Chapter 74: Secret Meeting
Professor Hasfeldt went missing from the northern expedition.
By the time the northern army realized, it was too late. The regiment of soldiers led by Hasfeldt vanished without trace in a single day.
Not only that, but immediately afterward the Imperial army had to retreat in the face of the Black Death that had begun to spread throughout the land.
Even a superhuman was helpless before a disease. The number of frontline soldiers who’d fallen to the pest in the past month was said to have been several times the number of those killed by the beasts. It hadn’t only been the capital facing a crisis.
The morale of the Imperial army, which had briefly breached the third line of defense, was extremely low. Defeat after defeat brought the front back to square one. Everything had gone the way the beasts wanted.
“That isn’t all. We lost hundreds of tactical-class mages. I heard that they were all elites, too.”
A tactical-class mage defined those who were capable of defeating a Calamity. In terms of industry, they were human resources at a doctoral-level.
To lose hundreds of mages of that caliber at once?
It was critical damage.
At this rate, the defense was going to be at risk. They’d just survived the plague, and if fear of an invasion spread amongst the people, it would be difficult to proceed normally with classes.
Chewing on my lips, I asked Miss Heerlein.