Chapter 996: A Long Exhausting Day
The Marquess and his family visibly brightened at this news.
"Yes, a treatment was already found. However, they needed to do more experiments on various plants and how effective they would be, along with the proper amount to be used. Thus, we won’t announce it yet until we are sure it will be effective for most, if not all, of the crops and flora affected. So this will remain among us for now," Alwin clarified.
"Yes, Your Eminence. We will not inform others about it yet. We are already overwhelmed that there is already a treatment," Marquess Sibruh said with a brighter look in his eyes.
Having a better future to look forward to gave them hope.
After all, having a treatment meant the control methods they were doing now would no longer be necessary.
The continuous burning was difficult to do, and although the smoke from it was already directed with magic to only head upwards, it was still disheartening to see the burning going on.
It was like the telltale sign that their suffering was not over yet.
If the burning is finally stopped once the treatment works, even if there’s still a lockdown, then at least, the people and everyone else in the afflicted territories will no longer feel as depressed and frustrated.
"But what was their goal in spreading the disease? To cause a food shortage? Or famine?" One of Marquess Sibruh’s siblings asked.
"Yes, that’s one reason," Alwin agreed. "They wanted to cause food shortages and later on famine.
With what the other spies we caught were doing, when we caught them, it was clear they were trying to sow discord by causing internal strife.