolan Church last fall, he was the one who led the team from Beldyland to support him. Jenkins came to Beldyland to receive the award in winter, and this gentleman was responsible for his safety:
"Yesterday evening, our team of scribes broke into the manor. While advancing along the courtyard corridor, we found some servants covering their faces and crying. After approaching, those servants launched an attack on our people. Their bodies were severely mutated, and their bodies shrank and became It became rickety, blood streaks appeared on the skin, the eyes sunken into the eye sockets, the nose and mouth became extremely sharp and hard, and a structure similar to cicada wings appeared on the back of a small number of individuals, but they did not have the ability to fly."
"This sounds familiar. Could it be... A-01-1-3900 [Curse of Blood Mosquito]?"
"That's right, that's it."
The middle-aged man in front of him covered his forehead regardless of his image:
"Sage, this kind of thing actually appeared in Beldylan City. Is this world really going to be destroyed?"
Even among all the notoriously cursed monsters, the [Curse of the Blood Mosquito] is the scariest and most powerful. The origin of this curse is the blood-sucking species, but the population covered by the blood-sucking species not only includes those ugly humanoid monsters, but also includes but is not limited to blood-sucking leeches, blood-sucking mosquitoes and many other categories.
Humanoid vampires and these beast-like vampires can rely on their own strength to infect other groups of intelligent creatures and enslave them as servants. And after this kind of power has been transformed into a strange thing, it has formed the [Curse of Blood Mosquito] that has erupted every few thousand years since the 11th century.
This curse originates from a certain blood-sucking species that carries the power of the cursed body, and spreads outward through its blood. Any individual, whether it is swallowed, injected or even just touched, will be 100% infected with the curse, and the blood of these cursed individuals will have a weakened version of the infection ability.
The only good thing is that the cursed plasma is no longer contagious after being diluted through the blood, otherwise this curse can destroy the world in a few weeks.
"After being infected with the blood-sucking mosquito curse, the body will randomly mutate towards a certain type of blood-sucking species, but most of them are blood-sucking mosquitoes. This is also the obvious reason. The strength and speed of the cursed will be greatly optimized, and even a small number of cursed individuals will They will have the extraordinary innate power of vampires. Correspondingly, the cursed individuals have a complete mental breakdown and are extremely thirsty for blood. They satisfy their blood thirsty desires by biting, and at the same time spread the curse outward. Fortunately, this time we found out in time The situation in the manor did not allow those cursed to leave, otherwise Beldyran might be over."
Mr. Gilbert led Jenkins through the main square and came to the sanctuary, which was only opened for the cardinals' meeting.
It perfectly fits Jenkins' vision of the church. The towering spiers are made entirely of translucent glass and painted inside with typical religious oil paintings. The building is divided into two floors, but the second floor only has a round edge against the wall, next to the meeting of the lower-ranking clergy. They looked at the first floor through the huge patio, and on the first floor there was a large and terrifying white oak round table. The thirteen chairs beside the round table represented the unique status of the twelve contemporary cardinals and Pope Pontiff IV. .
It is still morning, and the warm morning light is reflected on the round table below through the colorful murals on the dome, making the entire hall look like the holy land of the legendary sage. Five people had already sat down at the table, three men and two women, and these were demigods stationed in Beldyran.
Noticing the sound of the door opening, the five saw Jenkins, so they got up and bowed slightly:
"Saint William."
On other occasions, they wouldn't have greeted Jenkins so formally. But now in the sanctuary of the church, the huge holy emblem closest to the essence of the power of the sage hangs on the wall, and they must show the greatest respect to Jenkins.
The door closed from behind, and Mr. Gilbert found his place at the table. The other saint son Boko whom I saw a few days ago has left Beldyran again. In this way, all the high-end combat power of the Church of the Sages in the Archdiocese of Beldyran has all arrived.
Jenkins originally wanted to find a seat at the table, but the ascetic monk who bowed his head and kept silent had already helped him pull the seat under the holy emblem.
He could only sit there, and then suddenly found that the chocolate was gone. He thought the cat was on his shoulder the whole time.
"Chocolate... I felt my shoulders lighten when I got off the carriage just now. Could it be that it sneaked into the kitchen because it was dissatisfied with today's breakfast?"
Jenkins thought to himself, and began the formal meeting.
Of course, the main content of the meeting was to discuss how to effectively solve the [Curse of Blood Mosquito]. During Mr. Gilbert's visit to meet Jenkins, the church made another discovery. The reason why those servants who were infected by the curse did not leave the manor was not because of the good luck of the church, but because of a huge magic lock centered on the manor that prevented them from leaving.
Of course, the Mystic will not kindly control the curse from spreading outwards. Its main purpose is to connect all the infected people in the entire manor into one. Thereby strengthening the strength of all individuals, and endowing all individuals with "immortality" to a certain extent.
That is to say, although the church has only explored the periphery of the manor courtyard now, all the cursed servants killed by the scribes will be "resurrected" within a period of time. To expel this effect, the only way to take the corpse out of the courtyard before the resurrection, but the mystic forbids this, which makes it almost impossible to solve.
"According to current investigations, the last time the manor was open to the public was the night before yesterday. Earl Paramount invited many nobles to the manor for a dinner. After that, no one came out, because Earl Paramount often held some 'dare not The banquet lasted for a long time, so the family and friends of those nobles didn't notice the problem before we found out that something was wrong."
Mr. Gilbert introduced that, except for Jenkins, he is the most junior of all the people here, so he is the one to introduce.