Even goblins are dangerous in this other world!

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Unfortunately, no.

"The number of new infections every day has not decreased; on the contrary, it has increased."

"so……"

"The problem lies internally; it's human-caused."

The woman couldn't help but speak up. Her thoughts followed Luo Xiu's words, and she immediately deduced the reason.

Luo Xiu nodded:

"Xiao Xie quickly realized this as well. As the city lord of Kanriel, he would not allow anyone in the city to deliberately cause trouble, especially with such a major epidemic."

"But for some reason, he ultimately did not take action, and the mushroom disease continued to spread throughout the city."

Upon hearing this, the woman murmured:

"Perhaps it's because he wasn't confident he could take down the troublemakers directly, which would likely leave the candidates for these tasks..."

……

Vivian's curses echoed through the cave. At first, she was able to remain calm and maintain her elegant demeanor, but as she spoke, she could no longer hold back and began to hurl extremely vile insults at Lucas and Hermes.

Hermes had already put on his earplugs. Lucas was initially furious, but eventually calmed down and pretended not to hear.

The two chose to act shamelessly, since Vivian couldn't do anything about it anyway.

Seeing the two of them like this, Vivian became even angrier and was about to curse their ancestors when a hoarse voice came from beside her.

"The way mushroom disease spreads is simple; the difficulty lies in curing it. Shek, you shouldn't be unable to stop its spread, right?"

It was Tata who spoke first, as she hadn't said a word until now.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lucas's expression changed almost imperceptibly.

"Of course, I've investigated."

Count Shek seemed to snap out of his daze, his voice low and deep:

"The forbidden spell cast by the sorcerer on the stone sculptures at the entrance has been destroyed; perhaps this is related to that."

"Who?"

Lucas immediately slammed his fist on the table and stood up:

“That forbidden spell was set up by Churchill himself. Whoever breaks the forbidden spell will be at a disadvantage for Kanriel.”

Churchis, Lucas's student, was the champion of the previous tournament.

“I don’t know either, but I’ve already asked Myriel to go and ask Churchill. I think it would be clearer to ask him directly, since there aren’t many people who can break his spell, and not many people who understand spells.”

Count Shek's voice was deep.

Myriel, his top student, was the champion of the competition three years ago.

Lucas's expression changed drastically. If Shek's statement that "there aren't many people who can break spells" was relatively normal, then what he meant by "there aren't many people who understand spells" was self-evident.

"Shake, what do you mean? Are you doubting our Sorcerer Academy?"

Shek shook his head:

"I didn't mean that."

"After all, as long as the stone sculpture group is strictly guarded, it can prevent the entry of foreign diseases. Your Excellency Lucas, you wouldn't resort to such a low-level method, would you?"

……

In the lisianthus garden.

"The story is nearing its end."

Luo Xiu stretched out his withered, thin hand to touch the towering giant mushroom beside him.

When my hand landed on the mycelium, it immediately sparked a burst of fluorescence, which danced in the already dim light, like a dream.

The entire mushroom seemed to have transformed into a giant glow stick, with green and gold magic circles appearing on its surface and shooting straight into the sky.

The green-gold light illuminated the gray mist and also the eyes of the woman beside him.

"Alchemy array".

Luo Xiu spoke softly:

"It seems that the [Guide] back then was an alchemist."

"No wonder the archives say that before that battle, alchemists and sorcerers in Kanriel were evenly matched."

"But now alchemists are clearly ahead of spellcasters. There are even two alchemists in the fifth rank."

The woman raised her head; even in her long life, she had not seen such a beautiful sight many times.

Luo Xiu closed his eyes, spreading his magic power and sensing the aura emanating from each of the magic arrays.

The woman seemed to sense something as well, catching a faint sense of unfamiliarity among the tens of thousands of magic arrays.

It was as if something had been inserted into the brilliant high wall formed by the alchemical array, causing contamination.

But she couldn't tell, because that power was at a higher level than hers, and was extremely difficult to discern after being deliberately concealed.

Until Luo Xiu spoke up to remind him:

"Spell."

The woman suddenly realized the cause of the epidemic.

Alchemical arrays demand extreme precision, thus requiring alchemists to possess exceptional sensitivity.

If anything goes wrong, the final alchemical product will be drastically different.

In the town outside the Forest of Illusions, all the mushrooms grown come from the spores of the giant mushroom monster in front of us.

One can imagine how many descendants of the old count had improved these alchemical arrays over the years, eventually obtaining harmless spores.

However, the alchemical array has now been contaminated. Although the contamination area is not large, the spores produced have still undergone some changes.

Count Shek was unable to correct the contamination because the person who cast the spell was nearly as powerful as him.

Furthermore, removing contamination from such a massive array of alchemical formations is far more difficult than casting a spell on it.

The woman only felt a dryness in her throat:

"Why would Lucas do this? We need to find a way to expose him."

Luo Xiu nodded:

“If even we can sense it, the Earl must also know that to suppress the Dean of the Sorcerer Academy, who is also a fifth-tier sorcerer, we need more fifth-tier help.”

"but……"

He abruptly changed the subject, saying something that made the woman gasp:

"There is one last story, which even the Earl himself may not know."

Chapter 190 The Story of Kanriel - The End

Inside the cave, Lucas's face was extremely grim.

Since Xie Ke directly pointed out that the stone sculpture group's methods were low-level, it means that he may have already discovered his arrangement.

But he took a deep breath:

"Since the stone sculpture complex can be managed effectively, then may I ask, Your Excellency Shek, why hasn't the mushroom disease in the city been brought under control?"

This is pretending to know nothing, determined to deny it to the death.

Shake glanced at Lucas:

“I went to check the layout of the ‘garden’ a few days ago and found that the alchemical array set up by my ancestors had been corrupted by magic.”

Upon hearing this, not only Lucas, but everyone present changed their expressions at the same time.

Everyone present knows how Kanriel rose to prominence and prospered; it can be said that the fifth-tier mushroom monster in Kanriel's garden is the core of Kanriel's success.

If something goes wrong there, the whole of Kanriel could be paralyzed.

In an instant, everyone's attention turned to Lucas.

Even Helmes, who had always stood on the same side as Lucas, looked somewhat astonished, as if he knew nothing at all.

The situation suddenly shifted from accusations against Sheck to those against Lucas.

"What are you looking at me for?! This is slander, it's slander!!"

"You should know that it was Shek's experiment that caused the mushroom disease to appear. He must have deliberately spread the disease in the city to smear us."

Lucas stiffened his neck, his horse-like face was flushed, and his beard trembled, making it hard to tell whether he was acting or genuinely angry.

But his words did have some effect, as others turned some of their attention back to Count Shek.

Even if Lucas did indeed corrupt the alchemical array around the mushroom monster, the insane experiments Shek conducted cannot be overlooked; they also had significant problems.

"Gentlemen, why don't you listen to what I have to say?"

Hermes spoke for the first time, his eyes crinkling beneath the mask, a smile playing on his lips:

"I think that since the Canril Conference has been convened with great difficulty, and it was His Excellency Tata who unusually used his right to convene the conference, there is no practical point in us arguing about these issues."

"Why don't we think about how to completely solve mushroom disease?"

As soon as he finished speaking, approval flashed in everyone's eyes.

Even the short-tempered silver-armored loli sat back down.

Indeed, arguing won't solve the problem; the primary goal should be to solve the epidemic.

Seeing everyone deep in thought, Hermes' smile deepened, but then Tata's voice rang out:

"I have developed an antidote for mushroom disease."

As soon as these words came out, the whole place fell into silence.

For the first time, surprise and joy flashed in Shek's eyes.

A barely perceptible shadow crossed Hermes' eyes, and the curve of his lips diminished slightly.

"The reason I'm holding this meeting is to announce this news."