Ultimate Bliss, outskirts.
The Agate River, which ran through the entire nation, poured forth.
It crossed the plains.
At its end lay a vast expanse of black.
Enormous medical airships equipped with cutting-edge technology.
Specialized medical instruments of every kind.
Things like High-Frequency Electric Scalpels and spectrographs were merely the most basic resources.
The Medical Department's flag, bearing [Wheat Ear Continent], fluttered in the wind.
The formation surged like a flood.
The Medical Department's uniforms were pure white, with tassel-like stripes that gave them a crisp, efficient look. At the very center of the formation stood the core members of the Medical Department's principal families.
A colossal object moved across the plains.
It was the Medical Department's strategic anti-Pestilence weapon known as [Fire God Mountain].
Like a humanoid mecha, it towered there with an icy, grim presence.
It felt as though one's entire body had been soaked in disinfectant.
"Flames can ward off evil and Pestilence, incinerate all disease—and naturally, they can incinerate those nauseating, ominous people as well."
On the war chariot before [Fire God Mountain].
A ripple of watery light stirred.
Si He, head of the Medical Department's Si Family, held up a glass of red wine as he looked into the distance.
There was little of the caution or wariness one would expect before a battle on his face.
Only indifference and melancholy.
"I rather like Ultimate Bliss's Doboran [wine]. If possible, I hope this [treatment] does not harm that area."
The Si Family!
The former imperial clan of the Dragonfall Dynasty!
Those who held power over all the great rivers of the Pestilence world.
They controlled the flow of all [liquids], and they were also among the greatest victims of the Great Calamity.
The former imperial clan had become a family of the Medical Department.
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