Pirate Kingship-Chapter 826 - 505: Violent Stealth: Witch of Angel Hunting!

Margaret, who had never come into contact with the [Bloodline Codex], was the first to show symptoms of illness.

"Cough, cough..."

Angelica, who was of the Hall Sequence Third Order [Painter] and the frailest of Byron's aunties, suddenly began to cough violently.

She rolled up her sleeve, revealing black patches swiftly appearing on her delicate arm, accompanied by increasing pain, and her forehead began to heat up.

"Is this... the Black Death?!"

Christina, Byron's other aunt, who was a [Pharmacist] of the Third Order Hospital Sequence, couldn't help but cry out in shock.

Though her transcendent abilities were zero due to being shackled by the Law-Breaking Stone, her keen medical observation remained, and she wouldn't mistake this terrifying plague that had once claimed millions of lives.

The Black Death is essentially the plague, with bacteria usually carried by fleas' saliva.

Infected fleas first draw blood from infected rats, and when the rats die, they jump onto humans, spreading the bacteria through the bloodstream to the new host.

Due to the symptom of many black spots appearing on the patient's skin, the plague was also dubbed the "Black Death."

During this era when bloodletting is still widely practiced, and even surgical operations were just being researched by the Bloodthirsty Cult, medical conditions were unimaginably backward.

For those infected with the disease, there is hardly any chance of recovery; a painful death is the only outcome.

The most important factor is the rapid onset of illness.

Patients first develop large black tumors accompanied by pain, blood, and pus seepage, followed by unceasing high fever and even delirium.

Many succumb to the disease within forty-eight hours of infection, with only a rare few lucky souls surviving by sheer force of a strong immune system.

Since the primary transmission method isn't human-to-human, despite its high lethality rate, it doesn't hinder mice and fleas from continuing to spread, making each outbreak of this plague an unprecedented disaster.

Next, everyone else fell victim to the Black Death's symptoms, one after another.

Christina the [Pharmacist] lasted longer than Margaret the Fourth Order [Law Mage].

During her Third Order spirituality transformation, her immune divine light had strengthened her immune system, far more robust than an average person.

Unfortunately, humans have limits, but the [Bone Cathedral] does not!

The outbreak of Black Death over two centuries ago claimed a third of the continental population's lives.

The Pied Piper's Shepherd Flute solved part of the rat plague, its influence limited to Hameln within the Holy Silver Empire, becoming a Second Level Sacred Relic during this massive epidemic.

It goes without saying, such a grand human catastrophe gave birth to an alarmingly powerful [Cursed Spirit].

Just birthed amidst endless mountains of corpses, blood, mosquitoes, rats, maggots, and flies, it was incontrovertibly a Sixth Order Demigod.

Attained godly names [Plague Rat], [Death Knell], [God of Funerals] Gris, nearly completely anchored to the concept of "death," becoming the funeral usher.

To completely end this calamity, the Night Watch built twelve Bone Cathedrals across the Old Continent using human bones, led by the twelve [Saints] of that time performing grand mass rituals with the devout clergy.

Pope Gregory donned the [Papal Tiara], symbolizing supreme earthly power, initiating the highest level of "Saint Descent" with a rank equal to that of a Sixth Order Demigod.

Summoning the archangel commanding the Angel Legion to descend upon the material world.

Finally, in the most devastating transcendent war of the Silver Era, the Pope fell in battle, two-thirds of the twelve saints perished, and the Church suffered severe damage to its essence qi.

Fortunately, they succeeded in destroying Gris's main body, the [God of Funerals], and the "divinity" was taken away by the archangel.

The remaining "beastliness" and corpse devoid of immortality were torn into twelve pieces, held down across the twelve Bone Cathedrals.

It is said the archangel's shadow is etched onto each Bone Cathedral's Silver Cross, harnessing the believers' mind wish power to wear it down day and night, completely cutting off the possibility of a large-scale re-emergence of the Black Death.

At the same time, due to the death of so many devout clergy, the Church's power significantly waned.

From then, the Renaissance began, ending twenty years ago in 1453, concluding the Church's dominion over the Dark Millennium.

Archbishop Babatila held one of the Bone Cathedrals in his possession.

Over two hundred years later, Gris's incomplete corpse no longer held even one-thousandth of its full power.

Yet it remains more than sufficient to deal with a group of Middle Sequence Extraordinary.

Rule: "Non-positive elemental creatures, like fire elementals, lightning elementals, light elementals, other creatures will become infected."

The last one, Vanessa the [Witch of Calamity], embodied as a Leviathan Whale, though her body surpassed human limits, was still affected, albeit with the mildest symptoms. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

She glanced nonchalantly at the black spots on her arm, her face behind the metal mask showing no panic, speaking for the first time allowing Margaret's group to hear her voice:

"Using the Law-Breaking Stone, a Zero-Level Sacred Relic for suppression isn't enough? You even resorted to weaponizing the Black Death."

"Babatila, even after all these years, you're still as insidious as ever."

Though the situation was grim, her voice remained composed, as melodious as a gentle stream.