Chapter 233: Western Region Coast Chronicles (1)
It was a week later that a new letter arrived from the kingdom. The letter bore the official seal of the Royal House. I frowned as I accepted it. Eve, who had trotted over to my side upon hearing the news of the letter's arrival, also openly displayed a sign of disgust when she saw the Royal House's official seal. It was because an easy task had never come from a letter sent by the royal palace.
"What is it this time?"
"Well..."
I trailed off as I opened the envelope. It was because I couldn't fathom what business they had to send a letter. It could have been a letter announcing that the Eastern Plains Region had been completely pacified, or perhaps a letter stating they had discovered important information from the executives of the Church of Love. I had decided not to expect any reward for my merit thus far.
"Isn't this another letter telling you to go somewhere?"
As Eve said, it could be a letter requiring me to go on a business trip to another place I knew nothing about. I stroked Eve's cheek and began to scan the letter. The letter started with "To Peta Lucius," as usual.
[To Peta Lucius.
Currently, entire cities are dying out due to the mermaid attacks in the Western Coastal Area. The mermaids are attacking everything floating on the sea, from fishing boats to warships, and half of the sea in the Western Coastal Region is now filled with corpses, while the other half is bloody fluid. Pieces of human flesh frequently wash up on the beach, and the pier is plagued by the smell of rotting corpses and plague, so there is no method to resolve this.
It is impossible to kill all the mermaids with the capacity of humans, and it is also impossible to abandon all the cities in the coastal area. Thus, we wish to delegate this matter to Peta Lucius, who established great merit in eliminating the beastfolk in the Eastern Plains Region.