What? The news of the plague triggered by humans was actually from Alice, the soothsayer?

Now that the potion to cure the plague has been made, is the dark elf about to be out of danger?

What kind of series of stories will the strange dreams, the ruthless clansmen, and the mysterious dragons pull out?

However, this place, which is filled with misty and damp air, is far from the hometown in memory.

What are the monsters that can be seen everywhere?

Several of them belonged to the Dark Elves clan in terms of skin color.

My compatriots do not want to leave their homeland even if they become corpse thieves (zombies), so they can only wander here.

My family is among them.

It's been a few days since I arrived here, and I still haven't been able to enter the town of Neubela.

Monsters roaming everywhere stand in my way, and most of them are my fellow citizens.

Die here, there is no point.

Tomorrow I'm going to use the Sleeper Technique to enter the city to investigate.

Finally managed to infiltrate the city.

Luckily, no monsters were aware of my presence.

I saw it, it was indeed a human figure!

It seems that this incident is indeed related to human beings.

Today, I followed the humans roaming the city, hoping to find out who they really were.

Then I learned the following:

They all seem to belong to the same organization, or rather followers of the same "religion" (religion seems to be an essential element for the survival of vulnerable humans).

The name of this group is "The Grim Seekers".

I observed their rituals and they seemed to be waiting for something......

"Ahh This is the place where Lord Dirij's grace reigns.

"Give us the strength to prepare for the judgment of the absolute God. ”

Dirij...... Where does it seem to have been heard?

I was attacked by a fellow family infected with an infectious disease.

Originally, my incubation technique was not complete, and if there were still rational corpse robbers who were still dark elves, they might have been discovered...... Careless.

Infectious diseases will gradually eat away at my body from the wound......

I haven't been able to uncover the truth about the murderer of my family, so how can I die here in vain......!

The Grim Seekers are an organization that follows a lot of secrecy. I think they're dangerous.

It looks like they're here to carry out an important mission.

I followed one of the higher-looking ones into a heavily guarded area, where it was......

"Space-Time Rift" ......!?

I pray that the people who read this diary are my fellow citizens, and I will explain the secret of the rift in time and space here. A space-time rift is a chasm, or rift, that arises between the present world and parallel different spaces.

Hundreds of years ago, our dark elves stumbled upon it and studied it in secret. After a long period of research, it was concluded that "the use of space-time rifts can be used to freely enter and exit different spaces".

Of course, hundreds of years of research have not given our people the ability to freely use the rift in space, nor can they control the anomalies that accompany their use.

Therefore, the rift in time and space can be called extremely dense even among the dark elves, and I am only known because of my status as an alchemist in the court.

In the future, humans will also know about the existence of the rift in space-time.

But what does this have to do with infectious diseases......?

The bodies of compatriots who died of infectious diseases were investigated, and a strange thing was discovered.

Traces of a rare chemical reaction of the "purple mushroom". This is related to the "Blood Curse" that ran rampant with humanity half a year ago.

According to ancient human records, the "Curse of Blood" represents the spread of the phenomenon of "pretenderization" of human beings. And "pretenders" refer to monsters that have mutated into monsters that crave the blood of their kind.

The terrifying thing about the Pretenders is that they are no different from ordinary people during the day, perfectly hidden in normal life. As a result, trust between humans has been shattered, and even mad pagan and witch trials have been launched among the same people.

Luckily, if our people are infected with the Blood Curse, purple mushroom-shaped patterns will appear all over the skin. Therefore, we are able to distinguish the pretender from normal people, so that there will be no tragic history like that of human beings.

This is where the "purple mushroom" comes from.

However, in recent decades, there have been no official reports of impostors.

Could it be that the curse of blood is spreading in the human world again?

The clergy, who were rumored to have fought off the Blood Curse, are still secretly training to erase the Pretenders. If you can meet them, you might be able to solve this mystery.

If the curse of blood did not spread, then who inflicted the curse of blood here, or perhaps there was something to do with the spread of the epidemic here?

All these mysteries may be related to the rift in time and space.

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His body began to emit a strange smell.

Rancid but fragrant, yet as if deadly toxic.......

It looks like I've got an infectious disease too.

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Occasionally, my consciousness would become hazy and my gaze would lose focus.

The injured left wrist slowly began to swell into a mushroom shape.

Purple mushrooms...... Sure enough, from then on, I contracted an infectious disease.

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The Grim Seekers didn't come here purely to perform religious rituals, they seem to be experimenting.

Substances leaking from the rift in space-time (or more accurately as apparitions or evil thoughts) were injected into the human body for experimentation. The subject was then bandaged and placed.

After a few days, something amazing happened. Where the bandaged subject should have been lying down, only the bandage that had lost its human silhouette remained. Then a person with a different skin color came out of the cold seeker, and after whispering a few words in front of the bandage, the bandage actually rolled up in shape and came back to life!

Ancient human texts that have studied the pretender have this scene:

"The Impostor will take different forms depending on the region. For example, wolves, bats, spiders, etc. Although the combination of human bodies and the characteristics of animals and insects is the most representative, there are also countless monster forms that cannot distinguish between types.

The most peculiar example is that it is unable to maintain its original form, and its form as a living form disappears, turning into an energy form that is absorbed by the host.

The average pretender retains its human form during the day and manifests itself at night. However, in this case, it is said that the impostor will remain in the form of objects that can be found around us during the day, and at night the host will take on a humanoid role.

In the Dark Holy War, Ozma is said to have worked with the Dark Knight to drive the Pretenders day and night. In particular, they project the Impostor in the form of energy into books, bandages, or clothing, and infiltrate behind enemy lines. Later, it was used as an army, and many times it was used to deal unexpected blows to the clergy. He even drove them to death for a time......"