Chapter 460
Chapter Title: Dark Heaven Village
When I crossed the national border and arrived at the inland not far from the Great British Empire, I spotted a procession of people wearing strange masks. They weren't really masks—more like crude leather contraptions fitted with breathing tubes like bellows. They even had long, beak-like noses protruding sharply, making them look like crows.
Black clothes.
I felt an unusual curiosity toward them, so I summoned a spirit of exceptional talent from the vicinity using the Heavenly Spirit Scripture's incantation and asked about their identity.
[Those people are doctors treating the Black Death.]
The spirit, who confidently introduced himself as the inventor of the tercio formation, bore the bizarre foreign name Gonzalo de Córdoba. He was a famous Western general. Having died in battle in this region, he seemed to have passed recently.
"Black Death?"
[A terrifying plague once ravaged this continent. It had been spreading since I was a child.]
"Is the Black Death still afflicting this continent?"