Chapter 477: Chapter 280: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse_1


    gues, wars, famines, and the undead are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Church of Light’s propaganda. Their arrival would bring apocalyptic disaster.


    Thest one, the Undead Empire staunchly denies. To them, their Undead Cmity is just a form of warfare, a controble one, not a cmity in the true sense. Yet, if anyone dares to defy them, they surely would hasten the arrival of their doomsday.


    Whether the Undead Empire admits it or not doesn’t matter. What matters is that everyone believes it. Among the disasters listed alongside the Undead Cmity – gues, wars, famines – all of them terrible in their own right, the gue is considered the worst.


    There was once a region heavily afflicted by gue. Two-thirds of its tens of millions of inhabitants died. All systems of government copsed in this region; only the isted viges managed to survive.


    Ever since then, this region has beenposed primarily of isted city-states, with numerous self-governing territories. With millions of people living across over six hundred city-states and territories. Each with its City Lord, controlling a smaller poption than some of therger empires.


    This region is now referred to as the Bird Union, hinting at the numerous city-states resembling a collection of bird nests.


    The cause of this unique political feature is the gue.


    The Church of Light managed to expand across the Master ne, bing the primary religion. The gue yed a crucial role in this because the Power of Holy Light has a distinct purifying effect.


    The most effective way to deal with a gue is through purification: clean drinking water, clothes, bedding, living environments, all of which can reduce the spread of the gue. The holy radiance can also eradicate the source of the gue. As a result, wherever there is the Church of Light, gue can be controlled; otherwise, the gue will rampantly spread.


    In such situations, the Goddess of Redemption, Harvest Goddess, God of Disease, God of Healing, and many more deities prove inefficient. To eliminate gues, the most crucial measures are istion and purification, controlling the source, and preventing the spread.<div>


    Over time, people began to convert to the Church of Light while those who refused either secluded themselves in isted regions, forming their societies, or perished.


    gues, wars, famines often reinforce each other. gues lead to famines, which in turn instigate wars. These wars then trigger gues and famines. Once it starts, it will spiral into a world of chaos.


    Anthony invested a considerable effort to keep the famine under control and prevent it from spiraling out of control, at least not to an extent that would incite more famines and gues. However, his efforts seem futile. The followers of the Harvest Goddess were infected, carrying the gue to another ne.


    Another troublesome aspect of gues is their unpredictability. No one knows what the next gue could be. Unlike wars and famines, which can be anticipated with preparations made for grains and equipment ordingly.


    Take the current situation as an example. A patient vomits a lump of bloody substance then copses to their death, leaving Dakwen at a loss, unable to recall what gue this could be.


    Could it be a brand-new gue? If so, it spells trouble. Developing a cure might cost many more lives before ites to fruition.


    This is where the God of Knowledge, Negris, needs to step in. Negris came over full of confidence, but soon he wore a troubled expression on his face. “What kind of gue is this? I’ve never seen it before.”


    A gue that even the God of Knowledge hasn’t encountered is undoubtedly a new form of the disease.


    “If I cannot identify it, it surely is a new gue. Does anyone know anything about it? If not, I will start investigating.” Negris nced around.


    He looked at Luna, Lisa, and Lamo, everyone except Ange since it wasn’t rted to agriculture and Ange most likely wouldn’t know.


    “Insects.” Ange chimed in after a brief nce and left it at that.


    “Insects? What insects? Are you familiar with this gue? Get out of here. This is a gue, not a fertilizer for your crops.” Negris responded in irritation.


    What is this creature thinking, connecting every situation to insects? Does itck fertilizer again?


    Ange ignored him, stepped on the ground, and soon, the bright red fluid began to shift, forming small specks.


    These specs, even smaller than mosquitoes, came alive and wriggled, crawled out of the fluid, and took flight. They barely reached a foot in height before they dropped like raindrops to the ground, their lifeforce devoured by Ange’s Instant Death Halo.


    Soon, a pile of tiny insect corpses covered the ground—each one as minute as dust. But their sheer number piled up into a frightening mound.


    Negris gasped, reminded of the first encounter with the bug exterminator and the sand thieves used for incubating eggs.


    When Ange cut open those sand thieves, their bodies burst with eggs the size of fingertips. Could these red blobs also be eggs? Are they too tiny to discern, making them look like sticky fluid?


    As the insects continued to hatch, the pile of fluid grew smaller. When only a tiny bit remained, Ange deactivated his Instant Death Halo.<div>


    Without the Instant Death Halo speeding up their hatching, the hatched insects took flight, looking for something alive instead of dying instantly.


    But Ange activated the Instant Death Halo, forcing living things to retreat hundreds of meters away. All that remained in the vicinity were non-living things. Finally, Ange fetched a live fish from the waterway and tossed it over.


    The insects flew towards the fish, their mouthparts jabbing into it.


    Ange walked over and lightly touched his finger to the fish. After a while, the fish spat out a lump of bright red sticky fluid.<div>


    Negris paled: “Can every insecty eggs? Doesn’t that make every individual a source of transmission?”


    The earlier creatures designated for incubating eggs had eggs imnted by bug exterminators. But now, any insect capable ofying eggs could spread them. If they sting any living creature, they can use it to incubate eggs. The spread rates would be uparable to the previous insect gues.


    Moreover, these insect eggs are so small they’re barely visible to the naked eye. It’s easy to mistake them for sticky fluid. If they are not incinerated on the spot and allowed to hatch, they will be a new source of transmission.


    Negris realized the gravity of the situation. Based on this situation, no one could tell how many of the transported people have been stung by the insects. Bearing in mind these insects are even smaller than mosquitoes, even if they bite, it wouldn’t cause much concern. Then, many of those people probably host insect eggs in their bodies.


    They have no idea of how many followers of the Harvest Goddess are infected. How about the Master ne? In famine-stricken regions, how many people are infected?


    If they can’t be cured before they vomit the fluid, their lives will end the moment they spit out the fluid.


    In reality, once they show symptoms like pallor, their bodies have already suffered extensive internal damages, irreversible even if cured.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om


    “What do we do now? When they’re inside a person’s body, your Instant Death Halo won’t kill them. It will only speed up their hatching. Do we have any specific cures? This isn’t an insect gue anymore; it’s an insect-borne gue. If we can’t find a cure, the Master ne might lose two-thirds of its poption again.” Negris worriedlymented.


    Ange tilted his head, thought for a moment, and took out a vial. “Try this.”


    PS: More in the morning