On the way to the debriefing, Kraft ran into Martin, who was also waiting. Both of them had only time to change their clothes, and they came with mud-stained boots with their hair tossed from the wind and dust for days.

But it's not the Inner Fort carpet that I'm stepping on.

They followed the attendants into the tower on the blockade mountain road, and the successive coughing sounds were poured into the lower floors by the cold wind from high altitude, which made people a little worried about the condition of the owner of the voice. On the top floor of the tower, the duke, dressed in chain mail, pressed against the breastwork, looking down at the buildings below that were occasionally in and out.

The attendant reported the arrival of the audience and stepped back quickly, but did not go far, and stood a few paces away to keep a close eye on the duke's state.

"It's nice to see you again." He turned, his face as cold and wrinkled as a cliff wall, and there was no mental activity, "But we have lost some people forever. ”

"Including Wilbert, the House Officer, I thought I would see him before dinner when we last met, but the fate that Heavenly Father gives to mortals is always cruel, and fortunately I'm used to it."

Kraft didn't have to look to know that Martin's face must have been ugly.

"So, please tell me if you've found the guys who caused all this."

There was anger burning in his slightly cloudy eyes, but he restrained his emotions well, which only made the person facing him feel more stressed.

"We have found the lairs of the pagans and burned their wicked creations and idolatry with them." Martin holds up the corner of the mural taken from behind the church pulpit, a lifelike alien angel body stretching against a blue indigo background.

"And their chiefs, who received an end commensurate with their evil deeds."

The Duke glanced at the fresco, and the twisted and evil shape of it made him feel disgusted and repulsed, and waved his hand to Martin to remove it.

"That's exactly what I want to hear. I'll take it down later, burn it with those things, and don't leave anything else behind this time. "Hearing this means that the matter is over, and there is no intention of pursuing the previous matter of leaving the infidel corpse in the castle.

"Even those who are born and raised in war encounter things that are unheard of, and one should not bear the price for the impossible to predict...... But I hope you learn your lesson.

"Definitely." Martin nodded his head in agreement, and Kraft felt that if it wasn't for being too rude, the knight might have hugged the duke's thigh and wept bitterly and swore an oath or something. Either way, it's nice to see that he's not being held accountable.

He waited for a while, feeling that they didn't mean to have a set of words about the courtiers, so it was time for him to report the time.

After finishing the rough draft, Kraft had prepared a set of arguments, including how the Duke would dispel his thoughts when he asked himself if these things could be used in war.

"Your Excellency, allow me to describe to you what I see from the point of view of my own profession."

"This is a special pathogenic mechanism that uses mushrooms as a vector similar to the way the plague spreads. We came across some walking corpse-like husks, invariably overgrown with mushrooms, and a variety of anomalous mushrooms were found in the hidden settlements of the pagan religion. ”

"This is consistent with the scene where Knight Diego was killed before, and when combined, I think that mushrooms with significantly different growth densities can be used as a characteristic criterion."

"Your condition may have changed when you were passing through Hudsontown's estate and ingested contaminated raw cut white-bellied mushrooms. Paganism has grown to the point of encroaching on churches, and it is difficult to say whether it was intentional or accidental. ”

The Duke listened silently, and then looked at the building below, where masked soldiers were moving something bright and unusual out of it and setting up a bonfire in the open.

"I'm going to take back what I said before, Knight Kraft, although you don't quite resemble your ancestors, you do inherit the most important things." He tightened his collar on the cotton armor and coughed continuously, spitting out something from his back, "It's the same here, and you may not guess how much this heresy has corrupted Westmin. ”

"Brimer, a professor at Rivers University and a disciple of Viscount Fernand, drowned in those abominable mushrooms. The soldier found the ring tattoo on his back. ”

"Poor Fernand, I don't know if I should hide the truth from him, he probably can't stand such a big blow."

He shook his head and sighed, this action seemed to tug at his lungs again, causing several coughs, "Far away, please continue, Knight Kraft." ”

"As you can see, this method of allowing mushrooms to flourish will eventually transform people into walking corpse-like things. Since it is impossible for the pagan leaders who know the inside story to speak anymore, I can only speculate about the reason, perhaps ......"

"No, I don't want to know these things, and I advise you not to delve into them." The Duke blocked the set of arguments that Kraft was about to come up with, and he not only did not think about exploiting it, but he did not even want to understand it.

"In the years when everyone is willing to kill each other by all means, if you live long enough, you will see something unusual. At this time, the church people couldn't say anything useful, but there was one exception that I agreed with. ”

"The little trick of the infidels, sooner or later they play with fire and set themselves on fire."

"Of course, it would be nice to burn them clean." Kraft breathed a sigh of relief, it was no accident that some people lived that long.

"So I'm going to end up like those things, too? If so, I'd better start preparing the wood now. ”

"Well, your condition is probably not that serious, if you don't mind, can you go back indoors and let me check it on for you again?" It's not a good idea to blow the wind here in your physical condition. "The squire's nervousness is skyrocketing with the frequency of the duke's coughs, and the only one who is suitable for persuasion here is the doctor.

"No, wait a little longer." The Duke rejected the suggestion and returned to the breastwork, overlooking the platform below.

The campfire had been set up, and the sergeant with the torch looked up, apparently knowing that the owner of the castle was watching. After receiving the gesture command, they set fire to the pyre one by one.

The black smoke of the flames engulfed the colorful things, and some strange smells rose with the heat, and the parts that were not blown away by the wind could be smelled at the top of the tower, and the smoke was disgusting. The Duke didn't seem to smell it, and stood for a moment in the air where the smell was strongest.

"Goodbye, Wilbert." He whispered, leaving the edge of the tower and walking down the stairs, the crowd following closely behind.

……

In the room where the fireplace in the inner castle burns for a long time, Kraft gets a second chance to inspect the duke.

This time, there was no one to pick on his etiquette. While performing the physical examination, he opened his mental senses and scanned his entire lungs. Found the sphere slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the hole in the last nodule hole.

Unlike Yvonne's case, the Duke's spirit body is in a normal state of invisibility, which indicates that he is not deeply tainted.

The sphere is not an imaginary existence, but a solid substance, a spherical lesion formed by a fungal infection, which conforms to the pathological morphological description of tuberculosis combined with Aspergillus infection.

"Your Excellency, I will try to touch your lesion for examination, which may induce some symptoms"

"I'm ready." The Duke replied with his eyes closed.

Kraft pressed the hollow and tapped lightly on the surface, but the mycelium ball remained unmoved. The second percussion increased the force, the muffled sound could be heard throughout the room, the vibrational impact was perceived, and the velvet escaping from the surface of the sphere swayed slightly, as if to detect the changes in the surrounding area.

The controller was thus exposed, and this time he clearly felt the active fungus inside, and the surrounding mycelium arranged along the bronchioles also produced a commotion that caused the coughing reflex.

And when the mental pressure is directed on the fungus and tries to exert influence, the mycelium throughout the body is activated at the same time, and then the fever and convulsions that have been seen are triggered, and even a small number of suspicious filaments are found in the hypothalamus, and there is reason to suspect that the sudden onset of high fever is due to the factors that the body temperature center is restricted.

It is a completely different parasitic pattern from Yvonne's, but I have to say that this is like the correct style of the fungus, which makes Kraft more and more confused about the cause of Yvonne's illness.

However, one of them engulfs the spirit body and the other threatens the body, and they all achieve the purpose of holding the host hosts hosts to refuse treatment, and they all end up in the same way.

[I have to think differently]

Yvonne's spiritual and physical problems cannot be solved, and the parasitism on the material level is not necessarily beyond treatment.

Since this thing will move and migrate between the nodule cavities, is there any way to "persuade" it to come out on its own, such as ...... Making the space in your lungs less livable?