848. Accusation

After twelve hours of transmission, anyone who had come into contact with a person affected by the "Plague Pattern" would likewise be infected by the plague.

When the twelve hours were up, the plague erupted simultaneously.

David had been worried that the plague might spread on a massive, uncontrolled scale, so he had set it to erupt all at once after twelve hours when he cast it. Had he not imposed that restriction and instead allowed the plague to spread freely, its effects might have grown geometrically, eventually endangering the entirety of God's Great World.

Of course, gods existed in God's Great World. Once the harm reached a certain level, the gods would naturally intervene.

That was not what David wanted. He needed to make the top nobles suffer, while still protecting himself.

It could be said that the twenty-two top noble families had never suffered such a blow before. This blow had not begun at the upper levels; it had swept through nearly all of their middle and lower ranks.

Because the top nobles needed secrecy when mobilizing supplies, they all used internal family channels. The plague continued to spread through those channels.

When the twelve hours were up, every top noble family had large numbers of people collapse, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

That was only because David had limited it to twelve hours. If he had set it for twenty-four or forty-eight hours, the death toll would likely have multiplied more than tenfold.

Others had come into contact with those who had collapsed and been directly poisoned to death.

It could be said that, when the twelve hours were up, the management of the twenty-two top noble families had been almost instantly paralyzed.

Those responsible for mobilizing war resources were all important administrators