Swear on the Goddess

The clerics working in the cathedral, the patients receiving treatment from them, and finally, the tiny bugs hiding inside the patients' bodies all existed.

Having obtained information through mana detection, Franz could be certain. The cause of this plague was those nameless bugs.

If so, it was now time to make a move.

Franz immediately approached the busy clerics.

“How is the treatment of the patients going?”

“As you can see, it is not easy. The illness should be cured once treated, but in most cases, it returns after a day or two as the symptoms worsen again.”

He was answering while simultaneously treating a patient. The warm green light emitted from his hands was proof of that.

“A day or two…”

The cleric’s answer added certainty to Franz’s hypothesis.

Since the symptoms wouldn’t disappear unless the bugs were extracted from their bodies, it made sense that the symptoms would return a day or two later...