Lebert climbed to the top of a hill and looked out over the burning village. His face, worn down with deep fatigue, was filled with worry and sorrow.
The treatment isn't working.
Looking down at his hands, smeared with blood and pus, Lebert bit down hard on his lower lip.
When he'd first set out from the capital, Lebert had been full of hope, imagining the praise Diana would give him once he'd collected the disease and developed a cure.
But a full month had passed since he'd left the capital, and for the first time since he'd begun his research with Diana's backing, Lebert felt utterly powerless before a disease.
Well, Cassion's condition doesn't count — that was never an ordinary illness to begin with.
Cassion's condition had been tied to magic, and even then, it had at least been controllable.
But this plague was something he simply had…
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