Chapter 376 True Expert

Chapter 376 True Expert　　A few days passed since Angus started coming to the quarantine zone. Unexpectedly, Angus built a simple lab just beside the graveyard crater. After collecting a few samples from the corpse, Angus begins to research the cure.

Despite the unusual location of his lab, nobody dares to disrupt or comment about it. Since Angus imprisoned Count Stillshot in the middle of the quarantine zone and released his mistake to the public, no one dared to disturb this ruthless young master.

Angus may use the power and authority from Jayna as the fourth princess. However, his ruthless act still instills fear in everyone, especially the religious groups in the quarantine zone. 

After Count Stillshot public humiliation and imprisonment, every religious group tried to find out Angus's identity. After knowing Angus's true identity, they decide to make less contact with him.

They are afraid that Angus may find fault and blow it up like the recent Temple of Death incident. Unlike the big and wealthy religious group Temple of Death, some religious groups may not survive to pay the compensation if they somehow offend Angus.

Fortunately, Angus decides to stay in the crater graveyard and has less contact with anyone except the first day he comes toward the quarantine zone. Currently, Angus is inside his tent lab studying some of the corpses and the plague.

At the same time, not far from Angus's tent, Jayna and Anna are doing their training to kill time. Angus managed to apply runes in some parts of the area so it would filtrate the air and make them breathable in this area.

Hence, they could do their activity without getting bothered by the stinky smell in the air. Even if Angus could withstand the smell, he would still feel uncomfortable to keep breathing in this smelly air. 

Moreover, his upbringing as a high noble makes him reluctant to keep breathing this permeated air. As Jayna and Anna keep doing his training, a cart full of human corpses comes closer to their area.

"Urgh.. I still can't believe how they can stay in this place." said one of the knights that pushed the cart.

"Hush.. Pay attention to your words. They are not people we can't offend." said the other knight.

"Alright.. Alright.." replied the previous knight.

At the same time, a woman wearing highly enchanted armor stays silent beside them. The woman itself is none other than Anny, the sixth-grade combatant of the Karum religion group. 

Everyone could see they were from the Karum religious group from their clothes and armor emblem. 

As they arrive at the graveyard crater, "Halt! We need to check the corpse first." said one of the royal guards nearby.

The Karum's knight follows their instruction without protest as it is normal procedure. Since Angus came here, he tasked the royal guard to stop the corpse cart and call him to inspect the corpse before letting them dump it into the crater.

After a moment, Angus comes out from his lab tent with dirty clothes, unlike an aristocrat. Combined with a disheveled appearance that seems like not having a proper sleep during the past few days, Angus looks more like a low-class citizen than a high noble.

Ignoring the Karum's knight look, Angus begins to inspect every corpse in the cart with his tired eyes. Then, he begins to point out some of the corpses for the Royal Guards to bring to his lab.

While waiting for the Royal Guard to bring the corpse, Angus stays still and thinks absent-mindedly on the spot. This is a normal occurrence and habit of Angus after inspecting the new coming corpses. Seeing this, Anny couldn't help but be interested in this young master.

During the past few days, they have already met a few times since Anny always accompanies the Karum knights to drop off the corpse into the crater. Normally, this is not one of Anny's jobs. 

However, since Angus is staying near the crater graveyard, all the religious groups couldn't help but send their highest knight rank to do this work to avoid any mishap and clash with Angus's group.

At first, Anny thought Angus was some noble who overestimates himself like the other arrogant noble. However, she finds out that he is pretty different from the rumor. 

Since their first meeting, Angus never glanced at her despite being quite famous as the sixth-grade knight of the Karum religious group. At first, she thought it was his arrogance as noble that led to this. 

On the contrary, she finds that Angus completely disregards her presence because he seems to be very busy researching this plague. Anny herself already knows that Angus is quite a genius researcher from a few of his achievements despite his age.

However, she thought it was only an exaggerated matter. But, looking at Angus's way of doing and all the runes laid on the surrounding area, she finds that Angus is genuine and not just a noble scum who uses an underhanded method to gain title and prestige.

Furthermore, as a full-fledged sixth-grade combatant, she could find that Angus is strong. Despite his horrible current appearance and tired expression, she could still feel the same power in his body as the first time she met him.

Moreover, her instinct also told her that she needed to use all her strength and resources to defeat him. If it is the instinct of the ordinary combatant, she may disregard it. But, she is a full-fledged sixth-grade combatant and most of the time, her instinct is accurate.

As she couldn't contain her curiosity, "Young master Angus, did you find anything?" asked Anny.

Waking up from his thought, "Hmm.. You are from the Karum group, right?" asked Angus back.

"Yes, is there something wrong?" asked Anny.

"Well, nothing concrete yet. But, could you please call your priest leader? No, it is better to call everyone a priest leader." said Angus seriously.

Looking at Angus's seriousness, Anny knows that this young master must find something.

"Alright, I will inform everyone. However, as you know, everyone is quite busy at this moment. So, it may take some time." replied Anny.

"Sure, no problem. I also need to prepare myself." said Angus.

A few hours later, all the priest leaders gather at one of Angus's tents. All of them are accompanied by their strongest knight and waiting for Angus' arrival in silence. Not long after that, Angus entered the tent.

"Sorry, everyone, I need to prepare something first." said Angus.

"No problem, young master Angus. It is already an honor to be able to meet you." said a priest leader from the Zion religious group.

Everyone in the tent immediately looks at the Zion high priest, who is blatantly bootlicking Angus. Inside the room, there are four priest leaders. Two of them are from big organizations like the Temple of Death, Karum group, and Afir religion group.

Only the Zion religion group following the Lesser God of mountain is a medium-sized organization. Temple of Death follows the Lady God of Death, Karum follows the God of Vitality and wellness, and Afir follows the God of Water and Ocean.

Hence, it is quite normal for the Zion group, a medium-sized religious group, to bootlicking Angus, a high noble with a lot of prestige in the Heart Kingdom.

Ignoring the bootlicking from the Zion priest, "Alright, I call every one of you here to discuss the plague." said Angus.

"I see. Does young master Angus manage to find the cure?" asked the high priest of the Afir group.

"Nope, it will take some more time to find the cure." replied Angus.

"Then, why do you call us here? Young master Angus, we the religious group may have a great healing art, but we are not experts in extensive medical knowledge." said the priest leader from the Karum group.

"Well, truthfully, I also didn't have any extensive medical knowledge. I only know some basic knowledge about medical and human biology." said Angus.

Hearing this truth, everyone couldn't help but be confused and didn't know what to say.

'Did I misjudge him? However, I feel he is a really genuine expert like those scholars.' thought Anny.

"Although I only have some basic knowledge about medical stuff, my real expertise is in the spells. I could say that in the research center of the Heart Kingdom, only a few people can beat me in terms of spell knowledge." said Angus.

"Young master Angus, I am sorry I didn't quite get your meaning." said the woman priest leader of the Temple of Death.

While hearing this question, Angus kept looking at all the priest's expressions.

"Good.. It seems none of you is the one that spread this curse." said Angus.

"Curse?!!" exclaimed everyone.

"Yeah, at first glance, this plague is like some kind of unknown disease. However, after a few days of studying all the corpses from different times of death. I found that this plague is too unique and strong. Somehow, this plague can keep mutating for a short time."

"It is like the plague itself empowered by something. This kind of characteristic is similar to the curse." explained Angus.