Become Tyrant On My Own Way
Chapter 165 – END OF BLACKDEATH
“Magic acceleration time? Is that possible?”
I can't help but wonder at the strange statement that Doctor Minerva uttered. It is possible to shorten the day to 23 hours a day or shorter by controlling the natural energy around, but time itself cannot be accelerated or slowed down.
“Ah, it seems His Majesty misunderstood. I mean not time in the truest sense, but we speed up the process just as if a long time in the synthesis process has happened in an instant.”
“Hmm.”
I nodded at Doctor Minerva's statement, even though I was just about to digest what she had just said.
“If we reduce the air pressure around the specimen and then increase the intensity and speed of the flow where nature is around it, then it is the same as the concept of time acceleration I talked about just now.”
Doctor Minerva explained while showing the process. Everything including me was immediately amazed as soon as it became a witness that the way Doctor Minerva was really successful.
“You're apparently a very talented person, son. Yep, because the way has been found, the rest leave it to this parent to do his role.”
“Thank you Teacher Zizi. But His Majesty's mummy is here, what if His Majesty regulates the condition of the specimen? If it was Your Majesty, it would be much faster and produce a much better quality specimen anyway.”
I can immediately understand what Doctor Minerva just said. After all, where nature is difficult to control so its use will probably only result in an efficiency of about 6% only. But I was born special with an internal mana talent similar to natural mana, although it was almost mostly mana yin.
With the application of my mana to the experiment, I'm sure its efficiency will increase far to the level of 90 %, no, even exceeding 95 % is possible.
“Grandma, sorry me and my friends are a little late. To reply to it, we will do our best in this research.”
It was Rasiel, the grandson of Guru Zizi, who came with his fellow researchers to help with this research.
“Oh, my dear sweet grandson. Though Grandma has come all the way here, but why is it so hard to see your face?”
“Hehehehehehe.”
Thus, under the direction of Guru Zizi, the process of synthesis of penicillin compounds from alopondria mushroom extract runs smoothly.
Some teams are also in charge of extracting sirrah leaves and purifying the content of sulfonamides in it.
Then finally, Dr. Minerva was the one who examined the ideal composition of penicillin and sulfonamides as antibiotics along with the counter indications of drugs produced.
Everything was going so smoothly that I never thought we could actually finish the first batch of the drug before the day was over.
Yasmin and I immediately distributed it to the village of Lugwein region that was exposed to the black death. If there's anything I'm worried about, it's because we didn't have time to do clinical trials on the drug about the lack of time. But since the cure has already passed through Doctor Minerva's virtual simulation, I'm sure everything will be fine.
The drug began to be distributed smoothly to the medical crew to be given to the sufferers. Everything went well, at least until that night.
The next morning, there was a rumor that came out of nowhere that said that I had distributed poison to kill the villagers to stop the transmission of black death disease. This of course immediately added to the anger of the surrounding residents.
The citizens were increasingly brutal about to enter through the village. Even if none of them succeeded, my ice golems would immediately injure their knees so that they would not be able to walk any further.
But when I watched the bandits get beaten up by the golems, my conscience was pierced. I feel like I'm mowing helpless people under my right, when I obviously do all this for their good.
They may believe the false rumors. Do they think I'm that cruel leader who's going to inflict poison on his own people? Well, the look of the medicine is indeed a little like a poison with a pungent odor and bitter taste, also it will cause a little nausea and diarrhea when consumed, it is not, but it was really a medicine that would cure black death disease.
The increasingly stinging smell of burnt corpses that could be smelled from the outside also made things worse. I don't know where the rumor also came from that I started burning the corpses of the citizens I had managed to kill with poison. Absolutely baseless evil rumors. But they all believed the rumors.
At least, can they be a little patient to be able to see results? Why are they so frontal as if I've made a mistake that makes me unbelievable?
Which makes me even more hurt, not only the citizens who look at me with disgust, but the soldiers I brought here to help the process of handling the plague also follow me sentimentally. Maybe Albert was the only one among them who didn't put any prejudice on me. That too, Albert began to move away from me a little.
***
In just less than three months, under Helios's leadership, the black death disease was successfully eradicated from the plains of the Continent of Ernoa. This certainly cannot be separated from the role of Teacher Zizi, Doctor Minerva, Rasiel, Sara, and researchers and other medical personnel who are willing to sacrifice all their lives and bodies in the eradication of black death.
Incredibly, none of the medical personnel were victims of the disaster. This is certainly because from the beginning they have the protection of holy magic so that black death disease is more difficult to penetrate the defenses of their bodies.
However, only about 76% of villagers infected with black death can be saved. About 600 of the villagers had to be victims of black death atrocities. Yet again it was black death, a disease that had instantly torn down the ancient imperial foundation that had stood for thousands of years.
Although 600 people are fairly large, the number is still smaller than the death toll during the cholera outbreak in the city of Lobos 4 years ago. It was undeniable that during that time, Helios had put in as much effort as he could to improve his imperial medical skills.
Moreover, in a state of absence of medicine when the black death disease attacked, Helios was able to think clearly to take immediate action and then began to devise a plan of finding a cure that he could even realize in less than a day, was not it already an extraordinary achievement?
A disease that would have brought down the coffers of an empire of millions of people, Helios managed to push it to the point where only 600 people died.
Shouldn't Helios be rewarded for his achievements?
But what he got was the people's blasphemy against him.
‘Emperor does not allow us to meet our family in his last moments’-kah, ‘Emperor burned the corpse of our family cruelly’-kah, , until false rumors such as Helios could burn the living continue to echo in the northern part of the empire.
Milk has been repaid with curse water. The act in which Helios was supposed to get praise, ended up being reviled by all the people he saved with all his sincerity.
At its peak, the incident occurred.
That was when Helios after looking at the remains of patients with black death who will soon be cured.
Helios had been on guard all this time. He was too sure of the vitality of his body since he had a large mana pool. But in the end, he began to show symptoms of being infected by black death.
“Kuhuk.”
Helios immediately vomited blood.
“Master!”
Yasmin who saw him from afar immediately wanted to approach his master to ascertain his condition. However, Helios soon builds a block of ice between himself and Yasmin. That was of course the necessary action since black death was able to spread through the air.
But then, near Helios there were some people. Those are some of the residents who grudge him for not being reunited with their families during the dome incident.
Now their families had gradually recovered, but they did not know shamefully took revenge on Helios who had fought desperately to save his family from death.
At first they had no intention of doing so and that was why Helios could not detect the killing coming from them. But once he saw Helios' condition weakened by spewing blood, evil intentions immediately arose in their hearts.
Without hesitation, the three men grabbed the idle spear which was a weapon Damian had accidentally left behind that he was actually about to hand over to the soldier on duty. Then cruelly, they stabbed Helios from behind to penetrate the front of his body.
Naas, it did so when the condition of Helios' body weakened so that the protection of the automatic aura that could withstand a hundred thousand times the force of such a puncture under normal circumstances, could not activate.
Yasmin who was separated by the giant ice wall could only see her master fall to the ground in a pool of blood.